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Bloomberg 1200 format change soon

Cap-n Spackle said:


Multiple times this week I've heard them cut into the program before the top of the hour while the host was still speaking to play one of their repetitious I Heart pop culture spots, and then go to silence/humming noise for around a minute before joining the top of the hour news already in progress.
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Yep, happened at least twice today....once this morning, cut rite into the program about 20 after the hour and aired the news which isn't supposed to be aired until half past the hour and then later during limbaugh's show another cut in right in mid sentence to air one of their inane, boring spots.
 
Tired Of It All said:
Yep, happened at least twice today....once this morning, cut rite into the program about 20 after the hour and aired the news which isn't supposed to be aired until half past the hour and then later during limbaugh's show another cut in right in mid sentence to air one of their inane, boring spots.
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Those iHeart "pop culture" ads are way-y-y-y-y worse than anything WBZ used to air when plugging CBS-TV fare.

We all had to excuse the misbehavior about which we write when it occurred at WBZ and as recently as last week at WRKO, since, after all, these are newcomers to the iHeart stable. But WXKS 1200 has been operating with iHeart automation for years now, so WTH?

"iHeart happens."
 
nowradioguy said:
But WXKS 1200 has been operating with iHeart automation for years now, so WTH?

"iHeart happens."
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But they were working with a different clock. The Bloomberg format is operationally different from the talk format they're running now. These are operational mistakes, which tells me the automation hasn't been reformatted.
 
SMH SMH SMH....:confused: .....TALK1200 is STILL airing news and weather from Wednesday....yes Wednesday.....what the bleep is up with that? :confused: I don't get it? Why is this happening? :confused: :confused:
 
TheBigA said:
If it bothers you so much, find another station. I believe there are quite a few options in Boston.
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It would bother me, too. Stale news and weather as anything other than a one-time-only, immediately corrected glitch are unacceptable, and for whatever reason, iHeart is continuing to run them nearly two weeks after the flip. The question is real: Why is a major radio chain allowing the station's on-air product to be presented in such an unprofessional manner? "Find another station" answers nothing.
 
CTListener said:
It would bother me, too. Stale news and weather as anything other than a one-time-only, immediately corrected glitch are unacceptable, and for whatever reason, iHeart is continuing to run them nearly two weeks after the flip. The question is real: Why is a major radio chain allowing the station's on-air product to be presented in such an unprofessional manner? "Find another station" answers nothing.
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Amen.
IHeart/Clear Channel/ Jacor/AM/FM/
Citicasters took advantage of the ripe low hanging fruit caused by Bill Clinton's unwitting sign off on the 1996 Telecom act and seemed to purchase everything in sight, fired a lot of local staff, banned songs after 9/11, put their stale template on all their stations, killed off original programming, and generally ruined commercial radio.
They are unprofessional, unfair, and clueless about quality programming.
Not a major player, but a scourge
 
And yet with all of that, for some reason you folks refuse to listen to anything else. Makes no sense to me. '

If they're doing such a terrible job, why do you listen?
 
inorm99 said:
Amen.
IHeart/Clear Channel/ Jacor/AM/FM/
Citicasters took advantage of the ripe low hanging fruit caused by Bill Clinton's unwitting sign off on the 1996 Telecom act and seemed to purchase everything in sight, fired a lot of local staff, banned songs after 9/11, put their stale template on all their stations, killed off original programming, and generally ruined commercial radio.
They are unprofessional, unfair, and clueless about quality programming.
Not a major player, but a scourge
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I never supported you on any of this, only your complaint about 1200. My question is why iHeart is programming THAT STATION with such apparent disregard for professionalism and contempt for the audience. That is the only portion of your screed I join you on.

I do NOT agree that iHeart ruined commercial radio, or that Clinton didn't know what he was signing in 1996, or, especially, that CC banned songs that went against its right-wing agenda (or whatever) after 9/11. That is an urban legend motivated by blind hatred of a big corporation that refuses to go away nearly 20 years later.
 
inorm99 said:
.....banned songs after 9/11,
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They didn't "ban songs after 9/11". They sent around a list of songs that could be considered offensive in such a time. i.e..."Big Ole Jet Airliner...", by the Steve Miller Band, for example.

And what if they did ban some songs.....most responsible broadcasters were quick to relook at programming that might be considered bad taste, offensive, or just "tone deaf" to the national mod.
 
TheBigA said:
Where is the station in the ratings? That might answer your question.
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Not really. The station has no ratings because it just flipped. Besides, I've heard plenty of low-rated/unrated stations that are operated thoroughly professionally. No three-day-old news and weather, no ads cutting off the talk hosts, none of that. IHeart has transferred its right-wing talk "A" lineup to 1200 from the useless 1430. You'd think they'd want to make a good first impression, wouldn't you? I don't understand how anyone can be an apologist for iHeart in this specific case. Really, it's OK to admit that this neglect and crass contempt might not be the right way to treat ANY station, no matter how small, or its audience, no matter how small. It's called professional pride.
 
CTListener said:
... I've heard plenty of low-rated/unrated stations that are operated thoroughly professionally. No three-day-old news and weather, no ads cutting off the talk hosts, none of that. IHeart has transferred its right-wing talk "A" lineup to 1200 from the useless 1430. You'd think they'd want to make a good first impression, wouldn't you? I don't understand how anyone can be an apologist for iHeart in this specific case. Really, it's OK to admit that this neglect and crass contempt might not be the right way to treat ANY station, no matter how small, or its audience, no matter how small. It's called professional pride.
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iHeart is the largest (by no. of stations) radio broadcaster in the US. This is not the way for them to be operating ANY of their stations; it smacks of "nobody's listening, so, why bother?" If they really felt no one would be listening, then WHY did they jump through so many hoops to upgrade 1200 AM to 50,000 watts, albeit with a strait-jacket of a signal? Why not add this to their trust and spin it off?

From my perspective up here in the cold, dark Merrimack Valley: 1430 AM puts out a better signal with its 5000 watts non-directional day pattern than does 1200 AM.
 
nowradioguy said:
This is not the way for them to be operating ANY of their stations; it smacks of "nobody's listening, so, why bother?"
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iHeart has not had a contingency of talk programmers in Boston in the past. Most of the operation of their talk station duties were handled by others who worked at the companies other stations.

They do not have any local talk research in their hands.

WRKO, WKOX & WXKS are not throwing off profits....so up until now, they have spent very little time, money and manpopwer on these properties.

With WRKO in the fold, they have much more upside potential.

It will be interesting now that they have WRKO (and WBZ) to see if they hire a local news & talk PD. (Let's face it...they just got their hands on these stations.)

nowradioguy said:
From my perspective up here in the cold, dark Merrimack Valley: 1430 AM puts out a better signal with its 5000 watts non-directional day pattern than does 1200 AM.
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Maybe during the day they are comparable...but at night the 1430 signal is absolutely horrible. I can't hear it at night in Dorchester...which is within the city limits of Boston!
 
nowradioguy said:
From my perspective up here in the cold, dark Merrimack Valley: 1430 AM puts out a better signal with its 5000 watts non-directional day pattern than does 1200 AM.
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I'm on the South Shore...1430 operates sunrise to sundown...during the dead of winter the station was on for maybe 9 or 10 hours the rest of the time it was static.
 
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