OK...ONE more note on this "local" canard, then I've GOT to go...
And when I say "canard," I mean "false rumor" (English), not "duck" (French).
When I left Providence, in 1980, I never sold my house. I KNEW I'D BE BACK. I was landlord of a triple-decker on Waterman Street. None other than Channel 10's new NightBeat reporter Patrice Wood moved-in (she had just come here from Ohio), and managed it for me while I was away.
Like the people in Southeastern New England, the folks in Buffalo -- a GREAT place -- were very warm and welcoming. The carpetbagger mentality that lurks on these boards seems to reside here, not in the hearts of Rhode Island's citizenry.
Had I not embraced The Ocean State so deeply, I could've made a life in Buffalo.
One of my sisters moved there THREE times (as her husband followed his career), and they LOVED it.
I was offered the weekend weather job on WKBW-TV ABC7, Western New York's ratings MONSTER.
Cost-of-living: low. Quality-of-life: great. Winters: brutal, but I can take a punch.
But, like Dorothy, I wanted to go home to RI.
The home I had CHOSEN, not where-I-happened-to-be-born.
When the WPRO-AM PD job opened-up again in 1982, they pretended-to-interview-me, but they "got" that Buffalo didn't want me to leave, and had already picked a PD.
So imagine how delicious it was to come back ANYWAY...at WSNE.
FIRST face welcoming me when I walked in the door that morning: Barbara Haynes.
Then, like Tommy Lasorda, I coached-my-way-to-the-majors.
Like Salty, Jimmy Gray, Dan Yorke, Dave Barber, Patrice, Gene Valicenti, and almost everyone else now-or-ever on-air on radio or TV in every market, I didn't-happen-to-be-born where I now live. That's not something any of us can choose. We move to grow. I had to leave twice. But I came here three times.
Good morning from Raleigh-Durham NC, where we welcome a new PD at client station WPTF. And he's from WISCONSIN. Earlier this week, at sister station WSJS, Winston-Salem, we welcomed a new PD...FROM FLORIDA!
For anyone planning to meet my flight tonight at Green Airport: PLEASE...NO colorful helium-filled balloons this time? You'll embarass any other consultants who may be on my flight.
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
www.BlockIsland.TV
And when I say "canard," I mean "false rumor" (English), not "duck" (French).
When I left Providence, in 1980, I never sold my house. I KNEW I'D BE BACK. I was landlord of a triple-decker on Waterman Street. None other than Channel 10's new NightBeat reporter Patrice Wood moved-in (she had just come here from Ohio), and managed it for me while I was away.
Like the people in Southeastern New England, the folks in Buffalo -- a GREAT place -- were very warm and welcoming. The carpetbagger mentality that lurks on these boards seems to reside here, not in the hearts of Rhode Island's citizenry.
Had I not embraced The Ocean State so deeply, I could've made a life in Buffalo.
One of my sisters moved there THREE times (as her husband followed his career), and they LOVED it.
I was offered the weekend weather job on WKBW-TV ABC7, Western New York's ratings MONSTER.
Cost-of-living: low. Quality-of-life: great. Winters: brutal, but I can take a punch.
But, like Dorothy, I wanted to go home to RI.
The home I had CHOSEN, not where-I-happened-to-be-born.
When the WPRO-AM PD job opened-up again in 1982, they pretended-to-interview-me, but they "got" that Buffalo didn't want me to leave, and had already picked a PD.
So imagine how delicious it was to come back ANYWAY...at WSNE.
FIRST face welcoming me when I walked in the door that morning: Barbara Haynes.
Then, like Tommy Lasorda, I coached-my-way-to-the-majors.
Like Salty, Jimmy Gray, Dan Yorke, Dave Barber, Patrice, Gene Valicenti, and almost everyone else now-or-ever on-air on radio or TV in every market, I didn't-happen-to-be-born where I now live. That's not something any of us can choose. We move to grow. I had to leave twice. But I came here three times.
Good morning from Raleigh-Durham NC, where we welcome a new PD at client station WPTF. And he's from WISCONSIN. Earlier this week, at sister station WSJS, Winston-Salem, we welcomed a new PD...FROM FLORIDA!
For anyone planning to meet my flight tonight at Green Airport: PLEASE...NO colorful helium-filled balloons this time? You'll embarass any other consultants who may be on my flight.
HC
www.HollandCooke.com
www.BlockIsland.TV