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Welcome Dave Barber to your TV screen every week starting tonight
- Thread starter Skynet74
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"LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL"
This is INCREDIBLY unfair.
Matt Allen should've gotten that job.
JUST kidding...
This is INCREDIBLY unfair.
Matt Allen should've gotten that job.
JUST kidding...
Re: "LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL"
Matt would never lower himself.
Hope you heard Yorke today. He's already having fun with Barber's $65,000 taxpayer funded gig and say's he'll be monitoring Dave's "independence".
Holland Cooke said:
Matt would never lower himself.
Hope you heard Yorke today. He's already having fun with Barber's $65,000 taxpayer funded gig and say's he'll be monitoring Dave's "independence".
RE: "Matt wouldn't lower himself."
Of course Matt wouldn't!
He probably doesn't care ONE WHIT about Dave's gig.
I seriously doubt that Matt spent even ONE MINUTE on this earlier today.
Or that he's even watching Dave's show tonight.
Heck, it's airing RIGHT NOW.
Ring-Matt-up, and I'll bet you'll hear "Prison Break" in the background.
I believe you do!
But with client stations in a various Tsunami Tuesday states, I was focused elsewhere.
PLEASE post some verbatims, willya?
I just wish I could see the show tonight, but there's no cable on Block Island, and Capitol TV isn't among DirecTV's local-in-locals.
So I'm counting on your candid, unvarnished reviews.
"I will tell you this:"
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
Arbitron "swing voters" in those Bristol County MA zips will be riveted.
Of course Matt wouldn't!
He probably doesn't care ONE WHIT about Dave's gig.
I seriously doubt that Matt spent even ONE MINUTE on this earlier today.
Or that he's even watching Dave's show tonight.
Heck, it's airing RIGHT NOW.
Ring-Matt-up, and I'll bet you'll hear "Prison Break" in the background.
RadioHead06 said:
I believe you do!
But with client stations in a various Tsunami Tuesday states, I was focused elsewhere.
PLEASE post some verbatims, willya?
I just wish I could see the show tonight, but there's no cable on Block Island, and Capitol TV isn't among DirecTV's local-in-locals.
So I'm counting on your candid, unvarnished reviews.
RadioHead06 said:
"I will tell you this:"
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
It could be the most exciting material he's had since he blew-the-lid-off the Beacon Mutual blockbuster.
Arbitron "swing voters" in those Bristol County MA zips will be riveted.
RE "Hope you heard Yorke today. "
Cue SFX: crickets chirping
Now, over-an-hour-after Dave's very first show ends, no reviews HERE, eh?
Hopefully Dan won't disappoint us, by squandering valuable airtime on NON-LOCAL Super Tuesday primaries.
(That's MASSACHUSETTS news.)
JUST TO BE ON-THE-SAFE-SIDE...you Dave-haters should call-in, in case Dan forgets.
There'll be a line open.
Holland Cooke said:
Cue SFX: crickets chirping
Now, over-an-hour-after Dave's very first show ends, no reviews HERE, eh?
Hopefully Dan won't disappoint us, by squandering valuable airtime on NON-LOCAL Super Tuesday primaries.
(That's MASSACHUSETTS news.)
JUST TO BE ON-THE-SAFE-SIDE...you Dave-haters should call-in, in case Dan forgets.
There'll be a line open.
A
and.u.r?
Guest
Re: "LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL"
Hope you heard Yorke today. He's already having fun with Barber's $65,000 taxpayer funded gig and say's he'll be monitoring Dave's "independence".
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Will they be monitoring Kass's progress at WPRO too or even the need for Kass's state salary?Or is he OK?
Hope you heard Yorke today. He's already having fun with Barber's $65,000 taxpayer funded gig and say's he'll be monitoring Dave's "independence".
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Will they be monitoring Kass's progress at WPRO too or even the need for Kass's state salary?Or is he OK?
W
wc3434
Guest
Good, the former Biggest Phoney on the radio with the Biggest bunch of phonies in the state!
And 65, 000 to do a Cable Access show. More than many On Air personalities in radio today, JUST GRAND!
And 65, 000 to do a Cable Access show. More than many On Air personalities in radio today, JUST GRAND!
Cable reach bigger-than-radio-show's-audience?
Yet blowhards boast about ratings...on a station with a 3.4 share P25-54!
Brag when you're the Giants upsetting The Perfect Pats.
Not when your big win is beating paralyzed Clear Channel with a 1.5.
Now radio will be TALKING ABOUT CABLE?
[a channel unavailable to THE-most-important Arbitron Zip Codes]
Yet blowhards boast about ratings...on a station with a 3.4 share P25-54!
Brag when you're the Giants upsetting The Perfect Pats.
Not when your big win is beating paralyzed Clear Channel with a 1.5.
Now radio will be TALKING ABOUT CABLE?
[a channel unavailable to THE-most-important Arbitron Zip Codes]
A
alfieradioguy
Guest
Holland, I don't understand your last quote. Is it something Inside? thanks.
YOU said it, not me...
The translation I THINK Alfie was requesting was my reference to Bristol Co MA diaries.
Minimally-nerdy shoptalk explanation:
1. Not all Arbitron ratings diaries in the Providence survey are in Rhode Island.
(Occasionally MA + CT diaries > RI diaries in the TSA.)
2. Diaries are assigned -- and weighted -- by Zip Code.
3. Historically, Bristol Co MA Zip Codes are "swing votes."
An Attleboro diary can end-up being-worth-more-than a Cranston diary.
It happens.
Still with me?
Political process such as what-happens-on-Smith Hill is, by-its-nature, arcane-enough that asking Homer & Marge Diarykeeper IN RHODE ISLAND to engage is ambitious. Heck, half the people who WORK under that dome are probably foggy over the difference between "budget" and "appropriations." So we applaud new-media efforts such as Capitol TV.
But stare at a map of oddly-shaped Bristol Co MA, where Capitol TV is unavailable. To THOSE important listeners, what-happens-on-Smith Hill in the arcane, tedious fashion local Talk radio relates the process may-as-well-be what's-happening-in-the-WISCONSIN state house. Often, what's conveyed makes RI sound like-someplace-else to Bay Staters.
What if, instead, the radio asked callers "SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS?"
This isn't a hypothetical.
As RI's leaders seek to mitigate its financial crisis by vetting every expense, this came up the other day.
And this is an issue EVERYWHERE, not just in Rhody.
EVERY governor is grappling with unfunded mandates and other budget bogies.
And -- ever-so-briefly -- the local host mentioned it.
Actually said something-to-the-effect "SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS?"
But JUST mentioned it.
He didn't actually COMMIT-to-it as a "HOW DO *YOU* FEEL?" call-in topic that could've made for a lively hour.
He wandered-off into a no-punchline stream-of-consciousness rap about Raisin Bran.
But suppose, instead, that callers, including critically-important MASSACHUSETTS listeners, were invited to weigh-in:
"SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS? ONE, EIGHT HUNDRED..."
Or, instead, the I-I-I-Team could inquire-about and discuss Dave Barber's salary.
Have Young Dan and Young Matt announced how much THEY'RE making?
Perhaps a caller will ask, as Massachusetts voters go to the polls.
The translation I THINK Alfie was requesting was my reference to Bristol Co MA diaries.
Minimally-nerdy shoptalk explanation:
1. Not all Arbitron ratings diaries in the Providence survey are in Rhode Island.
(Occasionally MA + CT diaries > RI diaries in the TSA.)
2. Diaries are assigned -- and weighted -- by Zip Code.
3. Historically, Bristol Co MA Zip Codes are "swing votes."
An Attleboro diary can end-up being-worth-more-than a Cranston diary.
It happens.
Still with me?
Political process such as what-happens-on-Smith Hill is, by-its-nature, arcane-enough that asking Homer & Marge Diarykeeper IN RHODE ISLAND to engage is ambitious. Heck, half the people who WORK under that dome are probably foggy over the difference between "budget" and "appropriations." So we applaud new-media efforts such as Capitol TV.
But stare at a map of oddly-shaped Bristol Co MA, where Capitol TV is unavailable. To THOSE important listeners, what-happens-on-Smith Hill in the arcane, tedious fashion local Talk radio relates the process may-as-well-be what's-happening-in-the-WISCONSIN state house. Often, what's conveyed makes RI sound like-someplace-else to Bay Staters.
What if, instead, the radio asked callers "SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS?"
This isn't a hypothetical.
As RI's leaders seek to mitigate its financial crisis by vetting every expense, this came up the other day.
And this is an issue EVERYWHERE, not just in Rhody.
EVERY governor is grappling with unfunded mandates and other budget bogies.
And -- ever-so-briefly -- the local host mentioned it.
Actually said something-to-the-effect "SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS?"
But JUST mentioned it.
He didn't actually COMMIT-to-it as a "HOW DO *YOU* FEEL?" call-in topic that could've made for a lively hour.
He wandered-off into a no-punchline stream-of-consciousness rap about Raisin Bran.
But suppose, instead, that callers, including critically-important MASSACHUSETTS listeners, were invited to weigh-in:
"SHOULD THE STATE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR FEEDING BREAKFAST TO SCHOOL KIDS? ONE, EIGHT HUNDRED..."
Or, instead, the I-I-I-Team could inquire-about and discuss Dave Barber's salary.
Have Young Dan and Young Matt announced how much THEY'RE making?
Perhaps a caller will ask, as Massachusetts voters go to the polls.
A
alfieradioguy
Guest
Thanks Holland. I don't think anyone will be allowed to go on Dan's show and ask how much he makes..A good point.
$174,000
Yeah, right.
Yeah, right.
My goodnes Hol why so petty?Dan Yorke's salary is not derived from the taxpayers therefore what he earns is no more the public's business than what you earn or what I earn. Dave Barber's newly created job is funded with taxpayer dollars and for the sole purpose of creating some lame a#@ cable show promoting legislative propaganda.
I'm shocked that a man like you Holland, a man of the world as you so endlessly and tedioulsy describe yourself can't/won't/refuses to see the difference here. ;D
I'm shocked that a man like you Holland, a man of the world as you so endlessly and tedioulsy describe yourself can't/won't/refuses to see the difference here. ;D
RE "I'm shocked..."
Arbitron doesn't care.
Arbitron doesn't care.
Re: RE "I'm shocked..."
Citadel stockholders would care; but seeing as he is winning and pulling in some ad $$, they are probbaly fine with it. Much the same Clear Channel stockholders SHOULD care what is being drained out of the Mini ACI on Oxford St by the so called management and from what I can gather listening to spot loads on Coast, Hjj, the B and when I can stomach it HJY not much is being billed as there are a TON of national spots and not much local revenue coming in (and I would gather most national stuff is being filtered down from corporate).....tough times in terr radio.
Holland Cooke said:
Citadel stockholders would care; but seeing as he is winning and pulling in some ad $$, they are probbaly fine with it. Much the same Clear Channel stockholders SHOULD care what is being drained out of the Mini ACI on Oxford St by the so called management and from what I can gather listening to spot loads on Coast, Hjj, the B and when I can stomach it HJY not much is being billed as there are a TON of national spots and not much local revenue coming in (and I would gather most national stuff is being filtered down from corporate).....tough times in terr radio.
J
JointChinese
Guest
Mr. Cooke-
Dan is under NO obligation to reveal his salary. He is in the private sector. Plus, I believe that the long pauses and the cranky antics are the result of his health. Dan has addressed this condition on a former station where I used to listen to him in MA. The guy is not well and deserves our prayers. Plus, he still has some legal issues which are hanging in the balance. QUIT PICKING ON Mr. York!!!!!!!
Dan is under NO obligation to reveal his salary. He is in the private sector. Plus, I believe that the long pauses and the cranky antics are the result of his health. Dan has addressed this condition on a former station where I used to listen to him in MA. The guy is not well and deserves our prayers. Plus, he still has some legal issues which are hanging in the balance. QUIT PICKING ON Mr. York!!!!!!!
RE "he is winning"
Winning WHAT?
I remember GM Dick Rakovan telling us that our 11.6 was "FINE...A GREAT BOOK!"
But we were disappointed.
PD Jay Clark had us chanting "14! 14! 14!"
Now 3-something is "winning."
I guess it's all relative.
Jerry Seinfeld turned down $2 million A WEEK to do one-more-season.
Yet less-than-a-decade-earlier, shows with higher ratings were getting canceled.
Today, NBC would probably be LOVIN' "Star Trek," eh?
But back-to-the-matter-at-hand...
Not-having-cable out here on The Block, I couldn't SEE it... but I HEARD IT! I HEARD IT!
Serendipitously, I was in the car at 5PM...racing home from errands in town to catch "Hardball with Chris Matthews," to get-up-to-speed on that other news story today.
Oops.
STRIKE THAT.
I was NOT "racing."
Everyone knows that the speed limit is 25PMH for all of Block Island.
And NSPD does NOT take a casual approach in the off-season.
Thus I was late for Hardball, and still-in-the-HCmobile as Danman and his youthful ward opened the 5PM hour.
For-the-first-time-ever, I-who-have-suffered The Dan Yorke Show in TWO markets, SAT IN THE CAR WITH THE KEY ON ACCESSORIES to hear him complete a thought. And bear in mind, I GET PAID to listen to the radio (and used to get paid to listen to Dan).
As Woody Allen told my neighbor Christopher Walken in "Annie Hall:" "Dwayne, I'm wanted back on Planet Earth" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGPcSd7DDLk). So I couldn't stick-with-it for what-threatened-to turn-into-AN HOUR of giggling and snickering. Still with us Attleboro?
I did hear enough "Wayne's World" sounding guffaws to get-the-drift that the lads were accusing a cable access show of looking like...a cable access show.
Salty would have been proud.
Still, their thoughtful discourse got me thinking...
Why can't ANYONE have his or her own TV channel?
Cue harp swirl.
Hmmm...
HC
www.MyRI.TV
PS: Speaking of Salty and Dick Rakovan (http://members.aol.com/cookeh/BBCdedication-lite.jpg): If you're older than Matt and more-local than Dan, you'll never forget where you were THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, eh? If you missed NBC10s half-hour retrospective on The Great Blizzard of '78, you can watch the whole thing @ http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/news/blizzard_of_78.html
PPS: Is John McCain's wife A BABE, or what?!?!?!
Winning WHAT?
I remember GM Dick Rakovan telling us that our 11.6 was "FINE...A GREAT BOOK!"
But we were disappointed.
PD Jay Clark had us chanting "14! 14! 14!"
Now 3-something is "winning."
I guess it's all relative.
Jerry Seinfeld turned down $2 million A WEEK to do one-more-season.
Yet less-than-a-decade-earlier, shows with higher ratings were getting canceled.
Today, NBC would probably be LOVIN' "Star Trek," eh?
But back-to-the-matter-at-hand...
Not-having-cable out here on The Block, I couldn't SEE it... but I HEARD IT! I HEARD IT!
Serendipitously, I was in the car at 5PM...racing home from errands in town to catch "Hardball with Chris Matthews," to get-up-to-speed on that other news story today.
Oops.
STRIKE THAT.
I was NOT "racing."
Everyone knows that the speed limit is 25PMH for all of Block Island.
And NSPD does NOT take a casual approach in the off-season.
Thus I was late for Hardball, and still-in-the-HCmobile as Danman and his youthful ward opened the 5PM hour.
For-the-first-time-ever, I-who-have-suffered The Dan Yorke Show in TWO markets, SAT IN THE CAR WITH THE KEY ON ACCESSORIES to hear him complete a thought. And bear in mind, I GET PAID to listen to the radio (and used to get paid to listen to Dan).
As Woody Allen told my neighbor Christopher Walken in "Annie Hall:" "Dwayne, I'm wanted back on Planet Earth" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGPcSd7DDLk). So I couldn't stick-with-it for what-threatened-to turn-into-AN HOUR of giggling and snickering. Still with us Attleboro?
I did hear enough "Wayne's World" sounding guffaws to get-the-drift that the lads were accusing a cable access show of looking like...a cable access show.
Salty would have been proud.
Still, their thoughtful discourse got me thinking...
Why can't ANYONE have his or her own TV channel?
Cue harp swirl.
Hmmm...
HC
www.MyRI.TV
PS: Speaking of Salty and Dick Rakovan (http://members.aol.com/cookeh/BBCdedication-lite.jpg): If you're older than Matt and more-local than Dan, you'll never forget where you were THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, eh? If you missed NBC10s half-hour retrospective on The Great Blizzard of '78, you can watch the whole thing @ http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/news/blizzard_of_78.html
PPS: Is John McCain's wife A BABE, or what?!?!?!
Holland,
The days of 11-14's are long gone in this market (and most markets). And most AM stations are not doing well, to boot...while the major markets seem to have their AM stars (Weei & Wbz in Boston for example), it unfortunately is a band that doesn't get much love. It will be interesting to see what happens to the AM band in general as more and more stations go the HD route.
The days of 11-14's are long gone in this market (and most markets). And most AM stations are not doing well, to boot...while the major markets seem to have their AM stars (Weei & Wbz in Boston for example), it unfortunately is a band that doesn't get much love. It will be interesting to see what happens to the AM band in general as more and more stations go the HD route.
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