Hey, Josh Sabo is back on-air in the market.

[ClevelandDZ]

Heard Josh Sabo on 92.3 The Fan this morning doing 20/20 sports updates. Not sure if he's new to WKRK, or of he's been around there for a while, but this is the first time I've heard him on air.

Anyway, thought it was newsworthy. Hope everyone had a great holiday.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Thanks, DZ...I might post it in a note. No offense to Josh, but it's been so long since he was at the Galleria, I had to think a bit to remember him!

With it being T-Day weekend, I suspect we'll hear other surprises, with 92.3 shuffling its lineup with fill-ins.

 

[Capulet]

Heard Josh Sabo on 92.3 The Fan this morning doing 20/20 sports updates.

He was a producer at WKNR. They fired him awhile back.

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

Even better today was Les Levine from 10am-2pm. Really wish he would take that slot. It was enjoyable to listen too today.

 

[ClevelandDZ]

Even better today was Les Levine from 10am-2pm. Really wish he would take that slot. It was enjoyable to listen too today.

You know it's funny...I actually have the complete opposite reaction to Les. Just not my can of soup I guess. He's not absolutely terrible. I guess.

 

[Cocaine]

Who?

 

[Rusty Muck]

If I'm not mistaken, Josh Sabo is taking the weekend update/producer role J.G. Spooner had... as Spooner replaced Josh Potter as co-producer of "Kiley and Booms" last week.

Basically, Potter's previous station in Buffalo was able to lure him back.

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

Now if only someone would lure Andy Baskin and Jeff Phelps to decide TV is where they should work ;D

 

[Capulet]

Who?

Exactly.

This thread is reflective of how gawd awful radio is in Cleveland.
Board op who got fired because he earned 16K a year (budget cut of useless salary) , gets metioned by media watchdogs like he matters (?) because he got a support gig at a station with less than a 1 share? puhleaze

 

[Rusty Muck]

Who?

Exactly.

This thread is reflective of how gawd awful radio is in Cleveland.
Board op who got fired because he earned 16K a year (budget cut of useless salary) , gets metioned by media watchdogs like he matters (?) because he got a support gig at a station with less than a 1 share? puhleaze

Tell that to WKNR's biggest advertiser, who just signed a equal deal with WKRK. That's right, Mike D'Amato is now hawking Nissans on the "1-share station."

As for former tRBS sidekick/producer/update anchor Josh Sabo, he was thrown overboard in an alleged 'power play.' He was assigned to board-op a Saturday morning show and couldn't do it, so KNR cut him. His axing precipitated tRBS' obvious degeneration to the "You don't like it? Change the damn channel!" teeny-bopper bratty mess that we know all too well.

Josh's day job is, IIRC, working with the Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena.

 

[vjm]

Who?

Exactly.

This thread is reflective of how gawd awful radio is in Cleveland.
Board op who got fired because he earned 16K a year (budget cut of useless salary) , gets metioned by media watchdogs like he matters (?) because he got a support gig at a station with less than a 1 share? puhleaze

Tell that to WKNR's biggest advertiser, who just signed a equal deal with WKRK. That's right, Mike D'Amato is now hawking Nissans on the "1-share station."

As for former tRBS sidekick/producer/update anchor Josh Sabo, he was thrown overboard in an alleged 'power play.' He was assigned to board-op a Saturday morning show and couldn't do it, so KNR cut him. His axing precipitated tRBS' obvious degeneration to the "You don't like it? Change the damn channel!" teeny-bopper bratty mess that we know all too well.

Josh's day job is, IIRC, working with the Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena.

You are correct, sir.

Josh is the "music director"--meaning he plays all the music/sound effects during Cavs games (and I assume Monsters games as well).

He also runs the scoreboard at Progressive Field during Tribe season.

And you can actually put Sabo in the same club as Jeff Thomas, Darryl Ruiter, and Bob Karlovec...why should Craig Karmazin or Keith Williams pay somebody to run a board or do updates when we can get an intern to do it for Ramen noodles and whatever Rizz brings in for "Free Food Friday".

 

[Cocaine]

He plays music for Cavs games and runs the scoreboard for Indians games?

Sounds like the only person climbing down the ladder of success.

Why are we talking about him again?

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

Need a topic discussing famous board ops in Cleveland radio. So far Josh Sabo is at the top of the list for famous board ops

 

[Capulet]

Need a topic discussing famous board ops in Cleveland radio. So far Josh Sabo is at the top of the list for famous board ops

That is a good topic but difficult, as all the board ops have been replaced with interns.

We should really be focusing the topic to tracking the movement of interns in the market.

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

Why pay anyone to run a board when you have 200 people willing to work for free from that broadcasting school down the road in Independence? :

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

And, by a bunch of messages saying Josh Sabo isn't a worthy topic because he was just a WKNR board op, you've given him more attention here than I've given him on the blog (none).

 

[Tim L]

And, by a bunch of messages saying Josh Sabo isn't a worthy topic because he was just a WKNR board op, you've given him more attention here than I've given him on the blog (none).

The phrase "Just a Board Op" underscores what I get from some people on boards like this..That because a person is "on the air" they are better than everybody else and "lowly board ops" dont deserve mention..on a RADIO board? Josh Sabo is/was on the air, if someone thinks he deserves a mention, why begrudge him that?

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

Some hosts treat board operators and producers like crap. Ask anyone that has worked for a certain sports talk host that is now on TV how well he treats his producers/board operators. Constant ridicule, demeaning towards them on the air. Some of these "hosts" feel the board ops are their personal slaves.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Some hosts treat board operators and producers like crap. Ask anyone that has worked for a certain sports talk host that is now on TV how well he treats his producers/board operators. Constant ridicule, demeaning towards them on the air. Some of these "hosts" feel the board ops are their personal slaves.

I...LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVE YA, Cleveland, perhaps?

 

[Capulet]

And, by a bunch of messages saying Josh Sabo isn't a worthy topic because he was just a WKNR board op, you've given him more attention here than I've given him on the blog (none).

The phrase "Just a Board Op" underscores what I get from some people on boards like this..That because a person is "on the air" they are better than everybody else and "lowly board ops" dont deserve mention..

Boards changing stations is not news.

The posts I see here aren't meant to demean anyone or the position of " board op " per se.

For decades the job of board op went to entry level beginners who played network shows, or
" ran the board " for syndicated hosts like Howard Stern, or played tunes and recorded drops in over nites, etc. The job generally meant no speaking on air. Hence a clear distiction between a salaried on air announcer , and a part time hourly board op. The job used to pay minimum wage. Now the board op job is done for free by interns.

What others and myself are saying on this thread is radio is in such a horrible state, that there are less hosts to speak of, more VT-ing and other automation, board ops are replaced by on paid interns, etc. The fact that a board op/call screener changed stations is not very news worthy. I find it comical that anyone would even post that here. Josh may play songs on the PA at the arena, but that has nothing to do with the broadcasting industry and where the talent is working and what they are doing. This is like all those Yahoo headlines.........another " who cares " non story.

Radio is in a real sad state. This thread proves it.