Yaaaaaa'll missed it! KFI's Robin Berto gets a major accolade!

[Bug on the rug]

Surprised not ONE KFI host has mentioned it! (Coulda been a good suck up tool!). Wtf!!?

http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2478031&spid=24698

 

[ChannelFlipper]

Actually it was on Don Barrett's site as well. Didn't miss it.

Congrats to Robin and all, she has done a great job taking what David G. Hall built and adding to it to make KFI the dominant player it is. But when I saw the article, I couldn't help but think - Why is it the "Woman of the Year" award? Specifically, why do men and women need separate categories for areas of achievement that have nothing to do with their physical differences? Same concept would apply to awards based on someone's heritage. I would think more highly of her achievement if she was the best "Programmer" of the year, instead of the best "Woman" of the year. Seems degrading to me.

If someone ever gave me an award that was limited to my gender, heritage, or ethnicity, I would politely decline the award unless and until it applied to everyone equally. I want to be the best of the best, not the best "man" or "woman" or "Latino" or whatever. We're now twelve years into the new millennium, seems like we all should be beyond this now.

 

[Bug on the rug]

Well said, Channelflipper. My thought EXACTLY as I was reading the article. That's sooooooo passe! Bottom line is Robin runs the #1 station in the #2 market with a pop of 10.6 million people -- regardless of being a man, woman, Asian or Latino!

Apparently Talkers Magazine Publisher, Michael Harrison, hasn't gotten the memo!

 

[wadio]

... when I saw the article, I couldn't help but think - Why is it the "Woman of the Year" award? Specifically, why do men and women need separate categories for areas of achievement that have nothing to do with their physical differences?

That's sooooooo passe!

I'm so glad to see that others feel as I do about this! It seems to me most Womens' Organizations are perpetuated by women who secretly doubt that women can compete with men on an equal basis. Time to bury that myth and focus on qualification and achievement.

I'd also argue that advertisers and programmers should target listeners according to interests, not sex. Pandering to half the potential audience can easily fail -- e.g. Merlin's all-news format, originally aimed at women but now morphing to broaden the audience.

 

[Robnoxious]

In my opinion, any award whose previous winners include Gloria Alred invalidates the honor given out.

 

[RicoGregg]

I'm so glad to see that others feel as I do about this! It seems to me most Womens' Organizations are perpetuated by women who secretly doubt that women can compete with men on an equal basis. Time to bury that myth and focus on qualification and achievement.

Robin Bertolucci's award was given by Talkers, not by a women's organization.

FYI, Robin is employing her own husband as PD of 570. He's the guy who fired Joe McDonnell.

Did David G. Hall or any other PD ever hire his own wife? I can think of several who hired relatives and/or squeezes.

Why is it the "Woman of the Year" award? Specifically, why do men and women need separate categories for areas of achievement that have nothing to do with their physical differences? Same concept would apply to awards based on someone's heritage. I would think more highly of her achievement if she was the best "Programmer" of the year, instead of the best "Woman" of the year. Seems degrading to me.

If someone ever gave me an award that was limited to my gender, heritage, or ethnicity, I would politely decline the award unless and until it applied to everyone equally.

Like Hell.

I want to be the best of the best, not the best "man" or "woman" or "Latino" or whatever. We're now twelve years into the new millennium, seems like we all should be beyond this now.

Broadcasting, much like many other high profile businesses, has had a tendency to be "old clique networks", recycling people when they finally wear out their welcome at one place or another.
I mean, didn't virtually the entire non-morning drive airstaff of KLOS work together at other places? I would have sworn that I saw most of them working at the EDGE, after they had been at KMET. Men AND women.

In my opinion, any award whose previous winners include Gloria Alred invalidates the honor given out.

Does that also invalidate her law degree? Gloria Allred is a fair-minded woman who has also helped men in sex discrimination cases. Maybe if unfairness didn't happen so much, we wouldn't see her so much.

 

[Robnoxious]

Does that also invalidate her law degree? Gloria Allred is a fair-minded woman who has also helped men in sex discrimination cases. Maybe if unfairness didn't happen so much, we wouldn't see her so much.

Horsepucky. Alred is an sensationalist with a law degree that trots out victims to the media to be tried under the court of public opinion. Most of her stunts don't even make it into a court of law.

 

[RicoGregg]

Horsepucky. Alred is an sensationalist with a law degree that trots out victims to the media to be tried under the court of public opinion. Most of her stunts don't even make it into a court of law.

You mean victims of wrongs are supposed to be thought of by the public in a negative light? ???