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I realize we've had out differences but please don't attribute Julius' (or anybody else's) comments to me. You find enough in my comments to argue with as is.
Then learn how to quote material. It appears as if you wrote it.
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Out of context. I was paraphrasing what he said, not quoting.
Julius, David Eduardo offers the money numbers of billing:
WIP (AM) [CBS Sports Radio] is actually billing pretty well... a touch more than WPHT, in fact. And WPHT is reported to have billed $9 million last year.
Yet it [the Fanatic WPEN-FM] 97.5 billed a nice $7 million last year.
So he makes the point that most of us here have been trying to make to you for quite a long time. They may not be pulling in the largest ratings numbers, BUT they are making pretty good money for their owners, and as Radio is a Business, just as any other business, their main goal IS to make money for their owners, corporation, and/or stockholders. So based on the numbers David posted, 610 WIP-AM, 1210 WPHT, and 97.5 WPEN-FM are all successful radio stations. So other than your personal listening preference, why should they change? Answer: they probably shouldn't unless they can come up with a talk format that will attract a younger demo [which is unlikely as 610 and 1210 are AM stations].
Fred Leonard said it well when he said, if WIP and WPHT chase away what audience they have, who will replace them? They've got a product that attracts rather good billing numbers.
If CBS Radio thought they could make better billing numbers with polkas on 1210, you might then be hearing: 1210 WPHT Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley's favorite Polka station, playing your polka favorites 24 hours a day as we hear the Harmonocats [made up name] playing Beer Barrel Polka !! [cue the music]. Man, that's a scary thought - heh heh. It's all about making money.
WIP (AM) [CBS Sports Radio] is actually billing pretty well... a touch more than WPHT, in fact. And WPHT is reported to have billed $9 million last year.
Yet it [the Fanatic WPEN-FM] 97.5 billed a nice $7 million last year.
So he makes the point that most of us here have been trying to make to you for quite a long time. They may not be pulling in the largest ratings numbers, BUT they are making pretty good money for their owners, and as Radio is a Business, just as any other business, their main goal IS to make money for their owners, corporation, and/or stockholders. So based on the numbers David posted, 610 WIP-AM, 1210 WPHT, and 97.5 WPEN-FM are all successful radio stations. So other than your personal listening preference, why should they change? Answer: they probably shouldn't unless they can come up with a talk format that will attract a younger demo [which is unlikely as 610 and 1210 are AM stations].
Fred Leonard said it well when he said, if WIP and WPHT chase away what audience they have, who will replace them? They've got a product that attracts rather good billing numbers.
If CBS Radio thought they could make better billing numbers with polkas on 1210, you might then be hearing: 1210 WPHT Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley's favorite Polka station, playing your polka favorites 24 hours a day as we hear the Harmonocats [made up name] playing Beer Barrel Polka !! [cue the music]. Man, that's a scary thought - heh heh. It's all about making money.
Actually, the Harmonicats weren't made up at all; they were a real group, and quite successful in the 1950's. (They probably did record the Beer Barrel Polka, among hundreds of other songs, in an over-20-year career on Mercury and Columbia Records.)
http://www.harmonicats.com/Home.html
Thanks Jeff, I remember a harmonica group with a little guy who played a big harmonica on Ed Sullivan, but wasn't sure if that was their name or not. You had to sit through all that stuff waiting for the cool acts that aired in the last 5 minutes of the show.
Jerry Murad & the Harmonicats
http://www.harmonicats.com
Couldn't play it on the radio. Wouldn't fit through the harmonic(a) filter!!!
http://www.harmonicats.com
Couldn't play it on the radio. Wouldn't fit through the harmonic(a) filter!!!
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Cool acts usually aired twice in each show, and never in the last five minutes. Following vaudeville tradition, a weak act ran last. It was a live show and if they were running long, they could cut the final act. This was in an era of three channels and changing channels was not so easy. Keeping the audience hanging was much less of an issue. People stayed with Ed to the end and then got up to change the channel (maybe adjust the rabbit ears) to watch Bonanza (which always had stronger numbers than Ed). It's understandable if you missed the first half-hour of Ed. A lot of people were watching the second-half of Disney (which usually beat Ed's first half hour).
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