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Santos Unprofessional "Freak Out" on air

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Onyourmark

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I happened to tune in today to get the perspective from the losing party and heard an interview Santos was doing with a woman just after 8am. I believe she was a doctor and do not recall her name, any way, she was a scheduled guest as it seems where Santos gave her this great big intro and they spoke about healthcare. Well she eventually let on that she was going to vote for Scott Brown and Santos seemed to be completely caught off guard by this and he freaked out on air, going as far as telling her not to vote at all...(Liberal Tactics)
I listened further where they took a break and then did a sports update in which he joined in at the end and you could tell in the tone of his voice that he was still upset that someone not voting for a democrat was allowed on his show. Another very long break was taken and when he came back on he went on to say that the woman was no longer welcome on his station.

Santos convinced me today that he's even that much more of an unprofessional cry baby than he is a bad radio host!

Wonder if he fired his producer for that mistake?
 
Meanwhile those on the left, who got a BU Basketball game on WWZN for a time, probably would not wanted to have turned to WTKK (see my post about the shrieking Michele McPhee and her party hearty show)
 
In other words, the choice of squeaking sneakers on a college basketball court on WWZN, or a shrieking Michele McPhee on WTKK, LOL!
 
Onyourmark said:
I happened to tune in today to get the perspective from the losing party and heard an interview Santos was doing with a woman just after 8am. I believe she was a doctor and do not recall her name, any way, she was a scheduled guest as it seems where Santos gave her this great big intro and they spoke about healthcare. Well she eventually let on that she was going to vote for Scott Brown and Santos seemed to be completely caught off guard by this and he freaked out on air, going as far as telling her not to vote at all...(Liberal Tactics)
I listened further where they took a break and then did a sports update in which he joined in at the end and you could tell in the tone of his voice that he was still upset that someone not voting for a democrat was allowed on his show. Another very long break was taken and when he came back on he went on to say that the woman was no longer welcome on his station.

Santos convinced me today that he's even that much more of an unprofessional cry baby than he is a bad radio host!

Wonder if he fired his producer for that mistake?
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But then, "Glenda" Beck has built an entire career on being an unprofessional cry baby AND a bad radio host. Maybe Jeff had money riding on the election.

Reminds me of a pearl of wisdom from the late actor/director John Houston, "If you can't hold your liquor like a man, then use two hands like a baby."
 
MarcB said:
RSKaz said:
But then, "Glenda" Beck has built an entire career on being an unprofessional cry baby AND a bad radio host.
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Beck should've never became a talk show host. He should stayed as the morning DJ at KC 101 in New Haven. His show was entertaining.
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We had him in Louisville too but he was a jerk and got fired in '87.
 
I heard this as well, not even mildly surprised. Jeff will not even take callers with an opposing viewpoint. You can say what you want about some of the right wing talkers in this town but at least they take any and all callers. Some of the more entertaining radio is when they disagree and it's always great to hear a caller put a blow hard host in his or her place. Sadly Jeff espouses a sad trait of extremists on both the right and left, and that's the idea that those who disagree are intellectually or in some way inferior to him.

The fact that he was so thrown by the idea that someone who was on his show was going to vote for Brown is further proof of just how amateurish he is as a talk show host, but as long as the checks keep coming in, on the air he will remain. I'm sure he ripped his producer for allowing that fascist MD on the air.
 
Yes when someone like Josh from Vermont or Steve from Montreal calls in, Howie can be funny. Agreed on the extremist bit--you can't exclude callers from the other side and have your amen corner.

I guess Beck was doing something very critical of Brown and he was being a bit of a drama queen; while I didn't hear it, I said on a messageboard that he was probably joking/ spoofing the likes of Olbermann. It was for entertainment value. As for the bit about portraying the other side as being dumb, etc.,, it's really easy to do and yes even Howie can get caught up in that....for entertainment value, etc Rea, who has been known to be called "Right Wing Danny", has tried to be fair and one of his sayings is "I don't care what you think as long as you're thinking". In other words, make your case, be civil, I may not agree but make your case and see what the other callers have to say in response (as well as Dan himself)

The true believers on the far side of each spectrum can be a detriment; Ingraham was just talking about how some on the Right aren't too fond of Brown because he did such things as robocalls for McCain (shock!) and they may feel he's squishy on an issue or two (so, you would have rather had Coakley?) while others are so thrilled to get a new face on the scene that they're pushing for him to run for prez or vice prez. Laura said relax, guy hasn't even been sworn in yet. She can be far right on every issue but at least opposing viewpoints are allowed and she's allowed guests on with whom she disagrees.
 
Onyourmark said:
I happened to tune in today to get the perspective from the losing party and heard an interview Santos was doing with a woman just after 8am. I believe she was a doctor and do not recall her name, any way, she was a scheduled guest as it seems where Santos gave her this great big intro and they spoke about healthcare. Well she eventually let on that she was going to vote for Scott Brown and Santos seemed to be completely caught off guard by this and he freaked out on air, going as far as telling her not to vote at all...(Liberal Tactics)
I listened further where they took a break and then did a sports update in which he joined in at the end and you could tell in the tone of his voice that he was still upset that someone not voting for a democrat was allowed on his show. Another very long break was taken and when he came back on he went on to say that the woman was no longer welcome on his station.

Santos convinced me today that he's even that much more of an unprofessional cry baby than he is a bad radio host!

Wonder if he fired his producer for that mistake?
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I was listening as well. He was taken aback at the idea that a progressive like her who is upset that the prospecitve health care bill as it stands will not be progressive enough would vote for Brown. It's a complete twist of logic and you couldn't blame Santos for being taken off guard. I think when he said that she should just not vote he was trying to get across that not voting would satisfy her protest without aiding Brown. (So how is that "liberal tactics"??? I could give you a mouthfull about "conservative tactics"!!!)

When Santos came back from the sports break hw was still upset. I was listening. I DID NOT hear him say or even suggest that she would not be welcome on the station again.
 
Orange4457 said:
Jeff will not even take callers with an opposing viewpoint.
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After all the criticism on these boards about how Santos NEVER GETS CALLERS, you suddenly know how Santos never takes callers with an opposing viewpoint???? What else DON'T YOU KNOW for sure??

Orange4457 said:
The fact that he was so thrown by the idea that someone who was on his show was going to vote for Brown is further proof of just how amateurish he is as a talk show host,
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That's a complete mischaracterization of what happened. He was thrown because her decision to vote for Brown is directly contrary to her stated desire to see progressive healthcare.


Yes, he got thrown. It was a bad day to have something like that happen. And he DID NOT DO THAT BADLY AT ALL.
 
I am pretty tight with one of his producers, he's the one who told me he doesn't take callers with opposing viewpoints. In fact, he had a cheesy giveaway once (xth caller wins a book or whatever) and when the person called in and won, then said he wasn't a progressive, Santos tried to avoid sending the poor guy his prize. I'll be honest, I don't listen anywhere near enough to know whether he gets calls or not. Since the audience is probably pretty small, I doubt he gets many at all. That's why his shows are so stacked with guests. Lew & Mike used to get a decent amount of callers but even then it was the same 8-12 people nearly every day, it's just a small audience at that station.

Look, I know you like the guy and I'm sure you espouse his politics and that's fine, but the only reason he's in radio is because he's buying the time. Nothing wrong with it, and I applaud him for being able to make it work for this long and at this scale and I will even say he is improved as a host from what he once was, but let's just see the situation for what it is.

On a related note, I think he has to try to go local in afternoon drive. I doubt he can afford to pay anyone, and more of him would not be the way to go. Any good left wing talkers who will work on the cheap? He has Samantha Clemens on Saturday mornings for an hour. I think she's pretty good, much better than Santos at least, not sure how having a woman in PM drive would work though for a political station, but I could be wrong.
 
Air America, 2004-2010

They have ended programming as of 6 pm last night, will do reruns...there are still syndicators like Dial Global out there.
In a 2005 interview with Mark Jurkowitz of the Boston Globe, Jon Sinton predicted "in five years we'll be on 500 stations". At the time they were on cc's 1200 and 1430. Libtalk still around, but Air America is not
 
Santos (or any radio show) is under no obligation to take callers. It's a risk too many hosts get burned on. Especially if the caller(s) is smarter than you. So long as the show is filled with informative topics and guests, callers should be reserved only as fill. Seriously. If your format is so weak you need the audience to supply the programming, you need to switch formats.

Agreed that RevBoston could stand to have more live & local hosts. And you are correct it is all about the money. What is disconcerting is that there is no attempt to get beyond a Catch-22 to bring in ad revenue. No money to hire a sales manager. No sales no money. It's got to end somewhere.
 
I think callers can be entertaining but you do need a strong host too

Some hosts like John Batchelor don't take calls but his show may be more of a news magazine...with guests

Some hosts like Tammy Bruce sounded like they didn't take callers as a rule but maybe she didn't have too many listeners/callers (and thus had to vamp with an endless monologue)

WEEI has some talented and funny callers. So does Howie with his Chumpline etc (which btw may have spawned yet another imitator, Michael Graham's Confession Line? I still think Howie's chumpline was inspired by Alan
Colmes' Radio Graffiti but Colmes did it live, not recorded (Carr had to do his live once or twice when
'Entercom happened'--erasure of the recorded calls)
 
RSKaz said:
Santos (or any radio show) is under no obligation to take callers. It's a risk too many hosts get burned on. Especially if the caller(s) is smarter than you. So long as the show is filled with informative topics and guests, callers should be reserved only as fill. Seriously. If your format is so weak you need the audience to supply the programming, you need to switch formats.

Agreed that RevBoston could stand to have more live & local hosts. And you are correct it is all about the money. What is disconcerting is that there is no attempt to get beyond a Catch-22 to bring in ad revenue. No money to hire a sales manager. No sales no money. It's got to end somewhere.
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He's not under an obligation, but he does try to take calls, he used to give the number out in every single TAPED promo, not sure if he still does. And while he does have guests, it's mostly the same people week after week after week...this just in, North & South Station, still not connected and yet, still, no one really cares...

And they do have a sales manager there, the second one who has been there since the the new format took over, same guy who used to be at 890 ESPN. You just can't sell a) when you have no ratings or any idea if anyone is listening, b) no one knows who Jeff Santos is, & c) you don't have a format that's been successful in the past.
 
RSKaz said:
Santos (or any radio show) is under no obligation to take callers. It's a risk too many hosts get burned on. Especially if the caller(s) is smarter than you. So long as the show is filled with informative topics and guests, callers should be reserved only as fill. Seriously. If your format is so weak you need the audience to supply the programming, you need to switch formats.
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This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
 
Orange4457 said:
I am pretty tight with one of his producers, he's the one who told me he doesn't take callers with opposing viewpoints. In fact, he had a cheesy giveaway once (xth caller wins a book or whatever) and when the person called in and won, then said he wasn't a progressive, Santos tried to avoid sending the poor guy his prize. I'll be honest, I don't listen anywhere near enough to know whether he gets calls or not. Since the audience is probably pretty small, I doubt he gets many at all. That's why his shows are so stacked with guests. Lew & Mike used to get a decent amount of callers but even then it was the same 8-12 people nearly every day, it's just a small audience at that station.

Look, I know you like the guy and I'm sure you espouse his politics and that's fine, but the only reason he's in radio is because he's buying the time. Nothing wrong with it, and I applaud him for being able to make it work for this long and at this scale and I will even say he is improved as a host from what he once was, but let's just see the situation for what it is.

On a related note, I think he has to try to go local in afternoon drive. I doubt he can afford to pay anyone, and more of him would not be the way to go. Any good left wing talkers who will work on the cheap? He has Samantha Clemens on Saturday mornings for an hour. I think she's pretty good, much better than Santos at least, not sure how having a woman in PM drive would work though for a political station, but I could be wrong.
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I share his politics, but actually, I don't like the guy, and this is not the first time I've said that. That he has any audience at all is due to the fact that he's the only progressive voice available on traditioinal radio. Any morning competition and he'd be gone.

"the only reason he's in radio is because he's buying time"
OK. The only reason why Howie Carr is in radio is because he got chummy with Jerry Williams.
So... what's your point? People have followed all kinds of paths getting into radio.
The only reason Samantha Clemens is in radio is because she's buying time. And you think she's pretty good.
 
FPB said:
"the only reason he's in radio is because he's buying time"
OK. The only reason why Howie Carr is in radio is because he got chummy with Jerry Williams.
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No, the only reason Howie is on the radio is because he gets ratings, and they can sell those ratings to advertisers.

FPB said:
So... what's your point? People have followed all kinds of paths getting into radio.
The only reason Samantha Clemens is in radio is because she's buying time. And you think she's pretty good.
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The point is some people are on the radio because they are well received by the public. Some are there simply for vanity, ego...or "the cause".
 
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