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Why Feinburg has to go the way of Rummy

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Varulven

A gay male, 46, just called in to WRKO. He was telling an important story about his marriage,
and his 11 years with a partner who is ill. Feinburg cut him off in a loud and obnoxious fashion
so that the caller could not make his point. These interruptions and bullying are NOT talk radio.
They are radio talking AT you not WITH you.

I challenge Jason Wolfe to find on-air talent on the same par with WBZ or WBUR.

We fans of radio are tired of unprofessionalism. Getting rid of DePetro was a good start - putting
Todd Feinburg in his place is just more of the same. Todd DePetro is what we now have.

Enough already. There are some great hosts currently on 50,000 watt stations in this region
who could do a superb job. We all know who they are. It's time Jason Wolfe stepped up to the plate
and delivered some professional voices to the audience.

There's plenty of college radio in this town. Feinburg sounds like some college kid being obnoxious
and pushy. So did DePetro. WRKO should start behaving like a major player.
 
I don't know if Fineburg was in a big hurry to go to a break or something; I haven't heard enough of him to judge but I don't know if he's all that obnoxious.

btw last night I heard a few minutes of Michael Savage and someone asked him if he had heard Rush's
show (the whole "I'm not carrying water for the GOP anymore" deal) and Savage kept trying to cut HIM off and refused to answer the question (as to whether or not he'd heard Rush's show that day...he could have at least said something like "No way, I don't listen to that crap" but he refused to answer...). He started to go on a tirade against "Hush Bimbo". Maybe the likes of
Limbaugh and Hannity made fun of/criticized Savage on air (I know I once heard Hannity say of Savage
"Oh, was this on the Mikey Weiner show"--that's Savage's real last name) and now MS calls them
Hush Bimbo and Sean Vanity. (Both have higher ratings than MS; jealousy?)

If the Red Sox or WRKO advertisers (hello Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which got their spots on WRKO
pulled _off DePetro's show_ after DePetro's anti-gay comments in March) complain (as well as listeners of course) maybe you'll
get your wish.
 
raccoonradio said:
btw last night I heard a few minutes of Michael Savage and someone asked him if he had heard Rush's
show
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Savage freely admits to screening Hush Bimbo's show from time to time.

A gay male, 46, just called in to WRKO. He was telling an important story about his marriage,
and his 11 years with a partner who is ill.
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So he's married to a woman AND has a "partner." I bet his wife is not too pleased! :eek:
 
Does anyone know whether Feinburg is an employee (full of part-time) of Entercom/WRKO? It could be that he--or a business entity that he controls--is brokering the time and reselling it to advertisers. If so, one of the reasons he is on is that he is guaranteeing Entercom an income stream and taking the risk of not being able to sell the time--or not being able to sell it at rate card. I'm pretty sure that, on some of the other stations on which he has appeared, Feinburg has brokered the time. As I think everyone here realizes, Pat Whitley's Restaurant Show is brokered time--that is, if it's still on the air. So we know that WRKO does do brokered time.
 
something's got to explain why he's on there morning noon, and night!!
 
Whitley is the only brokered local show at wrko I'm pretty sure.
 
Don't know if he's an emp. of 'RKO and/or if the night show he does is brokered time. It's possible he does
the show as brokered time and is a "pinch hitter" for 'RKO fill ins.

I believe he lives in Manchester-by-the-Sea and does a nationwide show on weekends (syndicates himself;
see http://www.toddtalk.com or, in radio biz, http://www.radiotodd.com) . 'RKO of course gave him the short-lived Taste of Boston Tonight show which later became just regular talk (political/pop culture) so he does that at night plus the national show (of which 'RKO is an affiliate). He also can serve as a fill-in and with
the 9-noon show in "TBA" status, they put him there and his night show (when Celts aren't on) has had fill-ins like the Pundit Review guys or Grandpa Moe (Lauzier) and Auntie Barbara (Anderson)

This blogger compares Feinburg to Brudnoy, in terms of style and politics:
http://www.wickedgood.info/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=126856

"...polite to his listeners like Brudnoy. He has a dry type of humor like Brudnoy and never seems to yell,lose his temper, use profanity, like Brudnoy. Lastly his politics are similar to Brudnoy."
 
>>I challenge Jason Wolfe to find on-air talent on the same par with WBZ or WBUR.

He did. His name is Todd Feinburg.

>>professional voices

Feinburg allegedly has 90 affiliates to his weekend show which is probably more than Franken has at this
point. That sounds professional/successful to me.
 
Varulven said:
Todd DePetro is what we now have.
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Please stop with the soupy drek.
 
Re: Why Feinburg has to go the way of Rummy?

At night and on weekends, Feinburg is the most thoughtful in the third hour. On Sa and Su from 3-4 he has interesting and informative guests, focusing mostly on the Middle East - check out the guest list http://www.toddtalk.com/guests.asp.

During the week on Thu from 9-10 he had a segment called Philosophy Cafe - not exactly your typical shock jock. Probably harder to do in the morning, but it would be nice if he could do more of that and less of the annoying, sophomoric, bullying that is typical of conservative talk...
 
There's bullying on both sides and "thoughtful" talk on both sides...and sometimes the bullying hosts (Savage for example) can get the ratings. A friend of mine recently went to SF and taped some Gene Burns and Bernie
Ward for me. That should be interesting. Have also enjoyed hosts who are a bit more relaxed and conversational,
ranging from WBZ's Jordan Rich to Howie Chizek at WNIR/ Kent OH
 
raccoonradio said:
There's bullying on both sides and "thoughtful" talk on both sides...
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If your neanderthal politics don't get in the way of an objective critique, you might try Thom Hartmann. Not only is his tone relaxed and generally non-confrontational (except in pre-arranged situations, such as his periodic talks with a guy from the Ayn Rand Insititute, who, I presume, has agreed in advance to accept the ground rules, which must say that Hartmann chews him up and spits out the little pieces every time he's on), Hartmann also has an encyclopedic knowledge of American history. Listening to him is both educational and a pleasure--especially after you've endured the rantings of Randi Rhodes.
 
Gee, and I didn't call your politics neanderthal...I guess the azimuth of my null is in the quadrant
of the CP for 5 kW day but there's an adjacent frequency with a daytimer to worry about. :eek:

Maybe I'll check out Hartmann--thankfully I don't listen to Rhodes. Well, I'm off to star in another GEICO commercial. ::)

http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/caveman.jpg

>>Hartmann’s “No Boring Zone” technique of delivery draws in listeners who just couldn't handle another tedious interview (other than Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders, who's a Friday regular, about the only guests Hartmann has on his show are conservatives with whom he debates).
 
"Each augmentation has an azimuth, a magnitude, and a span. I've seen patterns
with upwards of 20 augmentations--not 20 azimuths with augmented values, but
20 augmentations each having a span of as little as 10 degrees and as many
as maybe 50 degrees. It's not uncommon for several augmentations to affect
the pattern's augmented values at particular azimuths."

I guess people who don't understand the above are neanderthals. :) Love ya, Dan :)

"... a predicted efficiency of 440 mV/m/kW unattenuated at 1 km,
actually delivered less than the Class C minimum of 241 mV/m. That meant
that 1 kW into the supposedly super-efficient antenna was actually
equivalent to less than 300W!"

Brilliant! I couldn't have said it better myself! Now I understand, and it was in such
plain English that how could one NOT understand :)
 
raccoonradio said:
I guess people who don't understand the above are neanderthals. :) Love ya, Dan :)
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I didn't call YOU a neanderthal; I called your politics neanderthal. There is a difference. One is an ad hominem attack (either not allowed or strongly discouraged on BBSs and Internet mailing lists); the other is not ;>). Also, I congratulate you on looking up azimuth. You seemed to have grasped the meaning of that term without difficulty. Azimuth is a term whose origins lie, I believe, in cartography (map-making), but since radio station directional-antenna patterns involve maps, azimuth has crept into that discipline. The other terms, such as field intensity, augmentations, and the like, are true electrical engineering terms (and even EEs who work in disciplines other than antenna design tend not to be familiar with them). However, you did so well with azimuth, I don't put it past you to study up on antenna design. Have fun with it!
 
Well I was just having a little fun with ya, Professor :) I think I had heard the term mentioned somehow in
astronomy, etc. It's just that azimuth isn't an everyday word for most of us...and maybe I'm a neanderthal
for not understanding stuff you know well, like the physics and electronics involved in radio towers! That
subject didn't usually come up for English majors/Media minors at Salem State such as myself! :))
 
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