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Roger Gray checking in

I worked with Sheila on a talk show last year. She's just the same as I remember her and doing well. Steve Gilmartin is retired and doing very well. With the sports openings in town I bet he could have a job in a minute, but he doesn't seem to miss radio. I wonder why.....?
 
HI ROGER!!

Your coming back to Houston is still in my prayers!

and, in my total conceit and ignorance, i think MY show, which you let me start, Roger, is at least somewhat unusual in any market, so there, nyah!

Rabbi Stuart Federow
 
Sure would be nice to have some Roger Gray influenced programming again! I have, for the most part, stopped listening to local radio in Houston. I am amazed at the mediocrity that Houstonians accept in radio.
 
Stuart, you didn't really need me for your original "Faith Matters" program. We only provided a conduit. I think you guys were and are better than the original "God Squad" pair, and they are terrific. Hey, I love Houston...it's my home town. But if you aren't a whiny Hannity clone or a whiny Air America type, where do you go to talk issues in commercial radio in 2007? We have dumbed down the subtleties of political opinion until radio is a silly mud wrestling contest with no humor and no middle ground. I know, it's my standard soapbox, but the person who stands between the two parties and points out the merits or absurdity of both has no place now. Certainly not anywhere I can see in Houston. It's a shame. We are smarter than that. Too bad radio keeps forgetting that.
 
Roger, we are becoming a society of people who unwilling or unable to evaluate the grey area of an issue (or at least radio thinks we are). If you don't see it as black or white you are labeled as wishy-washy and indecisive. There is little room for legitimate analysis.
 
I agree, Roger. It would be great to be able to get the best of both and evaluate the grey area, as Nole suggests. Hopefully, this will run its course and better dialouge will will come back. People do get tired of the same old rant all the time, no matter if its on the right or the left. Versitle conversation was one of the nice things about 97Talk-FM.
 
I disagree, Roger. It always takes someone to say 'Yes!' to a show for it to get on the air, and you said yes the instant i described it, and for which i am and will be eternally grateful.

And i dont understand radio at all. i see it as trying to reach the lowest common (very common) denominator. Moving down to the lowest level, with no attempt, not even a thought to attempt, to bring the listener up, to elevate the listener. i dont get making jokes that are meant to reflect every single negative stereotype ever written or believed about men, sexual innuendo, sometimes not even innuendo, but blatant.

i say BRING BACK THE OPINIONATORS!
 
radiorabbi said:
I disagree, Roger. It always takes someone to say 'Yes!' to a show for it to get on the air, and you said yes the instant i described it, and for which i am and will be eternally grateful.

And i dont understand radio at all. i see it as trying to reach the lowest common (very common) denominator. Moving down to the lowest level, with no attempt, not even a thought to attempt, to bring the listener up, to elevate the listener. i dont get making jokes that are meant to reflect every single negative stereotype ever written or believed about men, sexual innuendo, sometimes not even innuendo, but blatant.

i say BRING BACK THE OPINIONATORS!
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I know it wasn't politics but Mike Molette used to host a sports call in show where you could call in and basically rail against or for anything. And he would ask you a question now and then if you didn't make your point clearly. I also liked that there were not "segments" per se. I know he was on the clock just like everybody else but he would disguise it to a point where there was at least the illusion that what you said mattered. About twenty seconds after the news break at the top of the hour...he'd have a caller on the air. Great stuff in my humble opinion.

I think it was a matter of generations that allowed then disallowed such listener friendly formations.

Anyway, again, we sorely miss Roger Gray. I think we are all in agreement about that.
 
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