Mark Simone has a bad attitude

Alan Weinrib

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By Alan Weinrib | Published 07/29/2006

Mark Simone has a bad attitude - Entry for July 29, 2006

    When I first heard Mark Simone a radio talk show host on WABC radio years ago, I enjoyed listening to him. He had a Frank Sinatra program on Saturday nite which was great. He played records, sound bites and had call in interviews. Well the Program Manager Phil Boyce took his program off the air much to all the listeners disappointment.

    He was also a fill in substitite for other talk show hosts. One particular time was on the Curtis & Kuby program. Kuby went on vacation. A news item the media was talking about was a man with disabilities who had a monkey as a service animal. These two dimwits Curtis Sliwa and Mark Simone thought it was so funny to them and started to laugh. I sent an e-mail off to Sliwa, Simone and Boyce Phil.Boyce@abc.com due to their ignorance about service animals. They read my e-mail on the air.

    They continued this humility for a week. When Ron Kuby had returned from his vacation he had educated them about service animals, no apology was given. I found out the next time I tried to e-mail Simone, I found out that I had been blocked. That was years ago. Simone has cut off and hung up on caller who called into Simone because they disagreed with him. Simone's e-mail is MarkSimoneWABC@aol.com or you could e-mail him from his website Mark Simone

    This is not the first time a WABC radio talk show host made insulting and humiliating remarks about the disabled and to people with disabilities if they called in. I recall Penny Crone, Mike Gallagher, Lionel and Steve Malzberg who played his stupid music. Contacting the Federal Communications Commission did nothing, they said to contact the ACLU, who also did nothing

    Well for several years when the talk show hosts were off the air on Memorial Day, they ran a program called WABC rewound hosted by Johnny Donovan where they played the tapes of the old WABC music radio and WMCA music radio programs. There were requests to have this program more often. There was a website Music Radio 77 They also had a message board where you could post messages about the host or the program.

    Eventually Phil Boyce created a program called Saturday Night Oldies on the air 6:00PM to 10:00PM EST. Mark Simone was the host. They played tapes and had guests call in. I did not listen to it. Eventually I did and enjoyed it. I wanted to e-mail Simone to let him know how much I enjoyed the program. I could not because after all these years I was still blocked. I e-mailed Simone by way of the WABC radio website, never got a reply.

    Tonite I posted a message on the Music Radio 77 about how much I enjoyed the program, but not the attitude of Mark Simone and how he humiliated the disabled and banned me.. I titled the thread the Mark Simone bad attitude. After a while I found the thread was gone, I tried to repost it and found I had been banned.

I find this to be a violation of the freedom of speech to express my opinion. I am sure, it is not only my opinion.

Maybe if more people took actions, this would not happen