Tony Bruno joined Josh Innes – live on the radio and multiple Facebook Live streams – on Radio Row in Houston last night.
When I had Innes on the podcast last month he explained that though there may have been differences in style there was no ill will between him and Bruno. Their 20-minute or so conversation last night during which they touched on a wide range of topics proved it. You can watch the whole interview here, but the most notable part is the discussion of how their WIP show ended:
Innes: I didn’t dislike you at all. It’s a weird situation the way it ended. Which was fair. All of a sudden there just was no show, and it was an odd situation. When did the idea come to your mind like ‘I just don’t wanna do this show anymore’ was there anything that kinda set it or were you like ‘you know what, I don’t wanna do it anymore’? What exactly happened? Because that part of it I think people thought was a little weird.
Bruno: I dunno, I would go home at night and even thought we were number one, you know how it was, people were like ‘Well I don’t like that Josh guy how can you work with him?’ And then your friend would say Tony is alright but I wanna hear you, so it was one of those things like, is this what I wanna do? We’re winning. But I didn’t feel like we were number one because of the pressure and the outside drama. Not stuff that came from within the building, but it was stuff in the atmosphere…
Innes: And I bring a lot of that on, because when I got there I said I’m gonna go after this guy and this guy and this guy, kind of an old-school appraoch to it, the Stern ripoff thing basically, and I acknowledge that’s what that was. But there was that pressure…I don’ view you as a guy who likes that kind of stuff coming down on him. You’re a happy guy. You want people to laugh. I’m a bit more abrasive…
Bruno: I used to want to do that in my early days of radio. You got the competition and you bring them down and you have fun and then you would know the other person and you say ‘It’s just business, man.’ My job is to knock you off and get ratings and be successful. So I felt that I was successful and had ratings and I’d have people saying ‘How can you work with that guy’ so I got tired of dealing with that.
The topic of course turned to ratings, which was all the rage in RADIO WARS long before our president was tweeting about them. Innes admitted to essentially only using them when it suited him and calling them bullshit when they didn’t:
Bruno: The good thing about the Facebook Live stuff is we can see how many people are actually viewing this live, and then people go back and watch it. And then all the streaming sources – the Audio Boom, Sticher, iTunes, Facebook, Periscope – there’s actual raw numbers that they can actually gauge, rather than radio ratings which is based on a couple of diaries, the PPM meters.
Innes: That’s what I tell people. When you have the ratings you like to brag about it, like ‘Oh look at us’ and when you don’t you’re like ‘oh well it’s only four people,’ but it’s true. Then you go look at your streaming numbers aqnd they’re through the roof. You compare it to your actual ratings where your 28th and you look at these streaming numbers like ‘Oh, so people are listening.’ That’s the frustrating part about radio that I don’t think people understand. What you see in ratings isn’t real. Whether it’s good or bad, it’s not really real.
This was typically the source of my sparring with Innes– he was more than happy to trumpet the ratings when he and Bruno beat Mike, but then called them bullshit – specifically the streaming portion – when he was losing. He’s right– it’s an archaic system that is mostly bullshit. But there’s a certain hypocriscy to use them only when it suits you.
Anyway, this was a good conversation. Most interesting part? When Bruno explained that he didn’t actually interview players for Madden 2005 but that the interviews were done separately by a producer and then later edited to sound like Tony was interviewing them himself. I’m genuinely shocked. Those things sounded real, man.
Watch the full thing here.
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we could get a Jim-free week? I mean, really. His posts flat out suck
#fireJIm
Then quit reading ass wipe!
Who the fuck is josh inmes !?
No clue. Bruno was on madden one year.
Innes has low testosterone
does nat egg still work for Bruno
How can you post meaningless stories like this when our country is being takin over by hate?
Trump is the biggest idiot and Americans are even dumber to vote for him. I’m moving to Canada if Trump doesn’t quit. He will get nothing done. Hillary would have truly made this country great, I guess you meatheads couldn’t handle a woman running things.
Muslims in! Trump out!
Prez of Jolly fan club, is that you with a new handle?
You were always a scumbag.
Levi,
I will rest my big Irish balls on your forehead !
nice post you connor mcgreggor wana be. why don’t you get off this site you jerkface!
I loved MXPX. Good ol’ fashion Christian Punk.
What fucking bullshit. We asked for the meat of Radio Wars and Kyle gives us Spam. Just admit defeat you are no longer the maestro you burned your Bridges with the fanatic and the ratings went bye-bye
Ahh Bo…you want meat? check out the meat locker on thersday Bo… we gots the meat! like Primo’s
FUCK BASKETBALL!
FUCK EMBIID!
FUCK THE PROCESS
and FUCK THESE SHIITY SHIRT ADS!
Nothing on the fatman aka Anthony Gargano getting his fat rear end kicked in the radio wars by old man Angelo Cataldi?
Where are the local ratings? Copying and pasting a blog doesnt work
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anything on Trish Sports replacing Jim?
I miss josh innis. Sucks that pussy spike Eskin gave into the liberal haters
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Who cares, what about the ratings?!???
Your site is being kept alive due to Josh Innes clicks. Are your a dependent or subsidiary of Innes?
Why aren’t you at the Super Bowl this week since you’re such a Media God?
oh shit!
2 of the 4 promoted posts at the top of CB are videos from WWE2K17…great work, guys.
I’m taking a break from all the Embid stuff.
As far as Josh Innes he has to be one of the most disgusting human beings ever on radio.
First he is totally not funny.
Second I have no idea how any girl would actually sleep with this guy, yuk!
Ratings or bust, Kyle. This is your flagship series of posts – figure out a way to get them to your readers, who are obviously interested. Just get it done.
This sums it up in a nutshell. CB is on its way to becoming Philly’s most irrelevant sports blog.
You assholes were clamoring for this drivel?
Time to shut this site down.
A story under his Radio Wars title has fewer comments than a Sixers story by Jim. It truly is time to shut it down.
Kyle running innis out of town was bad for crossingbroad business . Love him or hate him he made radio wars
the Maestro dropped his baton up Jim’s ass
I talk like I’m the coolest f u ck ing guy in the world. Has your woman been dipped? Put it in the mex.
Why don’t you call in and say that to me punk. I’ll hang up on you in a Delco minute.
Don’t forget to watch me on BOB Mondays through Fridays.
I cant stand crossovers with that former phony WOP co-host
I heard they were throwing around High Fives when they found out they had just achieved 20 viewers.
Anyone else notice the lack of posts and constant pushing of tshirts lately? Isn’t the main busniness the website not tshirts?
Just use Ad Block Pro like the rest of us, and make his crappy t-shirt ads disappear.
I actually miss innis. couldn;t stand him some days and other days he has me lmao
I heard it is so frozen that Marc Zumoff chisels off a piece for his Vodka on the rocks after the game.
Has nothing to offer any more.
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97.5 should hire josh innis. Get his fat ass back to Philly and give us some lol’s
Kyle, seeing as there is nothing to post about, how about one featuring Mrs. CB? We’d like to know what makes her tick, background, favorite position, how she tolerates your awful love making, etc. Make it happen
You seem to have a lack of content to write about, and the readers seem to have many questions.
To copy and paste these days huh Kyle.
Ha, good one Kyle!
I mean what else does this site have going on today.
Dan don’t work here anymore…
Yep I had to downsize. Now that I can’t find anything interesting to keep this site moving forward the page views have dropped significantly.
…i don’t think you can say Dan ever actually “worked” here. I could take a steaming dump on a piece of paper and you’d come out with a better story than Dan could with his copy n paste buttons, access to Twitter and 30 day deadline.
For reals, if yall be sick n tired of this site, come on over to mine. yall know that name. we gots mad posts bout real shit. PI be changin the game. I took a few weeks off cuz my girl be disrespectin me. always be out at da club late and shit. I don’t believe the rumors though, bout her gettin toe up by dem brothas. my girl comes correct.
I’m sorry I disrespected you bae
You got to keep this Trish bitch in line little bro. Alright, back to rotting….
Your schtick is old. The rest of the commenters are much funnier than you. Fuck off.
Trish is this sexy redhead with a wild side. Kinda like AG, only thinner and better looking with great cans.
Grayish hair, I have big cans but mostly because I’m 400 pounds.
I also have a raspy voice because i smoke menthols all day. I live alone (divorced) with my 4 cats oh and I’m a sagittarius
Because you’re not saving this sinking ship of a website
Who cares? They are both gone and no one cares whether they made up or not. I did hear that Innes is starting to slip again in Houston. Hopefully he will never be back here.
Yup….. True dat
Make that humped…..
Friggin auto correct POS
your dry humor
Nice one. 😉
A good start
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Why hasn’t there been an Ask K.yle Anything? Oh wait because he doesn’t want to answer why he doesn’t get ratings anymore! Pu$$y!
He should replace Mikey Miss.
Can you update that myspace-era bio pic? It’s not cool, funny, original, etc. It’s very similar to your site.
Do people still have to answer those crappy google questions? I only use this site with incognito mode and have adblock on everything.
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