San Diego - 94.1 FM J&J Morning Show Drama Club Thread

[JesseeezMom]

Yeah, talk about same-old thing everyday. This morning I heard the same lame bit they had on yesterday with Jerry telling his stupid jokes about knowing when you picked the wrong vet????WTF???? It wasn't funny yesterday Jerry and it is just plan lazy to do it again today. What was the point???

In case you all didn't read yesterday's San Diego Business Journal....here is a link to a very interesting article. Tracy Johnson must be shaking in his boots.

http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article...163&aID2=95856

What did it say???

This article requires payment! is all I get.

I know this is not going to come as a shock to any of you. I think they did that same joke like that a year or two ago. It sounds REALLY familiar.
I didn't listen today, but wasn't a chinese food restaurant next door one of the signs?

Whiskers that link requires $3 for the article if you are not a subscriber. What did the article say?

[listener13]

Well, if any of you are interested in going into the fine profession that is "morning radio" - you can pick up one of Tracy Johnson's books on the topic:
http://www.tjohnsonmedia.com/

Check out the "free show prep" section - these ideas should be free!

[YoungAmerican]

So Laura is planning to take a houseboat vacation? I sure hope her kids wear life jackets ALL THE TIME. I'm sure she is getting the trip for free but I would be too afraid to take such small children on that type of vacation. PLEASE LAURA, FOR THE CHILDRENS SAKE, MAKE THEM WEAR LIFE JACKETS ALL THE TIME. She is just asking for trouble. I can see it now....she'll be throwing back the glasses of wine and lose total track of where the kids are. According to her diary entry the other day she wasn't even keeping a close eye on her little daughter in their own house because little Evie got into her makeup. Just think what could have happened if she had left scissors, meds or even vitamins laying around and unattended small children on a house boat???? Scary!

[JesseeezMom]

On the star website
They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

Look at the chef picture and then scroll up about 4 or 5 inches.

[cadetevon]

On the star website
They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

Look at the chef picture and then scroll up about 4 or 5 inches.

Do you have a link? I'm having a senior moment and can't seem to find it. Ugh.

[itz_me_tom]

Do you have a link? I'm having a senior moment and can't seem to find it. Ugh.

http://star941sandiego.com/pages/jeffandjer.html

They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

I can't see it. My computer sucks!! ha.

[YoungAmerican]

On the star website
They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

Look at the chef picture and then scroll up about 4 or 5 inches.

HAHAHA, he wishes!

[cadetevon]

On the star website
They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

Look at the chef picture and then scroll up about 4 or 5 inches.

I wish I would have seen the orginal.

[listener13]

Do you get news and traffic reports on Satellite?

I did get the XM Radio, it's one of the portable ones. I get San Diego traffic and weather (without all the drama and King Stallman commercials).

I'll still listen to J&J (for now), but they'd better start earning their money and write some new stuff to listen to. Seriously, they must think that everyone in San Diego has Alzheimers.

J&J: You work 4 hours a day, get paid for 80 hours a day - could you PLEASE write some new stuff (or steal stuff from other radio stations that we haven't heard yet???)

Also, Laura: Nevermind......you're hopeless.

[Whiskers]

I know this is not going to come as a shock to any of you. I think they did that same joke like that a year or two ago. It sounds REALLY familiar.
I didn't listen today, but wasn't a chinese food restaurant next door one of the signs?

Whiskers that link requires $3 for the article if you are not a subscriber. What did the article say?

New Arrival to Infuse Jack-FM With Personality
Media: After Dumping On-Air Talent, ‘Monica & the Man’ Lends Voice To an All-Music Format
By JESSICA LONG
San Diego Business Journal Staff


Stand-up comic Monique Marvez will debut her morning radio show, ‘Monique & the Man,’ on Jack 100.7 FM on Jan. 23, launching the only female-led radio show in the ultra-competitive morning drive-time slot.Nine months after adopting a radical new music format and ditching its on-air personalities, Jack 100.7 is ready to re-enter the morning radio show market with a stand-up comic at the microphone and plans to slowly recapture coveted advertising revenues.

“It’s a process,” said Tracy Johnson, vice president and general manager of KFMB-FM. “It takes a long time. We’re going to be patient in expecting results.”

Johnson said the eventual return of on-air personalities was part of the station’s plans all along and not in response to lost ratings and ad revenues. Regardless, Jack appears to be in store for an uphill battle because many listeners were turned off by the station’s new music format. The new format consists of a broad rock music mix of new and older songs that has been compared to an Apple iPod music shuffle.

“It has been my limited experience that the response to Jack has been fairly negative at least to the extent of our listener surveys,” said John Marks, program director for country radio station KSON 97.3 FM. “I think that the standard rule of thumb is a good morning radio show is really important, especially here. San Diego is one of the most competitive morning show radio markets. Because of that, the acceptance by the listener of a new morning show is going to be more slow and more deliberate than in other markets.”

Since the launch of Jack 100.7 in April, the station, which is owned by Chicago-based Midwest Television, Inc., has lost ratings to stations such as San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications’ Star 94.1, which not only picked up Jack’s former Star name, but also attracted the popular morning show team Jeff & Jer.
Growing On Listeners

Despite the struggles with morning drive ratings, Johnson still believes the format change was a good idea and is growing on listeners every day.

“We’re very pleased with everything that’s happened over the past few months,” Johnson said, noting that the station has seen rating gains everywhere but during the morning time.

Jack’s new morning show, “Monique & the Man” will debut Monday, Jan. 23. It will feature newcomer Monique Marvez paired with a former Star 100.7 afternoon team, Greg Simms and Sara Kiani. Marvez, a Miami native who has worked as a stand-up comic for about 15 years, was chosen for the show based on a radio show talent search that drew more than 500 applicants.

“There was only one who really stood out, and that was Monique,” Johnson said.

The Talent

Marvez has had one prior radio host stint that mimicked the same woman vs. man routine she’ll follow in San Diego. Since the fall of 2003, she worked in Indianapolis for an adult-contemporary format station that recently switched to country.

Her humor is based largely on dating and relationships as well as pop culture observations; for those reasons, Marvez said she spends a significant amount of time off the air and offstage deliberately researching her surroundings for material.

“As a comic and a performer, I try to keep my act about the audience, not myself,” said Marvez, who has been dubbed the Latin Bette Midler by reviewers. “The materials have to be something that’s personal to them, something they care about. How conceited would it be for me to think all they want to do is hear about me and my life. I’m really not that interesting.”

As a stand-up, Marvez, who says her age is somewhere between Britney Spears and Jesus Christ, has traveled to Iraq to entertain U.S. troops and performed locally at the La Jolla Comedy Store and in Los Angeles at the famed Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard, where she performs with Hot Tamales Live, an all-female, all-Latin performance group. She is also married to a retired Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran and is eager to embrace San Diego’s military community.

“I think it will happen organically,” Marvez said, noting that she also hopes to create a strong Latino following.

Moonlighting In L.A.

Marvez has signed a three-year contract with Jack and plans to split her time between San Diego and Los Angeles, where she has a second job. In addition to playing radio host in San Diego, Marvez is in development to produce, write and star in a pilot for NBC that she insists will not interfere with her new radio assignment.

The pilot will be filmed this spring and is loosely based on Marvez’s life in Miami’s South Beach. Marvez said it’s a combination of “Sex and the City” and “Everybody Loves Raymond,” with a cast that includes a bunch of sassy girlfriends and a goofy father. The show’s working title is “Shore Thing” and could be shown on NBC as early as this fall, if the network likes the pilot.

“I wouldn’t say I was concerned, but I certainly had to take that into consideration,” said Johnson, who is Jack’s program director in addition to being the station’s general manager. “Without exception, the people I talked to said that Monique is happiest and at her best performancewise when she is doing several jobs at once.”

Game Plan

According to the most recent data available from New York-based media research engine Arbitron, Inc., between winter 2004 and this past summer, Jack has fallen from sixth to 12th place in the ratings game for the San Diego market. Fall numbers are expected this month, according to an Arbitron spokeswoman.

In order to aggressively compete with other morning shows and other forms of entertainment, Johnson said his marketing strategy for the “Monique & the Man” show is to be highly visible and active in the community with promotion events as soon as possible.

“We look at not just radio stations are as our competition but wherever people are getting their entertainment from, whether it’s radio or TV, iPods, the Internet … it doesn’t matter,” Johnson said. “Our priority right now is to get Monique very well established and we don’t know exactly how long that will take. But we know we need the morning show to take root before we even think about adding anyone else at a different time of day.”

Marks of KSON, which is owned by Greensboro, N.C.-based Jefferson-Pilot Communications, said that because KSON is one of two stations in town playing country music, his experience competing with Jack is limited. Yet all stations, regardless of format, have to watch out for one another to some extent.

“We do have a direct competitor,” Marks said. “We pay attention first and foremost to that, but we do understand that there are some listeners who are going to be interested in seeing what else is out there outside the country genre and for that reason have to include everyone when we’re thinking for the long term.

On the star website
They changed the picture of them in chefs outfits. From one that showed Jeffs gray hair at his temples and Jerry's wrinkles to the same one of their promo photos used for their new page, only it has been photoshopped.

Look at the chef picture and then scroll up about 4 or 5 inches.

...and very poorly photoshopped, too. LOL

[listener13]

...and very poorly photoshopped, too. LOL

Not sure that it's even Photoshop - looks like MacPaint to me!

[JesseeezMom]

Thanks for the story Whiskers!
I don't know where (or how to locate the first photo)because this new one is in the exact same space. Also on the original Jerry was holding one of those hot dog roaster forks with a bunch of hot dogs on it.

I listened this am- I'm curious what kind of vegetarian is he? He was recommending the greek salad because it had a boat load of Feta. Feta is dairy. So is he a vegetarian that does dairy fish and chicken?

[listener13]

Different vegetarians adopt different practices. Pam & Jerry's thing is animal rights, so basically, they won't eat anything with a face. They eat the by-products of animals (dairy, etc.) - these products did not result in the death of an animal. He and Pam won't use leather products because they were the product of the death of an animal (they buy their shoes at Payless - no leather goods there, right Star Jones?)

Vegans are a whole different animal (sorry for the pun) - they won't eat any animal products or by-products at all.

I saw a production that Jerry did YEARS ago at the Lyceum Theatre called "Bless the Beasts". Ever since then, I will not eat any veal products, will not attend any horse races, and will only adopt my pets from shelters. Scary stuff. Left a major impact on me.

I wish had Pam & Jerry's resolve when it came to animal rights, but this gal loves her steak dinners!

[Whiskers]

Thanks for the story Whiskers!
I don't know where (or how to locate the first photo)because this new one is in the exact same space. Also on the original Jerry was holding one of those hot dog roaster forks with a bunch of hot dogs on it.

I listened this am- I'm curious what kind of vegetarian is he? He was recommending the greek salad because it had a boat load of Feta. Feta is dairy. So is he a vegetarian that does dairy fish and chicken?

I think he is vegetarian that eats dairy but doesn't eat anything with a face on it.

He and Pam won't use leather products because they were the product of the death of an animal (they buy their shoes at Payless - no leather goods there, right Star Jones?)

If I recall....Pam said she was wearing leather pants at the Thank You Party (they looked like leather)...but they were probably pleather.

[LoyalListner9]

I heard her say that too.

Jerry also drives a Mercedes and you know those seats are leather.

[Whiskers]

I heard her say that too.

Jerry also drives a Mercedes and you know those seats are leather.

Yes...but you can request cloth instead.

Tommy said they are still working on getting the before and after shots of Laura's lashes. He thought it would be done by 10:00....but it is taking longer.

[boris85]

Pam definitely wears real leather pants and Jerry's Mercedes has leather seats. I have seen it. Do you think Jerry, as big a snob as he is, would sit on common cloth seats. Please!

[Green_Monsta]

Tommy said they are still working on getting the before and after shots of Laura's lashes. He thought it would be done by 10:00....but it is taking longer.

The pics are up but they are so blurry that it's hard to see any detail.

[boris85]

The pics are up but they are so blurry that it's hard to see any detail.

Yes, they are blurry. I think it was on purpose to hide Laura's hideous appearance. She's a mess. With those lashes, she looks like a washed-up lush - wait - that's exaclty what she is. She needs to realize that no amount of maintenance will change that sad fact. The only thing that will change it is if she changes herself on the inside, reevaluates her priorities, and becomes a better person. Then, her beauty on the outside will shine too. Right now, she's an empty shell. And why does she insist on constantly buying weird houses? What's up with the porno house with the secret pool? Sounds like another money pit waiting to swallow them whole.

[GoEagles]

[QUOTE=boris85]What's up with the porno house with the secret pool? QUOTE]


Boris - please elaborate

[Green_Monsta]

[QUOTE=GoEagles]

What's up with the porno house with the secret pool? QUOTE]


Boris - please elaborate

If you read her diary, you'll understand.

[YoungAmerican]

That one before picture of Laura with her eye closed!!! Jeez, she looks like she has a black eye. Talk about dark circles!!!

[krak70]

The pics are up but they are so blurry that it's hard to see any detail.

What's up with her black eye (before pic on the right)! Please tell me that's not her eye shadow.

[Green_Monsta]

What's up with her black eye (before pic on the right)! Please tell me that's not her eye shadow.

I don't think it's eyeshadow...I just think they can't figure out how to take a good picture! Perhaps they took them with Tommy's camera phone! Talk about poor quality.

[Whiskers]

What's up with her black eye (before pic on the right)! Please tell me that's not her eye shadow.

Yup....that is eye shadow. Eye shadow is supposed to be viewed at a distance not up close. In the after picture, you can see that the eye shadow is gone.

[GoEagles]

[QUOTE=Green_Monsta]

If you read her diary, you'll understand.

ok, thanks, figured it out

[listener13]

And why does she insist on constantly buying weird houses? What's up with the porno house with the secret pool? Sounds like another money pit waiting to swallow them whole.

She's one of those people that thrive on chaos and drama....without it, she would have to actually be a wife and mother....that's boring.

As far as the lash extensions go - those things aren't cheap, and you have to do that fairly regularly, so this will be yet another thing that she can't afford and we'll read all about it in her diary. "Dear Diary: I really need a new pair of lash extensions - these ones are totally gone - I look like a normal person my age without them.......I wish we had some money so that I could buy them.....Dave and I are so broke." Maybe she should save some of that money and, I don't know.....maybe put it into a account for her children's college education or to pay for all the crap that children want in their teenage years?

There are a LOT Of mascaras that you can buy at a drugstore (I know, shutter the thought!) that will make your lashes look longer and fuller. Maybe if she got up a LITTLE earlier each day, she could use some of that magical mascara from the drugstore and wouldn't need to spend all this money on freaking extensions.

[Whiskers]

She's one of those people that thrive on chaos and drama....without it, she would have to actually be a wife and mother....that's boring.

As far as the lash extensions go - those things aren't cheap, and you have to do that fairly regularly, so this will be yet another thing that she can't afford and we'll read all about it in her diary. "Dear Diary: I really need a new pair of lash extensions - these ones are totally gone - I look like a normal person my age without them.......I wish we had some money so that I could buy them.....Dave and I are so broke." Maybe she should save some of that money and, I don't know.....maybe put it into a account for her children's college education or to pay for all the crap that children want in their teenage years?

There are a LOT Of mascaras that you can buy at a drugstore (I know, shutter the thought!) that will make your lashes look longer and fuller. Maybe if she got up a LITTLE earlier each day, she could use some of that magical mascara from the drugstore and wouldn't need to spend all this money on freaking extensions.

Oh come on....she's not going to have to pay for future extensions. Look at all the free advertising they got. You have to realize this is show-biz....and they don't pay for anything.

[listener13]

Do you HONESTLY believe that she's going to get free extensions in perpetuity? I have news for you - they're in show biz, but she ain't Sandra Bullock - so at some point, she's going to have to start shelling out for that ****.

It only reinforces the fact that she just can't leave herself alone....she's constantly on a quest for something better than what she has. From where I sit, if she would just live simply, her life looks pretty damn good. Stay home and take care of your freaking kids, lady.

[Smitty]

Speaking of how much the showgram makes. Anyone wonder how well Rick has it these days? He was talking about a remodel of his kitchen at his house, which included granite countertops. He also mentioned his favorite clothing site is www.revolveclothing.com back when they did their top 5 favorite things. Has anyone looked at the price of clothes on that site??? You can find a red designer t-shirt for $92 here. Unbelievable! His closet must contain more money in clothing than most banks have on hand.