Took a quick stop by the WSJS Radio website this morning, and noticed that the link for the Triad Today Morning Show, with Jeffrey Griffin, was GONE!!! Jeffrey Griffin Gone, and his show was No Longer listed on the WSJS 600AM website, which goes by the listing of www.wsjs.com…All of their other shows were still there, and seems like they are still going strong, or as strong as possible, but The Triad Today, hosted by Jeffrey Griffin for the past four years, it was GONE!!!
This is a major change in the local radio landscape, with Jeffrey Griffing being a huge part of the local fabric, when it comes to knowing about what is going on here in the Piedmont Triad…I would go as far as to say, that Jeffrey Griffin knew that Winston-Salem scene as good as anybody, I have heard on the local airwaves from over the years…He was Winston-Salem, through-and-through…He wasn’t someone I would call on for a large volume of Greensboro info, but man, the guy did know Winston-Salem like a DOG…
His show ran from 7am until 9am each morning, Monday through Friday…The show had been part of a WSJS revitalization for local News, Talk, and Sports, that happened right around four years ago, and when WSJS dropped their All-Sports Format, Jeffrey Griffin is the man that WSJS brought in to be the anchor of the entire organization…
Griffin had worked full-time for WSJS previously, when he was doing the sports reports, and producing the morning show, for long-time WSJS personality, Glenn Scott…Griffin was right there each morning, with Glenn Scott, and the show did well in the 6-am-10am morning time slot…Griffin was also the public address announcer for Wake Forest University football and basketball games, and he was known all over, here and there, in the Winston-Salem/Wake Forest Community…He was considered like the Top Dog of Atlantic Coast Conference announcers/PA men…
So Jeffrey Griffin is the main man, when WSJS/SJS reboots their 600AM station, and creates their own form of News-Talk-Sports Radio…But, when Glenn Scott had the shows back in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, the show ran from 6-10am in the mornings…The new WSJS Triad Today Morning Show would go from only, 7-10am…Not a bad deal if you get the full morning show salary…
Then in just the last month, WSJS cut Jeffrey Griffin’s Triad Today Morning Show back to just two hours per day, Monday-Friday, and it was now just running from 7-9am…WSJS put on a morning show from 9-10am, called the Morning Pulse, with Steven Beck…Not sure why Jeffrey Griffin’s show got cut back, and when a Morning Pulse was taken, but The Pulse took over Griffin’s final hour each Monday-Friday…
And now, as of last Friday morning, some time after he completed what would now be his final Triad Today radio show, Jeffrey Griffin was shown the door…Jeffrey Griffin said on his FaceBook Page, that he was told he was being let go, and he would no longer work for WSJS 600AM Radio…Griffin was relieved of his radio duties, and he was GONE, now he is unemployed and looking for work, so he can feed his family…Big Man, Jeffrey Griffin, and a Big Family Man too….But he is now departed, and no longer needed at WSJS, and he might be starting to feel, that his services are no longer needed, in Winston-Salem…
So Jeffrey Griffin Gone, and he along with WSJS, they are both moving along, Griffin to ranks of Unemployed, and WSJS has now added The Larry O’Connor Show/O’Connor and Company to their 7-9am Morning Lineup…If you check on the WSJS website under Hosts, you will now find Larry O’Connor on The List, and this is what we find, when we look up Larry O’Connor, and not trying to spoil the outcome for you, but still trying to bring you the real and ready report of what is really going on, Larry O’Connor is NOT Local…Jeffrey Griffin was Local, but Larry is NOT….
And now here is your query, to be filled in and answered by Larry:
Larry O’Connor
O’CONNOR & COMPANY
Larry O’Connor is a nationally recognized radio host, journalist, and Editor at Townhall Media, where he shapes one of the largest conservative digital news platforms in the country.
He hosts O’Connor & Company, closely followed by lawmakers, White House officials, and national media. His program now expands nationwide on the Salem Radio Network and Salem News Channel, reaching audiences across the country. He also hosts the daily YouTube show LARRY, streaming live each weekday at noon ET.
Prior to joining Townhall, O’Connor’s writing appeared across a wide range of influential outlets, including HotAir, The Federalist, Washington Free Beacon, and Washington Times. He was also part of the early wave of digital-first political media via Breitbart News’s original platforms such as Big Hollywood, Big Government, and BreitbartTV.
Sounds like a show heavy on politics, and not sure how much that will fly, in a Information-Centric Morning Drive ShowTime…We shall see….I also got the feeling that Jeffrey Griffin may have been too strong with some of his own Political Beliefs/Views on FaceBook, and maybe the top brass/Ownership at WSJS, did not like Griffin’s liberal leanings…Just a thought, just some of those good old Dennis Elliott Opinion Please pronouncements….
Also time for the Full Disclosure…I hear all the WSJS radio promos each day, but to be again totally transparent, I only listen between 12 Noon, and 2pm…I enjoy the Todd Starnes Show on WSJS…To me, without a doubt, one of their very best shows…Lots of conservative political talk, and the Callers, it is the Callers, and the fact that the host, Todd Starnes takes those phone calls, that makes this Show Go and Glow…You can learn alot about the current political state of our nation by listening to this Todd Starnes Show…And I have always loved shows that ask for, and then take The Callers…You get to hear other opinions and leanings from a direction, other than the show host…This is the show for me, on WSJS, and the other’s shows, NO GO for me…
But after many years, and many different radio programs over those years, I still like to follow the Local Radio Shows…Always like to see what is happening, at WSJS.com…Good site, with good info…
The bad news is tho, that the let Jeffrey Griffin go…Maybe he will resurface over there on WTOB AM 980, in Winston-Salem…They also simulcast on 1470 WBIG, in Greensboro…Not sure if that Richard Miller operation can put together a package that will lure Jeffrey Griffin over, or not…Griffin could pull some key sponsors with him to TOB, and that might become the Deal-Breaker/Deal-Maker, how much revenue can Jeffrey Griffin in the mornings, on local radio, Generate….
Will be interesting to see how this Radio Saga turns out…And another sticking point for me, is that SJS only carries the Todd Starnes Show from 12-2pm, and the show is available, from Noon-3pm…WSJS goes with the Dan Patrick Show at 2pm…And why, don’t ask me what their thinking is, on that one…Dan and The Danettes…Not my Cup of Tea….
But let’s give this some time, and see where Jeffrey Griffin lands, and we hope he is back in the Air Chair soon, on some local radio station…The TOB creation might be the most logical direction for now, we shall see where he/Jeffrey Griffin ends up…
And since we are on local radio morning shows again, let’s look back at the illustrious list of Memorable Morning Radio Shows, that ran here locally, from over the years…Feel free to comment on any of these shows, or add in others that you remember, that did not get listed…And here we go, with the Local Morning Radio Show, on the Go, and for sure, not Moving Slow…And it takes a real Pro, to know which way to Go, when you begin to list the Ebb and Flow, of local Greensboro/Area Radio…
Let’s go back a few years, and let’s also get jumping all over the local map….Local Morning Radio Show, and this is a Blast from the Past, that might just Last, and no Dead Air, has been Cast…Host and Cast, from stern to Mast…
WBIG 1470…The Bob Poole Show, with his sidekick Willie….
WBIG 1470…The Dusty Dunn Show
WGBG 1400…Tom Miller, also known in some markets, as Truckin’ Tom…
WMFR 1230…Max Meeks coming to us from High Point…
WEAL 1510…Joseph Level super gospel DJ
WSJS 600….Glenn Scott
WKEW 1400…The Dan and Ken Show…Later on, just the Dan Quinn Show
WKEW 1440…The Dusty Dunn Show…
WWBG 1470…The Dusty Dunn Show…
WGOS 1070…The Dusty Dunn Show…
WPET 950….The Slim Martin Show…
WPET 950….The Don Davis Show…
WPET 950….The Dave Compton Show…One of the top All-Time Top Southern Gospel morning hosts…
WTCK 1320…Matt and TJ Show…Matt Pencola and Tom Jorgenson on this morning sports talk show…And it rolled real good…
WMAG 99.5…The Bill Flynn Show…Leanne Petty, Johnny Phelps, Larry Dunlap, Laura Songster and others with Bill, over the years, but Bill was very strong…
WTQR 104.1..Billy Buck and Aunt Eloise…Dale Mitchell and Aunt Eloise, Big Paul Franklin, and Aunt Eloise…Aunt Eloise was always the constant…
WRQK 99.9…The Wes and Willie Show…Wes Jones, and Willie Edwards teamed up for a good morning run…
The Point, 98.7…The Bob and Sherry Show
94.5 The Rock Station…The Bob and Tom Show
92.3…The John Boy and Billy Big Show
92.3 ROCK 92…Two Guys Named Chris
100.3 JOY FM…The Max and Pam Show..Max McGann, and his wife Pam McGann
100.3 WHISTLE 100…The John Boy and Billy Big Show, and Rod Davis in the Mornings…
98.7 KISS Country…Rod Davis in the Mornings…Also had Danny Hall in the Afternoons, and Smoking Joe Upright, at Night…Smoking Joe Show was called, Crying, Lovin’, and Leavin…Call-Ins and great stuff…He died of a drug overdose in Nashville, Tennessee…
101.1 WTZK…Brad and Britt Show…Brad Krantz and Britt Whitmire, a Classic Talk Radio Team…
93.1 Oldies Station…Jack Armstrong Morning Show…Jack and the Go-Rilla making it stick…
93.1 Wolf Country…Paul Franklin’s daughter hosting the Wolf Morning Show…
107.5 WKZL…The Jack Murphy Show
107.5 WKZL…The Jared and Katie Show
Will throw in a few MORE, when some of the sleeping Brain Cells kick back in, later on…….