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V-103 Changes

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RoddyFreeman

Any change at V-103 is momentous, but changes in the drive times are especially big.

All Access is reporting that Frank Ski, morning man from 1998 to 2012 and then for the past couple of years, is leaving the station.

Big Tigger (always has sounded dirty to me:) is moving from afternoons to mornings. Kenny Burns, a self-described lifestyle expert who handled weekends on V several years back, is taking over afternoon drive.

Ski tweeted that his departure is voluntary, but who knows?
 
I would not want to be the one who follows a “Legend”. If the ratings go down you take the blame. If the ratings stay the same then your “just riding the former host’s “coattails”. If the ratings go up then you only will get credit the amount the ratings go up. There have been folks who followed a legend and been successful but it took several years for any kind of real recognition.

The same for station management and programming. V103 has been a top 4 (6+) station for decades. It was “easy” for them in the 70’s and 80’s with little viable competition. Now they have several stations after their audience which has become “fragmented”.
 
secondchoice said:
I would not want to be the one who follows a “Legend”. If the ratings go down you take the blame. If the ratings stay the same then your “just riding the former host’s “coattails”. If the ratings go up then you only will get credit the amount the ratings go up. There have been folks who followed a legend and been successful but it took several years for any kind of real recognition.

The same for station management and programming. V103 has been a top 4 (6+) station for decades. It was “easy” for them in the 70’s and 80’s with little viable competition. Now they have several stations after their audience which has become “fragmented”.
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Sometimes it works out...on Z-93 Ross & Wilson (who had the top-rated morning show in ATL in the late 70s and early 80s) were replaced by an unknown named Steve McCoy after R&W got a new gig in NYC (and, no, the "Another One Bites The Dust" thing did NOT happen).

Ditto when Neal Boortz moved from WGST to WSB...he was replaced on WGST by some no-name from an Alabama station named Sean Hannity.
 
jabba17 said:
Sometimes it works out...on Z-93 Ross & Wilson (who had the top-rated morning show in ATL in the late 70s and early 80s) were replaced by an unknown named Steve McCoy after R&W got a new gig in NYC (and, no, the "Another One Bites The Dust" thing did NOT happen).

Ditto when Neal Boortz moved from WGST to WSB...he was replaced on WGST by some no-name from an Alabama station named Sean Hannity.
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I was under the impression that Hannity never really made it "big" until he followed Rush on WABC. I don't blame him for going to New York. From a financial view NYC is most likely better than Atlanta.

IMHO The 94Q to Star without Gary Mckee was a mess. I believe the station manager retired at the same time too. I can only guess that the 94Q brand was kaput.

96 Rock's The Regular Guys self imploded (the secret bathroom tapping stunt which I heard and wasn't funny and definitely not worth the repercussions to TRG) opened the door for 97.1.
 
secondchoice said:
I was under the impression that Hannity never really made it "big" until he followed Rush on WABC. I don't blame him for going to New York. From a financial view NYC is most likely better than Atlanta.

IMHO The 94Q to Star without Gary Mckee was a mess. I believe the station manager retired at the same time too. I can only guess that the 94Q brand was kaput.

96 Rock's The Regular Guys self imploded (the secret bathroom tapping stunt which I heard and wasn't funny and definitely not worth the repercussions to TRG) opened the door for 97.1.
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Hannity left WGST because of the Fox News gig--that's about as big as it gets and wouldn't have happened without a decent performance on WGST opposite Boortz on WSB. In fact, the national show was already being considered...WGST made some comments at the time that Sean would be back. I guess the folks at Clear Channel had other ideas that didn't involve their Atlanta news-talker.

The flip from 94Q to Star (you can find it on YouTube) was dedicated to "Gary and Jerry". Jerry was obviously Jerry Blum (this is where BigStick enters the conversation). I always thought the Gary was McKee but I read later it might have been another Gary at WQXI-FM.

The interesting thing about TRG is that all of the TRG alums--except Larry Wachs, who was the brains behind the whole operation--found great new gigs. SSS is at Rock100.5 with Bailey (and if Rock100.5 ever implodes he'll find another home easily), and Eric vH and Tim Andrews are at WSB, in Boortz's old slot. Larry's now on the outside looking in--I always heard that be burned a bunch of bridges along the way.
 
jabba17 said:
Hannity left WGST because of the Fox News gig--that's about as big as it gets and wouldn't have happened without a decent performance on WGST opposite Boortz on WSB. In fact, the national show was already being considered...WGST made some comments at the time that Sean would be back. I guess the folks at Clear Channel had other ideas that didn't involve their Atlanta news-talker.
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Correct. Hannity was already a success on FOX News Channel when he joined WABC.
 
jabba17 said:
In fact, the national show was already being considered...WGST made some comments at the time that Sean would be back. I guess the folks at Clear Channel had other ideas that didn't involve their Atlanta news-talker.
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Hannity's national radio show was syndicated by ABC Radio Network from its beginnings until 2008. So I'm not sure what those plans might have been.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Hannity's national radio show was syndicated by ABC Radio Network from its beginnings until 2008. So I'm not sure what those plans might have been.
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WGST picking up the (now nationally syndicated) show. Not him doing another local show on WGST.

Obviously Clear Channel thought more could be made by selling it to WSB than putting it on WGST without an FM signal and having to power down at sunset during the winter.
 
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That the Cubans have taken over that frequency (640) after sundown.
Always wanted to ask Hannity: How long did it take you to get all the drywall dust out of your hair when you moved into radio?
 
The Cubans have always had 640, even pre-Castro. As I recall it's the lone Cuban Clear under NARBA, which the Castro regime did not follow.



kf4rca said:
That the Cubans have taken over that frequency (640) after sundown.
Always wanted to ask Hannity: How long did it take you to get all the drywall dust out of your hair when you moved into radio?
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gr8oldies said:
The Cubans have always had 640, even pre-Castro. As I recall it's the lone Cuban Clear under NARBA, which the Castro regime did not follow.
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But it was a 1-B, directional. Now it is higher power, non-directional.
 
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