Worst to First The Story of Z100
Directed by Mitchell Stuart
Written by Mitchell Stuart
Starring Clive Davis, Jon Bon Jovi, Scott Shannon
Release Date February 11th, 2022
In May of 2022 I will have been in radio for 27 years. Naturally, that means I know and revere Scott Shannon as a legend of my business. I’ve had the privilege of hearing Scott Shannon talk about radio in interviews and in person and it never gets old. The man is an indefatigable proponent of my profession since before I was even born. So, you can imagine that when I heard someone was making a documentary about Scott Shannon’s greatest accomplishment, taking New York’s Z100 from worst in the ratings to first, I was excited.
That excitement lasted about a minute before disillusionment set in. Looking as if it had been shot on an IPhone on a budget of fifty bucks, the documentary Worst to First: The True Story of Z100 in New York is a dull, fawning, and unremarkable documentary. Opening with a story from Jon Bon Jovi, Worst to First opens with a non-sequitur. The rock legend tells a story about hearing one of his songs on the radio for the first time and what that meant to him.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
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