Country 92.5's PD "Bama" Lance Tidwell has taken a job with a cluster of stations in Arizona. For the time being John Saville will be holding down the 3PM-7PM shift on Country 92.5 in addition to his Weekend Shows. I like it when "Caddy Man" is on. He often digs out the older Country stuff.
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92.5's PD to Arizona
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MarcB said:
Really? He has the freedom to do that at a Clear Channel station? I thought the playlists were set days in advance with no room for insertion of non-rotation tracks.
I don't know anything about the day to day operations at Clear Channel, but I know what I've heard and I know what my friends tell me wgen they hear Caddy Man on. Some refer to him as a "breath of fresh air" because he plays more older stuff and he's not playing the same currents over and over again.
Anyway if I was the PD of Country 92.5 I would:
1. Add more older music. Not too old, but maybe no more than 15 or 20 years old. Maybe play 2 or 3 songs from this catergory an hour.
2. Cancel The Electric Barnyard with Broadway and Corey. I didn't care for Corey Myers when she was doing the morning show by herself. Adding this guy Broadway made the morning show even worse.
3. Have Wendy and John Saville do the morning show.
4. Get new DJs for Middays, afternoons.
5. Hire a local DJ for 7PM-Midnite instead of using Premium Choice.
6. Add an Old School Country show on Sunday (or Saturday Mornings).
7. Add NASCAR on Sunday Afternoons.
Anyway if I was the PD of Country 92.5 I would:
1. Add more older music. Not too old, but maybe no more than 15 or 20 years old. Maybe play 2 or 3 songs from this catergory an hour.
2. Cancel The Electric Barnyard with Broadway and Corey. I didn't care for Corey Myers when she was doing the morning show by herself. Adding this guy Broadway made the morning show even worse.
3. Have Wendy and John Saville do the morning show.
4. Get new DJs for Middays, afternoons.
5. Hire a local DJ for 7PM-Midnite instead of using Premium Choice.
6. Add an Old School Country show on Sunday (or Saturday Mornings).
7. Add NASCAR on Sunday Afternoons.
Well, a couple of these suggestions, especially going live and local from 7 to midnight, would require more spending than CC would be willing to do, so forget those.
But an old-school show, I think, would do well, especially if it focused on music from the late '80s through the end of the '90s, Country 92.5's first dozen years. Country music has changed drastically since then and it's hard to make acts like Steve Wariner and Mary Chapin Carpenter fit into a hit country format as recurrents. You could say the same thing about most of Garth Brooks' hits, and he was the single biggest artist of that timeframe by far. The people who were listening then are for the most part in their late 40s and early 50s now, so they still fit into the demographic that isn't poison to advertisers: 55+. I wonder why such a show hasn't been tried yet.
But an old-school show, I think, would do well, especially if it focused on music from the late '80s through the end of the '90s, Country 92.5's first dozen years. Country music has changed drastically since then and it's hard to make acts like Steve Wariner and Mary Chapin Carpenter fit into a hit country format as recurrents. You could say the same thing about most of Garth Brooks' hits, and he was the single biggest artist of that timeframe by far. The people who were listening then are for the most part in their late 40s and early 50s now, so they still fit into the demographic that isn't poison to advertisers: 55+. I wonder why such a show hasn't been tried yet.
MarcB said:
I agree with getting rid of the name Electric Barnyard. It's sounds stupid when they introduce the news as Barnyard News. This is Connecticut. We're sophisticate here.
Regarding NASCAR, a few of my friends would agree with you, however Connecticut is not a big NASCAR market. Would not work on a music station here, just like baseball would not work on KC101.
Bill1820 said:
The irony kills me.
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