The mistake on the lake where rivers catch fire.
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The mistake on the lake where rivers catch fire.
Left for Mexico on my own when I was 16.
So that would mean he is likely, at least, to be from the last of the Silent Generation.
But you didn't buy it. If he wants to play music, there's not much you can do about it. If he doesn't need any revenue, he can enjoy his "hobby" with no financial pressures. Sounds like he's got the better gig...
If it means no ratings and no revenue, and losing a ton of money thru expenses, yes, he's got the better gig.
No, it was more like Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane".
I was supposed to do a year at school. I never went near the school after being offered an internship at Grupo Radio Centro where they thought having a pet gringo would be amusing.
Most people would have gone to Elkins@Dallas, got their First Ticket and stopped at Del Rio, Laredo or McAllen
Most people would have gone to Elkins@Dallas, got their First Ticket and stopped at Del Rio, Laredo or McAllen
Having worked with stations in part of that region, I'd say it is a definite fly-over zone. Very small markets, very over-radioed.
But it worked for the Wolfman in the same era!
Totally correct. I would have went local Niagara Falls talk. Network news, and local talk. Simple and it would make money. Advertisers like news.
It would also cost a lot more. How many local advertisers does he have?
You didn't buy the station, remember? I doubt that your new competitor for older demos is interested in your suggestions.
News/Talk isn't exactly a growing format. The station that you now own once tried it without much success...
None of us own it, yet we give our opinions. Buddy has the credential that none of the rest of us have: he owns local stations.
Perhaps, but it rings hollow. WECK tried the News/Talk format a few years ago. It apparently did not make money as it no longer exists. He could experiment his theory on his own station. Maybe the new competitor is a small thorn in the way of The Empire...
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Niagara Falls is the number one tourist attraction on the North American continent with something like ten million visitors yearly. Admittedly the people who run Niagara Falls, N.Y. have allowed the place to deteriorate so most of the retail trade ends up in Canada. I don't think that there are any stations presently licensed to Niagara Falls, Ontario so it would appear that any radio station programmed to the tourist trade would have plenty of potential ad dollars from both sides of the border. Stations all over the nation would give just about anything to have one of the seven wonders of the world in their backyard. There must be some money to be made in Niagara Falls.
Using this logic, perhaps if the previous owner had done Oldies rather than news-talk, he'd still be the owner today.
Oldies WAS tried on 1440 IIRC. And it didn't work.
The reference was to a previous post regarding WECK, not WJJL. To clarify, "had the previous owner of WECK done Oldies."
I think there is a difference. Buffalo/WNY already has a dominate news/talk with WBEN + WGR all sports. WECK going up against that entrenched competitor would be/was a tough go.
My thought was more along the line of what WLVL in Lockport does. Locally oriented mornings with news and talk then other random things the remainder of the day. WJJL/WEBR could focus on Niagara Falls in a similar way. I'm sure there is plenty of NF govt and school hot button topics to get people riled up and listening. Carry/cover local high school sports. Play their music format outside of that programming.
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