By Jeff Moss
January 5, 2012
DetroitSportsRag@gmail.com
According to a report on Inside Radio’s website this week, longtime Detroit sports radio personality, Jamie Samuelsen, has quit his gig at WCSX (94.7)for a new position at all-sports talker** 97.1 – The Ticket.
(** – All sports talk when Bill McAllister and Sara with no Last Name aren’t calling Justin Verlander, “Vermajesty.”)
This is the exact quote from the Inside Radio post:
Veteran Motor City sports radio talker Jamie Samuelsen resigned as sports guy/co-host of the WCSX morning show today. Samuelson, who joined Greater Media in October 2008 from Clear Channel sports WDFN, is expected to join CBS Radio’s “97.1 The Ticket” WXYT-FM. CBS officials weren’t immediately available to comment. Samuelson also blogs for the Detroit Free Press.
I have attempted to find out in what capacity Samuelsen will be employed at “The Ticket”, but my sources at 97.1 aren’t saying much and I am not exactly on speaking terms with Jizz Bucket. He doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor about his wife, Christy McDonald’s, awful blog.
Or that I call him “Jizz Bucket.”
Will Samuelsen replace Bill McAllister on the station’s morning show and join his former WDFN co-worker, Michael “Stoney” Stone? Nobody is saying and if the people I have chatted with are to be believed, they didn’t even know this was happening.
I really didn’t think 97.1 could delve any further into the abyss, but if this story is accurate, the station just got even more vanilla than it already was.
It is unfathomable that a guy like Samuelsen, who has never been able to procure a large audience in any timeslot that he has ever had, continues to get new gigs in this awful sports media town.
I mean, for THREE DECADES the ratings have shown that NOBODY wants to listen to his bland persona. Seriously, go read one of this guy’s blog posts on the Detroit Free Press and try not to fall asleep before the end of his 800 words.
If Ambien came in the form of a lanky, big-headed liberal from San Francisco with flavorless sports takes, it would be Jamie Samuelsen.
In a medium that is dying for a character who can provide some controversy, entertainment and laughs, it would appear that program director Jimmy Powers just added the lovechild of Walter Cronkite and Ben Stein.