May
29
2009
hearne
No more Mr. Nicey Nice…
Kansas City radio export Erich Mancow Muller has taken off the gloves and retained an attorney to get KMBZ 980 AM evening host Darla Jaye’s full and undivided attention.
“I want her to admit that she was lying about Jerry Agar,” Mancow says. “Agar came to me and was really, really hateful to me in the hall and I said, ‘What’s your problem?’ And he said, ‘Well, you took my job.’ I didn’t take his job, they got rid of him because he wasn’t any good. He was a bore and he wasn’t getting through to Chicago.”
Mancow replaced Agar – who left KMBZ’s afternoon drive slot here a couple years back for WLS in Chicago – last October.
Here’s how the Jaye bird fits in to this soap opera… Continue reading
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Apr
10
2009
hearne
Enough already…
Kansas City radio export Erich Mancow Muller has had about enough of the rumor being floated here since he took over former 980 KMBZ host Jerry Agar’s slot on Chicago superstation WLS 890 AM last year.
“How about the truth?!” emailed 980 KMBZ host Darla Jaye last November after I reported the change in the Star. “Hey H., if you had done some actual research or investigating…it would have been easy to find out the TRUTH.”
Jaye’s version of the “truth”?
“Mancow didn’t TOPPLE Jerry Agar,” Jaye wrote. “He is BUYING that time slot! Jerry earned the spot on WLS, and Mancow PURCHASED it! Why don’t you write about that, Hearne?”
Consider it done…
“That’s just not true,” Mancow says of Jaye’s accusation. “if I was paying for it, I would tell you. (WLS) offered me money and we signed a multi-year deal.”
While Agar’s ratings were decent, good even, “I’ve had a name in Chicago since 1994 and I just had my highest ratings ever,” Mancow says. “They pay me, I don’t pay people to do my show – it’s a joke – it’s ludicrous. It’s a lie, and by the way I confronted (Jerry) in the hall and he said he never said that. He still does fill-in work for WLS. Since I took over for Jerry Agar the ratings are up 135 percent.”
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Apr
10
2009
hearne
This just in, from Stanford & Sons main man Craig Glazer…
That fabled Kansas City radio riotmaster Randy Miller – whose on-air antics during the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are the stuff of legend – may be poised to return to the airwaves.
However not in the Cowtown.
“I was told that the big news was Randy Miller would be on the air middays in Chicago going up against Mancow,” Glazer says. “That it’s a firm deal and he’s starting May 1st. So he’s up – batter up!”
If true, it would go down on Chicago talk station WGN 720 Radio where Miller has appeared as a guest DJ. If he goes up against former protege Mancow, Miller would slot in from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., in a spot currently nailed down by a rather vanilla-sounding Kathy and Judy show. Kathy and Judy are currently conducting a – yawn – “Become Your Best Britney” contest. Continue reading
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