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The Philips File

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What is up with this show!!!!!!!!!

WHY do people like it so much!!!!!!

I was listening today and all that I heard was a bunch of people talking at the same time. They were all talking about somebody's cell phone....

What a waste of time....

I mean, let's think about this. We got Obama, high gas prices, a TON of good stuff to talk about, and all these clowns can do is talk about cell phone calls. It is also funny when that old, cranky dude Jim Philips tries to talk about food. It's like he thinks he is some kind of chef or something...

Terrible....
 
DIZ,

It's actually more amuzing when he goes on the air on Thursday's with WESH-2 News with the Philips Files. In fact, our supervisor has us turn up the volume when he comes on around 550pm. That's when he gives his patented "Well, I'M SORRY!" phrase! LOL Good lord... for some reason, he reminds me of a vintage old-time radio reporter, "Attention, all the ships at sea... FLASH!"

I'm not trying to knock the guy, but it's true. There ARE a lot more pertinent topics that he could focus on. I must be honest... haven't really tuned in to his show. When I get done with Orlando traffic, all I want to do is go home and veg for a couple of hours in peace. ;D
 
Ok.. the guy is on the air 4 hours a day - you don't think the conversation revolved around any topics such as Obama and the gas prices (which, by the way, EVERYONE is beating to death) throughout that time? I mean, these shows that arent news shows would pretty much stuck if they just stuck to 'issues.'

The argument can certainly be made that he mails his show in (especially compared to what the show used to be) but his program is consistently good more often than pretty much any other local show.
 
I moved to Orlando in '92 and at that time Jim was on 740, as were Clive Thomas and Peter Rocchio. I thought it was one of the better local talk stations I'd heard because it wasn't all national stuff and politics, and the hosts understood their communities.

When Real Radio was created and they moved Philips there, the show ended for me as soon as they added Moira to the cast. It became the typical FM hot-talk show about nothing (Jerry Seinfeld is still the only performer to get away with that concept).

And make no mistake, 104.1 would never have survived if it had not been for Stern.
 
i moved away from orlando in 2000. At that time, real radio was the best thing on the dial in my opinion. monsters and phillips both did very well and drew garabo was on at night and he had a good following. The station didn't re-invent radio but it was entertaing stuff and with stern as a lead-in, it worked well.

i just took a look at the last trend for orlando and the station wasn't as highly rated as it used to be. what happened?

and for the record, i liked the phillips phile the best when ms. b and drew garabo were part of the cast. I thought they worked very well off of each other. listened less when the moira character came on board but i still liked the show and listened a lot.

i also liked the sports station back in those days with marc daniels, steve eagan and the guy who worked at night for a while. the press box? his producer was the model? they weren't on very long and the guy went away, he also worked on a high school football show with one of marc daniels sidekicks - the freak.....what happened to him? i drove through orlando a couple weeks back looking for the sports station and i found dan sileo, i guess that station is gone now. we get sileo in tampa market he's killed my morning sports radio habit for the drive to work.
 
One thing you may not know. You are hearing best-of's this week. Jim Philips is on vacation. Some of the bits you heard yesterday are more than 5 years old.
 
If you want to talk about the good old days like on some of the other current threads on this board, WTKS as a whole was a better station three owners ago. Less commercials, the talk was live and local (with the exception of Stern coming from New York) and there was always a live body there 24/7 even when they played music on weekends and holidays.
 
Real Radio was at its best when it was owned by Press Broadcasting in the mid 90's. Howard Stern, Ed Tyll, Jim Philips and Passion Phones with Erin Sommers.
 
bdpop said:
Real Radio was at its best when it was owned by Press Broadcasting in the mid 90's. Howard Stern, Ed Tyll, Jim Philips and Passion Phones with Erin Sommers.
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Agreed. I lived in Orlando from 1995 to 2001 and always had it on 104.1,

Anyone know what happened to Erin Sommers?
 
NHRonin said:
Anyone know what happened to Erin Sommers?
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Erin was not a radio professional when she took over the then-floundering sex-talk show at TKS. She was very heavily coached by an interim Real Radio PD (whose name I forget). Under his direction, her numbers went through the roof and she was hired away for big money by an AM talker in Miami.

The old guard at that station hated her and resented her contract. Consequently, they tore her to shreds on the air. Without the heavy coaching off-air and on-air support she received from the TKS staff, her show just crumbled. She had a set rotation of topics and it got very stale, very fast.

She was bounced from the Miami station quickly, returned to Orlando for a very short stint as the host of morning show at another FM (dial position escapes me at the moment). That stint lasted only weeks. Her lack of formal radio training really showed.

Where she is or what she's doing now, I have no idea.
 
Philips is in his prime when he's got a rant with the goverment, society or whatever. He can take a stand on any subject that's of interest to him and make it compelling. In this past this used to bring out a decent set of knowledgable callers and made for interesting talk radio. It was more than just overkill opinionated banter usually heard on A.M. Unfortunately, for the past 5+ years they just mail it in, playing way too many game shows and not really putting effort into making it a show. It was cool when Factual Phil (sp?) would call in once every 2 weeks to challenge the crew with some interesting trivia, ... but face it "Closest to the Pin" is just a lame and lazy way of wasting 30 minutes on the air. I miss "Ms. B" ... she was the catalyst to the show, and could hold her own when Jim was gone ... Moira & Co. are nothing much more than drab filler.
 
It might have been a guy named Harry Valentine, although the name rings no bells.

He was NOT "assistant" PD. He was the PD. He never planned to stay as he never moved to Orlando and would fly home on weekends. He was the guy who preceded "Popeye."

Count me among those who think the Phillips show went downhill fast after Ms. B left.

Phillips used to criticize me on-air for running so many games and trivia contests on my show. It seems it's only bad radio if someone besides Jim does it.
 
valentine was the pd when i worked weekends at real radio when the station was off lee rd. Carol Dedman, who actually ran things, was the assistant pd. I do remember harry leaving the station late on friday nights to go home to miami area.

i worked the saturday morning - midnight to 6 am shift -

the guy who took over as pd after harry left was some guy from Jaycor......had a buzz cut, bill something i think...that's when we went from real music weekends to cutting edge music weekends.

i think mr. cross left the station before i got there, the russ and bo show ran until 10 pm, then lovelines i think went till midnight when i took over.
 
I still do not understand the following that this show has. Everybody talks at the same time. All of their opinions are usually 100% wrong, but they all talk like they are the experts on everything. What is really annoying about this show is that little girl that is on their that has absolutely no clue about anything. I guess that she is supposed to be the "cute' factor. Old cranky Philips probably thinks that it is funny and cute. I also have heard that old cranky Philips is a real ass and rude to other broadcasters in the area if you oppose his ways...

Jim Philips blows......
 
After now listening to WTKS for some time I can only think of one thing when Jim says he's the most popular show of it's type, location location location. With the 3-7 slot he's got all the drive home people in addition to everyone else that might be listening.

As far as it goes it's an OK show but as with others in this thread I do feel he's just coasting at this point. In contrast to WTKS's other two programs which really seem to make daily efforts in bringing something fresh and interesting.

And yet WTKS enables him for whatever reason. When you listen to the spread you hear how all the other hosts defer to Jim. Clearly speaking ill of him and or his show is not allowed and yet I've heard him on numerous occasions slight the other shows.

Would love to see him just retire now and have them move the Monsters to the afternoon or something like that. Give Soul Brotha Kevin his own morning show or something, just don't bring back Lex and Terry!
 
Show should be rennamed "Just a bunch of people talkin' all at once...."
 
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