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Recommended Listening: Howard Stern’s Phone Call In WYSP’s Final Hours

On Friday, when both Howard Eskin retired and WYSP flipped to WIP, Howard Stern rang up Spike Eskin (even more shades of strange) for a chat, which you can listen to here. The chat is notable for a bunch of reasons. Pick one: The death knell of rock radio, Spike Eskin’s tentative plans for what to do next, memory lane for Stern and WYSP, and lastly, just how grubby of a game terrestrial radio has become. Both Stern and Eskin are pretty candid about where the industry stands here, and you can’t help but feel for all the rock radio folks here currently being cast to the wind.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 at 11:21 am.

  • phillygoat

    Ah, middle school radio. Stern, DeBella, Q102 and The Eagle 106.1 had my mindshare. (Plus, Gene Shay’s sunday folk show, for my nerd cred). Eh, it was middle school: by high school, WKDU.

    Stern lost me with two moves: the weird personal animus to DeBella (like, dude, you have a syndicated radio show in NYC, what do you need to step out of your busy day to destroy a guy in one market for? Isn’t the point of making it in New York to ignore the rest of the country?), and shafting Libertarians in his ego-trip run for NY governor in 1994.

    So long, ‘YSP.

  • LB

    Two things: one, rock radio has been trite and establishment for about 20 years – we’ve heard jeremy and layla – move on. two, last year my special lady friend won tickets from WYSP, but YSP insisted that she personally pick them up in bala 9am-4pm/M-F and refused to mail them despite some lengthy explanations about her working on weekdays and not having a car

    and to s.eskin’s lament that radio can’t appeal to listening tastes because people can’t agree to like one type of music anymore, i say: just be good and people will listen

    get out of here YSP – you’ve been done for years