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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
7/2: Six Flags pulls advertising off Project 9-6-1 after morning show comments, Jimmy Baron subs for Dave morning show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Six Flags Over Georgia has pulled advertising off rock station Project 9-6-1 after the morning show made “insensitive remarks” about Saturday’s accident regarding the teen-ager getting hit by a roller coaster, according to a Six Flags spokeswoman.
Six Flags spokeswoman Hela Sheth sent an email acknowledging this happened but provided no further details. (She did send the urls below of audioclips from the show.) She didn’t know how long Six Flags would stay off the station. (Six Flags typically advertises fairly heavily in the summer on radio and TV.)
No word from Clear Channel Atlanta Operations Manager Clay Hunnicutt, Project 9-6-1 program director Chris Williams or either “Giant” Brian Carothers or his co-host Shaffee. So I don’t know if there will be any punishment.
The Giant Show offers podcasts of its shows. During yesterday’s show, Shaffee and Giant Brian (right) wondered what the park did with the teen-ager’s head. I’m not sure if that’s the point of contention but judge for yourself here.
They also interviewed a company that cleans up crime scenes called Biotrauma here.
Here’s part two with the company Biotrauma.
-Jimmy Baron (right, with Bruce Springsteen), morning host at 99X from 1994 to 2006, will be subbing for Zakk Tyler and Jane Monzures next week on Dave FM. Most stations will run a “best of” or bring in an existing staff member to cover a morning show when it’s on vacation. So this is somewhat unusual and could potentially be a test run for Baron to replace Zakk, who has been around for about five months. (Baron actually did an overnight audition or two with Dave before Zakk was hired.) A few months before the Morning X was dropped in 2003, Fred Toucher was given a test run. He joined the show in the fall of that year. Baron has not had a radio gig since spring of 2006. He will be joined by Yvonne Monet, also a former 99Xer.
Mike Wheeler, the program director, said he didn’t want to disrupt dayparts by bringing Orff or Margot or Sully in. And Monet is going to re-join Dave FM on a part-time basis. “It’s been awhile since Jimmy had a chance to talk to Atlanta. It’d be good for everybody.”
Wouldn’t this worry Zakk, I asked. “That’s our morning guy. He’s doing great. He thinks it’s fine.”
-Satellite radio fans: another grim story about the prospects for Xm and Sirius..
Stock analysts expect both companies to slash programing costs (23% of total costs) significantly once they combine and the Howard Sterns and NFL’s of the world lose their leverage.
-A fan of Kelly & Alpha has started a Yahoo group called “Save Kelly and Alpha.” Here’s the site if you want to join.
-Mike Mitchell, the last original jock on the seven-year-old Praise 97.5 radio station, left the station in May for personal reasons. A replacement will be announced soon.
