Posted on 05/08/2008 7:46:48 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
"We're the only local news/talk station here in NYC in the morning," said John Gambling. Alluding to Imus and WABC's 5 a.m. host Curtis Sliwa, he cracked, "The guy with the cowboy hat and the guy with the beret are going to have to watch their backs."
Gambling said, not for the first time, that he has little use for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and that John McCain is "not the candidate I would put together if it were up to me."
Gambling spent the last eight years at WABC (770 AM), after WOR startled him in 2000 by not renewing his contract. In some ways, he suggested yesterday, his return is also startling.
"Who'd a thunk it?" he said, adding several times, "I can't tell you how happy I am to be here."
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Imus is brain dead. His show is unlistenable anytime he opens his mouth. He was mildly entertaining when I was a kid, but all of those years of drug use screwed up his brain.
I know...
BTW, does WABC still run that old music on Saturday nights with the old "Music Radio 77 WABC echo chamber" sound?
I was also happy to hear this!
Mark Simone has an Oldies Show every Sat. evening on WABC.
Yes, as far as I know. 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (unless pre-empted by a sportscast). Mark Simone is the host.
I've noticed that they've kept the title as "The New John Gambling Show" and haven't gone back to "Rambling with Gambling".
Maybe they will after John's been there for a while.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for John Gambling. He’s a gentlemen and a fine host. In the aftermath of 9/11, he said something to the effect that even though he’s a Quaker, you can’t just let people come in and murder 3,000 people with impunity, you have to take them out. I would not have thought less of him had he not said that, but I was profoundly moved by his emotion when he did. It couldn’t have been easy to do, but like most of us, he was aching all over and it caused him to take a hard look at things. I’m glad he’s back on the air.
He was a good morning guy, keeping topics of the day updated, with a dry sense of humor. Imus is nothing but a Howard Stern light, annoying at best. Curtis is...well, Curtis! Well informed most of the time, street smart and entertaining.
It never ceases to amaze me that Imus has an audience.
He sounds like he’s drunk most of the time, he is completely incapable of filling five minutes of air time by himself without having other people around to fill the space, and his brilliant political insight consists of calling people he disagrees with “morons.”
Plus, he has all the charm of a temporary tooth crown.
He ought to refer to his network as MIB (Mediocrity in Broadcasting) — not that he actually has a network.
I just really don’t get his appeal.
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There are generations of history with John's father and grandfather behind the title of Rambling with Gambling...
I feel the same way...
The show has gone downhill. Can't wait to see the ratings...
Ping
Agreed. I will tune into WOR from now on in the morning. Imus basically has an orgasm every time they have the putrid Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone is on.
That show - and especially Musicradio 77 "Rewound" - brings back lots of good summertime memories of my youth on the CT and RI shore (where WABC comes in strong), listening to great music and disk jockeys like Dan Ingram, Ron Lundy, and others.
*Ding!* "...and it's now 80 WABC Dee-grees in the City..."
Thanks for the ping.
The only reason he was popular was because he was squeezed between Kurtis & Kuby and Rush. Kind of the way NBC 10 years ago on Thursdays could have put a test screen up between Seinfeld & Friends and ER and still get good ratings.
Good Riddence
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