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Michael Graham to WSPD/Toledo?

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bigwoody

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Allegedly he'll be in house for PM Drive beginning tomorrow. Graham's last gig was at WMAL/DC.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Allegedly he'll be in house for PM Drive beginning tomorrow.
> Graham's last gig was at WMAL/DC.

Interesting. From Charleston to DC to Richmond to DC to...Toledo.

I honestly didn't think he was trying for this gig, and half expected him to show up at WGST/Atlanta, working for his old boss at WMAL, Randall Bloomquist. But WGST already signed and delivered former WSPD PM driver Denny Schaffer to Atlanta, before Randall was hired as PD.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
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> Somehow doubt Michael Graham will be setting up housekeeping
> in Toledo, more than likely he'll ISDN it.

In a Toledo Blade item on his recent fill-in on WSPD, Graham insisted he was actually in Toledo for it. I'm not sure if A) he thinks regular listeners wouldn't know he could do it from out of town or B) just didn't care or C) if he really was IN Toledo.

From bigwoody's message, it sounds like he'll actually be in house, at any rate.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
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> Interesting. From Charleston to DC to Richmond to DC
> to...Toledo.

It would be fine if it was from Charleston to Toledo to Richmond to DC but this isn't good. Michael is too talented to be mismanaging his career this way.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > Interesting. From Charleston to DC to Richmond to DC
> > to...Toledo.
>
> It would be fine if it was from Charleston to Toledo to
> Richmond to DC but this isn't good. Michael is too talented
> to be mismanaging his career this way.
>

It's not mismanagement, he was fired from WMAL, and now has a job on a decently rated station that can be heard throughout NW Ohio and well into Detroit. Sorry but if you want to work in radio, you have to be willing to work where ever you can get it, and going to Toledo, which yes is kinda small, is not that bad since most of the big stations, including WSPD can be heard in DETROIT!
 
Update: No Michael Graham (Yet) On WSPD

Regular fill-in and former "92.5 KISS FM" personality Fred Lefebvre is hosting the WSPD afternoon drive talk show this afternoon.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
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> > > Interesting. From Charleston to DC to Richmond to DC
> > > to...Toledo.
> >
> > It would be fine if it was from Charleston to Toledo to
> > Richmond to DC but this isn't good. Michael is too
> talented
> > to be mismanaging his career this way.
> >
>
> It's not mismanagement, he was fired from WMAL, and now has
> a job on a decently rated station that can be heard
> throughout NW Ohio and well into Detroit. Sorry but if you
> want to work in radio, you have to be willing to work where
> ever you can get it, and going to Toledo, which yes is kinda
> small, is not that bad since most of the big stations,
> including WSPD can be heard in DETROIT!

I don't mean to belittle WSPD, I simply believe that a sign of career growth is to go to increasingly larger markets. That is subject to legitimate debate but it is my opinion.

As far as Michael mismanaging his career, I was writing in a kind of shorthand when I should have been more explicit. I consider his history of repeatedly exceeding the boundaries he should have known his employer would likely tolerate to constitute mismanagement. That those boundaries may have been unreasonable are beside the point. While merely suspended from WMAL, he belittled and criticized his employer and accused them of censorship. I would have fired him just for that.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Michael Graham -- don't believe everything you hear

Graham is just one of several being considered at the station for a position, but WSPD already has hired its Afternoon Drive Talk Host and Program Director, and neither one is Michael Graham. IF he were to be offered a job there, he would have to move there and not "phone it in" via ISDN.

The new guy will start soon.



> > Somehow doubt Michael Graham will be setting up
> housekeeping
> > in Toledo, more than likely he'll ISDN it.
>
> In a Toledo Blade item on his recent fill-in on WSPD, Graham
> insisted he was actually in Toledo for it. I'm not sure if
> A) he thinks regular listeners wouldn't know he could do it
> from out of town or B) just didn't care or C) if he really
> was IN Toledo.
>
> From bigwoody's message, it sounds like he'll actually be in
> house, at any rate.
>
> -OA
>
 
Big Woody,

I think you're being snowed by your competition. Graham definitely has not been hired by WSPD. In fact, he's filling in on WSB/Atlanta tonight.


> Allegedly he'll be in house for PM Drive beginning tomorrow.
> Graham's last gig was at WMAL/DC.
>
 
> Big Woody,
>
> I think you're being snowed by your competition. Graham
> definitely has not been hired by WSPD. In fact, he's
> filling in on WSB/Atlanta tonight.
>
>
> > Allegedly he'll be in house for PM Drive beginning
> tomorrow.
> > Graham's last gig was at WMAL/DC.
> >
>


Oh well...that's why I used "allegedly". That word gets one out of things, lol!<P ID="signature">______________
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.</P>
 
Your Michael Graham Update

> Oh well...that's why I used "allegedly". That word gets one
> out of things, lol!

I'm hearing now that Mr. Graham may be hoping to eat New England clam chowder instead of Tony Packo's hot dogs...

You think maybe the folks across town were trying to feed you a line?

-OA <P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Michael Graham -- don't believe everything you hear

> Graham is just one of several being considered at the
> station for a position, but WSPD already has hired its
> Afternoon Drive Talk Host and Program Director, and neither
> one is Michael Graham. IF he were to be offered a job
> there, he would have to move there and not "phone it in" via
> ISDN.
>
> The new guy will start soon.

Is the new PM drive host Fred L., the guy who's been filling in?

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
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I do know know anybody in Detroit that listens to WSPD. It is not listenable in the majority of the metro area and even if it was, nobody would be listening to a Toledo station. WSPD has never made a Detroit book. This is just pure spin. This is totally demoralizing and going to Toledo is not a good thing for Graham's career no matter how you try to spin it. I'm sure he didn't get many offers but should he end up in Toledo, let's not spin it to be a positive.



> > > Interesting. From Charleston to DC to Richmond to DC
> > > to...Toledo.
> >
> > It would be fine if it was from Charleston to Toledo to
> > Richmond to DC but this isn't good. Michael is too
> talented
> > to be mismanaging his career this way.
> >
>
> It's not mismanagement, he was fired from WMAL, and now has
> a job on a decently rated station that can be heard
> throughout NW Ohio and well into Detroit. Sorry but if you
> want to work in radio, you have to be willing to work where
> ever you can get it, and going to Toledo, which yes is kinda
> small, is not that bad since most of the big stations,
> including WSPD can be heard in DETROIT!
>
 
Re: Your Michael Graham Update

> I'm hearing now that Mr. Graham may be hoping to eat New
> England clam chowder instead of Tony Packo's hot dogs...

WTKK to replace Infinity's Jay Severin?
 
Here's your new PD/PM drive guy!

WSPD/Toledo Names Brian Wilson PD/Afternoon Drive
From R&R



Brian Wilson is taking over the PD post at Clear Channel's News/Talk WSPD, left vacant when Al Brady Law moved to CH Holding's News/Talk KTRS/St. Louis. Wilson will also fill the afternoon drive slot, a position left open when Denny Scheaffer took the 8am-noon shift at CC's News/Talk WGST/Atlanta.

Wilson is a veteran talk show host who has established a reputation by providing vacation fill-in services for News/Talkers in major markets. CC/Toledo Director/Operations Bill Michaels says Wilson assumed his PD duties on Monday and will be heard on the air in his new time slot within the next two weeks.

"Originally, Al reached out to Brian and asked him if he'd consider coming to work for him here, but then Al left for St. Louis, " Michaels tells R&R. "By that time Brian had already established a relationship with me and CC RVP Andy Stewart. When we learned that he had a background in programming, it seemed like a natural for him to fill both open positions."


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