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[NoName 16,316]

1 hour ago, BigDHornfan said:

The Freak is done.  Damn.
https://athlonsports.com/nba/dallas-mavericks/dallas-basketball/news/dallas-mavericks-big-changes-format-flagship-radio-station-971-freak-mike-rhyner-fired

wonder if any of those dudes come back.

guessing they burned bridges - and that locally they don't want to touch any of them with a 10' pole

...but if you bring back Mike Siriois, he's immediately the second best voice on KTCK between 10 and 3 and maybe the best if you don' like Donnie

[NoName 16,316]

43 minutes ago, mdleast said:

Spite Stations don't pay

[C-Man 27,071]

46 minutes ago, mdleast said:

Spite Stations don't pay

It was not very good buddy.

 

4 minutes ago, NoName said:

wonder if any of those dudes come back.

guessing they burned bridges - and that locally they don't want to touch any of them with a 10' pole

...but if you bring back Mike Siriois, he's immediately the second best voice on KTCK between 10 and 3 and maybe the best if you don' like Donnie

Yeah, none of those dudes can come back. Sirois went total scorched earth. Ben & Skin were long gone. Balis left The Ticket because they didn't pay him enough. Not sure this (the Freak boondoggle) was in the works, it might've been but who knows? I guess he could conceivably make his way back but in what capacity? Julie is terrible. Grubes will go find a better gig, I'm sure.

[mdmost 42,869]

5 minutes ago, NoName said:

wonder if any of those dudes come back.

guessing they burned bridges - and that locally they don't want to touch any of them with a 10' pole

...but if you bring back Mike Siriois, he's immediately the second best voice on KTCK between 10 and 3 and maybe the best if you don' like Donnie

There's no way either comes back or is invited back. Sirois burned his bridge on the Twitch stream with Gordon. Danny just lampooned Cat in a song. Their best bet is to try their hand at podcasting or go work for Cash. 

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Deuces

 

[BigDHornfan 6,542]

5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

It was not very good buddy.

 

Yeah, none of those dudes can come back. Sirois went total scorched earth. Ben & Skin were long gone. Balis left The Ticket because they didn't pay him enough. Not sure this (the Freak boondoggle) was in the works, it might've been but who knows? I guess he could conceivably make his way back but in what capacity? Julie is terrible. Grubes will go find a better gig, I'm sure.

Grubes doesn't need to work.  

[bluto 4,895]

They could save midday ticket by bringing sirois back with Donnie noon to 3. Let the creepy beer guy suckass with the monotones. There’s the show name, mcclearin and the monotones 

[Hermanator 6,954]

4 minutes ago, bluto said:

They could save midday ticket by bringing sirois back with Donnie noon to 3. Let the creepy beer guy suckass with the monotones. There’s the show name, mcclearin and the monotones 

Cumulus doesn't care about the ticket other than getting the best ratings they can for the least money possible. It's over. 

Really do wonder what Sirois and Danny will do. For Danny having that kid so late in life he's gonna be finding ways to scrape by for the rest of his days. 

[mdmost 42,869]

The Ticket doesn't have money to bring on more people. Plus Danny and Sirois already complained that it wasn't enough money to stay on. If the Freak can last a year and half with no ratings, I'm sure Cat is fine with middays for a good while. Danny also burned a bridge I bet with his little song about Cat. Not the smartest thing to do when you know the end appears near. 

[bluto 4,895]

23 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Cumulus doesn't care about the ticket other than getting the best ratings they can for the least money possible. It's over. 

Really do wonder what Sirois and Danny will do. For Danny having that kid so late in life he's gonna be finding ways to scrape by for the rest of his days. 

Is Danny’s lounge in Fort Worth still going?

[BigDHornfan 6,542]

1 minute ago, bluto said:

Is Danny’s lounge in Fort Worth still going?

no.  that one closed but Deep Ellum location is still open.

[Longhornstampede 3,174]

42 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The Ticket doesn't have money to bring on more people. Plus Danny and Sirois already complained that it wasn't enough money to stay on. If the Freak can last a year and half with no ratings, I'm sure Cat is fine with middays for a good while. Danny also burned a bridge I bet with his little song about Cat. Not the smartest thing to do when you know the end appears near. 

What was the Danny song about Cat? Link?

[mdmost 42,869]

It believe it was on the HZ 420 pot fest.

So I guess let's just say that those were the terms it was being thought of in by just about everybody?

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/971-the-freak-to-return-to-rock-radio-format-fires-mike-rhyner-19223461

 

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Mike Rhyner, one of the hosts of 97.1’s The Speakeasy weekday show, said he and the rest of his on-air crew, including Julie Dobbs and Jeff Cavanaugh, were fired today. According to Rhyner, he and the rest of The Freak crew were told that the station will revert back to its rock music programming as 97.1 The Eagle beginning on Monday, April 29.

“I could be standing at the New Mexico border and still see this coming,” Rhyner told the Observer over the phone on Friday. “It’s a feeling that I and plenty of others at the station had been getting for some time now. iHeartRadio is a music company that really doesn't do that much talk radio, and the talk radio they do is not local or locally originated, and they got caught into something [97.1 The Freak] they didn't know anything about, and they were kind of overwhelmed by it, and they decided that ‘this is not our bag.’”

 

 

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

2 hours ago, C-Man said:

It was not very good buddy.

 

Yeah, none of those dudes can come back. Sirois went total scorched earth. Ben & Skin were long gone. Balis left The Ticket because they didn't pay him enough. Not sure this (the Freak boondoggle) was in the works, it might've been but who knows? I guess he could conceivably make his way back but in what capacity? Julie is terrible. Grubes will go find a better gig, I'm sure.

How’d Sirois go scorched earth?

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

2 hours ago, Surly Bevo said:

Deuces

 

Dude, Bernardino Montoya had hair on his balls in like the 3rd grade.  Am I right? @Grubes

Edited April 26 by Rex Kramer

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

1 hour ago, mdmost said:

The Ticket doesn't have money to bring on more people. Plus Danny and Sirois already complained that it wasn't enough money to stay on. If the Freak can last a year and half with no ratings, I'm sure Cat is fine with middays for a good while. Danny also burned a bridge I bet with his little song about Cat. Not the smartest thing to do when you know the end appears near. 

What were the contents of the Cat song?

[C-Man 27,071]

6 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

How’d Sirois go scorched earth?

I don't recall everything but he went on a Twitch stream with Gordo and was probably 2/3 of his way through a bottle of bourbon and just trashed The Ticket/Cumulus management over myriad topics, including paying like shit, etc. They ain't ever letting him back after that.

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

Just now, C-Man said:

I don't recall everything but he went on a Twitch stream with Gordo and was probably 2/3 of his way through a bottle of bourbon and just trashed The Ticket/Cumulus management over myriad topics, including paying like shit, etc. They ain't ever letting him back after that.

Unless they have him a bump and his own show, he’d never come back. I don’t think comments are generally something that can’t be overcome - if the parties want to reconcile. And they should because Sirois is great, and he should want to work at the best place. 

Problem is Cumulus will never devote resources to middays. Ever. It’s more about that than any animosity. What’s changed?  Oh you lost your midday ratings dominance?  Yeah we DGAF. 

[C-Man 27,071]

16 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

Unless they have him a bump and his own show, he’d never come back. I don’t think comments are generally something that can’t be overcome - if the parties want to reconcile. And they should because Sirois is great, and he should want to work at the best place. 

Problem is Cumulus will never devote resources to middays. Ever. It’s more about that than any animosity. What’s changed?  Oh you lost your midday ratings dominance?  Yeah we DGAF. 

Somebody else can chime in but it was bad enough that there is probably no way in walking that back, at least not while Cat and Dan Bennett are still around. (I think Dan is still there in some capacity.)

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[Texzilla588 769]

Well I guess radio featuring Mike’s top ten beans, Sirois smelling farts, and Julie sucking just ain’t gonna make book. Hope they saved their money. Market is tight and getting tighter unless you can monetize a podcast.

[Skipper 6,105]

1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

Problem is Cumulus will never devote resources to middays. Ever. It’s more about that than any animosity. What’s changed?  Oh you lost your midday ratings dominance?  Yeah we DGAF. 

That's what it boils down to.  It's a great station owned by a garbage corporation and managed by morons. They are going to milk it for all it's worth a few more years then that's that.  Decent shows on Middays are almost certainly gone for good.  Once the Musers decide to retire and Bob and Corby get through the contract they just signed, the station itself is probably done.  

The station absolutely should swallow their pride, hire Sirois back at a fair salary and pair him with Donny, but that aint the Cumulus way.

 

[Longhornstampede 3,174]

I guess he wasn't quite back, bitches....

[mdmost 42,869]

He was back. No one cares or people had moved on. That tends to happen when you suddenly announce your retirement. 

[mdmost 42,869]

The hot name around Valley Ranch

[threesheets 1,652]

7 hours ago, C-Man said:

Grubes will go find a better gig, I'm sure.

Grubes wasn't cut. 

[LonghornSean 3,942]

Say it with me….The Dumb Zone podcast network

[mdmost 42,869]

I don't think Danny and Sirois have the work ethic required to do a podcast. And again, who is the audience that will pay for it?

[Da Fino 2,741]

2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I don't think Danny and Sirois have the work ethic required to do a podcast. And again, who is the audience that will pay for it?

The work ethic to record fewer hours per week without set schedules? 

[BigDHornfan 6,542]

I don't think Danny and Sirois have the work ethic required to do a podcast. And again, who is the audience that will pay for it?

They had the work ethic to go to work at 4 in the morning.
That’s huge for Danny.

[mdmost 42,869]

For consistent pay and the chance to keep chasing the radio dream, sure. For inconsistent pay, constant self-promotion, big start up costs, and an unknown popularity, not so much. I guess they can look at how often their podcasts with the Freak were getting downloaded but this wasn't the #1 show in the timeslot designed to strike out on their own combined with one of the guys having a lot of seed money. 

[Da Fino 2,741]

1 minute ago, mdmost said:

For consistent pay and the chance to keep chasing the radio dream, sure. For inconsistent pay, constant self-promotion, big start up costs, and an unknown popularity, not so much. I guess they can look at how often their podcasts with the Freak were getting downloaded but this wasn't the #1 show in the timeslot designed to strike out on their own combined with one of the guys having a lot of seed money. 

Don’t they both have other gigs for a steady paycheck? I’m pretty sure that’s why they were able to stick around the ticket as long as they did. 
 

Regarding self promotion…you are probably correct there. 
 

Start up cost… Probably nil and could be why Dan and Jake have suddenly been on air with them and why Danny was hanging around the DZ remotes. 

Unknown popularity…no idea there and I can’t imagine it’s great. I haven’t listened to them since they have been gone. 
 

Not trying to argue with you here. Just spitballing. 
 

 

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

41 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

Don’t they both have other gigs for a steady paycheck? I’m pretty sure that’s why they were able to stick around the ticket as long as they did. 
 

Regarding self promotion…you are probably correct there. 
 

Start up cost… Probably nil and could be why Dan and Jake have suddenly been on air with them and why Danny was hanging around the DZ remotes. 

Unknown popularity…no idea there and I can’t imagine it’s great. I haven’t listened to them since they have been gone. 
 

Not trying to argue with you here. Just spitballing. 
 

 

Agreed. Podcasting seems to be ideal for Sirois and Balis. I’d definitely listen. They’d work less than they had been for sure. 

[Da Fino 2,741]

9 hours ago, mdmost said:

The Ticket doesn't have money to bring on more people. Plus Danny and Sirois already complained that it wasn't enough money to stay on. If the Freak can last a year and half with no ratings, I'm sure Cat is fine with middays for a good while. Danny also burned a bridge I bet with his little song about Cat. Not the smartest thing to do when you know the end appears near. 

I know you aren’t Jeff Catlin, but if Cat was posting here, I think this is a what he would post. 

[RPM 26,236]

The real head scratcher for me was iHeart let everyone except Ben & Skin go. They were the worst show there. B&S have never been good or drawn ratings. Must be Mavs related.

Also, WTF Blake? Ted Emrich and Heart Attack Man lost because he didn't see if it was set to record. 

Edited April 27 by RPM

[Texzilla588 769]

Agreed. Podcasting seems to be ideal for Sirois and Balis. I’d definitely listen. They’d work less than they had been for sure. 

Unlike Dan, neither of these goobers have secured any book on their own. They left high visibility gigs and very little of their audience followed them for free. Ain’t many Glenn’s out there to actually pay.

[mdmost 42,869]

9 hours ago, Da Fino said:

I know you aren’t Jeff Catlin, but if Cat was posting here, I think this is a what he would post. 

Ha. A dying industry looking to cut costs isn't about to incur more just to throw a lifeline to two guys who left on their own accord. Letting TC come back was one thing given his salary was low. Honestly, I don't see Danny or Sirois even wanting to return. Maybe middays gets some audience back. Maybe not. Middays was never that big a deal other than what Norm could bring in in ad revenue. 

[RPM 26,236]

Sirois will land on his feet. He was last year's DFW radio personality of the year. It might not be on radio, but he'll be alright. Danny may just stick with music and the bar with some guest side gigs.

[NoName 16,316]

19 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

Problem is Cumulus will never devote resources to middays. Ever.

yeah, you have to look so far back to the last time they devoted resources to mid day. <12 months, the prior shows they had on the air, hell they still have 1 of the 4 mid day hosts employed and on a mid day show, etc.

there's dumb...then there is Rex Kramer, who somehow comes back dumber each and every time.

13 hours ago, LonghornSean said:

Say it with me….The Dumb Zone podcast network

"No Puppet Productions"

Edited April 27 by NoName

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13 hours ago, mdmost said:

I don't think Danny and Sirois have the work ethic required to do a podcast. And again, who is the audience that will pay for it?

would be interested to see how the downbeat podcast did in the podcast rankings.  i am an old and dont know where to look though.

[Rex Kramer 1,302]

2 hours ago, NoName said:

yeah, you have to look so far back to the last time they devoted resources to mid day. <12 months, the prior shows they had on the air, hell they still have 1 of the 4 mid day hosts employed and on a mid day show, etc.

there's dumb...then there is Rex Kramer, who somehow comes back dumber each and every time.

You’re trying way too hard. 

[futureman 22,418]

27 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

You’re trying way too hard. 

he always has.  the stupid ones have to, though. 

[RPM 26,236]

Now that @Grubes is unemployed, Blake better watch his ass.

[Texzilla588 769]

Lots of funny shit from the Glenn’s on Reddit. They sound like that leave Britney alone dude

[futureman 22,418]

4 hours ago, RPM said:

Now that @Grubes is unemployed, Blake better watch his ass.

Blake is basically the son Dan never had.  Blake is fine. 

[Da Fino 2,741]

2 hours ago, Texzilla588 said:

Lots of funny shit from the Glenn’s on Reddit. They sound like that leave Britney alone dude

What does any of this mean?

[mdmost 42,869]

So maybe the plan all along was to go to the Freak but iHeart didn't want to fight to get the HangZone over there. I don't follow him but this popped up while I was browsing Twitter. Read the whole thread. He references the Freak needed one more big show to get the ad sales they needed. 

 

Edited April 28 by mdmost

[Texzilla588 769]

I’d say they needed more than that. Their two big shows were delivering a 2.

[Jive Turkey 12,568]

On 4/26/2024 at 2:30 PM, Longhornstampede said:

What was the Danny song about Cat? Link?

 

here's the Danny song.

On 4/26/2024 at 3:30 PM, Rex Kramer said:

How’d Sirois go scorched earth?

this is Danny (on Rhyner's podcast) and Sirois (on Gordo's Twitch stream) bitching about the Ticket and Junior.

 

[futureman 22,418]

10 hours ago, mdmost said:

He references the Freak needed one more big show to get the ad sales they needed. 

that implies they had at least one big show.  which they did not.