I’m so lost. How did we all come to the conclusion that TJ is arrogant based off something he said in the first few minutes of his show. Let’s not forget he actually thanked others as was previously mentioned. For all we know he may have thanked Emmis in private. What people pick and choose to be mad about on this board amazes me
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No Sale Looming, ESPN 98.7 expected to pivot to Music
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It's show business. It's good to be humble and nice behind the scenes, but you're putting on a show on the air. If you're coming on the air in market number one, whether it's for a few weeks, a few months or longer, if the whole point of the pop-up is to get attention, you'd better go big or you have no reason to be there at all.
He thanked his "mentors." That's an oblique way of saying "I'm great. I did this. I deserve it. But those guys helped me get as great as I am." Not the same as acknowledging that none of New York's other music stations ever even considered giving him a full-time morning show. Again, he's on 98.7 as basically a paid advertisement for his show, so he can gain a few more "Dalleses" and "Buffalos" for his network (lol). Once a buyer shows up, he's gone, unless there's a quid pro quo that the buyer programs some shade of AC and agrees to take on the star as its centerpiece.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
As I said somewhere buried in these 45 pages of posts, if I had contacts at Emmis I probably would have tried to get the temporary programming agreement as well, for the publicity. (As I said at the time, who wouldn't?)
But over-the-top arrogance has only worked well in NYC for Howard Stern, the late Don Imus, and Scott Shannon. TJ is nowhere near their level of "brand name recognition". A little more humility would have probably served him well.
In Tampa a few years ago there was “Bubba 98.7” named after morning host Bubba The Love Sponge. That station was a dumpster fire. Also I remember several news/talk stations branded as “Rush Radio” of course named after you know who.
As a 20-year observer and participant of this board who can kick back, having no knowledge of New York:
Seriously?
If someone, before TJ went on air, had suggested that he open his show by thanking the people who put him on the air, there's a non-zero chance that the response here would have been:
"Why? Who in the audience would care?"
They gave him a placeholder gig in between format switches on a station that likely lost most of its listeners Friday. It's not like he got morning drive on Z-100.
Seriously?
If someone, before TJ went on air, had suggested that he open his show by thanking the people who put him on the air, there's a non-zero chance that the response here would have been:
"Why? Who in the audience would care?"
They gave him a placeholder gig in between format switches on a station that likely lost most of its listeners Friday. It's not like he got morning drive on Z-100.
In Northwest Arkansas, KRMW is a Cumulus-owned AAA station called "94.9 Radio Jon/Deek" named after two personalities on the station. It's been that way since 2016!
Mea culpa, but it had been a lousy night's sleep.
Or even a notch up the dial at WBAI, with its infinitesimal, non-existent audience.
Nobody in the target demo (or any demo, for that matter) is doing dial scans anymore. Very few are likely to stumble upon this experiment.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Which is why I (and a few others) say this is only done for the promotional value. The syndicator likely thinks that "TJ was who Emmis picked to temporarily fill in at 98.7 in New York City!" is going to get them more affiliates. As I said myself, if I'd had the contacts at Emmis I likely would have tried to get it, for exactly the same reason.
And there certainly are no guarantees that whoever Emmis does eventually sell to will keep TJ for even one second after the paperwork is filed for the ownership change.
I listened to that when I visited Fayetteville a few months ago. It was painful listening to their attempt at humor. But, when I was listening to a bit they did during morning drive repeated in the afternoon
This is what I get when I go to the TJ 98.7 website. Well played, Emmis.
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Has nothing to do with Emmis. The site is hosted on Gemini XIII's servers pointing to a subpage of the main TJ Show website.
Ah yes, "No Rules Radio." We all know how that went down.
I got that security warning on all my devices too. I finally had to pull it up on an old iPod to actually get to the website.
Got the warning on my phone too.
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Not a very auspicious beginning when your webpage doesn't have a SSL certificate. Can't Gemini afford it?
I got the same warning on my laptop's Firefox browser, but I got through on my smartphone's Chrome browser.
Below is the direct link to the page in question.
TJ 98.7 ... A NYC Pop-Up Station!
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
See? That has a SSL certificate. Whatever methodology they used to create the cute custom forwarding URL does not.
Things like that make me question the intelligence of the people in charge. If you're a syndicator, you shouldn't come off looking like a small station in an unrated market in the backwoods of Wisconsin.
So, will this go down as the biggest example of “trade” in radio ever? An automation system AND a drive time show you can air twice a day? Better or worse than a station vehicle? 😄
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