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Monday, September 24, 2007
9/25: On set at Ryan’s show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New Starz pay cable variety show “Ryan Cameron Uncensored” is more like the V-103 Ryan Cameron than the “Atlanta & Company” Ryan Cameron. In fact, he takes the title seriously by cursing freely. It’s almost jarring since he has to keep it clean on the radio and broadcast TV.
“Let me hear your favorite curse word!” asked Cameron on the first show set to air sometime in November and taped at Center Stage in Midtown. Dressed in a tan suit, yellow tie and rust-colored shoes, Ryan did a few jokes about rich celebrities and their babies and later did a “retro report” in which he waxed nostalgic about the song “Flashlight” and aped Flavor Flav.
Ryan called in all his chits to his Atlanta celebrity buddies. The first day, he taped interviews with soft-spoken Falcons running back Warrick Dunn (above, left) and hip-hop mogul Jermaine Dupri. His musical guests were Ne-Yo (above, right), Yung Joc and Jagged Edge.
Ne-Yo repeated an earlier story he had said to other media about how he had a few songs he had set aside for Britney Spears before her haircut but he said her people stopped responding to him so he gave the songs to the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. “The news came out that I gave Britney’s music away,” he said. “But until Britney cuts me a check, it’s my music!” He also said he’s working on songs with Michael Jackson. He said M.J. told him he likes Ne-Yo’s stuff. “It’s crazy,” Ne-Yo noted. “He sang one of my songs back to me.”
Later, during the second taping, Jermaine Dupri was surprised to hear Ryan curse, too. Ryan explained that this is pay cable, he can say anything. A guy in the audience during Q&A asked JD, tongue partly in cheek, “When the * are you going to marry Janet? And can I come to the G* bachelor party?”
JD: “When I get married, you can come, as long as you’re clean.”
Ryan asked him when he and Janet would hit the aisle. “When I turn 50. It’s a long time away man… I believe if I get married, I have to give it the time. I don’t have the time now.”
And here’s Jagged Edge on Ryan’s set with Ryan seated behind them:
9/24: Glenn Beck back on GST
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After a failed experiment with Mike McConnell in midmornings on WGST-AM, Program Director Randall Bloomquist has decided to bring back conservative talker Glenn Beck.
Beck aired from 2001 to 2005 in Atlanta in that same 9 to noon time slot with mediocre results. But given his higher profile since he started his CNN Headline News show, he might do better this time around. “Since Glenn’s departure we have received regular listener feedback asking for his return,” Bloomquist said in an email.
Bloomquist characterized McConnell as a “talented and successful broadcaster whose style just didn’t click in Atlanta. Mike will continue to be heard on The Weekend, which airs Saturdays Noon - 3pm.”
That slot has been trouble for GST for quite awhile. Dr. Laura had it for a couple of years before Beck and her numbers were nowhere near what they had been when she was on WSB-AM. And Denny Schaffer came from Toledo Ohio in 2005 but never gained a foothold here before he was let go late last year. McConnell was a syndicated product from Cincinnati.
