I’ll save that for the book. My favorite is the time he called me on the phone and tried hire me to do the morning show with a real salary number (and massive pay cut) and asked what kind of a role I had at WNST. I told him that he might want to check whose name is at the top of the FCC license.
I own WNST. I have since 1998. That’s pretty common knowledge around Baltimore.
Apparently, there’s a lack of respect for me on the golf course. I’m from Dundalk. I’m used to it.
There’s a lack of knowledge in the hiring process at CBS Radio. Anyone who would hire the previous pair or put them on the radio as “experts” – well, it speaks for itself.
But then there’s the lack of common decency and integrity.
Jay Newman, who runs WJZ-TV in the “CBS family” and who apparently isn’t my biggest fan, has strictly banned the use of my name or image anywhere near Channel 13. In the world of WJZ-TV – and The Baltimore Sun – I only exist when their employees sue me. That day, I led the 5 p.m. news. Since then, I’m otherwise not “news worthy.”
Sadly, the reporters only find out that I’m banned on TV Hill after they’ve shot a story with me and wasted their day, too.
(By the way, if you see Jay Newman please ask him if I can have a digital copy of that hour-long chat with my sick, bald wife talking about her leukemia journey and the bone marrow registry six weeks after her transplant that was requested by his reporter. Tell him the one last summer where Mary Bubala, whose husband was one of Jenn’s incredible doctors at Johns Hopkins, asked a lot of great questions for a lengthy educational piece to save lives and promote the bone marrow registry that never appeared on WJZ-TV for some unknown reason. Perhaps it was my wife’s last name? Tell him I’d like to use that piece of video for information on our website. And please tell him that I’ve been searching for him but apparently he’s too small to find. And we all know that my signal is too small to hear).
And you wonder why I have no respect for them – or their “institutional” media coverage?
So, this is also a little personal memo to the corporate clowns and various castoffs of mine at 105.7 – some would say I’m actually their “daddy” if you do the media history tree – you say you’re the leader so then BE the leader.
Do what you say you’re going to do. Work hard. Break some news. Get up early. Stay up late. Actually show up and cover the NFL team that plays here in Baltimore. Write a few books. Do a few charitable turns. Try to make the world a better place. Opine about sports in an intelligent fashion and format.
Go into the Orioles locker room and ask a few real questions now that The Warehouse should be under attack again from a restless fan base who doubts the team’s commitment to winning a World Series.
(Oh, that’s right…Mr. Angelos wouldn’t allow that sort of thing.)
Be relevant. Or as relevant as you’re allowed to be…
You know, do what I’ve done for the past 31 years.
Do some work of substance!
Take a stand or make a point so great that I actually hear about it.
“Leaders” create positive change.
Instead, 105.7 “The Fan” is a “thought leader” only in their own fantasy world of Arbitron and the slew of Jane Goldstroms around Baltimore and New York who believe that fiction.
Anyone who follows and compares WNST and the lazy corporate clown car down the FM dial knows the difference between steak and hamburger (to borrow one of Andy MacPhail’s favorites).
We kick their ass with news. See the WNST Text Service.
We kick their ass with guests. See the WNST BuyAToyota Audio Vault.
We kick their ass with web coverage. See WNST.net anytime, day or night.
We kick their ass on social media. See Twitter, Facebook or Linked In.
We kick their ass at the Super Bowl. And have for 20 years running…
We also kick their ass at the NFL Owners Meetings.
And we kick their ass every minute of every day on the radio. And, unlike what’s been said about our AM 1570 radio signal, our radio signal is now available anywhere in the world to anyone who has a mobile device. And it has been for 15 years now.
The device you’re reading this on right now would give you our live radio signal if you click here.
I promise you that whatever is on WNST right now is better than what’s on 105.7 The Fan right now.
Here’s a link so you can listen to 105.7 The Fan now.
Go see for yourself.
We’re both one click away.
We cover Baltimore sports better and far more intelligently than they do.
And our radio signal literally goes all over the planet.
Now, about the “taking phone calls” as a primary source of content.
I turn 47 years old in two weeks and I’ve made some decisions with my life and my career.
I don’t endorse
