Haven't seen this mentioned here, so I thought I would post about it. 105.9 seems to be voice-tracking their "off-peak" hours like evenings, overnights, weekends, etc. You will still hear Mary Glenn and Joe Elvis during the daytime, but listening at night is like listening to another station. The announcers never gave the station name (only their own names), never promoted the station's website (only their own site, iheartradio.com), and never really said anything specific, only generic stuff. I was not familiar with any of these announcers, but I didn't think much about that, because there is often much turnover among night and weekend announcers anyway.
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105.9 voice-tracking?
- Thread starter firepoint525
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kr0nic said:
Only in Corporate America would un-involved, generic, non-format specific random, white-bread bland voice tracks be called "Premium Choice" Did I mention that radio is dead?
It's awful. It's cheap, generic, and unlistenable to anyone who knows and loves radio.
After a song is played, you don't hear "105-9 The Rock" ..you hear a bunch of chattering
about the song and/or "get up to the website now..." WTF you idiots at Cheap Channel
are ruining if not already have ruined radio. Not just CC but all the bigwigs tightening the
belt. During those "off hours" if they can't afford a live, local, in-studio jock, then just
play the music with some liners and sweepers. Of course some people probably like having
the robot dj come on blabbing about stuff that could be piped into 1000 other stations at
the same exact time.
After a song is played, you don't hear "105-9 The Rock" ..you hear a bunch of chattering
about the song and/or "get up to the website now..." WTF you idiots at Cheap Channel
are ruining if not already have ruined radio. Not just CC but all the bigwigs tightening the
belt. During those "off hours" if they can't afford a live, local, in-studio jock, then just
play the music with some liners and sweepers. Of course some people probably like having
the robot dj come on blabbing about stuff that could be piped into 1000 other stations at
the same exact time.
I agree, and it seems like many stations are already doing just exactly that, anyway. It's actually less noticeable than having jocks from "nowheresville" on there! :roadrunner said:
Just when I was getting used to 105.9's weekend radio callers with, "Hey Jimmy the K, we're tokin' a little doob, drinking some beer and livin' large at the Priest Lake party cove. Could y'all play us some Bad Company?", station goes voice track or generic, out-of-town jocks.
Since posting my first message at the top of this thread on Tuesday morning, I couldn't help but notice that this "Premium Choice" programming even plays "2-fer-Tuesday"! Wow, they think of everything, don't they?
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SwissVol
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I guess I am still living in the past about rock radio, but hell, I came up in an era where the Jocks would play Pete Green and Fleetwood Mac and actually talk about the song, talk about the album, talk about what Fleetwood Mac was doing, what album they were working on, where Fleetwood Mac would be playing and all of that. Then the jock would play some off the beaten track by Brewer and Shipley.You never hear this kind of thing on the radio anymore. Maybe that's why I am listening to my ipod right now. Witchi Tao To is playing and I do not have to listen to some redneck call in going: We are in Antioch and we'd love to hear Boston, even though you just played that Boston song an hour ago. Ok, enough ranting LOL
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NashRadio
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SwissVol, you are absolutely right
But those days are gone forever. I don't even know if you'd get that on XM/Sirius, although I think all serious radio lovers will eventually be forced in that direction (and ipods, as you mentioned).
But those days are gone forever. I don't even know if you'd get that on XM/Sirius, although I think all serious radio lovers will eventually be forced in that direction (and ipods, as you mentioned).
Well, with voice-tracking, you won't even get that! Too "local," y'know! :-\SwissVol said:
I hate to point this out, but it sounds like my grandfather talking about the good old days. Nothing is ever as good as it was when we were young. The cars were cooler, the music was better, and the girls were prettier. Let me know the minute someone comes up with a time-travel machine.
Come on guys. Radio is a mass medium, designed for the masses. It's not your personal jukebox. It never was.
Come on guys. Radio is a mass medium, designed for the masses. It's not your personal jukebox. It never was.
TheBigA said:
But, you see, it was. That's the point. Skilled radio personalities ,ade me believe those were my favorite songs, played just for me. I developed a rapport with the air talent, lved it when he was was on and missed him when he gone. I was a mass medium, sure, but skill and mangagement that gave a crap made it mine. We don;t do that today. Most air talent, sadly, doesn't know how. It is demonstrated every day that management doesn't care.
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SwissVol
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Well, radio, rock radio, was better back in those days or as ole Grandpa might say: "Them thar good ole days". It was better for several reasons including the depth of playlists and radio station libraries. Of course things can never be the same. Look at Woodstock. There have been many attempts to do Woodstock anniversaries. Since many of those who were at the original Woodstock event are now 60 or over 60, it is just not the same. We can still talk about those good ole days though. I do have hopes that terrestrial radio takes a good long look at things that can be done to improve the product. Deeper and broader playlists in all formats is a good place to start. Now in the spirit of Woodstock: Peace Man LOL
Journeyman said:
No...you miss my poiint. When I came into the business, I got to meet a lot of people who worked for NBC Radio Network in the Golden Age of Radio, when they had a live orchestra in the studio, live drama, scripts written for radio, with full time sound effects men, live audiences, and announcers wore tuxedos.
They told me that this idea of a DJ coming in sloppily dressed, long hair, unshaven, playing recordings from some place else was radio on the cheap. It was terrible, and simply not what radio was supposed to be. I can't tell you the lectures I got about that. In their view, what you remember about radio was crap, pure and simple. Not the kind of quality work THEY did. Every generation thinks what it did was best, and the new folks are all idiots.
SwissVol said:
Depth of playlist... let's see.... a cart rack in fromt of me that had 40 songs. A cart rack behind be that 40 recurrents and 40 songs each from the last 4 years.. That adds up to 240 songs. And with that we were always in a tight battle for #1 with our competitor who had the same number of songs. H-m-mm-m-m. Maybe it had more to do with the personalities than the songs. Just thinking out loud here.
I don't trust anybody over 30. Especially Journeyman and Olebud. Ok, make that 40.
with Ole Bud...you can add the 30 and 40 together
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