Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 21:28:00 GMT -5
Jan 13, 2013 11:16:35 GMT -5 @paul said:
I'm curious, did Q105 air the Rockin' America Top 30 Countdown. I can't imagine they didn't air it, but was curious if they did indeed do so and if anyone knows when it aired.I believe they did for a time which made sense (Scott Shannon used to work there after all and I'm listening to Cruisin' America on the True Oldies Channel as I type!
then the Power Pig snatched "Rockin' America" when it started. I'm sure I read WFLZ having carried the show.Edit: This article from the Tampa Tribune I found via Newsbank (9/28/1990) confirms that Q105 did air "Rockin' America" but at that time had cancelled the show.
Sour grapes for Scott Shannon ?
The Tampa Tribune - Friday, September 28, 1990
Author: Denise Gee
TAMPA -- In town as an unlikely guest host on the Power Pig (WFLZ, 93.3 FM) recently was former Q-105 pioneer disc jockey Scott Shannon , who paid a visit to the pop-dance station during a weeklong stay in Longboat Key with wife Trish and 4-year-old daughter Kathleen.
Shannon, who with Cleveland Wheeler found fleeting fame with WRBQ (104.7 FM) and its Q-Morning Zoo (a prototype for hundreds of morning shows to follow), left the station in 1983 for a successful New York stint and subsequent stay in Los Angeles.
Celebrity Shannon has worked with L.A.'s Top-40 station Pirate Radio for over a year now, and hosts two syndicated shows -- one by radio ("Rockin' America"), the other by television ("Smash Hits") -- both aired in more than 200 markets.
Shannon originally had hoped to make a guest stint on his former station, but said Q-105's Edens Broadcasting corporate vice president Garry Wall "told me I no longer fit the station's image." Perhaps, Shannon said, because the station appears to have made a break from the past.
"That's not true," Wall said Tuesday. "We dropped his syndicated show for another show ("Hollywood Hamilton: Live From Hollywood"), a very exciting, live broadcast, and he reacted from an emotional standpoint.
"I was disappointed (he went on the air at the Power Pig). Personally, I love Scott -- we've even offered him a job -- but we made a business decision. We even tried to discuss it with him, but he wasn't happy about it."
Shannon says his three-hour appearance on Power 93 last Friday was "not to get a dig in" (at Q-105), but only because of his friendship with Power Pig program director Marc Chase.
The Tampa Tribune - Friday, September 28, 1990
Author: Denise Gee
TAMPA -- In town as an unlikely guest host on the Power Pig (WFLZ, 93.3 FM) recently was former Q-105 pioneer disc jockey Scott Shannon , who paid a visit to the pop-dance station during a weeklong stay in Longboat Key with wife Trish and 4-year-old daughter Kathleen.
Shannon, who with Cleveland Wheeler found fleeting fame with WRBQ (104.7 FM) and its Q-Morning Zoo (a prototype for hundreds of morning shows to follow), left the station in 1983 for a successful New York stint and subsequent stay in Los Angeles.
Celebrity Shannon has worked with L.A.'s Top-40 station Pirate Radio for over a year now, and hosts two syndicated shows -- one by radio ("Rockin' America"), the other by television ("Smash Hits") -- both aired in more than 200 markets.
Shannon originally had hoped to make a guest stint on his former station, but said Q-105's Edens Broadcasting corporate vice president Garry Wall "told me I no longer fit the station's image." Perhaps, Shannon said, because the station appears to have made a break from the past.
"That's not true," Wall said Tuesday. "We dropped his syndicated show for another show ("Hollywood Hamilton: Live From Hollywood"), a very exciting, live broadcast, and he reacted from an emotional standpoint.
"I was disappointed (he went on the air at the Power Pig). Personally, I love Scott -- we've even offered him a job -- but we made a business decision. We even tried to discuss it with him, but he wasn't happy about it."
Shannon says his three-hour appearance on Power 93 last Friday was "not to get a dig in" (at Q-105), but only because of his friendship with Power Pig program director Marc Chase.
Hollywood Hamilton has been around THAT long?! I have never heard him even once!
