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![[*]](./images/iconic/default_icon.gif) posted on 7-10-2009 at 01:47 PM |
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changes at KRCN Update: "We're moving!!!"
Word on the street is that Chuck Duncan lost KRCN. It looks like Ron Nickel is back at the helm! Anybody know anything????
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| posted on 7-10-2009 at 02:09 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by snowglobe
Word on the street is that Chuck Duncan lost KRCN. It looks like Ron Nickel is back at the helm! Anybody know anything???? |
Jeez, what a shocker.
I'm afraid I don't know anything about it at all.
With Nickel back in charge I wonder what their lineup will look like?
How bout' you, Boondocker, you heard anything?
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| posted on 7-11-2009 at 03:18 PM |
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After a lengthy absence Nascar Racing returns to AM-1060 tomorrow.
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It's Sunday, and no NASCAR. The imaging on 1060 is still "Rocky Mountain Radio." Spots are still running featuring the voice of Kay Duncan.
However, I'm told that a race WAS heard Saturday night, at least on RMR's Colorado Springs station.
So the safest thing for us all to do is just wait and listen. If the programming changes, we'll know there's been a shakeup. If it doesn't, we'll know
that either the "word on the street" Snowglobe heard was overblown, the crisis was averted, or some combination of both.
Stay tuned.
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| posted on 7-12-2009 at 02:38 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Boondocker
It's Sunday, and no NASCAR. The imaging on 1060 is still "Rocky Mountain Radio." Spots are still running featuring the voice of Kay Duncan.
However, I'm told that a race WAS heard Saturday night, at least on RMR's Colorado Springs station.
So the safest thing for us all to do is just wait and listen. If the programming changes, we'll know there's been a shakeup. If it doesn't, we'll know
that either the "word on the street" Snowglobe heard was overblown, the crisis was averted, or some combination of both.
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Snowglobe was spot on concerning this one.
Tuned in - and staying.
You're right, BD, there is no Nascar race on today...because there is no race today!
You're also correct in that the race DID run last night - as was ordered from the President of Pilgrim Communications.
Now these are educated guesses:
The reporting of this story has NOT been overblown, a crisis has NOT been averted, and the only way this crisis WILL be averted, is if Mr. Duncan
comes up with $6 Million in cash by July 24. If that happens he gets to keep his stations - if not he relinquishes all control of the station(s).
Of course you are continuing to hear the words and sounds and voices of those who have been working(?) at RMR for the last year - and you will
continue to hear them until the transfer of regimes is fully put into place.
Business For Breakfast is scheduled to be reintroduced tomorrow morning, and it will feature, Tom Chenault, Sandy Greenburg, and a women from Online
Trading Academy.
Duncan has two (2) weeks in which to find himself another home for the Radio Shopping Show that has so enthralled listeners for the last year or
so.
Duncan is in multiple violation of contractual terms on the LMA - he has until July 24 to make it right - or his tenure as President of RMR is done
and over with.
Now you're up to date.
You're welcome.
P.S. That's "Kate" Duncan to you, sir.
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| posted on 7-12-2009 at 02:55 PM |
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Tom Chenault is coming back? Didn't Duncan fire him last year? What happens to the people doing mornings now?
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Oops -- you're right. It's Kate. Sorry about that. I had Kay on the brain because I have a Kay as a current client.
Thanks for the details, Dino!
This is my first time online since Thursday -- those darned paying jobs get in the way! --- so I'm just catching up with all this.
I'm treading carefully on this one because I got virtually the same reports from multiple sources last February: Chuck Duncan in default on his LMA,
Duncan ousted, Ron Nickel back in charge, NASCAR returning. But then it didn't happen -- and the reason why depended on who was talking to me: it was
either that Duncan got his financial ship righted, or that the initial reports of his demise had been a bit either overblown or premature. Each source
swore to me that his was the correct version; only Duncan and Hood probably know for sure.
And now I'm getting the same divergence of reports again.
These kinds of things happen in many types of businesses -- and every seasoned business reporter knows that situations like this are very tricky to
sort out, because different sources have different perspectives -- not to mention various and diverse stakes in the outcome. And not always but very
often, one or more sides may also have something to gain by "leaks" to their friendly neighborhood media outlet ... or website!  There's not a thing in the world wrong with that!
It all falls under that First Rule of Journalism we all learned at Mizzou: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out!"
Just as what I heard last February, if I take all sides of what I'm hearing, tape them to a wall and step back, there are ways all the perspectives
could be true.
But what will we know for sure? The answer will be in what we hear on the radio -- now and toward the end of the month.
Until then, everybody, remember: the title of this board is "Comments and Rumors."
Stay tuned!
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 07:43 AM |
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B4B was indeed back on Monday morning on KRCN, hosted by Tom Chenault from his Buzz Coffee shop. Longmonters will recognize Chenault as the guy who
occasionally dons a bee costume to lure Francis Street drivers into his business, which celebrates its first anniversary Aug. 15.
Karen Trisko was his adver-guest from the Online Trading Academy, which is California-based with an office in Castle Rock. Started in 1997, the OTR
now bills itself as "the world's most trusted name in professional trader education."
They're still working some bugs out. There didn't seem to be much communication between the remote location and the Kimbark Street studio; Chenault
several times was cut off in mid-sentence by spot breaks. But I suppose, given what Dino reported, that this state of flux is understandable.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 08:33 AM |
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Looks like the rumors were true, Nickel is back. Listened briefly on my way to work....yeah, they got a couple of bugs to work out. After hearing
Tom's voice, I can understand why he was fired by Duncan in the first place.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 09:03 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by snowglobe
Looks like the rumors were true, Nickel is back. Listened briefly on my way to work....yeah, they got a couple of bugs to work out. After hearing
Tom's voice, I can understand why he was fired by Duncan in the first place. |
Well, the bad acoustics at the coffee shop don't help.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 09:13 AM |
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It wasn't the acoustics, it was the voice itself. And does this guy have radio experience.....all he did was ask everybody else what was going on.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 09:25 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by snowglobe
It wasn't the acoustics, it was the voice itself. And does this guy have radio experience.....all he did was ask everybody else what was going on.
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I don't have as much of a problem with that as long as he knew to then shut up and listen to the people who DO know what they're talking about. I'm
sure you've heard radio voices who reveal how much they don't know the more they speak. Even if he just gives the time and the show's name and phone
number, and reads a spot when asked to, that's probably adequate in this situation. I agree with you that it's not preferable, but it is adequate.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 12:59 PM |
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I dare anyone to name a better combination coffee brewer and morning talk show host, than my friend, Tom Chenault.
By the way, if you haven't been to Buzz Coffee...you need to go
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 01:04 PM |
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He might be a great coffee brewer...but that doesn't make him a good talk show host. Maybe he should stick to what he knows......non-fat double latte
please.
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 02:39 PM |
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Tom said he was going to try and get Woody Vincent back this week... (Woody was out of reach as of 7 AM Monday)...
On air, it's true that Tom Chenault is no Tom Martino... But Tom Chenault is the B4B version of Tom-TV Martino*... More of a ringmaster for other's
paid content...
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* One former Faux 31 investigative reporter with a fecal fascination is enough... Praise cod-fish and pass the Chitosan** (if you can)...
** Chitosan is a weight loss intestinal fat absorber made from shredded shrimp shells that the FDA does not recognize any health claims for... And if
you can trust the radio ads, at any given moment, Tom Martino's colon is full of it...
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 05:32 PM |
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I don't knoiw who Woody Vincent is...but he has to be better than what I heard this morning
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 08:29 PM |
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Hey Dino maybe Nickel will bring you back from 11-1 again.
"Why so Serious?"
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| posted on 7-13-2009 at 09:18 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by RadioFan1991
Hey Dino maybe Nickel will bring you back from 11-1 again.
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Aww I don't know.
I don't know if I have the time or the energy anymore.
The last few shows I did on DSR, I felt as though I was really lacking, just wasn't able to conjure up the kind of a show that I normally expect of
myself.
Maybe I've peaked?
Who knows, this could very well be my swan song.
Why do they call it a 'swan song'?
Anyway...
Ya know at this point I think I'm inclined to just kick back, and watch the sun rise each morning at the crack of dawn.
Where did the saying; "at the crack of dawn" come from?
I think its best if I just watch the days go by, stop and smell the roses, gaze at the gorgeous silhouette of the front range that I can see each day
from my back porch as the sun sets majestically over the big hills.
I have a lot of things I would like to do - and now that I have all this free time on my hands, perhaps it's time I do them?
I've never had a cup of coffee at Buzz in Longmont with Boondocker. I think we owe it to ourselves to make that happen BD. A vanilla Latte for me -
how bout' you? I'm looking for potential new representation anyhow, so our meeting may prove to hold some mutual significance for us.
I want to watch the landscape, survey the field, allow the offers to come rolling in.
I have options a plenty right now, and the allure of free agency is much appealing I tell you.
I still need to return that phone call from Kris Olinger. I keep meaning to make that call, but inevitably, as each day rolls by, one day faster than
the day prior, I find myself like I am right now, sitting at a keyboard in my home office and typing away at 9:45 in the PM.
After selling my interest in DSR, the money isn't a priority for me right now.
BD, if you do represent me, lets make clear to the host of opportunities sure to come our way, that I cannot be bought, that integrity within the
parameters of the kind of a show that I do, the kind of a show that I project, implement, broadcast each day, these parameters are central to the core
objective of what each Dino Costa Show means each day. If anyone thinks a six figure salary offer can take the shine off of what 'Sports Doctor' radio
is truly emblematic of- - as I'm sure you'll agree BD, they are mistaken.
But then again, I'm not sure the fire burns that brightly for the old Mile High Mouth anymore. As I said a paragraph or two up, I may have reached the
end of my historic and legendary run.
I'll have to admit, that the game may have run past this old geezer of a sports talk host - and the young turks on the scene, the vast cadre of sports
talk professionals here in Denver, they are ready perhaps to assume their mantle, as the cream of the Mile High crop of sports yappers.
I compliment them on their conquest - and I say Godspeed to their massive efforts which no doubt match their massive talents.
This pause in the action for me, you need to know, it has provided me with some much needed perspective, a certain clarity if you will.
In the arena of the souls of men I have become aware that my style, my yard barking flapping of the gums, my tenacious and overbearing, candid, and
brutally honest display of sports radio, may not be what the city of Denver either wants - or needs.
I have not had time as of yet to ruminate for instance, with the yardstick by which all talkers in Denver should be measured, I speak of course, about
the morning brew master himself; Peter Boyles.
And so, after a 4 year run with Radio Colorado, interrupted by the sly posturing of one Chuck Duncan, I ask myself: Dino, look in the mirror, and does
the Radio Colorado Network 2.0 really need you?
I am indeed a searcher at this juncture.
Searching for what? This is the question that keeps me up at night.
The barbarians have indeed stormed the gates - things are different now, you can never go back to the way it used to be completely.
And if radio is my calling card again someday, where shall my vocal chords do their work?
Denver?
The town is dead for me at this point.
The talent on display daily speaks for itself - and woe is the person who believes that changing the culture of the talk radio world with something as
drastically different as I coordinated a show on the air with my name on it...I was wrong to think it could fly here.
Alan Berg, if I could only have shaken your hand once, sir.
Rosen rails, and Gunny Bobs it up, while Caplis and Silverman...?
I'd actually like to smack Caplis in the face - and dine with Pete Silverman.
Pete?
I'm sorry, he's a high rolling executive with Madison Square Garden Network in New York.
I meant to write Craig - I mix those guys up sometimes. I don't know why.
My paisan, Gerry Vaillancourt, truly one of the last of the Mohicans, has invited me down to the Crescent City, says I'd be big in the BIG Easy.
I doubt it highly.
No, I don't believe New Orleans is in my future.
Same with Cleveland.
Cleveland?
My wife would enjoy it if I went to Cleveland - but Cleveland is one of those towns where they like their own.
Not only am I not one of Cleveland's own - but nobody likes me.
Although Cleveland is where one of my earliest influences came from- the star that was Pete Franklin, on the old WWWE Radio (now WTAM). What a talent
Peter was - but less so than that of the Apostle.
And so I'd have to say no to Cleveland, but thanks anyway.
No to Cincinnati as well - although I do like how they have always cracked down on P-orn in that city. That P-orn can be a nasty and dirty mo-fo -
right guys?
Same to places like Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis (St. Paul too),
Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, Orlando, Seattle, Portland, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, Memphis,
Toronto, Sacramento, Salt Lake City...and any city that houses a WNBA franchise.
If radio beckons me, if it is to stir my inner self again, I want it to be somewhere where the challenge is something I cannot turn down.
Someplace invigorating - someplace mystical and magical.
More magical than mystical I'd have to say.
Oh, you can add Buffalo to the list as well because that town isn't big enough for both me and Terrell Owens.
Has Woody Paige mesmerized you anytime lately?
At this very second, I am going to get out a United States Atlas...close my eyes, and pick a place by plopping my finger down upon whatever city,
town, hamlet, or village, where the index will land.
Hold on...
Boondocker, you may now have to begin to show me your worth as an alleged agent of any substance.
I'd like an extensive review of all the stations we may objectively critique, in the town of 'Hooper Bay', Alaska.
Old Hooper Bay.
A radio paradise if I ever heard of one.
I believe that Hooper Bay was the inspiration for Three Dog Night and their 1973 hit: Shambala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0FhpoVZDOc
It was either that song or their 1970 hit, Mama told me not to come: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeFii0frqMY&feature=related
I'm positive, that this place has the potential to land on Money Magazine's list of top 100 small towns in America.
Although from the looks of this map - - instead of gazing at the front range as I do from my porch now - - I'll instead I believe, be able to see the
Kremlin on a clear day.
No matter - location is everything.
I'm ultra-positive that Hoper Bay has never had a talk show host like me before.
Hoper, or Hooper, who cares until I get there?
In Hooper Bay, once I establish roots, I could also think about a run for town Mayor, and after that, who knows?
If Sara Palin can somehow find enough votes up there to win the Governorship, then all things might be possible for me too.
Where did I begin?
Right, answering a missive about the potential for a re-uniting with the used to be and will soon be again; Radio Colorado Network.
My thoughts you ask?
Been there and done that.
4 years was enough.
I'd peg it at 90-10 against.
I'm done here.
You know it.
So do I.
Then again, if you insist on keeping that flame flickering, please don't let my words prevent you from dreaming big:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTkCnad2BE
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Details on Hooper Bay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper_Bay,_Alaska
The only radio station there is a 94.3 mhz. translator for KIAM-FM, a non-comm owned by Voice for Christ Ministries and licensed to North Nenana,
which is along the highway between Fairbanks and Denali National Park. There's also KCUK, another non-commercial FM station on 88.1 about 13 miles
away in Chevak, which is owned by the Kashunaimut School District. The closest AM stations are 200 miles away in Nome! Summary: NO sports-talk
competition -- at least not on terrestrial radio! 
The term "swan song" is derived from the legend that swans sing beautifully and mournfully just before they die -- a legend well-known to be false as
early as the days of ancient Greece, but kept alive in literature. In Shakespeare's 1596 "Merchant of Venice," Portia says, "Let music sound while he
doth make his choice; then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, fading in music." And in the 1831 "Sartor Resartus," Thomas Carlyle not only uses
the actual term "swan song" but lays the groundwork for the image of Fawkes, Dumbledore's magical phoenix, in the "Harry Potter" series: "The Phoenix
soars aloft ... or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame."
"The crack of dawn," contrary to rumors that floated around my high school, is NOT a sexual reference to Tony Orlando's backup singers. The term
started out as "crack of day" in the late 1800s, and alluded either to the suddenness of sunrise or to the small wedge of light appearing as the sun
rises over the horizon.
If we met over coffee on Francis Street, here's what I'd ask you:
Can you be open to considering the possibility that you can maintain the integrity of your radio product's parameters to your complete satisfaction --
and yet approach and market it and yourself in some different, more savvy and positive ways? Canadian poet Alfred Adler wrote, "Life happens at the
level of events, not words." And Henry Ford once remarked, "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
You sound very weary of treading the same old paths. Would some new ones -- starting with a personal-branding overhaul and some major image
rehabilitation -- reinvigorate you? Are you game?
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Dino, you talk about dsr being your swan song, then you talk about getting new representation. Which is it?? Can we expect to hear you in the near
future? Nickel was your old boss, and I'm sure you're still good friends. He would probably love to have you back. As I've said before...take those
meds dude, your all over the place with your last post.
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Oh for the love of Crust!!!
This is all still just so much speculation at this point... If we truly care about quality radio hear err... here, we just need to buy $6,000,000*
worth of Duncan's discount pizza coupons by the 24th of July to keep whatshisname off the air...
We only have 10 days left, SO GET BUSY!!!
http://www.radioshoppingshow-denver.com/
* with your Radio Shopping Show Money Saver Key Card discount, the actual face value is worth over $30,000,000 in shopper savings...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gladiator
Oh for the love of Crust!!!
This is all still just so much speculation at this point... If we truly care about quality radio hear err... here, we just need to buy $6,000,000*
worth of Duncan's discount pizza coupons by the 24th of July to keep whatshisname off the air...
We only have 10 days left, SO GET BUSY!!!
http://www.radioshoppingshow-denver.com/
* with your Radio Shopping Show Money Saver Key Card discount, the actual face value is worth over $30,000,000 in shopper savings...
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And if that venture is successful, you'll have to change your handle to Glad-I-Ate-It!
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It's hard to believe that Duncan has been given only a few weeks to come up with all that money. There must be something else going on, or some sort
of alternative solution, that we're not being told about. The biggest and worst case scenario is the one that always gets metioned.
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Is today Tuesday?
I'm up for that Latte at Buzz, BD.
Popped those meds as soon as I got up, SG.
Anyone hear B4B this morning?
The more I look into Hooper Bay, the more positive I get.
The statistics I glean tell me that the town is 98.5% Native America.
Thus I'd be a minority.
Perfect.
It's something I'm well used to anyway.
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Dino,
I think we can all say that you are indeed done here and Denver is indeed "Dead for You" because you've burned every bridge you've ever built. That,
in and of itself, is somewhat saddening as it seem you're your own worst enemy.
I like what BD said, I think you should start with a "brand" or image overhaul. Keep the same style, but do it in a way that's not highly offensive
to people, and you certainly have to lay off any racial rhetoric. You know as well as us, sometimes your lips get going and you let too much out. I
eqaute it to driving a Ferrari. Perhaps instead of being on the red-line all the time, risking damage to the engine, you could cruise it at
12,000rpm? Eaither way, you're going to get there pretty damn fast.
I honestly do wish you the best of luck moving forward. And remember, it's like Vince Lombardi once said "It's not the adversity we face, rather, how
we respond in the face of that adversity that determines who we are as men" So, with that, go forward and make something happen!
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