Who spiked the Hater-ade?

[JennaJordan]

Oh..and another thing...


Lemme preface this by saying, I think that I'm only looking at this board b/c my brain has melted from studying for the Bar.

However, it is strangely comforting to see that the same people are here complaining about the same things and not doing anything to change the things that they've now spent years bitching about... since I was a wee' lass workin' for Grant Morris on Bourbon Street.

(My quick radio bio> I came here as a freshman at Loyola, having already done a few years of on-air work in Ft. Walton and P'cola at TK...my first N.O. gig was "FastBand" - b/c .. I was "too CHR for "The End"" ... and my WARPED Tour, pierced, doc martened 18 year-old-self..didn't feel like working at Mix 104.1 as per Mr. Stewart's, retrospectively, sage offer )

... So, congratulations to my stalwarts of couldashouldawoulda and "whatevahhappened to good ol' what'shisname???"!


In my opinion, radio rivalry is fun and sometimes productive - moaning and groaning about what the whippersnappers are doing to your precious station that's flipped 5,000 times since you last rolled a joint on the turntable during your weekend shift- isn't. Attacking someone's personal life (the part that 99.99999% of listeners know/care nothing about..) isn't, either (we get it! there are homosexuals in the entertainment and advertising businesses...).

As someone who currently works in this market...and a radio junkie since getting my first PlaySkool Tape Recorder... I would LOVE to see some actual suggestions and critiques regarding more people and more stations that are presently on-air in this market - even the weekenders (ahem... please? I haven't been told how much I suck since I worked for Mark "the Shark"... ).


Cheers!

~Jenna

 

[Beernuts711]

So, looking beyond your post which makes no sense, and focusing in on your ending, how much / how good do you suck?

 

[JennaJordan]

Beeeeeerrrrnuutttttsssss .... Please try to keep up with me here

I am sor-- ry , I will try to keep my post mono-syllabic next year.




Cheers!

~Jenna

 

[Beernuts711]

Just pullin' your leg, dawlin!

Welcome back and Merry Christmas.

BN

 

[SkilletFaceSam]

However, it is strangely comforting to see that the same people are here complaining about the same things and not doing anything to change the things that they've now spent years bitching about

It is strange... since almost all of us worked in radio before and we've tried making changes. We've TRIED to help the stubborn-a** program directors who won't listen to his/her local talent and co-workers when they give him/her suggestions about that particular market. I worked for one PD who would round us up into a room for one big meeting every two or three weeks. He would tell us what he needed to tell us and then ask us "any questions or suggestions???" If anyone would give information or suggestion he didn't like, they got their head and chukunga's torn off!

But funny, instead many of these genius PD's would rather take the advice of the consultant with all the ideas. Hhmmm. Weird cause consultants and their advice works in many other markets, but it doesn't work too well here. It's been shown in our local ratings before. New Orleans is way too unique for outside things. We're conent with doing it our way, ourselves and we know we can do it! We're not stupid! We lost some good stations to new PD's with consultants backing them.

Remember -- "Don't fix anything that isn't broken!"

Sam T

 

[Rex Tremendae]

Jenna, I agree people shouldn't be outed and called names for their sexuality, but how do you feel about personalities that portray themselves as straight on-air and in real life are gay?

What I always thought was gross about N.O. radio was guys in their 50s & 60s making dates with teens. Oh yeah, and that whole illegal thing.

Jenna, it's kinda odd but, some of the people in N.O. radio that were/are caustic and mean and cranky on air were in real life some of the sweetest kindest people you'd ever want to meet; but some of the personalities that present themselves as sweet and lovable on-air were some of the most evil, wicked, gossiping, slandering backstabbers that you would ever want to meet. Maybe I'll get drunk later and name names.

So sayeth Rex.

 

[kudzooter]

Having done two stints there -- 1970, then 1975 through 1980 -- and having friends there til this day, I can say:- there always have been, and always will be: some really good, talented, decent-human, caring, radio-professionals in NOLa ... and there always have been, and again always will be: some of the dregs of humanity, some of the out-takes that should have never been put back in, and some of the people whose mamas have to be looking down and saying "Why did I ever let that happen to all those people who deserved better?" Same can be said of any other market, or any other profession.
But it saddens me to see the vitrolic attacks either on a particular individual's on-air talent (or lack thereof, at least in the ears of the posting attacker) or his/her sexual/religious/political orientation. This board is named radio-info. Seems like it would make sense to keep our comments--good or bad--limited to the actual radio part of what's going on...in NOLa, or anywhere else. And that includes space for both what's happening--and the full range of readings on it--today, and for us oldtimers who
like to remind each other of some of the fun we had "back in the day"--with the hope that some of that fun might still be a
catching thing for today's krewe, since it seems a lot of them are getting the full-tilt beancounter onslaught of nothing-but-business/and-don't-you-dare-expect-or-give-any-joy-while-it's-happening mentality.
Soxless. (which really messed with Scrooge's mind at coal-lump time, oh so recently, yeah... :)