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KJR-FM's new afternoon jock

Nick is the last one left from Robin and Maynard's team, he was with them on The Buzz, I hope he finds another gig. He is a great guy with a great attitude and loves radio.
 
TeeTaw said:
Nick is the last one left from Robin and Maynard's team, he was with them on The Buzz, I hope he finds another gig. He is a great guy with a great attitude and loves radio.
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I would hear his straight delivery on KJR and think about him as "Rob Montana."
 
TeeTaw said:
Nick is the last one left from Robin and Maynard's team, he was with them on The Buzz, I hope he finds another gig. He is a great guy with a great attitude and loves radio.
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I agree. I miss Robin and Maynard type radio and hope that I can hear Nick in a position similar to that soon.
 
Wasn't Nick doing a talk show on an off & on basis a few years back? It was with another guy and sometimes they were funny but a lot of their stuff was pretty sophomoric.
 
mightymoose said:
Wasn't Nick doing a talk show on an off & on basis a few years back? It was with another guy and sometimes they were funny but a lot of their stuff was pretty sophomoric.
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Yeah, he also did The Vocal Minority with Steve Harness.
 
radiojjh said:
Hey---Believe me...wish it WAS me returning to the Seattle airwaves...I grew up in Seattle....both West Seattle and Bellevue/Kirkland/Redmond.....know the city oh so well......and yes indeed---I know how to serve up the music and do more(even in a limited time frame) than just read liner cards.....I believe in "making the music BIGGER than it is," and if you prefer---"Selling The Music," so the listener feels that the station they are listening to is MORE than just a jukebox. As I've discovered, a number of PD's believe that ISN'T IMPORTANT, and to be a boring liner card reader is what they prefer. That is NOT the way radio should be. Of course---IF someone has NO talent or ability to be a personality---that is one thing, but is someone is a PRO and indeed knows what they are doing, then----that is the proverbial "horse of another color."

I remember how much fun it was to be on the air on KJR-FM, when it was the "Superhits Of The 60's & 70's" and back in 2001 when I contacted Bob Case and expressed my interest in being a part of the on-air staff at KJR-FM, and submitted an mp3 of my afternoon show from "98KISSFM" in Spokane, he contacted me immediately and I was told and I quote "You'd be perfect for the station, let's do it!" I was so thrilled to be on the air in Seattle, and many of the shows I did, I actually loved being on the air in Seattle so much, I would make the journey from Spokane to do it live. In 2002, I spent my vacation time, in Seattle doing live fill-in for Heidi May on the mid-day show. That's how much I loved being on the air there. Of course there was a very special connection to me and 95.7FM. My dad--the late Jack Hemingway, did his final radio show on 95.7FM when it was KIXI-FM. So it was "like father--like son." Being on the same frequency in the same city that my dad---who passed away when I was 16, was indeed an honor and something so special to me. Then the day in September of 2006, when I returned from vacation, getting an e-mail, saying he needed to talk to me and then to get a call from Jay Kelly letting me know he was making a change.....literally broke my heart. I heard the talent that replaced me, and to be honest, I was and still am NOT impressed at all. I realize as a program director, you have the option and power to make decisions you feel are the best for "your" radio station. I've programmed stations myself and I understand that things change. Still----I really miss being on the air in my hometown, and perhaps one day that will change.....but until then.....you can hear me on line in the afternoon from 3-7 on www.literockkiss.com, where I am now in my 11th year of garnering top ratings and given the freedom to really "serve up the music" and indeed make it a special listening experience......
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JJ, That's a great post! Passion like yours is at a premium in this business today. I sensed no sour grapes...just a sincere account. I hope you make it home someday. Seattle's
 
...amazing radio town that deserves your kind of talent.
 
am4life said:
I don't agree. Why was he able to hold down middays for almost 20 years at one station? Also, I don't think RL can do a break without writing it down first.
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Ditto on MC. He wasn't incoherent, though no one can blame him or anyone else for speaking in tongues (the kind you don't use in studios.) after getting canned with not much of a warning, a chance to prepare and not even a chance to say goodbye to his listeners. Closure is always nice.

When they don't, radio people often come out of the building sounding like gangsta rappers. I always thought it would be nice for clusters to give their former employees a leg up by having record executives in the parking lot as they are leaving...

Then step aside Young Jeezy.....
 
Bongwater said:
after getting canned with not much of a warning, a chance to prepare and not even a chance to say goodbye to his listeners. Closure is always nice.
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I once decided smack in the middle of a shift that I had enough ... and would be passing the "baton" to one of the eager up-and-comers starting the following week, so at the end of the shift I thanked the listeners for their companionship.

It was, apparently how my PD learned I was planning to leave.

I always thought that was such a twist on the way it is USUALLY done....surprising the PD for a change!!! (especially since I learned of one impending change by cold-reading a liner card that promoted the "new show" in my shift starting the next week...)

My fave departure story is the legendary Joey Reynolds who nailed his shoes to the G/M's door one day and scrawled beneath them "FILL THESE".
 
Joey did that. LOL!!! Most of us don't have the deep pockets or gumption to do that. And he's still around somewhere isn't he?
 
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