I was listening to Jimmy Failla when all of a sudden during the first segment, they cut in and played the rest of some commercial, then back to the show. Then in the segment that just ended, they cut in and played "Weekend" by Wet Willie and then dead air. What the hell is going on over there?
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WTF Is Up With WHBO?
- Thread starter DToTheJ
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Just goes with the other mayhem going on with local stations. Podcast radio 1010 am and 103.1 are having more signal issues and shows missing or displaced. 1250 WHNZ on am is un-listenable atm.I give up trying to contact any stations about its has turned into a sh--storm
Sadly this is happening with a lot of radio stations. Remember the time when, if the station was on the air, there was a warm body "in the chair" to keep an eye/ear on things. Now, at 5pm everyone goes home and they lock the door. No one is monitoring the station. After an hour of dead air or the same liner/spot over and over again there is no audience listening.
It's a sign of how irrelevant to the general population our medium has become.
It's a sign of how irrelevant to the general population our medium has become.
Nah. Somebody's listening, if anything, just for a reason to see how long the train wreck goes on for.
Spot on. Sad thing is radio's demise was self-inflicted.
Imagine the remaining employees there aren't paid well, are always subject to termination, so, why care?
Their shifts are over. Management doesn't care about the quality of on-air product, so why would they?
They're not getting compensated for it.
To management's narrow vision, radio is only a matter of numbers, profit to be made.
Almost nothing else counts, including worker morale, employee recruitment, company advancement.
Listeners know radio's corporate owners mostly killed the once great medium:
The Real Don Steele
The big radio owners care little about their product, their listeners.
You think they care even a whit about their employees?
The Real Don Steele
The big radio owners care little about their product, their listeners.
You think they care even a whit about their employees?
No, the change in advertising budgets caused a reduction in revenue, forcing station owners to find ways to economize.
If you find that your medium has about 65% less inflation-adjusted revenue as it did 20 years ago, while expenses have doubled in many cases, you have to find ways to economize.
They definitely do, but the revenue is what drives the industry and that is way off.
Yes, most owners definitely do. But if you don't have enough income to pay them, tell me what YOU would do?
Pretty sure this is the station I applied at in the early 80s. I don't know why but it just seemed creepy...the location, the fact that there was only one person there in the afternoon who interviewed me [PD-GM...I don't remember but he just seemed "off" to me] and I was wondering "where are the rest of the DJs.....hell, where is ANYBODY?" I was beginning to think a witch or someone was going to pop out and stuff me in an oven and I'd be screaming "NO!!! My name's not Hansel...or Gretel! Let me go, I'll apply at another station and forget all about this one!" Seems like things haven't changed, new owners or not.
This station has certainly changed hands a few times since the early 80's and whatever the situation was then, it's not like that now. I'm honestly not sure where Genesis is operating 820 and 1040 now (I'm assuming both from maybe the 820 transmitter site building??? ....but I believe that land was sold off as well). Anyway, for all we know, 1040 is only being controlled from it's transmitter building near Lake Seminole and maybe it just doesn't have the engineering and remote networking controls to get things back on track when they go wrong. I don't believe they do any LIVE programming on that station do they? So it probably doesn't even have a legit studio. Again, I feel like maybe it's being controlled from the 820 site where they might have a small studio for any live shows on that station.
Yes, I know. Almost all of the stations I've worked for have been sold, some are on their third of fourth owner. Only one has retained the same ownership but in the 40+ years since I've left their programming has undergone several changes but basically sort of remains the same. And yes, some of them are no longer located where I applied at years ago, in fact they may be on their 4th or 5th location if not more which more or less happens when you get new owners. Sadly one of them has now just been reduced to being a lonely laptop sitting on a card table at a transmitter site regurgitating religious crap piped in from who knows where. From what I heard rarely anyone goes out to the transmitter site to attend to it unless there's dead air or some other problem....like mice dancing on the ESC, ENTER or POWER buttons. What a sad fate for a former 60s/early 70s powerhouse of a station.
1040 or maybe 820 used to have some guy in the afternoon - I don't remember his name but he would use the theme from "Hill Street Blues" as a bed to talk into and out of breaks