Nancy Shack on WBZ!

[nowradioguy]

Nancy Shack (formerly "Sandy from The Howie Carr Show") did the 10:00 and 11:00 AM newscasts on Saturday 26 January. And very nicely, I might add. Not sure if this was an audition or if its her new gig. Let's hope it's the latter.

Also, AccuWeather reports were done SIX times each hour today, just as they used to be even during weekdays. In fact, with Traffic and Weather Together, and LIVE sports updates airing on weekends, I'm liking WBZ's weekend format better than its weekday format.

There were several incidents of "iHeart happens" during this past week at WBZ. Given that most of these occurred while veterans like Deb Lawler were on, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it was the fault of the studio automation equipment.

I hope someone in management at iHeart reads this.

 

[JoePyne]

Thud!

Nancy Shack (formerly "Sandy from The Howie Carr Show") did the 10:00 and 11:00 AM newscasts on Saturday 26 January. And very nicely, I might add. Not sure if this was an audition or if its her new gig. Let's hope it's the latter.

........great career trajectory.
(that's what you get for taking job advice McPee and ditching our leader:
"the Emperor of Hate"!

 

[Methuselah]

........great career trajectory.
(that's what you get for taking job advice McPee and ditching our leader:
"the Emperor of Hate"!

What exactly is the "career trajectory" of someone who is a "producer" at a radio station or for a radio show?

For example, I know Matt Allen on WPRO was a producer at one point, slowly got airtime, a 6-9p show, and is now 12-3.

I've always gotten the impression "producer" is really nomenclature for "jack of all trades", or a glorified gopher who works the board, screens calls, gets things for "the talent", etc.

Not sure why Sandy parted ways with Howie... not exactly a wise move on her part IMO, but I suppose with Howie getting up there in age, maybe she thought it was time to move out on her own. Of course, going to WMEX with the stoners wasnt exactly a great career move either, but I suppose it was air-time.

 

[Wimmmex]

What exactly is the "career trajectory" of someone who is a "producer" at a radio station or for a radio show?


I've always gotten the impression "producer" is really nomenclature for "jack of all trades", or a glorified gopher who works the board, screens calls, gets things for "the talent", etc.

There are different levels of producers for radio talk shows.

Some are just board-ops, or interns...and, yes, glorified gopher.

Some take on roles of marketing, sales integration, guests, etc....and otherwise take care of all operational stuff. (Especially if the host is not a radio person, per se...and comes to radio from something non-broadcast related.)

 

[LisaDR92]

VB was Howie's producer for years. He did okay making the change.

 

[MikaelaArsenault]

Who is VB?

 

[Methuselah]

VB was Howie's producer for years. He did okay making the change.

VB didn’t stay in radio though. He moved to television for about a decade before coming back after getting axed at Fox.

 

[raccoonradio]

Doug Goudie, who was given the nickname Virgin Boy by Howie.Doug would later say it stands for Victor Bravo.For a time he worked with Doug Meehan at Fox 25, so maybe that avoided first name confusion at the time but most people just know him as VB.
He was let go by Cox, who swapped for WFXT.Now the company wants to sell the station.