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I Know How He Feels

August 15, 2008 @ 10:01

This may be presumptuous, but I know exactly how the silhouette feels today.

After thirty-plus years at Chum-fm, Monday morning the silhouette will get into his car and drive to a new destination, and its going to feel weird.

For most people who work in the business, moving around isn't a big deal, but for someone like the silhouette , it's a completely different ball game, just as it was for me back in 2003.

I had worked at CFNY for 21 years, and even though I was part of the ill-fated Mojo experiment, I was still working for the same company and felt the warmth and security that brings.

Then all of a sudden, one day I was sitting in a lawyer's office, considering a deal that would change my life dramatically.

If I signed on the bottom line, I would leave a company that I considered family and enter an unknown world with some valid concerns.

On that day, at that moment it seemed like the right thing to do, so I did it.

In retrospect, it's something I shouldn't have done but that's all water under the bridge now and you can't bark at a three year paid holiday, but that doesn't change how the silhouette feels today.

It's easy to stay put. Play it safe. Roll with the flow. However, at some point in all of our lives you have to go for it. Take a chance and see where it takes you.

Hopefully this move takes the silhouette to a good place.

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17 Responses to "I Know How He Feels"


PartyPooper
August 15, 2008 / 10:53

I've said it before, MOJO was the best thing to happen to Toronto radio for the longest time. You know that you were honored to be a part of it, Freddie, as I was as an intern for Ripkin which was where I met you in person. The atmosphere was electric, exciting, and fun. Maybe Hodgie didn't feel that anymore at 1331 Yonge St. anymore. Not to mention that that historic location is going to be torn down to build : condos.
Toronto radio is such a mess right now it's sad really. I miss turning on my radio for some good entertainment with some good tunes. The music industry is another mess altogether, so I won't get into that can of reality show rejects.
Toronto needs it's MOJO back.


Rob
August 15, 2008 / 14:00

Maybe he didn't feel right after the OTPF and CTVGlobemeda control of things.

As I feel sorry for sorry for Roger, He doesn't have a new TV show to fall back onto.


Michael
August 15, 2008 / 14:32

I pretty much stopped listening to all Toronto radio about the time Humble was let go. He was the only good thing left to listen to and satellite radio had much more variety. Maybe he can bring some life back to our sorry radio landscape. I will give EZ Rock a shot.


Frankenstein
August 15, 2008 / 16:01

You all sound like a bunch of old timers. Any time I hear (or read) someone say that radio isn't what it used to be, that tells me that person is 40 or older. Stop living in the past!


Trish
August 15, 2008 / 16:52

Oh Frankenstein - how naive you are. Can you honestly say that you've never used the phrase (or a variation thereof) "________ isn't what it used to be?" You're living in the past and you don't even recognize it.


Rude Ruby
August 15, 2008 / 20:22

I can only hope that this means that the 'silhouette' is going to replace the potty mouth school boy clown they call a morning man at CFRB.


Pam
August 16, 2008 / 12:46

Fred, I'm so sorry you've been away from the job you love for so long.

But, Fred, wasn't the risk you took tempered by the prospect of a big pay raise? I remember it being the talk of the industry at the time...


Frankenstein
August 16, 2008 / 17:17

All I am saying Trish is that I think radio in Toronto is great right now. Lots of competition which is only going to keep the good stations at the very top of their game. Hodgie leaving 104.5 is not a very big deal. He couldn't stay there forever...him leaving does not mean that 104.5 is over and done. They are better than ever now.


PartyPooper
August 18, 2008 / 11:34

Obviously Hodgie leaving 104.5 isn't a big deal, Frankenstein. What I feel is that the "spirit" of radio is all but gone. It's not about music and entertainment anymore, it's money. I'm not 40...yet, and I grew up listening to radio almost the whole day, every day. I still do, I just find myself flipping through the dial a whole lot more trying to find something worthwhile to listen to.


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