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Morgan White Jr ? (also?)

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MR. JAROME_CALVIN

He fills on on WBZ 1030am. Your thoughts on him?
For me, he's great!!!


Also, on a side note. I don't get to listen to "98.5 The Sports Hub", when I do it is early weekday mornings, and weekdays and weekend late afternoon/nights. Is Tom Cuddy also on "98.5 The Sports Hub"?

Thank you for your time
 
Have heard Morgan going back to mid 80s on various stations, including WMRE 1510, WKOX 1200 (call letters then). He probably should do a trivia show on WBZ but maybe he doesn't want to step on the
toes of Steve Leveille, who has Mel Simons on for trivia (at least with audio clips, gang!). Morgan does public appearances (though you may want to call ahead to make sure he's there are sometimes he has to cancel at last minute)

http://www.morganwhitejr.com (calendar page does mention his WBZ apperances)
 
should do a trivia show on WBZ
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His final hour has some word games.

Morgan worked a lot in '11. Vacations in Oct. and Nov?

* Cuddy isn't on 98.5: a few smaller stations like WIZZ/1520.
 
I'm not sure that WBZ or the audience would be very happy with trivia 25 hours per week 52 weeks a year. Morgan would be good for that--provided he could fit it into his schedule. He does a LOT of personal appearance work, which is is primary occupation. I have little doubt that he would neither enjoy doing the kind of show LeVeille does nor do an especially good job with it. Outside of his personal brand of trivia (aimed mostly at boomers), Morgan is not especially well informed and I don't think he would be interested in trying to become better informed about politics, which is the mainstay of the more serious talk that LeVeille sometimes does. LeVeille is far from perfect but I doubt whether anyone could do a better job with the midnight to 5:00AM M-F slot on the Boston station that allegedly covers 38 states plus the best Canadian provinces.
 
Once a week, maybe...for trivia. I think he doesn't want to be anchored down to a regular show but can do fill-ins. That can fit in with his regular trivia gigs and private shows. This is what he did at stations like WKOX and WMRE. On weeks like this he'll handle the whole week, but that's not often. Agreed on what you said, Dan; btw a couple yrs ago Morgan was in at the end of the year and found out somehow that Steve had been let go and supp. even Steve hadn't known...he mentioned it on air and eventually an effort was led to get him back on.. (Note: looked up an old thread on radio-info about it--I think Steve had been informed the previous Wed. Morgan was not told but a caller had brought it up on air and Morgan said he hadn't heard about it, he just knew he was filling in for him that week. Maybe someone who read about the firing online...Morgan for the record says many times he does not use computers too much.)

I'm reminded of a web-only show I listen to, Stu's Show with Stu Shostak (comedian who would warm up audiences for sitcoms like The Lucy Show in the 70s etc.) Once a week he'll be on for two hours and talk to baby-boomer favorites
like cast members from Dennis the Menace or the Dick Van Dyke show...cartoon voices (a couple wks back he talked to
Joe Alaskey who used to be The Man of 1,000 Voices on Lorne and Wally, then on WVBF), people who work behind the scenes at game shows, people like Dr. Demento or Stan Freberg, and so on. Once per week, two hours per show. Morgan
has been known to do the same kind of interviews. Now that would work--if he were so inclined maybe 4 hr show, once per week, guests then trivia. But I think even that would be too much for him which is why he does it only occasionally. Again Dan, your comments are spot on and what I meant was maybe once per week at the most. btw not sure but I think Morgan got his start via the late Norm Nathan (WHDH at the time?)

(for those curious about the show I mentioned http://www.stusshow.com )

(The thread about Leveille being let go from around early 2009
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=117247.0
 
Morgan is a very nice guy and I understand why people like him. On occasion he will book an interesting guest that you wouldn't hear anywhere else but for the most part I find him very boring. And he is just such a kiss ass about being on BZ. One more than once occasion when he ran out of something to say at 3am he just went on and on about what a great station BZ was.

I know that at one time Peter Casey did not want him to do entire trivia shows.
 
It feels like Morgan's worked about 12 weeks this year? I think he also broke his "short notice" record of about 25 min's notice.

I think KDKA did a weekend overnight trivia show which may still be in operation I don't know. Kind of limited appeal but maybe the guy bought the time?
But I give the clear-ch power station credit for being a bit different, not the standard con-talk on Fri-Sat.
 
Rollye James was on some terrestrial stations then XM and did some fill ins for Art Bell. Mostly she was libertarian poli. talk but she did fun trivia on Fri. nights
 
At one point in the past few months LeVeille sounded like he was POed at White because he had mentioned on air about a future LeVeille absence that LeVeille hadn't announced himself yet.
 
Considering Steve gets sick on Sun. evening at about 11.05 a lot, he shouldn't be put out at Morgan for anything said or imagined.
The guy has had more Mondays off than anyone in the business (not counting holidays).
 
Blackroc said:
Considering Steve gets sick on Sun. evening at about 11.05 a lot, he shouldn't be put out at Morgan for anything said or imagined.
The guy has had more Mondays off than anyone in the business (not counting holidays).
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...I would tend to agree with this... ::)

Although in Steve's defense, he does have a lot of health issues.
 
Morgan is good, and is the de facto guest host, but there are some things that make me wish Steve would never go on vacation. There are, however, things that I've picked up on:

1. He can't seem to do a show without guests. (Example: Dabney Coleman a few weeks ago. When was Dabney Coleman in a movie or TV show that had any relevance? Or, an expert on kids cereals from the 1960s. That's the kind of guest/topic you want to target?) Steve rarely has guests, and relies on the callers to work with him on the show. Working in this arena, especially on a show like this, guest hosts always felt that they had to get their own guests. I remember one host dreading his first night back on the air after a week or two of vacation. He said that he had to work to get the show "back on the tracks" to get it back to where it was before he left. That always puzzled me. (Why do they rely on guests?) There was an adage that "guests are a crutch," especially when you do a show like Steve's that goes out to 38 states at night, and designed for an open-forum format.

2. It may be me, but I think that he talks down to his audience. It could be the way he comes across.

3. Morgan seems to try to make it his show, but he's not fooling anyone. He's a guest host. That's the vibe/attitude I've picked up on when he fills in.

Two questions/topics for the group while we're on this topic:

1. Do you tend to stick with a talk show when you know the host is on a week's vacation and listen to the relief? Or do you listen to another station, and wait out the time for the host to come back?

2. Why doesn't Bradley Jay fill in for Steve? Is he tied to the hip of Dan Rea? Whenever Bradley is on, he's always plugging Dan's show, and for one reason, because he's Dan's producer. Even when he's on for Dan, he doesn't promote Steve like Dan does. Is there "bad blood" between these two?

I know it's a lot, but these are my observations, and would love to hear some input from the radio listeners of Boston. Thanks.
 
Bradley Jay has filled in for Steve in the past but that was awhile ago.
When Howie has Avi Nelson on I might listen but not fond of Col. Hunt's voice. A couple yrs back he
would have Jeff Katz fill in but that obviously ended when Katz got his current job at CC's WXKS-AM.
 
1. Morgan has guests because he likes them. Steve doesn't because he doesn't (like them).

2. Morgan doesn't talk down IMO unless callers mess up his questions.

3. He makes a point of doing the full program ID following news. He almost always says when Steve will return (unless he doesn't know, which was frequent this year).

1. Do you tend to stick with a talk show
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No. But I listen to very little tel-talk. I can name some BZ guest hosts who run with the usual stuff which isn't that big a deal but they attract the worst kind of caller which is ('let's talk about the war on Christmas').
 
As a trivia host myself, I appreciate a good trivia presentation when done right on the radio. Hell, I even played Kennedy on Mix (and lost) earlier this year.

Morgan excels as a radio presenter because of his uncanny ability to ad-lib. I've really never seen anybody in his league. Go to one of his trivia shows at a bar sometime...he pulls an entire game out of his ass.
 
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