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Nicky G Out at WOGL?

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IceCubed

Heard Bobby Smith yesterday afternoon and checked WOGL.com. Seems like the on-air schedule was quietly updated, removing Nicky G and placing Glenn Kalina solo in mornings with Marilyn from 10-noon? Ang Mason is now 6-8 only with no one listed afterward.

Wild that Entercom has removed evening jocks from both B101 and WOGL while they still have live jocks in NYC (even overnights at CBS-FM). Shelly Easton tracking evenings on B101 was pretty short-lived.
 
10 to noon? That’s bizarre (not counting those with other duties, that I hadn’t thought Russell had). So that morning pairing lasted...about a week? (Being facetious.)
 
IceCubed said:
Heard Bobby Smith yesterday afternoon and checked WOGL.com. Seems like the on-air schedule was quietly updated, removing Nicky G and placing Glenn Kalina solo in mornings with Marilyn from 10-noon? Ang Mason is now 6-8 only with no one listed afterward.

Wild that Entercom has removed evening jocks from both B101 and WOGL while they still have live jocks in NYC (even overnights at CBS-FM). Shelly Easton tracking evenings on B101 was pretty short-lived.
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WHAT?! Glenn joined Marilyn, like, five minutes ago! The brass didn't have the mild foresight to realize they couldn't make it work? What could have changed that drastically in the ensuing period?

And two hour shifts? Assuming they'll be tracked. This is a shame. These folks deserve better.
 
RadioInsight now confirming the news via the Philly Business Journal.

Glenn Kalina solo in mornings now. Marilyn Russel 10-Noon. She asked to be moved from mornings so she could be more active in station and community events in the evening.

Bobby Smith Runs Noon-6 and Ang Mason 6-8P. Station is automated after that. Station management when asked about not having PM DJs on WBEB and WOGL said "“We can take the money that would be used on a salary for a host and redeploy it toward multi-platform jobs.” The Philadelphia Business Journal used web video and social media producers as examples.

That leaves only WTDY with a night host in the Entercom music side. (But WTDY had cut their midday talent a while back and it seems like the PD Nathan just tracks the midday show now.)
 
atthestars said:
RadioInsight now confirming the news via the Philly Business Journal.

Glenn Kalina solo in mornings now. Marilyn Russel 10-Noon. She asked to be moved from mornings so she could be more active in station and community events in the evening.

Bobby Smith Runs Noon-6 and Ang Mason 6-8P. Station is automated after that. Station management when asked about not having PM DJs on WBEB and WOGL said "“We can take the money that would be used on a salary for a host and redeploy it toward multi-platform jobs.” The Philadelphia Business Journal used web video and social media producers as examples.

That leaves only WTDY with a night host in the Entercom music side. (But WTDY had cut their midday talent a while back and it seems like the PD Nathan just tracks the midday show now.)
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That's one hellvua real lopsided schedule.. 6 to 10, 10 to 12, noon to 6... 6 to 8.... stretch out the shifts a bit more
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
That's one hellvua real lopsided schedule.. 6 to 10, 10 to 12, noon to 6... 6 to 8.... stretch out the shifts a bit more
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Another talent gone from WOGL, soon to be a juke box with station id. Used to be a great station. Entercom bit off more than they could chew. They should have staff cuts at the higher level. Too bad they don't know what they're doing.
 
They do know what they're doing. They're investing across the company. They'll now have the lowest profile time periods without someone. That's neither unique nor a harbinger of doom.

Running a business does necessitate looking at how you invest the resources you have.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
They do know what they're doing. They're investing across the company. They'll now have the lowest profile time periods without someone. That's neither unique nor a harbinger of doom.

Running a business does necessitate looking at how you invest the resources you have.
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Now that WOGL's targeted listener has moved away from the geezer demo that still wishes Hy Lit and similar folks were still yapping away to the demo that isn't looking for a new best friend on the radio, just a station that plays a lot of songs they like with a minimum of gab, the jukebox approach in the evening and the minimalist, voicetracked "Read this and shut up" approach in middays makes sense not only business-wise but pleasing the primary customer-wise. The actuarial tables are catching up to the listeners who remember the era when the DJ was king, and those listeners are already dead to most advertisers.
 
Frankly, this is becoming a sad state of radio these days.

Wouldn't be surprised if they start piping in syndicated stuff like Tom Kent for the evening hours.

So far, the only "live" evening shows remaining on WOGL is on Saturday nights.
 
And having tuned into that show recently by accident, perhaps its time has come and gone.

I didn’t grow up relating to radio the way my parent did. Why are we expecting the next generation would relate the way their parents did? Times evolve.
 
WOGL used to be my favorite station in Philadelphia. Now I can barely listen to it. The same 80s songs over and over again with no personality. I now listen to Sirius XM in my car and Spotify at home. The trend seems to be going that way. I wonder if anyone will be listening to FM in 10-20 years.
 
daddyoo said:
IMHO the only time this frequency sounded great was from 1970 to 1975.
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AbrahamJSimpson said:
Many others beg to differ. It’s had multiple successful incarnations.
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Daddy said "IMHO." The late 60s - mid 70s was a fascinating time to listen to FM (no pun intended re: late-70s 98.1). Broadcasters were experimenting with new or different formats that wouldn't step on their AMs. If you were around to listen to FM at that time, what came after was usually less interesting. If you weren't listening during that era, you wouldn't be able to make the comparison between then and what came after.

TL; DR: You had to be there.
 
JBraddock said:
If you weren't listening during that era, you wouldn't be able to make the comparison between then and what came after.
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Then again, it was FIFTY YEARS AGO!

Your grandparents could have told you how incredible it was to listen to radio in the 1930s. There was nothing like it before or since.
 
Does anyone nowadays even care about music jocks anymore, its about the format, with all the stuff available over the net, why listen to some rambling voice. Way way back in the day, it was about the jocks, heck I remember in 1965, freshman year, it was damn, I can't wait for school to finish so I can go home and listen to the Rockin Bird on WIBBAGE, mind you not the music the jock was the key. My older brother always had Tom Brown or Chuck Dougherty on WIP. It was more the jock, you knew if they were off that day or if they were fired and would be upset. I know this was the same in all the big markets in the 60's, the jock brought the listeners in. But its a new era and old nursing home folks (as someone implied), don't really matter what we say or think, if you didn't live it, don't knock it.
 
Personalities are clearly still a part of the mix. They may be syndicated, they may be local. There may not be as many, but there is not yet an “all or nothing.”’

Witness the likes of Preston & Steve, or Elvis Duran or The Breakfast Club or many others. And that’s just mornings.

It’s simplistic to point to what may have been decades earlier, and not necessarily a universally shared experience at that, and say that it’s all gone. It’s evolved.
 
TheBigA said:
Then again, it was FIFTY YEARS AGO!

Your grandparents could have told you how incredible it was to listen to radio in the 1930s. There was nothing like it before or since.
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There's been plenty like the 30s since. Old time radio held on for years and was celebrated on some AMs even into the 80s.

Of course, some of the unique formats that started out as FM evolved in the 60s and 70s are still around - some being run by the same people who created them on FM. They stream now, along with heritage Top 40 and every format past and present. Like the standards and easy listening formats still online, heritage formats will exist after their original audiences have gone as new audiences discover them.

Meanwhile, terrestrial music radio isn't inventing new formats and its audience is splintering, just as musical tastes did in the 90s and after. Classic Hits will hold on for as long as it can to music its audience shared as a "universal experience." Hit radio and AC will continue to play the sound-alike stuff Pro-Tools churns out to a diminishing listenership, while customizable streams suck in those listeners.

Terrestrial music radio is essentially left with the scraps of a bygone era, which is why budgets are being cut and personnel thinned. Many of us will remember periods of that era fondly - online.

As for music radio, last one out please check the back-up software, and turn off the lights.
 
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