Tina nole producing the ron reagan show... again!
Former Dave Ross producer Tina Nole will produce Air America's syndicated, one-hour Ron Reagan Show, (KPTK m-f, 6-7p). This is a venerable relationship: Tina produced Reagan during most of his radio toe-dipping at Seattle's KIRO which ended in 2007 after 14 months.
(photo: Tina at CBS)
Tina just left CBS Radio and will do the show from New York; Reagan does the show from downtown Seattle.
"Some people wondered why I'd leave a job during this economy but I really didn't have much creative freedom at CBS ... so it's nice to [be] back in a place that really values creativity where I can kind of captain my own ship a little..or co-captain it at least."
Air America, for all its past trials, seems to be flourishing. They trimmed-up, got some fresh money and adopted a real business/broadcasting plan/vision. Their management is knowledgeable about radio and not in denial of the new paradigms.
(photo: Ron Reagan)
We keep hearing about radio stations and other media being so steeped in fear and dread of the next budget axe, but AAR has apparently walked through that fire -- they're moving up, just as everyone else is shrinking up.
Tina says: " Air America feels like a new world ... it's a very innovative environment where the creative juices are really flowing -- they are embracing new technologies and moving this medium forward."
It begs the obvious question: when will Reagan get a longer show? As long as he's been in radio, he's had these peculiar one-hour slots.
Nole can't (or won't) answer that but from the way they seem to be working on the show --and hiring Tina is no small gesture -- something is probably up. "I have a team -- a call screener and a board operator who also pulls sound for the show so Ron is using a lot more sound than before and the show moves a lot quicker."
She'll stay in New York at AAR, and produce the Ron Reagan Show intercoastally. "With technology the way it is you can pretty much produce from anywhere. I read and read and read and Ron and I chat all day long and then decide on the topics... we play all his clips from out here -- I'm in a studio and he's in a studio in Seattle - I can talk in his ear and I have an on-air mic too."
Reagan is true to his atheist/buddhistic principles, easy to work with, she says, and even though he comes from a teevee career, he's a radio pro. "He's smart and has come a long way since I produced for him before -- he really understands radio better than ever. And we have a good time brain storming and pulling the show together."
(Reagan's show is a low-key study in reason, civility, brains, an incisive sense of humor and his name enables him to get some impressive gets. Read our favorite interview with him here).
Noles learned plenty from the CBS experience, but "It's nice," she says, "to be able to tell stories in the longer format instead of 3-10 second sound bites inside 3 minute news segments. I really learned after leaving it that producing is where I want be."
She's lucky to be with Reagan. He's got the connections and she ought to do well in that environment. I'll bet CBS elevated the "professional" in her producing-craft and I wish her well.
I just wish Air America would bring back Seder...
Posted by: joanie | January 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Conversly I think RR is lucky to be with Tina Nole. As far as speculating whether or not CBS 'professionalized' Tina I think it's likely she was the professional in that marriage and got frustrated at their (CBS's) lack of professional risk taking and refusing to take a chance with new ideas. That (to some extent) is what's hurting their (& Katie Couric's) ratings.
Much like KIRO is doing with TBTL, television and radio need to experiment and innovate...lest they are likely to go the way of the P.I.
And Bla'M, you reverted back to calling her 'Noles' in last paragraph of your post. :)
Posted by: Duffman | January 13, 2009 at 05:31 AM
I hope Noles and Reagan meet with success. Too bad Ron Reagan couldn't be put on KIRO in TBTL's time slot.
He's much easier to listen to, and obviously more politically aware than the feminized Burbank and his grating on the nerves partner.
Unfortunately, the powers that be at KIRO seem to feel it's necessary to appeal to a school girl mentality during those hours.
Posted by: Upton | January 13, 2009 at 07:51 AM
"She's lucky to be with Reagan. He's got the connections and she ought to do well in that environment. I'll bet CBS elevated the "professional" in her producing-craft and I wish her well.
I just wish Air America would bring back Seder...
Posted by: joanie | January 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM"
so you saying that Dave Ross didn't have a professional show because Tina Nole wouldn't take your 'advice' ? LMAO!
scene: KIRO 710, circa 2004.
"Dave, it's that old woman calling in AGAIN...No, she won't tell me what she wants to talk about only that she must speak to you!"
Posted by: Puget Sound | January 13, 2009 at 05:55 PM
"Just tell her I'm not in the Studio then Tina"
"Dave, she can hear you on the Radio"
"Tell her it's a 'Best of Ross' Show"
"Won't work, she just heard you give the news."
"Okay, tell her I can't talk cause other callers are in front of her."
"Daaaaave, you just said the 'lines were clear.'"
Posted by: Puget Sound | January 13, 2009 at 07:32 PM
That's right, el parrot. Check out what Bonneville has done with the website.
You're still an idiot trying to impress. Give it up.
Posted by: joanie | January 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM
BTw, Reagan has become snarkier since he's gone national. That's interesting to me. I liked him a little better before but I'll take him his way. I wonder how Tina can survive in New York on a paycheck for producing an hour show a day?
Posted by: joanie | January 13, 2009 at 10:40 PM
>> I wonder how Tina can survive in New York on a paycheck for producing an hour show a day?<<
Looks like Tina won't have to worry about that. AA just announced they're expanding Ron Reagan's program to three hours (3p-6p PST) beginning on Groundhog Day.
Posted by: RobP | January 15, 2009 at 06:51 PM
There you go joanie, you got your wish. Now see how long you can tolerate his mamby-pamby chatter whilst the rest of us listen to real radio.
Posted by: Duffman | January 15, 2009 at 06:54 PM
"namby-pamby?" I thought that was you, duff.
"real radio?" Like what . . . billo reilly? billo savage? billo beck? How many other billos are there? Let me count them here...
Sorry, too many to fit.
Real radio? You still listening to your transistor, duff?
Posted by: joanie | January 15, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Thanks Ron. I hope he's successful. I love Ron but I would have preferred Sam. But, anybody but Bender...
BTW, Mark Green, Arianna Huffington and Katrina VanderHeuvel (sp????) were great on Air America Saturday.
Perhaps because the two women made Mark Green sound green, Green replaced Katrina (easier to spell) with Reagan. Katrina was sharp on the issues. Reagan is conversant and fun but not the intellectual that she was.
I wouldn't mind that show running an extra hour.
Posted by: joanie | January 15, 2009 at 07:14 PM