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worst BR talk show host, take your pick
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:24 pm
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:24 pm
condon or josh innes?
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:27 pm to redneck
Innes, at least Condon is entertaining
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:42 pm to mattz1122
Condon and it is not even close
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:43 pm to redneck
Innes.
COndon can keep your attention, Innes can't.
COndon can keep your attention, Innes can't.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:43 pm to el tigre
Scone saves both shows from being a steaming pile of shite IMO.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:45 pm to ehidal1
That is gospel truth.
Innes make me want to slap the piss out of him withing five minutes.
Innes make me want to slap the piss out of him withing five minutes.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 1:55 pm to TigerSpy
It aint what you know......
Posted on 12/18/08 at 2:29 pm to redneck
Condon decent if you understand his shtick and realize that that's all he is.
But Innes actually tries to analyze and has no idea what he's talking about.
Mauscona (sp?) is pretty grating with the way he harasses Condon during Condon's show. For example, every time RC starts talking about the old days or reminiscing, MM plays "Remember When" by Alan Jackson over whatever RC is saying and it gets pretty fricking annoying after a while.
As for the callers, the guy "Fish," someone please tell me that that is some kind of fake voice he's trying to pull off. I have to change the station every time that guy calls in. If you know him, please tell him to knock off the fake voice and just speak like a person when he calls in.
But Innes actually tries to analyze and has no idea what he's talking about.
Mauscona (sp?) is pretty grating with the way he harasses Condon during Condon's show. For example, every time RC starts talking about the old days or reminiscing, MM plays "Remember When" by Alan Jackson over whatever RC is saying and it gets pretty fricking annoying after a while.
As for the callers, the guy "Fish," someone please tell me that that is some kind of fake voice he's trying to pull off. I have to change the station every time that guy calls in. If you know him, please tell him to knock off the fake voice and just speak like a person when he calls in.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 2:29 pm to EyeOfTheTiger311
I guess you haven't heard us on KLSU 91.1 FM on sundays..
Posted on 12/18/08 at 2:51 pm to tzimme4
The better questioni is would you rather be pissed upon or shat upon. same choices the OP put forth.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 2:56 pm to redneck
br sports radio is complete crap. the callers are almost as bad as innes and condon.
if i had to pick the one that sucked more id say innes though condon aint far behind.
condons act is retarded and boring. scrappy is just retarded
if i had to pick the one that sucked more id say innes though condon aint far behind.
condons act is retarded and boring. scrappy is just retarded
Posted on 12/18/08 at 4:43 pm to heartbreakTiger
The FISH pain train just called in
Posted on 12/18/08 at 4:58 pm to fightingtiger2335
The sports talk radio is so bad in BR, it makes me really miss Ott. At least there was some substance to his show.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 5:04 pm to ehidal1
condon is an extremely intelligent individual
Posted on 12/18/08 at 5:08 pm to redneck
CONDON is the worst host
FISH is the worst caller
Found this from 03 Business Report
FISH is the worst caller
Found this from 03 Business Report
quote:
loud mouth, Citadel radio puts its trust in wild man Ricahrd Condon; you kiddin' me?
By Alexander, Amy
Publication: The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
Date: Tuesday, February 4 2003
Richard Condon's in the studio. Outside it's as dark as a frickin' cup of chicory. Condon's already runnin' his mouth like it's gonna break if he don't work it.
Pen in hand, he's tappin' til you think he might just break that sucker right off. And he's talkin'. Going on and on. What's he yellin'
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He's goin' off on war protestors and hicks who hang out in deer stands. He's challenging the serial killer to come and get a piece of him. He's sayin' that with Black Entertainment Television on the air, there ought to be a White Entertainment Television too.
Ratings jump when Condon's on a good tirade, so he pushes it as far as he can. It's a risky game.
Condon's bosses at Citadel Communications admit they often listen with white knuckles, hoping Condon doesn't say something that goes too far, alienates advertisers or gets the station in trouble with the Federal Communications Commission.
Condon, meanwhile, lays it on.
He grips the maroon edge of a counter filled with radio gauges and dials, swivels back and forth in a wheeled chair, hovers over the microphone like an auctioneer, his stiff black hair combed into a tiny peak, beads of sweat swelling on his brow.
"I think the average soldier out there has got two things: He wants to come back safe and he's hoping that when he's gone for six or seven months to go to war for this country and protect our democracy and our freedom, he's hoping that the special woman in his life is not having an affair ... I would say that the average woman, 50-55 percent have affairs, and probably if you talk about military ladies, I think that rate increases a little bit."
Spit sprays over the microphone and lands on the counter. Condon leans forward. His chair squawks. He hunches his shoulders and presses down hard.
He needs to.
Condon is a key part of Citadel's comeback strategy. It's widely acknowledged at Citadel-in third place among local radio groups-that Condon is their star, their hope. Upper management is betting he has the muscle to power its newly formatted 100,000-watt rock station, Rock 93.7 FM, to stronger ratings as the morning show co-host.
Condon's target audience is guys, ages 25 to 49. They spend a lot of money on beer and cars and fast food. Score with them in the ratings, and they'll bring in a lot of ad revenue.
But can Condon be trusted to deliver?
He got fired from Guaranty Broadcasting in 1996 for making violent comments in a rant about gays.
Dick Lewis, head of competing Clear Channel Communications, says Condon has a loyal following, but he's not sure it's one that will raise revenues much.
"There's a point when you have diminishing returns," he says. "The broader the appeal, the bigger the fan base. I think there is a relatively small number of people in Baton Rouge who particularly care for that type of humor."
The folks at Citadel aren't worried. As long as people are talking-or griping-about Condon, that means he's on people's minds. And that's good for business.
"Even when people hate him, they're listening to him," says Kevin Calmes of Calmes Motor Sports, one company that sponsors Condon.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 5:08 pm to ike221
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'I'm fed up'
In the studio, Condon's co-host, Dave Michaels, turns up music to drown out one of Condon's verbal crescendos. But Condon just keeps going, talking over "Rush" (the rock band, not Limbaugh). "I mean it, Dave! I'm fed up about it!" Condon shouts as a bass line thrums in.
At a break, a rush of breath escapes from Condon's lips and he sits back, exhausted, blinking. He pushes away from the counter and stops at a small desk piled high with almanacs and papers.
"Can I get you a cup of coffee? Water? Anything?" he asks solicitously, transforming into a different person.
Those close to Condon, 42, insist he's not an inyour-face kind of guy off the air. Outside, around town, in his life, he's a gentleman. He drives carpool. He takes out the garbage.
"I wouldn't have stayed married to him for 18 years if he was like that at home," says Condon's wife, Sue.
"He tells me, 'Sue, I could get on the radio and be monotonous and go with the flow and never mix it up, but then I wouldn't be on the radio anymore.' "
Condon says his on-air personality is just a character he plays, no harm meant, though he does believe what he is saying.
"Somebody who juggles with the bowling pins at birthday parties, magicians or a clown doing tricks, it's just a show. When you go to work, and then you go home, you're a little bit different at work. On radio, it's a little bit different. It's an extreme," he says.
Michaels says it's common for radio people to be like that: Loud, then quiet. Rude, then nice. "There are a lot of insecure people in radio," Michaels says.
Ask Condon off the air why he flips between tough radio guy and nice everyman, and he says it's because he's not all that sure of himself. Tough guy Condon is someone he wishes he could be sometimes.
Condon spent his early childhood in a shotgun house on the corner of Ninth and Chippewa in New Orleans, part of what's known as the Irish Channel.
Life in the Channel was simple back in those days, recalls Condon's father, Richard Condon II.
You didn't have to lock your doors. On summer evenings, talk drifted in and out of open windows and pressed through screen doors. Kids played stickball in the street, and you didn't have to feel bad for drinking beer all day on a Saturday.
"If you cooked something and the neighbor liked it, you always made sure you cooked a little extra and brought it over," the elder Condon says.
"The Irish Channel is the core of who I am," says Condon, the son.
On the radio, Condon paints his rough Irish Channel upbringing in broad, stylized strokes. It's as if, when that on-air button is pressed, he returns to a world that's frozen in a glass globe.
There, the women are broads. Parents slap their children around. And everyone has cigarettes rolled up in their T-shirt sleeves.
Actually, Condon wasn't a badass, his mother, Florence Condon, says. His big passion in high school? Meteorology. He used to rush home from dates to catch the 10 o'clock news.
"He's so different on-air than he is in person," his mother says.
"I got beaten up a bunch," Condon says. "I was shy until I got out of high school. Seriously. I didn't do well with the girls. I was just 125 pounds when I graduated from high school. My dad was pretty hard on me, so I never spread my wings."
'Son-of-a-buggers'
Condon graduated from LSU in 1983 and worked a number of odd jobs until he started doing an afternoon radio show on a station dubbed "The Tiger" in the early '90s.
He was a natural talking about sports. He was even better when he got on the players.
In 1994, Condon scored when he went off on LSU's quarterback, Jamie Howard, after a legendary collapse and loss to Auburn.
"Howard fumbled the center snap," Condon recalls. "He fumbled it, and Wainwright picked it up and started going the opposite way. Jamie Howard didn't even try to tackle him. He just kind of like said, 'Whatever. I'm the quarterback, that's somebody else's job.' And I couldn't believe it."
Condon raised hell about Howard. Howard heard the show and called Condon on the air.
"He says, 'I'm going to come down there and whip your arse.' I said, 'let me tell you how to get here. Where are you coming from?' I said, 'You're coming from LSU, all you have to do is go down Stanford, take a right on Perkins, you get to Essen, you take a left. And right when you get to Benny's Carwash, we're right here.' "
Ratings soared. Condon's run-in with Howard got play on the evening news and in newspapers around the state. Condon got crank calls. Angry fans egged his house.
But pushing the envelope got people's attention, so Condon kept doing it.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 5:08 pm to ike221
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In 1996, he pushed it too far.
"I went off on Clinton wanting to allow same-sex marriages to have health benefits and all that," he says. "I said something I regret saying. It's probably the only thing in radio ever that I regret saying ... I didn't mean it, it was just off the cuff, I said, 'As far as I'm concerned, you can shoot all those son-of-abuggers in the head. I could care less.' "
Condon called his wife a few hours later, half-drunk, from Pastime Pizza. He'd been fired. It was rough. But a few weeks later, Condon landed on his feet.
Don Nelson, now general manager at Guaranty Broadcasting, hired Condon to do sports at Citywide Communications.
"I said, 'Richard, this is your last Baton Rouge hoorah. This is it. If you want to make it work, if you want to be in radio, this is where you're going to have to make it work. I'm a big fan of yours, but you've got to try to play ball with us and not always be out-of-bounds.' To his credit, he's made it work. I tip my hat to him."
Condon hosted a call-in show on WIBR-AM from 6 a.m-10 a.m. until late last year, when his bosses shifted his act to the same time on Rock 93.7 FM. The higher-ups hope his co-hosting the FM morning show boosts ratings for the newly formatted rock station.
Not everyone is sure Condon will be an asset.
"When's Richard going to shoot himself in the foot?" posits Ann Edelman of Edelman Advertising and Public Relations.
"I'm not worried about him shooting himself. I'm worried about other people," jokes another prominent ad agency owner. "He is a loose cannon. You do not know what's likely to come out of his mouth. Most of my clients will not allow me to buy on the radio station that has him on it."
Richard's a menace
State Sen. Cleo Fields says he gets calls from people in Baton Rouge's African-American community who want him to get Condon to stuff it.
Fields' usual response: "My bottom line is that if you think it's trash, don't listen to it."
Robert Kinchen, a Baton Rouge financial advisor and member of the Capital City Alliance, a gay rights organization, says Condon's success is a reflection of Baton Rouge's smallmindedness.
"I feel sorry for Mr. Condon that he has to make comments like the ones he makes to get ratings," Kinchen says.
At Citadel, they don't try to rein in Condon.
"He's thought-provoking," says Rebecca Breeding, Citadel's general manager. "I have enough confidence in him to know where the line is. He's learned that the hard way."
Condon's got a big fight ahead of him if he hopes to win the ratings war. In the most recent ratings period, much of his target demographic was listening to morning stars Walton & Johnson on Eagle 98.1.
That's okay, Condon says. He can fight.
It's Friday afternoon at Calmes Motor Sports on Florida Boulevard in Denham Springs.
Beat-up pickup trucks pass the motorcycle dealership, where Condon has been hired to do a remote broadcast. Rush-hour traffic whooshes past through the chilly January air. From one truck comes a sharp tenor cry. It's either obscenity or praise. No one can tell which.
Condon, surrounded by a legion of beefy guys, puffs up his chest and says he wishes the son-of-a-bugger had the guts to get out of the frickin' truck and square off face-to-face, fight like a real man, just fists and cold air between 'em.
He's got no time for sissies.
Posted on 12/18/08 at 5:10 pm to ike221
anybody ever actually went down there and kicked condons arse? not saying he deserves it... just curious.. he calls out a lot of people no?
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