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96.7 The Coast to blow up its format ??

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RadioMan203

With Peter Bush on mornings and radio consultant Pete Salant's "Mike Stone" doing PM drive is a format tweak in the works ... perhaps as early as Monday? Hmmm! Curious minds want to know.

No news on any newcomer for mid-days but the air is ripe for a change there too, especially if you look at the logo for The Coast - how many years can they claim to be "New" ?

Stay tuned to a radio near you! Something is in the air!
 
Who cares. 96.7 is a little "peanut whistle" (in the immortal words of Win Suitor) and its means nothing. Pete Salant can be use whatever name he wants, it just doesn't matter anymore. Peter Bush Swanberg...same thing. Another great liner-card reader (Pete Salant=Liner Cards). What, do they actually think they can make a legitimate run against a 50,000 watt blowtorch like WEBE. Granted, WEBE is boring, but they have a MONSTER signal. Guys like Pete Salant may have accomplished things years ago, but, he, like most consultants, ruined radio by homogenizing it to the point where every jock had to be "liner card readers." Pete Salant needs to realize that IPod's have passed radio by. Young people could care less about what "format" a radio station has. Maybe Pete should try to program everyone's IPods?
 
Bill DeFelice said:
...if you look at the logo for The Coast - how many years can they claim to be "New" ?
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The station is owned by Cox, home of Tampa Bay's "new" 101.5 The Point. Among others. Nuff said!
 
Tralfaz said:
Guys like Pete Salant may have accomplished things years ago, but, he, like most consultants, ruined radio by homogenizing it to the point where every jock had to be "liner card readers." Pete Salant needs to realize that IPod's have passed radio by.
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Pete Salant was successful years ago mainly because of the lack of good competition. When Pete programmed WYNY in 1980, CBS-FM was not that good before the Joe McCoy days, WXLO/99X(formerly WOR-FM) and WPIX were inconsistent, and WABC and WNBC were loosing listeners because of disco on WABC and people wanting FM stereo. Same with Pete's start-up of KC101 in 1979. DRC-FM was mostly album-oriented at that time, TIC-FM did not cover the New Haven market well, it was pre WEBE and Star, and nobody was doing Top 40 in New Haven.

Things are different today. WWYZ's numbers went down over several books during Pete's tenure. The new program director has freshened the sound, and the rating have gone up significantly.
 
WCTZ this morning
its a lovely sunday morning

Currently THEIR IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED FOR GREENWICH, STAMFORD, DARIEN, NEW CAANEN, and NORWALK

thats all I am going to say on this.
 
Good job, Michael Peter Salant! In all seriousness, I am sure Paul Sydney (WLNG), a man who Salant supposedly looked up to in recent years, is looking down frowning on you Salant. Remember Salant, you PIONEERED liner cards...the EXACT OPPOSITE of Paul Sydney. Get real MPS.
 
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