You JUST caught me...
...and only because of airport WiFi here at Las Vegas.
AND GET THIS!
Unlike most airports, it's FREE here.
Very cool. And blazing fast.
So I had a chance to check-in before winging back to Rhody.
'Would still like to hear next-level-of-detail concerning the topic That Darn Dave is accused of misappropriating from The Dan Show. The post atop this thread alluded to Dave using an actual Dan Show clip on-air, so I'm curious as to how the message got mangled if it was in Dan's own words.
As to your suggestion that I direct Dave to avoid Dan's topics: It'd be inappropriate for me to direct Dave, since I don't work for WPRO; and because I know that Dave's choice of topics is the product of an ongoing conversation with his PD...A DIALOGUE I WISH HAPPENED AT MORE STATIONS. It's called "rehearsal." What a concept, eh?
But I do observe that the topics I hear Dave work are very different from what Dan's up to. So you and I are sure on-the-same-page in that regard.
That said, one of the most durable daypart recycling techniques in radio is one-DJ-talking-about-the-other. Often, it's useful to CONTRIVE an on-air rivalry. This has helped lots of Rush Limbaugh affiliates make Rush seem more-a-part-of the station's own on-air family. An adjacent-daypart host might systematically diss Rush...even during Limbaugh's SHOW, via promos that segue to the local host's show after.
When I was consulting The Mighty 790, KFGO/Fargo (before Clear Channel bought it, and fired all the consultants), I designed a billboard with a similiar message. At the time, Ed Schultz was a local host on KFGO, doing the show just-before-Rush. So we posed Ed in that smug, haughty, arms-crossed pose you see all over
www.RushLimbaugh.com, and put him back-to-back-with Rush, over the interstate. And Ed would scoff at El Rushbo on-air. Ironically, what was presented as a DISCONNECT between the two personalities served to CONNECT them.
Ancient history: When I was on WPRO, PD Jay Clark INSTRUCTED The Pro Personalities to talk about each other.
As to the implication, in another post above, that Dan's a buffoon: Critics call Bill O'Reilly the same thing. Don't kid yourself. O'Reilly's buffoonery is very calculated. IT'S A SHOW. If you're paying attention, it worked.
Or, in the words of a gifted radio performer I know: "If they're pickin' on me, they're leavin' someone else alone."
RadioHead06 said:
Barber's been around forever. He ever make the Heavy 100 list? Just curious!
Thank you for asking. And next time you talk with the author of that list, Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrison (413-739-TALK), ask him who suggested naming the list "The Heavy Hundred."
But to answer your question, Dave made the list three times.
Compared to HOW MANY...for YOU???
