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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
11/29: Tom Hughes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I was trying to reach Tom Hughes last week but he had left to go out of town for Thanksgiving. Then I got this quixotic email from him Tuesday:
Rodney,
I was out of town for Thanksgiving, leaving immediately after my last day on air at WGST. I came home to your series of phone messages.
I don’t wish to be rude but I choose not to comment to you about the recent changes at WGST.
If the AJC’s political reporters covered the elections the way you do radio, they would have written their first stories the morning after the polls closed.
Regards, Tom Hughes
In other words, he felt I should have written more about him and/or the GST situation leading up to the firing, that this after-the-fact coronation of his skills and talent is of little use to him now that he’s no longer on the air. Fair enough. Every radio personality wants more ink, more publicity, more marketing, more promotion. It’s understandable. To Tom, I’m sorry I didn’t give you enough of that before hand but I hope that doesn’t preclude you from talking about life when things have settled down or you find another place on the dial.
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11/29: Lite 94.9’s future
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The drumbeat of rumors point to a country format Clear Channel likes to dub “The Bull” after Christmas on Lite 94.9, which has been soft rock for many years.
There are Bulls in several cities such as Birmingham, Lexington Ky., Ashtabula, Ohio and St. Louis, home of Craig Cornett (who was very briefly the morning host at Kicks in late 2005, early 2006. You have to appreciate the efficiency of creating Web sites that look identical, right down to some of the same advertisements for Larry the Cable Guy’s holiday CD and a Keith Urban on demand concert.
Do you think Kicks and Eagle (both owned by ABC Radio) could use the competition? It could aslo be a place to put the Atlanta Braves on the FM dial.
