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SHAKE UP ON MORNING SHOW AT KILT-FM

I've known RB a long time, and I'm not at all surprised that he would go out the door with his head held high that way. That's the kind of guy he is. A gentleman of the highest caliber.

Our industry has lost one of its finest representatives boys and girls. Houston radio is less because RB's not in it anymore. At least not right now. I think I speak for everybody here in saying we hope he finds another microphone to talk into very soon. And I think he will.

Speaking just for myself, I hope it will be at a station where the managers have respect for the people who make so much money for them. Wouldn't it be great if he and TJ end up working together somewhere?
 
FilioScotia said:
I've known RB a long time, and I'm not at all surprised that he would go out the door with his head held high that way. That's the kind of guy he is. A gentleman of the highest caliber.

Our industry has lost one of its finest representatives boys and girls. Houston radio is less because RB's not in it anymore. At least not right now. I think I speak for everybody here in saying we hope he finds another microphone to talk into very soon. And I think he will.

Speaking just for myself, I hope it will be at a station where the managers have respect for the people who make so much money for them. Wouldn't it be great if he and TJ end up working together somewhere?
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from your mouth to God's ears, Filio - i hope and pray it happens...RB's a longtimer who didn't deserve to be treated this way.... :(
 
R.B. was the Skipper and I was his little buddy. Thanks for letting me absorb your wealth of knowledge for 22 years, Butch! You truly are "The World's Greatest Radio Newsman".

And Tiller, we DID hear some interseting stories, didn't we. :D
 
mamahead said:
R.B. was the Skipper and I was his little buddy. Thanks for letting me absorb your wealth of knowledge for 22 years, Butch! You truly are "The World's Greatest Radio Newsman".

And Tiller, we DID hear some interseting stories, didn't we. :D
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It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago when you and I worked together at Metro Traffic on Loop Central before you went over to KILT. You did a bang-up job young lady. Best of luck to you...and I know we'll see you again down the road!
 
You know, I've never had the pleasure of meeting RB - but listening to him was a sincere pleasure. Many times I've been told that RB had a way with allowing you to see his stories in your minds eye - and that's exactly how it's been. It's a shame that he and TJ are gone - it's simply sad. Like the many others here believe and hope, I too would like to see them get on somewhere else quickly.
 
May the ghosts of Dickie Rosenfeld, Steve Lundy, Richard Dobbyn and Gordon McClendon haunt the residents of 500 Lovett FOREVER !!!

Jeez....what a haunted house that would be. Hell I'd move there.
 
I'm not from H-town but I've listened to both RB and TJ on occasions when I've been in the area over the years. Both seem to be extremely professional and class acts all the way. Sorry to see their tenures end this way :(
 
.... sooo.. the good folks at KILT have some secret weapon that is somehow BETTER than TJ Callahan's voice???
Geesh! They must be geniuses! (Note sarcasm)
 
FrankieDidIt said:
.... sooo.. the good folks at KILT have some secret weapon that is somehow BETTER than TJ Callahan's voice???
Geesh! They must be geniuses! (Note sarcasm)
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Oh...didn't you know??? Radio today is run by these friggin' geniuses. That's why this business is in the cuckin' frapper!!!

Maybe those of us that DO have a clue will wake-up one fine morning and find that this nightmare that was brought-about by deregulation was, in fact, just that...a nightmare!
 
Here we are, a little over ten years ago, after KILT dropped the long running Hudson & Harrigan Show. This was one of the biggest topics on this board. They literally handed their audience to KKBQ, which came in in the middle of the top ten in the latest overall ratings. Hudson (Fred Olson) retired to his ranch and does voice work. Harrigan (Randy Hames) owns Edgewater Studios in Sugar Land. Additionally, he is the host of his own program, "The Outdoor Cooking Show," which is heard on KNTH Saturday mornings. TH Callahan is a media critic on the Sam Malone Show and other stations, as well. Tom Fontaine aka/Dangerman on the H&H Show, is also on the Malone show. RB is retired. KILT has never recovered.
 
ChuckTiller said:
Here we are, a little over ten years ago, after KILT dropped the long running Hudson & Harrigan Show. This was one of the biggest topics on this board. They literally handed their audience to KKBQ, which came in in the middle of the top ten in the latest overall ratings. Hudson (Fred Olson) retired to his ranch and does voice work. Harrigan (Randy Hames) owns Edgewater Studios in Sugar Land. Additionally, he is the host of his own program, "The Outdoor Cooking Show," which is heard on KNTH Saturday mornings. TH Callahan is a media critic on the Sam Malone Show and other stations, as well. Tom Fontaine aka/Dangerman on the H&H Show, is also on the Malone show. RB is retired. KILT has never recovered.
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Yet, 10 years later, none of the folks responsible for those long ago changes at KILT are still there.

Like Humpty Dumpty, that egg can't be put back together again. In the last decade country music as a format has changed considerably, with a far greater emphasis on current music and younger demos. A show built decades ago would likely not be effective in attracting the format's target demographics today, and would have been replaced or significantly changed before now even had it not been cancelled back then.

And, in today's radio economy, what station can afford the huge staff that show had? What, a 6 person team with full newscasts? Not today. Keep in mind that the cuts happened when the first year of the recession had cut radio's revenues by about 40%.

Time in radio is measured in dog years. A radio decade is comparable to a century elsewhere!
 
To all previous responders: Thanks for the memories! It's painful but necessary to move forward, especially when that means erasing history because of Budget Cuts.
 
ThatVoice22 said:
To all previous responders: Thanks for the memories! It's painful but necessary to move forward, especially when that means erasing history because of Budget Cuts.
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Again, keep in mind that for many stations the 2008 year left no alternatives other than budget cuts.

The recession reduced radio revenue nationally by about 40%.

The introduction of the PPM reduced AQH listening in every market by about 30% to 40%, and Houston was the first currency market.

When revenue universally falls, there is no alternative but to find new and less costly ways of doing things.
 
One thing nobody is mentioning in this thread is the shift from diary methodology to PPM at Arbitron just prior to these changes at KILT.

Some stations played the diary game better, and clearly KILT was one of them. Some stations played the PPM game better.
 
radiogooroo said:
One thing nobody is mentioning in this thread is the shift from diary methodology to PPM at Arbitron just prior to these changes at KILT.

Some stations played the diary game better, and clearly KILT was one of them. Some stations played the PPM game better.
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I know how to play the diary game (write it down, you're listening to XXXX), but how do you play the PPM game? Sends out your packet on other stations? LOL
 
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