WFAN: Christie's appearances an audition for new job

northjersey.com ^ | July 6, 2017 | Keldy Ortiz and Dustin Racioppi

[867V309]

Christie is slated to be heard on Monday and Tuesday instead of afternoon host Mike Francesa, the radio station posted on its website. The two days will be audition days, Jaime Saberito, a station spokesperson, said Friday, as Francesa is set to leave the station once his contract ends later this year.

[867V309]

Word is, using his proprietary tub-o-lard app, listening on your iphone will reward you a krispykreeme donut hole for each half hour. downloading a christie/obummer beach-stroll lovefest photo will get you 2.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Will he play Shrek at Disneyworld?

[Ken H]

I assume you’re talking about Christie the Hutt?

[CaptainK]

Christie has the face and figure for radio.

[lee martell]

I think Chris will do well on radio, if he allows his natural sense of humor to come out more often. Not good to stay in The Warzone all the time. That would be too much like Alec Baldwin’s one dimensional portrayal of the President.

Christie is a very clever man, but like other ambitious people, we sometimes bite off more than we can chew.
Wouldn’t it be ‘funny’ if MSNBC put both Christie and Megyn K. on a show together in some sort of debate format.
Both are stubborn (some may say pigheaded) lawyers with good prosecutorial skills.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

[867V309]

I think Chris will do well on radio,

I'll grant you this: the less seen of him, the better.

[lee martell]

If he does any live-streaming interviews, his contract should stipulate; “Under no circumstances, should Mr. Christie report for a televised show while dressed in a Baseball Uniform, irregardless of which team the uniform is for.
Willful violation of this clause is immediate grounds for termination!!”

[867V309]

If he does any live-streaming interviews...

...he better make sure he doesn't have any bridgegate victims, caught for hours in his petty vendetta traffic jam, wanting to confront him...

[Songcraft]

Given his propensity for sitting around sunbathing on "private" beaches (public beaches cleared of everybody else by executive order from the Governor), I think his radio bumper music should be various "Beach Boys" songs, such as "Surfer Girl" - The Beach Boys.

[Songcraft]

That clip with those old guys sounded so good, I decided to post another one!

       "Surfin' USA" - The Beach Boys

[conservative98]

I hope he gets it. The Fan needs a larger than life blowhard to replace Francessa. Joe Bonigno or Evan Roberts isn’t going to cut the mustard.

[A strike]

Why is this jerk still around ??

[Does so]

I agree. Cristie fits the word “glib”.

[Sooth2222]

Ron Kuby is the lawyer half of “Curtis & Kuby” and he also maintains a law practice. It is probably incredibly helpful to his law practice, since it's equivalent to 3 hours of radio ads in the NYC market every day. When he needs to appear in court, he just takes the day off.

(“Curtis & Kuby” is my second favorite in that time slot, after Rush. When Rush is preempted by baseball during my lunchtime jog, that's where I go.)

This would also be an excellent way for Christie to resuscitate his political image after Trafficgate. He's only 54, so he'll be 58 in November 2020 and 62 in November 2024. Compared to the age of the major Democrat candidates, he's a kid.

[MUDDOG]

They had Scott Ferrall on last night.

Sandpaper on the ears.

[capt. norm]

WFAN's original call letters =WNBC. WRCA if you go back far enough. Why do they keep changing their ID?

[MUDDOG]

They’re not the only ones.

The famous former WCAU in Philly is now WPHT.

WTAM in Cleveland is just the latest call letters for them (formerly “3WE” i.e., WWWE, among others).

I’ve wondered about it too.

(I listen to Indians games on WTAM, and used to listen to Phillies on WPHT until they dropped them a few years ago.)

[capt. norm]

If you go back far enough, WTAM, when I first heard it, was KYW and later WKYC then they went into the "3WE" thing. Seems like they've always had an identity crisis. I am told that KYW was originally in Philly and the FCC made them move it.

According to Wikipedia:
KYW (1060 AM), "Newsradio 10-60", is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the CBS Radio subsidiary of CBS Corporation and broadcasts an all-news format. Its studios are located in Center City Philadelphia and its transmitter and two-tower directional antenna array are located in Lafayette Hill. KYW is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, and also has had one of the more complicated histories. Located in Chicago, Illinois at its start in late 1921, it moved to Philadelphia in 1934. In 1956 the KYW call letters were transferred to a station in Cleveland, Ohio, only to be returned nine years later to their original Philadelphia home.

[MUDDOG]

Baffling.

BTW, I discovered this year I can get Wash. Nationals games on 1500 WFED, which apparently used to be WTOP, but I got a headache trying to follow all the changes listed in that wikipedia article!