At this point (or some point in the near future), this place should just consolidate into one "National Radio" forum. Buffalo, Rochester, Jacksonville, or Sacramento will all basically be the same. Maybe a local morning show, but anything after 9 or 10 in the morning will be national or regionally tracked.
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Audacy making big changes at all Top 40?
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And here’s the new talent coming to the Queen City (from ramp247.com):The changes were announced today. Expect some new shows on Kiss:
Exclusive: Audacy Implements Regional CHR Programming Structure.
Audacy is implementing a regionalized CHR programming leadership model under the direction of Format Captain Brian Kelly. Kelly will be supported by a team of Regional VPs of Programming andwww.insideradio.com
“ Audacy is also expanding two major market shows nationally -- a midday show, hosted by Julia Lepidi, afternoon talent on WBBM-FM (B96)/Chicago, while Josh "Bru" Brubaker, afternoon drive personality at KNOU (97.1 NOW!)/Los Angeles willmake his talents available for afternoons and evenings. “
Let the layoffs begin.
And I believe Janet Snyder does her morning show from Boston, so really the entire day does not originate from Buffalo anymore.
Yes. I AM referring to WEDG.
AllAccess.com notes that they're already happening. Nothing of note at Kiss or WPXY....YET.
It depends. The same hosts, but the music will be locally programmed and there will be active local promotions:
And it likely won't. PXY already had holes in its schedule that got filled by the syndicated hosts. Same with Kiss.
I don't think it's particularly high effort to say "98 PXY" instead of "B96" but that's just me. iHeart's got all sorts of different brands for their stations and they're able to VT all of those stations with the local branding.
Plus, I'd imagine there are some markets where that can't happen due to another station in the area having it, similarly with what happened with the Alt rebrand.
It has always kinda surprised me that no radio broadcast chain has taken a page from NBCUniversal and made up words for branding that look phonetically similar but spelled differently (SyFy, Cloo, Qubo, Chiller, Cozi), that way they can be trademarked.
Closest example in radio was Gannett trademarking KIIS along with "Kiss FM" in California, which Jacor/Clear Channel then manipulated everywhere else.
That doesn't work well for an audio-only medium. "Find us on facebook at 107Roxx Rochester". It's the same reason "Audacy" is a bad name.
Kurdziel no longer has anything to do with WEDG.
Not a chain, but I trademarket "zalza" for the all-salsa format of WZNT, Z-93 in San Juan. We made a lot of money on promotional items that could not be ripped off.
Here are some pics of that station's promotions and advertising.
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Since the company is cutting local talent on their main stations, don't expect any new hires for The Wolf 107.7. The strategy is "National Hubs" with a few people voice tracking multiple markets. Synergies on steroids for a dying industry...
Is the same Sue O'Neal who once worked at WXLO and WCBS-FM in NYC?
Not likely. No.
Not likely.
Then WHY does James' Twitter profile describe him as a Cumulus Regional VP of Content and Programming-in addition to his duties at KQRS in Minnneapolis/St. Paul?
Buffalo is not part of the same region as Minnesota.
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