Posted on 05/21/2009 7:42:41 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The midday personality was frustrated after several hours of calls about his recently-laid-off producer Jorge Rodriguez, and he said something anatomically impossible about general manager Joe Bell. He tells Sun-Sentinel writer Tom Jicha that he hit his own dump button three times in seven seconds. But WQAM (560), which had just moved to new studios, had disconnected it without telling him. Rogers was originating that day’s show from his apartment in Toronto. Now Beasley is investigating just what happened, and Rogers is benched for now.
Wikipedia describes him as highly rated; he came out as gay during the Anita Bryant crusade.
>>His style--an unabashed liberal, a steadfast conspiracy theorist, scatological, and funny but acutely mean when dealing with callers (especially elderly callers), a schtick that may best be described as caustically comic--was firmly established, making Rogers something of an icon in the market...Since Rodriguez was let go, Rogers had been inundated with e-mails protesting the decision, most of them blaming Bell. After almost four hours of this, Rogers blurted out, "F--- Joe Bell." He immediately reached for the dump button, which turned out not to be functioning. "I've said some things in the past that I immediately dumped," Rogers said. "I had no way of knowing the dump button wasn't working."
Never heard of him.
Wikipedia says he was suspended with pay.
WTKK Boston host Jay Severin, the libertarian libertine, has been suspended for “racist” comments WITHOUT pay.
Based only in Miami but talk radio fans may have heard of him
due to his controversy (the Bryant situation, etc.)
He probably helped to inspire the likes of Randi Rhodes.
Old gay pedophile who is not funny. He appeals to the lowest common denominator. Only funny thing he talks about is how Larry King was arrested for passing bad checks in Miami in the early 1970s.
A foul-mouthed conspiracy theorist who verbally abuses the elderly, sounds like a real winner...
When you rely on the dump button to use any type of language you like, it’ll eventually catch up to you. It’s a last-ditch rescue button, nothing more.
I work at a college radio station (volunteer) and we have one. The DJs are told that when it’s used, the part that was bleeped out is emailed to the program director and
the technical advisor (true).
Yup...good way to drive the point home. :-)
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