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danindallas

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i forgot my old login as my new one got zapped so lets try this again..

I watched the Inside the Ticket show on FSW this week and wondered if anybody knew what happened to any of the old subculture callers from the ticket. Paul the damn Viking, Pittsburgh Dave, John C and Delwin R and those guys. Why did all of that go away and didnt Pittsburgh Dave have some kind of fight with Mike and Greg at one time?? Just wondering about when the ticket was good.
Dani
 
As someone who was a silent part of the subculture, it seemed there were a couple of things that changed. When R.O. from Copeville passed it the distance grew a little, and the other reason is just a smart broadening of the audience that did not quite identify with that ultra P1. The Delwin Rs, Robert the Taxi Driver, Sideshow Bob and Buck Naked in Plainviews of the world are still around, the station just matured. You can't discuss good/bad uniforms and go three wide for very long....wait...never mind, I digress.
 
ahhh.. the good ol days of the subculture. I really think the station just outgrew the need for callers period. They no longer needed the word of mouth pub that we were giving them. The ratings improved and the grass roots campaign from our end died off. As for my 'fight' with The Hardline, sometime in 1996, they thought it was funny to just cut me off. Announce me as a caller and as soon as I started talking, they would hang up the phone. To them, it was pretty funny, to me it was rather embarrassing, as people would come to me at Chammps in Addison(check out our appearance in "The Wrestler") and I would get laughed at. It got real old and they would tell me at roadshows that it would stop and I would call in again and it just kept happening. I gave them both a rather nasty voicemail and that was that. Later on, Mike actually put the kibash on me working at the station, despite my radio degree at UNT and more than qualified experience. But I hold no grudge, always continued to listen, even when I worked at ESPN and stream as much as possible up here in Arkansas. I'm sure many of the subculture were at the anniversary show and it would have been great to gloat in another Steeler Super Bowl win..

Pittsburgh Dave
 
A lot changed when Catman producer/glorified board op came back. He looked around the industry and saw what the other PD's were doing and bought into it.
The whole "you can set your watch by the bit" started with him.
 
Well I've heard some old ticket P1's on 105.3 the fan.... Seems like they like taking callers. Well for the most part. There are some guys there who are to happy to hear their own voices to let callers on, but I think that is changing as more callers find them. Seems a lot of callers get on at night. Didn't some of their talent come from the Ticket as well? Kinda appropriate ticket callers start showing up too!
 
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