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The Clown On KAAM 770 On Saturday Nights

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I know that KAAM pays their djs $6.00 an hour but, this clown, doing a request oldies show on Saturday evening, is pathetic. He doesn't even sound like a dj. He has a heavy Texas accent and sounds like his last job was pumping gas. Also, he has no concept of running a radio console. He cues songs on the air and has left his microphone on by accident numerous times. It is sad that radio has come down to this kind of crap. This guy is not good enough to work in a small market in the 50s. KAAM should be ashamed.
 
Wow.. the last time I had to cue-up a song was 1975. Ever since hen it's been carts, CD's or computer chips
 
Maybe he pays for the time? Maybe he's related to the owner or senior management?
 
I know that KAAM pays their djs $6.00 an hour but, this clown, doing a request oldies show on Saturday evening, is pathetic. He doesn't even sound like a dj. He has a heavy Texas accent and sounds like his last job was pumping gas. Also, he has no concept of running a radio console. He cues songs on the air and has left his microphone on by accident numerous times. It is sad that radio has come down to this kind of crap. This guy is not good enough to work in a small market in the 50s. KAAM should be ashamed.
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Most of what you're saying has merit. But a "heavy Texas accent" isn't necessarily a liability in... errrr... Texas.
 
In response to the responses.....I think he was using cd cart machines that he was cueing up on the air, not records. The problem is that he leaves the pots on the board open quite often when he does it just like a radio beginner. I don't think he is buying time to do this show but,
just another $6.00 an hour amateur on KAAM. At KAAM, he has plenty of amatuerish company. In an era when personality radio has never been worse, KAAM is like listening to broadcasting school students. One person on here said that in Texas a Texas accent is not a liability.
Listen to this clown on Saturday night and you'll change your mind. Dallas, as bad as radio is here, is still a major market. Dallas listeners deserve better.
 
One person on here said that, in Texas, a Texas accent is not a liability. Listen to this clown on Saturday night, and you'll change your mind.
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Yes, I've heard him. And, again, of all the fair criticisms you can throw at his show, his accent isn't one of them.

Severe Texas accents do quite well in Dallas radio. Kelly Rasberry. Peggy Sears. Randy Galloway. Greg Williams. And, of COURSE, our country stations are FULL of accents. WBAP, the highest billing station in the market, has more than its fair share.

Are there no thick New York accents in NYC radio?
 
When I first landed at WQMA in Marks Mississippi.. I sounded New Yorkish, as I was from Connecticut.. I got rid of that quite quick..
 
Cut the guy some slack! I'm sure at one time in your magnificint careers YOU sucked. What do you expect from them??
 
I would agree..... cut him some slack

However, can anyone aircheck KAAM for me? id love to hear this...

paul
 
The fact that he sucks is not the issue. The fact that he sucks on a major market radio station is the issue.
 
Come on man, they have a friggin' .7 share! Who's going to work at that scrap heap of manure. The guy in the morning is phony. The guy in middays and afternoons is ok.
 
You know what they say.........If you don't like it, turn the dial.
 
Let's recap, the guy doing saturday nights on a station that pulls a .7 isn't exactly a major market talent.

Who woulda thunk it?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find out this out... ::)
 
WCFLWLS: If the issue is this guy sucks in market #5,then it is a weak issue. There are some on the air who are in a more prime position than this guy. Can you say Pugs and Kelly,Lex and Terry, Walton and Johnson?Need I say more?
 
LOL Man, don't get me started on this one! LOL
I know I could never jock a station but how does station managment let someone on that sucks this bad?
I know I could not do it, that's why I listen to the radio! :)
 
Here's an update on KAAM's Saturday night clown.....Either someone at KAAM reads this message board or someone in management at KAAM had a little talk with the Saturday night clown. For the last couple of weeks, he hasn't cued any cds on the air or left his microphone on while he was talking to phone callers. Both of these things are an improvement from a technical point of view. He also seems to be doing less talking between songs and is keeping his on air phone calls shorter. I don't think that either of these things happened for nothing. Somebody must have had a little talk with him. Having said that, he is still awful as an announcer in every way. He has no sense of radio timing. His hillbilly accent is grating. Probably the worst thing about him is that when he does talk on the air, he is always totally unprepared. You can hear the wheels turning in his brain (and I use the word "brain" in the loosest possible terms) if he has to adlib more than five seconds. I spent time listening to some of his breaks counting the amount of times he said "uh" and "um" on the air. Again, put this guy somewhere on a radio station in a really small market somewhere in Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia and he would be right in his element. Even though KAAM pulls a .7 share and sounds like the smallest of small market stations, it is still in a market of over 5,000,000 people. What this means is that if Crawford Broadcasting ever decided to run KAAM like a real major market station, and spend some money on disc jockeys, jingles, salesmen and promotions, they would have a good chance to get saleable numbers rather than running the infomercials that they presently run. Another thing, I don't think that any dj on KAAM makes more than $10 an hour. You get what you pay for. Two of the people on KAAM are millionaires from the sale of 620 A. M. to Disney so they are not working there for the money but, more to pass the time and for their egos. The two millionaires in question are the program director and morning drive dj, Jaan Mccoy and the chief engineer and sometimes dj, Hue Beavers. What motivation do they have for trying to make this sound like a real radio station?
 
I think we all learn and grow from our mistakes and mishaps.

Do we know how long this "clown" has been in radio or how old he is? Everyone is being so critical, once a long time ago, we all sucked too.
 
I think putting on someone that sucks is so much better than the alternative....voice tracking. I would rather listen to a guy that sucked than some cookie cutter jock....we have to develop new talent somehow and sadly the small markets can't afford to do it anymore! I currently work in a medium market where they'll pull old jocks out of sales to do VT work for a small fee...before they'll pay someone $6 an hour...these guys sound fine, but where does the new talent come from? I'd rather hear amateurs...even in Dallas.

Just a thought...
 
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