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93.7 The Zone, Pittsburgh's Dead Air Station (at least the online stream is)

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I was listening to a bit of Dennis Miller this morning and after the Kevin Nealon interview, there was a great amount of dead air after some of the PSA's. I got to ask if this is a normal practice on the station of if they only suffer from this problem on their online feed?
 
Perhaps they simply weren't feeding network commercials.
 
I know you are talking about dead air on the internet side, and don't have any information today if it also occurred on the FM side or not. I'm not defending "The Zone" whatsoever, and have really only listened to 15 minutes of Dennis Miller and about 15 mins. of John McIntyre so far. I remember when 104.7 signed on as FM News Talk a couple of years ago, they had several programming gaffes and people were critical of them too. All I can say is this is their first week of this talk format, and I'm sure there's going to be glitches along the way.

BTW-I sort of liked Dennis Miller, I think he can grow on me, but I still found myself wanting to switch over to Glenn Beck, but I did resist the temptation. McIntyre didn't impress me at all. Too bad Dennis Miller isn't on from noon to 3, as I'd never be torn between listening to him or Rush.
 
I was wondering if they were having the same issue on the FM side. I no longer live in Pittsburgh that's why I was asking. I know it might be a first week thing and it should go away soon. At least the sales execs and the on air talent hope so as mentioned by Paulsen and Dameshek.
 
Re: 93.7 The Zone, Pittsburgh's Effing Station

Listening to Paulson right now (4/5, 16:45) - he has a comedian on who just said "F$%#ing" clear as a bell on-air. He quickly told Paulson "sorry about that"; to which Paulson replied, "Oh, don't worry about it". Are they not running a delay?
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I don't know. I read these names and think "There is potential here." I especially like the "out of the box" thinking of management to bring in Dave Dameshek as a sports talk show host- as I'd grown sick of hearing personality-less sportswriters get shows time and again.

On the other hand, "Man Radio" has been tried before. It is called sports talk radio, and in many ways this seems to be a defacto third sports radio station in the town.

And so who do they hire? Paulsen, whose solo show failed on WBGG, in essentially the SAME TIME SLOT!

Steigerwald- once a staple of WBGG on Saturday mornings (and that show soon died)- now on EVERY MORNING!

On top of this, I have noticed KDKA's ratings have actually gone UP in the last two trends.

And I was thinking- the only programming decision I can figure out KDKA has made that would warrant the rise would be the depature of McIntire for Neil Boortz on tape delay!

So, of course, John Mac is now on 1-4 everyday!

Of course, that was AM and this is FM. There are issues of promotion and broadcasters can grow and these three guys are recognizable and hardly talentless.

So I don't think it's hopeless, and surely these guys will do more than the 1.2 K-Rock did in the last book.

But there is a lot of hit or miss here.
 
Pratte4Life said:
"There is potential here." I especially like the "out of the box" thinking of management to bring in Dave Dameshek as a sports talk show host

So I don't think it's hopeless, and surely these guys will do more than the 1.2 K-Rock did in the last book.
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Dameshek reminds me of one of those "Yinzer" characters that Paulsen and Krenn would do on 'DVE. The Pittsburgh accent is way too thick.

My personal take on this is that management would crap gleefully if they were to be at or above a 1.2. All this station happens to be is a rebranded Free FM. They got the same web site design, same site options, as well as same syndicated hosts (O&A, Loveline, John & Jeff, etc). If Penn Jillette was still a part of Free FM, he would probably have a show on The Zone also.


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The Pittsburgh accent is way too thick.

But they said the same thing about Myron Cope and Mark Madden once upon a time, too.

Part- I know that. You know that. We all know that.

But it's not like we really have access to those numbers!
 
"Paulsen, whose solo show failed on WBGG, in essentially the SAME TIME SLOT!"

Irrelevant. That wasn't a true test of anything. Paulsen was stuck on an AM station, surrounded by nothing, cast in a sports format. He didn't talk enough sports to suit sports fans and there was too much sports content for the people who liked his shows on DVE.
 
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