It is currently Fri Nov 15, 2024 1:17 pm

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 60 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:51 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Just a random thought. I don't think they have. Sometimes I check in late at night or on the weekends and it's alwasy a boaring white guy or girl talking about gardening or movies.

I know they've never had a black guy doing Cubs baseball.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:12 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
I seem to remember a guy named Floyd Brown doing work on WGN radio years ago. And yes, Brown was black.

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:20 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Ok. That might be the only one. It's been all white since I've been listening. Even for their sports shows which you would think might include some black athletes. Who have they had? Hampton, Koslowski and Waddle. Three Polar Bears. Kaplen and Memelo are their sports hosts now. They also had that white guy that got arrested for trying to bang a teenager.

I'm shocked Jesse Jackson hasn't been on their ass. How long has WGN been around? Since the 1930s I think. You'd think they'd hire some black people. Let's be honest, that station is for people who are scared of black people.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:22 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
:roll:

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:27 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
You don't find it odd that they never have black people on the air? You don't wonder about the reason?

Hell, all of the Bears players and they just happen to go with Koz, Hampton and Waddle. You don't find that curious? I do. Look at fuckin' Koz. That guy is an idiot and he never got on the field.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:30 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
Beardown, you're quickly morphing into the white Larry.

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:31 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Big difference. I hate my own race.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:34 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:42 pm
Posts: 7292
Location: Land of Lincoln
pizza_Place: Tombstone
you are forgetting the super duper traffic trooper, linc hampton.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:37 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
Beardown wrote:
Big difference. I hate my own race.

What do you have against reptilians?

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:39 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Well, if you can forget that I brought it up, I think this is a worthy topic.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:44 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
Beardown wrote:
Well, if you can forget that I brought it up, I think this is a worthy topic.

Yeah, so would Larry. In fact, I bet he could probably do a whole show on it. That kinda makes you feel like you need a shower, huh?

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:44 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:42 pm
Posts: 7292
Location: Land of Lincoln
pizza_Place: Tombstone
you are right, but WGN doesn't exactly have a lot of turnover where a lot of new hosts of any race gets air time. now that you mention it, it does seem surprising though.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:52 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
I know they are never gonna have a black host for their weekday shows. They do have news guys and girls that gives updates. They are white. Their weekend and over night people are white. I don't know their names but I know they are white. Like I said, they never have black guys for their sports shows. Never in the Cubs booth. Why didn't Ernie Banks or Billy Williams get it instead of Santo? Their pre game host is always white.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:56 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
Give it to me, Larry...

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:58 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Larry hates me, I'm sure, but right now he's reading this and jumping up and down. I think it's important that a cracker brings this up, Larry. It shows how far we have come. I'm trying to solve racism. One post at a time.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:04 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
I'd like to know if their producers are always white. Anybody know?


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:34 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:24 pm
Posts: 2321
Actually I forgot his name but there was a guy in the booth in either the late 80s or early 90s.

Okay I'll flip this one do any of the black stations have white hosts?


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:38 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:52 pm
Posts: 12558
Location: Ex-Naperville, Ex-Homewood, Now Tinley Park
pizza_Place: Oh I'm sorry but, there's no one on the line
Beardown wrote:
I'd like to know if their producers are always white. Anybody know?

I heard that one of their janitors is a Mexican.

_________________
"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:41 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:59 pm
Posts: 3422
Location: Candyland
Chico wasn't white. He must have been their Rooney Rule sports host.

_________________
"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:41 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:08 pm
Posts: 2139
pizza_Place: Lucano's
cubbiegirlshamus wrote:
Actually I forgot his name but there was a guy in the booth in either the late 80s or early 90s.


Davey Nelson was his name. Butchering the English language was his game.

Has WGCI ever had a white host? I ask that only half kidding.

A more appropriate question: Has WGN ever had an entertaining host? Don't give me the litany of lame ones, either.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:37 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:56 pm
Posts: 37807
Location: ...
beardown, race baiting is *NAS*'s job? hello? your job is to spark whore debates.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:49 pm 
Offline
Site Admin
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:45 pm
Posts: 38256
Location: Lovetron
pizza_Place: Malnati's
Ed_from_Lisle wrote:
cubbiegirlshamus wrote:
Actually I forgot his name but there was a guy in the booth in either the late 80s or early 90s.


Davey Nelson was his name. Butchering the English language was his game.

Has WGCI ever had a white host? I ask that only half kidding.

A more appropriate question: Has WGN ever had an entertaining host? Don't give me the litany of lame ones, either.


WGCI had a white guy named Bob Wall. That didn't turn out well for them. Something involving Wall and an under aged girl comes to mind.

_________________
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:03 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:37 am
Posts: 248
Seacrest wrote:
Ed_from_Lisle wrote:
cubbiegirlshamus wrote:
Actually I forgot his name but there was a guy in the booth in either the late 80s or early 90s.


Davey Nelson was his name. Butchering the English language was his game.

Has WGCI ever had a white host? I ask that only half kidding.

A more appropriate question: Has WGN ever had an entertaining host? Don't give me the litany of lame ones, either.


WGCI had a white guy named Bob Wall. That didn't turn out well for them. Something involving Wall and an under aged girl comes to mind.



Wall was #1 in the ratings, giving wgn fits until he and his wife were caught in a 3some with the teen.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:09 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:37 am
Posts: 248
Beardown wrote:
Ok. That might be the only one. It's been all white since I've been listening. Even for their sports shows which you would think might include some black athletes. Who have they had? Hampton, Koslowski and Waddle. Three Polar Bears. Kaplen and Memelo are their sports hosts now. They also had that white guy that got arrested for trying to bang a teenager.

I'm shocked Jesse Jackson hasn't been on their ass. How long has WGN been around? Since the 1930s I think. You'd think they'd hire some black people. Let's be honest, that station is for people who are scared of black people.



WGN has at least 1 token black substitute host--Yvonne Greer(greg & yvonne, husband-wife team), and is off the hook from Jesse or Sharpton's wrath.

http://www.wgnradio.com/shows/pinchhitters/index.htm


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:58 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:23 pm
Posts: 16779
pizza_Place: Little Caesar's
Dean Richards is black.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:54 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:00 pm
Posts: 1505
Location: Laying in the weeds
pizza_Place: Lou Malnati's
Beardown wrote:
Like I said, they never have black guys for their sports shows. Never in the Cubs booth. Why didn't Ernie Banks or Billy Williams get it instead of Santo? Their pre game host is always white.


Back in the DeWayne Staats days, his sidekick was I think Davey Nelson? or some such. He had a habit of telling strange stories about his "roommate." That apparently wasn't gay enough for the Cubs as they then brought on the unparalleled Thom "Mysterious broken jaw in hotel room mishap" Brenneman.
Of course we all know Joe "Wildfire" Carter would be a legend in this town if he only had been on radio and not TV.

_________________
You cannot make me care about the WNBA.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:02 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
Here is WGN's weekly schedule. Look at all of these boaring white people.

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=163


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:08 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB
User avatar

Joined: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:45 am
Posts: 13529
Location: People's Republic of Urbana
pizza_Place: Papa Dells
Beardown wrote:
Here is WGN's weekly schedule. Look at all of these boaring white people.

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=163

Larry, Larry, Larry...

_________________
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:12 pm 
Offline
1000 CLUB

Joined: Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:29 pm
Posts: 33998
I clicked on all of their weekend guys. Guess what? They're all white.

Check out these douchebags. Does anybody listen to these guys?

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=95&Itemid=172

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=88&Itemid=165

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=100&Itemid=175

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=99&Itemid=174

http://www.wgnradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=102&Itemid=177


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:40 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:23 pm
Posts: 16779
pizza_Place: Little Caesar's
Beardown wrote:

TheIntangibles wrote:
Beardown wrote:
Ok. That might be the only one. It's been all white since I've been listening. Even for their sports shows which you would think might include some black athletes. Who have they had? Hampton, Koslowski and Waddle. Three Polar Bears. Kaplen and Memelo are their sports hosts now. They also had that white guy that got arrested for trying to bang a teenager.

I'm shocked Jesse Jackson hasn't been on their ass. How long has WGN been around? Since the 1930s I think. You'd think they'd hire some black people. Let's be honest, that station is for people who are scared of black people.



WGN has at least 1 token black substitute host--Yvonne Greer(greg & yvonne, husband-wife team), and is off the hook from Jesse or Sharpton's wrath.

Even though their website might not list them, Intangibles is right, Yvonne and her hubby filled in on a Saturday morning 2 or 3 weeks ago.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 60 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 19 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group