DIE OLD MAN!

[newschick]

I'm about two seconds away from ripping out my co-host's jugular with my bare hands. It's over such a small issue, but it's driving me absolutely nutty. We've always had a rule at the station that the current temperature should be from the sign on the building's roof so if someone driving by the station hears us saying what the temp is, it should match what they see. However, George doesn't like the sign, and thinks somehow that getting the temperature off the weather network (which gets ITS readings from the Windsor airport) is a far better idea. So all morning, I've been saying it's 26/79, and he says it's 23/74, and whenever he reads the currents, he always makes a point of saying something like "well, according to MY thermometre, it's 23 degrees right now." It's not so much that we're a few degrees off from one another, but that he's making such a point of letting our listeners know (think) he's right and I'm wrong. It makes me furious. Thanks for trying to ruin my integrity, buddy. I know this is an issue that has concerned management for months now, and Paul has promised me it will be the main discussion of their managers meeting later this morning.

Comments

[haggisthesecond.livejournal.com]

this guy sounds like an idiot... why does he seem to have power at the station? Do listeners actually like him? Sounds like the station would be better off getting someone a bit less recalcitrant as morning show host.

[newschick.livejournal.com]

He is a massive idiot, but has been with the station for something like 40 years, and the thing about our listeners is not only do they like him, he's considered one of them. We're an oldies station, and our target audience is male aged 45-70, so he fits right in. He's older, stubborn and crotchety, and apparently that's what our listeners want. It of course makes my life very frustrating.
Another one of his 'quirks' - CFCO is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and we had planned a number of big events all year to mark it, but George, who is also the station's program director, thought we should tone it down because he couldn't be bothered being involved in so many things.