Thursday, September 23, 2010

Radio morning show crews

I used to love to listen to morning shows on radio when there was only one guy...or maybe two people.  Now the trend is to have a "crew" crowding around the console.  Some are better than others, but most of the time you have too many big egos in one small room all needing to justify their paycheck by chiming in as much as possible.  Many times I have tuned into a morning show in the middle of ...something indecipherable.  A jumble of voices laughing, cracking jokes, talking over one another, etc.  It usually takes a minute for my brain to tune into the subject at hand.  I don't know how many times I've been listening to a person telling an interesting anecdote and before the person can finish, he/she is interrupted by a wannabe star/comedian and the story is never finished.  One of the WORST is Howard Stern's crew.  Robin is the worst person in radio ever.  Her voice is shrill, she is NOT funny OR interesting and she interrupts everyone all of the freakin' time.  Also, Howard likes to have funny people or comedians sit in on his show...so they  have to say funny things right?  That's what Howard brought them in for eh?  So they are constantly interrupting people.  These types of shows are very difficult to listen to.  These people are afraid of not getting to say anything at all if they shut up and let another person finish talking....which may be true, but that would be a better show.  Program directors, if you're going to have a morning crew, make them each learn their place.  Or even better, just have one or two people.  Hey, you'll save money on salaries!  Amen.

1 comment:

  1. word. its so f'ing annoying, and it matters not if on radio or tv, some of the tv shows are even worse....let's debate by yelling over each other? happens on all the networks and gets so tiring....your best conservative friend, Jeff

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