Tag: wbfo
monday april 14th 2008
WBFO and BRO: Walk of Fame, Art (and Weather), Labatt Labels (again) and Carl Paladino
Another week, another set of topics during our weekly visit at WBFO with Mark Scott. This week's Buffalo Rising Roundtable in Studio B had us discussing the Cultural Walk of Fame. In spite of the fact that most of the comments centered around people not liking the look of the sign, it is a well-intentioned initiative spearheaded by Charles Griffasi Sr., holding much deserved kudos and attention directed toward the people it honors.
If those who don't like the sign want to cough up, I'll bet Griffasi, who did this with his own coin, would welcome the opportunity to sink some money into a sign that would please almost everyone.
Next we talked about the April 2008 issue of AmericanStyle Magazine that proclaimed Buffalo as “No. 1 Arts Destination for Mid-Sized Cities” in AS's annual “Top 25 …
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monday november 26th 2007
WBFO, BRO and Local Shopping
Newell and I did our weekly bit again with Mark Scott at WBFO's studios. This week's topic was one that Newell was uniquely qualified to talk about, having been a business owner (Thunder Bay) on Elmwood Avenue for several years.
When Mark asked about shopping in Buffalo, it was pretty much a knee-jerk reaction to come up with all the reasons one should shop here, from supporting locally-owned shops, to avoiding the mall rush, to finding unique gifts. The problem then was in everyone we left out when we were naming names and shops. Happily, the list of potential shopping spots is long.
Obviously, a yellow page listing will tell you what you need to know about finding things by category, but for those of you with an open mind, friends and family as unique as the item you may be looking for and a little holiday time on your hands, park your car on a city street and explore the …
wednesday november 7th 2007
WBFO and BRO: Suckholes, Sandbagging and a Threat
Newell and I did our bit at the WBFO studios with Mark Scott again last week. Mark, being a news director, was pretty hot on having us talk about the race for Erie County Executive while we were there.
Though we'd hosted a podcast in our studios with both Collins and Keane, we weren't so eager to make an endorsement and told our friend Mark so. You could see he wasn't buying it. The soundbooth was tense.
Then we started talking and -wham!- there it was. Not only did Mark ask about the race, but he brought up an incident that could have been damning to Collins. This is where radio comes in handy. Newell's eyes got really big, which of course, you can't hear in the broadcast. I had the only working cough button, but alas, the words were out. We did our best to recover. Then, just when the heat of the county executive discussion was past, I said it: Suckhole.
I was aimi…
