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Jake Underwood on WHK

I listened to quite a bit of the show today. Most of it was chit chat between Jake and Seth about the use of ketchup and mustard. :rolleyes:

I found out Jake worked at WTAM previously. I assume he was producer for Dennis Manoloff show on occasion and was referred to by D Man as "Jake the Snake".
 
skiwest said:
I listened to quite a bit of the show today. Most of it was chit chat between Jake and Seth about the use of ketchup and mustard. :rolleyes:

I found out Jake worked at WTAM previously. I assume he was producer for Dennis Manoloff show on occasion and was referred to by D Man as "Jake the Snake".
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Sounds like they are taking some cues from the weekend, Sunday, "The Average Josh Show". The two guys named Josh spend a good amount of time talking about eating something, and actually doing so on the air, giving their 'play-by-play' descriptions of what this-or-that tastes like.
 
johnbasalla said:
Sounds like they are taking some cues from the weekend, Sunday, "The Average Josh Show". The two guys named Josh spend a good amount of time talking about eating something, and actually doing so on the air, giving their 'play-by-play' descriptions of what this-or-that tastes like.
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Just what everyone wants to hear, people eating into microphones!
 
Listening again this week. It seems to be a show about nothing. Today, they are talking about Christmas movies/songs and cookies. Maybe they were unable to line up any guests due to the holidays.
 
I'm more-and-more wondering if something "hit-the-fan" that precipitated Bob Frantz's leaving or losing the show, because it happened so fast. One day he was talking about being on the air for 6 hours as he was, first, set to cover the morning drive show and, then, his local show. A day or two later, his show is suddenly off-the-air. But, then again, he still is a fill-in host for Salem's national line-up. So, whatever happened, assuming something happened in the first place, couldn't be all that bad.
 
johnbasalla said:
So, whatever happened, assuming something happened in the first place, couldn't be all that bad.
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He explained it on his Facebook page.

The decision was not performance related, and in fact, the company has asked me to continue to guest-host their national programming, which I will do, including Tuesday morning at 6 AM. As for the local show, however, it is now officially over.
I intend to start a new live stream program, probably hosted on Rumble, in the very near future. It will be a daily 1-2 hour show, and will feature the same great guests and commentary that we have provided on WHK for the last 11 years.
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My interpretation is it was about money.
 
skiwest said:
Yeah, probably money. Maybe one of the local advertisers wasn't happy with some of his comments and was threatening to pull their ads.
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Or maybe the local GM wanted him to take a pay cut, and he wasn't willing. He figures he can make more on his own. That's more likely.

So he doesn't want to work for the local GM, but he's available to the national PD, at whatever fee they pay.

A lot of radio people are being asked to take pay cuts, rather than get laid off, because revenues aren't keeping up with salaries, but the stations don't want to completely eliminate everyone. Jake Underwood was willing to take less money. That's why he's on the radio. I don't know that for sure, but that's my guess.
 
May be like a number of years ago when CC was telling their big shot DJs making the big bucks [mostly morning guys] that they either go back to doing commercials [which, at that point in their careers they basically said they weren't going to do them] OR take a 20% pay cut. Some of them may have said a big "F*** You!" to them and quit.
 


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