Why I detest Seacrest? He's put so many legends out of work, and honestly, ruined radio as we knew it. As a broadcaster, I resent that one person can come in and displace Rick Dees (Clear Channel fired him for Seacrest), Casey Kasem (Clear Channel shoved Kasey off AT40 years ago for Seacrest), and Dick Clark (RIP). Clear Channel overuses him which keeps new talent off the radio, and it really cheeses me to hear him as the ONLY talent there is in broadcasting. I refused to run his garbage on any station I've ever programmed, simply because I feel he's not worth the money. And why would I want a product everyone else has?
I resent that he's everywhere. Seriously, I get annoyed with seeing him on virtually every major network (I think CBS is the only one who doesn't have him under a contract yet). Radio no longer has a farm system. Anyone going into radio today has nowhere to advance their careers due to him and people like him. Used to, you could go from small market Nebraska to Omaha, KC, or anywhere bigger. Not anymore. Today, more and more people are being cut in radio and their replacement? Seacrest. What happens if Seacrest were to have something happen to him like Dick Clark? There's no one out there to replace him. It's hard to ignore someone who is on so many different venues at one time. There ARE other people in media other than him. He just wants the facetime, and he doesn't get it from me! From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of PGage Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 9:17 PM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Seacrest Gets 'Today' Gig, Matt Still Host On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Terry Knab <te...@knab.org> wrote: Another reason I won't watch the Today show. I REFUSE to watch anything with that no-talent hack on it. Terry, I think you have posted this sentiment a few times to the list, and I have seen other people with very strong anti-Seacrest passions. I wonder if you can articulate a little more specifically what it is about him that generates such a strong response? Even if we grant your claim that he is talent-less, I am not sure what about him what generate such strong feelings. Why not just ignore him? I am no stranger to having strong negative feelings towards TV personalities (I have a white hot hatred for Nancy Grace, for instance); but I think I could give more of a basis for my anti-Grace passion than simply my view that she has no talent. Until I started watching AI regularly a few years ago I had no real sense of who RS was, aside from a few media jokes about his "Seacrest: Out!" sign-off (which I don't think I have ever actually heard him say - is this one of those "Play it Again, Sam" myths?). But in the last three years I have watched AI, and a couple of other singing competition shows (The Voice and X-Factor, US). RS seems to me to be consistent and significantly better than anyone who has a similar role on those other shows has ever been. Likewise, I think he does a better job on the Red Carpet than anyone who has ever done that on E!, or the broadcast networks. And in a line-up of Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest for least obnoxious New Year's Eve Host, I think Seacrest would win hands down. I have not seen his other E! programs, or heard him do his radio show, or any of the other dozen or show jobs he apparently has. As far as I can tell none of the jobs RS has are particularly important, but, for what he does, as far as I can tell he does them about as well or much better as anyone else currently doing the same thing. I am not in love with him, and don't know that he is a major talent, but I can think of several bigger reasons for not watching the Today Show than the addition of RS as what I assume will be some kind of features reporter. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
