Re: "This Is A Rewind of the Jay Severin Show" Ted Baxter Call Your Office

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>
To: <lglavin@lycos.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: RE: "This Is A Rewind of the Jay Severin Show" Ted Baxter Call Your
Office


> Please provide evidence that Chris Lydon brought an "uptick" to WTTK
during
> his 2-week stint.

The source?  Chris Lydon himself!

(I've heard this "uptick" quoted as well...but I never saw anyone present
any evidence of it.  I don't know of anyone who follows the ratings week by
week and could provide such evidence.)

JP


>
> Paul Hopfgarten
> East Derry NH 03041
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of
> > Laurence Glavin
> > Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 12:29 PM
> > To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: "This Is A Rewind of the Jay Severin Show" Ted Baxter Call Your
> > Office
> >
> >
> > I think it was about a year-and-a-half ago that after Chris
> > Lydon (he of the TIAA-CREF commercials and Opera Aperta Board
> > of Directors) was ****canned by WBUR that he sat in as
> > the vacation substitute for for Jay Severin on WTKK-FM.
> > During that run, WTKK experienced a notable uptick in the ratings
> > and there was talk about his getting a regular gig at the
> > under-performaing FM yakker.  That didn't happen , but Jay
> > Severin went on vacation again, and one would assume that
> > Chris would be invited back as fill-in host.  Instead,
> > Jay's occasional producer and one-time WCCM-AM "personality"
> > Jimmy Carter was heard instead, along with washed-up "5-On-5"
> > reject Avi Nelson.  I thought that was unusual:
> > replacing your regulat host with personnel who would likely get
> > significantly lower numbers when an individual
> > who could maintain if not INCREASE the ratings in the
> > time period is waiting in the wings and is NO DOUBT AVAILABLE!
> > Then I remembered an episode from the fabled "Mary Tyler Moore"
> > show, wherein Mary Richards tells Ted Baxter that he had
> > accumulated too much unused vacation time and had to take
> > a couple of weeks off.  Ted begs Mary NOT to make him go
> > on vacation because the subsitute would undoubtedly be
> > better than Ted, and the white-maned-one would be let go.
> > Does this sound like the scenario at WTKK?  Has Jay insisted
> > that no one who could do the job better than he himself
> > should occupy the 3:00-to-7:00 pm seat while he's away
> > (perhaps visiting Massachusetts)?
> > TO make matter worse, this past week, while he's on vaca,
> > WTKK has been airing tapes of old shows, with the message
> > "This is a rewind of the Jay Severin Show...no phone calls
> > please".  Is this a sign of belt-tightening at (no-so)
> > Greater Media?  This is indeed the cheap way out.
> >
> > Laurence Glavin
> >
> >
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