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Where is George Michael nowadays?

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djdalanj69

I think George Michael would be great for CBS-FM Radio Great guest DJ. I though he was great on WFIL and WABC. He was always out spoken and covered the blackout of 1977 on New York Radio WABC. He never had a loss for words.

Does anyone know where he is today? Last I remember he was hosting the "Time Machine" sports show on NBC.
 
"King" George Michael was the spots director at WRC in Washington, DC. The story I heard was that when he was told to cut people due to budget restraints, he fired himself and retired. George would do some NBC TV from time to time in addition to the WRC duties and Sports Machine, but always loved music and the radio business. He would be great and a true Radio Great!
 
Retired to his horse farm outside DC and reported to be enjoying life in retirement. He left music radio wayyyy behind when WABC let him go in 1979, and built a national rep as a sports anchor and commentator.

There are those who've said WABC management initially didn't plan to make Michael a part of the so-called "Thanksgiving Day Massacre" in 1979 that also booted Harry Harrison and Chuck Leonard, moved Dan Ingram into what he later called the "dark tunnel" of the morning drive shift, and Bob Cruz into afternoons. But Michael was clearly moving out the door of MusicRadio 77 into the sports radio/TV realm--he was already taking some nights off to work NY Islander games and handling weekend sports anchoring duties at WABC-TV. He is said to have asked for enough time off to be a fulltime part of the NY Islanders broadcast team--which, given that the Islanders were in a long and successful multi-season playoff run at the time, could have taken him away from WABC for close to half the weekday evenings of the year. That was too much for WABC to handle. So out Michael went along with Harrison and Leonard, to be replaced by Howard Hoffman.

Michael has said he had no hard feelings toward WABC because by releasing him, they freed him to do all the sports broadcasting he wanted to do--and he made a good 25+ year run of it.
 
I always liked George Michael, growing up listening to him on WABC. I liked his sports reporting, too. He was better at that than being a disc jockey. I would try to catch his "Sports Machine" show when WNBC carried it on Sunday nights. It would be fun hearing him back on the radio one time.
 
Isles22 said:
It would be fun hearing him back on the radio one time.
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I can sort of help you with that... I furnished my beat up cassette off the air copy of his show to Alan Sniffen on February 3, 1978 when he (and Coca-Cola) saluted my high school. It's on the MusicRadio 77 site:

http://www.musicradio77.com/airchecks.html

(then scroll down to 1978)

There are other airchecks of George there as well.
 
Michael has said he had no hard feelings toward WABC because by releasing him, they freed him to do all the sports broadcasting he wanted to do--and he made a good 25+ year run of it.
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George was one of the best!

Bob1370, I'm impressed by the accuracy of your post.
 
They did, however, screw up when they fired George from WABC and managed to miss him at home and he at the studio at 1330 when he was fired. I almost seem to remember that he started the show and then was fired.
 
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