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“Buffalo” Bob Corsino Out At WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”

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I just read about it on Facebook that “Buffalo” Bob Corsino has let go from WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”. No word on what the new replacement might be yet. Or maybe they might be some changes coming. We’ll find out! I’m not a fan of “Buffalo” Bob. I used to listened to him where he was filling in for Randy Turner (aka The Ran Man) over at WBPM which is its competitor) last year. Yesterday was his last show on “Fox Oldies”.
 
davefrmn2019 said:
I heard Bob O on this morning Monday on WGNY...
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I didn’t listened to Bob O this morning, because of Bob Miller over at WBPM where I am still listening to right now.

I hope maybe someone might be taking over Bob Corsino in afternoon drive. Or perhaps maybe they should update the format, or maybe some speculation that maybe WGNY should be sold to Pamal to simulcast WGHQ’s “Magic 92.5” on 98.9 FM.

WGHQ’s “Magic 92.5” has not doing well in the last two years since they got a big fat zero in the ratings since it went on the air back in 2021. I hope that maybe Sunrise Broadcasting might be going bankrupt since it is not making money due to poor advertising, and older listeners don’t care about their advertisers.

I hope maybe Sunrise Broadcasting will be going out of business if they don’t make money. The problem with “Fox Oldies” is too much voice tracking in middays, afternoon drive and evenings. And one show that I hate the most is Caroline Barton, she sucks at doing evenings, and it made me cringe. She needs to get fired immediately.

Another problem that they played the same vintage commercials over and over and over again. Robert Hall Shoes, Coppertone 10 with Vic Damone, Chicken Delight and Hoffman Soda are absolutely annoying. And now, I have to come up with something like maybe some more vintage commercials from the 70’s and 80’s to get more attention. I did record the aircheck, add some old commercials to re-edit before the jingle to make the aircheck fresh, and that should’ve done better. That includes Jordache Jeans, Sunkist soda, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, record offers, and tons more. I dumped those annoying ads and replaced with more vintage ads from the 70’s and 80’s with some from the 60’s, and some more TV theme songs on there. That would work.

According to the Poughkeepsie Spring Ratings book that WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies” is at #3,
but it was #2 in the Fall, but it never quite make it to #1, thanks to WPDH. I hope if the next fall ratings book comes out, the ratings will go down the drain.

Look what happened, WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies” is losing a lot of listeners over to either WBPM and WGHQ’s new “Magic 92.5” and WROW’s “Magic 590/100.5” to get their oldies fix.

This is going to be some major changes coming. Don’t let your fingers crossed.

I’ve been posting “Fox Oldies” in the last 5 to 10 years rambling about the issue with the oldies format. But now, I had enough with it. Time to sell off the station to Pamal, but not happening anytime soon, and Bob O is not leaving mornings anytime soon. I still love Bob O so much as a fill-in for Bob Miller at WBPM and Kevin Richards at WMML’s “Big Country 97.9”.
 
Good news! “Buffalo” Bob is back on the air. I don’t know why he was letting him go in the place. Maybe he might take a vacation, or some time off, or it might be under the weather. Maybe he might still do voice tracking, but I hate voice tracking so much. This is why “Buffalo” Bob stay on the air doing voice tracking since it has been pre-recorded. Bring back live and local.
 
A station that runs more nostalgic commercials than actual paid spots is never going live and local, unless they do it with volunteers. That kind of radio is worse than voice tracking. The reason people who do it for free and not for pay is that they can't get a job being paid. From a radio management point of view, "you get what you pay for". WGNY puts nothing of value on the air, so they have nothing to offer even local advertisers. Apparently they are happy just to pay the electric bill. Whenever I tune them in I have to wonder "why?"
 
Hyrum said:
A station that runs more nostalgic commercials than actual paid spots is never going live and local, unless they do it with volunteers. That kind of radio is worse than voice tracking. The reason people who do it for free and not for pay is that they can't get a job being paid. From a radio management point of view, "you get what you pay for". WGNY puts nothing of value on the air, so they have nothing to offer even local advertisers. Apparently they are happy just to pay the electric bill. Whenever I tune them in I have to wonder "why?"
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Simple answer "why ? " " they don't care about doing great radio for there Territory" if you go upstate you will hear the difference in radio stations..
 
I agree that they don't care about putting together an entertaining product. My point is that to be successful in the radio business you MUST do something entertaining to attract advertisers in the demographics that will attract an audience to buy from the advertisers. I don't understand how they do pay their electric bill with the few paid spots that they run. There is a guy who posts here who loves WGNY for whatever reason, but I have to suggest that we can hear 60 year old songs from many sources. You can have a million listeners to a radio station playing them, but few will participate by buying a sponsors product. That means the station, if it is a business, should move to a format that will attract the right audience for the advertiser. The ONLY reason commercial radio exists is to build the best possible audience for it's commercials, no matter what format it plays
 
I remember it was May1976 when I moved back to the Hudson Valley for the second time and tuning in to 1220 what was a standards format then a week later they changed to a Rock & Roll Top 40 format with.all the jocks and excitement. Too bad this kind of radio can't be brought back again at WGNY.
 
davefrmn2019 said:
I remember it was May1976 when I moved back to the Hudson Valley for the second time and tuning in to 1220 what was a standards format then a week later they changed to a Rock & Roll Top 40 format with.all the jocks and excitement. Too bad this kind of radio can't be brought back again at WGNY.
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Now look at WGHQ’s “Magic 92.5”. It has been on the air since 2021, and they are grabbing all of its listening audience from WGNY over to WGHQ where they are enjoying hearing the soft oldies, or lighter than light oldies format since 92.5 has a crummy signal, but they are going to online streaming.
 
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