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profm night opining... again

Depends on who's good enough and willing to work for 25-30 grand.

Sorry, I might have gone over budget with that estimate.
 
gtdradio said:
Eh, who says its 25-30 grand?
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There have always been stories about them not paying that well but even so you get club appearances, etc that add up.
 
wknd92 said:
Al was a maniac...start his day at Q105 in the morning, come up to Pro for afternoon and BMX for nights on Saturdays....NOW THAT'S RADIO!
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Actually, Al Levine worked at the old WZOU/Boston, not Mix. Levine actually continued on 94.5 after its flip to Jamn in 1993, leaving around the time he left for Long Island's WBLI, where he remains today.

Thinking back to when Al Levine worked Saturday afternoons at PRO-FM, he was one of the best jocks of his day. He was always so high energy, and he did GREAT phones. I miss the days when there were real weekenders, and when those weekenders were professionals who held full-time gigs in other cities.

Other notable moonlighters of the 1990s:
-David Simpson did some weekend work at WBMX/Boston in the mid-1990s
-Michael Maze, currently morning host at KC-101/New Haven, inherited Al Levine's Saturday night show on Jamn (Maze was working nights full-time at Hartford's Kiss 95.7 at the time).
-Mike McGowan, for a time, worked middays at Jamn in Boston and nights at Hartford's WTIC-FM.
-Tad Lemire once did some weekend work at WZLX/Boston
 
Add to that Dave Stewart from PLJ at Pro-FM early 90's and two that "crossed the line" from Kix to Pro-Bill O'Brien and Jammer (Tom Naylor), following TJ's steps from a number of years previous
 
Speaking of the jocks you just mentioned, I recently pulled out a tape of Dave Stewart on PRO-FM working the morning shift of Labor Day 1989. Was that before he landed at 'PLJ? Did he just work weekends/swing at PRO-FM?

And speaking of Jammer, he was one of my favorite jocks after I moved to the area growing up in the early 1990s. If I am not mistaken, he only very briefly worked at PRO-FM, auditioning for the night show that ultimately went to Brian B. Wilde. I think from there, Jammer went down to Charlotte before returning to Kix. Jammer now programs one of the best CHRs in the country, Mobile, AL's WABB.
 
ScottBurns said:
Speaking of the jocks you just mentioned, I recently pulled out a tape of Dave Stewart on PRO-FM working the morning shift of Labor Day 1989. Was that before he landed at 'PLJ? Did he just work weekends/swing at PRO-FM?

And speaking of Jammer, he was one of my favorite jocks after I moved to the area growing up in the early 1990s. If I am not mistaken, he only very briefly worked at PRO-FM, auditioning for the night show that ultimately went to Brian B. Wilde. I think from there, Jammer went down to Charlotte before returning to Kix. Jammer now programs one of the best CHRs in the country, Mobile, AL's WABB.
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You're right about Jammer on Pro-FM. I think he was only on for three or four nights before the cease-and-desist order reached him (because of the non-compete clause in the contract he had at Kix).
 
And if I remember correctly, after his brief stint at PRO-FM, Jammer worked weekends at Kiss 108 in Boston before landing a gig at the late 95.1 The Edge in Charlotte (a very unique CHR of its time). I didn't know that he had non-compete issues. He would have been a great fit at PRO-FM, carrying on the "outrageous night guy" tradition of guys like Magic Mark Anthony...
 
I understand that Bobbie Dooley sent in a package. Although she must have her husband Steve producing and a full-length mirror in the studio.

"Mmm-hmm"
 
xtreme11678 said:
just wondering how long you think its gonna take them to replace kerry.... my guess is they will cover it off with who ever till j- buff comes home from school.... he will cover all summer and is the fall mabe they will start thinking of a perminant replacment? any thoughts
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Nothing against j-buff, but isn't he a little too green to be given for the ball for the night show? Even if it is only temporary? And what else does Austin do besides fill-ins?
 
I should re-phrase what I wrote. It's not that I don't think J-Buff could handle it - he's very good for a guy his age - but I think it's a lot of pressure to put on him at this point.
 
He's only 2-3 years younger than Brian B Wilde was when he got the gig and about the same age as Tony Bristol when he started.....and older than Giovanni when he started (He's gonna kill me!)
 
He is young; but that doesn't mean there isn't precidence...forget age...Hell Howard Stern got his start in College at age 18 in Boston, no less.......
 
wknd92 said:
He is young; but that doesn't mean there isn't precidence...forget age...Hell Howard Stern got his start in College at age 18 in Boston, no less.......
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When I somehow thought J-Buff was only 18 years old I was surprised to hear talk of the possibility that he'd be given the night shift. Again, not because I think he isn't good enough, but I just thought the powers-that-be would give the job to someone more experienced. I didn't think the powers-that-be would want someone so young (keep in mind, I thought he was 18) in such a prime shift. Hell, about 10 years ago the powers-that-be didn't even want an 18-year-old on an early Sunday morning shift. But maybe that wasn't so much because of the person's age but rather because of other factors, right?
 
wknd92 said:
And look where the powers that were are now....
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Well, remember it was Chris Shebel and Tony Mascaro who, out of the goodness of their heart, gave the 18-year-old kid a chance. They knew he had no experience whatsoever, but they must have seen his passion (the same passion you have, I know) because why else would they have let him on-the-air at that point?

Now, fast forward a little... Someone else comes along and pulls the plug on the kid. Sure, he claimed he wanted to work with the kid and then put him back on... but how could the kid have been sure that was true? To him, who (again) was only 18-years-old, it meant the powers-that-be (or, should I say power?) thought he just wasn't good enough and that it was time to leave. Of course, in hindsight he probably wonders (at times) if he made the right decision, but he was young at the time and maybe not thinking clearly.

The strangest part of it all, is that people with a lot of experience who are now in bigger markets (Chris and Tony M) thought the kid was fine on their station, and would have kept him on-the-air while they worked with him if they thought he needed work, not pulled him off. Different philosophies, I guess. Whatever.
 
Frost,
While I did program, not going to get into what someone did because of what happened to me...each situation has its own quirks and I have heard of enough different situations where things are a bit curious on decisions that have been made in that building over the last 10 years.....I know what you mean; but different regime than when I was there and not knowing the backstory on what was going on behind the scenes, not even going to dip my toe in the water...
 
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