Note to HHH
In the mornings, I listen to Hallerin Hilton Hill’s morning show mostly for traffic and news. Unfortunately, the rest of the show sucks. This morning, for example, I listened from roughly 7:25 to 7:50. During that 25 minutes, I heard the news twice, traffic twice, sports once, HHH repeat that he wanted to hear customer service horror stories about 17 times, and 4,326 commercials. Repeating himself over and over and over and over is the one consistent thing about the show. That and the commercials. Can’t fault him for the commercials though since they have to pay the bills. If you’re going to take calls, do that. Don’t repeat yourself over and over and over and over. When you repeat yourself over and over and over and over, you have no time to take calls because you’re busy repeating yourself over and over and over and over.
See how annoying repeating yourself over and over and over and over can be? Good. Now, I’m off to repeat myself over and over and over and over.
December 5th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Amen. I can’t stand him or his show. I remember him giving favorable press on the wheel tax and one day he got called on being a board member of the Beck Cultural Center…due to receive about a million from the wheel tax. He went apeshit that people would question his credibility and the possibility of conflict of interest. And as you say repeated this ad nauseum. Horrible.
December 5th, 2005 at 11:45 am
I would like to encourage everyone to call Hallerin and ask him what happened to his radio show. Fives years ago it used to be a good program. He had some guts back then. He has completely sold out to the political machine in Knoxville. Is there a worse powder puff radio program around here? His TeeVee show is even worse. Either program kills more brain cells than the worst night of binge drinking.
Want to have some fun? Call him and challenge him. Say something like, “How did you get to be so dumb? He will go off. Now the only time his show is any fun is when someone sets him off. What little morning radio I listen too is over at AM 1180. Not fair and not balanced but at least they don’t kiss the ass of the Knoxville political machine.
December 5th, 2005 at 11:49 am
Well, he has kicked around on his show his political ambitions. Could be why.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
another shining example of why i listen to XM Radio.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Don’t know his show, but in his defense, he probably looks at the average commute in the local area and calculates it to e x number of minutes. He then assumes for the average commuter he only has to program x number of minutes cause thats all they hear. IF he repeats himself over and over and over and over no one cares cause they ain’t listening anymore.
Its sort of like buskers on the subway. A few are truly great musicians, while many of them sound like great musicians while you walk by cause they know 1 or 2 songs and thats all they ever play (cause the average person only hears 30 seconds of them playing) and they play the hell out of those 1 or 2 songs.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
I doubt I’m the only one who spends 25 minutes in the car though. Have you seen Knoxville traffic?
December 5th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Well, he has kicked around on his show his political ambitions. Could be why.
Did not know that. When you don’t listen you don’t know.
That could be very bad for Knox County since HHH’s boss Mike Hammond is already a Knox County Commissioner. Since Hammond became Commissioner coverage of local events and elections has plummeted on WNOX. Hammond is a key Ragsdale insider. A Torchbearer is you will.
It is bad enough that WNOX provides little coverage on key issues and elections. To have the employees of WNOX run for office is worse. While this is legal how much sense does it make to elect these people?
December 5th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
I doubt I’m the only one who spends 25 minutes in the car though. Have you seen Knoxville traffic?
Rush hour traffic? Not recently.
December 5th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
Well I can understand if you are marketing only to a commuter market. Still one would have to realize that will kill your morning workplace-desk-radio market. Zzzzzz
December 5th, 2005 at 3:02 pm
Damn. I saw the headline and thought this was going to be about the WWE putting in mandatory steroid testing.
December 5th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
I guess when nobody wants to call and talk to him he has to vamp. And why would anybody want to call and talk to him? If you don’t agree with him or the latest KNOXGOB/UT/TVA/KNS party line gets all superior and condescending. Hell, he’s superior all the time. He is a legend in his own mind, with talent on loan from… from… somebody.
September 27th, 2006 at 9:20 am
[…] Local talk radio guy Hallerin Hilton Hill’s show this morning was kinda silly. Sure, he did what he always does which is to repeat himself over and over and over and over. But the topic was Harold Ford’s and Bob Corker’s commercials. HHH asked if these were effective. And he also asked if anyone out there had fact-checked any of the ads. Note to Mr. Hill: Maybe that sophisticated fact-checking should be done by, you know, guys with radio shows with the intent and purpose of talking about it on that show. Asking your listeners to do your job is lazy. […]