I think it was a very unique but odd pairing of programming with personality. You're right. It doesn't have the energy of the weekend show that me and my friend Chad produced, and that hurts. Dow : Since you left Country Gold, the response from your fans has been amazing. They've definitely made themselves heard both on Facebook and at the affiliate level. How does that feel? Rowdy Yates : It's been a tremendous shot in the arm. For a couple of weeks, I just let it lie. The listeners were the ones who weren't going to stand for it.
When it happened, I just put a simple message up on my website and my Facebook page saying, 'Hey, that's the radio biz. Rowdy Yates : Within a month, I was contacted by every major syndicator out there. Today, I could pick up the phone and have a show going in a couple of weeks if I wanted to. There is one particular group who has really made an effort to court me and we have been in negotiations.
I'm holding out for a few things and they are for the listeners. I'm talking about the availability to stream the show, a mobile app where people can listen to recorded portions of the program on demand - and this is important: There has to be no doubt in anyone's mind who owns this program and it will be mine. I don't have to worry about anything except someone to distribute it and sell it, and there's one group out there who said, 'That's OK!
Dial Global was under the impression that my contract was about to expire, which in fact it wasn't. That means I'm still getting a paycheck from them. Initially, they seemed agreeable about letting me out of my deal, but after they started seeing the audience reaction to the new Country Gold with Randy Owen, they decided to keep me right where I was on the sidelines taking their paychecks but unable to make a move until the contract is up. Rowdy Yates : If everything goes the way I think it's going to, you'll hear me in the spring.
If we get a little legal wrangling out of the way, there is a possibility that we'll have a Jan. However, just because I may have a new show on the air, that doesn't necessarily mean that existing Country Gold stations will be able to just start airing it and stop airing the Randy Owen show.
They'd have to wait until their current agreement expires. One of the reasons why I was so excited and so at ease about doing the show is the way it was done out of my house. Since I started the show, I've actually lived in three different places.
With increased technology and the ability to have a studio here, it just made more financial sense for me to build my own studio. I don't know why, but I'm glad you corrected me, Josh.
So are your listeners still up in arms about the Dixie Chicks? Whenever the comments were first made, the telephone lines lit up, the Internet poll that we conducted showed better than 85 percent of them saying, absolutely not, we don't stand for this, we don't want them on your radio station anymore.
I mean, is there a sense that they should have just remained quiet, that they didn't need to come forward like this, because not only are they on "Primetime Thursday," but they are also on the cover of "Entertainment Weekly" posing naked with slogans written all over their naked bodies.
So I think that's kind of a non-event, that's something we would probably expect for the Dixie Chicks to do anyway, just because they're kind of wild and crazy.
The other side might say, well, look, it's just continuing the controversy. I don't think it needed to be an hour of prime time live on ABC. You know, they talked about the 15 words that were said. You know, I think we would have been satisfied -- and I say we as a representative of our audience at KILT here in Houston -- if they would have said, hey, that was stupid, I shouldn't have said that. I think all would have been forgotten.
And I still think that there were some questions left unanswered after the prime time special. Oh, I'd like to take an hour and apologize and tell him how much I appreciate him, or oh, boy, I've got an hour's worth of time, I'm going to tell you what I really feel about you, George. No doubt it is needed, and if on the right FM or AM signal, it could be a player. But I think the demise of News FM made station owners gun shy about trying it. JH: I like them.
It proves my point that content is king. Even if you are fat, ugly, sloppy — if you are bringing the masses what they want, millions will watch it. I had always used my real name until I arrived in Houston.
When I was offered the job in , they asked if I would consider a name change. My dad was not happy, but I was okay with it. My only argument against it was that that I was a highly rated radio personality in nearby College Station for years, and a bunch of those Aggies now lived in Houston. But they were making some compelling arguments.
I think Rowdy Yates was the right choice. What's Eric Eating Episode By CultureMap Staff. Signed bottles still open. By Eric Sandler. Food Truck Fundraiser. Movie Review. By Alex Bentley. By Steven Devadanam. By Tarra Gaines. Would you care to know what is at the top? In big block letters written with a bright orange highlighter on a large yellow notepad I scratched out two words:.
I had no idea you could get motion sickness 19 stories up. I always thought that was for folks who did not take well to cruises, fishing off-shore or passengers on bumpy flights; like the lady that threw up in my lap on my last landing in Las Vegas. But you can get green-in-the-gills 19 stories up, and there was a lot more that 25 of us learned from Thursday to Sunday of last week as we rode out Hurricane Ike in our Greenway Plaza studios.
As if all of the pre-Ike coverage and his trek from the ocean to Houston were not enough to warn us, an 8 foot by 10 foot window bowing away from the frame of our building several hundred feet up was. That gave us our first indication it was going to be a very rough night. The time was 9pm and the eye of the storm would not visit us until around 2am the next morning.
First noticed by our Chief Engineer Dan Woodard who I have a whole new level of respect for it would have been the smartest and simplest thing to shut the big, tall, three inch thick executive door, and let the window blow out and suck every last thing out of that office. But we are radio people. Brave people who volunteered to defend the CBS installation, protect the commercial inventory and relay vital information to the millions who were listening.
So, half a dozen of us bravely entered the office of our Research Director Gina Messick and started hauling everything out. In hindsight, it was not all that bad. After all we ARE radio people, and many of us have had to move quickly, with NO notice, and at night. We all saw the footage of the storm rolling in.
Many of us got a big kick out of Geraldo Rivera being swept off his feet and into a street full of Ike infused Galveston gumbo. But that was just a little taste of what would whip Galveston , The Bolivar Peninsula and the Southeast Texas coastline.
CBS Radio Houston was there through it all. Like Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Katrina, there are buzz words that radio and TV types toss around all too frequently. The door, the doorjamb around it and four inches of concrete that encased it are now lying horizontal on what was left of the roof. They are just the windows blowing out of the building. But we still have power, and thankfully the toilets were only temporarily compromised. But with the building swaying, glass crashing, lightning flashing and winds blowing, we were providing calming voices, life saving information, news updates and hundreds of stories from people riding out the storm with us.
In the back of our minds, every one of us wondering what we would see when the sun rose? What we would come home to, or even worse; if we even had anything or anyone to go home to. I do want to recognize the services of the three brave men who were in our twisting AM interior studios when the storm was the worst. Having now covered three big storms, I am certain I would rather have a fishing guide as my radio wing man than the head of the National Hurricane Forecast Center.
Captain Mickey and Captain Wayne before him knew the coast, the people and the places-as well as the honey holes for big mouth bass and speckled trout. These men and their producer Malana Nall had to physically brace themselves to keep chairs from rolling away from microphones and consoles.
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