Comments on: WTMD exits the circle, but Towson wants it back https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/wtmd-exits-the-circle-but-towson-wants-it-back/ YOUR WORLD BENEATH THE SURFACE. Sun, 13 Oct 2024 04:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Missa https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/wtmd-exits-the-circle-but-towson-wants-it-back/#comment-186023 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 04:05:04 +0000 https://baltimorefishbowl.com/?p=197544#comment-186023 In reply to Andrew Van de Castle.

I agree! I miss Weasel’s show. It was the best. I heard that they fired him over a Zoom call.

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By: Nancy Kurtz https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/wtmd-exits-the-circle-but-towson-wants-it-back/#comment-186022 Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:21:07 +0000 https://baltimorefishbowl.com/?p=197544#comment-186022 I am likely not the only one who stopped donating to both stations when they fired Weasel.

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By: Nicholas Lemonakis https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/wtmd-exits-the-circle-but-towson-wants-it-back/#comment-185964 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:41:43 +0000 https://baltimorefishbowl.com/?p=197544#comment-185964 In reply to Andrew Van de Castle.

I agree with the above comments as a Towson alumni some 40 years ago.
This is symptomatic of the industry. When I was in radio back in the ‘70’s and 80’s it was very vibrant still. What killed it was the 1996 telecommunications act which allowed for consolidation.
What the small owners did was sell at inflated prices and now these big companies discovered is they had to run these stations now. All of a sudden you had multiple staffs so you look for places to cut.
Now Non commercial stations are going through the same thing with the same consultants doing what they did on the commercial side.
I hope WTMD returns to Towson and maintains its format because there is tremendous need and support for the format. That’s coming from a guy who loves commercial radio- oldies and old top 40 by the way.
Weasel(Jon Gilbert)is a friend of mine by the way and a Great broadcaster with an encyclopedic knowledge of music he should be on the air if you can convince the man to do it!
Great opportunity to speak on this and I’m very appreciative of that and the other comments. Take Care!
Nick Lemonakis(Miller’s Island,Md.)

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By: Andrew Van de Castle https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/wtmd-exits-the-circle-but-towson-wants-it-back/#comment-185915 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:29:55 +0000 https://baltimorefishbowl.com/?p=197544#comment-185915 WYPR is bad for radio.
Maybe not the business part of radio but more so for the product that comes out of the speakers.
WTMD’s firing of Jonathan “Weasel” Gilbert was/IS unconscionable.
WYPR/WTMD keeps digging the hole deeper. I wish they’d stop.

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