Not a Talk Show Host

[lmf67]

I've been quiet for as long as possible. Wondering how this guy Jeff Santos was annointed to represent all of us "Progressive's"?

Its obvious he can't host a show and from the way he fills up his show full of guests he does very little prep work if any at all. It' s not even a Talk show. Nothing current is even discussed which is frustrating.

He also advertises his show as being from 6-10am which is pure fraud since he runs an hour of recorded interviews from the day before in the 6am hour and then when he comes on the air well after 7am he has the adasity to say "The 2nd/3rd/4th hour of the show". Not sure if thats pure laziness or what but if we want to combat conservative talk radio we need to come on when they do and thats 5:30/6:00am.

 
 If I never hear about trains again it'll be too soon!



 

 

[raccoonradio]

He or some other people together with him are buying that time on WWZN; of course he used to do a Sun afternoon show on WKOX/WXKS (Patriots, Jeff Santos? tough choice!) Kudos at least for the lefties on
the right side of the dial for doing local content, but...well, if this show makes you think of Finneran and
Feinberg fondly, then...
Not sure who else would be around to do a better job...? Margie Clapprood?

[SonicAl]

the show is definitely a snooze at times and he gives out the number but I don't think I've ever heard a caller except when he gives something away. Some of his guests are pretty good. I agree about the constant train talk. Also, he refers to everyone as his "good friend." I wish I had that many friends 

But I'd much rather hear Bill Press during that slot. And I'd like them to broadcast all three hours of Stephanie Miller. The rest of the syndicated programming is fine, even though I'm not a big Ed Schultz fan.

[WLYNgm]

I assume that you meant to say "audacity".   Spelling counts!       

[Blackroc]

rather hear Bill Press during that slot.
     Caught quite a bit of Press Oct.-March on KKB-1520/Buffalo. Great signal but it's seasonal.

[DanStrassberg]

Its obvious he can't host a show and from the way he fills up his show full of guests he does very little prep work if any at all. It' s not even a Talk show. Nothing current is even discussed which is frustrating.

If I never hear about trains again it'll be too soon!

More or less my sentiments, and I've voiced them here before. Sounds as if John Bussinger (I think that's his name) must hold Santos's mortgage or that Bussinger has some bad stuff in his files about Santos. Mass transit IS, important, but THAT important???

As for why Santos and not something more listenable, Santos put together the deal to lease the time on WWZN (I assume with financial backing from Dial-Global, the syndicator of the satellite-delivered Progressive talk shows that WWZN carries. I don't know for sure about the Dial-Global backing, but who else would put up the money? I doubt whether Santos has that kind of money in his personal bank account). Anyhow, Santos DID work very hard to put the deal together; you've got to give him credit for that.

I've met Santos a couple of times and I don't like him personally, but that's just my opinion and I guess I'm entitled to it. My impression about him is that any enterprise in which Santos is heavily involved has got to be all about Santos. Those seem to be his rules. Seems as if his top priority is burnishing his resume. However, Santos is the price we pay for having any Progressive talk at all on commercial radio in Boston. Better than nothing, I guess, and nothing is all we had for about two years after Clear Channel ditched the format on WKOXKS. In the immortal words of Jane Ace (who did a very funny show called Easy Aces on network radio in the '40s with her husband, the well-known comedy writer, Goodman Ace), you've gotta take the bitter with the better.

[SonicAl]

I agree... I know that Jeff will have the slot since it's his operation. By the way, this will only mean something to aficcionados of semi-obscure UK rock performers but his theme music should be changed to "I Often Dream Of Trains" by Robyn Hitchcock.

[DJbobo]

I've been quiet for as long as possible. Wondering how this guy Jeff Santos was annointed to represent all of us "Progressive's"?

Its obvious he can't host a show and from the way he fills up his show full of guests he does very little prep work if any at all. It' s not even a Talk show. Nothing current is even discussed which is frustrating.

He also advertises his show as being from 6-10am which is pure fraud since he runs an hour of recorded interviews from the day before in the 6am hour and then when he comes on the air well after 7am he has the adasity to say "The 2nd/3rd/4th hour of the show". Not sure if thats pure laziness or what but if we want to combat conservative talk radio we need to come on when they do and thats 5:30/6:00am.

 
 If I never hear about trains again it'll be too soon!



 

 

To be fair, the 6-7a has been the best-of since he began at 1510 or very shortly after. The 6-7pm hour is also the best-of. It's a more  cost-effective approach since he has to deal with the signal's pattern changes during those hours which limits potential audience.

[raccoonradio]

>>"audacity"

Yeah some Chicago politician did a book with that in the title. 
Also the name of a good free sound editor.

[DanStrassberg]

If I never hear about trains again it'll be too soon!

So far, 15 hours after I submitted the following post to the Save <whatever> message board/e-mail list, whoever reviews the items submitted for posting either hasn't gotten around to reviewing it or has deemed it too negative or controversial. Makes me wonder about just how strong the commitment to free expression is among the folks who administer that board/list.

I don't think that anyone is trying to argue that mass transit is
UNimportant. What many of us feel, however, it that it has usurped an
unreasonable percentage of Jeff's time. There absolutely are other
important issues facing both the state and federal governments right
now--issues that may spell life or death for Progressive ideals in the
US (getting the insurance companies out of the health-care business is
just one such). Jeff is giving those issues less attention than they
deserve so that he can spend a completely unreasonable amount of time
on "train talk." It is driving listeners away and conveying the
impression that Jeff has a personal agenda that is different from that
of most listeners. To borrow a, by now, shop-worn phrase, the
listeners need some transparency on what is driving Jeff's agenda and
why he seems so disconnected from the hot issues of interest to most
of his audience.