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It's been 10 years since Andy Moes passed.....

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Reading Scott Fybush's Northeast Radio Watch this morning ( buy a calendar, support his site!) I see it has been just over 10 years since the sudden death of Andy Moes.

Does anyone else remember the screw job he got by the then 590 WEEI when he was brought in to be the bad boy of morning drive? They wanted a shock jock, he gave them what they wanted, and then screwed him when they didn't like what they asked for. They really did treat him like crap trying to get him to resign, since they had no grounds to fire him.



Here is a long snippet from Scott's NERW, I hope he doesn't object, and for the moderators I am claiming "fair use" for the purposes of starting a discussion which is allowed by copyright laws so please don't edit this.

" After a career in Boston that spanned three decades, Andy Moes died of heart failure at his Milton home last Thursday night (Jan. 25). For a little over a year, Moes had been co-host of the "Blute and Moes Show" on WRKO (680), but his history in Boston radio began in the late seventies, when he began filling in on WROR (98.5, now WBMX). By 1979, Moes was co-hosting WROR's morning show with Joe Martelle, a gig that lasted more than a decade. In 1991, Moes moved to WEEI (590) as the first signature personality of that station's new sports format. That lasted two years, until WEEI replaced Moes with Don Imus in morning drive. For the next few years, Moes was heard in a variety of weekend and night slots on WRKO before landing the morning job (with former Massport director Peter Blute) in October 1999.

Off the air, Moes made headlines with his friendship with "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer, which extended to a consulting deal for Moes in which he advised the show on how to design the studio of its fictional "KACL Radio." On air, WRKO filled Friday morning with Moes tributes, to be followed by a retrospective show Monday, after which Blute will be solo for now. Moes had been married for just six months at the time of his death. He was 51 years old. "
 
I wasn't enamored with his act, but I remember Jim Baker just brutalized this guy in his column.
What he did was very tame compared to Imus & Howard.
For Boston it was very radical.
I think he eased the way for Howard & Don & even T&R by taking the full brunt of the whining Ayatollahs.

"Fair use" requires a link back to the full article btw.
 
He was a man. A man's man. A masculine man. A manly sort of man.

I thought he was pretty funny.
 
Andy loved to entertain people both on and off the air. While a student at Emerson, he had a BackBay apartment with a fireplace and a long mantle. He always kept a pack of every brand of american made cigarettes on the mantle. He loved inviting people over asking them if they smoked and then offering them their favorite brand.

Many years ago, I was entertaining a friend from New York and we ran into Andy at the Elliott Lounge we spent four hours drinking and trading stories.

I really enjoyed his Saturday afternoon RKO show.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Does anyone else remember the screw job he got by the then 590 WEEI when he was brought in to be the bad boy of morning drive? They wanted a shock jock, he gave them what they wanted, and then screwed him when they didn't like what they asked for. They really did treat him like crap trying to get him to resign, since they had no grounds to fire him.
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At the end, apparently to complete his contract, he was forced to do a 1 hour pre-morning drive show from 4:30 am to 5:30 am for a couple of weeks before Doyle and Mustard came in at 5:30. I managed to hear one or two of them. One of his topics, as I recall, was how often meteorologists get the weather forecasts wrong. And whatever company was supplying the forecasts to WEEI refused to give an updated forecast to Andy that morning once they heard about the segment he was doing. Good old Andy, pi$$ing people off any way he could. :D

I loved the show and, as someone said, he did what he was brought in to do. For trivia buffs, his female sidekick was Suzanne Lee and the newsreader was Rob Buttery.

I thought Andy had also kind of gotten screwed when he left the "The Joe and Andy Family" morning show (with Joe Martelle) on the old WROR (98.5). Had loved that show too and I recall that he just sort of stopped showing up. WROR was transforming to WBMX and they wanted more music and less talk. ???
 
vmorrison said:
I really enjoyed his Saturday afternoon RKO show.
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Same here. Even if he wasn't talking about serious stuff he did it well and relaxed, like a Saturday afternoon talk show should be.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Reading Scott Fybush's Northeast Radio Watch this morning ( buy a calendar, support his site!) I see it has been just over 10 years since the sudden death of Andy Moes.

Does anyone else remember the screw job he got by the then 590 WEEI when he was brought in to be the bad boy of morning drive? They wanted a shock jock, he gave them what they wanted, and then screwed him when they didn't like what they asked for. They really did treat him like crap trying to get him to resign, since they had no grounds to fire him.



Here is a long snippet from Scott's NERW, I hope he doesn't object, and for the moderators I am claiming "fair use" for the purposes of starting a discussion which is allowed by copyright laws so please don't edit this.

" After a career in Boston that spanned three decades, Andy Moes died of heart failure at his Milton home last Thursday night (Jan. 25). For a little over a year, Moes had been co-host of the "Blute and Moes Show" on WRKO (680), but his history in Boston radio began in the late seventies, when he began filling in on WROR (98.5, now WBMX). By 1979, Moes was co-hosting WROR's morning show with Joe Martelle, a gig that lasted more than a decade. In 1991, Moes moved to WEEI (590) as the first signature personality of that station's new sports format. That lasted two years, until WEEI replaced Moes with Don Imus in morning drive. For the next few years, Moes was heard in a variety of weekend and night slots on WRKO before landing the morning job (with former Massport director Peter Blute) in October 1999.

Off the air, Moes made headlines with his friendship with "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer, which extended to a consulting deal for Moes in which he advised the show on how to design the studio of its fictional "KACL Radio." On air, WRKO filled Friday morning with Moes tributes, to be followed by a retrospective show Monday, after which Blute will be solo for now. Moes had been married for just six months at the time of his death. He was 51 years old. "
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I liked Andy's show on WEEI, as a matetr of fact I was thinking of the jingles they used to play at the time just this morning with that big kettle drum and the singers "Sportsradiooooooo WEEI....Andy Moes!".
He had Rob Buttery I think the guys name was and to be honest his show was very much a foreshadowing of what we see in sportstalk these days when it comes to morning shows, they want the hardcore and the casual sportsfan.
It's more like "Guy talk" than actual "all sports" I used to Produce a morning show on a sports station in another top 15 market and struggled at first with the "guy talk" thing because to me we were a "sports station" but it was explained to me just what they were trying to do and really now that I look back on it that was EXACTLY what Moes was doing at EEI.
True they wanted a "shock jock" because it was 1990/1991 and that was the "IN" thing and the BIG thing but really he was ahead of his time, not sure if that was all his doing or if someone at Entercom had anything to do with it but it was fun radio and like I said shades of what we see today on morning shows in particular on sports stations.
 
I was the Promotion Director at WRKO when we lost Andy. He was a wonderful human being who took a general interest in those of us around him. I learned a lot about radio from him.
 
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