Popular host John Gambling was fired from WABC in March and rehired by WOR in May...
Popular host John Gambling was fired from WABC in March and rehired by WOR in May...
Imus?
The name doesn’t ring a bell.
Excellent-thanks for the update. Gambling is very good. Can’t stand Imus or Sliwa. At least Kuby is gone.
Imus is another liberal arse.
McPain is his IDEAL candidate ... give you a clue where this pointed head is coming from. Imus is disgusting.
Slightly off topic, but since Imus returned to the airwaves, I haven’t heard or read anything about him. Is he still relevant?
Happy to hear this! Thanks!
Imus really is such a drag. He may have good interviews, but his own self-absorption always gets in the way. I can’t take him for more than a few minutes -— and then he is turned off. Also, I HATE the music interludes! I tune in for news - and it is NEWS that I want.
May Gamblings ratings overtake Imus and make WABC think twice about what they’ve done.
More power to you John!
BTW, does WABC still run that old music on Saturday nights with the old "Music Radio 77 WABC echo chamber" sound?
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.
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
I agree that John Gambling is the class of the NYC morning talk show hosts. Never had much use for Imus, and less so after his chastening experience of being fired by Barak Obama. Before he was always pushing the borders of acceptability, and would make me laugh in spite of myself if I listened. Now, even though now he's on the station I default to, he doesn't even suck me in accidentally. And I can only take so much of Curtis Sliwa, just because. Hey, I even tune out Rush late in his program, sometimes.So if I'm listening in the morning it will most likely be Gambling on WOR.
I used to listen to his father or maybe it was his grandfather doing ‘Pack up your troubles’. Of course one of the lines would have problems today ‘while you’re a lucifer and light your fag’. [then it was a match and a cigarette] Who knew?
I predict Gambling will crush Imus. Steve Malzberg has a better, more varied show too. I’ll bet WOR starts to pick up ground on WABC. But Levin then Limbaugh with keep the ball in WABC’s court. And John Batchelor is back on WABC too now.
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