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***** Official KTCK/1310 AM "The Ticket" Thread ***** (1 Viewer)
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Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Corby tried to say something like, "and all that crap" and he said, "all that crack." Rhyner said "Freudian slip?"
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
Any conjectures on today's excuse?
texasyankee
Footballguy
So with GNO tonight are they going to issue the no Greggo questions edict?
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
That 300 is just down the street from my office... and I don't think you could pay me enough to show up.
Joe T
Footballguy
why not?too much like a Star Trek convention?
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
After going to a hockey draft deal in Frisco a few years back I had my fill of Awkward Sausagefests.
The Hardline
Footballguy
Alright so I am going to the taping tonight and here is the line-up.Guest: Pierre Matisse (Grandson Son to the famous artist Henri Matisse) - He will be showing Gordon how to make paper art
Comedian Dean Lewis (Addison Improv regular) - Performing stand up
Will Clarke (Author) - In studio to chat about his controversial short story and his books turning into movies
All this plus Gordon is going out to meet the neighbors at Victory Park....
Problem is that I am going with the gf so spastically demanding that Matisse make an origami replica of Culdeus's baby arm may be out.
I will report back on the results - should be interesting
doughboydeluxe
Footballguy
The show this past Saturday night with Chewbacca was brutal.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Can you give us some kind of sign? Maybe you could wear a diaper and a fur vest?
doughboydeluxe
Footballguy
I believe this would be both appropriate and inconspicuous. If you want something that would attract more attention you could always bleach "San Dimas HS Football Rules" into the fur vest.
texasyankee
Footballguy
So what is Dan Patrick announcing on the Ticket @ 6:10 tomorrow morning??
Is it just the SI gig or is there more
Please tell me he wont be joining the little ticket (unless it is a weekly weekend show)
Heck I'd be ok if today was Bob & Dan's last day - Packer homer's got to go, but I am biased
Is it just the SI gig or is there more
Please tell me he wont be joining the little ticket (unless it is a weekly weekend show)
Heck I'd be ok if today was Bob & Dan's last day - Packer homer's got to go, but I am biased
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I didn't hear anything about this. Interesting.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
Yeah I heard a quick tease about a Dan Patrick announcement. I'm uneasy about it as I listened to Danny boy before I found the ticket. He's even more egotistically and one sided than the Old Gray Wolf. Please don't let him join the ticket. However I would give him an hour time slot if they would promise to dump Corby's college football craptacular.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
Dan has signed on with Cumulus to host a daily show. He'll be on in a few different markets. It's unknown when he'll be on the Ticket (probably evenings instead of whatever garbage they play after Dead Rhyner and the Apathetics) but I'm sure it'll be in a significant capacity.
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Print Is Dead
Footballguy
CUMULUS!!! THE POWER OF RAAADIOOOOO!!!!
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Print Is Dead
Footballguy
nip nip! moneyshot!
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Statcruncher
Footballguy
That sounds terrrrrrible.
texasyankee
Footballguy
What was Bob thinking saying Moneyshot??Gold Jerry, Gold!!!
Print Is Dead
Footballguy
I think it was during their Norman show last week. They did a $10000 pyramid type game with Bob guessing words and Tom giving clues. Every answer was a drop-worthy word.I want to know how they got him to say "fluffer"
texasyankee
Footballguy
AFTER the top tenDan Patrick replaces Drop Page Radio?!?!?!
The questions is, is that an upgrade???
Who will listen at that hour???
eta - Gotta love Jub. Patrick says "Its nice to be back in Dallas"
Jub replies "And now you will be heard in Dallas"
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culdeus
Footballguy
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
This is big time.
Print Is Dead
Footballguy
Wow. Finally some info.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
So, when will the Ticket actually talk about this?
Print Is Dead
Footballguy
They'll pull a Dukes of Hazzard and replace him with Coy or Vance, hoping no one will notice.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
How hard up do you have to be to take a 9pm to midnight sports talk show? I may be underestimating the pull of the second and 3rd shift masses but I always assumed they went to an all beatles format after the top 10 until D&M started the next morning.
Joe T
Footballguy
Do we know if it is live?I assumed taped when I heard the times.
Print Is Dead
Footballguy
What's even more confusing about the Dan Patrick announcement is what happens to any and all weekday postgame shows? They usually only play DPR until one of those pre-empts it.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I'm not sure if him coming back is really all that possible. I get the feeling things aren't amicable, judging by all of the mean-spirited references.
doughboydeluxe
Footballguy
ouch
culdeus
Footballguy
They read this on the air and said they won't answer any more emails about it.
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
Genius.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
I have an idea.
Greggo, Jennifer Engel, and Larry Brown get a show to compete against DP on ESPN late night.
Greggo, Jennifer Engel, and Larry Brown get a show to compete against DP on ESPN late night.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
How about a 3 way cage match with Hanson, Galloway, and Newy Scruggs in the other corner?
Tar Heel Boy
Footballguy
I'm not that big a fan of the Hammer. I've always thought the dude was an arrogant ####. Every road show I've seen him at he's been arrogant to people. Same with Rhyner.
Urinal Mint
Footballguy
Listening to Dan get destroyed by Biff was probably one of the greatest Ticket segments in a long, long time.
Bogart
Footballguy
I wish the Ticket would get off their ### and start putting up podcasts. I can listen for about 30 mins a day now, 15 in the morn, 15 in the afternoon while in the car. If lucky I catch one full segment each way.
If they would put their shows out in podcast form, I could get my dose, but at this point, Im almost done with them.
I have been getting back into Big **** Hunter as he does a complete show podcast and reminds me of what The Ticket use to be about, hot opinions, solid guests, and hot women.
If they would put their shows out in podcast form, I could get my dose, but at this point, Im almost done with them.
I have been getting back into Big **** Hunter as he does a complete show podcast and reminds me of what The Ticket use to be about, hot opinions, solid guests, and hot women.
doughboydeluxe
Footballguy
Everyone at the Ticket except Rhyner and everyone in the afternoon still seems to be calling the show the Hardline. I have promos that say the Hardline, and on tonights Top 10 they mentioned the Hardline several times. Maybe Mike is trying to show support for Greggo, kinda like "There is no Hardline without you" kind of thing. Just throwing stones...
russinfortworth
Footballguy
Finally some answers from the Dallas Observer:
Greg Williams 'Hammers' The Ticket
Detoured again by drugs, Greg Williams and The Ticket face a bump in the road
By Richie Whitt
Published: November 22, 2007
Greg Williams
Subject(s): The Ticket, Greg Williams, The Hardline, sports talk radio The Hardline has never been sane.
After this, it may never be the same.
On Friday, October 12, the most popular sports talk radio show in the history of Dallas prepared for a routine remote broadcast at Addison's Blackfin Pub. KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket afternoon co-host Mike Rhyner arrived on time. Longtime sidekick Greg Williams, however, was alarmingly tardy.
Williams—"The Hammer" to a legion of loony fans that consistently makes the irreverent guy-talk station No. 1 in the market—finally appeared, albeit noticeably fidgety and audibly discombobulated. And then, just one segment into the four-hour show, he abruptly up and left.
No one's sure where Williams had been. But now we know where he was headed—down a dangerous, dark detour toward self-destruction. One that, according to multiple sources, ultimately landed him in rehab for a cocaine problem. One that, undeniably, has thrust his career in jeopardy, his co-workers in limbo and his countless loyal listeners into a passionate debate about his fate.
"I've got a lot of fences to mend," Williams said last week from his Turtle Creek condo. "I had the world by the balls, and I just pissed on it."
Speaking in strained, guarded tones, Williams declined to discuss the specifics of his six-week absence. In his first public comments since bailing in mid-syllable, he confirmed only that he's now void of drugs, full of regret and buoyed by hope that he'll be welcomed back to the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. show that nurtured him into one of local radio's most charismatic personalities.
"I'm OK," said Williams, who in 2004 endured 43 sleepless hours and suicidal thoughts in detox combating an addiction to the prescription painkiller Lorcet, and who has admitted on the air to experimenting with cocaine in the 1980s. "I'm doing what I need to be doing. Getting the help I need. I'm in a much better place than I was a month ago."
Fueling the mystery and hyper-driving the speculation on Williams' disappearance, Ticket co-workers and management were forced to respond with silence.
Because of legal ramifications and health care privacy laws, The Ticket is ball-gagged by what it can say about Williams, an employee on paid leave while voluntarily receiving treatment for a disease.
Nonetheless, the secrecy has flabbergasted devoted Ticket listeners attracted to its unique camaraderie and candor. Like no other station, The Ticket fosters a rabidly strong personal relationship with listeners through honesty and disclosure, allowing them to feel like members of a beer-guzzling, boob-gawking, ball-bouncing frat house.
But program director Jeff Catlin would only say last week that Williams is "taking personal time off." Threatened with termination of their contracts if they speak publicly about Greggo, station hosts remain uncharacteristically mum. Rhyner has addressed his partner's absence with just a few terse declarations.
"He's not here," Rhyner snaps a couple times a week on air, "and we don't know when he'll be back."
Mandated or not, the awkward radio silence reeks of hypocrisy.
The idle time without one of their favorite personas—speaking of full disclosure, I sat in for Williams on The Hardline's October 24 show—also sparked a flurry of rumors. Depending on what you choose to believe from my e-mail inbox, voice mail and comments to our Unfair Park blog, Williams is either: recovering from Lap Band surgery; getting replaced by San Francisco talk-show host Ralph Barbieri; reuniting with old mentor Randy Galloway; on maternity leave; spending time as an outpatient at the Timberlawn psychiatric hospital on Samuell Boulevard; dead; appearing in the remake of Dallas; stockpiling a gun armory; getting married; or finally admitting he's gay.
Though it's easy to dismiss a Hardline audience whose moral compass is guided by yuk-monkey Corby Davidson's over-cussing, producer Danny Balis' black cloud and a slew of disgruntled bikini girls, The Ticket's hard-core listeners are 60-40 in favor of Williams' return. Some decree, as was the case with the Dallas Cowboys' Michael Irvin and Mavericks' Roy Tarpley, that he be afforded a second or even third chance to defeat his drug demons. Some, disgusted by his on-air decline, horribly selfish choices and sanctimonious lambasting of Barry Bonds' steroid use, wish Williams good riddance. Others are just intoxicated by the drama, constantly posting possible sightings to Web sites such as wheresgreggo.com.
Bottom line: Williams will complete his rehab and return to The Ticket's airwaves before the end of the month.
"I've always wished Greg would treat himself as well as he treats others," says friend and former Ticket co-worker Richard Hunter, host of Big ****'s Wild ### Circus weeknights at 10 p.m. on KLLI-105.3 FM. "After talking with him during his absence, I believe he's taking steps to learn how to do that."
With sports talk competitor KFCD-990 AM recently dying and ESPN-103.3 FM still airing the ridiculously annoying and New York-based Stephen A. Smith in the afternoon, The Ticket has continued to thrive without Williams. Like the New England Patriots overcoming the brief loss of Randy Moss simply with more Tom Brady and Wes Welker, the station's eight straight ratings periods as No. 1 among men ages 25-54 validates its radio dynasty.
But considering Williams' sad saga, can the Marconi Awards continue? Can The Ticket retain its credibility despite one of its hosts drugging his into oblivion? And, if forced to put on a disingenuous happy face, will The Hardline deteriorate into The Hard Lie?
When Hammer returns, he'll be met by everything from hugs to indifferent shrugs. He can boast of eating 10 Whataburgers and produce classic "Do you like this gig?" ramblings all he wants, but Williams' reputation has suffered serious damage. Privately, some co-workers no longer trust him, caring for Williams as a person but writing him off as a professional.
That alienation surfaced during the last month, when the same station that circled the emotional wagons in the wake of close friend Carter Albrecht's death unsympathetically abandoned and morphed Williams into a punch line. The Hardline returned from commercial breaks to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Eric Clapton's "Cocaine." And Rhyner, Williams' partner since the station's inception in 1994, one day punctuated a Hammer series of "don't stop him, he's on a roll" archived audio snippets with "Oh, if you only knew how much he was rollin'." A diluted kinship amongst on-air personalities would severely damage the station's hallmark: genuine chemistry.
Whatever the resolution, Hammer's status is the biggest blow The Ticket has faced.
But come to think of it, The Hardline could—like the dead guy propped up in Weekend at Bernie's—eternally embalm Williams' legacy just by regularly playing well-timed drops. Even more fascinating will be Williams' reality-check return to the air.
"Honestly, you know what the best thing for me would be right now?" Williams says. "Getting back to work."
Stay hard, right?
Greg Williams 'Hammers' The Ticket
Detoured again by drugs, Greg Williams and The Ticket face a bump in the road
By Richie Whitt
Published: November 22, 2007
Greg Williams
Subject(s): The Ticket, Greg Williams, The Hardline, sports talk radio The Hardline has never been sane.
After this, it may never be the same.
On Friday, October 12, the most popular sports talk radio show in the history of Dallas prepared for a routine remote broadcast at Addison's Blackfin Pub. KTCK-1310 AM The Ticket afternoon co-host Mike Rhyner arrived on time. Longtime sidekick Greg Williams, however, was alarmingly tardy.
Williams—"The Hammer" to a legion of loony fans that consistently makes the irreverent guy-talk station No. 1 in the market—finally appeared, albeit noticeably fidgety and audibly discombobulated. And then, just one segment into the four-hour show, he abruptly up and left.
No one's sure where Williams had been. But now we know where he was headed—down a dangerous, dark detour toward self-destruction. One that, according to multiple sources, ultimately landed him in rehab for a cocaine problem. One that, undeniably, has thrust his career in jeopardy, his co-workers in limbo and his countless loyal listeners into a passionate debate about his fate.
"I've got a lot of fences to mend," Williams said last week from his Turtle Creek condo. "I had the world by the balls, and I just pissed on it."
Speaking in strained, guarded tones, Williams declined to discuss the specifics of his six-week absence. In his first public comments since bailing in mid-syllable, he confirmed only that he's now void of drugs, full of regret and buoyed by hope that he'll be welcomed back to the 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. show that nurtured him into one of local radio's most charismatic personalities.
"I'm OK," said Williams, who in 2004 endured 43 sleepless hours and suicidal thoughts in detox combating an addiction to the prescription painkiller Lorcet, and who has admitted on the air to experimenting with cocaine in the 1980s. "I'm doing what I need to be doing. Getting the help I need. I'm in a much better place than I was a month ago."
Fueling the mystery and hyper-driving the speculation on Williams' disappearance, Ticket co-workers and management were forced to respond with silence.
Because of legal ramifications and health care privacy laws, The Ticket is ball-gagged by what it can say about Williams, an employee on paid leave while voluntarily receiving treatment for a disease.
Nonetheless, the secrecy has flabbergasted devoted Ticket listeners attracted to its unique camaraderie and candor. Like no other station, The Ticket fosters a rabidly strong personal relationship with listeners through honesty and disclosure, allowing them to feel like members of a beer-guzzling, boob-gawking, ball-bouncing frat house.
But program director Jeff Catlin would only say last week that Williams is "taking personal time off." Threatened with termination of their contracts if they speak publicly about Greggo, station hosts remain uncharacteristically mum. Rhyner has addressed his partner's absence with just a few terse declarations.
"He's not here," Rhyner snaps a couple times a week on air, "and we don't know when he'll be back."
Mandated or not, the awkward radio silence reeks of hypocrisy.
The idle time without one of their favorite personas—speaking of full disclosure, I sat in for Williams on The Hardline's October 24 show—also sparked a flurry of rumors. Depending on what you choose to believe from my e-mail inbox, voice mail and comments to our Unfair Park blog, Williams is either: recovering from Lap Band surgery; getting replaced by San Francisco talk-show host Ralph Barbieri; reuniting with old mentor Randy Galloway; on maternity leave; spending time as an outpatient at the Timberlawn psychiatric hospital on Samuell Boulevard; dead; appearing in the remake of Dallas; stockpiling a gun armory; getting married; or finally admitting he's gay.
Though it's easy to dismiss a Hardline audience whose moral compass is guided by yuk-monkey Corby Davidson's over-cussing, producer Danny Balis' black cloud and a slew of disgruntled bikini girls, The Ticket's hard-core listeners are 60-40 in favor of Williams' return. Some decree, as was the case with the Dallas Cowboys' Michael Irvin and Mavericks' Roy Tarpley, that he be afforded a second or even third chance to defeat his drug demons. Some, disgusted by his on-air decline, horribly selfish choices and sanctimonious lambasting of Barry Bonds' steroid use, wish Williams good riddance. Others are just intoxicated by the drama, constantly posting possible sightings to Web sites such as wheresgreggo.com.
Bottom line: Williams will complete his rehab and return to The Ticket's airwaves before the end of the month.
"I've always wished Greg would treat himself as well as he treats others," says friend and former Ticket co-worker Richard Hunter, host of Big ****'s Wild ### Circus weeknights at 10 p.m. on KLLI-105.3 FM. "After talking with him during his absence, I believe he's taking steps to learn how to do that."
With sports talk competitor KFCD-990 AM recently dying and ESPN-103.3 FM still airing the ridiculously annoying and New York-based Stephen A. Smith in the afternoon, The Ticket has continued to thrive without Williams. Like the New England Patriots overcoming the brief loss of Randy Moss simply with more Tom Brady and Wes Welker, the station's eight straight ratings periods as No. 1 among men ages 25-54 validates its radio dynasty.
But considering Williams' sad saga, can the Marconi Awards continue? Can The Ticket retain its credibility despite one of its hosts drugging his into oblivion? And, if forced to put on a disingenuous happy face, will The Hardline deteriorate into The Hard Lie?
When Hammer returns, he'll be met by everything from hugs to indifferent shrugs. He can boast of eating 10 Whataburgers and produce classic "Do you like this gig?" ramblings all he wants, but Williams' reputation has suffered serious damage. Privately, some co-workers no longer trust him, caring for Williams as a person but writing him off as a professional.
That alienation surfaced during the last month, when the same station that circled the emotional wagons in the wake of close friend Carter Albrecht's death unsympathetically abandoned and morphed Williams into a punch line. The Hardline returned from commercial breaks to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Eric Clapton's "Cocaine." And Rhyner, Williams' partner since the station's inception in 1994, one day punctuated a Hammer series of "don't stop him, he's on a roll" archived audio snippets with "Oh, if you only knew how much he was rollin'." A diluted kinship amongst on-air personalities would severely damage the station's hallmark: genuine chemistry.
Whatever the resolution, Hammer's status is the biggest blow The Ticket has faced.
But come to think of it, The Hardline could—like the dead guy propped up in Weekend at Bernie's—eternally embalm Williams' legacy just by regularly playing well-timed drops. Even more fascinating will be Williams' reality-check return to the air.
"Honestly, you know what the best thing for me would be right now?" Williams says. "Getting back to work."
Stay hard, right?
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
Wow.
BigTex
Don't mess with Texas
I stopped listening to the Hardline sometime ago. I think they try to hard and take things waaaaay over board sometimes. @ 3:00pm I turn it to Randy Ralloway.Tar Heel Boy
Footballguy
Like I mentioned a while back, I don't care for the Hardline. Every time I've seen any of them in public they've been arrogant %*&%*.I stopped listening to the Hardline sometime ago. I think they try to hard and take things waaaaay over board sometimes. @ 3:00pm I turn it to Randy Ralloway.
The Plainsman
Footballguy
Pardon the interruption from a newcomer.
I've been looking for a good general Ticket message board. This looks like one of the more responsible, literate ones. Any others I should know about?
Many thanks.
The Plainsman
I've been looking for a good general Ticket message board. This looks like one of the more responsible, literate ones. Any others I should know about?
Many thanks.
The Plainsman