"Re-feed, in three...two...one..."
Here's that-earlier-post to-which you and Alf' referred, which the system glitch seems to have coughed-up-like-a-hairball...
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Responding to Alf' asking me about Michael Savage and Jerry Doyle:
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Be CAREFUL...be VERY careful.
Saying that here can get you shunned quicker than an Amish chick with an iPhone...
Quote from: alfieradioguy on Today at 07:56:11 pm
Holland, what do you think of Jerry Doyle and Micheal Savage? I'd like to hear your opinion, believe it or not!
RE Doyle: Mike McVay and I had breakfast with him and TRN head honcho Mark Masters about a year ago, at the Talkers New Media Seminar; and I'll see 'em both again at this year's later this week. EXTREMELY interesting guy. Helluva resume, lotsa stories. NOT boring off-air, or on. NOT predictable, not droning.
RE Savage: apparent crackpot and CERTAIN phenom. Moves-the-needle almost everywhere, even in parts-of-the-USA where that Noo Yawk accent sounds like "somewhere else." His half-cocked take on whassup REALLY sounds like someone you'll find any night in any bar, thus resonates with many of the like-minded who find his act wafting through the night.
I have more experience with Savage (he's on more stations I've worked with since he popped than Doyle is). Both are evidence that Masters is a smart guy.
That's "my national opinion." Apropos both shows locally, I'm less-objective, since I did nights on WPRO for 6 years, and I think of it as one-of-those-stations-that's "too big" not-to-be-local in what-CAN-be an important daypart, still.
Obviously, why-both-shows-are-cleared-so-widely: stations are in a financial jam, everywhere. 'Just can't support enough local talent in M-F 6A-7P, let alone nights/overnights. Another new Providence thread bemoans the extinction of local overnight shows, and I do too. Who doesn't remember an iconic all-nighter like WBZ's Larry Glick or WTIC's Art Johnson? "The Cherub," Ed Cherubino, who followed me on WPRO at midnight, was doing meet-up events in the 70s! So applause to WPRO and any station that can still do SOME local programming after 7PM.
I've met Cousin Brucie at several conventions, and he's always gracious-enough to pretend he remembered-having-met-me. Morrow is one of those bigger-than-life, bright-aura, light-up-a-room characters who makes you smile. When he meets you, he makes lock-on eye contact and repeats your first name ("Cousin Holland!"). When he visited WTOP in the 80s on his book tour (an autobiography that's better than you might expect), I told him that I-was-on-WPRO-nights when-he-was-on-WABC-nights...and he went right into an enthused spiel: "Number one: GREAT station! Number two: BEST time to work...IT'S NIGHTS!"
HC
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