"Jason Roberts" - SuperJock

[Radio Fish Heads]

OK'''''' its been 37 years ago and inquiring minds want to know ? What ended your Career with
Group One Broadcasting, Inc ? Rumor has it ---- it was Terry ( Hitler ) Wood ! Now the real
story can be told .... Did Jason Baby Roberts get on the wrong side of Wood ? Did Wood do
the "dark dank dubious deed " of firing Jason ? We want the ugly details of the happening on
the 2d floor of the Manpower Bldg. in downtown Dayton !!!!

Please tell us !
Thank You in advance.
The Fish ....

 

[radioboymark]

Kidwell actually did the firing reading from a file, everything prepared, I was fired for cause - but the details were very sketchy. Kidwell was very unpleasant and the process was very painful. I was devastated.

Later I learned at the time I was let go, Struck was told that he had to move everyone to six day weeks and get rid of one full timer. The decision was between Bwana Johnny and me.. and a coin was flipped.

I also was told later they had trashed me when a potential employer called and asked about my service there, supposedly saying things that were not true. I can't confirm that.

It left me with a lot of empathy for those who lose jobs in any situation. I've had to fire people over the years as a PD and I've always tried to be respectful and human about it, because the people at WTUE were not.

 

[Radio Fish Heads]

Sorry to hear that story Mark aka Jason Roberts....It was not a happy ending. Don Kidwell
and Terry Wood ( both ) could be jerks . BTW -- "Art Wander " was the one who took the
5 day work week away from the air-staff , and changed it to six. He was a Gem ! In the Gem
City. LOL....thnaks for the real skivvy on the stories I have heard over the years.
Fish

 

[jefflaurence]

In 1974 I was interviewing with Art Wander secretly at a restaurant in Central New York..he took out a cigarette and began to light it and smoke it through a nostril in his NOSE. I wanted the job, so I ignored it, and continued our conversation. He also ordered a bowl of cream cheese and pulled a shoehorn out of his jacket and ate the cheese with his personal shoe horn.

I was not hired due to my lack of reaction to these odd quirks..

Methinks I did myself a favor...

Jason Roberts..is a Dayton Legend! How you doin?

 

[KevinFodor]

In 1974 I was interviewing with Art Wander secretly at a restaurant in Central New York..he took out a cigarette and began to light it and smoke it through a nostril in his NOSE. I wanted the job, so I ignored it, and continued our conversation. He also ordered a bowl of cream cheese and pulled a shoehorn out of his jacket and ate the cheese with his personal shoe horn.

I was not hired due to my lack of reaction to these odd quirks..

Methinks I did myself a favor...

Jason Roberts..is a Dayton Legend! How you doin?

I never met the man, Jeff, but I know most of those at WONE/WTUE in those days had no love for Art Wander, myself included. He freaked out most of the office staff, too.

As the story goes, he made a snap judgment about my abilities based upon a tape made of me (without my knowledge) on my first day at work. From that day on, he would not allow me to advance within the company, period. Even after he was played a later tape in which my on-air delivery had improved to the point that Art could not even recognize my voice. (I kid you not...he told my boss, News Director Kent Scott, "why don't you fire that jerk on the weekend and hire this guy"?)

There's also a story I heard while I worked there of a disagreement Art had with Terry Wood. Supposedly (what staffers told me), Terry chased Wander out of the station, yelling at the top of his lungs, "I'm gonna throw your scrawny a-- out my second story window if I catch you!" Needless to say, Art bolted out of the station like a scalded cat.

And, should Art ever read this: thank you for your ignorance. I've had a great radio career, no thanks to you. It was your loss.