After a major technical meltdown ruined Don Imus's second day on the air, radio insiders are buzzing about what went wrong.
Apparently, a glitch prevented Imus from hosting a substantial part of his first hour, a problem broadcasters blame on the I-Man's focus on tiny RFD-TV, rather than his much larger radio affiliates. In fact, his show doesn't even originate from WABC's studios, instead coming from a makeshift television studio across the street.
Mainstream media reporters are so busy sucking up to their liberal friend that none of them have bothered to note today's fiasco. But radio observers were emailing your Radio Equalizer this morning about the troubles.
At the New York Radio Message Board, made up of broadcasters and traditionally a bastion of Imus support, participants were quick to lay blame:
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He continued doing morning radio after the term made it into the lexicon of the stupid news media.FearPeddler wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what imus did to earn the label "shock jock"...
Rather than being the least bit concerned with whether it was true, the news media, being stupid, simply repeated it, thinking they sounded smarter, hipper, and "more-variety-er" every time they did.
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I find Don Imus to be difficult to even understand at times with his mumbling, and his ability to land a high-paying gig at WABC in replacing a morning show that drew higher numbers than he used to pull at WFAN is rather baffling to me. In my opinion he has name recognition going for him, but not much else.
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that helps, sadly the only thing I knew of don imus before his little incident, if thats what you wanna call it, was what I saw in the howard stern movie and stern made him out to be an anal retentive saint...Arp2 wrote:He continued doing morning radio after the term made it into the lexicon of the stupid news media.FearPeddler wrote:I'm still trying to figure out what imus did to earn the label "shock jock"...
Rather than being the least bit concerned with whether it was true, the news media, being stupid, simply repeated it, thinking they sounded smarter, hipper, and "more-variety-er" every time they did.
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