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So much for I-man's mea culpa...

VERY clever, eh?

Radio_Realist said:
Those are hyphens. Angry bile-and-phlegm looks different.
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I_understand.

How about this? Make it a two-part question: IF I-man shows up on satellite radio, would he have the same impact Howard Stern did bringing-in new subscribers? Or has that low-hanging fruit already been picked? HAS satellite radio pretty-much attained critical mass NOW?
 
Here's my prediction for the I-man, once he wins his law suit against CBS radio, Premiere will make Imus an offer and he'll be on the same network as Rush. CBS will lose a money making talent and Premiere will gain another radio star in its stable of talk talent.
 
NH Radiochild said:
MikefromDelaware said:
Of course there was a movie a few years ago where two black guys dressed up as white blonds (I don't know the name of the movie) so that works both ways.
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That movie would be "White Chicks" written by Keenan Ivory Wayans and Shawn Wayans, and starring Shawn and Marlon :D
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...and before that, there was TRUE IDENTITY, with Lenny Henry, the real-life son of Black Jamaican immigrants to England, trying to pass himself off as a caucasian American in order to dodge a Mafia hit...
 
Make it a two-part question: IF I-man shows up on satellite radio, would he have the same impact Howard Stern did bringing-in new subscribers?

Answer to part 1: No, the listeners of Imus weren't as fanatically loyal as Stern's were. Hence, his impact will be lower.

Or has that low-hanging fruit already been picked?

Answer to part 2: Stern's fans and the fans of Imus were, for the most part, two separate groups. If anything the fans of Imus would be a whole second batch (though a smaller batch) of "low hanging fruit".

HAS satellite radio pretty-much attained critical mass NOW?

I'm sorry, that's a third part to the question. You only applied for permission to expand to a two-part question. Had you requested to make it a three-part question, permission would have been granted. But you only asked to make it a two part question, so any third or subsequent parts will need to have a separate waiver granted.
 
Radio_Realist said:
I'm sorry, that's a third part to the question. You only applied for permission to expand to a two-part question. Had you requested to make it a three-part question, permission would have been granted. But you only asked to make it a two part question, so any third or subsequent parts will need to have a separate waiver granted.
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he used a 'hyphen', so it all counts-as-one-question ;)

Poor Holland. Katie will end up being his 'millenium plot' shadow. Every time he tells one of his clients his opinion on how 'great' some talent is, it's going to be tempered with his unwaivering praise of the just awful Katie Couric, and how he predicted her 'impact'.... well, she did have an 'impact', too bad it was on the other 2 news broadcasts, and it was 'beneficial' , just not to her;)

Hey, even a broken clock and all.
 
Tom: See what you've gotten into???

Voice: Dana Carvey as Bush Sr.:

Not takin' the bait.
Not gonna do it.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Not at this junct-ure.
 
Re: Tom: See what you've gotten into???

Holland Cooke said:
Voice: Dana Carvey as Bush Sr.:

Not takin' the bait.
Not gonna do it.
Wouldn't be prudent.
Not at this junct-ure.
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Holland, Dana Carvey stopped being relevant or funny a decade ago.

I hope you are consulting 'music of your life' stations. ::)
 
OK, fine...

...and YOUR work is???

<< Dana Carvey stopped being relevant or funny a decade ago. >>

HE'S probably living on an island too!

Like his cast mate Dennis Miller, he could always do talk radio...
 
First Rush. Now the I-man.

The more successful the personality, the more Mr. Cooke denounces them.

Coincidence?
 
Re: Biggest targets take the most hits?

Holland Cooke said:
Imagine how the other consultants feel!
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I think I'm imagining an imaginary block on my imagination. lol Could you do the imagining for me? :D

Seriously, though, how do you think the other consultants feel?
 
Seriously, though, how do you think the other consultants feel?

They feel confused, betrayed, lost, forlorn, unappreciated, and sad. Some of them might even shed a stray tear now and then. I'm sure their feelings are hurt, and they wish some nice real person would give them a real big hug. Maybe if we sent them each a flower, they'd feel better.
 
RE "Both of them?"

GREAT line.
Reminds me of the signoff line the always-funny Howard Hoffman did when he a DJ:
"THANK YOU BOTH FOR LISTENING!"

Yo from Balto, BWI Airport, where, on the rental car shuttle bus just now, crestfallen Orioles fans are bemoaning yesterday's SIX-RUN Red Sox bottom-of-the-ninth, resulting in Boston's 6-5 win. "SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljLcgkbrwA)

NH Radiochild said:
Seriously, though, how do you think the other consultants feel?
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I can TELL you (what-they-tell-me): Understandably anxious.
These days, ANY vendor is selling in a different market than pre-1996.
Post-consolidation, there are so-many-fewer-buyers than when radio was "mom & pop."

Thus the observations I've offered elsewhere @ radio-info.com about PODCASTING.
It's all that each of Talk Radio's two annual conventions can do to round up 500 attendees.
Last year's second annual Portable Media Expo (http://members.aol.com/cookeh/pme06.html) had 2500 attending.
Among them: vendors familiar from radio convention exhibit halls of yesteryear.
Shure Microphones "shure" isn't going to sell many more to radio stations.
So this new user is fresh meat.
And it's not just a hardware play.
The nimble consultant will embrace this new platform too.

Back to AM/FM: Two thoughts:

1. In ANY industry, there is opportunity in chaos.
If everything was hunky-dory, people-who-do-what-I-do would have to find honest work.
But change creates demand for professional services, in any industry.
So those other consultants I observe as anxious might be missing The Big Picture.

2. YOU BET radio has gotten zany in the last few years.
And it'll get zanier soon, as Consolidation 2.0 unfolds.
RIGHT NOW, Citadel is swallowing ABC; and Clear Channel is dickering its value on The Street.

Imus' recent tumble has gotten potty-mouth lots of ink.
But ECONOMIC factors are, increasingly, more-theatening, especially to on-air talent.
Look for my guest column "Will YOU Be Next?" later this month, in R&R.
 
You know thinking on it a little bit, Holland, Imus did apologize profusely. However, he never thought he should be taken off the air with those apologies in mind. Just because he was apologetic to the Rutger's BB team doesn't necessarily mean that he thought being taken off the air was the correct choice.
 
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