I'm on the wrong side.
After one year with Jerry's Kidders, we were on the top of the the ratings. No show on AM was doing better than Jerry Agar. The other kidders and I were in negotiations with Hyundai to perform at the Chicago Auto Show, and we were excitedly planning our first year anniversary event.
At which point, the station decided to switch hosts. The nine to eleven weekday slot that Jerry owned for the past couple years was given to a different host, one that had been trying to squeeze into the WLS lineup for a number of years. Consequently, Jerry's Kidders were shown the door as well.
Starting Monday Morning, October 27th the 9-11 slot on 890 WLS will be replaced by Erich "Mancow" Muller. It was a great run, and I thank all of you who were in the audience. I also want to thank Jerry, Maura, Dobie, and Ken; for making my year as a radio star a delightful experience I shan't soon forget.
For those of you who are into Nostalgia, podcasts of most 2008 shows are still available for download off the WLS bandwith, although I fully expect them to be deleted soon.
Meanwhile up in Minnesota, failed talk show host Al Franken looks like he is about to win the Senate. So that's where we are. A failed Talk Show host on the left gets elected to the Senate, while a successful right leaning host gets the door.
I think I'm switching sides. I thought that inalienable rights and individual responsibility were noble goals, but it looks as though I was wrong. I'm tired of being shown the door. I want to be on the money making side.
Global Warming is a real crisis, the rich don't pay enough taxes, and America needs a Universal Health plan. That wasn't so bad.
Pardon me while I go wash out my mouth.
3 comments:
Good for you, Tim. Jerry Agar is the best talk show host in radio with the exception of Rush Limbaugh, and one of the finest and most honest human beings in the business. WLS has made a terrible error, and had better pray that somebody in Chicago doesn't grab Agar and put him up against Roe Conn. Talk radio listeners are just waiting for someone to listen to after Rush who doesn't feel the need to impose a combination of his own private version of the fairness doctrine interspersed with People Magazine style teenage giggles at Brittney Spears underpants or arrested development sojurns into long-lost candy bars. Only the lack of competition has saved that formula from self destruction.
I was and will continue to be a strong Jerry fan. I find him a better host than Hannity, and often better than Rush. I cannot find a non-WLS site to contact Jerry, so perhaps someone can post an email address or website. I too will follow him to another station, even if he goes up agains Roe, Don and Roma, or Rush. Can't imagine what WLS was thinking. Mancow has his audience, but I'll best most of them don't how to switch their radios to "AM".
Missing the Kidders!
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