Popular host John Gambling was fired from WABC in March and rehired by WOR in May...
Posted on 05/08/2008 7:46:48 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
"We're the only local news/talk station here in NYC in the morning," said John Gambling. Alluding to Imus and WABC's 5 a.m. host Curtis Sliwa, he cracked, "The guy with the cowboy hat and the guy with the beret are going to have to watch their backs."
Gambling said, not for the first time, that he has little use for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and that John McCain is "not the candidate I would put together if it were up to me."
Gambling spent the last eight years at WABC (770 AM), after WOR startled him in 2000 by not renewing his contract. In some ways, he suggested yesterday, his return is also startling.
"Who'd a thunk it?" he said, adding several times, "I can't tell you how happy I am to be here."
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Popular host John Gambling was fired from WABC in March and rehired by WOR in May...
Imus?
The name doesn’t ring a bell.
Excellent-thanks for the update. Gambling is very good. Can’t stand Imus or Sliwa. At least Kuby is gone.
Imus is another liberal arse.
McPain is his IDEAL candidate ... give you a clue where this pointed head is coming from. Imus is disgusting.
You’re welcome. I pleasantly discovered his show on WOR by accident this morning...
On top of that, I find Imus to be so tedious and boring...
The “humor” of Imus is also lacking. His humor is gutter humor.
also nasty....
I agree totally. IMHO he's on his way out...
Podcast with John Gambling and Congressman Peter King
http://www.wor710.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=2103237
Slightly off topic, but since Imus returned to the airwaves, I haven’t heard or read anything about him. Is he still relevant?
I sure hope so. He must have signed a huge contract, his “leaving” unfortunately won't be as quick as I would like.
long time listener to 77WABC AM’s programming
and cannot understand why they did what they did.
heard imus one morning mumbling a monologue about whatever and turned off the radio,and turned off it stays.The energy that was once there with curtis & kuby,warner wolf + the open line callers is gone and that station’s morning show is dead.
their loss.
As relevant as a gelding on a stud farm.
Happy to hear this! Thanks!
Imus really is such a drag. He may have good interviews, but his own self-absorption always gets in the way. I can’t take him for more than a few minutes -— and then he is turned off. Also, I HATE the music interludes! I tune in for news - and it is NEWS that I want.
May Gamblings ratings overtake Imus and make WABC think twice about what they’ve done.
More power to you John!
He thinks he is...:)
Unfortunately....
Imus is brain dead. His show is unlistenable anytime he opens his mouth. He was mildly entertaining when I was a kid, but all of those years of drug use screwed up his brain.
I know...
BTW, does WABC still run that old music on Saturday nights with the old "Music Radio 77 WABC echo chamber" sound?
I was also happy to hear this!
Mark Simone has an Oldies Show every Sat. evening on WABC.
Yes, as far as I know. 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM (unless pre-empted by a sportscast). Mark Simone is the host.
I've noticed that they've kept the title as "The New John Gambling Show" and haven't gone back to "Rambling with Gambling".
Maybe they will after John's been there for a while.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for John Gambling. He’s a gentlemen and a fine host. In the aftermath of 9/11, he said something to the effect that even though he’s a Quaker, you can’t just let people come in and murder 3,000 people with impunity, you have to take them out. I would not have thought less of him had he not said that, but I was profoundly moved by his emotion when he did. It couldn’t have been easy to do, but like most of us, he was aching all over and it caused him to take a hard look at things. I’m glad he’s back on the air.
He was a good morning guy, keeping topics of the day updated, with a dry sense of humor. Imus is nothing but a Howard Stern light, annoying at best. Curtis is...well, Curtis! Well informed most of the time, street smart and entertaining.
It never ceases to amaze me that Imus has an audience.
He sounds like he’s drunk most of the time, he is completely incapable of filling five minutes of air time by himself without having other people around to fill the space, and his brilliant political insight consists of calling people he disagrees with “morons.”
Plus, he has all the charm of a temporary tooth crown.
He ought to refer to his network as MIB (Mediocrity in Broadcasting) — not that he actually has a network.
I just really don’t get his appeal.
*Ping
*Ping
There are generations of history with John's father and grandfather behind the title of Rambling with Gambling...
I feel the same way...
The show has gone downhill. Can't wait to see the ratings...
Ping
Agreed. I will tune into WOR from now on in the morning. Imus basically has an orgasm every time they have the putrid Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone is on.
That show - and especially Musicradio 77 "Rewound" - brings back lots of good summertime memories of my youth on the CT and RI shore (where WABC comes in strong), listening to great music and disk jockeys like Dan Ingram, Ron Lundy, and others.
*Ding!* "...and it's now 80 WABC Dee-grees in the City..."
Thanks for the ping.
The only reason he was popular was because he was squeezed between Kurtis & Kuby and Rush. Kind of the way NBC 10 years ago on Thursdays could have put a test screen up between Seinfeld & Friends and ER and still get good ratings.
Good Riddence
You’re welcome. I enjoy listening to it when I can. Grew up going to the Jersey Shore and a lot of the music brings back great memories.
Yup. And I was annoyed when WOR fired him but wouldn’t let him use that title because it was their property (which was at that point worthless to them).
I knew nothing about Imus until the “nappy headed” scandal.
I sill would know nothing except that since I moved to Europe I have to get my talk radio via WABC online.
I tried listening to Imus when he came on the air, but I found him to to be a pandering ass. “ He/she is so great and wonderful, I just love him/her to death...blah blah blah.”
I am sure he would kiss any well known ass, as long as they are on the left. His support of McStain does not impress me at all.
Imus has become one enormous commercial for his wife and her greening products.
He’s also become disgustingly, polically correct since his comments about the Rutger’s BB team. I kind of like the new “girl” on his show...Karith? but the black guy Tony is, in my opinion, just there because of his color. He adds 0 to the show.
Thanks! I am indeed enjoying his new show.
Imus is an ass-kissing bore, although he is not a liberal as some Freepers contend. (He's more Ron Paul populist with an over-sized an ego.) IMO Sliwa/Kuby followed by John Gambling were the best 6 hours of non-syndicated talk radio. Yes, Kuby is a lib (his "mommy is a commie"), but I am not so insecure in my political beliefs to fear a few hours of exposure to leftest ideology, particularly when his co-host was the right of center, street-smart city boy named Curtis Sliwa. The bottom line is that Ron Kuby is one of the few liberals who can make liberalism entertaining, and while I nearly always disagreed with him, I did recognize and appreciate his ability to simplify complicated legal and constitutional principles for the masses. And then there is John Gambling, who in my opinion is one of the most underrated talk radio hosts in the tri-state region. Given the choice between Imus and Gambling, I'm thrilled that he is back on air.
I agree that John Gambling is the class of the NYC morning talk show hosts. Never had much use for Imus, and less so after his chastening experience of being fired by Barak Obama. Before he was always pushing the borders of acceptability, and would make me laugh in spite of myself if I listened. Now, even though now he's on the station I default to, he doesn't even suck me in accidentally. And I can only take so much of Curtis Sliwa, just because. Hey, I even tune out Rush late in his program, sometimes.So if I'm listening in the morning it will most likely be Gambling on WOR.
It's out of control...
Me too...Just sorry it starts so early...
Gambling does have class and seems to lead a totally normal life. He avoids the spotlight. I don't know why some people on this thread think he's a liberal.
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