Just a bunch of follow-ups since I’ve not been able to do half the stuff I wanted to. I mean hell, I can’t move, update my website, work a ton of hours, and introduce a bunch of new crap, AT THE SAME TIME? What am I, human?
I just noticed that Scott Fox has updated his main page to say “I was recently let go from Z103.5.” He also noticed that he is “kinda huge” on Google searches.
I’m not gonna mice words. I’m not a fan of Evanov’s latest moves to sack as many people or shove them to the fringe like they have. I mean come on, Tony Monaco is like 100 years old and they pushed him to late night? As if he didn’t have enough grey hairs now!
And the morning crew they have on Z now? Cory Kimm and Amy A? Nothing short of crap. Even the “bumps” they put in the other shows to push them? Suck big time. Maybe I’ve been “Astral-ized” a bit, but the bumpers on 97.7 HTZ FM for Biggs and Barr? Make them sound a little dorky, but they are at least funny as hell.
Speaking of Astral and firings, Humble Howard seems to be enjoying his forced retirement, when he’s not “getting the shits” from St Hubert Chicken.
Okay enough about other radio outlets. The brand new Babe of the Day site is going to be here. I’ll have it up by Saturday.
I also have a news-geek portal which is incomplete but you can check it out here.
I have made an executive decision on the return of the audio streams and this is how it’s going to go. Both the Top40/Dance format, and the Rock/Hard Rock/Alt format is coming back when I move to Brantford, and shall be up in early July. I’ll tell you now, I am looking for voices, maybe local bands and shizz. And I’m going to set up a twitter and crap as well.
Man, I have 10,000 promos with “Norfolk” and “Gilbertville” in them. The Brantford invasion will start July, bishes!
Looks like Scott Fox is completely gone from Z103.5…. it’s not a vacation after all. Some people dont seem to be too happy about it. Howard Glassman, also known as Humble Howard, is gone from Boom 97.3… “Forced Retirement” is what Howard calls it. Funny…. I’d swear I just heard him talking with Jerry Agar on CFRB 1010 not 4 weeks ago about “Passover”…
Chris Biggs must regret leaving Z 103.5 now. After doing the Soundlounge for CHUM for barely 7 months, he’s left the CHUM/CTV group for MIX FM 99.9, doing their afternoons. I don’t listen to Mix 99.9 but that seems a step down from the #1 and #2 Stations in the market, no? Not to mention CHUM was giving him a name outside of Toronto…. So anyone know what happened?
So week one of my training is over. Easy as pie, as long as my feet hold up. The first two days I tried, in futility, to use steel toed shoes. after deciding that walking is more important than making a point of using them, I switched back to real shoes. Thank Jesus. Danish took it one step further and bought me a new pair of my favorite shoes, which were at Payless of all places. (I forgot I had gotten them there.) By the Friday, I could walk again, without serious pain.
I can’t lie, I miss not hearing much good music last week. I get the opportunity to hear some Scott Fox and the morning show crew on the ol’ Z103.5, which is sufficient for my 35-45 minute trek from east-end Hamilton to Niagara-on-the-Lake, but then, no more music until I travel back in the 10pm hour.
Talking about Scott Fox and the crew, I have a bone to pick with his often funny, but sometimes whiny co-host and producer, Dave Blezard. The day of the R2R Caledonia Protest Run to Toronto, which was mentioned on their newscast, Dave decides to whine about how people are taking it to the streets and interrupting everyone else’s day for their issue, and how that is not fair for them to do so.
I’m sorry Dave, but if you took a trip out of your cozy little studio where you work every day, down the QEW to real life in Caledonia, maybe you’d understand why they decided to try to get their government to settle the hell that has been their life for over a year. Sorry that they had to rub a few people the wrong way and inconvienience them for a half hour while they showed you their pain for over a year.
Sometimes the whiny shit that comes out of this show clouds an otherwise excellent music experience. Sorry Dave, but if I was interested in your political views, I’d tune in one of the several Toronto, Hamilton and St Kitts news stations. Stick to what you do best, witty banter with Scott Fox and talking about celebrity fluff.
Okay, rant off. So next week will be a lot like this week. I travel back up to Hamilton and shuttle back and forth from St. Catharines the whole week. This is the last week of training though, and all will return to Genzel Happiness next weekend.
