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Is Nick Cannon ALREADY Bored with his Radio Show? Embarrasing Moment Caught on Tape
Nick Cannon = Loser? Well, if you base it on his career success to this point or the fact that he somehow landed MARIAH CAREY, I'd have to say no.
But if you base it on the admittedly small sample of him on the radio and the video evidence in the above link, the answer to Nick Cannon = Loser is a resounding YES.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Yet another show about to debut on the syndicated radio wasteland
http://www.urbaninsite.com/?p=7295
That's a quick blurb explaining that Joyce Littel, who's spent 20 years at Atlanta's CBS owned V103 has apparently been shown the door. Littel, who's spent most of her time at V103 hosting the quiet storm is reportedly being replaced by Borid Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker. If you recognize the names, congrats on knowing who these D-listers are. The married actors had a bit of an audition hosting the quiet storm at WBLS/New York before Keith Sweat eventually got the nod. The fact that WBLS heard them and turned to Keith Sweat should tell you all you need to know about Kodjoe and Parker's radio "skills". I'll let you figure out exactly what I mean by that.
Apparently, there's also a possibility that the couple's new radio show in Atlanta will eventually be syndicated by Westwood One...because you know, there aren't enough horrible syndicated urban radio shows.
That's a quick blurb explaining that Joyce Littel, who's spent 20 years at Atlanta's CBS owned V103 has apparently been shown the door. Littel, who's spent most of her time at V103 hosting the quiet storm is reportedly being replaced by Borid Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker. If you recognize the names, congrats on knowing who these D-listers are. The married actors had a bit of an audition hosting the quiet storm at WBLS/New York before Keith Sweat eventually got the nod. The fact that WBLS heard them and turned to Keith Sweat should tell you all you need to know about Kodjoe and Parker's radio "skills". I'll let you figure out exactly what I mean by that.
Apparently, there's also a possibility that the couple's new radio show in Atlanta will eventually be syndicated by Westwood One...because you know, there aren't enough horrible syndicated urban radio shows.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Football!
When I started this blog, I said I was going to talk about radio and sports; the two things I am most passionate about. Haven't done anything about sports to this point because...well, because it slipped my mind. Yes, I am getting old. (LOL) Every time I had a thought or two about sports worth sharing, I got caught up doing something else. So today, I decided to start the sports stuff by talking about the one team lots of people thought didn't belong in the NFL playoffs; the New York Jets.
People said they "backed in" to the playoffs because the Colts and Bengals chose not to play their best players for the entire game when they met the Jets at the end of the regular season. Is it the Jets fault that those teams decided not to go all out? They were labeled as not being playoff worthy because of something they had no control over.
I would hope that the naysayers can finally come clean and admit that the Jets are in fact, playoff worthy. Beating two division champions (Cincinnati and San Diego) on the road in back to back weeks. I don't care how you slice it; that's impressive. Even more impressive when you realize just how one-dimensional the Jets are from an offensive standpoint. Both the Bengals and Chargers knew the Jets gameplan long before the game started. Hell, I knew it, you knew it, the guy sitting in the cheapest seat in the building yesterday knew it. The Jets were going to run the ball as often as they could and throw it as little as they could. Both Cincinnati and San Diego knew it....and neither could stop it.
That brings the Jets to the AFC Championship game next week and a rematch against the Indianapolis Colts. After playing the Jets once and the Baltimore Ravens (who are a very similar team to the Jets) twice in the last 6 weeks, the Colts probably don't need to look at even a minute of game film to know exactly what they're gonna get on Sunday from New York.
But can they stop it? Can they succeed where Cincinnati and San Diego failed? I see a lot of potential storylines here that have me thinking fate might just be wearing green and white this season. Cincinnati and Indianapolis were the two teams that people said took it easy on the Jets at the end of the year when the Jets were fighting to make the playoffs, and those teams were already assured of the postseason. The Jets quieted the critics who said they got a gift from the Bengals; now they have a chance to do the same to the other team who supposedly handed them a win.
And if they do that, they could be headed to the Superbowl to face the guy who used to be their quarterback last year. You know, the guy who retired and unretired about 15,000 times in the last 3 years? The guy who told us that he really was happy to be a Jet last year....who couldn't wait to get out of town when he had failed to take the team to the playoffs? The guy who may have staged another retirement just to get the Jets to let him out of his contract so that he could go where he REALLY wanted to go? The guy who I'm so completely and totally SICK of that I refuse to even type his name here?
Yeah, I'm hoping for that matchup in the Superbowl. I'd love to see the Jets give that phony the beating he deserves in the game he keeps coming out of retirement to try to win. Maybe that would finally send him into permanent retirement.
People said they "backed in" to the playoffs because the Colts and Bengals chose not to play their best players for the entire game when they met the Jets at the end of the regular season. Is it the Jets fault that those teams decided not to go all out? They were labeled as not being playoff worthy because of something they had no control over.
I would hope that the naysayers can finally come clean and admit that the Jets are in fact, playoff worthy. Beating two division champions (Cincinnati and San Diego) on the road in back to back weeks. I don't care how you slice it; that's impressive. Even more impressive when you realize just how one-dimensional the Jets are from an offensive standpoint. Both the Bengals and Chargers knew the Jets gameplan long before the game started. Hell, I knew it, you knew it, the guy sitting in the cheapest seat in the building yesterday knew it. The Jets were going to run the ball as often as they could and throw it as little as they could. Both Cincinnati and San Diego knew it....and neither could stop it.
That brings the Jets to the AFC Championship game next week and a rematch against the Indianapolis Colts. After playing the Jets once and the Baltimore Ravens (who are a very similar team to the Jets) twice in the last 6 weeks, the Colts probably don't need to look at even a minute of game film to know exactly what they're gonna get on Sunday from New York.
But can they stop it? Can they succeed where Cincinnati and San Diego failed? I see a lot of potential storylines here that have me thinking fate might just be wearing green and white this season. Cincinnati and Indianapolis were the two teams that people said took it easy on the Jets at the end of the year when the Jets were fighting to make the playoffs, and those teams were already assured of the postseason. The Jets quieted the critics who said they got a gift from the Bengals; now they have a chance to do the same to the other team who supposedly handed them a win.
And if they do that, they could be headed to the Superbowl to face the guy who used to be their quarterback last year. You know, the guy who retired and unretired about 15,000 times in the last 3 years? The guy who told us that he really was happy to be a Jet last year....who couldn't wait to get out of town when he had failed to take the team to the playoffs? The guy who may have staged another retirement just to get the Jets to let him out of his contract so that he could go where he REALLY wanted to go? The guy who I'm so completely and totally SICK of that I refuse to even type his name here?
Yeah, I'm hoping for that matchup in the Superbowl. I'd love to see the Jets give that phony the beating he deserves in the game he keeps coming out of retirement to try to win. Maybe that would finally send him into permanent retirement.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
This week's sign that the apocalypse is upon us.....
Okay, so maybe it's not that serious. I don't know if they still do it, but Sports Illustrated used to have a funny blurb in the magazine with that title, and I borrowed it here.
Have a look at this press release, which I saw on http://www.urbaninsite.com
Starting Monday, January 4, 2010, Keith Sweat - legendary R&B singer/songwriter, music producer and host of the #1 nationally syndicated Urban AC evening radio show The Keith Sweat Hotel - will join the 107.5 WBLS-FM lineup as host of The Quiet Storm. Airing Monday through Friday from 7 p.m. - midnight ET, the New York native will take the reins of the tri-state area’s #1 nighttime music radio program. The Quiet Storm with Keith Sweat will be produced by Premiere Radio Networks. Sweat will continue to host The Keith Sweat Hotel, which is nationally syndicated by Premiere on nearly 50 radio stations.
Sweat commented, “I couldn’t be happier to be heard in my home town on the station I grew up listening to. WBLS is the must-listen-to station for R&B fans in New York, and I want to thank them for this tremendous opportunity.”
Skip Dillard, WBLS-FM operations manager/program director stated, “From the first time I put ‘Make It Last Forever’ on the turntable at my college radio station back in the mid-‘80s, I knew this man would have a lasting impact. From Harlem, to the world, Keith Sweat is truly one of the best in R&B.”
Uhhh....okay. I will move past the fact that of the two adult R&B stations in New York, WBLS is actually behind WRKS in the ratings. WBLS just hired him, so what else is he supposed to say?
The part of this release that jumped out at me is what OM Skip Dillard had to say. Do me a favor and reread that paragraph. Notice anything missing? Pat yourself on the back if you noticed that Mr. Dillard didn't say one word about the QUALITY of the radio program that will be airing on his station. He referenced Keith Sweat's career as a recording artist, which is in fact, pretty damn stellar.
But Sweat has been doing a syndicated love songs show for several years now; surely Mr. Dillard has SOMETHING positive to say about Sweat as an air personality....doesn't he? I can't be the only one who finds it curious that he didn't.
Now in the interest of full disclosure, I have not had a chance to do much more than sample "The Sweat Hotel" on several brief occasions. My work schedule pretty much precludes me from being able to spend a lot of time listening and analyzing nighttime radio shows. What I can say is that the reason my rare opportunities to sample Sweat as an air personality were brief was because I didn't think much of what I heard.
For everyone involved, I hope he's stepped his game up since the last time I had a chance to listen to him. As far as Skip Dillard is concerned, I hope he thinks Sweat is great. Even though I would argue that, I would hate to think he was forced to air a show that he doesn't believe in by those above him on the Inner City pay scale.
That thought brings me to my soapbox issue. There's just too much of that going on in radio today in general. Programmers being "forced" to run voicetracking or syndicated programming by those above them on the corporate food chain. Among the many problems with that strategy is that those above programmers on the corporate food chain rarely have programming backgrounds of their own to lean on in order to make intelligent decisions on the product. Worse yet, there are some programmers today who are more concerned with saving their own jobs and looking like heroes to those above them on the corporate ladder. Some of these PD's are actually volunteering the voicetracking/syndicated programming idea to their bosses so that they are "saving" the company money...thus looking good to their bosses at the potential expense of the product.
Where are the PD's and OM's who are willing to stick their necks out and stand up for the product and station? Hello? As the PD, IT'S YOUR JOB to put quality product first. Yes, there is certainly some compromise involved; you can't have everything, and you do need to make some sacrifices in this economic enviroment. But someone has to stand up and draw a line somewhere. Someone has to be able to put up a coherent enough argument about the need for talented live and local personalities being worth more money in ratings/revenue than it would cost to pay them...or worth more than the company would save by not having them.
Please note, I did say TALENTED live and local; I can't sign off on anyone hiring a bunch of hacks just because they're local. And to be fair, there are plenty of hacks on the air while real talent is on the beach or pursuing other avenues because of the state of the radio business these days.
In my opinion, it's the guy or girl who's willing to stick their neck out for the betterment of the product who will help get radio out of the predicament it finds itself in today.
Have a look at this press release, which I saw on http://www.urbaninsite.com
Starting Monday, January 4, 2010, Keith Sweat - legendary R&B singer/songwriter, music producer and host of the #1 nationally syndicated Urban AC evening radio show The Keith Sweat Hotel - will join the 107.5 WBLS-FM lineup as host of The Quiet Storm. Airing Monday through Friday from 7 p.m. - midnight ET, the New York native will take the reins of the tri-state area’s #1 nighttime music radio program. The Quiet Storm with Keith Sweat will be produced by Premiere Radio Networks. Sweat will continue to host The Keith Sweat Hotel, which is nationally syndicated by Premiere on nearly 50 radio stations.
Sweat commented, “I couldn’t be happier to be heard in my home town on the station I grew up listening to. WBLS is the must-listen-to station for R&B fans in New York, and I want to thank them for this tremendous opportunity.”
Skip Dillard, WBLS-FM operations manager/program director stated, “From the first time I put ‘Make It Last Forever’ on the turntable at my college radio station back in the mid-‘80s, I knew this man would have a lasting impact. From Harlem, to the world, Keith Sweat is truly one of the best in R&B.”
Uhhh....okay. I will move past the fact that of the two adult R&B stations in New York, WBLS is actually behind WRKS in the ratings. WBLS just hired him, so what else is he supposed to say?
The part of this release that jumped out at me is what OM Skip Dillard had to say. Do me a favor and reread that paragraph. Notice anything missing? Pat yourself on the back if you noticed that Mr. Dillard didn't say one word about the QUALITY of the radio program that will be airing on his station. He referenced Keith Sweat's career as a recording artist, which is in fact, pretty damn stellar.
But Sweat has been doing a syndicated love songs show for several years now; surely Mr. Dillard has SOMETHING positive to say about Sweat as an air personality....doesn't he? I can't be the only one who finds it curious that he didn't.
Now in the interest of full disclosure, I have not had a chance to do much more than sample "The Sweat Hotel" on several brief occasions. My work schedule pretty much precludes me from being able to spend a lot of time listening and analyzing nighttime radio shows. What I can say is that the reason my rare opportunities to sample Sweat as an air personality were brief was because I didn't think much of what I heard.
For everyone involved, I hope he's stepped his game up since the last time I had a chance to listen to him. As far as Skip Dillard is concerned, I hope he thinks Sweat is great. Even though I would argue that, I would hate to think he was forced to air a show that he doesn't believe in by those above him on the Inner City pay scale.
That thought brings me to my soapbox issue. There's just too much of that going on in radio today in general. Programmers being "forced" to run voicetracking or syndicated programming by those above them on the corporate food chain. Among the many problems with that strategy is that those above programmers on the corporate food chain rarely have programming backgrounds of their own to lean on in order to make intelligent decisions on the product. Worse yet, there are some programmers today who are more concerned with saving their own jobs and looking like heroes to those above them on the corporate ladder. Some of these PD's are actually volunteering the voicetracking/syndicated programming idea to their bosses so that they are "saving" the company money...thus looking good to their bosses at the potential expense of the product.
Where are the PD's and OM's who are willing to stick their necks out and stand up for the product and station? Hello? As the PD, IT'S YOUR JOB to put quality product first. Yes, there is certainly some compromise involved; you can't have everything, and you do need to make some sacrifices in this economic enviroment. But someone has to stand up and draw a line somewhere. Someone has to be able to put up a coherent enough argument about the need for talented live and local personalities being worth more money in ratings/revenue than it would cost to pay them...or worth more than the company would save by not having them.
Please note, I did say TALENTED live and local; I can't sign off on anyone hiring a bunch of hacks just because they're local. And to be fair, there are plenty of hacks on the air while real talent is on the beach or pursuing other avenues because of the state of the radio business these days.
In my opinion, it's the guy or girl who's willing to stick their neck out for the betterment of the product who will help get radio out of the predicament it finds itself in today.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Airchecker
When you click the link below, it will take you to a page with quite a bit of audio. Click the audio under the "Chuck Bore Radio Crimes" heading. It's one man's observations (correct observations, in my opinion) on today's radio.
Airchecker
Airchecker
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Why radio is in the situation it's in; Chris Brown
I'm the first to admit that the views you're about to read are from the peanut gallery. I have no first hand knowledge of any of this stuff. It's just my opinions based on what I read and maybe have heard 3rd or 4th hand. With that disclaimer out of the way, let's begin with....
Nick Cannon. He just got hired to do mornings at 92.3 Now, which is the main Top 40 competition to Z100 in New York. Nick Cannon? Mr. Carey? To be fair, the primary age group that Now targets probably doesn't see him as Mr. Carey. They've seen him on Nickelodeon, MTV, and America's Got Talent among other things. He's got a name with their audience, so it's not necessarily a bad call. It could be a major win for them.
I'm just of the opinion this sort of thing is really short sighted from this perspective: there are a lot of radio dj's within the target demo (and more than a few who are older that could do it too) who live and breathe radio; men and women that would dedicate their lives to giving 92.3 the kind of morning show they're looking for. The kind of talent who will put radio FIRST in their list of priorities...the kind who will go the extra mile for the listeners and the best interests of the station. And the kind who, while they'd make good money, would likely be pocketing a fair amount less than Nick Cannon.
Just how dedicated can Cannon be to Now? Consider the other things he has on his plate: according to the write up at http://tinyurl.com/nickatnow, this guy is pretty busy.
In case you didn't feel like clicking the link, here's a direct quote from the All Access article: CANNON's radio move accompanies his push into production with his N'CREDIBLE ENTERTAINMENT, which is working on a "JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS" reality and scripted project for MTV NETWORKS' TEENNICK, an MTV special, and a series for CARTOON NETWORK's ADULT SWIM. The company is also creating a book series with SIMON AND SCHUSTER's Children's publishing division in conjunction with NICKELODEON movie "THE SCHOOL GYRLS," written and directed by CANNON, with an album by the titular group on ISLAND RECORDS. CANNON will also continue as host of NBC's "AMERICA'S GOT TALENT."
Granted, I'm sure he's got employees in his company who spend more time worrying about some of these projects than he does, but can you really expect him to give the NOW morning show the kind of attention it needs on a daily basis to grow they way the station NEEDS it to? It's not impossible, but in my opinion, it's not probable, either. So why make the move to pay big bucks to someone who may not be totally dedicated to the cause?
It's not just a question posed to or about the folks who run NOW. It's a bigger question posed about those in power in radio everywhere. Why do so many executives feel it's important to make the big splash by hiring people who may not have the same level of commitment or practical experience at something when there are people who've dedicated their lives to this profession readily available to them?
Please don't think I say this to down Nick Cannon, nor do I have a problem with him taking the job. If someone wants to hand him a large amount of money to do anything, radio included, more power to him! Take the money and do your thing. I simply question whether he has the interest and commitment necessary to do morning radio on a consistent, long term basis...and do it well.
I had the same question about Whoopi Goldberg. There are some folks who absolutely won out as a result of that experiment. Whoopi, first and foremost. She was paid an ungodly amount of money to be carried every morning by Paul "Cubby" Bryant, who deserved twice as much as Whoopi for having the job of trying to make that show palatable. Whoopi also used that radio gig to get herself back on her feet and land the job at The View...at which time, she promptly ditched the radio job. Honestly, I suspect the radio folks were happy she did, but that's another story. It came across as though she couldn't wait to get out of dodge and did so at the first possible opportunity.
Cubby was also a winner; he got his own morning show out of the deal on WKTU and his show has done very well ever since. The guy did what he had to do with Whoopi, and when she left, the company turned to him and he ran with it. Before Cubby moved to WKTU for the Whoopi show, he was doing afternoons at Z100; if they had given him his own morning show on 'KTU, that would have been a big move in and of itself! They never needed Whoopi to begin with! Goodness knows how much money it cost the company to learn that.
I'm also quite wary of Steve Harvey. Granted, he's been doing radio for a while now, and quite successfully at that. But I remember when he was doing morning radio on a local basis for WGCI/Chicago in the 90's. He did it for a couple of years and was a big hit...but chose his other outside projects over radio and walked away. He came back to it in LA and eventually came to NYC, where he got his syndication deal off the ground. While the show does good ratings in plenty of places, it's been faltering the last several months in NYC. He used to be the top rated morning show in his target 25-54 demo with a bullet. However, the show's numbers have declined steadily over the last several months. Does that mean he's panic stricken? Of course not. But since he's walked away once before from radio, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that he's keeping a close eye on his NYC numbers. If they continue to head in the wrong direction, would he consider leaving radio again while things are still relatively good? Who knows? And that's the point; who knows? He could get up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow and decide he'd rather sleep in for the next 18 months. Or someone could swoop in with a great tv offer for him to do another show, and he could be gone.
I just want to know where the radio executives are who want to develop talents who'll be there for them for the long haul. Everyone wants to make the big splash. Sometimes it works out in the short term, and either doesn't last long term or never truly gets off the ground to begin with. If you're in business to make money, you're not in business to make great money for a couple of years off the back of some hot morning show and then go back to square one and have to start over, are you? Wouldn't you want to be in business to make good money over a long period of time? I think it's possible that you might do better going with that approach with talent who wants to be there for as long as you want them there, as opposed to those who might be more likely to jump on the next offer they get.
Hey, it's just one man's view of things from the peanut gallery. I don't have all the inside info on anything. But from out here with my binoculars, it appears as though those who run radio are so concerned with today that they've done very little planning or cultivating the things that could grow into big business for them tomorrow.
LOL....I almost forgot about Chris Brown! I think that's his problem too, based on that wacky Twitter rant he went on the other day. Getting rid of his Twitter account might be the first smart move he's made all year...and with a whole two weeks in the year to spare! I tend to believe the cd isn't selling well because he didn't lay low long enough. If you're not gonna give all the straight answers to every question when you do interviews about the Rihanna deal, then you gotta stay quiet for longer than you did. I just don't think there are a lot of people ready for him to go on about his public business so soon. If he had waited until summer 2010, he might have had a chance.
Nick Cannon. He just got hired to do mornings at 92.3 Now, which is the main Top 40 competition to Z100 in New York. Nick Cannon? Mr. Carey? To be fair, the primary age group that Now targets probably doesn't see him as Mr. Carey. They've seen him on Nickelodeon, MTV, and America's Got Talent among other things. He's got a name with their audience, so it's not necessarily a bad call. It could be a major win for them.
I'm just of the opinion this sort of thing is really short sighted from this perspective: there are a lot of radio dj's within the target demo (and more than a few who are older that could do it too) who live and breathe radio; men and women that would dedicate their lives to giving 92.3 the kind of morning show they're looking for. The kind of talent who will put radio FIRST in their list of priorities...the kind who will go the extra mile for the listeners and the best interests of the station. And the kind who, while they'd make good money, would likely be pocketing a fair amount less than Nick Cannon.
Just how dedicated can Cannon be to Now? Consider the other things he has on his plate: according to the write up at http://tinyurl.com/nickatnow, this guy is pretty busy.
In case you didn't feel like clicking the link, here's a direct quote from the All Access article: CANNON's radio move accompanies his push into production with his N'CREDIBLE ENTERTAINMENT, which is working on a "JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS" reality and scripted project for MTV NETWORKS' TEENNICK, an MTV special, and a series for CARTOON NETWORK's ADULT SWIM. The company is also creating a book series with SIMON AND SCHUSTER's Children's publishing division in conjunction with NICKELODEON movie "THE SCHOOL GYRLS," written and directed by CANNON, with an album by the titular group on ISLAND RECORDS. CANNON will also continue as host of NBC's "AMERICA'S GOT TALENT."
Granted, I'm sure he's got employees in his company who spend more time worrying about some of these projects than he does, but can you really expect him to give the NOW morning show the kind of attention it needs on a daily basis to grow they way the station NEEDS it to? It's not impossible, but in my opinion, it's not probable, either. So why make the move to pay big bucks to someone who may not be totally dedicated to the cause?
It's not just a question posed to or about the folks who run NOW. It's a bigger question posed about those in power in radio everywhere. Why do so many executives feel it's important to make the big splash by hiring people who may not have the same level of commitment or practical experience at something when there are people who've dedicated their lives to this profession readily available to them?
Please don't think I say this to down Nick Cannon, nor do I have a problem with him taking the job. If someone wants to hand him a large amount of money to do anything, radio included, more power to him! Take the money and do your thing. I simply question whether he has the interest and commitment necessary to do morning radio on a consistent, long term basis...and do it well.
I had the same question about Whoopi Goldberg. There are some folks who absolutely won out as a result of that experiment. Whoopi, first and foremost. She was paid an ungodly amount of money to be carried every morning by Paul "Cubby" Bryant, who deserved twice as much as Whoopi for having the job of trying to make that show palatable. Whoopi also used that radio gig to get herself back on her feet and land the job at The View...at which time, she promptly ditched the radio job. Honestly, I suspect the radio folks were happy she did, but that's another story. It came across as though she couldn't wait to get out of dodge and did so at the first possible opportunity.
Cubby was also a winner; he got his own morning show out of the deal on WKTU and his show has done very well ever since. The guy did what he had to do with Whoopi, and when she left, the company turned to him and he ran with it. Before Cubby moved to WKTU for the Whoopi show, he was doing afternoons at Z100; if they had given him his own morning show on 'KTU, that would have been a big move in and of itself! They never needed Whoopi to begin with! Goodness knows how much money it cost the company to learn that.
I'm also quite wary of Steve Harvey. Granted, he's been doing radio for a while now, and quite successfully at that. But I remember when he was doing morning radio on a local basis for WGCI/Chicago in the 90's. He did it for a couple of years and was a big hit...but chose his other outside projects over radio and walked away. He came back to it in LA and eventually came to NYC, where he got his syndication deal off the ground. While the show does good ratings in plenty of places, it's been faltering the last several months in NYC. He used to be the top rated morning show in his target 25-54 demo with a bullet. However, the show's numbers have declined steadily over the last several months. Does that mean he's panic stricken? Of course not. But since he's walked away once before from radio, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that he's keeping a close eye on his NYC numbers. If they continue to head in the wrong direction, would he consider leaving radio again while things are still relatively good? Who knows? And that's the point; who knows? He could get up on the wrong side of the bed tomorrow and decide he'd rather sleep in for the next 18 months. Or someone could swoop in with a great tv offer for him to do another show, and he could be gone.
I just want to know where the radio executives are who want to develop talents who'll be there for them for the long haul. Everyone wants to make the big splash. Sometimes it works out in the short term, and either doesn't last long term or never truly gets off the ground to begin with. If you're in business to make money, you're not in business to make great money for a couple of years off the back of some hot morning show and then go back to square one and have to start over, are you? Wouldn't you want to be in business to make good money over a long period of time? I think it's possible that you might do better going with that approach with talent who wants to be there for as long as you want them there, as opposed to those who might be more likely to jump on the next offer they get.
Hey, it's just one man's view of things from the peanut gallery. I don't have all the inside info on anything. But from out here with my binoculars, it appears as though those who run radio are so concerned with today that they've done very little planning or cultivating the things that could grow into big business for them tomorrow.
LOL....I almost forgot about Chris Brown! I think that's his problem too, based on that wacky Twitter rant he went on the other day. Getting rid of his Twitter account might be the first smart move he's made all year...and with a whole two weeks in the year to spare! I tend to believe the cd isn't selling well because he didn't lay low long enough. If you're not gonna give all the straight answers to every question when you do interviews about the Rihanna deal, then you gotta stay quiet for longer than you did. I just don't think there are a lot of people ready for him to go on about his public business so soon. If he had waited until summer 2010, he might have had a chance.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Kicking the tires a little bit....
Hell, I don't know. I figured it couldn't hurt. I've got the occasional opinion I need to rant about, and this seemed like a good idea at the time.
I'm a radio guy; as of this writing, I've done it for 11 years. Doesn't seem like it's been that long, yet sometimes it feels like FOREVER. I like to think I'm pretty good at it, but some days I wonder if anyone notices or cares. I guess part of the reason I'm doing this is because it's the internet...someone is bound to notice. :-)
I have lots of varied opinions. Mostly about sports and music...and radio. I can't not talk about that business. It drives me nuts to see how some people who are in the business of radio run said business. It's like they WANT to be bankrupt.
Anyway, in addition to my career as a radio dj, I aspire to be a talk show host too. I dig talk radio. I have a real passion for sports, so you'll see a lot of that here, but I do occasionally go on rants regarding the topics of the day. Mostly topics I don't really have an educated viewpoint on, but it won't stop me from ranting. Hey, 99% of the talk show folks who get paid to rant about stuff aren't educated about it either, so why can't I do the same?
If I can figure out how, I will also post the occasional podcast on some of those subjects. Sometimes you have to hear it to understand. Words on a page can be taken so many ways; often in ways that the writer never intended. Besides, I want to use my podcasts as a bit of test run for my talk host aspirations, so I gotta figure that stuff out and hopefully entertain you at the same time.
Alright, that's enough for one day. I gotta run. I work overnights; so I'm a bit of a vampire when it comes to my schedule...and right now, it's nearly 4pm. Way past my bedtime!
I'm a radio guy; as of this writing, I've done it for 11 years. Doesn't seem like it's been that long, yet sometimes it feels like FOREVER. I like to think I'm pretty good at it, but some days I wonder if anyone notices or cares. I guess part of the reason I'm doing this is because it's the internet...someone is bound to notice. :-)
I have lots of varied opinions. Mostly about sports and music...and radio. I can't not talk about that business. It drives me nuts to see how some people who are in the business of radio run said business. It's like they WANT to be bankrupt.
Anyway, in addition to my career as a radio dj, I aspire to be a talk show host too. I dig talk radio. I have a real passion for sports, so you'll see a lot of that here, but I do occasionally go on rants regarding the topics of the day. Mostly topics I don't really have an educated viewpoint on, but it won't stop me from ranting. Hey, 99% of the talk show folks who get paid to rant about stuff aren't educated about it either, so why can't I do the same?
If I can figure out how, I will also post the occasional podcast on some of those subjects. Sometimes you have to hear it to understand. Words on a page can be taken so many ways; often in ways that the writer never intended. Besides, I want to use my podcasts as a bit of test run for my talk host aspirations, so I gotta figure that stuff out and hopefully entertain you at the same time.
Alright, that's enough for one day. I gotta run. I work overnights; so I'm a bit of a vampire when it comes to my schedule...and right now, it's nearly 4pm. Way past my bedtime!
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