Was This Great Radio? You Decide.

10-3-13

It's interesting what qualifies as funny these days, but apparently on Sports Talk Radio in Boston, hanging up on a former coach of the Boston Celtics does. The interview with Rick Pitino conducted by CBS Boston morning team Toucher and Rich (pictured) on The Sports Hub lasted about eight seconds. Toucher decided he didn't really want to interview the coach and hung up on him after saying hello. We wondered what you think. Is this funny? Here's the transcript and the audio.

THE TRANSCRIPT
Fred: We are joined by Rick Pitino, former coach of the Celtics, current coach of the Louisville Cardinals who won the national championship. Rick Pitino, hello!
Pitino: Morning, guys.
Fred: You stink. You ruined the Celtics.
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LINK TO THE AUDIO

(10/4/2013 10:27:15 AM)
If "that team" worked for you, you'd actually have good ratings and a funny show on your roster.
(10/4/2013 6:30:29 AM)
Funny? The only part of this that is funny is they have jobs. They could have made the point within the interview. But then.....the press they are getting would not exist would it? (10/4/2013 6:30:28 AM)
Funny? The only part of this that is funny is they have jobs. They could have made the point within the interview. But then.....the press they are getting would not exist would it? (10/3/2013 10:19:04 PM)
What we have here so far makes insufficient sense — meaning there must be more to this than we're reading and hearing. Questions abound... Was this planned from the start? Was the producer who booked the interview in on it? Was Rick Pitino rude the producer first, so T&R wanted to be rude in return? FWIW, Howard Stern is far more artful than T&R, and irrelevant to the question of whether or not this was "good radio." My own 2¢: it was bad manners and bad radio. But we're missing context.
(10/3/2013 9:24:57 PM)
A lot of programmers will hire thugs and slugs for "the edge" they (supposedly) provide.
That's as much a comment about the programmers as it is about the availability and willingness of high quality Talent to suffer such toxic environments as radio has been supplying for so many decades.

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Smith Challenges Radio to Decide On Streaming

April 16, 2012

NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith spoke at the NAB Show about how advanced the automobile dashboard has become -- an area radio has always dominated. It's now a battle for space, as everyone wants the spot once only occupied by AM and FM radio. And perhaps radio has not been totally committed to that war. Smith challenged radio stations to decide on a path to streaming: "Where are you going to be?"

Smith said Ford is already letting people tweet in the car, and there's more technology like that to come. He said to broadcasters, "Where are you going to be? I imagine many of you are getting pressure to get into streaming. Only you know the right answer for your business. Whatever path you decide, NAB will be there on your behalf. Ubiquity tomorrow means your ability to get to people at all times in all places and on all devices."

Smith then went on to criticize the cell phone industry. "Even today, broadcast radio and TV are where the ears and eyeballs are," he said. "Even in an area of Pandora and Spotify, local radio is by far the number one source for new music. Radio has a new opportunity, including on cell phones. Carriers don't make that known and may be refusing to activate the chip. Some say they want to charge for data streaming. We're hopeful, over time, carriers will come to appreciate having an activated radio tuner."

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