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The ratings continue to grow for Howard and the station, he said he would do anything to keep the ratings up, things were nuts. Howard recounts the day he was coming up in the elevator and a Spanish guy hops in with a machine gun in his hand and demands that he bring him up to the studio. Howard figured it was all over at that point, he got up to his floor and they took the gun away from him and figured out it was a toy gun, they were going to call the cops but Howard decided that he wanted the guy to be his sportscaster for the day. They did some crazy stuff together, he once told Fred that he was going to have to wear a dress to the live show they were doing but Fred said he wasn’t going to do it., he was doing a weird voice and demanding that he wasn’t going to wear one, which led to a fake fight where Fred was supposedly attacking Howard. Howard told him he’d talk to him about it later and told Fred to get out of there. Howard was making it sound like Fred was attacking his leg and breathing down his neck.
Denise Oliver talks about the first ratings book that they got after Howard and Robin started and it was really big news, she said she got a call from someone at Arbitron who congratulated her for the ratings before she even saw them. Howard and Robin had tripled the morning ratings for the station, Howard said they were getting an 8 share in the morning which is phenomenal, they were only getting about a 1 before that. Howard said that 8 share was nothing to him, he figured that it should be a 100 share and he was motivated to keep the show going and making it even bigger.
