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It Happened In 2008

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1. Bob Mitchell, the WWL straw man who has no idea which end of a hammer to hold, is promoted for doing such a fine job of doublespeak on his Saturday show posing as "Bob The Builder". WWL promotes him to the moderator of their new brain surgery program in 2008.

2. Dave Cohen decides to be a nice guy. Nobody buys it and he remains a pariah to humanity.

3. Michael Costello gets his ass beat by Scott Shannon and finally throws in the towel. A holiday is declared.

4. Andre Trevigne sounds alive for once on June 26 but then reverts back to the wooden lady.

5. Bob DelGiorno decides he has whored out enough on personal spot endorsements that no one believes anyway, and donates future talent checks from bullcrap endorsement spots to the retirement home of old radio PDs who no longer get spiffs and enticements from their owm lies.

6. Blair on the Air gets a haircut.

7. Kaare Johnson cleans up his trashmouth act, having used "damn and hell" every third words, and calling Rush "a fat bastard" over and over. He sees the light when there is an election recount and he realizes that instead of the 8% of votes he claims he received, he finds that in actually he got 0% because he's vocally repulsive.

8. Bob Walker stays retired, to everyone's relief, and spends his time with "a gathering of old men" at Humble's sandwich shop.

9. Spud stop sounding like an illiterate moron.

10. Out of format desperation, Citadel institutes programming on a certain station that will broadcast signals searching for life in outer space.

11. Tommy Tucker replaces Garland permantly, and gets beaten in the ratings by the space broadcast signals on Citadel.

Have I missed any?
 
Dennis Woltering finally stopped using his hands to gesture both at once with extended fingers like hamper baskets, when someone told him he looked like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Dawn Brown reduced her beach ball glutes.

Lee Zurik plucked his eyebrows.

George Buck dumps talk on WIST and expands his 1930's jazz and old time radio shows 7 days a week. Fibber McGee and Molly are the ratings getters, harvesting consistantly a 0.01. George says "but I like it".

Tom Fitzmorris, finally tired of being "Mr. Food" changes his direction and begins to be called "Mr. Dullard". His phone-in guests now become mimes. His ratings improve.

Entercom goes through five more GM changes in a year, showing their commitment to the market.

Bobby Hebert calls himself "The Cajun Cannon" once too often at Deanie's and someone beats him unconscious with a chair.

Rob and Bo get voted the worst radio duo ever in the history of the medium, anywhere.

Jim Brown is fired and replaced by Edwin Edwards.

Al Sharpton is caught making a white slur, and to beg forgiveness, asks for a guest slot on the Frank Davis show.
 
WWL changes Spud's slogan to: Talked to Spud is like taking to the family idiot.

Carl Arredondo agrees to take of the Groucho glasses and nose, and is unsuccessful, proving to the audience that he really is Groucho.

Robert Namer continues to talk 24 hours a day, not realizing that his mike and station have been pulled for years. His audience of none remains the same as ever.

Eric Paulsen makes a stab at looking awake and having an iota of personality but fails at both.

Frank Davis appears on the hit TV show Moron or No Moron.

Deke Belavia reaches a milestone in May 2008 when he broadcasts an entire show and not a soul listening understands a word he says for two solid hours.

Citadel changes 12 formats in one year, a cluster record.

WRNO, in a stubborn commitment to a failed talk format, tries Mongolian talk show hosts. Surprisingly, the ratings go up.

On the advice of a consultant, WWWWWWWWWL goes Hispanic and bring in Chinese radio legend Wun Hung Lo to run it.
 
Gerry V is arrested for impersonating a priest. He secretly recorded all the confessions he heard and creates a new format that soars to #1 in New Orleans...he goes National with his new show......"The Sounds of Sinners" ....it expands as callers actually begin to confess on the air ! The absurdity of it all is they actually carry out the penance he gives them.....confessions are mind blowing as listeners recognize some of the callers as local celebs and politicans !....what shocks the New Orleans audience is the time slot. How did the show become suchh a sucess in the midnight to 5am time slot ?? Does the V man expose the next political corruption story ? Must he keep it to himself due to his vows ?..oops ! he never took the vows remember !
He's the imposter !!!

* some sports talk is also sprinkled in..... ;D
 
yeah.. i kinda lost it there for a moment didn't i ...whew ! that was a close one.
 
In 2008, let's hope that:

Someone swipes Bob Mitchell's stack of 1973 edition O'Liners booklets and hides them in a place only a nocturnal marsupial could locate.

Someone talks DelGiorno into retiring. Please.

WWL management hires talent that could succeed anywhere on a national scale...such as those they used to have in the '70's and '80's.

Someone in Baton Rouge and New Orleans actually takes a chance with live, LOCAL talent on a music-driven format THROUGHOUT the day. We dare ya.

And, personally, I hope...that Dawn Brown chooses to keep her fabulous glutes just as they are. ;)
 
Let's hope for:

1). New Management and direction at WIST. Either do it right or shut it down. Ditto for WRNO and WGSO.

2). Speech lessons for WIST's air talent. Does anyone stutter more than the trio of Eric Asher, Kaare Johnson and Errol Laborde? And why, why, why, are we subjected to 3 runs of the Errol Laborde show?

3). Entercom puts on meaningful programming on WWWWWWWL. Enough with the time-shifting. If I missed a scintilating hour of the Bob and Monica show, or Spud or Deke blubbering, I should be able to pull it up online. At least 690 has podcasts on their web site.

4). Entercom goes against the grain and listens to some of their other market talk stations that actually have personalities and installs personalities in New Orleans. Enough with the interchangeable talk hosts that have the personalities of rocks (Bob, Monica, Deke, Don Debuq, Spud, Tommy Tucker, Todd Menasses, et al).

5). Citadel sells their cluster and the new owners do real radio with live jocks.

6). Clear Channel finds a real broadcaster to take over their cluster.

7). The people running WRNO or it's new owners decide they want to be competitive and make wholesale changes (say "goodbye" to Rob & Bo, Jim Brown, Garey & Anthony).

8). Live Local Sports Talk that doesn't include Bobby Hebert, Deke or Bob Mitchell (???).

9). Ed Muniz continues as the village idiot in Kenner and stays out of radio forever.

10). Some talker in the market picks up Glenn Beck.

I know this is all wishful thinking but a man can dream can't he?
 
In 2008, everyone in the country will be sued by the RIAA for downloading a song off the internet onto a computer and then onto an IPOD, and/or dubbing a song off a CD or an MP3 onto a computer or IPOD. We will all have to pay $9,000 per song, and we will only eat and breathe and exist at the mercy of recording artists and the RIAA, SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. Then the movie companies will catch on and say, hey we shoulda been doing this all along too, and raid everyone's home for recorded DVD and VHS collections.
 
Didn't Laura Buchtel have a gap between her two front teeth when she first started on 'L ?
 
Seems it was fairly noticeable when she started. Now it doesn't seem to be there and she looks great. I guess a little porcelain did the trick.

I just can't make up my mind about Dawn Brown's glutes though. They seem to be perfect 180 degree vertical hemispheres. A sculpted a*s is nice but hers seem to be each a half beachball. Nowm her topography is great though when she wears somewhat blouses, especially pullovers, when she's not wearing the jacket I really believe the news director is making her wear to hide her geography.

She really looks neat, professional and sexy now. They've obviously polished up her image. I thought she looked like a dishrag the first few weeks she was there.

Gotta hand it to 'L though, they've got the best looking crop of wool out of all the NO TV stations.
 
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