Atlanta Radio: Bert Weiss Having Fun Again

Bert Weiss

Syndicated WWWQ 99.7 FM Q100 morning host Bert Weiss said he’s back to loving radio nine months after Jeff Dauler‘s shocking departure and move to a rival station.

“For the first time in my career, I have eight people on staff where the chemistry is absolutely 100 percent every morning,” Weiss said during a panel this morning full of illustrious morning show hosts from all over the country at an annual Morning Show Boot Camp for radio personalities in Buckhead this year. “We get up every day working in the same direction. There’s no ego. We are like a family.”

Atlanta Media Writer Rodney Ho at ajc.com reports Weiss added: “I laugh more off air than on air” with his current staff, which now includes comic Brian Moote, who replaced Dauler earlier this year.

Anyone is expendable if they don’t produce for the bosses: Weiss said a restaurant buddy two years ago gave him perspective. He pointed at a Ketel One vodka bottle. He said he keeps those at eye level at his bar since that type of vodka is popular. But if people start drinking more Grey Goose, he would have no qualms about dumping Ketel One in the trash. “We are products,” Weiss told the audience. “I know it hurts to hear that. We bust our a**es every single day. We bring our personal lives to the radio station. But the bottom line truth is most companies see us as vodka bottles. If you’re ratings are good, then you get to serve Ketel One. If they’re not, they throw you away and bring in Grey Goose. We are a product.”