Dale Shoots Back

Most of the time, it feels like nobody's reading the junk posted here - usually I'm right. Apparently that's not true with Dorktown's Fresno Famous Blog.

Mr. Dale Julin himself was big enough to respond to my original Blog about his show leaving the airwaves. Here it is:

Dale Julin replies to wiffle
Dear Wiffle;

Thanks for listening to our show. But I'd disagree with you that we ended it in an unprofessional manner. As news-men, we always focused on the day's news, and what our listeners thought about it. We are not the story. That's why we waited until the last half hour to tell our listeners. But please google "Dale Julin" and read Bentley's column about the end of our show, and you'll know the full story.
I love Fresno. Best regards from Santa Cruz, Dale Julin

Submitted by Dale Julin (not verified) on Thu, 08/03/2006 - 17:24.

This is how I responded to Dale's post:

Yo Dale,
Nice of you to respond Dale, I'm just a little bitter is all. But you have to understand, when you're on the radio five days a week, it does become about you - to a small extent anyway. Listeners get to know you whether you mean them too or not, so they become personally invested in the broadcaster and the show - that's just good radio.

If I'm indifferent to the radio personality, I wouldn't listen to the show. Why would I?

Your show relied heavily on callers; some of them should have been on your payroll. That's really what the show was about: setting up a topic so that people would get interested enough to call in. But the callers weren't given a chance to say anything about the show suddenly ending (I don't know what Dennis told you, but it was more like the last fifteen minutets, not the last thirty).

So the listeners/callers (the show's backbone) were totally left out.

I still love ya Dale but COME ON, it was the last show; You can't let it be about you and the show for ONE day?

Submitted by wiffle on Thu, 08/03/2006 - 21:17.