1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: Baby if you lived one dude the air in Cincinnatys 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: Kennelly Casey showing rob that's Casey Blnnie Anderson passed away. 3 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: She did. 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: She was almost eighty, just a few days short of 5 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 2: her eightieth birthday. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: And she is probably best remembered for two things. One 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: being married to Bert Reynolds. And they had a sort 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: of a rocky, high profile marriage. 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 2: They were married for what about eleven years? 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, And and they were tabloid back when the you know, 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: when people actually got their gossip, rumor and innu indo 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: from the tabloids. You know, you had to go to 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: the news stand. They were. I remember all the time 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: as a kid, like going places with my grandmother and 15 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 1: and you know, standing in the checkout lines and reading 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: the tabloids. And she got one of them, the Inquirer 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: one of my camera which one was? And Grandma, why 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: do you read that? It's interesting? You know, most of 19 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: it's done real, but it's still interesting think about how 20 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 1: much our society has changed, right has it really? 21 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: I mean, aren't we just putting that on the internet now? 22 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: Well that's my point. Like I used to have to 23 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: send you via United States Postal Service. 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 2: You know bight in the check out of the grocery store. 25 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: But she was also known in terms of her own 26 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: career as the receptionist Jennifer Marlow on WKRP in Cincinnati, which, 27 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: for people like us who are in this business, is 28 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: a beloved program about a small radio station in Cincinnati, 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: Ohio and the wacky, wild characters in the show that 30 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: Wally sitcom. I think every radio station I've ever worked 31 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: at there's somebody who resembles one of. 32 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,559 Speaker 2: Those characters, absolutely, And the creator of that TV show 33 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: was inspired from a real radio station. Of course, the 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: call letter's WKRP. It's not an actual radio station. There 35 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: is a WKRC oh in Cincinnati, but this, you know, 36 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: the TV show was based off a struggling AM radio station. 37 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: And then what Andy Travis came in, so Gay changed 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 2: the format. 39 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, So Gary Sandy, who's a fairly well known actor, 40 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: was on that program. He's the program director that's hired 41 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: to revamp the radio station. Gordon Jump who was again 42 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: at the time of accomplished well known actor. He is 43 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: his mother owns the radio station and he's sort of 44 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: the you know, the liaison. And then Howard Hesseman is 45 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: the morning disc jockey again a fairly well known actress. 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: So there were some people who many of them became 47 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: well known, but some of them who were kind of 48 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: established people who were in this program. And you know, 49 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: the wacky Frank Bonner played the wacky sales guy, Herb Tarlek, 50 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: and then you had the super cool Venus fly Trap, 51 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: the overnight guy, and and Les Nessman, the nerdy news guy. 52 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 1: And so it's just like it's a perfect especially if 53 00:02:59,919 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: you ever worked in small time, was you know, a 54 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: small radio station. Those people were characters that you knew 55 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: in the building like they represented they represented people you said, oh, 56 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: that's so and so, and that show was so well done, 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: and she was such a big part of it. And 58 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: of course, you know, she's the girl that everybody in 59 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: the building, you know, wanted to be with, and she, 60 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: you know, is keeping everybody at arms. 61 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: Laying yeah, the smart, glamorous receptionist. The show aired from 62 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two. And I gotta 63 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: imagine it's kind of like medical people when they watch 64 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 2: Gray's Anatomy and they want to point out all the inaccuracies. 65 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: I do that now with old reruns or you know 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 2: clips of WKRP in Cincinnati, like nope, sorry that the 67 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 2: monitor would shut off when the mic turns on, which 68 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: it really doesn't do it show? 69 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, the little things. 70 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: But there are actually a lot of similarities as well. 71 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know that show now especially is a 72 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: throwback to how great and what a just an influential 73 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: presence radio once was. And we talk about this all 74 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: the time, like we are not immune because if we 75 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: don't produce, we will be in this same suit. But 76 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: we have been able to stave off a lot of 77 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: the harm that has been done to this industry. One 78 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: because of you, the fabulous audience. You're you're the you know, 79 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: the focal point of this, because you are so engaged 80 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: in you are so passionate about good governance. But because 81 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: of the programming we've been able to put on and 82 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: because our ownership allows us to operate free of many 83 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 1: of the restraints that many other corporations place on their 84 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: radio stations. And they stand behind us and they back 85 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: us up, and they've been been great both both when 86 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: small and owned the station and now with Urban One, 87 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: that we've been able to keeps some of that nostalgic 88 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: type of feel about radio and how it runs and operates. 89 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: But many, many radio stations, because of the corporations their 90 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: own bites, that have not been able to do that. 91 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: And you don't see people period in the halls anymore. 92 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: What's of those people that had the character or the 93 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,119 Speaker 1: characteristics that these didn't. So it's so fun to watch 94 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: those old shows and you're reminded of how fun this 95 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: industry used to be and what a special place you 96 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: know it is and it had in the hearts of 97 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: the American public, and it's just a what a great show. 98 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: And she was such a big part of that. 99 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. She earned two Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations, 100 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: kind of solidified her as the as a television icon 101 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: as the Blonde Bombshell. One of my favorite episodes, they 102 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: had a consultant come in from out of town, Yes, 103 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 2: and she started talking to him in a really squeaky 104 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: voice because she didn't want to be on the air, 105 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: and she kind of thought he's going to take one 106 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 2: look at me and want to put me on the air, yeah, 107 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: because that would be the full path package. And she 108 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 2: intentionally talked in his squeaky voice so that he wouldn't 109 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: choose to put her on the radio. 110 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: And she had and I know we get to break here, 111 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: but she had kind of disappeared from the public eye. 112 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: I think she had had some health challenges in recent years. 113 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: So she wasn't really you know, front and center in 114 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: terms of the American public, but a phenomenal, phenomenal character 115 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: on a phenomenal television show. And so rest in peace 116 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: to Lonnie Anderson at the age of seventy nine.