Interesting that no one on this board brought up the big radio article in the U-T yesterday. Why do I get the impression that either A/none of you live in San Diego, or B/none of you get out much or C/both. At any rate, the UT did a piece on sports radio where they ranked each show (both local and syndicated) that is carried on the local airwaves. They had cartoon heads of all the local hosts...they even put Scott and Billy Ray's characters on the top of A-1 (the actual piece took up most of the front page of the sports section). Any way, the writer ranked each show, giving five microphones to the best and 1 to the worst. He gave Hacksaw 0. Which of course gave Hacksaw two days of great radio rebuttal. Hacksaw nailed it when he pointed out that his station is killing it ratings while the U-T has dropped 36 per cent in circulation in three years. And he deftly pointed out that the newspaper writer could not even figure out that Clear Channel's sports station gets less than 1/4 the ratings that 1090 does. And that 1090 is a formidable competitor with men against big FM stations. This is a huge part of the article and the writer Don Norcross ignored it. How weak is that? Although Hacksaw lives up to his name (he is a hack in every sense of he word), he really does do good radio. This piece made him into a folk hero and a martyr. The funniest line in the whole piece however was where Norcross borrowed a quote from someone else who said John Kentera has no problems with the X's and O's. It's the other 24 letters in the alphabet he struggles with. Great stuff. Too bad Norcross didn't have any good lines of his own.
Keep in mind that while 1090 deserves every accolade it gets, this team was put together by John Lynch and not by Jack Evans, an out-of-work ex-Clear Channel exec who was unemployed when Lynch brought him into the building. Evans has nothing to do with the success of 1090.
