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Post by Snakeb8 on May 21, 2007 21:27:22 GMT -5
where are they now?
anyone know?
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Post by Mike on May 22, 2007 6:44:45 GMT -5
I uh don't uh know uh but the uh new uh guy uh uses a certain uh word uh that uh isn't uh a new uh word uh between uh every uh word.
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Post by caughtitonhotdog on May 22, 2007 16:19:22 GMT -5
I think they both have other opportunities to pursue outside of radio. I am disappointed to see them leaving personally. I always loved to hear them rant and rave about anything, including one another.
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Post by Snakeb8 on May 22, 2007 16:21:32 GMT -5
Skinner got fired, to get ratings up, and the new guy really sucks!
Gamble declined the job, they ofered him the morning job again minus Skinner.
Read that in the Sports section today in the Enquirer
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Post by Snakeb8 on May 22, 2007 16:22:54 GMT -5
And then there were no "Angry Guys," at least for now.
Richard Skinner, the remaining half of the popular "Two Angry Guys" morning radio team, was fired Monday by WCKY-AM (1530 HOMER) in an attempt to boost ratings.
"We just decided it was time for a change, to do something different to get the ratings up," said program director Dave Armbruster.
Skinner, 43, had been working solo since November. Tom Gamble, his on-air partner for 11 years, moved to sister Clear Channel station WLW-AM to host "SportsTalk" after Andy Furman was fired. Gamble turned down the "SportsTalk" job in February.
Skinner said he plans to get back into radio - if possible again with long-time friend Gamble, who teaches at Northern Kentucky University.
"This isn't the end of the 'Two Angry Guys.' It's just disappointing to end this way. I think it was all a budgetary move," said Skinner, who has known Gamble since they were Post sportswriters.
Skinner would not speculate where they might resurface. One possibility would be WFTK-FM (96.5), where Furman landed. "We'd love to have the Angry Guys," said Jeff Davis, WFTK assistant program director.
Replacing Skinner today will be Tim "The Big Dog" Lewis, former WBOB-AM sports talk host and program director. Skinner and Gamble also had hosted Sunday morning "SportsTalk" on WLW; no replacement has been named.
Lewis will work 5:30-9 a.m. weekdays on HOMER after doing overnight news reporting for WLW. The split shift prompted Skinner to call dumping his salary a budget move.
"I have nothing against Tim Lewis. He's a good guy," Skinner said.
Gregg Doyel, the CBS Sportsline national columnist, will host 9 a.m.-noon with Mo Egger, a HOMER producer and frequent fill-in host.
Lewis, 44, and his family moved from Denver in October to be near his wife's family.
"There are so many good and bad things in sports to talk about in this town," said Lewis, who went to a Salt Lake City station after Clear Channel bought WBOB in 2000.
Doyel, 37, a former writer for the Charlotte Observer, moved from Raleigh to Fairfield to cover college basketball for the Web site. Armbruster asked him last month to consider doing radio, he said.
Skinner says his ratings for male listeners ages 25-54 fell from No. 3 in fall to No. 7 in the winter quarter.
Gamble said Clear Channel executives had talked to him about returning to mornings this spring, without Skinner. He wasn't interested. "I thought we were good together," Gamble said. " I feel loyal to our show. I think the 'Two Angry Guys' can still work."
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