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Sonny Eliot? Shame on you Detroit Board!

brian4

brian4

I was on Twitter and someone posted a link to Sonny Eliot's last broadcast on WWJ on 10 September 2010. Sonny announced the prior day that Friday would be his final weather report.

I grew up in Detroit and since the rest of my family lives there I visit every other year. One thing I always do is listen to Sonny's weather. Sure he was getting a little 'long in the tooth' but Sonny is a Detroit icon.

I immediately rushed onto Radio-Info and went to the Detroit board, thinking I would read both positive and negative posts on Sonny Eliot's sudden retirement. Not a peep. I expected better from Detroit Radio fans.
 
I'm guessing this board doesn't reflect the state of the industry, nor its fans, in the Detroit area. It has far fewer posts than other top 20 markets. Maybe there's a more active one for Detroit media elsewhere. If there is, it would be useful to post it here (I hope the mgt of the board doesn't take offense at "competition," like some of the commercial radio folks still do.)

For those of us raised on Motown radio (but, like many others, long since moved away) - why don't you post more about Sonny Eliot? Of course many of us remember him and his TV reports, in a rapid fire voice without gulping, which most other weather reporters seem to do midway through. And the little squeeky toy he'd honk on the Upper Peninsula. Was he still on TV, or was it a radio gig now? He must be in his late 80s by now, no?

Detroit had a lot of major league icons back "in the day." Do any of you reading this think there anything on the radio or TV in Detroit today that really compares to JP McCarthy, Lou Gordon, Robin Seymour, etc etc. What other past personalities do you recall with admiration?
 
I'm pretty surprised that this board is so dead. Is Detroit radio so good that there is nothing wrong to be talked about? :p

Also, the Minneapolis board is a lot more dead, only 5 pages of posts, with barely any replies to each post. What is going on with radio in those two cities? ???
 
I met Sonny on an elevator I think it was in the Fisher Building too many years ago to remember. The guy told jokes all the way up. A wonderfull man. Yes, loved Detroit you left out some great radio guys Tom Shannon, Joel Sabastian, Lee Allen, Frank Kinesman, Gary Stevens, JR Nelson, Dan O'day I think most of them are off air now. Detroit was and is an amazing market all the way from Brace Beamer as the Lone Ranger and Robert Conrad as Matt Dillion all the way to top forty and today
 
I always thought of Sonny as a TV guy, more than a radio guy. Radio seemed like a part-time retirement gig for him. Then again, I always think of WWJ-TV as channel 4 and channel 4 as WWJ-TV (The Detroit News station and an NBC affiliate).
 
I met Sonny at eth Detroit Auto Show 2 years ago, a true gentleman and just a thrill to have met him
 
They never even had a Detroit board here until a few years ago,
like GVFU posted most the action is at Michigan Buzz Board
 
Sonny is a true legend on BOTH TV and radio. He is also a genuine American hero having been a World War II POW. He decided it was time to retire and he certainly deserved to do so.

As to that allegedly 'active' Detroit board. It's owned/moderated by a total hack and not worth anyones time.
 
At least two things I remember about the "old" radio-info boards:
1. Irritating to navigate - you had to click and load every reply.
2. No Detroit (nor Michigan) board(s).

I asked radio-info about it at the time, and they told me that there was no demand; ie another radio board had a firm foothold in Michigan. But, their new (current) format would accommodate a Mich and Detroit board for people to discover and grow with.

So, Detroit is relatively new to radio-info - but it's growing with all the positive changes made here. ;)
 
been travelling alot lately doing some transmitter shack rebuilds, and i've got to tell you; radio sounds better "right here" (pointing to south eastern location of my right "mitt").
makes me miss home.
dead boards or not
 
brian4 said:
I was on Twitter and someone posted a link to Sonny Eliot's last broadcast on WWJ on 10 September 2010. Sonny announced the prior day that Friday would be his final weather report.

I grew up in Detroit and since the rest of my family lives there I visit every other year. One thing I always do is listen to Sonny's weather. Sure he was getting a little 'long in the tooth' but Sonny is a Detroit icon.

I immediately rushed onto Radio-Info and went to the Detroit board, thinking I would read both positive and negative posts on Sonny Eliot's sudden retirement. Not a peep. I expected better from Detroit Radio fans.
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Sonny is/was a hero in my book. A real showman, and made something mediocre like reading the weather sound really interesting.
 
Sonny was a hero, period.

WWII POW, great community involvement.

He is a great fellow.

I miss hearing his voice.
 
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