Kenny Youngs-WBRV

[therealjm12]

Kenny Young the host of the WBRV Jamboree has passed away.
Here's a link to CNY radio http://www.cnyradio.com/2009/01/27/longtime-wbrvwllg-host-kenneth-young-dies/

My trips to Old Forge will never be the same. I always looked forward to and enjoyed listening to Kenny on the way to the mountains. It was not like any radio you'd hear on Clear Channel, Entercom, etc. and that was a good thing. Kenny, we'll miss you.

 

[AM680]

I remember that show as well. Nothing like it on the dial anywhere in NY.

But you know what's really sad - not a single mention of it on Fybush.com for 2 weeks now. If you're a WBZ staffer who gets sacked, you get paragraph after paragraph devoted in his column, but a veteran voice hosting gigs for Bluegrass bands up in the sticks dies, and nada. Nice, eh?

 

[therealjm12]

But you know what's really sad - not a single mention of it on Fybush.com for 2 weeks now. If you're a WBZ staffer who gets sacked, you get paragraph after paragraph devoted in his column, but a veteran voice hosting gigs for Bluegrass bands up in the sticks dies

With all due respect to Kenny, he was not exactly a huge blip on the radar screen. Boonville is kinda tucked away. You really have to go to Boonville to gete to Boonville. I doubt Scott has ever heard of the WBRV Jamboree. I'll e-mail him and tell him.

 

[fybush]

But you know what's really sad - not a single mention of it on Fybush.com for 2 weeks now. If you're a WBZ staffer who gets sacked, you get paragraph after paragraph devoted in his column, but a veteran voice hosting gigs for Bluegrass bands up in the sticks dies, and nada. Nice, eh?

"Fybush.com" isn't some big monolithic media mega-opoly...it's just me, in between feeding a crying baby and doing all the other bits of work that put food on the table, and believe it or not, I can't be everywhere all the time, which is why I depend on the kindness of my readers to alert me when I've missed something. In the same amount of time it took you to complain about it in public on R-I, you could just as easily have dropped me a line in private e-mail. The address isn't exactly hard to find, after all. (Hell, the phone number's listed, for that matter.)

I don't bite - really.

 

[kq2n]

I've been a past contributor here in the past, but I believe my account expired for lack of posts or whatever. I tried to comment on this subject a couple weeks ago, finally decided to re-register. Anyway, on Scott's behalf, I don't believe he was aware of Kenny Youngs. I know I made mention to him several years back about Kenny's show and on one of his trips through Central New York I think he said he may have tuned into WBRV, but heard satellite programming at that time. I believe this is the case as he dissed WBRV as just another satellite clone. Scott does a good job though with the big conglomerates.

Kenny will be missed by many in Central NY. His show was unique, one had to have listened to him to comprehend that comment. Rest In Peace Kenny.

 

[Element9]

This thread is dedicated to the memory of Kenny Youngs, yet some guys use it to bring the hate on Scott Fybush, who has done more to keep people informed than any twenty posters on Radio-Info (myself included.) Fybush answers to let readers know NERW is a labor of love (and occasional obsession) and it's easy to get ahold of him. Case closed. Take the envy someplace else, guys. Kenny would want this to thread to be down home and friendly. RIP Kenny. From what posters here have written, you were one of a kind and will be greatly missed. And Scott, you do a damn fine job.