By Jeff Moss
January 10, 2012
DetroitSportsRag@gmail.com
In case you have a life and haven’t been keeping up with my attempt to get an interview with Mike McCoy (the current program director of 95.5 and the outgoing interim PD of WDFN-1130), let me quickly bring you up to date.
Late last week McCoy (via Twitter) invited me to his Farmington Hills office in the Clear Channel Compound to discuss the future of WDFN.
I wanted to ask McCoy about the man (Eric Chase) he hired to replace him as PD at WDFN among a littany of other sports talk radio related issues.
Being a busy man who runs a website and who also has a full-time job as an insurance appraiser, I told him I would take time out of my schedule if I could record the interview and post it on the DSR. Unedited, of course.
McCoy continued to dodge the issue of recording the back-and-forth discussion for a Podcast until this morning when I emailed him to clarify the ground rules.
I didn’t want there to be ANY confusion about my insistence that this interview would be recorded.
The following is the email exchange that I had with McCoy including the last correspondence that I had with him in which I provided him with the actual questions I intended on asking.
If he wasn’t being such a bleeding vag who refused to let me tape the session, of course.
Enjoy.
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:07 AM
To: michaelmccoy@clearchannel.com
Mr. McCoy,
I wanted to make sure we were still on for today. I want to make sure the parameters are agreed to before I come over there. I will be allowed to interview you and record it for a publication on my website.
Please advise immediately.
Jeff Moss
McCoy, Michael Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:20 AM
To: Jeff Moss
No… let’s just have a conversation. We’ll see about content for your website…. Looking forward to seeing you at 3!
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:23 AM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
I am not coming without the interview being recorded. Don’t be a coward. Let me know.
McCoy, Michael Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:26 AM
To: Jeff Moss
Dude…. just come and meet face-to-face, that is all I am asking.
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
I will. But the recorder will be on. I want to save it for posterity in case you start Eff bombing me out of your office like you did to Baligian.
I need it in writing that you will allow me to record the interview. I am not some fanboy with nothing better to do than meet you without content for my website being part of the deal.
McCoy, Michael Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:30 AM
To: Jeff Moss
I guess we have nothing to talk about. Bummer, I was looking forward to having an adult conversation instead of hiding behind email and Twitter….
Let me know if you reconsider.
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:34 AM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
Dude. I am not hiding anywhere. I am more than willing to take time away from my job and come to your office for an interview. I just want the interview available for my readers on the DSR.
You are the one who is hiding. You are a PD and you won’t grant an interview?
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
If you are somehow under this delusion that I am scared to meet you face-to-face then call my bluff and allow me to record the interview.
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
So should I take your lack of a response as you backing down from the interview?
And that you are hiding behind Emails and Twitter?
I can’t make another 3pm appointment with a client so can you let me know if you are running away from this like a scared little girl?
Jeff Moss Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM
To: “McCoy, Michael”
Mr. McCoy,
Since you are acting a pussy and refusing to meet me at your office and allow me to record the interview like you indicated a few days ago, here are the questions I was GOING to ask you in person because I am not a punk.
1) Why would you hire Eric Chase as the PD at WDFN?
2) Do you know many sports fans who also are OBSESSED with dance music? Will Matt Shepard be doing the Roll Call on his morning show? Will Nicki Minaj and Art Regner get the afternoon drive gig?
3) Will Chase also be the PD at 106.7?
4) Was Jay Towers behind this hire since Towers and Chase worked together at WDRQ and are friends?
5) Why not Gregg Henson who was the PD of WDFN when it was a viable radio station and who desperately wanted the job?
6) Will Chase also be on-air as well? If so, are you worried that he is on the record as saying that he gets scared to do sports when his partner in Allentown, PA isn’t in the studio with him?
7) What is the future of a station that got regularly beat in the ratings by 1270 when CBS was running a SIMULCAST of 97.1?
8) Do you find it a personal failure that you couldn’t beat a station (1270) that was only listened to by people who didn’t know that the same show was also on 97.1 (clear signal) or who didn’t own an FM radio?
9) The Lions played in their first playoff game in 12 years over the weekend. Yet you didn’t have a Lions pre or post game show on Saturday. You also didn’t address the game on Sunday with local programming. Do you think this is a good business model for a SPORTS station?
10) Does Clear Channel plan to devote more resources to local programs or will you continue to run shows like “The Dan Patrick Show” which I can listen to on satellite without the constant buzzing in my ear because of your awful signal?
11) You were in negotiations to broadcast U of M football and basketball on 106.7. It was reported that U of M wanted you to switch 106.7 to a more “guy friendly” format and Clear Channel refused to budge. THEN a few month later when U of M decided to go with CBS Radio (broadcasting Michigan football on AM to boot), you switched 106.7 to Classic Rock anyway. You know, a more “guy friendly” format. Is there any planning that is going on at Clear Channel regarding these type of decisions?
12) Why is Marti Martin the second highest paid employee at WDFN? What has she ever done to earn such a lofty status?
13) Is Marti Martin so highly paid because she constantly brown noses Todd Thomas, Clear Channel’s Operations Manager in Detroit?
14) What exactly is going on when Marti Martin, Todd Thomas and Kristen Burns (Todd’s wife) have closed door meetings at the Clear Channel compound?
15) Why did you agree to meet some Sean Baligian Fanboy who is obsessed with Nascar (Jeremiah FIck) instead of ACTUALLY meeting with the staff of WDFN. Something the staff requested on several occasions to no avail?
16) Did your Eff Bombing of Sean Baligian at the Clear Channel compound lead to Sean’s departure from WDFN to another Clear Channel station in Grand Rapids?
17) Is it emasculating that your staff mocks you openly on Facebook?
18) Considering you have sent emails warning your staff from belittling you on social media platforms, do you think it will ever stop?
19) Do you think Eric “Dance All Night” Chase will have similar problems with the staff and social media?
20) Do you realize that 95.5 morning man, “Mojo”, despises you, thinks you are a terrible PD and tells people that you are Jay Towers’ bitch boy?
21) Why does Jay Towers have so much power inside the Clear Channel compound and will this eventually lead to Mojo’s departure?
22) Why does Clear Channel refuse to switch WDFN over to 106.7 when CBS is raking in the cash with a substandard sports station on the FM dial?
23) Do you have a mullet like the previous DFN PD? (Okay, I wouldn’t have asked this in person because I would be able to see your hairstyle.)
24) Does Rod Beard’s (the guy who supposedly is doing the afternoon show on DFN now) family even know who Rod Beard is?
25) Should I just leave my resume on the desk or with your secretary?
Please provide me with the answers to these questions at your earliest convenience and I will post them on my website.
Truly Yours,
Jeffrey Moss
DetroitSportsRag.com
As of this writing I have not received a response from Mr. McCoy regarding my questions.
If Mr. McCoy responds in writing to my inquiry, I will post those answers unedited.
If I get a video of a pig jumping out my ass, I will post that as well.