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1230 The Breeze-second to last WECK thread ever! ;-)
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Keeping the Yankees and the UB football/basketball broadcasts. Good idea Tom!
klutch00 said:
Klutch00, this was clarified earlier. They are not allowed to stream Yankee games, so they're running other programming on the net. At this time, they are not prepared to program music there yet, so they continue to run the sports talk until the music system is in place.
Alan Pergament blogs about it. He says what I've said - they really didn't give Brad's plan any time to see if it was going to work:
http://stilltalkintv.com/2011/07/feeling-kinship-with-weck-talkers/
http://stilltalkintv.com/2011/07/feeling-kinship-with-weck-talkers/
Brad had a couple of years to move the needle on his own show. It never happened. Maybe Dick Greene simply wasn't impressed with the quality of the programming compared with the competition, and decided that he needed to pay the bills.
Brad poked the bear. The bear likely made it even harder to bring money through the door by going after the few advertisers left after Bill O. took his paid content elsewhere.
Brad poked the bear. The bear likely made it even harder to bring money through the door by going after the few advertisers left after Bill O. took his paid content elsewhere.
bbb said:
I'd guess that Brad's moves were costing Dick money - particularly after Bill O. was essentially driven out.
Waaaay back when I was at WHLD ithe late 60s the majority of their money came from ethnic programming. Yeah..ain't no fun for us radio guys, but if the ethnic makeup is reasonably the same..what would be the advantages of going Polish, or Italian on WECK?
Barring anything that radical..Mr Greene should simply consider making WECK a barker channel for the website...there will likely be more potential for new listeners there. Granted AM music, unless highly specialized on a big stick, just doesn't have the juice to compete.
Local, polish Cheektowaga radio..might...maybe make enough to pay the power bill.
Barring anything that radical..Mr Greene should simply consider making WECK a barker channel for the website...there will likely be more potential for new listeners there. Granted AM music, unless highly specialized on a big stick, just doesn't have the juice to compete.
Local, polish Cheektowaga radio..might...maybe make enough to pay the power bill.
It was posted here that Bill O. was mocked by Brad and other WECK hosts. And there were some not-so-well chosen words by the morning hostess. Bill O. complained, and apparently was unenthused when Schuh was fired and Brad moved into the PD position. As B.O. said at his departure:
“During the past three months, I have frequently met with and asked the station owner to please resolve some ethical and moral issues of our on-air product,” O’Loughlin stated in an e-mail.
“When that did not occur, I resigned and immediately left last Tuesday due to his lack of enforcing generally acceptable on-air character and integrity standards,” he stated.
http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/article440052.ece
Since I wasn't there, I have no idea what really happened. It seems that Bill feels that he was driven out.
“During the past three months, I have frequently met with and asked the station owner to please resolve some ethical and moral issues of our on-air product,” O’Loughlin stated in an e-mail.
“When that did not occur, I resigned and immediately left last Tuesday due to his lack of enforcing generally acceptable on-air character and integrity standards,” he stated.
http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/article440052.ece
Since I wasn't there, I have no idea what really happened. It seems that Bill feels that he was driven out.
What Jeff Laurence said. Brokered programming/ethnic/Spanish programming would pay the mortgage, feed my family, and pay down the mortgage. It works for Charlie Banta. How many clients will spend money on a music format on an AM station that did talk for nearly three years but didn't pan out? It's about revenue. Muéstrame el dinero!
The Yankees have a day game, and the WECK stream is silent. No FSR, no ESPN fill, no stream.
Gotta agree with Jeff Lawrence also. Face the facts. Getting ratings/selling commercial time on WECK is gonna be tough. Italian and Polish programming would work. Also anything else that pays the bills. Religious and non-profit groups that might want to ask their listeners for donations to lease the time. Maybe some retired DJ might want to do a live Oldies request show on Saturday night and sell his own time. And there's all those other leased time type of show. Well, if you have a license and a transmitter, there's people who will buy the time.
Personally, I wish the original talk format would have worked and everybody could have kept their jobs. In the past, I've been involved with start up AM formats, so I know how heartbreaking it can turn out to be. But again, starting a format on AM from scratch and selling commercials - a tough row to hoe.
Personally, I wish the original talk format would have worked and everybody could have kept their jobs. In the past, I've been involved with start up AM formats, so I know how heartbreaking it can turn out to be. But again, starting a format on AM from scratch and selling commercials - a tough row to hoe.
It's not the elephant, it's probably the owner. Give the consultant/PD credit. The man presents his case here, puts up with the criticism and offers his opinions. What is the target demo? How many listeners in that target demo will break away from their present favorite music stations (most likely FM) to listen to music on AM? More critically, how successful can a sales person be selling the Breeze to a local merchant or local agency? Programming and sales would appear to be a Sisyphean task.
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