- Countdown Entry #17
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- 10:11 AM, Saturday, November 6th,
1999:
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- Fellow Online LISTENERS! (Ahh,
that does feel good...)
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- Starting on January 3rd, 2000 The
Late Show will be back on the air 5 nights a week from
10 PM - 1 AM. What a WAY to kick off the millenium (I
know it isn't REALLY the millenium yet...but don't all
those zeros look NICE)
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- Changes? Yup. First of all, a
co-host. After 4 years solo (though marty MOOSE sure
did lots of cool stuff!), I'm happy to say that this
guy will add a tremendous amount to the show, and give
me the luxury to continue with the 4tvs.
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- Joe Jewitt is simply the quickest
wit I've run into in my 4 1/2 years in radio. Always
makes me laugh. Always sees things in a refreshing
perspective, and ever since I've met him, I've wanted
to do a show with him. His production skills are
incredible, and I feel we will be kicking much ASSS
come January.
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- Second change...The name. We still
have no idea yet, but I think the days of "The Late
Show" are officially coming to an end. Keeping the
name hampers the show in two ways: If you liked it,
you'll expect the same thing (just as the WTVN
listeners did when they listened to CD101)...if you
disliked it, you'll expect the same thing. My sole
reason for wanting to keep the name was to sell all
these god-damn CDs I have... Including the Listener
Bits CD and Parody song CD I'd like to have out by
December. We'll see what happens with
those.
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- Last Change...the show! I'm
already gearing up for the "song fight" we will both
inevitably have with Andyman. He wants 2 songs per 15
minute segment, and Joe and I want 1. Tune in on the
3rd of January to see who wins. I barely see middle
ground here. This show will have a talk base to it.
There WILL be topics, there will be callers, there
will be ONLINE interaction...but with a song every 5
minutes, you are now creating the mechanics of the OLD
late Show on CD101. Which was song-bit-song-bit...that
will not work with talk. Oh well, we will find a
way.
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- You can still expect of
course...TONS more parodies (they will be investing in
background discs for me so I don't have to try and
loop 2 chords for 5 hours to make a song) Also
parodies of movies, TV shows, and the occasional
Boyles from time to time.
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- So how does this further 4tvs? A
question many of you asked when my first email came
out. "Weren't you going to Vegas to push 4tvs, how the
hell does this help?"
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- First, simple exposure. Plain and
simple. A full-time On-Air position in this city
rocks.
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- Second, when Joe does the shows
the nights that I'm gigging, he can announce where I
am on the air, as well as I will be promoting the show
when I'm gigging. I'll be doing the parodies from the
show and so on. It's a wonderful cross promotion, that
in time will be extremely beneficial...
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- Here's the biggie: The million
hits a month part. CD101.com is the biggest radio
station web site in the country right now. It's
getting INSANE hits all over the world. I still can't
fathom how quickly the site hit 1,000,000 a month.
Whereas most radio stations have little to offer,
CD101.com really does a good job at bringing people
back. Just as the show will have a link on their site,
so will 4tvs.com...and thus an opportunity for my site
to get pretty pounded. This really gets things rolling
for 4tvs.com. It was something I simply could NOT turn
down. And of course Vegas isn't OVER. If we do the
show for 6 months and it BOMBS, and everyone wants to
kill us, you move on! Simple as that. But I could
never have gotten this kind of support in Vegas. I
would have been BY MYSELF in a town I did not know. At
a radio station that could care less what I did in
Columbus. Let alone the internet support. It was the
right decision. This is a big step in a huge picture,
and it confirms my belief that CD101 is a very special
place.
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- Did you hear the cleaning party we
had 2 weeks ago at the station? Had a Sunday cleaning
party, and EVERYONE came. EVERYONE. We all had pizza
and subs, and cleaned up, and painted the Big Room,
and laughed about unplugging shit on the air. It was
awesome. It was soooo amazing. I'm sure you're all
thinking "oooh...they made you clean on a SUNDAY" We
were like little kids. It was fun. To see the owner of
the station scrubbin' the floor next to the interns,
and the GM sweeping the rug wearin' sweats...of course
we could've paid some cleaning people to do it, but
WOW. We had fun, we are a family. And a very loyal
family as you can see. And what the GM and Andyman did
for me this week was pretty amazing. This certainly is
no WTVN. You never heard me singing about having
sex
with Darryl.
Heh.
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- Speaking of which I called Corby
last week. Heh heh... He was doing a topic on "world's
worst bosses..."
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- Guess who I called in
for....
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- Poor Darryl. "Hey, John. I used to
work at a radio station and did this weekend show. It
was great, lots of calls, lots of CDs and tapes
sold...even got write ups in the paper...but my BOSS
wouldn't listen to my show!" "This is Adam Kontras
isn't it." It was very funny, he said: "Yeah, Darryl
never paid attention to me either, but I was already
in the afternoons, it must've sucked when you were
trying to get some attention..." It was wild...my
heart was all racing and I was all nervous. I NEVER
get nervous...EVER. I get a rush, and feed off it, but
waiting on the phone to slam Darryl AGAIN on WTVN got
me nervous...it was cool as shit.
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- Anyway, I'm off to go figure out
the rest of my year. Plans have definitely changed a
bit. Oh, sidenote..I will not be playing the Gallery
hop tonight. I know it's a beautiful day, but I can't
do that again to CD101. I just can't. That would look
way too selfish after all they've done.
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- Please respond with what you
think! I'll be sure to write back
immediately...
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- Your Late Show...well The Show
Formerly known as The Late Show Host,
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- Adam
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