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Mary Glen. Gerry House

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I don't know how now, but this morning I was punching around and it hit me how much I miss Gerry House. And I really miss Mary Glen Lassiter.
Obviously my/our opinion won't change anything.
But I'm just growing tired of some of my best Nashville radio memories, being....memories.
 
And you gotta respect both of them for leaving on their own terms rather than caving into the idiocy that is now CC programming.
 
I can remember a time when I hated to travel away from Nashville because I didn't like the radio or TV stations in other cities. This was before Satellite radio. I always felt that most of them were below par compared to the Nashville personalities. Sad to say, I no longer feel that way.

I'm about to move to Texas because of family and while I will miss my home state of TN, I look forward to some of the stations out there. There are some there that still play the songs I used to hear here before the "take-overs".

Except that now I will have to get the college and NFL packages so I can still watch the Vols suck, the Titans miss tackles, and the rise of Vandy.
 
krOnik, that was a good line up but my favorite was House, Hoss Burns, Carl P., and Hollywood. Hoss was a great radio personality. I wonder if he's still with us.
 
Hollywood has quite a career, and somewhat parallel to state of radio. Mid- to late 80's Y-107 ruled. Hendrix pulled big ratings at The Outrageous FM. At WSIX he was part of arguably the last great local daily lineup. His 104.5 days were good, too.

Now his daily traffic reports pay the bills and keep him at the mic. I would think he makes a few voice over and commercial bucks too. But it seems so long ago when local radio was fun.
 
From what I had heard, she found out that Clear Channel was going to let her go and she resigned/retired before Clear Channel could do so. Plus, her husband, the Coach, had just retired from Sumner County Schools, so it was pretty much a no-brainer.
 
jwk1979 said:
From what I had heard, she found out that Clear Channel was going to let her go and she resigned/retired before Clear Channel could do so. Plus, her husband, the Coach, had just retired from Sumner County Schools, so it was pretty much a no-brainer.
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I heard her contract was up for renewal and CC was wanting her to voice-track other markets and stuff like that. Either way, she told them to take a hike.
 
Could be that was what they were hoping for..add a ton more work to her new contract...hoping she would leave so as to save lots of moooola... ;)
 
I heard her contract was up for renewal and CC was wanting her to voice-track other markets and stuff like that. Either way, she told them to take a hike.
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This is correct. With almost 2 decades there her pay level had risen to a higher level than the station feels they have to pay anymore. She could have stayed at a new rate but to get to where she "was" she'd have to call all these CC PD's around the country and convince them to let HER be their new mid day person. In "sales speak" potential was there ... in reality, stop and think would that would be like. Having a conversation with PD after PD who in many cases are afraid of changing anything and fear losing their own job. Even with facts of her success here, a lot of these guys need to be lead to decisions.
One other factor, for every station she picked up that means somebody else would be cut loose for her to take a shift. She's not the kind of person who would enjoy success at somebody else's expense.
I sure miss Carl P Mayfield as well. We live in a town where a lot of good people gave a us a lot. And this is the thanks they get? It's embarrassing as much as maddening.
 
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