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OMG! - Can Jordan Rich's Shows Suck Any Worse Than Present?!?!?!

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katzradio

I just can't take it anymore, & neither can a lot of the Boston area friends of mine. Between the book shows, movie shows, movie "music" shows, hucksters hawking their latest snake oil remedies, spiritualism/medium/fortune tellers, and other various related canned & live guests, we are all tuning out....

It would be a blessing to have Jon Grayson do the weekend shows in Jordan's place. Jordan just doesn't seem to get it. Years ago, when he originally started the show, it was a CALL-IN show. Now, we're lucky if he devotes a half hour out of five to "open lines" call in time, & most times it is less than that.

I know, there are some folks on here that enjoy the book & movie thing, & I can even tolerate a bit of that, but the 90/10 mix is just too much for us "old timers" to take anymore. I've brought up similar threads in the past, & Jordan did back off the horrible format for a short while, but it is worse than ever now...

And, it has gotten much worse with the start of the new year. Way to go Jordan, as if WBZ isn't on everyone's @#$%$ list already....

Oh well, it's your show to do with what you will - but you seem to be forgetting the ones that made the show what it is ---- THE LISTENERS :eek:
 
9 out of 10 times, people who buy time are the worst programmers of all time. Just look at anything on 1510 or the Andelman clan on 96.9
 
Is Jordan buying his time? I never hear a disclaimer from WBZ or Jordan saying that it is paid programming.
If he is buying it and selling products or pitching services I think the F.C.C. is pretty clear in their requirement that advertising has to be identified and who is paying for it.
 
Well I'd disagree about the movie and TV nights --featuring my friend Frank Ochieng along with
Garry and Marilyn Armstrong. I think they're fun. I do remember him saying Jon Hitesman would
be on later in his show last night w/ movie music but I forgot about it... I did listen to some
psychic woman last night for a few minutes ("I sense your deceased father had white hair, and
he had weight problems, and he'd had some trouble breathing") but soon lost any interest in that
and went elsewhere. You do have other options like J.T. the Brick on WEEI and (after 1 am)
Phil Hendrie on WTKK etc. But the movie and TV nights are fine by me (And oh yeah, WTKK has
Curtis Sliwa on after midnight wid da Noo Yawk accent, the freaky deaky, liar-for-hire,
streets to the suites talk of his!)

Checking his site, I do notice Jordan had on record expert Mighty John, the Car Doctors from Peabody,
one Mr. Tom Ellis, and the authors of books on "The Twilight Zone" and Neil Diamond, but yes also
>>Spiritual Teacher, Psychic Medium Jenny Metevia
>> Dr. Ben Natelson, painandfatigue.com, on how to battle
those conditions

Cheer up everyone! When the Fairness Doctrine comes back and stations stop doing politics for
fear of controversy, you're gonna hear Spiritual Teacher, Psychic Medium Jenny Metevia a whole
lot more! :) (OK, exaggerating! Sarcasm!)
 
MRBIboredop said:
Is Jordan buying his time? I never hear a disclaimer from WBZ or Jordan saying that it is paid programming.
If he is buying it and selling products or pitching services I think the F.C.C. is pretty clear in their requirement that advertising has to be identified and who is paying for it.
Click to expand...

I've wondered about that too. What's the status of the Komando show? I'd think that 'BZ is being paid for that timeslot. I haven't yet heard any sort of disclaimer. Is it possible that Jordan, while not directly paying for the time, is personally responsible for generating revenue (i.e. selling spots) for it?
 
When explaining why Dyett couldn't get his slot back Peter Casey as much as said Sat-Sun has to be paid programming. I assume that means guests as well.
 
Ahhh...'Infomercial Weekends.' Boston TV stations started the laughable trick as a ploy to drive money into their coffers. Now it's gotten ridiculous because you see more of it than ever before. The reason is clear enough: The cash cow (news) isn't mooing any more, and they need some way to pay for those high-priced anchors like Ed Harding et al. More vacuums! More knife sets! More ShamWow!

So what's worse? Infomercials on the RADIO! It's all just one big commercial with new and different ways of 'disguising' that fact. The old "we're going to bludgeon you with commercials and paid-for content while we try to make you think we're not doing that."
 
Thought I don't condone the witchcraft and heresey practiced by Jenny Mativia, she certainly seems to have an audience.

My only complaint about the infomercials is that they prevented me from having a crossover with Mr. Rich.
 
ha--in all honesty I'd think that a show like the Catholic Hour is pretaped though...

The Archdiocese of Boston almost bought AM 800 up in Lawrence (WCCM at the time). Later word
would leak out about priest scandals, and maybe the money they would have spent for the station
may have been needed for legal bills/settlements...

http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-010924.html

>> thanks to Costa-Eagle's $1.5 million sale of WCCM (800 Lawrence) to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston...which leads us to wonder why the Archdiocese is spending all this money on a facility its leaders won't even hear at their suburban Boston headquarters.

WEEKS LATER (Oct 15 2001):
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2001/10/15/daily8.html

>> The Archdiocese of Boston pulled out of a deal to purchase WCCM-AM... If completed, the archdiocese would have converted the station to Spanish-language Christian broadcasting...Financial troubles were also cited
 
ChrisNH said:
Ahhh...'Infomercial Weekends.' Boston TV stations started the laughable trick as a ploy to drive money into their coffers. Now it's gotten ridiculous because you see more of it than ever before. The reason is clear enough: The cash cow (news) isn't mooing any more, and they need some way to pay for those high-priced anchors like Ed Harding et al. More vacuums! More knife sets! More ShamWow!

So what's worse? Infomercials on the RADIO! It's all just one big commercial with new and different ways of 'disguising' that fact. The old "we're going to bludgeon you with commercials and paid-for content while we try to make you think we're not doing that."
Click to expand...

Where are all the people who're mad as hell about no more all-news on Saturdays from 6 to 8?

Money talks, no talent works. WBZ's catguy, WTKK's hormonally imbalanced chick, unfunny midday guy and the chunky, loud weekend galut, WRKO's cyclop, etc.etc.
 
For the most part I like Jordan's show. He'll have a guest on now and that that bores me, but I like his style. I don't think his demo knows how to use a message board. My grandmother loves his show.
 
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