Station Manager, Paul Adams, finally gave us our spot to do live television, even though we still did sketch comedy. We then moved up to commercial base television in 1997, with some resistance to the viewers. We got a late night spot on Saturday nights on Continental Cablevision, which was a commercial based station. After a couple of months, they took my show off the commercial based channel, due to alleged complaints. This was during the same time a local grocery store (Ukrops) in good old Richmond used scare tactics to do a local radio station that aired beloved Howard Stern, and pulled him off the Richmond market, which eventually caused the radio station to shut down. Throughout the middle part of 1997, the key players were Magic Matt, Slick Scott, Gavin Cruise and of course myself. We were sort of the four horseman of on the Gorgeous George show. Throughout that whole endeavor, I got petitions for people to sign against the Ukrops Grocery Store chain for people to parlay that with trying to get my show back on commercial based television. Which of course I still had public access as a sounding board. I had over two thousand signatures but to no avail.
Matt and I were a main fixture throughout the early years of the show, doing skits with the infamous dirt woman, and shows from Hollywood cemetery. These are shows that would not re-air, but seemed to cause a major stir. Through the early years my character took on a rebellious stance, doing whatever it would take to get people's attention and piss off rednecks. Not a stereotype, but a breed of persona that I didn't care for, and still don't. Cocky and arrogant, but in a playful way. Rednecks seemed to be offended and frankly I didn't care. We would have fun at their expense, even though I was promoting myself for the ladies. I was also trying to help local young bands to get exposed. We did pre-recorded shows, finally, in a little studio at Delmar communications, a company that is no longer in business.
