I don't live in the service area of this station, I have been reading all the input from everyone and do you think rather than it being a technical malfunction, maybe this is being done on purpose, Possibly just to get attention? If it were a tech problem, looks like it would have been corrected by now. I can't imagine a station being so sloppy with their programming to let this continue. Maybe I'm too old school radio to think that things should be done correctly in this day of radio amounting to little more than an IPOD connected to a transmitter.
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97.1 repeats
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It's worth noting that the aforementioned "Heart of Rock & Roll" was crossfaded! I remember hearing a "double heartbeat" at the end of the first airing, then I realized that I was also hearing the beginning of the second airing. Ditto the "double heartbeat" at the end of the second airing.radio30 said:
If it were intentional as you suggest, then they should make a contest out of it. "When you hear us repeat a song, be caller #10 and win $1000!" Okay, maybe not $1000, more like a burger and fries from McDonald's! ;D
"Livin' Thing" by ELO gets the "double-play" honor today! 8)
"Livin' Thing" by ELO gets the "honor" of being repeated today. Thrice! Oops, check that, fourth time today!
Posting problems resulting in a "repeat posting" here, too! :-[
Posting problems resulting in a "repeat posting" here, too! :-[
From the same station that would say "Bob and Tom" four times in a :30 promo.
If you look at their playlist from yesterday, you'll see that "Livin' Thing" (the first airing) started at 1:54 p.m., but that the next song listed, "Sara Smile" by Hall and Oates, didn't start until 2:08! So for 14 straight minutes yesterday afternoon, they were playing "Livin' Thing." (I looked back at their playlog to see if it would be listed more than once, but it was not.)
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MAybe they just REALLY REALLY REALLY like... Nah.
I know this comment belongs more on the yahoo.com/nashville_radio site, but I do remember WMAK playing a song 3 consecutive times because of the number of requests... maybe "Piece of Paper" by Gladstone...?
I know this comment belongs more on the yahoo.com/nashville_radio site, but I do remember WMAK playing a song 3 consecutive times because of the number of requests... maybe "Piece of Paper" by Gladstone...?
No excuse for that kind of sloppy programming. Whoever runs that station should be fired! They can't have a real live person around that time of day to figure out what the glitch is? Ten years ago if something like that happened, the PD would have thrown a s-fit and fired whoever was responsible. Today, it's like who cares, anything goes, and "oh well, whatever" ........ ???
I would agree with this. Don't they have something like five stations under the same roof there at Come-in-last, I mean Cumulus? Unfortunately, they probably have one station's worth of staff overseeing all five stations!roadrunner said:
Welcome friends to the modern world of cheaply ran half a-- corporate radio. Where the CEO's make the big bucks (for killing the industry) and the few people who are staffing the stations are making minimum wage while on-talent (being gracious by calling them talent) are shipped in via voice tracks from the other end of the country. Glad I got out 5 years ago. It's a shame to have to say after a 25+ year career in this business, I'm really beginning to appreciate my Sirius/XM and the music player capabilities of my smart phone. And they wonder why radio is falling on hard times.
Yet I'm fairly certain that even with their short staff that if someone were to post a comment on their Facebook page asking why they "let" songs repeat, such a comment would probably be yanked off in a New York minute! : Someone may have already posted such comments; I don't know. (Comments of this nature about 102.5 the Party were deleted from their Facebook page until the changeover to "the Game" became a done deal.) At any rate, I'm noticing that the only original comments on 97.1's Facebook wall are by 97.1 themselves, leading me to believe that a listener couldn't post such questions on 97.1's wall.
Someone may have already posted such comments; I don't know. (Comments of this nature about 102.5 the Party were deleted from their Facebook page until the changeover to "the Game" became a done deal.) At any rate, I'm noticing that the only original comments on 97.1's Facebook wall are by 97.1 themselves, leading me to believe that a listener couldn't post such questions on 97.1's wall.Oh, you can post to their FB page, however they only have 660 fans! Pretty sad compared to...well, any other station. Even lightning 100 has over 9,000. Here's a funny post I came across after reading your post:
Mike R******
You guys must really like ELO's "It's a Living Thing!"
Like · · Monday at 2:07pm ·
Mike R******
You guys must really like ELO's "It's a Living Thing!"
Like · · Monday at 2:07pm ·
How did I miss that? I guess I'm going to have to "like" their page so that I can "like" that statement! ;D I like "Livin' Thing," too, but not enough to play it four times straight!NashvilleNative said:Oh, you can post to their FB page, however they only have 660 fans! Pretty sad compared to...well, any other station. Even lightning 100 has over 9,000. Here's a funny post I came across after reading your post:
Mike R******
You guys must really like ELO's "It's a Living Thing!"
Like · · Monday at 2:07pm ·
(By the way, if he posted that at 2:07 on Monday, then he was on top of it! I was posting about it here at about that time!)I got a little nervous a couple of Mondays back, when I heard "American Pie" during the 1:00 p.m. hour? What if they repeat that? We could be hearing "American Pie" for upwards of half an hour!
Don't you wish you an input on the ratings a station gets. I do.
By the way, I should mention that repetition is nothing new at 97.1. Back in the Star 97 days, they once let commercials play for a solid half-hour!
they once let commercials play for a solid half-hour! have the regs been dropped that allow only so many minutes of commercial time per hour ?? I recall in the 70's I think you could have on 12 minutes or so of commercials per hour...anyone remember what the allowed time was back then ???
deltas69 said:
IIRC it was 18 minutes before deregulation. I remember playing 18 minutes between 5 and the 530 PM AM (or 5:15 I forget the exact time) I just remember it was all commercials from the end of the news to AM signoff one winter Saturday evening at WDBL around 1972 or 1973. They had the FM but the sponsors wanted their commercials on the AM.
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