Rumor Mill: WROC-AM Dumping Progressive Talk?

[Bob1370]

"Bob1370, listen to Giardina. Why don't you put together a group and buy your old alma mater? I'll help you program it.

With oldies."

If my lotto ticket comes through tonight, it might just happen.

Say, Mr. Savage, wanna moonlight by doing middays? We can start Doug "Greaseman" Tracht on the comeback trail by bringing him in for mornings, bring you in for middays, Jack Mindy for afternoons, and Shane for nights. Giardina and I can handle the newsroom. How can we lose?

Hey, we can dream, can't we?

;D

 

[SirRoxalot]

Cage match

"Greaseman" and "Shane" in the same building?

Better budget for chicken wire - and replacement chicken wire.

 

[DToTheJ]

Say, Mr. Savage, wanna moonlight by doing middays? We can start Doug "Greaseman" Tracht on the comeback trail by bringing him in for mornings, bring you in for middays, Jack Mindy for afternoons, and Shane for nights.

Not to be a buzzkill, but I believe Greaseman is under contract with CC in Washington for a Saturday show...

And if Shane isn't available - how about hiring the aforementioned "Shane-O"? I just hope his skills convert to the microphone...

 

[Savage]

I am at your service, sir. Just no overnights please....that result in hours which approximate what I'm currently working. I also ask for Linda Pellegrino as my news sidekick and a well-stocked Green Room with Trish Mattimore as uniformed attendant.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

With that line up I'll gladly do overnights!

 

[Mark Giardina]

If my lotto ticket comes through tonight, it might just happen.

Say, Mr. Savage, wanna moonlight by doing middays? We can start Doug "Greaseman" Tracht on the comeback trail by bringing him in for mornings, bring you in for middays, Jack Mindy for afternoons, and Shane for nights. Giardina and I can handle the newsroom. How can we lose?

Hey, we can dream, can't we?
I am at your service, sir. Just no overnights please....that result in hours which approximate what I'm currently working. I also ask for Linda Pellegrino as my news sidekick and a well-stocked Green Room with Trish Mattimore as uniformed attendant.

You two are either dreaming or have been smoking your socks again. But hey I'm willing if the opportunity arises.

 

[Savage]

And no damn voicetracking! I'll come to the studio, thank you very much. I request John McCurdy Jr., my WAXC knob-twister, as board operator. And I further request Chuck Hill to lurk in the back of the air studio constantly harassing me about how much I need a haircut.

If McCurdy is otherwise occupied at WABC-TV then Frank Scheidt will suffice.

I'll try to dream up further demands in high-maintenance air personality style. (Right, Sherlock??)

 

[Call Me Sherlock]

Savage - I'm sure, since you are still "Egoman" after all these years. 

I'm kind of disappointed that you didn't draft Rickner or Besansin (sp?) as your board op though.  You remember Rickner, he's the guy that used to turn the air monitor down and patch WEZO into the control room! I guess he preferred Mantovani's version of the hits over the real thing!

Ah, but enough of this ancient history.  Seems like a guy like me, who started in the business at WCLI, should be able to fit in somewhere.  Maybe I could do the all night show. After all, I have plenty of experience.

 

[Radknowski]

Sorry to break up this love fest, but I think I heard Aerosmith "Dream ON" playing in the background.

We're still waiting for Savage to post his brief RE: Progressive v. Right Wing Talk Radio As It Relates To WYSL And The Industry At Large, A Case Study.

That is if Wally The Woodchuck hasn't gnawed through the sampling lines to WYSL tower 3.

We're also waiting for you radio magnates, retirees and refugees to get together and fund the purchase of those Elmira-Corning properties that WS aka Route 81 is trying to unload. Surely those digs will need repainting and a facelift. And one of those AMs could probably benefit from Unclie Oskie and Aunt Helen playing their favorite songs from L'il Wally and Marion Lusch. Obareks on the Eights!

 

[Mark Giardina]

We're also waiting for you radio magnates, retirees and refugees to get together and fund the purchase of those Elmira-Corning properties that WS aka Route 81 is trying to unload. Surely those digs will need repainting and a facelift. And one of those AMs could probably benefit from Unclie Oskie and Aunt Helen playing their favorite songs from L'il Wally and Marion Lusch. Obareks on the Eights!

Be patient. We are waiting for Golisano's check to clear the bank.

 

[umtrr-author]

Hey guys, I'm just six numbers away from chipping in on Elmira-Corning too. (You know, the ones drawn on Tuesdays and Fridays, at about 11PM Eastern Time.)

I just want three minutes once a week for free-form commentary, and a weekly hour "The Best of Jean Shepherd".
;D

Oh, and bring back Allan Harris...

BTW this has been quite the interesting discussion.

 

[Mark Giardina]

I'm telling you Savage is the one with the money to purchase E/C.

The guy is so rich that he drives this expensive foreign car. I think its called an Edsel.

 

[Call Me Sherlock]

I'm telling you Savage is the one with the money to purchase E/C.

The guy is so rich that he drives this expensive foreign car. I think its called an Edsel.

Mark, that's no Edsel!  It's a Hudson Hornet.  The same car he was driving when he went to Ithaca College - back when gas was 28 cents a gallon.

 

[Radknowski]

Word is the WYSL news cruiser is a robins egg blue Gremlin... with 3 on the column. 0 to 60 in 93 seconds. Must be the retro-fitted VW air cooled four banger under the hood.

 

[Savage]

Ahem. It's a Hudson COMMODORE, not Hornet, thank you. Two more cylinders. But still all in a row.

Sherlock, remember the Hires Swap Shop (thanks Ferde J) on WAXC where listeners would call in with their most outrageous swap items for a case of Hires Root Beer? And we came downstairs one day and found somebody had actually brought their bid, a beige 1958 Rambler Rebel and had left it on the sidewalk at 191 East Avenue?? I thought the guy was KIDDING.

Glover Delaney, the Channel 10 GM, was a tad vexed until somebody towed it away.

 

[Mark Giardina]

Ahem. It's a Hudson COMMODORE, not Hornet, thank you. Two more cylinders. But still all in a row.

Didn't they stop making that car the year I was born?
Even though I'm kidding Bob, I've seen his car and it's a thing of beauty. He's kept that vehicle in great condition.

 

[Bob1370]

"Even though I'm kidding Bob, I've seen his car and it's a thing of beauty. He's kept that vehicle in great condition."

Haven't seen, it but I'm imagining about a 1949-1950 Commodore with the 128-horse straight 8...and since I'm an old car buff (though currently without a set of vintage wheels of my own) I know those were actually NET horses Hudson was advertising, not the gross bare engine (no air cleaner, no generator pulley, no fan) horsepower the other guys would advertise. Those cars actually put more power to the wheels than a contemporary Olds 88, and won more than their share of the earliest NASCAR races. And people say they were among the best-handling cars of their day too...

In Kerouac's On The Road, Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise buy a '49 Commodore convertible new off the lot, and it's the car they take cross country. (Allen Ginsberg, who went on the trip that inspired the book, told me Kerouac and Neal Cassady actually did buy one for their journey and it was great--but they never made more than the down payment on it, and it got repo'd when they got to New York.)

Bob's clearly a discerning car guy if he's got one of those. Hey Bob, have I got the image right? And will you be showing it at any of the upcoming collector car shows in the upstate region?

 

[dustintv]

I know I'm late to this thread as I was on extended vacation in North and South Carolina...but wow!

If Mr. Savage were to pick up Ed Schultz on WYSL I would promise to never leave the 1040 dial ever again. But it is what it is, and I would be more amused if Savage swiped Limbaugh away from WHAM. In the mean time I always have 'KB, their daytime signal works better for me than their night signal. I just wish someone could do something more that station. Not a big fan of either Press or Rhodes, I like Miller and Schultz.

At least some different things were tried with WROC, with the News 8 simulcast as a tie-in and they did air Democracy Now! despite the fact the show is a complete mess. I use to like Amy Goodman and her show, but now  it is nothing more than "let's pimp for Obama for an hour!" as Goodman's bland persona gets even more boring. Both her and Laura Flanders have lost the journalistic integerity they once poessessed. And WROC needed to be more local than just the TV news simulcast. In the end, what a waste.

 

[Ed Trefzger]

But it is what it is, and I would be more amused if Savage swiped Limbaugh away from WHAM.

Shouldn't that be "swiped Limbaugh back from WHAM"?

 

[The Voice of Reason]

I know this is a radio board but I would be curious if WROC-AM will continue to carry Channel 8 news; or will Channel 8 want to be associated with an all-sports station that most of us agree won't generate hardly any listeners?
As for WYSL carrying progressive talk, I doubt that will ever happen. I like Bill Nojay because he concentrates on upstate New York. Dennis Miller is both informative and entertaining.
As for the other talk programs 1040 AM features (Quinn & Rose, Laura Ingraham and Bill O'Reilly) they are just carbon-copies of other talk formats that currently dominate AM radio.
I'm just sorry that AP dropped its all-news format a few years ago, putting WYSL in the position of having to rely more on talk radio to fill out the station's programming day.