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Worse on-air talent: Steak Shapiro or Chris Dimino?

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LarryWachs

One is an airheaded, self-promoting tool shed and the other is an over-informed Rain Man type displaying zero economy with words and somehow even less skill at broadcasting. Neither has a discernible sense of humor.
I say it's a toss-up. Discuss...
 
I hate to say it but I think Chris is the worse on air personality, because is is so boring and dry. He does know more than anyone else in this market doing the same job. Steak is the worse person though.
 
Dimino is a nice guy, a people person. At least he must realize how lucky he is. Fun game: count how many times he says "actually" for no reason whatsoever in a given time frame. And I'd say Chuck Oliver is easily as adept at trivia/memorization.

Shapiro has zero creativity or clue. The killer is the other two, Mike Bell and Nick Cellini, are two of the best radio talents in town, paired with the two worst.
 
LarryWachs said:
Dimino is a nice guy, a people person. At least he must realize how lucky he is. Fun game: count how many times he says "actually" for no reason whatsoever in a given time frame.
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I already play that game when watching and listening to news and sports news programming; just substitute "actually" for "clearly"...
 
The show is much better when Steak isn't there so I have to say it is Steak. Chris, Mike and Nick I really like.
 
I listen every morning and split time with 680 and 750. There is no question that if you are talking radio talent it is Dimino that is worse. Steak drives conversation, though many times it is about himself. Dimino is dismissive and condescending. He was at his best when he was paired with Cellini and someone with a more comical slant balanced him.
I am a sports freak myself and I laugh at how many times I will hear Dimino mention some facts that he dug up to amaze the audience and I have already read the same thing that day on the internet. Rarely do I ever hear him actually document where he got the information as he plagarizes for the audience.
Steak gets the concept of the job but many times loses focus and is into self-promotion.
Go check the ratings. These guys are getting their breakfast handed to them by the Rude crew. I remember when Rude came in and they were killing him for his lack of sports knowledge and that his show would be a joke. Well now we see that sports fans have chosen Rudes show over theirs and I have to think it is the likability factor. You can be Boortz or someone polarizing, but you have to have humanity. You have to allow yourself to be wrong, the butt of the joke and such.
Dimino never allows that and Steak rarely does.
I personally am a little floored at the way 680 has eclipsed 790 in the market as I give 790 more of my listening time. They were once a better station and have lost their way. Way too urban in the afternoons as the arbitron ratings clearly show with the dominace of B&K. The lineup needs new blood and they don't seem likely to do it.
 
Dimino doesn't bother me on the current show, but I agree he was at his peak when it was just him and Cellini. Steak doesn't bother me as much as he used to, but he's the worst part of that program still imho.
 
If it is Larry who started this I am glad to see another MOT break bad on Brisket. Brisket has long passed out of control and is in a new dimension of self-absorbed. If he mentions, "The Palm" or Baby Sofie one more time I am going to bring him up at our next meeting. BTW, we do have meetings, all the time.
 
I wonder what sir brisket's comped tab ismonthly at the Palm. You can probably feed a family on it.
 
I don't think whoever makes the decisions at 790 really has a clue what they're doing. The AM show was decent enough without Dimino. It had Steak, an adequate, albeit dimwitted, straight man, with two of the best talents in town, Bell and Cellini. Then for no decent reason they dive-bomb a humorless stat dork who takes three times as many words than necessary to make a point. There wasn't enough mic time for everyone to begin with. Brilliant!

The Stews in the afternoon are downright embarrassing. If you can make John Kincaid look good by comparison, you know you're bad.
 
Tough call... I have to say the worse award goes to whoever had the idea to put them all together on one morning show. That person was probably Steak.
 
Hmm sounds to me Larry Wachs is jealous. They are meployed and he is noww hosting an internet only ripoff of the Daily Show sounds real original. Kind of like hosting a local verrsion of the Howard Stern show that he did for many years on 96rock. Of course that job at least paid as opposed to his new job that pays in rubles.
 
Rude and Perry are so much better. Perry really brought the show up on a lot of levels once he started. They are opposite personality types and it works. The Zone guys are all egos...especially Steak. The 680 signal is definitely an advantage, too. Hopefully someone will have enough balls to put Imus back in the market when he reappears. That to date is Steak's biggest claim to fame. He at least got to be a guest of the I-Man.
 
That can't be the real Larry, so don't be confused.
No out of work guy who can't get a sniff of legitimate employment would be taking shots at employed guys like Steak, Dimino and Kincaid who are relevant in this town.
Screen names are easily faked.
 
I like them both fine though I think Mayhem would be better with less voices.

Here's what I don't get:If 790 is such a bad station with terrible ratings why does any thread about elicit pretty passionate discussion?

Also, ratings be damned, I've never met ANYONE who listens to the 680 morning show.
 
Aww, c'mon Larry. Life is too short to be tearing people down. Much of what we hear on the radio that is bad these days is a more a product of poor direction than lack of talent. Depending upon who's pulling my strings, I range from phenomenal to lightweight. (Other people's opinions, not my own.)
 
Yail Bloor said:
I like them both fine though I think Mayhem would be better with less voices.

Here's what I don't get:If 790 is such a bad station with terrible ratings why does any thread about elicit pretty passionate discussion?

Also, ratings be damned, I've never met ANYONE who listens to the 680 morning show.
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I listen to the 680 morning show. Nice to meetcha. 8)
 
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