Anyone in Broadcasting that has anything to offer besides positive supportive feedback should be ashamed at their own ignorance. With today's technology Radio may become a thing of the past. All involved should be pointing out the pros and benefits these stations and shows have to offer. This should not be a dumping ground for ridicule and sarcasm. Wise up.
You wise up! Seriously. I'll overlook this as you're new to this board, but it's called Radio DISCUSSIONS, not Radio HYPERBOLE. That's what this entire thread is.
Before you come on here chastising people, maybe do a little research. Use the Search function on the forum and look up the following:
WECK
WLVL
Bill Yuhnke
Buddy Shula
KurtLockport started this thread acting as if this new show would beat an established Beatles show (it won't), and that the host was a well-known caller to a couple of stations, and that somehow this would become a force. What it is is a talk show in the least-listened to daypart in Radio. Just as David Eduardo said.
Bill Yuhnke owned a cab company in Buffalo and wanted to buy a radio station. He's done that. In the age of Uber and Lyft, he probably should branch out. But he has posted here proclaiming himself as "Legendary" when he is still new to this business. You earn status and respect in this business. Having lots of money doesn't buy you respect in Broadcasting. You get that through hard work and achievement. Something that another Buffalo broadcaster keeps climbing on top of his wallet and screaming at everyone that he should get. Or that a Buffalo jock keeps screaming that his Beatles show is the longest running in the country, which it isn't and never will be.
I don't know what your background is, but the vast majority of members have decades of experience in Radio. For 22 years I worked 7 days a week doing everything from announcer to production to play-by-play to sales to keep the lights on and people paid. I worked every holiday and covered every shift necessary so my employees could be with THEIR families, while I rarely saw mine. The only shift I covered late was when my morning man was jumped at the front door of the station and shot twice in the back of the head by a guy who was having an affair with his wife. I didn't have time to grieve or process that because I had to get the station on the air. I had to relieve my own father when he collapsed on-air and had to be rushed to the hospital for life-saving surgery. Where was I? Pulling double shifts to keep things going because I had to. Get back to me when you have to do something like that to keep a station going.
We're not all going to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" around a campfire. Most of us didn't grow up when every kid got a participation trophy. We grew up in an era where we EARNED praise, and Mommy and Daddy didn't coddle us and spoil us and tell us we were entitled to every damn thing we wanted. We worked and we got it OURSELVES.
As for your statement about ignorance and positive statements regarding drivel from people promoting their own agenda, I'll tell you what my old neighbor used to say, "Son, I may not be a horsefly, but I know horse sh!t when I see it".
