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92.1/100.1 split during hockey

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DStroyer

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I don't know how long they've been doing this, but...

I was driving through Wilkes-Barre tonight when The Q switched over to the Penguins game. So, of course, the first thing I did is change the station (I'm more of a Flyers/NHL fan). My "seek" stopped on 100.1, which is pretty rare this far away from the QFN transmitter, and I discovered that The Q's music was still playing on that frequency. Thank you to whoever came up with that idea!

I know... I'm a little too easily impressed by stuff :)
 
My cronies up on the 5th floor tell me they started doing it right at the beginning of the season. The idea came from the current programming regime.
 
I stand corrected---just going by what the gang on floor 5 told me.
 
Cary Pall said:
Um, the idea came along a little earlier than that...this solution was suggested by their consultant in 2005.
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Wow. I guess I need to turn on my radio and/or get out of the house a little more often ;D
 
Sorry , Cary. Long before you blew up their successful Oldies franchise,a decision was made at the sign on of WQFN to not include it in the Hockey contract.They chose to simulcast then as they most likely chose to not at this time because they had the insight to not add that frequency to the broadcast contractural agreement.
 
They were bound and determined to blow it up (oldies) one way or another. I happened to be working with them in Tulsa at the time so I was given the mission. And they did not have the means to split them from a tech standpoint initially...but it was suggested months before the current QFM hit the air, and QFN was never part of the contract with the hockey team.
 
So you took a 60s and 70s gold based format off in Wilkes-Barre...but isn't that what you put on in Berwick?
 
Not quite. There's very little oldies content on WHLM-FM, outside of the Beatle show (which is a paid broadcast). An oldies-based classic hits station would be far less rock (read that male) oriented. And, that format was on in Berwick before I ever became involved with it, and before Joe Reilly owned it.

I reiterate: the decision to remove the oldies format from QFM/QFN was made long before we were asked to begin the path to next-gen AC (a full year before "Fresh" rolled out with a similar take in NYC, I might add...one can only wonder how that would have fared if it had been developed). I would have been equally happy freshening its oldies format and bulding on what they already had.
 
So your format was like " Fresh"? Gee willikers...Fresh debuted in the top 10.
And Al Gore invented the internet.
 
There's very little oldies content on WHLM-FM, outside of the Beatle show (which is a paid broadcast).
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I happened to be working with them in Tulsa at the time so I was given the mission. And they did not have the means to split them from a tech standpoint initially.
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QFN was never part of the contract with the hockey team.
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Cary, any current or potential clients can certainly see by the above that confidentiality and client privledge are both very important to you huh?
 
I don't see anytrhing here that hasn't already been discovered by others who are actually LISTENING TO THE RADIO and observing what's going on. It's no secret when it's broadcast. That's why they call it BROADCASTING. What I write here is only intended to shine a little light on the thinking behind the work. None of the work itself has been exposed, and you know it. Last time I checked, commentary on what is broadcast openly to the public on a radio station is not an infringement on the intellectual property of a broadcaster.
 
Yeah...umm, I'm with Nairda on this one. If I had handed you a check for any of that, good outcome or bad, I'd be pissed to read all about it here.
 
Cary. So what you are saying is that the following was broadcast openly to the public and therefore is not intellectual property? Ohhhhh now I understand you. Of course this sort of thing wouldn't be a violation of client privledge. Silly me. Sorry.
they did not have the means to split them from a tech standpoint initially.
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the Beatle show (which is a paid broadcast).
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QFN was never part of the contract with the hockey team.
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Aramondo said:
Yeah...umm, I'm with Nairda on this one. If I had handed you a check for any of that, good outcome or bad, I'd be pissed to read all about it here.
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Agreed. A consultant should be as confidential as a lawyer or doctor, and to discuss your work for a client on this board shows no class.
 
Cary Pall said:
And they did not have the means to split them from a tech standpoint initially...
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Actually...a correction...WQFM and WQFN have always had separate STL's from the day I hung the antenna in Waymart.....All that was needed to split the signals was a studio patchover and an extra processor which have always been in house. It took 6 hours to accomplish the split.

Kevin
 
But technical stuff aside, the combo has one of the best signals in the market. Cary, how'd "your version of Fresh" work out from a ratings perspective? It was 5th or 7th in the market when you got there?
 
Hold on---is THIS the guy who came up with the idea for uptempo music in the daytime and mellow music at night? THAT worked out well! I much prefer the format they have on now. I hear the hockey's moving to 96.1 in the near future.
 
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