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Mikey Klein Steals From the Best

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Shame, shame. Radio Racket did an interview with Jody MacDonald last Friday night. Jody Mac says WPEN intends to start up a local-live morning show.
Four days later, the Inquirer runs the following:
Sports talk WPEN-AM (950) confirms that a local morning show is on the way.

The hire will be the first order of business for new program director Gregg Henson, who starts in Bala next week. No names yet. ...

Right now, the station's alpha local male is afternooner Jody McDonald. "We're going to build this thing around Jody," Henson said by phone the other day.

Mindful of going up against top sports gun WIP-AM (610) - whose reputation is more entertainment than X's and O's - Henson says he wants to find a mix of sports info and entertainment. "In a town like Philadelphia with so many passionate sports fans, you can do a lot more than entertainment."
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A producer of Radio Racket says he had emailed Mikey during the Friday broadcast about what Jody Mac had said in the interview. Reportedly, Mikey responded he had spoken to the new PD earlier and he "didn't mention anything about it."

No wonder Mikey covers radio for Inky. This kind of lifting of news stories without credit or attribution is common practice in radio news.

It is also interesting that Mikey, while puffing the new Hy Lit website and the launch of a new Saturday afternoon one hour program on a brokered station, has so far failed to acknowledge the existance of the Radio Racket broadcast.

Mikey does have one interesting - and new - piece of information in his article. Mikey says the new guy from Detroit via Austin wants to make WPEN a mix of sports AND ENTERTAINMENT. Just like WIP! Bad news for listeners who were happy to finally have a pure sports talk station in town once again.
 
Dont you think everyone in the business new WPEN was going to start a local morning show? Also this stuff happens to WIP all the time. They mention something and the next day its in the paper.
 
"new?"

Isn't it "knew?"

Question for the room: Are good spelling and grammar necessary to succeed I radio? I wish I "new..." or old.
 
fred flintstone said:
It is also interesting that Mikey, while puffing the new Hy Lit website and the launch of a new Saturday afternoon one hour program on a brokered station, has so far failed to acknowledge the existance of the Radio Racket broadcast.
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Proof in the pudding its almost curtains for the Radio Hackfest!
 
Rob - Please. What exactly are you doing these days?

While it's been assumed that 'PEN would eventually start up a live and local morning show, it was on our program last Friday evening that Jody Mac told us that they hope to have it on the air by July 31st. A start date for a new show is news.

Klein and I exchanged some e-mails Friday evening during the show. As fred stated in his post, Klein told me he had spoken to the new PD 4 hours earlier and he didn't mention anything about it. He then must have called him back with our info, Henson 'fessed up and added that they are going to do a sports & entertainment mix. While it's true that is something Jody Mac didn't tell us on our show, it doesn't change the fact that the initial "news" of the story came from our program and should be credited as such.

Like our program or not, we have broken some big stories with big name guests, such as: Hy Lit, Rollye James and Jody McDonald. We interviewed Phil Neuman after his resignation from KYW and credited Klein & Dan Gross for the story & Laura Nachman for helping us get in touch with Phil. It's what you do when you get a story from somewhere.

We're having a great time doing the show and are happy that this early in the run we are getting great guests and breaking some stories. We're not asking for a front cover story in the paper, just proper credit for the stories we break.

Kyle DeWitt
Executive Producer
"The Radio Racket"
www.radioracket.com
e-mail: [email protected]
 
Kyle D said:
Rob - Please. What exactly are you doing these days?

While it's been assumed that 'PEN would eventually start up a live and local morning show, it was on our program last Friday evening that Jody Mac told us that they hope to have it on the air by July 31st. A start date for a new show is news.

Klein and I exchanged some e-mails Friday evening during the show. As fred stated in his post, Klein told me he had spoken to the new PD 4 hours earlier and he didn't mention anything about it. He then must have called him back with our info, Henson 'fessed up and added that they are going to do a sports & entertainment mix. While it's true that is something Jody Mac didn't tell us on our show, it doesn't change the fact that the initial "news" of the story came from our program and should be credited as such.

Speaking about Rolleye James, is there anyway I could hear that program replayed again. I missed that one.

Like our program or not, we have broken some big stories with big name guests, such as: Hy Lit, Rollye James and Jody McDonald. We interviewed Phil Neuman after his resignation from KYW and credited Klein & Dan Gross for the story & Laura Nachman for helping us get in touch with Phil. It's what you do when you get a story from somewhere.

We're having a great time doing the show and are happy that this early in the run we are getting great guests and breaking some stories. We're not asking for a front cover story in the paper, just proper credit for the stories we break.

Kyle DeWitt
Executive Producer
"The Radio Racket"
www.radioracket.com
e-mail: [email protected]
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Hack said:
Rockin Rob said:
Proof in the pudding its almost curtains for the Radio Hackfest!
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I take offense to that.
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Hi mR. ScHrEck, How are you doing? Haven't seen you at Starbuck's lately. Just checking to see if everything's ok.
 
Kyle D said:
Rob - Please. What exactly are you doing these days?
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LOL....listening to three egomaniacs self-destruct!

And I'm just waiting for the day when you three dolts run out of bridges to burn...
 
LOL....listening to three egomaniacs self-destruct!
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Rockin' Rob/Bob Altimari
South Jersey Correspondent
The Radio Racket
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It's fun listening to "egomaniacs self-destruct." I certainly enjoyed hearing you do it the last time you were on the show.
Have you gotten any good South Jersey stories for the show this week?
 
Kyle D said:
Rob - Please. What exactly are you doing these days?

While it's been assumed that 'PEN would eventually start up a live and local morning show, it was on our program last Friday evening that Jody Mac told us that they hope to have it on the air by July 31st. A start date for a new show is news.

Klein and I exchanged some e-mails Friday evening during the show. As fred stated in his post, Klein told me he had spoken to the new PD 4 hours earlier and he didn't mention anything about it. He then must have called him back with our info, Henson 'fessed up and added that they are going to do a sports & entertainment mix. While it's true that is something Jody Mac didn't tell us on our show, it doesn't change the fact that the initial "news" of the story came from our program and should be credited as such.

Like our program or not, we have broken some big stories with big name guests, such as: Hy Lit, Rollye James and Jody McDonald. We interviewed Phil Neuman after his resignation from KYW and credited Klein & Dan Gross for the story & Laura Nachman for helping us get in touch with Phil. It's what you do when you get a story from somewhere.

We're having a great time doing the show and are happy that this early in the run we are getting great guests and breaking some stories. We're not asking for a front cover story in the paper, just proper credit for the stories we break.

Kyle DeWitt
Executive Producer
"The Radio Racket"
www.radioracket.com
e-mail: [email protected]
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I like to know if you can re-rerun the Rollye James Interview again. I missed that one.
 
apco25-

We hope to have podcasts up and running sometime soon. We'll let you know when the feature is available. Thanks for your interest!


Kyle
 
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