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The plug has been pulled.
Thom Bailey is a moron. The people leasing him the station finally got tired of not getting paid and pulled the plug after former employees and sponsors complained long and loud.
Good riddance. The guy's a moronic cancer.
I just feel sorry for good people like Leon Simon, Dave Michaels, Timm Matthews, Tom Gully and Kate Delaney who tried to tell the guy how to run a radio station, but he just wouldn't listen. His lack of any integrity or ability to NOT p-off the Cowboys, Rangers, Stars, and all the sponsors finally did him in.
Thom Bailey is a moron. The people leasing him the station finally got tired of not getting paid and pulled the plug after former employees and sponsors complained long and loud.
Good riddance. The guy's a moronic cancer.
I just feel sorry for good people like Leon Simon, Dave Michaels, Timm Matthews, Tom Gully and Kate Delaney who tried to tell the guy how to run a radio station, but he just wouldn't listen. His lack of any integrity or ability to NOT p-off the Cowboys, Rangers, Stars, and all the sponsors finally did him in.
Thank God :
I cannot believe this whole ordeal with 990 lasted so long.
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I cannot believe this whole ordeal with 990 lasted so long. R
It's just sad. I feel the same way every time a bozo runs a station into the ground.
On a related note, 990 is now gospel. Because the market NEEDS that.
The people who own the station are a media company who do nothing but buy stations and lease the time. Hence, gospel. The churches have money. They'll pay the lease.
Regardless of if there are ratings, etc.
I just feel sorry for all those people at 990 who kept toiling in hope that Bailey would leave or be removed so they could take a decent shot at doing it the right way. (And in the spirit of total disclosure, one of the persons in my earlier post on this thread is a close friend of over 20 years.)
Hey, radio stations fail all the time. This one might have even taking a shot at it the right way. But there simply was no reason for all the misery, confusion and stupidity these people endured for so many months, and that's what I object to.
On a related note, 990 is now gospel. Because the market NEEDS that.
The people who own the station are a media company who do nothing but buy stations and lease the time. Hence, gospel. The churches have money. They'll pay the lease.
Regardless of if there are ratings, etc.
I just feel sorry for all those people at 990 who kept toiling in hope that Bailey would leave or be removed so they could take a decent shot at doing it the right way. (And in the spirit of total disclosure, one of the persons in my earlier post on this thread is a close friend of over 20 years.)
Hey, radio stations fail all the time. This one might have even taking a shot at it the right way. But there simply was no reason for all the misery, confusion and stupidity these people endured for so many months, and that's what I object to.
Well, what does it say when you've got a guy who's sole claim to fame (as far as I know) is being the "sports director" of a non-com station that carrys no sports is the PD/GM/AMD host, etc...
Having run across Tom at various events around town, I knew from Day ONE (or whatever day I first heard about 990, might not have been the VERY first day they were on) (although it was close, because Richie Whitt was still on, and he only lasted 4 days) that they were doomed.
Other start ups have at least had their consultants (as useless as they are, and as much as they may be coasting on reputations made 30 years ago, guys like Eye Lispon at least understand radio and know what it's like to manage and program one)...Tom was (and correct me if I'm wrong) the GM/PD/AMD and main seller all wrapped up in one guy...
In a major market. Going up against #1, a Marconi winning, industry standard-setting, revenue and ratings powerhouse (KTCK) and #2 the world-wide power of the Endlessly self promoting network (That would be ESPN, KESN)
If a 'real' radio group were to take a run at those 2, they might be able to cause some ratings damage, but that bunch? As I said back when they were starting out, when your stand out 'talent' is a chick trafffic reporter that failed at the Ticket, and a couple of guys that called in to every sports show in town (Blue in the Grove and Francois from Carrollton) what they were doing can't be compared to russian roulette. At least there, you have the chance of hitting an empty chamber and surviving. 990 was playing with a fuly loaded gun. And it was only a matter of time till the pressure on the trigger got enough to putthem all out of OUR misery.
I don't particulary like gosepl, but Sweet Clean Hey Suess, anything is better that Tom Bailey and his sad-sack bunch of rejects...
Having run across Tom at various events around town, I knew from Day ONE (or whatever day I first heard about 990, might not have been the VERY first day they were on) (although it was close, because Richie Whitt was still on, and he only lasted 4 days) that they were doomed.
Other start ups have at least had their consultants (as useless as they are, and as much as they may be coasting on reputations made 30 years ago, guys like Eye Lispon at least understand radio and know what it's like to manage and program one)...Tom was (and correct me if I'm wrong) the GM/PD/AMD and main seller all wrapped up in one guy...
In a major market. Going up against #1, a Marconi winning, industry standard-setting, revenue and ratings powerhouse (KTCK) and #2 the world-wide power of the Endlessly self promoting network (That would be ESPN, KESN)
If a 'real' radio group were to take a run at those 2, they might be able to cause some ratings damage, but that bunch? As I said back when they were starting out, when your stand out 'talent' is a chick trafffic reporter that failed at the Ticket, and a couple of guys that called in to every sports show in town (Blue in the Grove and Francois from Carrollton) what they were doing can't be compared to russian roulette. At least there, you have the chance of hitting an empty chamber and surviving. 990 was playing with a fuly loaded gun. And it was only a matter of time till the pressure on the trigger got enough to putthem all out of OUR misery.
I don't particulary like gosepl, but Sweet Clean Hey Suess, anything is better that Tom Bailey and his sad-sack bunch of rejects...
Little,
Thanks for your take. Makes me feel a bit better (like that's any sort of goal here) that objective observers have been onto this clown for some time.
I still think Matthews, Michaels, Delaney, and Gully (who had a #1 afternoon drive show up north before he became an advertising bigshot) could have done SOMETHING, but agree 100% about the traffic chick, and all the callers-in.
Jean-Jacques Taylor and Leon Simon were good, too.
But in a major market, you need major talent at all positions. And when the head guy is the worst guy at the station in every area....that's trouble.
Again, thanks for the take. I guess I'm taking this a bit personally because a friend was involved. And, lack of objectivity can be a really good and a really bad thing.
Thanks for your take. Makes me feel a bit better (like that's any sort of goal here) that objective observers have been onto this clown for some time.
I still think Matthews, Michaels, Delaney, and Gully (who had a #1 afternoon drive show up north before he became an advertising bigshot) could have done SOMETHING, but agree 100% about the traffic chick, and all the callers-in.
Jean-Jacques Taylor and Leon Simon were good, too.
But in a major market, you need major talent at all positions. And when the head guy is the worst guy at the station in every area....that's trouble.
Again, thanks for the take. I guess I'm taking this a bit personally because a friend was involved. And, lack of objectivity can be a really good and a really bad thing.
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GumpyJumptooth said:
Yeah, it's just a crying shame that KHVN 970 didn't figure that out...oh, 40 years ago. ;D
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