- 2:00 PM, Friday, February
2nd, 1996:
- Meeting #12. Basically calls me
in to see how I'm doing, and jokingly says to make
sure I'm not watching the Bulls-Lakers game tonight on
TV while I'm on the air (Magic and Michael together
again). Great, now he knows. I was just going to watch
it with no sound...he wants me to make a thing out of
it. You know, see how long I can make it before
someone tells me the answer. We also saw my ratings
for the fall! It was cool, but confusing....all of
these demographics. I was really high in some
categories, number 1 in quite a few. Showed that I
have over 10,000 listeners in a night. Wow. And that's
only adults 18+. So that was interesting, but still
there were so many numbers and demos, confusing as
hell. At one point he laughed, threw the numbers on
his desk and said: "This is all bullshit. We just all
agree to abide by the same bullshit". :-) Oh well, he
likes what I'm doing.
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- 11:30 PM - 6:00 AM, Friday -
Saturday, February 2nd - 3rd, 1996:
SHOW 105
- Well, sorry Bill. I watched as
much as I could, sped to work, watched as much as I
could, and watched the rest on the air. I played along
with the audience though. Saying I was taping it
(which I really was) and didn't want to know the
score. I was fine until the news said it at 1:00, then
I pretended like it was ruined. It was funny, and a
good gag. (Bulls won 99-84, Magic had 15, Jordan only
had 17). The show was fun, but not too funny. Too
serious almost, but a few good laughs. Got tired and
hungry during trivia, and Anthony Green came and
brought me a muffin, an orange, and some punch. Cool,
can't argue with that. Trivia went fine, and Douglas
won 3-0 over professor John, and Terry. I mean Douglas
went nuts. I only asked 5 of the potential 18
questions. Good night, go Bulls, I'm
tired.
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- 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM, Saturday
- Sunday, February 3rd - 4th, 1996:
SHOW 106
- Another good night. Thought I'd
be dead tired since I only got 6 hours of sleep but
I'm fine now, and it's 7:30. Show had some slow parts
over all, and lots of pranks. Actually was able to
hold a conversation with one of them on the air. What
a loser. Jesus. He says that Cannon hates me, and he's
teaming up with him to get me off the air...oh and
Cannon and the other DJ's. That triggers all these
other regular callers asking if I've heard what Cannon
says about me during the week, 'cause it's derrogatory
and paranoid. That really pisses me off because
I've done NOTHING but defend him on the air (here I'm
a bit more open :-) ) That and his stupid "punk kid"
shit is getting old. Then BC gets one of my prankers
yesterday, and says..."just one of Adam's callers..."
As if he's my friend I guess. GODDAMNIT. Now BC is
cool, I know he's joking, but this Cannon thing
pisses me off. Anyway, trivia was fun..newcomer Scott
almost took it all, but lost a close one to
Brian...who beat Douglas!!! Ha...3-2-2. Douglas just
cannot 3peat. Got BWF #74 in at the last half hour.
Had a good 25 minutes of them. Then had a lady trying
to ask me out...she was a wee bit shocked when I said
I was 20...she was 40. By far though, the best thing
happened after my show....Talkin' to Bradley about
Cannon and he says his career's been pretty sad...I
asked why and he tells me a heck of a story. I guess
Cannon got a job at KMOX in St. Louis...a big
deal..bigger then WTVN. Well he worked there 2
days...Why? He blew this opportunity because the first
day he left a pig sty in the studio, and the morning
guy..."bigger BC type" said fuck this, I'm not dealin'
with this...talked to the PD, and the PD talked to
Cannon and said: "You know, don't know exactly what's
up...but please don't let this happen again." The next
day, same thing...Cannon's gone. Wow. But
really, you wouldn't BELIEVE his desk. Now you know
Steve was here in '75, he left for another stupid
reason...he was Nite Talk...and BC was afternoons, BC
left to do WBNS mornings, and Cannon took BC's spot.
Apparently the advertisers freaked out and said there
was no way they'd pay more money to put their spots on
in the afternoons, and they only wanted Cannon at
night or they'd pull all of their spots...so the
obvious decision, keep Cannon on 7-midnight Nite-Talk,
or lose a shitload of Ad money. Perry (The PD then)
makes that decision, Cannon takes it personally and
quits. Duh... Then he comes back now a has-been, if he
had just stuck around he'd of been the Next in line
for BC...how odd. Ah well, can't say I feel too sorry
for him...
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- 11:30 PM - 2:00 AM, Sunday -
Monday, February 4th - 5th, 1996:
- Just produced Cannon... What a
loser. Had a prank call that said fuck and then went
on for about 20 minutes on-the-air. If he even had to
deal with what I go through without a producer.
Even the caller he was on with while he was going nuts
was saying..."chill out Steve". Oh well. I finished
the final song for my CD and listened throughout the
night during breaks. "I
Trusted You" - sounds
awesome.
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