When Todd Wallace, Kevin Metheny, Tom Birch, E. Alvin Davis and Bob Pitman first started doing music research we hired Kevin to not only PD WIBG but to also set up our own research at the Fairbanks stations and I’ll never forget the WIBC jock meeting I called to announce our plans.
I explained to Gary Todd, Chuck Riley, Orly Knutson, Pete Sullivan, Jerry Baker, Bob Lamey, Nat Humphries, and Jed Duval that we were hiring a bank of intern type people who would calling folks all over Indianapolis to get their opinions about the music we play. The plan was to have them listen to hooks of songs and then rate them which would determine what music we should be played on WIBC. Once the grumbling began I interrupted it by sarcastically saying that they were absolutely right, this was our radio station why would we let the people dictate to us what to play, we’ll f**king play anything we feel like playing because we have the power to do so … F**k them! It was the first standing ovation I ever received at a radio station
What a weekend!
My daughter Cami turned 20 on Friday so she decided to take the train home home to West Palm Beach from USF to celebrate leaving her teens behind. Amtrak though it appears had other plans. When she got up Friday morning she was informed that her train would be an hour late which they added to with small increments every 15 minutes or so throughout the day and evening. Cami originally was scheduled to arrive in West Palm at 4:45 in the afternoon but didn’t get here until 1:15 AM so of course her birthday plans were ruined. It wasn’t over yet though because when I finally got her to her mother’s house she was devastated to learn that her beautiful dog Buster (pictured) had passed.
Needless to say I am having very creative thoughts about Amtrak.
MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT OTHER STUFF I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT…
The more my Daughters lives appear to be in jeopardy the more prejudice and racist I become.
Muslim women claim they dress like they do so as not to attract men.
Men are into how things are whereas women are into why they are.
Bill Belichik must look pissed off all the time because he’s thinking about all the taxes he pays out of his enormous salary. I sure can’t think of any other reason.
I think the FCC should make the owner of the last placed radio station give up his license.
Where the hell did all the radio station engineers go.
Why do most of the ideas you come up with behind the walls of a radio station seem to suck when presented elsewhere.
As easy as this sounds it’s not done on most radio stations … Simply do more of what people like and less of what they don’t like.
Justice unfortunately is only a concept.
If you’re ambitious America is the only place to be, but if you just wanna “hang out” Canada should be your choice.
Have you ever noticed that the people who whine about the economy the most are the ones whose lifestyle affected the least by it.
There are no rain checks for missed opportunities.
I love cleaning up sales promotions even before they finish coming out of the mouths of the sales folks.
I drove by a hospital the other day which was for women and children exclusively, I wonder where the one for men is.
75% of Tattoo removals are done on women.
Most women are up for almost anything as long as they don’t have to discuss it the next day.
A good woman is the woman who loves listening to her man tell her stories about his life but the moment he hears … You already told me that story, he immediately starts searching for fresh young ears.
Women are not afraid of beautiful women, they’re afraid of young women.
Is there anything more distracting than a beautiful woman entering a room where a very serious business meeting is going on.
Where would Michael Jordan be if there was no NBA, Paris Hilton if there was no sex, Tom Cruise with no movies, or Taylor Swift without a recording contract, which just proves that “The Bard” was right all along when he claimed … The Plays The Thing.
The intent of the law is the only thing that counts, the law itself is for lawyers to argue over so they can make money.
Because a person is powerful does not make them right.
Back in the day Jim Hilliard used to give us enough rope to either hang ourselves or get him some great ratings but it was always our choice.
If you just live for today and today is not a good day, what the hell do you do then.
Your past only exists when you think about it.
You have to learn how to resist fear because nobody is born courageous.
Old age and treachery trumps youth and skills every time.
Sometimes all ya gotta do is dream bigger.
It’s much easier to teach a gifted person how to do it right than teach a person who does it right how to be gifted.
Imagination is what you use to take a peek at the future.
Once again the only people doing better this year are the rich and the poor.
If you think it’s about the players and not the coaches, check out the 49ers this year.
When I was growing up in Canada the saying was … Go west young Man go west but I discovered that by going south, life turned out much better for me.
Maybe now that Cami is no longer a teen, maybe just maybe PB Teen will stop sending me e mails about their exciting new sale.
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