Karma Kancelled-Right In The Heart Of Honky Heaver?
The righteous Bob Rucnick, late of WFMU and WABX, is now also late of WGLD is Chicago. He was canned March 31st after a stormy four months as the king of underground radio in Chicago. The radical Rudnick was offed by station management after making some bizarro comments on a television show on the CBS affiliate in Chicago the night before.
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Karma Kancelled-Right In The Heart Of Honky Heaver?
The righteous Bob Rucnick, late of WFMU and WABX, is now also late of WGLD is Chicago. He was canned March 31st after a stormy four months as the king of underground radio in Chicago.
The radical Rudnick was offed by station management after making some bizarro comments on a television show on the CBS affiliate in Chicago the night before. The former underground columnist and Cavalier magazine correspondent talked about using rad ioas an effective organizing tool and how the youth culture is subverting Amerika .in general.Appearing with him was his station cohort Psyche, who is also known as Gwen.
The station ownership got wind of the program and radical radio right in the heart of honky heaven was all through. It wasn’t that Rudnick was fired, exactly; he left first. The station management had sent down directives to the effect that “There is to be no more “Kokaine Karmel” (sic) show”, that it was to be the Bob Rudnick show from* there on in. It also said that there was to be NO discussion of contemporary affairs on the air and that “this station takes no position on anything”. Right on!
Rudnick went into the studio, read the carefully written announcements over the air, said “I want to make a statement about contemporary affairs”, and played a tape of the Rolling Stones singing “Street Fighting Man”, in their live appearance in Chicago. (The tape begins “This is dedicated to you and what you did to your city last year”.) Rudnick than walked out of the studios.
It is unclear what the venerable hassidic healer will do now. It would certainly seem that there must be a radio station brave enough somewhere in the world to accomodate a radio show so far out and unique that it has flipped out three of the most progressive radio stations on the planet. On the other hand, given Spiro T. Agnew’s ruminations and everything maybe not
Oh by the way, the directives were signed by WGLD’s station manager. His name is Charles Manson.
Dave Marsh
