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Joe Chille

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dand5780

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Joe Chille will be hosting a new talk show on WBEN. Senior Radio Buffalo will air Saturday mornings at 11. I'm assuming 11-12, the time the Garden show used to be on. I'm sure some will have something to say about the name of the show, and say the listeners are dying. Of course, as we all know, people get older, which means a new crop of listeners will replace them.
 
Sounds like they're pruning the garden.

Joe's a fine broadcaster. It'll be nice to hear him back on the air.
 
dand5780 said:
Joe Chille will be hosting a new talk show on WBEN. Senior Radio Buffalo will air Saturday mornings at 11. I'm assuming 11-12, the time the Garden show used to be on. I'm sure some will have something to say about the name of the show, and say the listeners are dying. Of course, as we all know, people get older, which means a new crop of listeners will replace them.
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Thanks to the deal-with-the-devil that WBEN made by targeting most of their prime talk hours to insultingly stupid, misinformation driven, tea party idiocy, there will be NO listeners replacing those who die off.
 
flybynight said:
Thanks to the deal-with-the-devil that WBEN made by targeting most of their prime talk hours to insultingly stupid, misinformation driven, tea party idiocy, there will be NO listeners replacing those who die off.
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There will be and there are plenty.

I only got 2 hours of listening in today, one was the news in the morning, the other was Bauerle in the evening. Both were talking about Paul McCartney (among many other topics on the news).

Nice try anyway.
 
The last time I was in Buffalo was 2006. I went to the Wegmans in West Seneca and I swear I was the only person in the store younger than 90. WBEN might be on to something with a senior show.

Bronx
 
Bronx, maybe you need to visit sometime in this decade. There's a pretty vibrant population of folks under 90. At least Joe Chille will sound like a professional, unlike a lot of the syndicated pap and radio dabblers like "Kathy from Williamsville".
 
SirRoxalot said:
Bronx, maybe you need to visit sometime in this decade. There's a pretty vibrant population of folks under 90. At least Joe Chille will sound like a professional, unlike a lot of the syndicated pap and radio dabblers like "Kathy from Williamsville".
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Yep. Joe Chille's a class act. Too good for WBEN, quite frankly.
 
kellim said:
Yep. Joe Chille's a class act. Too good for WBEN, quite frankly.
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Why didn't WBFO pick him up? Or one of the other under 5 share stations? I think WWKB has an opening Sunday nights 9-11...
 
dand5780 said:
Why didn't WBFO pick him up? Or one of the other under 5 share stations? I think WWKB has an opening Sunday nights 9-11...
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This sort of speculation is nothing I care to indulge myself in. Frankly, WBEN has ratings because the general population is comprised of mainly braindead sheep who eat up sensationalized bull----. WBEN has ratings for the same reason Jersey Shore ran for 6 seasons.
 
kellim said:
This sort of speculation is nothing I care to indulge myself in. Frankly, WBEN has ratings because the general population is comprised of mainly braindead sheep who eat up sensationalized bull----. WBEN has ratings for the same reason Jersey Shore ran for 6 seasons.
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But you just said he was a class act? I don't disagree with that (I thought WJYE was great before it was destroyed), but what, then, is a class act associating themselves with this station?

Because, the listeners of this station are not as you describe. In fact, I bet more Jersey Shore viewers were WBFO listeners than WBEN listeners, and there are far fewer of them.
 
dand5780 said:
But you just said he was a class act? I don't disagree with that (I thought WJYE was great before it was destroyed), but what, then, is a class act associating themselves with this station?

Because, the listeners of this station are not as you describe. In fact, I bet more Jersey Shore viewers were WBFO listeners than WBEN listeners, and there are far fewer of them.
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I really have to explain this? Yes, I said he's a class act and too good for WBEN. I also said I didn't care to speculate as to why he didn't go elsewhere. I don't know why and that's his business. All I know is that I worked with the guy and around Buffalo enough to know that he's good people, unlike a lot of other grubby management types in radio that I encountered over the years.
 
I'm sure that WWKB didn't pick up Joe Chille for a simple reason - he'd want to be paid commensurate with his talent. That ain't ever gonna happen on Entercom's dumping ground for infomercials that won't fit on 'BEN. Joe's obviously not going to find another home with Town Square. Cumulus is cutting, not hiring. Entercom is running WBEN on the cheap, barely keeping 'KB alive, running 1400 out of a computer in a closet, and not likely to find space (or money) for Joe on Kiss or Star.

It's also possible that Joe simply has had enough of radio and the way that its changed over the course of his career. Talent - on-air, sales, or management - simply isn't valued as it once was. It looks like he's got a little sydication slot where he can indulge his passion for the medium, but he's not relying on radio to pay the bills - or fund a retirement. Radio's not very good at doing either these days.

There are several people out there who are "class acts" - and out of the business. Too many corporate owners want cheap, not good. They haven't learned that sometimes you have to spend a little more to make a lot more. "Mix" - Joe's former station - is a pretty good example of that these days.
 
After WJYE turfed him Joe took a management job with Tim Hortons (a job he still holds). Somehow I'm thinking that wasn't his preferred career move - unless he developed a pastry affinity doing mornings all those years. :eek:
 
SirRoxalot said:
Talent - on-air, sales, or management - simply isn't valued as it once was.
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...and engineering staff.

There are several people out there who are "class acts" - and out of the business. Too many corporate owners want cheap, not good. They haven't learned that sometimes you have to spend a little more to make a lot more. "Mix" - Joe's former station - is a pretty good example of that these days.
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The majority of them-- and private owners too.
 
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