The World According to Gary (RADnich)

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― Dell (Dell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

He moves steadily through the hallways like a shark, as if his life depended on constant movement. When two young co-workers at an editing bay "ooh" and "ahh" over a Syracuse basketball player whose sensational dunk turns into an even better crash landing, Radnich turns away from the monitor. He prefers to see the video for the first time on the air, just like everyone at home. Radnich avoids meetings, rarely talks to the higher-ups at KRON and says that when he sees the anchors on the set, "that's the first time I've talked to them about anything."
When it's time for sports, the teleprompter stops moving. Radnich's only cues are a few hastily typed notes ("Sr. Mary's Wll Be Sweatiung Untill Siunday") that cue the director to roll video tape.
For at least 18 minutes each night, Radnich operates without a net, saying whatever comes to his head, with few boundaries beyond those set by the Federal Communications Commission. He routinely brings behind-the-scenes staff on the program and chides sports anchors at other stations, which shouldn't bother them too much considering he pokes fun at his own colleagues, too. Today the victim is "Bay Area Backroads" host Doug McConnell, whose show is on next.

"I love 'Backroads,' " Radnich says, before commenting on McConnell's snugly fitted denim pants. "The tighter the jeans, the more I lean forward."

― Dell (Dell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

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― Dell (Dell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

On the news earlier tonight he interviewed the weather guy for like ten minutes. Sometimes I think that he must have blackmailed one of the producers or the station's owners, and consequently he has complete free reign to follow on air whatever whim enters his mind.

There should be a Beastie Boys song where they say "blah blah blah blah, like my man Gary RAD-NICH!"

― Dell (Dell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

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