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I'll miss "Tune to TruMark for all your banking needs" and "Where member banking is better banking".
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I like the changes Alex Silverman has made with KYW, however there are several on-air talent people that quite frankly are not good and doesn't belong on the station and thus ruining the listener experience .
Well, he has injected some crispness into the station, linking traffic and weather, and making Rewind the caboose of current entertainment reports, the 3 things you need to know, and not making us wait until :15/:45 for sports (WBZ doesn't). TBH I was wondering when KYW was going to get stale after all these years. Alex, you did KYW and its listeners a favor. Thanks.
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I know we are dealing with someone of limited aptitude, but can something be done?
I don't miss Elliot Abrams. I don't like my weather forecast to have sentences that always rhyme. I like a weather forecast ,not an ameteur poet.
The weather now is just fine.
Since I know very little about meteorology -- I even had to look it up to get it spelled correctly -- I say give me a weather person who adds some entertainment.
I think it was Channel 7 WABC who had on Spencer Christian. His schtick for a while was answering a short question from a postcard sent by a viewer. One night he read 'Why is there a ring around the moon sometimes?' His answer was 'Because it didn't use Wisk that day'.
WABC held an on-air audition for meteorologist replacements for a few weeks. One guy was this wild, frazzled guy who looked like a shaggy Newt Gingrich. One of his lines was while he was gesturing at the national map and saying that some low-pressure system was 'pregnant with disaster!' The camera briefly went to the anchor, Roger Grimsby -- a shot of him holding his head in disbelief.
And there's the story of David Letterman, doing the weather on a station in Indiana, congratulating a tropical storm that had been upgraded to a hurricane.
We all know that the weather is going to be naughty or nice. When it's bad, we want to know for how long it'll be bad.
Sign me in to that Elliot Abrams-type entertainment petition.
I think it was Channel 7 WABC who had on Spencer Christian. His schtick for a while was answering a short question from a postcard sent by a viewer. One night he read 'Why is there a ring around the moon sometimes?' His answer was 'Because it didn't use Wisk that day'.
WABC held an on-air audition for meteorologist replacements for a few weeks. One guy was this wild, frazzled guy who looked like a shaggy Newt Gingrich. One of his lines was while he was gesturing at the national map and saying that some low-pressure system was 'pregnant with disaster!' The camera briefly went to the anchor, Roger Grimsby -- a shot of him holding his head in disbelief.
And there's the story of David Letterman, doing the weather on a station in Indiana, congratulating a tropical storm that had been upgraded to a hurricane.
We all know that the weather is going to be naughty or nice. When it's bad, we want to know for how long it'll be bad.
Sign me in to that Elliot Abrams-type entertainment petition.
Weather can be very dry (except when it's raining--nyuk, nyuk, nyuk) so livening it up a bit can be helpful. I don't trust AccuWeather forecasts in the least but I always liked hearing Elliott deliver them. A bunch of others must have too or I doubt KYW would have let him keep up the shtick for all that time.
Bring back Earl Finckle!
(Yes, I know he has passed on and was a WIP fixture.)
(Yes, I know he has passed on and was a WIP fixture.)
And who could forget the ever so entertaining Tex Antoine?
Ah yes, Kemosabe .... 'Confucius say : If rape is inevitable, sit back and enjoy it.' Was that the line?
Woof.
Antoine reportedly would show up in his smock, him lit up like a Broadway theatre marquee, perhaps a spare flask in his pocket, and outfit his sticken cartoon character Uncle Weatherbee (sp?) with a garb of the day suggested by the forecast. He was really blitzed one night, and put the hat on his character's stomach, his moustache in his eyes, etc.
There's a line not to be crossed, between entertainment and 'NOOOO!!!!'
Antoine did a 'no'. A real big no.
Our hero: https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...gAhXNV98KHdPiA1AQsAR6BAgAEAE&biw=1000&bih=572
The first several tiers of pictures are real. The farther down you go, as ever, the less distinct matters go astray
Woof.
Antoine reportedly would show up in his smock, him lit up like a Broadway theatre marquee, perhaps a spare flask in his pocket, and outfit his sticken cartoon character Uncle Weatherbee (sp?) with a garb of the day suggested by the forecast. He was really blitzed one night, and put the hat on his character's stomach, his moustache in his eyes, etc.
There's a line not to be crossed, between entertainment and 'NOOOO!!!!'
Antoine did a 'no'. A real big no.
Our hero: https://www.google.com/search?q=tex...gAhXNV98KHdPiA1AQsAR6BAgAEAE&biw=1000&bih=572
The first several tiers of pictures are real. The farther down you go, as ever, the less distinct matters go astray
Needless to say, Steve, he's not the only one. If you'll pardon my drifting away from the weather, so to speak, do you remember Bob Dayton's unfitting commemoration of the Hiroshima bombing?
Aircheck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEEkxgd2KeU.
Both Messrs. Antoine and Dayton crossed the line and both were fired—by ABC, fortuitously.
Right you are, Kemosabe.
By that, I mean, those gaffes aired on major- *major market media*. Both WABC channel 7 and WABC 770 were sitting high atop their respective reigns during the uprisings.
Bob Dayton, a few other DJ types and myself would often assemble at this unlikely Long Island diner in the late 70's, after hours. There could be 3-4 different stations at the table. Turkey-sized platters of french fries, coffees, and the entire zip code also reeking of ketchup, diner grease and cigarette smoke.
I and a few others found Dayton to be a fascinating and creative dude. Great voice, too, after having left WABC and returning to radio on his native Long Island.
I found his persona really 'out-there' in the good sense. There were some of us who dissented ; they considered him too wild and irreverent.
But yes, Kemosabe: There is a line not be be crossed, let alone eradicated. By using the daily , joyous WABC 'happy birthday' sentiment to salute the bombing of Hiroshima, the very talented Bob Dayton essentially blew up his own career.
(What was the original topic here, by the way?)
By that, I mean, those gaffes aired on major- *major market media*. Both WABC channel 7 and WABC 770 were sitting high atop their respective reigns during the uprisings.
Bob Dayton, a few other DJ types and myself would often assemble at this unlikely Long Island diner in the late 70's, after hours. There could be 3-4 different stations at the table. Turkey-sized platters of french fries, coffees, and the entire zip code also reeking of ketchup, diner grease and cigarette smoke.
I and a few others found Dayton to be a fascinating and creative dude. Great voice, too, after having left WABC and returning to radio on his native Long Island.
I found his persona really 'out-there' in the good sense. There were some of us who dissented ; they considered him too wild and irreverent.
But yes, Kemosabe: There is a line not be be crossed, let alone eradicated. By using the daily , joyous WABC 'happy birthday' sentiment to salute the bombing of Hiroshima, the very talented Bob Dayton essentially blew up his own career.
(What was the original topic here, by the way?)
Someone 30 years younger than most people in this forum, I'd imagine, trying to make the format more attractive to their own generation. If it chases off a few get-off-my-lawners in the process, all the better. The ad agencies will applaud.
Truth.
Exactly.
Hip-hop is pretty polarizing. They might chase away some of the listeners they think they're attracting. Of course, the PPM data can reveal this pretty quickly.
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