1060 WIXC - Changes

[jmtillery]

A promo is running, talking about the Talk line up during the day, and Music, what they are playing now
from 9pm to 5am ..Still wonder what WMEL 1300 will do to fill the Dave Ramsey, Bill O'Reiily and Mike
Savage slots ...they've got Dougs Good day in morning drive and Bortz mid day...can't imagine Brevard
supporting 3 talkers ...

Did WMEL 1300 lose certain syndicated programs to WIXC? What about contracts? Didn't John Harper have affiiliation agreements with the various program syndicators to air said programs for a specified period of time? Usually the contracts are valid for at least a year, exclsusive to a particular market, and I don't think WMEL has been in operation on 1300 for a 12-month period, yet.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]

 

[quadman102]

Mark, good question, I know the agreement for Dave Ramsey was signed in the late spring of this year...
the other shows Harper lost are TRN products, Laura Ingram, Michael Savage, and Westwood one Bill
O'Reilly. I can't figure out how you could lose programs from 3 different sources, not just one. I know Harper
lost Imus in the Morning, and I'm pretty sure he just plain didn't pay ABC for that program. Can't figure
out how Genesis pulled this off, unless Harper is about to lose the lease he has with Rama for 1300.

 

[justhearforfun]

Mark, good question, I know the agreement for Dave Ramsey was signed in the late spring of this year...
the other shows Harper lost are TRN products, Laura Ingram, Michael Savage, and Westwood one Bill
O'Reilly. I can't figure out how you could lose programs from 3 different sources, not just one. I know Harper
lost Imus in the Morning, and I'm pretty sure he just plain didn't pay ABC for that program. Can't figure
out how Genesis pulled this off, unless Harper is about to lose the lease he has with Rama for 1300.

correct me if i'm wrong, but don't you have to run barters in order to get TRN programming and file affidavits? Harper did neither. He didn't do it at 920 either....

 

[quadman102]

Yes, your correct, TRN and the rest send forms at the end of each month, they were done for a few
months when WMEL was first on 1300, but, I would be amazed if they had been done since late spring
or early Summer ...that might be the leverage needed to get the networks away...

 

[jmtillery]

Well, now, that explains things a lot better and sheds NEW light on the subject. If the affidavits have not been completed and returned as agreed upon, that would be a Breech of Contract according to the original terms of the agreement which would be grounds for the program syndicator to terminate said agreement prior to its expiration. That would be one logical explaination how WIXC was able to secure programs once exclusive to WMEL before the original agreement had expired. The other would be that WMEL management voluntarily surrendered its affiliation agreement(s) to WIXC for any number of reasons, but most likely to make room for another program management believes will garner higher ratings on WMEL.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]

 

[cflradio]

I'll try and clear things up as far as WMEL and WIXC schedules.

Here is the current schedule for WMEL-AM 1300.
6-9AM Doug Stephan and the Good Day Show
9-11AM Duke and the Doctor
11AM-1PM Neil Boortz
1-3PM Bill O'Reilly
3-PM Clark Howard
4-PM Lou Dobbs
6-8PM Alex Jones
8-PM Phil Valentine
9-10PM Rusty Humphries
10PM-1AM Jim Bohannon
1AM-5AM Joey Reynolds
5-6am Doug Stephans Talk Radio Countdown
Paul Harvey News @ 8:30 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.
Paul Harvey Rest of the Story @ 5:30 p.m.
ABC Radio Hourly News and Half Hour updates
WMEL Local News 24/7 @ the bottom of the hour
WMEL Weather 24/7 twice each hour
Lou Dobbs Financial Reports @ 7:30 a.m, 12:20 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Bob Rall Local Business Reports @ 4:30 p.m.

WIXC Schedule
9AM-Noon Laura Ingraham
Noon-2PM Bill O'Reilley
2PM-4PM Dave Ramsey
4PM-6PM Todd Schnitt
Michael Savage from 6PM-9PM

The only change for both stations will be when O'Reilly gives up his show sometime in the first quarter of 2009.

Bob
www.cflradio.net

 

[jmtillery]

I'll try and clear things up as far as WMEL and WIXC schedules.

Here is the current schedule for WMEL-AM 1300.
6-9AM Doug Stephan and the Good Day Show
9-11AM Duke and the Doctor
11AM-1PM Neil Boortz
1-3PM Bill O'Reilly
3-PM Clark Howard
4-PM Lou Dobbs
6-8PM Alex Jones
8-PM Phil Valentine
9-10PM Rusty Humphries
10PM-1AM Jim Bohannon
1AM-5AM Joey Reynolds
5-6am Doug Stephans Talk Radio Countdown
Paul Harvey News @ 8:30 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.
Paul Harvey Rest of the Story @ 5:30 p.m.
ABC Radio Hourly News and Half Hour updates
WMEL Local News 24/7 @ the bottom of the hour
WMEL Weather 24/7 twice each hour
Lou Dobbs Financial Reports @ 7:30 a.m, 12:20 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Bob Rall Local Business Reports @ 4:30 p.m.

WIXC Schedule
9AM-Noon Laura Ingraham
Noon-2PM Bill O'Reilley
2PM-4PM Dave Ramsey
4PM-6PM Todd Schnitt
Michael Savage from 6PM-9PM

The only change for both stations will be when O'Reilly gives up his show sometime in the first quarter of 2009.

Bob
www.cflradio.net

Bob,

Thanks for the current schedule update for both stations. We were just pondering over the idea that there may have been certain programs once on WMEL that was going over to WIXC. In particular, one poster suggested that Dave Ramsey was on WMEL and was movig to 1060. I was curious how that would have come about since WMEL would have had an affiliation agreement with the Ramsey people which would prevent any other station in the market from carrying the same program.

Mark Tillery,
Ocala, Florida
[email protected]

 

[quadman102]

Bob, the current schedule you posted for WMEL is current only within the last few days or weeks...
1300 had a contract with Dave Ramsey and carried Ramsey from 3 to 5pm up until very recently...
I think Harper has phased out some of the other shows, like Laura, but, the fact is they did lose
Ramsey to WIXC, and lost or gave away the others, Bill, Laura, and Savage.

 

[lou josephs]

How much do they want for this pig...
It's fixable but it's not going to be easy.
Avg age is 42 in the market. So that would be your target. Men and Women. The station is not set up for HD, but no one cares about that. They lost the FM years back which was seriously dumb.
The idea...Radio Brevard, AM 1060...the spacecoasts radio station...shop around for new calls, see if WVBF is available. Have the old hour news id and intro which works well with Abc RADIO NEWS. The original pattern got into St Augustine on 1o KW daytime. It does not until sunset when it's at 17KW during Critical hours. Same is true in the morning. FIX IT. One of the ce's is a contractor for NASA deep space in CA..might be able to coax him to come back and retune the array. Add the fairchild reverb back into the air chain. Add a hnat hindes audio tri limiter for compression. Weekends will be live local high school sports and oldies and also college football. What oldies? Stuff you haven't heard on the radio in years. Kind of like what Scott Shannon does but niched for Brevard. Voice track the weekends.
The only thing live on this station would be morning and afternoon news. Traffic and weather on the 6's. Get Kathy Winters from the AirForce weather group to do the weather. Make her a star. She's local and probably not going to cost an arm and a leg. Do every single space launch from the Cape. Give the newspaper a run for its money. Hire Jim Cutler to be the station voice. Get Les Marshak (NBC Today show) to do special events ID's.
As you can see it ain't cheap.
Hire DMR to do a direct mail piece.
Stream from the web
Make the website the destination for local news and info
Have the news staff blog
Sell locally to car guys, etc. Be the wall mart of radio, sell cheaper than anyone else. 14 units of spots would be great but this pig will and can take 21 units an hour.

 

[Cosmic Zamboni]

The reason his format was dumped and he left is 'cuse he couldn't pay the bills.. lack of advertisers=can't pay the bills lack of advertisers means no listeners, no listeners means no ratings...

A friend of Turner's tells me that the reason the format was dumped and he left was because the licensee was padding the bills, wouldn't document what was being billed, and the investors in his company refused to pony up any more money. Yeah, two months into operating a station wouldn't generate enough advertising revenue to pay the bills. Anybody could anticipate that. The way I'm hearing it is that his investors weren't willing to pour good money after bad once they saw how the relationship with the licensee was. But take the grapevine talk for what it's worth. Anyone know anything about Genesis and its reputation? Is that believable?

 

[Radio Potato]

We interrupt our regular programming to bring you this special presentation of WIXC sports

Honestly, on the second day of their new format I heard this just minutes ago. They don't have any regular programming yet. Good grief, what in the world are these guys thinking? WINT has ESPN now. They wanted to be news/talk. But now they're running sports call in programming, presumably from ESPN because WINT is a daytimer only. WIXC needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. The electric bill alone on that 50kw transmitter must be eating them alive. No advertising I've heard except PI spots. What's that worth, a few hundred a month?

 

[austingrace]

i heard some dead air on the stream. what the ehll? rotfl.

 

[radioboy]

The electric bill for a 50kw rig is probably $3 to 4k a month..PI spots are not going to cover that.

The LMA problems wouldn't surprise me..LMAs seem to be a win for the licensee and a lose for the
person LMA'ing the station.

I stand by my previous statement that Genesis really needs to sell this station and put whatever
resources thay have into building 820. WIXC is an albatross that will eat them alive, if it hasn't already.

 

[austingrace]

yes. they should defanatly sell the station. i think they are wasting there money on that one. just my thought.

 

[Radio Potato]

They are still running sweepers for "Real American Music" that list all the artists whose music they play. Then they join a talk show in the middle of a sentence. Who is running the automation system at this station? This is an outright abomination to the auditory faculties of those unfortunates who stumble across 1060 on their AM dials.

Does anyone who works for this station actually listen to what they put out over the air... ever? There's no advertising, and there never will be if they keep this up.

 

[Mr Hand]

I am pretty certain Greg Sherlock is running the show there. I am not sure if someone can call and find out whats going on. They have flipped more formats in the past three months than anyone roaming the dial can handle at the moment. I know they play Adult contemporay at night ,but the day its talk?

 

[quadman102]

WIXC at least seems to be staying on the air, which is more than you can say
for 1300 ... they are off the air a lot, a whole lot, lots of tech problems, or folks asleep at the wheel...

 

[JohnValjean]

Driving down I-95 today I was able to tune in for about an hour. Not one local spot. Do they have a sales team?

 

[spanky1979]

They are still running sweepers for "Real American Music" that list all the artists whose music they play. Then they join a talk show in the middle of a sentence. Who is running the automation system at this station? This is an outright abomination to the auditory faculties of those unfortunates who stumble across 1060 on their AM dials.

Does anyone who works for this station actually listen to what they put out over the air... ever? There's no advertising, and there never will be if they keep this up.

According to my sources, there is only 1 guy running the entire show. The automation is programmed from their Tampa sister station. So, all the problems probably never get reported back to the traffic guy in Tampa. With the format swaps that have been going on, they must have some older sweepers and promos still in the rotation in the automation. That is what kill dates are for. Someone needs to sit down at their automation computer and do some house cleaning.

Driving down I-95 today I was able to tune in for about an hour. Not one local spot. Do they have a sales team?

To answer your question, no, they do not.

 

[Paperbill]

They are still running sweepers for "Real American Music" that list all the artists whose music they play. Then they join a talk show in the middle of a sentence. Who is running the automation system at this station? This is an outright abomination to the auditory faculties of those unfortunates who stumble across 1060 on their AM dials.

Does anyone who works for this station actually listen to what they put out over the air... ever? There's no advertising, and there never will be if they keep this up.

According to my sources, there is only 1 guy running the entire show. The automation is programmed from their Tampa sister station. So, all the problems probably never get reported back to the traffic guy in Tampa. With the format swaps that have been going on, they must have some older sweepers and promos still in the rotation in the automation. That is what kill dates are for. Someone needs to sit down at their automation computer and do some house cleaning.

Driving down I-95 today I was able to tune in for about an hour. Not one local spot. Do they have a sales team?

To answer your question, no, they do not.

They do as of today!!!