Thursday, July 07, 2005
Brad Kava, San Jose Mercury News
'Tsunami Song' producer to start Bay Area morning show Monday on Wild 94.9
The morning "Doghouse" got canned for making offensive comments, and there's an even more controversial personality taking their place.
Rick Delgado, the twice-fired former producer of "Opie and Anthony" and "Miss Jones in the Morning" will produce "Strawberry in the Morning" starting Monday, in the morning at 6.
Delgado was the guy behind broadcasting a couple allegedly having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the one who created a song that made fun of Asian tsunami victims.
Station exec Kim Bryant tells a story that explains why she made this controversial hire.
Photo: Portrait of Producer Rick Delgado, DJ Fay Carmona and DJ Strawberry at the Wild 94.9 station in San Francisco on July 7, 2005. These three will be hosting a new morning show (from 6am-10am) at Wild 94.9 station. (Joanne Ho-Young Lee/San Jose Mercury News)
The story comes from Clear Channel executive Ed Krampf, whose father was hospitalized with a heart problem.
Krampf was in the hospital room and saw his father looking worse. He told a nurse, and the nurse said his father looked all right.
Then, his father went code blue and had to be treated immediately.
The next day a nursing supervisor told Krampf that they would have another nurse take over his father's care.
But Krampf said no. He wanted the same nurse, the one who had learned his lesson, to continue caring for his dad.
"That's an important story for all of us,'' says Bryant. "The best person for the job may be the one who has learned from his mistakes."
It's a gutsy move by Bryant, the highest-ranking female in local radio, who oversees 11 Clear Channel stations (what a reality show her life would be), including liberal Air America; conservative KNEW; urban KMEL; classic rock KUFX and Spanish KSJO.
Bryant says Delgado and the new show featuring local deejay "Strawberry" and Fay Carmona, last in Miami, will be more community-oriented and listener-friendly than the "Doghouse," which she said got to be more about the hosts than the community.
In a surprising interview, Delgado said he thinks he was misinterpreted and wrote a song that was only in bad taste, but not racist, even though it used an epithet for Chinese people. He said he won't do that again, "because I like their food and want to eat in their restaurants."
He also recalled that shock jock Howard Stern called him a "scumbag."
"I don't know how much that says," he added.
Bryant said he would be monitored closely to make sure it didn't happen again.
Christine Chen, executive director of the national Organization of Chinese Americans, said her group will also closely monitor the show.
Posted by jeff at July 10, 2005 05:54 PM | TrackBackso where are the doghouse Dj's and what are they doing, whats going on with JV, I remember he used to talk about not caring about all his money and we would give it up, I wonder if he knew that day would come and how does he feel about it now- please someone fill me in- thnx
Posted by: chris on July 17, 2005 01:06 AMThe Doghouse "got to be more about the hosts than the community" ? That has got to be the biggest piece of bullshit I have ever heard. There is no other radio show in the area that I have heard that has done more for their community and their listeners. The toy drives, money raised from thier events went to charity, they had competitions for listeners to get a job on their show. . . . Not just that but they genuinely cared about their listeners, and everybody, and helped them. I know not everyone understood what JV was always talking about, and some people probably didn't like it, but I loved what he had to say. And I thought it was great to have some one that so many people listen to try and send out such a positive message of love, peace and understanding. It's a shame, and it FUCKIN sucks that they're not on the air anymore.
Mornings suck now without the Doghouse. They we're the funniest show ever.
the doghouse is now on 106.9 free fm! woohoo welcome baCK!
Posted by: doghouse on November 24, 2005 09:22 AMWhere can I locate 106.9 free fm? I live in the Bay Area and miss the Doghouse Morning Show. Is it satelight radio? Anyone! thanks!
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Posted by: Stacey on March 1, 2006 06:21 AMActually the doghouse are now in New York.
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i used to listen to wild 94.9 every morning going to work but now with the T-man show its has to be the worst morning show ever, whatever happen to our girl fay/straw... this has to be the worst move 94.9 has done.
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