Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
6.27.12 Bee-otch of the Day: NBC
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
6.26.12 Bee-otch of the Day: radio stations still carrying Bob and Tom
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Name: various radio stations
Age: various
Occupation: entertainers and communicators of the community
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: STILL carrying Bob and Tom
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Once upon a time, or better yet, 15 years ago, northern Michigan had two rock stations: AOR stalwart WKLT and Classic Rock triplecast WGFM.
'GFM originated at 105.1 in Cheboygan and was simulcasted to 98.1 in Traverse City and 107.1 Cadillac. The stations' morning man was Del Reynolds, who also owned the stations, plus a few others in the Straits area and all throughout northern Michigan. Middays were handled by Greg Fletcher, Deb Michaels did the afternoon shift and nights and overnights were straight off the bird, using Westwood One's Classic Rock format.
However, in 1998, Reynolds decided to sell his stations to a small upstart company called Calibre Communications. When the company's president, David Gariano asked Reynolds who should handle mornings, he told Gariano that Bob and Tom had just entered syndication and that their careers started at the long-defunct WJML in Petoskey.
Needless to say, Reynolds' suggestion was a winning one in the beginning. Bob and Tom quickly became the #1 morning program in northern Michigan, and helped WGFM - now rebranded as The Bear - overtake WKLT's #2 spot in the Arbitron ratings.
When Bob and Tom debuted on The Bear, I was a teen living in the Torch Lake region, and man did I hate them. I was a Howard Stern guy who loved him from his E! show and yes, Private Parts and felt that these two geezers were just doing a carbon copy of the show to drunk rednecks. As a matter of fact, it was one of the big reasons why I started a crappy little WebTV website called Bring Howard Stern to Northern Michigan Radio and TV which evolved into (you guessed it) this crappy little website.
But how time passes. I've since moved to Grand Rapids, Howard Stern's now on northern Michigan via SiriusXM (and let's not forget HowardTV and America's Got Talent) and thanks to Janet Jackson's little nip-slip, Bob and Tom - like all other shows syndicated by Clear Channel - have had to cool it with their bits.
Oh, and KLT finally hired a morning show that finally gave Bob and Tom some needed competition: Omelette and Finst - um, Friends.
While Omelette and whoever tend to act and feel young, not to mention the fact that they're local, Indianapolis-based Bob and Tom are showing their age. According to some sources, KLT is trumping Bob and Tom in the mornings, although B&T are still in second place.
But the question is: is second place good enough for a morning show that's balls-out expensive?
Recently, Del Reynolds - who re-took control of most of the stations he sold to Calibre in 1998 for a tiny fraction of the price he sold them for - took to the popular Michigan Radio and TV Buzzboard to reveal that Bob and Tom ain't cheap to air. As a matter of fact, he claims that for the four stations that air The Bear's format, Bob and Tom cost his stations a hair over six figures just to air in a mid-small-sized market like northern Michigan.
That's right! $100,000 to air a crappy sat-fed morning show in northern Michigan. Somewhere, WKLT's staff and management are laughing. Hell, even I'm smiling inside knowing that it's more expensive to air a horrid syndicated show over just hiring two local guys to handle mornings.
But it's not just The Bear that's seeing less dollars coming in thanks to Bob and Tom's high price. Here in Grand Rapids, Clear Channel-owned WBFX - 101.3 The Fox carried the show up until a few years ago, but canned it due to its high cost. Yes, even Clear Channel - who owns Bob and Tom - has canned the show because of its cost. However, Townsquare-owned 98.7 WFGR took over the show; which is somewhat ironic since they also own 97.9 WGRD, the home of Free Beer and Hot Wings. However, there's another rumor that even Townsquare themselves are tired of B&T; there was speculation in the radio world that Townsquare flipped 1410 WNWZ from Spanish to all-Comedy as "Funny 1410" to move Bob and Tom there until their contract ran out. Clear Channel got word and put an end to it.
Oh, and 1410 broadcasts with a whopping 1,000 watts day and 48 watts at night. I guess they were trying to make a play from the Matt Hanlon playbook in regards to what he did to Howard Christmas 2003 only to fall on their asses.
Ya know, I find it funny that when Howard was on terrestrial radio, only 50 stations - mostly corporate-owned stations in bigger markets - ever dared to carry the show. I've heard every excuse in the book: "His show's too expensive!" "Advertisers hate him!" "The Chamber of Commerce will abandon us!" "His show doesn't reflect the views of station management!" And so on. Now, many top-ranked syndicated shows like Bob and Tom and especially Rush Limbaugh are now charging stations top dollar to carry their crappy programs, and the real victims end up being the station owners and people trying to break into the already-difficult world of radio. Yes, some of these owners will fight to the finish to keep their listeners and ratings up. In The Bear's case, it explains why that station only has one local jock in the afternoon and the rest of the schedule is made up of out-of-state voicetrackers from Dial Global (the old Westwood One).
If only they got Finster....
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Monday, June 25, 2012
6.25.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Jerry Sandusky
Thursday, June 21, 2012
6.21.12 Bee-otch of the Day: John Cena
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
6.20.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Jase Bolger
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
6.19.12 Bee-otch of the Day: the Republican Party
Monday, June 18, 2012
6.18.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Michigan House of Representatives
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Name: The Michigan House of Representatives
Age: 175
Occupation: the lower house of the Michigan legislature
Last Seen: Lansing, MI
Bee-otched For: making a woman's pee hole a four-letter word
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Michigan, you get what you vote for.
In 2010, despite President Obama making lots of improvements to the mistakes Bush did to the state, Michigan voted in a new Republican-led government. Changes were made, and as expected, none of them were 100% good.
Of course, when you have Republicans leading a government, many things are thrown out the window, and Freedom of Speech is one of them. Last week during a speech, state rep Lisa Brown, a Democrat from the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield was censured from the floor after she debated a bill that would affect a woman's right to an abortion in the state of Michigan. She talked about her Jewish faith and ended her speech explaining "I'm flattered that all of you are interested in my vagina, but no means no."
After that quip, the Michigan House barred Brown from the floor alongside fellow Democratic rep Barb Byrum from speaking about banning vasectomies. Many are now feeling that Brown was censured only because she said a word that's the anatomically correct word for that hole a woman has to pee out of.
Right now, the Michigan House is led by the Republicans, 64 to 46. Of course, most of the Republicans are from the more-conservative regions of the state, such as west Michigan, northern Michigan and parts of the UP while the Dems are mostly from the Detroit and Lansing areas. It was almost the opposite - 44 to 66 - prior to the 2010 elections.
But now with the Repukes running the show, they have come to show that a woman has no real right to do her job unless she wants to be like the rich white guys who have taken control of the Michigan House. They have no respect for her faith and women who are trying to get out of a pregnancy. If they had it their way, women would never be allowed to have an abortion, even if she was raped. Their excuse would be that "God delivered that rapist to have his kid", and that woman would have to struggle through the pains of being pregnant for no reason. Then, if she decided to give it up for adoption, the kid would likely be put in an abusive home and end up growing up wanting to know who his real mother was. He would grow up and realize that his mother would marry and have planned kids of her own, making him wish that he had the love of his real mother instead of the foster parents that failed him.
OK, so not all foster parents are like that, but some are. But, wouldn't that kid have a happier life dead instead of living in a hell on Earth? I'd think so. Maybe if God gave the power to a man to be pregnant on his own, more people would be for abortion. It's time for people to realize that abortion ISN'T a sin, because if it's in a woman's womb, it doesn't have a real life! It's still just a bunch of cells until it goes through... The vagina.
Sorry, but this is why I vote Democrat. I love my Freedom of Speech. If I want to say "vagina" or "pussy" or "cunt" or "twat" or "coochie" or any other name for it, I damn right should have the right. This is America, and if the Republicans want to take everything away from us, you can kiss America goodbye.
Maybe if the Dems retake the House, they should all be women with knives so they can cut all the Repukes' dicks off.
Michigan, you get what you vote for.
In 2010, despite President Obama making lots of improvements to the mistakes Bush did to the state, Michigan voted in a new Republican-led government. Changes were made, and as expected, none of them were 100% good.
Of course, when you have Republicans leading a government, many things are thrown out the window, and Freedom of Speech is one of them. Last week during a speech, state rep Lisa Brown, a Democrat from the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield was censured from the floor after she debated a bill that would affect a woman's right to an abortion in the state of Michigan. She talked about her Jewish faith and ended her speech explaining "I'm flattered that all of you are interested in my vagina, but no means no."
After that quip, the Michigan House barred Brown from the floor alongside fellow Democratic rep Barb Byrum from speaking about banning vasectomies. Many are now feeling that Brown was censured only because she said a word that's the anatomically correct word for that hole a woman has to pee out of.
Right now, the Michigan House is led by the Republicans, 64 to 46. Of course, most of the Republicans are from the more-conservative regions of the state, such as west Michigan, northern Michigan and parts of the UP while the Dems are mostly from the Detroit and Lansing areas. It was almost the opposite - 44 to 66 - prior to the 2010 elections.
But now with the Repukes running the show, they have come to show that a woman has no real right to do her job unless she wants to be like the rich white guys who have taken control of the Michigan House. They have no respect for her faith and women who are trying to get out of a pregnancy. If they had it their way, women would never be allowed to have an abortion, even if she was raped. Their excuse would be that "God delivered that rapist to have his kid", and that woman would have to struggle through the pains of being pregnant for no reason. Then, if she decided to give it up for adoption, the kid would likely be put in an abusive home and end up growing up wanting to know who his real mother was. He would grow up and realize that his mother would marry and have planned kids of her own, making him wish that he had the love of his real mother instead of the foster parents that failed him.
OK, so not all foster parents are like that, but some are. But, wouldn't that kid have a happier life dead instead of living in a hell on Earth? I'd think so. Maybe if God gave the power to a man to be pregnant on his own, more people would be for abortion. It's time for people to realize that abortion ISN'T a sin, because if it's in a woman's womb, it doesn't have a real life! It's still just a bunch of cells until it goes through... The vagina.
Sorry, but this is why I vote Democrat. I love my Freedom of Speech. If I want to say "vagina" or "pussy" or "cunt" or "twat" or "coochie" or any other name for it, I damn right should have the right. This is America, and if the Republicans want to take everything away from us, you can kiss America goodbye.
Maybe if the Dems retake the House, they should all be women with knives so they can cut all the Repukes' dicks off.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
6.14.12 Bee-otch of the Day: the United States Government
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
6.13.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Middleborough, MA
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
6.12.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Tim Poe
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America's Got Talent. Everybody, it seems, except Tim Poe. Last week on the popular talent contest show, Howard, Sharon and Howie were introduced to Tim Poe, a 35-year-old Afghanistan War Army vet who spoke with a stutter. During his speech, Poe claimed that he spoke with the impediment because in 2009, the Sergent suffered a brain and back injury when a grenade flew towards him and exploded. His speech pulled at the judges - and America's - heartstrings. The tears purely flowed like wine when he picked up the guitar and sang "If Tomorrow Never Comes". Here's a clip of Poe's performance. Of course, all three judges - including country-hating Howard - told Poe that he was going to Vegas. But now, Poe's integrity and career is on the line. According to his military records, Poe wasn't injured by any grenade. Even worse, in another radio interview, Poe didn't even stutter. Of course, the judges on AGT commented that Poe didn't stutter when he sang, but then again, there's a man named Mel Tillis who could tell you why he stutters when he talks but not while he sings. Poe served with the Minnesota Army National Guard from 2002 to 2011, and didn't even receive a Purple Heart for his supposed injury. It appears that Poe was simply creating a sob story to impress the hard-to-impress judges, especially with Stern and Mrs. Ozzy Osbourne on the panel. On his SiriusXM radio show Monday morning, Howard Stern said that he hopes that the show's producers won't cut him off prematurely and that the people get to choose whether or not they want to see him progress further in the show. Meanwhile, Poe has apologized for his dumbassery and the producers have yet to decide if he will continue with the show. You know, there's a lot of people who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq who hardly get saluted for their efforts, yet this prick decides to create a tall tale to shove his shitty brand of country music into AGT fans' faces. Christ, I would kill to bring back that weirdo who rode on a tricycle while blowing into the trumpet at the same time. As somebody who hates country with a passion (save for Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson), Not only is this asshole a disgrace to the military, but to country music himself. Hell, he's a disgrace to America! Let's force him to move to Canada.
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