Teddy Bart, whose radio program Teddy Bart’s Round Table was unceremoniously yanked off the air in July, says he is settling in quite nicely at Nashville’s Retired Radio Host Home in Donelson.
“They have cable television and air conditioning and so forth,” the former host says with a smile, looking relaxed in R2H2, as the home is known to local radio people. Bart, along with his broadcasting partner Karlen Evins, had the Round Table abruptly terminated by the board of directors of its nonprofit organization The Public Forum. The board cited financial problems, halted production and resigned. Bart’s room is in the plush Les Jameson Wing of R2H2, across the hall from his former morning radio competitor Carl P. Mayfield. “Carl and I get along fine,” Bart says. “I don’t think we were really going after the same audience all those years anyway.” “He’s a great addition out here,” Mayfield says. “He was telling me the other day about an interview years ago with Vic Bart says residents have dinner together in the dining room and then gather in the parlor to watch cable news shows on a large-screen TV.
“Some nights we watch O’Reilly, sometimes Keith Olbermann. I always catch Larry King Live when I can, but sometimes I get outvoted,” he says.“In the mornings a bunch of us meet in the solarium and listen to Gerry House’s show. We’re all hoping that someday he’ll say something funny, but it hasn’t happened yet.”
Bart grows pensive for a moment. “It was a shock to lose the show, and maybe we’ll find a way for it to come back, but for now this is very nice,” he says. “Karlen visits all the time.” (The Fabricator is satire. Don’t believe everything you read.)
