For over 40 years, morning listeners to Houston's KILT heard two guys who called themselves "Hudson and Harrigan," a comedy team of the old school that built their morning show around rapidfire sketches, routines and characters instead of the gaggle of phony-laughing syncophants, "wacky" stunts involving interns and endless discussion of reality comps that has dominated morning drive radio ever since Howard Stern, Steve Dahl and Scott Shannon changed the mold in the 80s. There never was really anyone named Hudson and Harrigan--KILT founder (and legendary radio innovator) Gordon McLendon created the names, the station owned them and several men took on the roles as the station went from AM to FM, from a Top 40 format to country and McLendon retired from broadcasting and sold the station (it's now owned by CBS). Until yesterday, when the holders of the "Hudson and Harrigan" title since 1982 were fired by CBS in what seems like a cost- cutting move (not to mention the fact that the new "personal people meters" Arbitron uses to collect ratings data seem to be unfriendly to personality radio):
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/03/hudson_harrigan_kilt_gone.php There is no doubt that the Hudson and Harrigan act was probably cornball and silly (it ended on a country station, for goodness sakes!). But for so many in Houston, it was part of their mornings for years. If it was time to move in, it would be better to have to the two current guys end it on their own terms and walk out high rather than get canned and replaced by another puke voice and giggling female sidekick/"newscaster"/traffic reporter chatting about who got cut from "Dancing With the Stars" last night. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
