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WHBC-FM Morning Show lies to it's audience

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mess941

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If you listen to Rik Elliot and Sarah Kay on WHBC-FM, you will hear them talk to "Bobby" the producer. "Bobby" supposedly tells them who is on the phone, etc.

The problem? You never hear Bobby speak. Ever. Not even in the background.

I called WHBC yesterday afternoon and asked for "Bobby." The receptionist said
1)No one named "Bobby" works there.
2)The morning show does not have a producer.

Why would Rik and Sarah invent an imaginary producer? They talk to their imaginary friend daily.

Why not just admit they record calls during the music?

How Pathetic. Makes you wonder what else are they lying to their audience about.
 
Boy, Mess is right. They must be lying about everything. They talk to an imaginery friend! You better grab your umbrella's when they say it is a sunny day. My question is simple: Who has the time, to sit around all day and wonder if there really is someone named Bobby? Better yet, who has time to actually call a radio station and ask for him? Oops, you better check out all of the staions that are claiming to have live talent on today, when in truth they are voicetracking. Damn Liars! All of them.
 
I would bring an umbrella, if they said it was sunny.

Last week, WHBC reported that the commute to work was fine and without problems, even though it had been snowing heavily for over an hour and I-77, by the football hall of fame, was crawling along at 20 miles an hour.

When a caller said the roads were terrible, they finally changed the traffic report.
 
Do you think 'Bobby' is actually an old, unused reel-to-reel with a bloody handprint on it?

Those two should get out of the studio more...
 
Rush Limbaugh does the same thing with Mr. Snurdley who is a fictional guy on the other side of the window.
 
nightfly61 said:
Rush Limbaugh does the same thing with Mr. Snurdley who is a fictional guy on the other side of the window.
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Mr. Snerdley is real. (There's more than one who play the part. One, James Golden, later left for his own web-based show. Not sure if he's still doing it.)
 
John Baylor said:
Radio is theater of the mind.
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Exactly. It's not a "lie" but a trick.

I know that when Bill King hosted mornings on WEOL/930 many years back, he would pull the same trick. Even though the studio was set up so that he could run the studio by himself, Bill would announce that the bumper music tracks came courtesy of "Skitch and the In-Studio Orchestra."

When done right, it can be very clever, no? So why overreact?

- nate81 -
 
There is an "H.R." who is alternately known as "Kit Carson". Lying to the audiecne over whether or not there's a Bobby. Next you'll tell me there's no Earl Pitts (Gary Burbank, retired mfrom WLW charachter).
 
Aw 'cmon... and I guess Jack Benny really had a vault under his house and a valet named Rochester.... and Cousin Brucie used to have a real live party on his balcony when he was supposedly working on Saturday night... oh yeah and Stan Freeberg actually hired the Canadian air force to drop a giant maraschino cherry into a drained and refilled with whipped cream Lake Michigan. Lighten up.... It's SHOW BUSINESS!!!!
 
Bob Sievers and Jay Gould really were broadcasting in a smelly barn on WOWO, then Bob Sievers drove in from the farm to the downtown studios in 7 minutes!
 
mess941 said:
If you listen to Rik Elliot and Sarah Kay on WHBC-FM, you will hear them talk to "Bobby" the producer. "Bobby" supposedly tells them who is on the phone, etc.

The problem? You never hear Bobby speak. Ever. Not even in the background.

I called WHBC yesterday afternoon and asked for "Bobby." The receptionist said
1)No one named "Bobby" works there.
2)The morning show does not have a producer.

Why would Rik and Sarah invent an imaginary producer? They talk to their imaginary friend daily.

Why not just admit they record calls during the music?

How Pathetic. Makes you wonder what else are they lying to their audience about.
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"Yeah, hi...FCC? You won't believe this. Someone on some message board is complaining -- once again -- about some station in Canton, OH allegedly lying... (interrupted by hysterical laughter breaks out on the other end)...what's so funny, Commish? It's about another newbie **cough former employee cough** crawling out of the woodwork to complain about another station down there that's funny, ain't it?"

They must not have gotten that far in the "lesson plan" at the factory, also known as OCB.
Clue. Less.
 
Knowing alot of Cleveland radio history from our past...this sort of "Fooling the listener" was even going on over the airwaves at WTAM in 1930 to 1935 when Gene and Glenn (Gene Carroll & Glenn Rowell) did their daily radio comedy thing over the NBC Network. They never allowed the public to see them perform in the studio over the air, the public for years thought there were four people in the studio as the show aired four characters named Gene, Glenn, Jake and Lena. Little did the public know that Jake and Lena were also played by Gene Carroll himself, and Gene did a very good job of changing his voice to play all three characters on the air(before there was editing with tape and so on). People even sent gifts to WTAM when Jake was to marry Lena, this make believe thing has fooled people as long as there has been radio, even Wayne Mack did it in the 50's up to the 90's with his "Palace Ballroom on the Lake" over WRMR and before that it was the "Palace Waltz" over WDOK 1260 AM in the 50's. Wayne Mack always said "Radio is the Theater of the Mind" and you have to paint the picture in the listener's head.
 
J. Michael Wilson had Rodney the Rodent who was a reel to reel player. Anyone remember Jim King & Chico the Wonder Dog on G-98 in the early early 80's? I used to wonder if it was really his dog or a cart. What ever became of that guy?
 
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