When you progress right into a latest home, sometimes you bring with you something you thought you left behind.
Rich Shertenlieb, whose latest Morning Drive program of the identical name premiered on Monday WZLXa little bit greater than six months after leaving 98.5 The Sports Hub still remembered his address on the iHeartMedia studios in Medford.
But the brand new phone number? Funnily enough, and completely understandably, that was a distinct story.
In the third hour of the show, Shertenlieb announced the phone number for his old job, which he had probably used a whole lot of times during his nearly 15 years at Sports Hub, fairly than the number where callers could reach his latest show.
Ted Johnson, who co-hosted with Michael Hurley on Monday, immediately alerted Shertenlieb to his faux pas.
“Oh yeah, don’t call it that,” Shertenlieb said, laughing. “It’s muscle memory, man. But I’m damn happy to be here.”
During the following business break, Shertenlieb giggled off camera concerning the release of the old numbers. “I’ll probably do it every morning for at least a month,” he said.
This is the case with every latest broadcast. Therefore, it’s advisable to permit changes in radio programming or personnel a while to take shape before assessing how they’re working.
Coincidentally, a working example: Sports Hub’s “Toucher and Hardy” program. Rob “Hardy” Poole replaced Shertenlieb as Fred Toucher’s co-host. Their pairing didn't go as easily as I expected, however the show has steadily improved since Hardy's official debut on January 4th – while maintaining excellent rankings.
It's hard to attract any major conclusions from the opening day of Shertenlieb's show, nevertheless it managed to sound each familiar and latest. Hurley, who will co-host each day, and Johnson often contributed to Toucher and Rich, and it showed in the benefit of their conversation, whether concerning the Celtics, Johnson's appreciation for bands that emerged within the grunge era, or various other topics.
Shertenlieb, as expected, brought a few of his better-known pieces from Sports Hub, including “Brookline 911,” wherein he and his co-hosts rant about frivolous calls by people to emergency services in various – and almost at all times wealthy – Massachusetts towns and cities.
At the start of the show, Shertenlieb was particularly strong, which pushed Hurley and Johnson into the background. When I spoke to him last week, Shertenlieb mentioned that it could occur, and he brought it up again on Monday. “I just need to know that I will always be absent-minded,” he said.
What's latest? Hurley, a relative radio newbie whose dry humorousness will grow with audiences, handles the sports updates, called “Front and Center.” These have had one or two glitches and again that is the primary day. It happens. Overall, the show felt just like the ones where Toucher was absent and Shertenlieb sat within the No. 1 chair on the Sports Hub.
Shertenlieb has chosen to not confront the attacks that Toucher and other Sports Hub hosts have occasionally suffered against him since his departure, and he remained resolute in that regard on Monday.
“This idea that you have to hate the place you used to work, it’s really not true,” he said.
But he admitted that towards the top of his time there he had a disappointment together with his old job: There was a dispute over the social media accounts that Shertenlieb ran there – accounts that he said he had created years before his His entry into the corporate itself, with an archive of meaningful personal messages – led to him spending “five figures” with a trademark lawyer before deciding to provide up the fight and hand over the accounts to the corporate.
“I have to be honest, it irritated me,” he said. “I felt that not only was it unnecessary, but that it compromised my relationship with you, the listener.”
He said he would donate $10,000 to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute if the variety of followers on his latest blog increased X.com The @heyrichhey account matches the 150,000 he had within the Toucher and Rich account.
It can be interesting to search out out in the long run how Shertenlieb's show compares to WEEI's “Toucher and Hardy” and “The Greg Hill Show” by way of rankings.
I'm truthfully unsure what to anticipate. This is a story for the approaching weeks and months.
Monday was about day 1, a brand new starting and still a well-known atmosphere. After being on the air inconspicuously for six months, Shertenlieb returned on Monday and reconnected together with his listeners – even when the phone number wasn't at all times correct.
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