***** Official KTCK/1310 AM "The Ticket" Thread *****

[Bogart]

Mentioning Davy made me think of: "Stand Back Professor Burrito!"

That bit was such audio chaos

Fixed, right?

The original was about as good as radio can be, it was downhill after that.

 

[Heavy B]

P.S.I was sold on the Ticket when Gordo went to jail for breaking into Lambeau Field, that is a classic.

See what I mean? This is back when Gordo used to work hard and was funny.That was great radio.

 

[honky kong]

Greggo just admitted that he llike Thiesman - WTF

I bet he stuttered, lost his train of thought, and botched seven facts while admitting it.

It's funny 'cause it's true. They ought to make him do tickers. At least he'd be funny then.

 

[Dt's Mules]

Mentioning Davy made me think of: "Stand Back Professor Burrito!"

That bit was such audio chaos

Fixed, right?

The original was about as good as radio can be, it was downhill after that.

oj .....oj.....oj....oj

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

P.S.I was sold on the Ticket when Gordo went to jail for breaking into Lambeau Field, that is a classic.

See what I mean? This is back when Gordo used to work hard and was funny.That was great radio.

Gordon still kills me. Anybody hear him talking to the big jugged chick at Kroger this morning?

 

[Bogart]

P.S.I was sold on the Ticket when Gordo went to jail for breaking into Lambeau Field, that is a classic.

See what I mean? This is back when Gordo used to work hard and was funny.That was great radio.

Gordon still kills me. Anybody hear him talking to the big jugged chick at Kroger this morning?

GB Gordo. Yes he doesn't work as hard as he use to (use to follow The Little Hummer Boy around back in the day), but the guy puts up gold 3 or 4 segements a day. Without him, The Musers would be a very bland Sports/Frat Humor/Coppell Update show.

 

[culdeus]

P.S.I was sold on the Ticket when Gordo went to jail for breaking into Lambeau Field, that is a classic.

See what I mean? This is back when Gordo used to work hard and was funny.That was great radio.

Gordon still kills me. Anybody hear him talking to the big jugged chick at Kroger this morning?

So are you getting morning after pills?

 

[Dt's Mules]

i love the stop down on the interview with the ticketchick when craig said

"behind you, behind you, BEHIND YOU"

 

[Bogart]

First post getting updated slowly. If anyone has links they want to add, just let me know.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

First post getting updated slowly. If anyone has links they want to add, just let me know.

Well done. Curve it.

 

[Bogart]

ANSWER the questions, GEORGE!!

 

[Dt's Mules]

anyone catch grego on the phone with the musers this morning.

stammering stuttering moron....

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

anyone catch grego on the phone with the musers this morning.stammering stuttering moron....

Missed it. He was driving me nuts yesterday during my ride home and I can't remember why. Anybody get the sense that Rhyner is growing a little impatient with Greg? I feel like he's been less forgiving with Hammer's snafus lately.

 

[honky kong]

anyone catch grego on the phone with the musers this morning.stammering stuttering moron....

Was he always this bad and I just failed to realize it or has he gotten exponentially worse over the last year or so? The guy has no sense of humor, he botches EVERY discussion he's in, and outside of baseball, his sports knowledge is pretty sad. Is he getting by because he's the resident hick?

 

[Dt's Mules]

anyone catch grego on the phone with the musers this morning.stammering stuttering moron....

Was he always this bad and I just failed to realize it or has he gotten exponentially worse over the last year or so? The guy has no sense of humor, he botches EVERY discussion he's in, and outside of baseball, his sports knowledge is pretty sad. Is he getting by because he's the resident hick?

gotten worse i think...and seriously it might have been the pills that kept him "calm" it's like he's gotten afraid of public speaking

 

[pantagrapher]

In researching a column on Hitzges set to run in next week’s Best of Dallas issue, I landed on last week’s exchange between Norm, long-time producer Mark Friedman and morning-show newsman (see: yuk monkey) Gordon Keith. In light of Norm’s “Picks of the Pole” selections going a hideous 8-23 over the weekend, Gordo lit a match by saying he probably could do better flipping a coin. Frito valiantly defended Norm, who emotionally dug in. Gordo, in his own sucker-punching way, raised legitimate points that Norm, in his numbers-numbing way, countered with illuminating stats. It was real. It was riveting.

And it’s like it never happened.

The tense, terrific segment mysteriously didn’t qualify as a “Dunham and Miller” morning-show “Emergency Brake of the Week” candidate, a fact not lost on afternoon show “BaD Radio,” which aired the conversation. But halfway through replaying the segment, station management bolted in and yanked it off the air. Forever.

Calls to the station’s power-brokers have yet to be returned. Stay tuned.

It was not The Ticket’s finest hour. In fact, it was embarrassing. With its Dallas Cowboys partnership, we worried about the station muting its opinions on the football team. To its credit, that hasn’t happened. But with its new ownership, we should obviously worry about the station muting itself. Privately, on-air personnel are disgusted at the censorship by new owners, who took control of the station in May. It is potentially a slippery slope when a self-proclaimed no-holds-barred station starts, um, barring holds.

For his part, Norm categorizes the exchange as provocative, yet harmless.

“It was an on-air spat, happens all the time,” Hitzges says. “Ten minutes later Gordon tried to apologize to me, but he didn’t need to. It was over. People have this assumption that I don’t like Gordo, but I do. I really respect him. He’s so quick and clever, and, for what he does, I really admire him.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that Norm approves everything about The Ticket.

“When I die that station’s in real trouble,” Norm says jokingly. “Because I ’m going to hire somebody to work through the night deleting all my sound drops.”

Hitzges, by the way, has come a long way since debuting as America’s first full-time sports-talk show host at KERA-FM (90.1) in 1975. At the time the number of people making a living talking sports in Dallas was two: Hitzges and KRLD-AM (1080)’s Brad Sham. In 30 years sports talk certainly has become bigger. But better?

“It’s grown tremendously, but I don’t think the level of quality has grown with it,” Norm says. “Competition makes us all better. Forces us to be more creative, do more research, more shtick, whatever. But you look around today and realize there are a lot of people in this business that just shouldn’t be.”

Something tells me the people who decided to keep an entertaining exchange from listeners are among that group. –Richie Whitt

LINK

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

In researching a column on Hitzges set to run in next week’s Best of Dallas issue, I landed on last week’s exchange between Norm, long-time producer Mark Friedman and morning-show newsman (see: yuk monkey) Gordon Keith. In light of Norm’s “Picks of the Pole” selections going a hideous 8-23 over the weekend, Gordo lit a match by saying he probably could do better flipping a coin. Frito valiantly defended Norm, who emotionally dug in. Gordo, in his own sucker-punching way, raised legitimate points that Norm, in his numbers-numbing way, countered with illuminating stats. It was real. It was riveting.

And it’s like it never happened.

The tense, terrific segment mysteriously didn’t qualify as a “Dunham and Miller” morning-show “Emergency Brake of the Week” candidate, a fact not lost on afternoon show “BaD Radio,” which aired the conversation. But halfway through replaying the segment, station management bolted in and yanked it off the air. Forever.

Calls to the station’s power-brokers have yet to be returned. Stay tuned.

It was not The Ticket’s finest hour. In fact, it was embarrassing. With its Dallas Cowboys partnership, we worried about the station muting its opinions on the football team. To its credit, that hasn’t happened. But with its new ownership, we should obviously worry about the station muting itself. Privately, on-air personnel are disgusted at the censorship by new owners, who took control of the station in May. It is potentially a slippery slope when a self-proclaimed no-holds-barred station starts, um, barring holds.

For his part, Norm categorizes the exchange as provocative, yet harmless.

“It was an on-air spat, happens all the time,” Hitzges says. “Ten minutes later Gordon tried to apologize to me, but he didn’t need to. It was over. People have this assumption that I don’t like Gordo, but I do. I really respect him. He’s so quick and clever, and, for what he does, I really admire him.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that Norm approves everything about The Ticket.

“When I die that station’s in real trouble,” Norm says jokingly. “Because I ’m going to hire somebody to work through the night deleting all my sound drops.”

Hitzges, by the way, has come a long way since debuting as America’s first full-time sports-talk show host at KERA-FM (90.1) in 1975. At the time the number of people making a living talking sports in Dallas was two: Hitzges and KRLD-AM (1080)’s Brad Sham. In 30 years sports talk certainly has become bigger. But better?

“It’s grown tremendously, but I don’t think the level of quality has grown with it,” Norm says. “Competition makes us all better. Forces us to be more creative, do more research, more shtick, whatever. But you look around today and realize there are a lot of people in this business that just shouldn’t be.”

Something tells me the people who decided to keep an entertaining exchange from listeners are among that group. –Richie Whitt

LINK

Interesting read. Wish I would have heard that exchange.

 

[Bogart]

Is it just me, or has Bob and Dan passed The Hardline for best show right now? I use to worship Mike and Gregg, but no longer. If I had to rank the shows, right now it would be:

1. BAD Radio

2. The Hardline

3. The Orphanage (Danny and Davy could be onto something good here.)

4. The Musers

5. Any Ben and Skin fillin

6. Norm (love the info and opinions the guy has, can't stand the way he delivers it)

7. Elf

8. Any fillin with **** Hicks

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Is it just me, or has Bob and Dan passed The Hardline for best show right now? I use to worship Mike and Gregg, but no longer. If I had to rank the shows, right now it would be:1. BAD Radio2. The Hardline3. The Orphanage (Danny and Davy could be onto something good here.)4. The Musers 5. Any Ben and Skin fillin6. Norm (love the info and opinions the guy has, can't stand the way he delivers it)7. Elf8. Any fillin with **** Hicks

I don't get to listen to BAD Radio, but I do like Donovan. The Musers are still my favorite, followed by the Hardline. Greggo's ineptitude coupled with Snake's cockiness are starting to wear on me, though.

 

[The Hardline]

I live in Dallas but commute weekly to Houston to work so I only get to hear them on Friday afternoons when I arrive home. Sometimes over the net.

While I still find the station entertaining I ironically am getting annoyed of listening to my namesake in the afternoons. Greggo is turning into a robot talking goofball, all Rhyns wants to do is play Petty tunes (plus he is dead). And all Plantation Corby does is complain about OU getting spanked.

BaD Radio is quickly surpassing them. Bob making fun of Corby about the OU game last week was too funny. Gay or Not Gay is a great bit.

Gordo makes the Musers. End of Story

Norm is just….well Norm. Enough about horseracing – no one cares.

Thank the maker that Dale Hansen is finally gone. He fits in perfectly with that blowhard Randy Galloway over on ESPN. I have never heard such pompous drivel coming out of my speakers as when I occasionally stop by there. The ONLY thing that station has going for it is Dan Patrick (what does that tell you?). Hansen is the one of the biggest idiots in the world of sports journalism today – a complete kneebiter.

GB Line 4 Guy – he should take Greggo’s spot.

Gb Tiger Woods and Jerry Jones impersonations.

MARK.

 

[honky kong]

Is it just me, or has Bob and Dan passed The Hardline for best show right now? I use to worship Mike and Gregg, but no longer. If I had to rank the shows, right now it would be:1. BAD Radio2. The Hardline3. The Orphanage (Danny and Davy could be onto something good here.)4. The Musers 5. Any Ben and Skin fillin6. Norm (love the info and opinions the guy has, can't stand the way he delivers it)7. Elf8. Any fillin with **** Hicks

I hadn't thought about it, but I'd say that's pretty spot on in my opinion.

 

[Dt's Mules]

donovan has been a welcome addition as bad radio's version of corby/gordo

also, danny chiming in on the hardline is generally good stuff

 

[Bogart]

I live in Dallas but commute weekly to Houston to work so I only get to hear them on Friday afternoons when I arrive home. Sometimes over the net. While I still find the station entertaining I ironically am getting annoyed of listening to my namesake in the afternoons. Greggo is turning into a robot talking goofball, all Rhyns wants to do is play Petty tunes (plus he is dead). And all Plantation Corby does is complain about OU getting spanked.BaD Radio is quickly surpassing them. Bob making fun of Corby about the OU game last week was too funny. Gay or Not Gay is a great bit.Gordo makes the Musers. End of StoryNorm is just….well Norm. Enough about horseracing – no one cares. Thank the maker that Dale Hansen is finally gone. He fits in perfectly with that blowhard Randy Galloway over on ESPN. I have never heard such pompous drivel coming out of my speakers as when I occasionally stop by there. The ONLY thing that station has going for it is Dan Patrick (what does that tell you?). Hansen is the one of the biggest idiots in the world of sports journalism today – a complete kneebiter.GB Line 4 Guy – he should take Greggo’s spot.Gb Tiger Woods and Jerry Jones impersonations.MARK.

This guy knows stuff. Interesting side note about the makeup of the Hardline, Corby is taking over more and more segments of the show. Yeah he gets E-News, Snake Pit, Community Q-Hits, but now any golf, college football and non-baseball segments, he either leads or is the main speaker. Might be time for a shakeup there. Never thought I would say that.

 

[culdeus]

Ranking the Ticket Hosts:

1. Junior

2. Gordon

3. Bob

4. Jub

5. Rynes

6. Corby

7. Dan

8. Norm

Shows

Musers

BAD

Hardline

Norm

 

[Dt's Mules]

any of you guys remember "disgruntled bikini girls"

well they got one hot girl in there one time and the pics were up on the website for like 2 days and then vanished

anyone know the story there?

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

This thread rules. Why it wasn't started sooner is beyond me.

 

[Bogart]

any of you guys remember "disgruntled bikini girls"well they got one hot girl in there one time and the pics were up on the website for like 2 days and then vanishedanyone know the story there?

she asked for the pics to be taken down after the fact. Nothing more to the story other than changing her mind.

 

[Bogart]

Ranking the Ticket Hosts:1. Junior2. Gordon3. Bob4. Jub5. Rynes6. Corby7. Dan8. NormShowsMusersBADHardlineNorm

Where is Hammer?

 

[honky kong]

I live in Dallas but commute weekly to Houston to work so I only get to hear them on Friday afternoons when I arrive home. Sometimes over the net.

While I still find the station entertaining I ironically am getting annoyed of listening to my namesake in the afternoons. Greggo is turning into a robot talking goofball, all Rhyns wants to do is play Petty tunes (plus he is dead). And all Plantation Corby does is complain about OU getting spanked.

BaD Radio is quickly surpassing them. Bob making fun of Corby about the OU game last week was too funny. Gay or Not Gay is a great bit.

Gordo makes the Musers. End of Story

Norm is just….well Norm. Enough about horseracing – no one cares.

Thank the maker that Dale Hansen is finally gone. He fits in perfectly with that blowhard Randy Galloway over on ESPN. I have never heard such pompous drivel coming out of my speakers as when I occasionally stop by there. The ONLY thing that station has going for it is Dan Patrick (what does that tell you?). Hansen is the one of the biggest idiots in the world of sports journalism today – a complete kneebiter.

GB Line 4 Guy – he should take Greggo’s spot.

Gb Tiger Woods and Jerry Jones impersonations.

MARK.

This guy knows stuff. Interesting side note about the makeup of the Hardline, Corby is taking over more and more segments of the show. Yeah he gets E-News, Snake Pit, Community Q-Hits, but now any golf, college football and non-baseball segments, he either leads or is the main speaker. Might be time for a shakeup there. Never thought I would say that.

Somebody needed to.

 

[Bogart]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

 

[The Hardline]

Ranking the Ticket Hosts:1. Junior2. Gordon3. Bob4. Jub5. Rynes6. Corby7. Dan8. NormShowsMusersBADHardlineNorm

Where is Hammer?

Have your heard his commercial lately for dog training? I think it for Man's Best Friend. Sweet Jeezus is it bad.

 

[The Hardline]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

 

[culdeus]

Ranking the Ticket Hosts:1. Junior2. Gordon3. Bob4. Jub5. Rynes6. Corby7. Dan8. NormShowsMusersBADHardlineNorm

Where is Hammer?

Have your heard his commercial lately for dog training? I think it for Man's Best Friend. Sweet Jeezus is it bad.

Hammer comes in probably 7th. I'm more anti-Dan than anti-Hammer. I hope he can shake whatever is up with him.

 

[culdeus]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

Why are there like 3,000,000 banners for Opie and Anthony around town when they aren't even OTA here?

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

Why are there like 3,000,000 banners for Opie and Anthony around town when they aren't even OTA here?

They're on in the morning here.

 

[culdeus]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

Why are there like 3,000,000 banners for Opie and Anthony around town when they aren't even OTA here?

They're on in the morning here.

Really? What happened to that Jagger show?

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

Why are there like 3,000,000 banners for Opie and Anthony around town when they aren't even OTA here?

They're on in the morning here.

Really? What happened to that Jagger show?

They're on before that. Jagger comes on at 8, I think, right after them. It's kind of weird.

 

[culdeus]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

I miss the Big Richard Hunter and the WAC and I think he fits the format over on 105.3 slightly better. I really like Free 105.3 and find myslef listening more and more to that and less and less to The Ticket.

Why are there like 3,000,000 banners for Opie and Anthony around town when they aren't even OTA here?

They're on in the morning here.

Really? What happened to that Jagger show?

They're on before that. Jagger comes on at 8, I think, right after them. It's kind of weird.

Well, screw me then.

 

[The Hardline]

O&A - 5 to 8

Jagger - 8 to Noon

Puggs and Kelly - Noon to 3

Russ Martin - 3 to 7

Tom L. - 7 to who knows

 

[culdeus]

O&A - 5 to 8Jagger - 8 to NoonPuggs and Kelly - Noon to 3Russ Martin - 3 to 7Tom L. - 7 to who knows

:X Not gonna dare put ONA at the house. Jagger was bad when he was gayying up the EDGE. 4 hours with what I assume is no music can't be good. I'm shocked that Puggs show is still on the air. Russ jumped the shark when he moved to the afternoon. Likus' show's are so generic that you could just run them on a one year loop and nobody would know the difference.How is that station still alive?

 

[Bogart]

O&A - 5 to 8Jagger - 8 to NoonPuggs and Kelly - Noon to 3Russ Martin - 3 to 7Tom L. - 7 to who knows

:X Not gonna dare put ONA at the house. Jagger was bad when he was gayying up the EDGE. 4 hours with what I assume is no music can't be good. I'm shocked that Puggs show is still on the air. Russ jumped the shark when he moved to the afternoon. Likus' show's are so generic that you could just run them on a one year loop and nobody would know the difference.How is that station still alive?

This station has the wierdest following. My wife LOVES Russ, but can't stand Likus. I try to tell her they are the exact same person with a different accent, but she doesn't get it. I can't imagine 4 hours of Jagger without any music.

 

[Dt's Mules]

any of you guys remember "disgruntled bikini girls"well they got one hot girl in there one time and the pics were up on the website for like 2 days and then vanishedanyone know the story there?

she asked for the pics to be taken down after the fact. Nothing more to the story other than changing her mind.

she was smokin

 

[Dt's Mules]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

i saw him on Cathouse on HBO btw, HTF does he know all the people he knows?

 

[culdeus]

any of you guys remember "disgruntled bikini girls"well they got one hot girl in there one time and the pics were up on the website for like 2 days and then vanishedanyone know the story there?

she asked for the pics to be taken down after the fact. Nothing more to the story other than changing her mind.

she was smokin

She worked out at Buffalo Creek as a cart girl. Not that hot in person but her cans were fabulous.

 

[Bogart]

Sidenote: For those Big Richard Hunter fans, which I personally think the guys is great and the P1 circus was genius, he is back on the air at Live 105.3. He was filling in middays, but has his Circus back on Saturday nights.

We need more Big **** Hunter.

i saw him on Cathouse on HBO btw, HTF does he know all the people he knows?

Think it started with him being in bands and stuff. Now he is almost like a Forrest Gump with the people he knows. I would pay top dollar to have the friendship of Dennis Hof.

 

[snowmonkey501]

displaced P1 here.

still remember the original lineup.

and perhaps the greatest radio interview ever, Dixon Edwards' "ya know"

 

[Joe T]

Ranking the Ticket Hosts:1. Junior2. Gordon3. Bob4. Jub5. Rynes6. Corby7. Dan8. NormShowsMusersBADHardlineNorm

Where is Hammer?

#1Bob is absolutely unlistenable... so consider the above list

 

[cosjobs]

I'ma big Hitzges fan. His delivery is maddening, but he is a degenerate gambler and that makes up for a lot. Plus he's quite sharp.

Long ago, Randy Galloway was my favorite. Is he on anywhere now? I used to gamble with him at LAD and Trinity; he was always a good time.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

I'ma big Hitzges fan. His delivery is maddening, but he is a degenerate gambler and that makes up for a lot. Plus he's quite sharp.Long ago, Randy Galloway was my favorite. Is he on anywhere now? I used to gamble with him at LAD and Trinity; he was always a good time.

I think Galloway (Grandpa Urine) is on ESPN radio.

 

[cosjobs]

grandpa urine?