Posted on 04/14/2010 2:36:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Fred Grandy (a.k.a Gopher from "The Love Boat) and Andy Parks are out. FishbowlDC sources have confirmed and DCRTV (www.dcrtv.com) is reporting that WMAL's (630 AM) duo has been fired. Grandy is a former Republican member of Congress.
It won't happen immediately -- their end date is still up in the air. The news has been circulating at the station all day long. Word has it that corporate-wide cuts of the most expensive employees are necessary to save money.
Station manager Paul Duckworth did not return a phone request for comment at FBDC press time.
And Austin ...?
Gone, babes!
(Gone until further notice... he’ll sub for Plante)
PING to #152.
Thursday is May 20.
Thanks for the correction, TSR!
I missed hearing why Andy definitely will not be back. Did you hear it? Thanks.
I believe that they said Andy will not be back because he’s actually semi-retired, lives in Carroll Co. and wants to take it easy and/or perhaps has an offer from WBAL in Baltimore (I read about the latter on DCRTV.com a few weeks ago)...
Thanks Silvie. I did enjoy Grandy and Andy together - they worked real well. But I will watch for Andy on WBAL (maybe).
My husband listened to this..and said the guy sounded like a jerk. He promptly called WMAL to complain about the snarkey program manager.
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