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Brutal. I was in the sports radio industry for about 7 years. It's truly a brutal, brutal industry. I don't miss it.New World Ag said:
Charlie Pallilo writes about losing his showQuote:
It's not quite an elephant in the room, but one paragraph on why you are reading me on SportsMap Houston but not hearing me on ESPN Houston 97.5 FM. Essentially, an outside consultant was given license to make some changes. Replacing me was one of his changes. I wasn't pleased with how it went down, but life happens.
Pallilo is one of the good ones.
hence, why his show was a failure....Stat Monitor Repairman said:
CP got that one old guy that calls in at least once a week to talk about some obscure Astros topic nobody cares about.
It could be superbowl week and this mf'er calling in to talk baseball.
Charlie not only takes the call, but he'll spend a whole segment with the dude.
FWIW 610 is crap these days and 790 isn't too far behind them. I do enjoy listening to the Matt Thomas show. I also enjoy Michael Conner during baseball season, but that is where it stops.
610's constant Texans talk about the practice team 3rd string punter during baseball season is brutal, and 790 in the afternoon with the A team is terrible.
I can't remember the last time I actually listened to sports radio. I found it just way too depressing to hear all the utterly stupid people call in and it made me sad for humanity.
I will say I'll listen to 610 for the 5-10 mins I'm in my truck going to lunch. Just to avoid day time FM radio and hear what they're talking about.
Any longer than that and it's unbearable.
With that said has anyone noticed a decline in the signal for 610? Seems recently for me it gets pretty scrambled.
Any longer than that and it's unbearable.
With that said has anyone noticed a decline in the signal for 610? Seems recently for me it gets pretty scrambled.
I will say, from my experience, the people making the decisions with programming are very out of touch with sports. The product as a whole has gone downhill immensely.
It was an industry I couldn't get out of fast enough.
It was an industry I couldn't get out of fast enough.
AustinCountyAg said:hence, why his show was a failure....Stat Monitor Repairman said:
CP got that one old guy that calls in at least once a week to talk about some obscure Astros topic nobody cares about.
It could be superbowl week and this mf'er calling in to talk baseball.
Charlie not only takes the call, but he'll spend a whole segment with the dude.
FWIW 610 is crap these days and 790 isn't too far behind them. I do enjoy listening to the Matt Thomas show. I also enjoy Michael Conner during baseball season, but that is where it stops.
610's constant Texans talk about the practice team 3rd string punter during baseball season is brutal, and 790 in the afternoon with the A team is terrible.
Failure? CP was on air with mostly his own show for like 30 years.
Ed Fowler
Rich Lord
Charlie Pallilo
Lance Z
John Granato
Back in the day, we enjoyed these guys. Don't listen anymore.
Signed,
An Old
Rich Lord
Charlie Pallilo
Lance Z
John Granato
Back in the day, we enjoyed these guys. Don't listen anymore.
Signed,
An Old
fellow old, but still catch John and Lance most am's for at least some portion of the show
6:00 - 10:00 - John and Lance
10:00 - 12:00 - Mark Vandemeer (just filler)
12:00 - 3:00 - Jim Rome (Sean Pendergast was just riding around HTown selling cellular equipment dialing it up)
3:00 - 7:00 - Rich and Charlie
Thursday was the best when Coach Slocum on a Mobile would call in for his weekly report. I'd spend the next 48 hours so pumped about how much fury the Gulf Coast Offense was gonna unleash on that week's Aggie opponent.
It was a simpler time back then.
Rack him!
10:00 - 12:00 - Mark Vandemeer (just filler)
12:00 - 3:00 - Jim Rome (Sean Pendergast was just riding around HTown selling cellular equipment dialing it up)
3:00 - 7:00 - Rich and Charlie
Thursday was the best when Coach Slocum on a Mobile would call in for his weekly report. I'd spend the next 48 hours so pumped about how much fury the Gulf Coast Offense was gonna unleash on that week's Aggie opponent.
It was a simpler time back then.
Rack him!
No love for Joel Bushbaum?
RenoAg said:
No love for Joel Bushbaum?
Good call! Dude was awesome.
Martini and Edmonds or GTFO!
I'd rather poke my eardrums out with a pencil than listen to Vandermeer. He's terrible as a play-by-play guy and I can only imagine how bad he would be as a show host- there's no way to scream forced catch phrases into an actual show and that's that pony's one trick.Chewy said:
6:00 - 10:00 - John and Lance
10:00 - 12:00 - Mark Vandemeer (just filler)
12:00 - 3:00 - Jim Rome (Sean Pendergast was just riding around HTown selling cellular equipment dialing it up)
3:00 - 7:00 - Rich and Charlie
He wasn't really bad when he first got here. He had a more broad perspective. He was fine filler for a terrible time spot. I usually cranked out work or went to lunch so never really listened to him a lot.
No decent person is sitting in the 10-12 slot for very long so it's never gonna be a strong time.
No decent person is sitting in the 10-12 slot for very long so it's never gonna be a strong time.
ROCK N ROLL!!!Booma94 said:I'd rather poke my eardrums out with a pencil than listen to Vandermeer. He's terrible as a play-by-play guy and I can only image how bad he would be as a show host- there's no way to scream forced catch phrases into an actual show and that's that pony's one trick.Chewy said:
6:00 - 10:00 - John and Lance
10:00 - 12:00 - Mark Vandemeer (just filler)
12:00 - 3:00 - Jim Rome (Sean Pendergast was just riding around HTown selling cellular equipment dialing it up)
3:00 - 7:00 - Rich and Charlie
I like Vandermeer as a play-by-play guy. But yeah he wasn't a good talk show host.Booma94 said:I'd rather poke my eardrums out with a pencil than listen to Vandermeer. He's terrible as a play-by-play guy and I can only imagine how bad he would be as a show host- there's no way to scream forced catch phrases into an actual show and that's that pony's one trick.Chewy said:
6:00 - 10:00 - John and Lance
10:00 - 12:00 - Mark Vandemeer (just filler)
12:00 - 3:00 - Jim Rome (Sean Pendergast was just riding around HTown selling cellular equipment dialing it up)
3:00 - 7:00 - Rich and Charlie
John and Lance are still good I think. I had them on this morning. They still make me laugh.
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Damn. Used to listen to him and AJ (and Jong, LOL) on my drive home. Always entertaining, that's for sure. RIP.
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I prefer Josh Anus over Joel Blank. In a country of 300 million, there have got to be a few better options that will work cheap.
98Ag99Grad said:
Howard in Memorial? That guys still alive?
Maybe it was Ben in Nassau Bay!
Didnt get a chance to listen to Coach Slocum on a Mobile back in its hayday but have heard a few of the clips. My favorite was a line about how Tech's sparkly helmets reminded him of a bass boat.
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"Here's the pitch...POPPED it up! Oh man, that wouldn't be a home run in a phone booth."
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"Here's the pitch...POPPED it up! Oh man, that wouldn't be a home run in a phone booth."
-Harry Carey
Charlie Murphy said:
Didnt get a chance to listen to Coach Slocum on a Mobile back in its hayday but have heard a few of the clips. My favorite was a line about how Tech's sparkly helmets reminded him of a bass boat.
My favorite was him saying he loved Tech's new coach, Vince Gill, and his lovely wife Amy Grant.
Tony 'The Hatchetman' Valentine still kickin'?
I wonder how much longer John Granato is going to hold on.
yeah I wonder too very concerning for meTone2002 said:
I wonder how much longer John Granato is going to hold on.
Is he ill?
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His wife took a high paying job in LA, so he is living half the time there and doing the show remotely. Not sure how long that is doable. His kids are done with college, so he might hang it up soon. Lance has like 13 kids, so he is not hanging anything up soon.
the problem is every time John and Lance have split up they inevitably end up together again. they just work best together. my bet is Lance is going to try and move up the nfl.com chain.Milwaukees Best Light said:
His wife took a high paying job in LA, so he is living half the time there and doing the show remotely. Not sure how long that is doable. His kids are done with college, so he might hang it up soon. Lance has like 13 kids, so he is not hanging anything up soon.
Milwaukees Best Light said:
His wife took a high paying job in LA, so he is living half the time there and doing the show remotely. Not sure how long that is doable. His kids are done with college, so he might hang it up soon. Lance has like 13 kids, so he is not hanging anything up soon.
I remember when Lance was married to his first wife and they were going to College Station for a game or something. They tried to take some back way and ended up in Dayton.
Lance was referred to as Rand-McNally for a long time after that.
I think that was right before divorce because the next week he went on a classic 'i hate my wife' rant about that long car ride... it was so uncomfortable even Granato was trying to get him to ease up... man that was a long time agomaroon barchetta said:Milwaukees Best Light said:
His wife took a high paying job in LA, so he is living half the time there and doing the show remotely. Not sure how long that is doable. His kids are done with college, so he might hang it up soon. Lance has like 13 kids, so he is not hanging anything up soon.
I remember when Lance was married to his first wife and they were going to College Station for a game or something. They tried to take some back way and ended up in Dayton.
Lance was referred to as Rand-McNally for a long time after that.
Yeah. 20 years ago I bet.
It was rough.
It was rough.
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