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Casablanca
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The Great One, The Dean, must be spinning if he is looking down to see what has become of Talk Radio and WRKO in particular. 
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Casablanca said:The Great One, The Dean, must be spinning if he is looking down to see what has become of Talk Radio and WRKO in particular.
Is it time for the Sex Survey yet?
I will say that 2/3rds of The Governors (excluding Bob Katzen) were on WRKO tonight. Howie and Barbara
Anderson, and Barbara was lamenting some of the things Finneran did (including refusing to implement
a tax rollback that has cost everyone $150 a year). People like Finneran were kept in check by the likes
of Howie or Jerry over the years, and now Finneran is part of the 'RKO lineup.
If all those people who called in saying they won't tune in to WRKO now (at least mornings) mean
anything it's bad news for the station, but we all know once the Sox (BIG PAPI STRIKES AGAIN!) get going,
the station will do well.
And even if Finneran's show tanks, the ratings and billing from the Sox alone can carry the station. Well I guess
if WTKK can have plagiarist Barnicle, 'RKO can have perjurer Finneran.
Anderson, and Barbara was lamenting some of the things Finneran did (including refusing to implement
a tax rollback that has cost everyone $150 a year). People like Finneran were kept in check by the likes
of Howie or Jerry over the years, and now Finneran is part of the 'RKO lineup.
If all those people who called in saying they won't tune in to WRKO now (at least mornings) mean
anything it's bad news for the station, but we all know once the Sox (BIG PAPI STRIKES AGAIN!) get going,
the station will do well.
And even if Finneran's show tanks, the ratings and billing from the Sox alone can carry the station. Well I guess
if WTKK can have plagiarist Barnicle, 'RKO can have perjurer Finneran.
Raccoon, you are in the minority on this board. Howie is a stale parody. He's really shaking because he knows Finneran is probably getting more money than him - and probably more attention. RKO needed to make a move to put HC in his place, if only because he's emerged as their only "talent" with all the bad moves of the past ten years. Finneran is hungry and won't blow this opportunity - though it is ridiculous...rewarding him for doing bad.
Still, he did a lot for gay marriage.
Still, he did a lot for gay marriage.
>>Howie is a stale parody
But he's still on the air and AAR isn't...gotta give him that. Hopefully they will be back so I can make fun of them again. Yup Finneran could be getting more money
but there's that whole book deal Howie has (and he's being asked to write another, perhaps about
the Kennedys).
But he's still on the air and AAR isn't...gotta give him that. Hopefully they will be back so I can make fun of them again. Yup Finneran could be getting more money
but there's that whole book deal Howie has (and he's being asked to write another, perhaps about
the Kennedys).
brightonboris said:Casablanca said:The Great One, The Dean, must be spinning if he is looking down to see what has become of Talk Radio and WRKO in particular.
Is it time for the Sex Survey yet?
whatever happened to the washing machine lady?
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TowerBuzz
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brightonboris said:Casablanca said:The Great One, The Dean, must be spinning if he is looking down to see what has become of Talk Radio and WRKO in particular.
Is it time for the Sex Survey yet?
YEEESH, with all due respect to te Dean, as great as he was, the sex survey was just totrture to listen to. Talk about a man outside of his comfort zone!.
The Sex Survey, or WBCN's Bi-Friday (a cheap ripoff of Opie & Anthony's WOW - Whip'em Out Wednesdays), all sordid attempts at entertainment.
In Jerry's case it was a cheap attempt at final ratings. But in DEFENSE of the Dean against TowerBuzz's jealous and blatant attack, Jerry Williams was allowed one, he did so much GOOD for the community and is remembered and revered while lesser jocks are forgotten as their careers fade on weekend shifts, as nameless voices on stations that won't hire them outright or on the internet.
O & A would do anything to get attention.
Oedi at BCN was a master of ripping stuff off, be it from WFNX (taking djs or ideas), WAAF, didn't matter.
At least in Jerry's case he knew his subject matter. When a jock thinks Otis Redding wrote a Rolling Stones classic, you know they needed something cheap and dumb to try to get attention - say - BI Fridays.
Yeah, the Sex Survey was stupid and it was a sad ending to a great story that was The Dean.
Thankfully, Boston radio is free from all 3 of the above efforts. It is officially BYE FRIDAY to BI FRIDAYS.
At least Jerry's Sex Survey didn't belittle and exploit gay people the way Bi Fridays did. Using people's lifestyles for profit and personal gain. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" indeed. Imagine a jock who doesn't
know who wrote one of the greatest rock songs of all time (a former Howie Carr show theme song) trying to tell his audience about a lifestyle he claims he doesn't indulge in. Tasteless radio. The Sex Survey started it all.
You have to give Jerry Williams one for innovation - as poorly performed as it was. At least he wasn't caught making phone calls to sex lines a la Kenny Rogers! Now that really is a sad end to no story!
In Jerry's case it was a cheap attempt at final ratings. But in DEFENSE of the Dean against TowerBuzz's jealous and blatant attack, Jerry Williams was allowed one, he did so much GOOD for the community and is remembered and revered while lesser jocks are forgotten as their careers fade on weekend shifts, as nameless voices on stations that won't hire them outright or on the internet.
O & A would do anything to get attention.
Oedi at BCN was a master of ripping stuff off, be it from WFNX (taking djs or ideas), WAAF, didn't matter.
At least in Jerry's case he knew his subject matter. When a jock thinks Otis Redding wrote a Rolling Stones classic, you know they needed something cheap and dumb to try to get attention - say - BI Fridays.
Yeah, the Sex Survey was stupid and it was a sad ending to a great story that was The Dean.
Thankfully, Boston radio is free from all 3 of the above efforts. It is officially BYE FRIDAY to BI FRIDAYS.
At least Jerry's Sex Survey didn't belittle and exploit gay people the way Bi Fridays did. Using people's lifestyles for profit and personal gain. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" indeed. Imagine a jock who doesn't
know who wrote one of the greatest rock songs of all time (a former Howie Carr show theme song) trying to tell his audience about a lifestyle he claims he doesn't indulge in. Tasteless radio. The Sex Survey started it all.
You have to give Jerry Williams one for innovation - as poorly performed as it was. At least he wasn't caught making phone calls to sex lines a la Kenny Rogers! Now that really is a sad end to no story!
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yoyoradio
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Scott allen miller announced on-air a few times that he was the next Jerry williams....
Now Scotto can just focus on his band....ha ha ha....I am sure Jason and Julie are working overtime to find him something...ha ha ha
what do you call a 400 pound idiot who will never work on-air again? Scott allen miller...
Now Scotto can just focus on his band....ha ha ha....I am sure Jason and Julie are working overtime to find him something...ha ha ha
what do you call a 400 pound idiot who will never work on-air again? Scott allen miller...
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TowerBuzz
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Varulven said:The Sex Survey, or WBCN's Bi-Friday (a cheap ripoff of Opie & Anthony's WOW - Whip'em Out Wednesdays), all sordid attempts at entertainment.
Unfortunately Joe as it has been pointed out time and time again you live in a world that is not reality. In Joe world someone gets ratings by playing some rare Lou Reed Bootleg, reality is Joe people really do not care. Musicologists are a dime a dozen and talking about who played what, on what session, appeals to less than one one hundredth of a percent of the people listening. You are also not a male between ages 18-34 so your opinion of what is entertaining means nothing becasue you are not the one that any rock station wants listening.
How do Bi sexual women looking for dates translate to a cheap rip off of WOW which is women flashing their breasts at cars with a certain bumper sticker on them?. Your dislike of that type of radio, the type of radio that people actually listened to :
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Casablanca
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She got hung out to dry....
But seriously, folks... She would call in occasionally when Jerry would do his other Sex Survey shows. This poster was there for the first.
Have you ever seen a radio General Manager come into a studio and start drooling? Not a pretty sight but SOP the that one.
As to the Sex Survey being boring this poster would have to agree.
Of course, that didn't stop The Pilot, Boston's Catholic newspaper from editorializing against Jerry because of the Sex Survey. Little did we know then that The Pilot should have been conducting its own sex survey in the churches, schools and rectories of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Still, having to sit through it for a week when you knew the women were at the very least exaggerating became a real bore. This poster for one was not interested in hearing about the sex life of a 70 year old woman. Can't remember a 20 something calling in or this poster would have asked for her number.
And truly, having to put up with a drooling GM everyday was disgusting enough but as they say ' a fish rots from the head'.
But seriously, folks... She would call in occasionally when Jerry would do his other Sex Survey shows. This poster was there for the first.
Have you ever seen a radio General Manager come into a studio and start drooling? Not a pretty sight but SOP the that one.
As to the Sex Survey being boring this poster would have to agree.
Of course, that didn't stop The Pilot, Boston's Catholic newspaper from editorializing against Jerry because of the Sex Survey. Little did we know then that The Pilot should have been conducting its own sex survey in the churches, schools and rectories of the Archdiocese of Boston.
Still, having to sit through it for a week when you knew the women were at the very least exaggerating became a real bore. This poster for one was not interested in hearing about the sex life of a 70 year old woman. Can't remember a 20 something calling in or this poster would have asked for her number
.And truly, having to put up with a drooling GM everyday was disgusting enough but as they say ' a fish rots from the head'.
SonicAl said:brightonboris said:Casablanca said:The Great One, The Dean, must be spinning if he is looking down to see what has become of Talk Radio and WRKO in particular.
Is it time for the Sex Survey yet?
whatever happened to the washing machine lady?
Hey Towerbuzz, I'm just pointing out that you don't like Jerry Williams Sex show and that is what pre-dated
the Bi Fridays and the WOW thing, all of which are connected, and all of which are the lowest common denominator.
Since I'm friends with Lou Reed's musicians and they are thrilled to be getting their live tapes from me (as is one of Janis Joplin's long time musicians with more to follow)your opinion that musicologists are a dime a dozen is just that - opinion. Many claim to be, few are.
I will give Oedipus credit, as well as Carter Alan, all three of us know our music, we know who wrote the tunes, we know who produced the tunes, we are passionate about what went into making the records.
We are to music what Jerry Williams is to talk radio. It is a LOST ART. That is what I am pointing out - and the world is the worse for it. Downloads and even tiny type on CD covers helps no one.
the Bi Fridays and the WOW thing, all of which are connected, and all of which are the lowest common denominator.
Since I'm friends with Lou Reed's musicians and they are thrilled to be getting their live tapes from me (as is one of Janis Joplin's long time musicians with more to follow)your opinion that musicologists are a dime a dozen is just that - opinion. Many claim to be, few are.
I will give Oedipus credit, as well as Carter Alan, all three of us know our music, we know who wrote the tunes, we know who produced the tunes, we are passionate about what went into making the records.
We are to music what Jerry Williams is to talk radio. It is a LOST ART. That is what I am pointing out - and the world is the worse for it. Downloads and even tiny type on CD covers helps no one.
Hey Varulven, for a time I used to be that in tune with music also. That was in the late 80s-early 90s, but alas as my discontent for radio grew, I slacked off on paying attention to music and its intracacies and today I only remember a handful.
It's a shame. :-[
It's a shame. :-[
you can blame the Telecommunications Act. When radio meant something to people, before it became big business, jocks actually had to know that Johnny Bristol co-wrote "Someday We'll Be Together" or that the original Supremes did not appear on it (nor the second or third or fourth version of The Supremes!) No Flo!
No Cindy! No Mary!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_We'll_Be_Together
there's always http://www.radioparadise.com
No Cindy! No Mary!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_We'll_Be_Together
there's always http://www.radioparadise.com
Nice station, Varulven. The tempo appears to be dominantly slower than my usual taste but still very listenable regardless. I am impressed with the amount of music that is by and large unknown particularly by terrestrial radio, yet is very intriguing nonetheless.
You know, I used to get in a mild amount of trouble at one of the stations I worked for because I'd play album cuts that weren't "on the playlist" (that was recycled from like 2 or 3 years prior, including music we no longer possessed!).
Anyway, thanks for the lead. In certain moods this station certainly strikes a chord with me.
Edited because I realized that I particularly used the word "particularly" particularly too often! lol ;D
You know, I used to get in a mild amount of trouble at one of the stations I worked for because I'd play album cuts that weren't "on the playlist" (that was recycled from like 2 or 3 years prior, including music we no longer possessed!).
Anyway, thanks for the lead. In certain moods this station certainly strikes a chord with me.
Edited because I realized that I particularly used the word "particularly" particularly too often! lol ;D
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