The statement from WWTN management that they wanted a more news-based program rather than an issues-based program makes since now that a couple of industry news outlets have revealed that Kevin Miller from Raleigh will be taking over the spot in mid-August. I'd heard him once while on business in Raleigh, but several times when he was on the air in Birmingham. You could say his show is based more on news commentary rather than digging into issues, from what I've heard of it. A solid hire.
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Evangelist
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But it still sounds like a talk show to me. We'll find out if they made the right move.
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Bingyd2
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Good Luck and may the force be with you. :
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Kalamazoot
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He sucks.
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Mr. Old Guy
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I have not heard him. But remember, he is replacing Steve Gill, so even if the above post is correct, it is an improvement.
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Mr. Old Guy
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I have only listened to him a little, I am not very impressed. Seems he has one problem that Gill had, He spends too much time talking about what he is going to be talking about. For Pete's sake at 5:40 don't be hyping what will be discussed at 8o, go a head and jump into to meat of the conversation. I am begining to think this may be what the powers that be at 99.7 want. If so I was wrong about Gill, I thought he may have done this to avoid taking phone calls.
o, go a head and jump into to meat of the conversation. I am begining to think this may be what the powers that be at 99.7 want. If so I was wrong about Gill, I thought he may have done this to avoid taking phone calls.
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outoftowner
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Mr. Old Guy said:
I have to agree and this is from someone who couldn't stand that pompous tub of goo Steve Gill. I do however feel sorry for the guy, he feels obligated to fake laugh at unfunny things Ron Jordan says.
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I have to agree and this is from someone who couldn't stand that pompous tub of goo Steve Gill. I do however feel sorry for the guy, he feels obligated to fake laugh at unfunny things Ron Jordan says.
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Oh, BTW, Ron has been on the air in Nashville continously for almost 30 years. How YOU doin?
I have to agree and this is from someone who couldn't stand that pompous tub of goo Steve Gill. I do however feel sorry for the guy, he feels obligated to fake laugh at unfunny things Ron Jordan says.
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Oh, BTW, Ron has been on the air in Nashville continously for almost 30 years. How YOU doin?
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80sNewsGuy
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Raleigh radio vet here. ('85-to-'93). I was just wondering what the Nashville area thinks now of
Kevin Miller, whom we were subject to for a couple of years in the morning.
(On a formerly respectable..now Right-Wing echo chamber..WPTF).
He is hands down the worst radio "personality" i've ever heard in a market our size.
He started a "Heavy Hundred" lose-weight campaign at 'PTF, got lots of people
excited about trying to lose some weight the first week or so, took a couple of pictures on a treadmill
(surely the ONLY time his 300+ pounds had ever touched one..) and promised
weekly web updates on his progress. That was early January. By February 22, he
had posted exactly ONE (1) web entry...then the entire program fizzled and he
gave up. Never mentioned on the air again. ROFL!
Too bad he didn't spend as much time honing his radio skills instead of
eating big buckets of KFC.
He was also a huge fan of the war in Iraq..even went there for a week to report on
how "safe" it was and how great things were going. The one time I tuned in,
he was reporting from underneath a DESK in an office in the green zone
as mortars were flying nearby. (Had forgotten his flack jacket that day.)
I was ROFLOLOLOLing at that one also. (At one point he referred to the
war's victims as "those brave little iraqis." I swear I'm not making this up.
It was also hilarious to hear him, day after day, bad mouth the soon-to-come
NC Education lottery, as his republican talking points told him to do every day.
Then, what do you know...I hear him hosting an on-Air remote at one of the
first Lottery-ticket outlets to go online...ROFLOLOLOL again!!
But boy..he sure could talk about "Dancing with the Stars", "Big Brother", and every
other LAME reality show on tv at the time.
and..don't even get me started on his appearances on Nancy Grace during the
Duke Lacrosse case....talk about hilarious!!
I hope Nashville "enjoys" Kevin Miller as much as I did.
Kevin Miller, whom we were subject to for a couple of years in the morning.
(On a formerly respectable..now Right-Wing echo chamber..WPTF).
He is hands down the worst radio "personality" i've ever heard in a market our size.
He started a "Heavy Hundred" lose-weight campaign at 'PTF, got lots of people
excited about trying to lose some weight the first week or so, took a couple of pictures on a treadmill
(surely the ONLY time his 300+ pounds had ever touched one..) and promised
weekly web updates on his progress. That was early January. By February 22, he
had posted exactly ONE (1) web entry...then the entire program fizzled and he
gave up. Never mentioned on the air again. ROFL!
Too bad he didn't spend as much time honing his radio skills instead of
eating big buckets of KFC.
He was also a huge fan of the war in Iraq..even went there for a week to report on
how "safe" it was and how great things were going. The one time I tuned in,
he was reporting from underneath a DESK in an office in the green zone
as mortars were flying nearby. (Had forgotten his flack jacket that day.)
I was ROFLOLOLOLing at that one also. (At one point he referred to the
war's victims as "those brave little iraqis." I swear I'm not making this up.
It was also hilarious to hear him, day after day, bad mouth the soon-to-come
NC Education lottery, as his republican talking points told him to do every day.
Then, what do you know...I hear him hosting an on-Air remote at one of the
first Lottery-ticket outlets to go online...ROFLOLOLOL again!!
But boy..he sure could talk about "Dancing with the Stars", "Big Brother", and every
other LAME reality show on tv at the time.
and..don't even get me started on his appearances on Nancy Grace during the
Duke Lacrosse case....talk about hilarious!!
I hope Nashville "enjoys" Kevin Miller as much as I did.
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80sNewsGuy
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Actually, i'd call it "anti-interesting". In other words, you'd tune in just to
hear how incredibly lame, unprepared, and un-professional this guy is.
It was sadly entertaining, I'll say that.
Just not in the way he probably thought it was.
hear how incredibly lame, unprepared, and un-professional this guy is.
It was sadly entertaining, I'll say that.
Just not in the way he probably thought it was.
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Robert_Nashville
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Kevin Miller comes across as a genuine, decent guy but after listening to his show almost every day since his arrival, I have to say he is, at best, a weak replacement for Steve Gill...to that end, I switch over to SG's show at 8AM every day now that he is back on the arir.
Cumululs seems intent on destroying every station they take over...I can only hope they die a quick and painful death as a company.
Cumululs seems intent on destroying every station they take over...I can only hope they die a quick and painful death as a company.
Kevin Miller may not be 'the answer' for WTN in the morning but for me he is better than Gill. While Miller may think that an interview about stopping public breastfeeding is good radio at least he interviews people. I tired of Gill having great guests only to talk about himself and his failed Congressional run.
I did find the quotes from his Raleigh days pretty funny though!
"those brave little iraqis."...now THATS god radio!
I did find the quotes from his Raleigh days pretty funny though!
"those brave little iraqis."...now THATS god radio!
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King-Redneck
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This is a little off topic, but how many local newsrooms are there still in Nashville radio? Does WWTN still have their own, or is it outsourced to Metro or someone like that.
I'm back in Little Rock these days and I've lost touch.
I'm back in Little Rock these days and I've lost touch.
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Evangelist
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King-Redneck said:
WWTN still has its own news staff, as does WLAC, although 'LAC's is much smaller these days. Metro still has a local staff and also a state correspondent. WPLN also has a news staff.
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