Re: NPR...and the "worst songs" feature

[rjoc@webtv.net (Rod O'Connor)]

JP:
I can't recall the name of the guy... Bill something, and I believe he
was from Public Station WBEZ Chicago, where he had a weekly
hour-long show, and also had two-minute segments called "Today"s Bad
Music Song" or something like that. It wasn;t produced by NPR, but by
WBEZ Chicago (I think) although it was distributed by the Public Radio
Satellite System.

I don't know if the weekly show, or the two-minute clips are  still on
or not, although Maine Public Radio recently had two-minute clips of it
up to a year ago, but I haven't heard it recently.

When I was PD at KMXT Kodiak Alaska  back in 1997/98, they were
constantly pitching it to all Public Stations. I listened to a couple of
demos  and it was an hour of bad/good music parodies: Lorne Greene
singing "Like a Rolling Stone" Telly Savalas singing "Fool on the Hill",
stuff of that ilk.  An hour was plenty, a weekly series was too much, in
my opinion. And the host was real obnoxious and pompous-sounding, which
turned me off all the more.  Luckily I  "didn't have any openings on the
schedule" for it. And that was before we went automated overnight.
Although I would have considered putting it on at 3AM Alaska Time on a
Monday morning.

Perhaps some of our Public Radio readers can check the Public Radio
Prgoramming Catalog and see if it is still available.  

Rod O'Connor
Southwest Harbor Maine