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Murphy in the morning is gone!

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Just heard from a reliable source that 1075kzl's the Murphy in the morning show became the "...in the morning show" after today's show. Looks like Dick Broadcasting is living up to its name again! Good Luck Jack, enjoy your time on the beach, you've earned it big buddy!
 
Murfee's shelf life expired 8 years ago. The dude is pushing 60 and he's talking to 20-somethings. The stains on his mattress are older than his listeners. If it's true that he's gone, this calls for a party, the kind of party where we dance on Murphie's grave. That wheezing old hack has been stealing his paycheck from the Dicks for half a generation. I would say that he has been phoning it in, but that would be a gross insult to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell. Radio has been dead for years. Murffy just hasn't noticed the stench of decay yet. Now he's wearing it like a beard.

Look on the bright side, Jaque Murphy: You can now join Scott Yost in his weekly quest to find young nubile skanks to roofie up and photog in the weekly Rhino rag.
 
Regardless of whether or not he was good....yet another local show down the tubes

Will they even try to replace him?

This market is one, giant cesspool.

WUNC and WFDD, rag on NPR all you want, but it's the only thing worth listening to
 
All mentions of Jack have been removed from the KZL Facebook and website. As of now, their morning show is listed as "the KZL Morning Show with Jared, Katie and Whitney". I wonder if maybe they're going to continue with the same cast, minus Jack, or go in a totally different direction?
 
There are still "Murphy In the Morning" graphic on news applet on the site. I guess they don't have an graphic artist on stand by
 
yeah, looks like if you Google Murphy in the morning, it still brings up several pages and links, the Murphy graphic is still on the website. You got to wonder if its a late April Fools joke or prank to get people talking. Then in a few weeks, management steps in with a major announcement and says "After the thousands of emails,tweets and phonecalls (from the prize pigs), we decided to keep Murphy on the air! I've seen this prank done before to shake up the market. They have done this type of prank before.
So...Murphys contract was probably up, ratings are down, (cue MC Hammer) STOP! Budget cut time!!! (cue the hispanic music) NEW FORMAT! it's 107.5 Pedro Radio! When you call the request line is says "For English, Press Uno!" Anyway, they'll go up against 101.1 Muchos Tacos Senor!
 
y'know...BBBMan may have a point. It would not be unlike the Dicks to have a faux firing, but given the money they've poured into the Murphy in the Morning Show my bet it's for real. That's how they roll at DBC, make them tons of moolah and when it gets to the point that you are making good $, they pull the plug and hire someone who'll do the same job for less $. Kinda like THEY taught Clear Channel how to do it!
 
local media ain't biting. they've been burned by the "cry wolf " thing one too many times. no coverage from WXII, WFMY, FOX 8, News & Record or W -S Journal
 
Local media ain't biting.....

But who the hell cares? I think Max Meeks retiring was the last time any paper or TV station actually gave two craps about Triad radio....I remember reading a piece about Bill Flynn (remember him?) going to Clear Channel then Clear Channel flipped morning shows 7 times in 1 year so they saw how stupid it was to report on that.

If a nobody hears a radio station change morning shows....does that mean it ever existed??? ??? ???
 
Nobody is reporting it because of the cut-throat attitude that has fallen upon the news/entertainment business. Remember when the Newspapers used to have an Entertainment column, complete with rumors and sightings of both local TV and radio personalities. Gone with fedora wearing reporter.

Now days, unless the personality died, there is rarely a mention of what is now considered the competition without a contract and consideration (trade or cash).
 
smells like a stunt to me.

i mean, if it were the real deal, wouldn't the entire morning show be gone?

don't forget the "suspension" of october 2008.

100% stunt.
 
It's bad when you have to question whether a radio host was really fired or if it's just a ratings stunt.

It's bad when the station ignores it on air completely while listeners call them out for their shadiness on their Facebook site.

It's also bad when personalities, who have connected with communities for decades, aren't allowed to even say goodbye.

Just more proof why commercial radio in the US is a joke and irrelevant.
 
Research is showing that "morning drive" is not the important time slot it use to be and KZL has been dropping numbers across the board for some time. The station is a mere shadow of what it use to be and do not feel you can put that on Jack's back! One show cannot support the entire station since there was as much difference in the morning show and the other day parts as there is between day and night!
 
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