10 Years Ago... [Archive] - RonFez.net Messageboard

mikeyboy

02-19-2010, 05:29 AM

On February 21st, 2000, Ron & Fez broadcast their first Ron and Fez Dot Com show on WNEW (simulcast on WJFK). That means tomorrow will be the 10 year anniversary of Ron & Fez's debut broadcasting from New York City!

Ron & Fez's first show on WNEW part 1 (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2150)

part 2 (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2149)

part 3 (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2148)

hereintheUK

02-19-2010, 05:53 AM

Congrats on 10 years. wonder if anyone on here really heard the show live. It's been nothing but pleasure ever since i started listening. Here's to another 10!

Furtherman

02-19-2010, 06:05 AM

I remember hearing them for the first time and thinking... WTF? .com? And Fez is doing what....? I was an advid Stern fan then, but no more.

Glad I stuck with them!

A.J.

02-19-2010, 06:07 AM

Ron and Fez Dot Com show on WNEW (simulcast on WJFK)

Those were the days.

mikeyboy

02-19-2010, 06:25 AM

As was pointed out to me, Sunday is the anniversary, not tomorrow.

Tenbatsuzen

02-19-2010, 06:41 AM

I remember the first time I listened. I thought Fez sounded like Chris Russo on a helium binge, and their guest that night was Shae Marks, who was giving away free passes to her website.

Dan G

02-19-2010, 06:42 AM

After the Ron & Ron show era ended and before the WNEW run, the Ron & Fez show began at a station in Daytona, FL. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any audio from those days.

FUNKMAN

02-19-2010, 08:38 AM

Kudos to the boyz! Best show on any radio!!

sailor

02-19-2010, 09:46 AM

We should have a fittingly old-school celebratory-type
event.

razorboy

02-19-2010, 12:23 PM

...On a cold, dark night

spainlinx0

02-19-2010, 01:35 PM

I would love to listen to R&F from day one forward. Thanks for this. I will definitely be downloading and listening on Sunday. Seems that "other sources" don't have the complete shows all the way back to dotcom days.

jennysmurf

02-19-2010, 01:42 PM

I wish I had discovered them sooner--oh the wasted years! They had dropped the .com by the time I started listening to them on WNEW, then I lost them when they moved to D.C. I've missed so much fun! Here's to many more years ahead!:drunk:

lleeder

02-19-2010, 02:07 PM

I'll always remember the first ichiban was that Antonio Diaz Miguel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_D%C3%ADaz-Miguel) died.

Freakshow

02-19-2010, 02:17 PM

We should have a fittingly old-school celebratory-type
event.

Drinking Show? Comedy Pyramid? Fastest Hour in Radio?

zildjian361

02-19-2010, 02:21 PM

These were better days:smoke::drunk:

furie

02-19-2010, 03:50 PM

10 years... where has my life gone...?

disneyspy

02-19-2010, 04:14 PM

After the Ron & Ron show era ended and before the WNEW run, the Ron & Fez show began at a station in Daytona, FL. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any audio from those days.

why dont you just shit on mikeyboys face

hammersavage

02-19-2010, 04:18 PM

I listened that night. I distinctly remember talking to my buddy Mike the next day in 1st period Publications class senior year. We both didn't totally get it. The .com thing, the seemingly gay guy. But we knew we liked it and listened every night for a while and would talk about it in class.

God bless those men.

Servo

02-19-2010, 04:53 PM

What's the chronology of the time slot changes? They went from late night to midday to night (post-O&A), then they added the daytime hour... is that right?

Dan G

02-19-2010, 05:01 PM

why dont you just shit on mikeyboys face

You think he'd mind?

disneyspy

02-19-2010, 05:05 PM

You think he'd mind?

i dont know him all that well,so i cant say

Hottub

02-19-2010, 05:22 PM

What's the chronology of the time slot changes? They went from late night to midday to night (post-O&A), then they added the daytime hour... is that right?

Yup.
.com overnights, then they were moved up to follow O&A. That's where I got in deep.
They daytime stuff was to fill an empty station. O&A drove away all of the DJ's. Ferall was gone, and after St. Pat's R&F were the only ones in the whole damn building for a while.

Then the dreaded move to DC, and 2 weeks of stunting to turn a NY icon into MIX 102.7:furious:

JustJon

02-19-2010, 05:38 PM

What's the chronology of the time slot changes? They went from late night to midday to night (post-O&A), then they added the daytime hour... is that right?

Your chronology is right, but it is missing the one show they did in the morning. I don't remember when it fell in exactly, but I know they did every shift at WNEW and had made comments about it. Maybe Mikey remembers when it was, I believe it was during the post-O&A slot, probably when Farrell left.

Marc with a c

02-19-2010, 05:56 PM

they didn't do morning drive.

disneyspy

02-19-2010, 05:59 PM

they didn't do morning drive.

sure they did,in florida

Chigworthy

02-19-2010, 05:59 PM

they didn't do morning drive.

I don't get it.

sailor

02-19-2010, 06:02 PM

I don't get it.

ha!

AKA

02-20-2010, 02:37 PM

PapaBear

02-20-2010, 08:22 PM

Yeah, well, we're creeping up on the 5th Anniversary of the first "Your Mom's Box" Ron said on WJFK - March 3, 2005
I miss the speculation thread. That was fun! The "clues" people found were like when everyone used to try to find clues in Beatles albums, about Paul being dead.

mikeyboy

02-21-2010, 04:52 PM

I miss the speculation thread. That was fun! The "clues" people found were like when everyone used to try to find clues in Beatles albums, about Paul being dead.

...and BAM's poorly written "leaked" press release.

Tenbatsuzen

02-21-2010, 05:00 PM

...and BAM's poorly written "leaked" press release.

Oooh, did I call him out on that?

mikeyboy

02-21-2010, 05:02 PM

Oooh, did I call him out on that?

Probably, but you weren't the only one. He didn't do a very good job with it, and people were suspicious right off the bat.

Tenbatsuzen

02-21-2010, 05:06 PM

Probably, but you weren't the only one. He didn't do a very good job with it, and people were suspicious right off the bat.

Yeah, I did a search on "press release" and found some classic hate in the speculation threads. Wow, was I really that angry?

mikeyboy

02-21-2010, 05:07 PM

Yeah, I did a search on "press release" and found some classic hate in the speculation threads. Wow, was I really that angry?

Do you really need to ask that?

Tenbatsuzen

02-21-2010, 05:24 PM

Do you really need to ask that?

more of a rhetorical question, really.

Fuzz Whatley

02-22-2010, 05:25 AM

it would be cool if they brought back Oddities as the intro.

i hear it and think ron and fez :drunk:

Ron Diaz

02-22-2010, 06:09 AM

Ron Bennington is a hack.

TastelessGinny

02-23-2010, 08:38 AM

That means I've been working in radio almost a decade. It's amazing how long a talentless hack like me can last in this business.

mikeyboy

02-23-2010, 08:56 AM

Your chronology is right, but it is missing the one show they did in the morning. I don't remember when it fell in exactly, but I know they did every shift at WNEW and had made comments about it. Maybe Mikey remembers when it was, I believe it was during the post-O&A slot, probably when Farrell left.

I think they got credit for the morning drive because their best ofs ran in the morning during one of the Sports Guys' vacations.

AKA

02-24-2010, 05:51 AM

...and BAM's poorly written "leaked" press release.

General BAM! Wow! Thanks for both making and ruining my day.

Inadvertently thought of this thread this morning as I was flipping by a classic rock station and heard "Hotel California" - a song that had nothing to do with FNL until Tender put it in his song almost exactly five years ago, in the midst of all of the speculations. Oh, how Kathleen loved that song so...

{I just looked up in the history, and turns out it's 5 years ago tomorrow that Tender and Perry did their on-air battle)

JustJon

02-24-2010, 09:45 AM

I think they got credit for the morning drive because their best ofs ran in the morning during one of the Sports Guys' vacations.

Maybe that's what it was. I knew Ron had said they had covered all the shifts, I couldn't remember exactly when they did morning drive, I figured you'd be able to fill in the details on that.

Freakshow

02-24-2010, 04:49 PM

General BAM! Wow! Thanks for both making and ruining my day.

Inadvertently thought of this thread this morning as I was flipping by a classic rock station and heard "Hotel California" - a song that had nothing to do with FNL until Tender put it in his song almost exactly five years ago, in the midst of all of the speculations. Oh, how Kathleen loved that song so...

{I just looked up in the history, and turns out it's 5 years ago tomorrow that Tender and Perry did their on-air battle)

First time I went into studio-met Kathleen and Bri-Bri. Went to Friday night lights at Thursdays afterwards.

Crash

02-24-2010, 05:06 PM

Maybe that's what it was. I knew Ron had said they had covered all the shifts, I couldn't remember exactly when they did morning drive, I figured you'd be able to fill in the details on that.

I initially thought of the "Fastest Hour in Radio" - but that was 11 - noon wasn't it?

Could he have been including the Ron and Ron days because Fez was on the staff? That was morning drive wasn't it?

Enabler

02-24-2010, 05:16 PM

...On a cold, dark night

Nice.

JustJon

02-24-2010, 09:20 PM

I initially thought of the "Fastest Hour in Radio" - but that was 11 - noon wasn't it?

Could he have been including the Ron and Ron days because Fez was on the staff? That was morning drive wasn't it?

Ron and Ron was morning drive and Fastest Hour was midday. And the "worked every shift" was WNEW only.

disneyspy

02-25-2010, 04:15 AM

I am looking forward to this September

welcome to the board,whats going on this september?

JustJon

02-25-2010, 08:41 AM

welcome to the board,whats going on this september?

shhh don't ruin the surprise.

disneyspy

02-25-2010, 08:58 AM

whoops

yay pudding!

Dell

02-25-2010, 11:18 AM

Those were the days.

AMEN brother...

fezident

02-25-2010, 04:26 PM

it would be cool if they brought back Oddities as the intro.

i hear it and think ron and fez :drunk:

You actually hear "Oddities"??