[Speed Gibson,
Thursday December 21, 2006 at 9:27pm]
You can't buy publicity like this
I'm in good company this week. Both this blog and Mitch Berg's Shot In The Dark were dissed by Willie Clark yesterday morning. I'm just a recreational blogger, one who looks way up to the nationally known Mitch Berg. We are both gainfully employed, but Mr. Clark figures we are just "out of work losers" who can't get hired in radio. I've never even tried, but Mitch does more in two hours a week than Clark does in a week. Oh, and I received this additional judgement: "He's an idiot."
I love radio and always have, even to the point of regularly listening to old time radio from the 1930's, now so easy via the Internet. I remember when I first heard "Surfin' Bird" on "Wonderful Wee-gee W-D-G-Y" in the 1960's. I heard the beginnings of local talk radio in the 1970's, then national shows like Larry King in the 1980's. Then came Rush Limbaugh, the EIB that launched a thousand more programs. So I think I have above average standing to review and critique radio programming.
I reviewed the new Willie Clark show in January, noting he had a problem with pausing, ah's and um's, perhaps because he didn't seem to have much to say. Listening to this hour in question, it sounds like the addition of a co-host has solved much of this problem. The content problem, i.e., the lack of it, seems to remain.
I truly wish the "Willie and Jay" show was better, and had a larger audience as a result. With the dismantling of the KTLK-FM Morning Show, I'm "homeless" again in the mornings, drifting from station to station, even sports now and then.
I love radio and always have, even to the point of regularly listening to old time radio from the 1930's, now so easy via the Internet. I remember when I first heard "Surfin' Bird" on "Wonderful Wee-gee W-D-G-Y" in the 1960's. I heard the beginnings of local talk radio in the 1970's, then national shows like Larry King in the 1980's. Then came Rush Limbaugh, the EIB that launched a thousand more programs. So I think I have above average standing to review and critique radio programming.
I reviewed the new Willie Clark show in January, noting he had a problem with pausing, ah's and um's, perhaps because he didn't seem to have much to say. Listening to this hour in question, it sounds like the addition of a co-host has solved much of this problem. The content problem, i.e., the lack of it, seems to remain.
I truly wish the "Willie and Jay" show was better, and had a larger audience as a result. With the dismantling of the KTLK-FM Morning Show, I'm "homeless" again in the mornings, drifting from station to station, even sports now and then.