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Bring in Greggo.

I love The Fan's strategy of changing out hosts every couple of months.

Enjoy it while you can Richie!

In college, I was taught the best way to win in radio is develop a fan following and get your on-air personalities easily recognizable in the community.

What... wait... that's changed too? Oh crap!

Looks like The Fan got it right, after all. Mazel Tov, Richie.

Next up, Jagger does marathon shifts of generic sports points and trying to muster passion about fantasy football.

The Fan's HR Department must be drowning in paperwork with all of these hiring and firings.

As someone who listens to The Fan all day long it was just a matter of time for Sean to go. Newy has to be next. Followed by Jasmine. Please!

(Richie, you can stay.)

The FAN was on the rise in the ratings right? NOT what a failed bit, soon the cowboys will be looking for a new radio home

How about a Leon Simon/Greggo Show - Barbershop & Headshop.

Wonder what text she had to send him to get back a picture of his crank instead of a smart ass remark?

Greg Hill & Scott fired, Ben & Skin fired, Ritchie Whitt hired, Sean Salisbury fired.....

Last Supper for The Fan?

The Fan is actually doing better in the ratings than ESPN Radio in Dallas.

The Fan is doing something right. Interesting development though.

I've run out of things to say. Seems they fire people every 2 weeks on this failed station.

Richie will be program director before too long.

Bring back Young Country.

...the place will have gone belly up by the end of January (or in this case, tits up).

Captain Balls.

Then explain please where you got your facts, I've read the Arbitron PPM ratings. Looks like KRLD-FM is doing better than KESN-FM

May Jun Jul Aug
28 28t 25t 23t KRLD-FM
23t 24t 23 26 KFZO-FM
31 28t 29t 27t KPMZ-FM
26t 24t 25t 27t KZZA-FM
20 24t 27t 29t KESN-FM

Bob and Dan are under contract for at least a few more years, so there is no way they will be leaving The Ticket. The Fan was doomed from day one. The best bet, is to just hit the reset button and switch formats again.

Captain-

Although this doesn't affect the 25-54 numbers posted earlier in this thread: actually, you are correct, there IS a typo. Upon closer inspection & viewing a couple other sites, there's an error on the Dallas-Ft. Worth ratings grid. The August 2009 data for KRLD-AM & KRLD-FM was inverted. (This happens on www.radio-info.com's ratings grid pages sometimes, especially with stations that share the same call letters on AM & FM.)
It should read:

KRLD-AM 2.4 share 482,600 cume News/Talk CBS Radio
KRLD-FM 1.3 share 282,100 cume Sports CBS Radio

You were right. Sorry about that.

Wow, seriously.

Someone wants to come on here and use the name I use.

The outlaw2448 @ 6:12 isn't the same person who uses that name.

You really want to come out and say who you are.

So if it is flipped, which could happen and from the sounds of it did.

So sorry on that, but seriously I don't come on here saying
I'm NameThatDudeSingingLikeARollingStone.

I would rather listen to dead air on 105.3 than GAC or Corby on the ticket.

I agree with BeefSupreme! I think Greggo would get bored talking politics with BDH. A sports show with Richie could be just the thing to get Greggo back on track. Later, try to bring in "the devil Grubes" & Danny. But keep that frickin snake the hell away!!!

@Holmes's Rectal....pretty funny dude!!

You're right Rich M! You are dumber!

Leon Simon/ Greggo = Barbershop/ Headshop .... freaking hilarious....

Corby SUX - cannot handle listening to him. Greggo MADE the Hardline. Without him, even Rhyner sux. It's GAC for me at 3. Otherwise, I'm pretty much always on the Ticket. The only time I'm ever on the Fan is to listen to the Rangers when I cannot watch. I'm sure it'll be the same with the Boys.

The way I see 105.3 succeeding as a sports station is if CBS made a wise purchase....

105.3 The Ticket?

I don't want the points. I don't need the points. I'll take the points. But I don't need the points.

Bill Haterade...

Thanks for pointing that out. That's extremely weak, even for you Richie. Makes you wonder how much he knows about his buddy Greggo that he isn't reporting also.

Follow the link for the real report.

http://deadspin.com/5357653/sean-salisbury-fired-from-radio-station-allegedly-for-more-cellphone-hijinks-semi+update

Bringing in Arnie made me vomit while driving. Blowhards from the coasts do NOT work in the market.

And I agree with whoever said move MRod and Pete to afternoons. Easily my favorite guys to listen to on the station, and they have good chemistry. I only tune out the show when they start reading text after text after text, which I bet is a command from the bosses. In the early days of their show, it was much more banter and thoughts from Mike and Pete, and it was a good start.

Wait, you mean Deadspin can embellish a story for their own gain? Unless it's about Josh Hamilton, right?

Hang in rw, another month or two you'll be in drive time...imagine this fellow sporties: AM and PM drive times hosted by gay guys, we're a fan of guys here at 105.3 the fan

As a pretty hardcore P1 for the better part of 15 years, I would like some variety too. I'm still down with the Musers and seemingly always will be.

But Norm has become a tune-out. A jeweler from Michigan? Really? And he is just so enamored with every guest he has. "Ooo" this and "awwww" that and everything the guest says just impresseseseses the shit out of him.

BADD is good unless they are fawning all over Bowling for Soup spares. Bowling for Soup?!?!?!?!? They sucked in 1996 and they suck now. They sound like 12 year old girls.

And the Hardline? It's gotten to where Corby starts a story, Rhyner (yes RHYNER) doesn't undestand what's going on, Danny rips him for it, Grubes plays a drop then they all chuckle for 5 minutes. Stop. Repeat. And that's it. I mean half the show is Rhyner chuckling and the other half is Corby and Danny going off on a tangent while Grubes plays drops. I'm out on them. Haven't listened in 3 weeks.

Time for some new blood in this town. As someone said, some homegrown shit without all the "fan texts" and callers. No one cares what Bob in Saginaw has to say about the DH.

manny mann, youre right on with your description of the Hardline, but that still is funny to me. I just want to be entertained. the drops that Grubes plays are genious.

Rich M - The reason us P1s love The Ticket is that the hosts actually bring something to the table. They have some creativity and imagination. They are NOT like 105.3 hosts who just sit there and play texts/e-mails all day long. 105.3 is just a bunch of "guy sports" (Ticket P1s know what that is) who do generic sports talk that any talking head off the street can do. As the late Rhyner says, "The Ticket can do what the others do, but the others can't do what The Ticket does".

To all the Ticket Backers (P1's, I guess):

the only show that is listenable all year round is the musers. Very creative and usually funny no matter the season.
Everyone else? PLEASE GOD TELL ME WHAT SHRED OF CREATIVITY ARE YOU LISTENING TO???!!! please!!
I've listened for 10 yrs! The hardline was good sans Corby. Greggo and Rhyner were great together being the leaders of the anti cowboy faction and all that. When greggo got rich, he got messed up on drugs and it all went to he'll ALONG with corby joining the show, a complylete misfit on that show.
Badd radio is ABSOLUTELY UNLISTENABLE!!!
Norm is great from sept to feb and then for the week leading up to the draft and then he loses me with bb and baseball. Yaaawn.
How you let these guys dominate all your day is sad! 12-7 is just absolute trash with no creativity. What's on my TiVo? Who fing cares? What's on mikes mind? Who cares?
Thank god for the other stations to get away from that crap!!!
The Ticket (mainly) blows!!!

You are the very definition of "conflict of interest". YOU NEED TO STOP COMMENTING ON SPORTS RADIO! I actually like your sports posts, but now that you work for the 105.3, how are we supposed to believe you weren't told what to post by your bosses - come on - are you a hack or a journalist or a radio personality? You can be a hack with either, but the other two are mutually exclusive. And if you don't agree I really can't respect you as a journalist.

Caller-driven radio is a colossal beating no matter what market you live in. It was virtually unlistenable when I was growing up near Philly... the Touchdown Brothers have that bit nailed. The Ticket is popular in part because they're very much into the "theater of the mind" thing even if some folks here think it sucks. Most program managers are obsessed with the listener when most people listening don't want to hear other listeners. And you don't have to go the other way by turning to obnoxious loud mouths either. Don't know how many stations need to learn that lesson the hard way. I happen to love what the Ticket offers even though BaD radio and the Hardline (and Gordo) are obsessed with porn and divorce and often drift into locker room talk (the "swingers roundtable" may have been the stations lowest point). But when I went back to the East Coast recently, even super-spare Bowling for Soup talk seemed far more interesting than the beatdown of listeners thinking their opinions are gold because they're doing well in their fantasy league, or they can't believe they're on the air and kiss the ass of the host trying to be their friend, etc...

As for journalistic credibility in question because a reporter works for both a paper and a radio station, I guess in today's economy you take whatever and however many gigs you can get and see what sticks.

And someone tell Sean Salisbury he wasn't that great...

I in same ways agree with Rich M.

IN the fact that I can't listen to it sometimes when I get a good signal from the station.

As for why would someone hate if The Ticket is #1 is a little obvious, it is all in what you like.

@ milky Mann & manny mann ( same P1?) I feel gross writing p1 ugggh

anyway why is the tckt #1??? I don't know nor understand. The only thing I can think of is that they were the first and only and maybe at ONE time they were the very thing they vilify (a sports talk station)
More likely they were the only thing on and people got comfortable with them. When you have the fact that you are the only game in town FOR YEARS, you are going to be # 1
It may always be like that bc they do appeal to lots of people but I think that's because it's what people are used to and when new stuff comes around people bristle at it.
Lemme ask you this: if the ticket hosts and mgmt think what they had was so absolutely revolutionary, so difft, so great, so not cliche, so appealing, so strong WHY are all their promos telling you, "hey don't leave WE'RE the originals!!"
I wouldn't even acknowledge the other stations.
Oh and acquiring the Stars??? NO ONE LISTENS TO HOCKEY!!! People barely WATCH IT!!!

Thank God!!! Now they'll hopefully pair Dan O'Malley up with someone with personality and who isn't an obnoxious bore.

Why isn't the person hiring these guys getting fired?????

I first started listening to the ticket when the Hardline was on in the afternoon. To be honest, Greggo always irked me, but what I've realized since he was exiled, is that the hardline sucks without him. Corby + Depends Mike + Country Star Danny mail-it-in everyday with the same damn schtick. It sucks.

That being said, Greggo screwed himself and really doesn't deserve a 3rd(4th?) chance anywhere.

Still, the fan has sucked from day one and so I usually tune into the hardline out of sheer boredom anyways.

I don't care what people say. There's an energy of some kind at the Fan. If they can just put something of "any" quality together. Yeah...maybe fire the dude doing the hiring. Maybe he's braindead! 103.3 has always had kind of a sullen vibe. Fan should $-whip some Ticket talent!

We are affilliate sponsors on Wolfe's Sat car show. Your 100% correct, you put John Clay on weekdays on the fan, he'd be a ticket taker. The guy jsut gets better and better saturday mornings driving to work.

Who was on today? The bigger question is who cares?

Actually the real questions are, why did I read the comments to the end and reply, and why do I bother to read RW's blog regarding something at that station, it's obvious management directed him as to what to write. I have to agree, I like the sport's posts but when it comes to reporting on the Fan and the sports media, it's just a hack move not to fully report on it.

listened to those guys yesterday, and damn, sucked isn't strong enough of a word.
Sorry Richie, I'm tuned out on the Fan except when you and Newy are on. I can't give Jagger the nod over the Musers, at all. Yeah, they're all good people, but they're in a bad time slot. Might as well move Jagger to afternoon drive and mail in the mornings on the Fan.

i have listened to newy laugh at, insult and totally ignore callers for a couple of days now.

which leads me to believe he knows he is on his way out.

a couple of examples come to mind:

1)k-scott suddenly became increasingly impatient with callers a week before he and gregg hill's show was canned.

2)ben constantly made fun of the callers for a week leading up to their demise.

3)salisbury engaged in text msg disputes with his callers and also began to express anger with them leading up to his canning.

just listen to the show and when newy is not faking laughter or perfecting his unique art of allowing dead air, you will hear him take calls and either quickly move onto another call or ridicule the previous call.

he is not long for the radio world.
twice failed in this market.

he will not see Christmas.

The new guys are TERRIBLE. I can't make it more than a minute or two with them. Luckily, that's usually long enough to get me back from commercial on either the Ticket or 103.3.

I keep waiting for those guys to say they "gotta rip somebody"

What the F is this East Coast radio show they have in the afternoons now? I can do it. One of these guys used to do games for the Eagles and now he is some sort of Cowboys expert/fan. GET THE F OUTTA HERE!!! The new PD is a idiot.I'm like the previous guy, I can barely listen until Galloway comes back from comercial.

Salisbury was hard to agree with much of the time, but he was the only personality on the FAN with strong opinions. I did enjoy his football knowledge. Now Gordo and Georgio don't even need to do their fake Northeasterner sports-talk bit. It's on the FAN every afternoon with Tony Ravioli and Vito Rigatoni. Richie, it is disappointing that you can offer no more info on the matter than you have. . . seems like you've got a true conflict of interests. Although the Observer seems to be struggling (can't even squeeze comics into the budget anymore) it's your bread and butter cause the fan is a sinking ship brotha.
On a side note, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one whose ticket status has dropped to P2 as I now channel surf in the afternoons. Corby is unlistenable. My rule is to punch out as soon as he mentions "OU" or starts some stupid pointless story to point out how awesome he is. That said, I don't hear more than about 20 minutes of the Hardline on any given day. Corby steals his dialect and speech from Danny and his humor from Gordon but he's no good at either. If the Ticket ever goes under he's gonna be living in a cardboard box with Ron Washington.

Matt Mosely! That must be the guy doing the fake Jerry bit. He is truly lame! Gallaway was SO MUCH better solo!!

The best under the radar show in radio is Choppy and Wally on ESPN. They're actually good.

I just got around to reading this column today, read a lot of the posts, one thing comes to mind: Richie, you have not responded to even ONE post on your blog! Hmmm...WTF? No one asked about Dan O'Malley, a decent co-host but no star, wonder why he stays in radio? Salisbury became schizoed out, his "Jay Cutler is my friend I like him, for a cry baby pussy that is", comments proved that. Bring in some humor or go under 105.3, the new yankee tandem sucks so bad I have to listen to satellite radio (and that really sucks too)!

@caseyatthebat: seriously, what i know i've written. sean was always nice to me, but i never worked a show with him. all i know is in my update. the deadspin "sexting" rumors aren't true. he had a bad temper and a squeezed time schedule. that's it.

@Mjones: I read them all. I've said repeatedly that T.O. was a great receiver and should be a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer. But his personal, selfish agenda make me wish failure upon him. Yes. And this season so far so good, eh? By the way, I also wish failure upon Brett Favre and ... Where do I pick up my award?

I love how sean always said that he wouldn't get fired. looks like management got the last laugh.

Spectator, I wish I could be as optimistic as you. I know we have a certain loyalty, as we feel we helped nurse it from it's infancy. But if it's not there, it's just not there! I was told a while back that Hardline audience had increased greatly among 12 yr old demo. That would explain Corby's popularity. I'd like to see Rhyner get a foot hold again with a show of some quality.

Jasmine should be the one that is fired. Her voice and comments make me want to stab myself in the neck. She makes my ears bleed just listening to her speak

this station won't be around much longer with people like arnie the prick on.this is dallas not new fuckin york.hate to listen to that prick.

Does anyone know if Dan O'Malley was fired or if he quit because Sean got canned?

105.3 is doomed. The format was much better before the change because it was talk radio. There is already a top tier sports station in the metroplex.

After the Cowboy season it will become 105.3 La Lechuga

I tried listening to the FAN...horrible...I actually heard Jasmine ( a grl on sports radio??) stated that Chris Davis was the Rangers MVP!!? I almost died when I heard that....wow