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John Zach "retiring" from WBEN December 30.

Clearly using the straw man argument, David Bellavia said, "I don't know if he's a racist... the comments were made in jest... it's humor... people get way too upset over this stuff... we live in a way too politically correct world." All the dog whistle stuff, tacitly agreeing with callers who supported the school board member. Sad.

They do. Bellavia is correct. Look at the people against Paladino. They want him off the board for irrelevant comments that have nothing to do with running a school system. The women on that Board have no business even being on it.
 
One of Entercoms own says the median age of a WBEN
listener is 64. That's far beyond the sales viability (According to
David's previous posts).

WBENs toxic programming wasn't effective on the FM side and
didn't change anything. I'm sure that Entercom is concerned about
one of their important properties becoming obsolete...
 
One of Entercoms own says the median age of a WBEN
listener is 64. That's far beyond the sales viability (According to
David's previous posts).

WBENs toxic programming wasn't effective on the FM side and
didn't change anything. I'm sure that Entercom is concerned about
one of their important properties becoming obsolete...

But Buffalo radio is not agency driven. It is outside the top 50 markets, and 75% of revenue is local direct. That is what drives WBEN.

The programming was not effective on AM because the signal does not cover most of the market population.
 
One of Entercoms own says the median age of a WBEN
listener is 64. That's far beyond the sales viability (According to
David's previous posts).

WBENs toxic programming wasn't effective on the FM side and
didn't change anything. I'm sure that Entercom is concerned about
one of their important properties becoming obsolete...

Entercom will become concerned once they stop printing money...something clearly you don't know about with all your caustic rants on this board.
 
Look at the people against Paladino. They want him off the board for irrelevant comments that have nothing to do with running a school system. The women on that Board have no business even being on it.

"Irrelevant comments?" Rubbish! Yet, no surprise coming from you. "The women on that board" have every right to be there, as they were duly elected by their constituents. A person who makes such distasteful remarks about the African American President of the United States and his wife has no business being on the Buffalo Board of Education, let alone any board of education. His own son repudiated his father's remarks, which would indicate to any sane and reasonable person just how repulsive the statements were. But you, like the lemmings of hate who listen to WBEN and wouldn't recognize prejudice and bigotry if it bit them in the ass, will find a means to tacitly or blatantly defend those remarks, and the person who wrote them. It says as much about their character as it does the person they're defending.
 
Bauerle and Bellavia calling for the immediate removal of school board member Hope Jay, who after her public Facebook page with very inappropriate comments towards various groups of people, including children, inappropriate pictures, slurs towards customer service workers in foreign countries of different nationalities, has deleted her Facebook page.

But when the shoe is on the other foot, I don't know if the sisters will spend taxpayer dollars to hire a lawyer and have her removed, since she happens to belong to the same political party.
 
What's really sad is what this thread has devolved into. The title is about John Zak's leaving WBEN, not a debate about that idiot Paladino and the absurd rantings of the "dandy" one. Kudos to an outstanding, Hall of Fame career, John. Hopefully, it won"t be over yet, if you don't want it to be. For now, enjoy sleeping in.
 
Bauerle and Bellavia calling for the immediate removal of school board member Hope Jay, who after her public Facebook page with very inappropriate comments towards various groups of people... But when the shoe is on the other foot, I don't know if the sisters will spend taxpayer dollars to hire a lawyer and have her removed, since she happens to belong to the same political party.
Not even close. Diversion tactic. Typical. File under false equivalence.
 
I'm no fan of Paladino - or WBEN's talkers - but why are the charges against Hope Jay true? If they are, it's not a "false" equivalence. I'm not familiar with the content that was removed, so it's difficult to determine what level of "equivalence" exists.
 
The reason for his removal continues to always come back to the fact that Carl Paladino is not a role model for the "children." I can't actually say myself that I knew any of the school board members when I was a child. I think everyone can agree that he isn't, but that's not the job of the school board. So when it is being discovered that more and more school board members, including Hope Jay, and now Jennifer Mecozzi, are far from being considered "role models" for anybody, one must ask why wouldn't the same resources be devoted to remove these people, and the answer as I said above, is that they are on the same page as the rest of them. But what some are saying is that the reason really is, is the fact that Paladino is the one that exposes the corruption on that board. And it's true, because in the meeting, you could see that even the two people, or at least the one woman, Patti Pearce, who votes against the majority, she isn't exposing anything. And that's why they all love her.
 
The uproar about Paladino's comments isn't about him being "a (poor) role model for the children." It's about his comments being grossly offensive to minority students and parents of minority students in the Buffalo public schools. The issues cited against him are larger than being a poor role model. He may not be a racist, but his comments reeked of bigotry and prejudice, to say nothing of stupidity. Who in their right mind writes such stuff and presses 'send'?! Who in their right mind defends that kind of thinking? WBEN.
 
The hell with their feelings. If it's offensive to them, they shouldn't read Artvoice. Just as those offended by nudity should stay off of Hope Jay's Facebook.

Still waiting to hear who at WBEN defended what he wrote. Must be Beach? The only one I haven't heard since this came about.
 
The hell with their feelings. If it's offensive to them, they shouldn't read Artvoice. Just as those offended by nudity should stay off of Hope Jay's Facebook.

Still waiting to hear who at WBEN defended what he wrote. Must be Beach? The only one I haven't heard since this came about.

The problem is, what was printed first in Artvoice got repeated EVERYWHERE. And it wasn't the first time Paladino acted like a jerk and did a non-apology apology. (As a sidebar, Artvoice has been unreadable for years....but ever since a majority interest in the paper was bought by NF businessman Frank Paladino(who publishes the Niagara Falls Reporter, which ALSO has become unreadable), the drive to dumb it down has accelerated.
 
The story also was reported on WBEN which used some of Paladino's quotes, paraphrased. Outstanding logic dandy boy. Keep up the good work.
 
The 7:21 interview on WBEN was (supposed to be) with Jennifer Meccozzi, the school board member that while using profanity, advertises she drops F bombs all the time. They made it clear that they reached out to four board members, and she was the only one to answer, stating that she would do the interview.

As a role model to the students, she either must have overslept or ditched the interview, kind of like how the students miss class more than they show up.

She probably realized she needs to spend some taxpayer dollars and lawyer up, and the lawyer might not like her on the air.
 
The problem is, what was printed first in Artvoice got repeated EVERYWHERE. And it wasn't the first time Paladino acted like a jerk and did a non-apology apology. (As a sidebar, Artvoice has been unreadable for years....but ever since a majority interest in the paper was bought by NF businessman Frank Paladino(who publishes the Niagara Falls Reporter, which ALSO has become unreadable), the drive to dumb it down has accelerated.

And as a WBEN host has said, they are raking in the big bucks now with all the attention everyone is freely giving them.
 
And as a WBEN host has said, they are raking in the big bucks now with all the attention everyone is freely giving them.

Not as many big bucks as WBEN rakes in giving them that publicity and lobbing verbal gasoline bombs into the firestorm.
 
Nudity and F-bombs from school board members? Bet the First Lady elect and prez-elect would approve. Right in their wheelhouse.
 
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