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Holland on The Ed Schultz Show! :)

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Holland Cooke said:
When I tug my ear lobe, I'll be waving to everyone in Rhody.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
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Thanks Carol. That pay per play thing may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. More talk on the radio wouldn't be a bad thing. It may give the other side more of a voice. Equal out the playing field. Catch my drift? Talk about that tonight. Thanks
 
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Holland Cooke said:
Done!

http://hollandcookemedia.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/now-the-long-awaited-fm-talk-tsunami/
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Thanks very much. Nicely done. It will be interesting to see what radio stations will do and which radio stations will do it. The economy is weak and radio stations are already struggling. This could have a huge impact on radio as we know it. Just another reason for DJ's to start shaking in their boots. Not many have what it takes to be an interesting talk show host. Plus many of the stations who switch to talk may decide to pick up shows off the satellite instead of hiring locally. I do think more talk is a good thing. Unfortunately there is a bad side as well. This could really be the end of the local DJ. Even if a station decides to keep playing the music, they will now have to cut payroll so they can pay record companies this extra fee. So guess what's going to happen? Bye Bye DJ's. The overnighters will be the first to go... and then the rest. This is about to get very interesting for lots of people.
 
How's THIS for begging-for-a-scolding-from the Moderator?

UTTERLY unrelated-to the-matter-at-hand...
And, honest, not just posting to-push-this-back-up-top.*
(I forget in-which-thread we were talking about Tom Kent on B101)

I bring Rhode Islanders greetings from Tom Kent, whose Cleveland home-studio I visited recently.
BEYOND cool.
He's on some 200 stations, and tight-as-a-drum, production-wise.

But not-just production-wise.
Admittedly less-than-objective because he and I are pals.
And because his show is on the-sister-station-of other Talk AMs I consult elsewhere.
But TK might be one-of-my-two-favorite-currently-working Oldies DJs.
As he was recently talking-up "Margarittaville:"
"SKIP THE GYM! SALT THE RIM!"
:)

And I say so as I'm listening to the other.

Hello from Noo Yawk, where CBS-FM's always-clever, wonderfully-succinct, midday host Bob Shannon makes me want-to-get-back-on-air-again. He consistently brings his A-game. Stream-in and hear a dang clinic in extending TSL.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com

* Greetings also from Ed Schultz, whom I saw here yesterday.
He and I wish his radio show was on in RI.
But, as-I-said-about Tom Kent above, I'm less-than-objective, being Ed's chum, and longtime/long-ago coach...
 
If Holly goes on the Ed Schultz show and noboody hears it did it make a noise?
Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.............................. :D
 
SEEMS LIKE few seem to HEAR it.

If you're from radio, one thing that's interesting, at-times-vexing, about how-TV-is-graded is thatIT SEEMS LIKE how-you-look is what's important. Whereas in radio, every...single...word matters. That's something we're seeing REAL clearly in PPM, how INCREDIBLY fragile attention is, moment...to moment...to moment. Listeners' attention span is more like Internet users,' near-non-existent. They're "leaning forward." TV viewers seem to be "leaning back," more passive, less-quick to surf-away.
:-\

NO QUESTION, speaking for exactly 40 seconds, without saying "UM" or "UH," and saying something that causes-the-viewer-to say "HMMM!" is important. But there's TREMENDOUS importance attached to how-you-LOOK-saying-whatever-you're-saying. "Great tie!" is what you hear after TV.

Several times, I've done Ed's radio and TV shows same-day, and I appreciate how-much-prep-goes-into doing-it-both-ways. He may work the same TOPICS or guests on both same-day, but it's two different preps.
 
Big Ed Schultz

Holland Cooke said:
* Greetings also from Ed Schultz, whom I saw here yesterday.
He and I wish his radio show was on in RI.
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Jeff Santos and / or his financial backers are brokering time so that Ed Schultz can be heard on AM 1510 in the Boston market.

If there's enough demand for it....perhaps Santos & Co. could be convinced to shell out so he can also be carried by 1320.

I'm sure the money wouldn't be turned away. $ $ $ $ $ $
 
"would people in Southeastern New England understand Ed Schultz?"

I wish his show was on-the-radio here, for that reason.
(Admittedly, I also wish it was on here because he's my pal.)

But I think Ed's sticking-up-for-the-little-guy thing would play here.
Ed claims to talk to "people who shower AFTER work," not the-white-wine-and-brie-crowd.

He's pro-union, and pro-healthcare reform; and, as-such, would add the-other-side to the all-too-one-sided Talk Radio dialogue.
 
"sticking-up-for-the-little-guy thing"

Like most leftists you harbor the mental delusion that the union leeches who "retire" in their 40's with COLA's, free lifetime healthcare and annuities more than double what most of us make-and work until 67 to boot-are somehow the "little guy".
The real little guy is the one paying 6 grand a year in property taxes to support the cronies, union leeches and illegal aliens-and getting damned sick of it.
If you don't believe me ask Governor Corzine or Senator Coakley.
 
Oh, it gets worse...MUCH worse...

"This just in," AND live-from-Providence: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#38214019

bobsims said:
Like most leftists you harbor the mental delusion that...
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YOU complete the sentence.
Fill ANYTHING in.
As a longtime, long-suffering consultant, I know the shoot-the-messenger trick.

As only-an-occasional TV character, I'm still LOVING that-guy-I-see-in-the-mirror when they make me up. It's the-person-you-THINK-you-look-like at your high school reunion, while everyone else there looks like Homer Simpson.

Unlike the Robin Williams character in "Birdcage," I DO wipe-it-off after the show...
 
bobsims said:
"sticking-up-for-the-little-guy thing"

Like most leftists you harbor the mental delusion that the union leeches who "retire" in their 40's with COLA's, free lifetime healthcare and annuities more than double what most of us make-and work until 67 to boot-are somehow the "little guy".
The real little guy is the one paying 6 grand a year in property taxes to support the cronies, union leeches and illegal aliens-and getting damned sick of it.
If you don't believe me ask Governor Corzine or Senator Coakley.
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HERE! HERE!
 
Hear? Hear?

N1WVQ said:
HERE! HERE!
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At my 35th-year high school reunion:

SECOND-most-envied classmate?
Clue: The only Spartan to show-up with a State Trooper BODYGUARD: Vermont Governor Jim Douglas.
(Sat next to me in home room in junior high school.)
(Broke-into radio with me, summers during college, at WHYN/Springfield.)
(GREAT guy, and SOLID newsman who chose-another-path. Did well.)
(Around-the-time Sarah Palin quit her job, Jim announced he'd not seek another term. Difference being, he'll finish his.)
(But I digress. And praising a Republican here will confuse my fans. :) And DON'T tell Ed! :) )

MOST-envied classmate?
A just-retired Teamster.

But you're saying that, after-driving-truck for 30 years, he should NOT get the retirement benefits he was promised when he committed to that job on-the-front-end? How many workin' folk in East Providence would think THAT?
 
Holland, I admire your work and I likely agree with you politically on most issues. If you don't mind me asking - I am genuinely curious - given the type of radio programming on which you consult, do you promote/advise your clients to go with monolithic, all-conservative programming?
 
ScottBurns said:
Holland, I admire your work and I likely agree with you politically on most issues. If you don't mind me asking - I am genuinely curious - given the type of radio programming on which you consult, do you promote/advise your clients to go with monolithic, all-conservative programming?
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You must be new here.
Search, and you'll find umpteen versions of "no!"
And "Rush-is-the-biggest-star, if my client's affiliated."
And "he's a buffoon if we're the competitor."

And "I'm a frustrating person to talk politics with because I may be the only person in Talk Radio who thinks his opinion DOESN'T matter;" etc.

Other familiar HC lore abounds about "Talk Radio aims too low by settling for being-only-about-politics-and-so-one-sided;" and blah blah blah.
 
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