I told you that the new SF Cumulus boss has a reputation as a tough guy. He seems to fit the Atlanta/Dickey credo down to the tee.
An industry friend forwards me this article about Gary Pizzati. Take from it what you will; If I'm working inside the Hawthorne cluster, I'd probably have a few choice adult beverages after reading this piece. It's a little aged, but I think it's worth reading and thoroughly relevant.
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Radnich did his KRON show in his daytime bowling shirt. And he has said a few critical things about corporate beings that I never heard him say before.
ReplyDeleteI never thought he had any anti status quo in him. I might be a tad wrong..a tad.
Economic Darwinism. Survival of the fittest. He should run for office. As a Republican. He and Sussman should all get along real well. He won't last in the Bay Area, and he won't last in radio.
ReplyDeleteWell that says it all! Lets see if he lives up to his billing! I am guessing he hasn't changed his spots!
ReplyDeleteUh-oh, the "tiger" man is coming to town with his big fangs ready to take out the lesser breeds in the Bay Area radio animal kingdom.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, even though the article is over 12 years old, I'll bet this guy is probably still the same self-inflated jerk that drinks 6 egg whites at 5AM before he does his daily dirty work.
Nice scoop for 415 Media-can't wait for the inevitable fireworks to begin!
Cool tat bro.
ReplyDeleteI've had bosses like that back East when I worked in Radio and at the Trump properties in Atlantic City.... All I can say is NOBODY in that cluster is safe! After all it's a business.
ReplyDeleteI love the pleated pants worn half way up to his man boobs. You work it honey! Welcome to San Francisco tigerboy! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
ReplyDeleteAnother self-important asswipe. Am I suppose to be impressed that he gets up at 5AM, drinks 6 egg whites, pumps iron at Gold's gym, then heads into work with the "eye of the tiger". Yeah, I am sure everyone in the office loves him. That's what they tell him to his face, then whisper what egotistical prick he is. Sounds like a total douche. He will fit in great in SF with KGOne with his slightly used Caddy and his pictures of tigers, lions and other killer wildlife. I'll give him 6 months, unless he drives his Caddy into Oakland or Richmond late at night with his big fangs out. They will eat his egg whites.
ReplyDeleteThanks for my first good laugh of the day! I think we've all had the misfortune to report to an asswipe like this guy, at one point or another in our corporate lives.
DeleteI call the fact that guys like him rise to positions of control, the "Cesspool Theory of Management." In summary: "The really big pieces always float to the top."
I particularly love your two closing sentences. Well put!
I left the radio biz 42 years ago and had a very successful career elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe article refreshed my memory of why I left.
CBS Sports radio just signed Scott Ferrall to host a show....wonder how long until his show is carried locally.....
ReplyDeleteGreat if he is at night More schitck him or JT
DeleteInteresting article. I would not want to be at the KNBR/KGO stations when he arrives. This guy means business. He will however run into a few egos at both stations so there should be some nice little confrontations.
ReplyDeleteTiger Man might want to rethink his daily practice of consuming six raw egg whites. Excessive consumption of raw egg whites over months or years leads to a Biotin deficiency. The common body symptoms of Biotin deficiency include: (1) red patchy rashes near the mouth, (2) fine brittle hair, (3) partial hair loss or total baldness, (4)anemia, (5) fungal infections, and (6) random areas of numbness and tingling on the body. Don't know if that last item might lead to him eventually being called a numb-nuts or not. Hahaha
ReplyDeleteThe common mental symptoms include (1) hallucinations, (2)anorexia, (3) mild depression, and (4) profound mental delusions that you are a jungle cat and that the whole world dwells in total fear of you.
I'm just kidding about that last one!
Bruce Johnson lives! Ask some one from Shamrock Broadcasting.....
ReplyDeletethe comments on this thread are hilarious, particularly the one about the "jungle cat"
ReplyDeleteeven the cumulus interns have to admit these are funny
made my day!!
Pleats? Who wears pants with pleats these days? Mr. Tiger, if you want, I can take you to Barney's or Nordstrom and clue you in on what a real power suit looks like and not something off the clearance rack at the Walmart superstore in Alabama, Atlanta or any of those other ass backward states. I can meet you at the Golds Gym in the Castro Mr. Sugarbottoms. Toodles! PS, I hope you tigers like bears.
ReplyDelete"Let's go make some money! I'm a tiger and anyone who gets in my way better watch out 'cause you're my enemy! I don't have time for whiners and losers! You're either part of the solution or part of the problem! Like my pictures of Tigers and sharks on my well?" - Pizza Boy
ReplyDeleteSeehhh! Good luck num-nuts! If you think that attitude is going to win you allies and gain listeners, you're sadly mistaken!
This guy sounds like the legendary Alec Baldwin character in the movie 'Glengarry Glen Ross.'
ReplyDelete"You know what it takes to sell? It takes brass balls! Put that coffee down! Coffee is for closers, not losers like you! You call yourself a salesman you son of a b....?! The good news is...you're fired!"
Oh, I'm sure the sales force at SF Cumulus is going to love to be brow beaten by this dweeb every morning!
In the story it read...
ReplyDeleteMr. Pizzati has been married twice and divorced twice. The unions failed, he said, because he worked too much. He has no children and has no plans for any.
Duh!!!! Who the hell would want to be around a person like that! Good, he should not have kids. It would be a crime to have such a person as a father. Spare the kids. He should move in and share a house with the Dickie brothers. I am sure they would get along just fine. And...perhaps...they would kick each others butts. Sad people. All they think about is money at the expense of making this a better world in which to live.
Rich..thanks for some comic relief. When I read this story and showed it to a few of my friends we were laughing so hard that tears came into our eyes! But when I think of the poor people that are going to have to deal with this asswipe, it's sad enough to make one cry real tears.
ReplyDeleteThis Pizza-guy sounds like a cartoon-character or some dark figure out of some David Mamet screenplay. If he truly thinks he can come to SF and 'whip everyone back into shape and take over the market' he's sadly mistaken.
It's amazing how these pompous, arrogant, windbag assholes keep popping up in the business world, but unfortunately, these are many of the kinds of people who run American business these days.
A bunch of entitled, selfish, Darwinian scumbags.
Shame on American business for allowing these kind of executives to rise in the first place. NO wonder this country is going to the dogs!
This guy doesn't just drink the Kool-Aid, he mixes up the daily batch served in the Cumulus break room.
ReplyDeleteGuys like this rise in an organization because they "manage up". In other words, they tell their boss what they want to hear. When this assignment fails to produce results, he'll go back to Atlanta and pull an Obama with Lew. "This crisis was worse than we anticipated, and it's going to take longer to fix than I thought... "
ReplyDeleteJust have to get in your little shot at Obama don't you you right wing dittohead! You're sadly misinformed as well, because if you knew anything about today's economics, you'd know the the economic problems of our country are tied in to what's happening around the rest of the world, and most of that is out of Obama, and the Congress's control.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wanted globalization, and now we're paying for it. At least Obama saved the auto industry, while Romney was willing to let it die. That would have been a great move, huh? Throw thousands of people out of work and destroy an iconic American industry.
Mitt Romney and his embracing of rehashed nostrums and plans that failed for eight years is not the answer to our problems now. Plus I'm wondering if this guy understands anything about foreign policy. After listening to his sadly misinformed rants about Israel and the Middle East in the last week months, Im shocked that a presidential candidate could be so naive. I'm looking forward to seeing Obama debate him on this topic because he's going to get his ass handed to him!