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SonoSational18 said:
@ Capulet: There are several goodd sized lakes in the Chattanooga area.
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I'm sure there are. ;D There's that man made one called Cumberland. Whenever I think of Tennessee I think of Nashville, or Davey Crockett!

Naming a station "The Lake" in Chatanooga doesn't quite work as well for me as using that moniker for a station in a city on one of the Great Lakes.
 
re: 107-3..... have been hearing "107-3 CLE" in ID's and on FB with oval window sticker. Sticker doesn't say "World Class Rock" which I thought was the main positoning statement.
 
VODood said:
re: 107-3..... have been hearing "107-3 CLE" in ID's and on FB with oval window sticker. Sticker doesn't say "World Class Rock" which I thought was the main positoning statement.
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Consistency isn't really the name of the game over at 1073. There are times the imaging voice calls it V1073, other times that its V107 point 3, and other instances where its been Cleveland's V1073. Maybe the average listener doesn't notice, though to me it comes across as amateur.
 
SixOnTheFloor said:
VODood said:
re: 107-3..... have been hearing "107-3 CLE" in ID's and on FB with oval window sticker. Sticker doesn't say "World Class Rock" which I thought was the main positoning statement.
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Consistency isn't really the name of the game over at 1073. There are times the imaging voice calls it V1073, other times that its V107 point 3, and other instances where its been Cleveland's V1073. Maybe the average listener doesn't notice, though to me it comes across as amateur.
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Not to mention the occasional "1073 Cleveland" ID.
 
I wonder if 107.3 is starting to slowly move away from their current format to alternative rock. They need to have better jocks, though keep Ravenna and Rocco.
 
CleveFan said:
I wonder if 107.3 is starting to slowly move away from their current format to alternative rock. They need to have better jocks, though keep Ravenna and Rocco.
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V 107.3 might add in a bit more alternative rock (they did pick up "Inner Sanctum" after 92.3 flipped to sports), but I just don't see them going all alternative.

Now a classic/alt-rock mix, that's feasible. But all alt-rock is out of the question.
 
Talk radio is where most of today's true personalities reside. It's not like 40 years ago when there were personalities on most stations. Some great, some bad, many were OK/acceptable.

On music-intentsive stations in 2011....it's all about the music. That's why listeners are there...not for the jocks. According to surveys I've seen, listeners consider too much jock talk to be a big negative...an interruption of "my music".

Radio people & radio hobbyists care far more about "better disc jockeys" than average listeners these.....sad, but true.
 
AAA in Cleveland can do well. Need to stick to the plan. Numbers slowly getting better, especially for Ravenna.

Alt rock is dead. What was once alternative has been mainstream for years and now even being played on some Jurassic rock stations.
 
It would be beyond funny for me if 107.3 - which people didn't expect to live beyond half a year - managed to outlive BOTH "radio 92.3" AND WNCX.

That being said, their airstaff (Mike, Ravenna, Rocco and Brad) is pretty much locked in place.

All they need to do is sell the format to potential ad clients.
 
Well...WNCX has been on since '85. So 107-3 has a way to go yet. WMJI as full oldies (classic hits)
since '89. Trivia: Knuckleheads In The News a feature since '87. Will celebrate 25 years on the air in 2012.
 
Nathan Obral said:
It would be beyond funny for me if 107.3 - which people didn't expect to live beyond half a year - managed to outlive BOTH "radio 92.3" AND WNCX.

That being said, their airstaff (Mike, Ravenna, Rocco and Brad) is pretty much locked in place.

All they need to do is sell the format to potential ad clients.
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They seem to have added a few more alternative tracks in the past few weeks, but nothing overwhelming. Seems as though they are sticking to the plan. A shame that the DJs are locked in place, Rocco epsecially is just not very good IMO. Sounds like he is always trying to be sarcastic or something on the air. I suppose he is the boss over there so he can do what he wants.
 
SixOnTheFloor said:
Nathan Obral said:
It would be beyond funny for me if 107.3 - which people didn't expect to live beyond half a year - managed to outlive BOTH "radio 92.3" AND WNCX.

That being said, their airstaff (Mike, Ravenna, Rocco and Brad) is pretty much locked in place.

All they need to do is sell the format to potential ad clients.
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They seem to have added a few more alternative tracks in the past few weeks, but nothing overwhelming. Seems as though they are sticking to the plan. A shame that the DJs are locked in place, Rocco epsecially is just not very good IMO. Sounds like he is always trying to be sarcastic or something on the air. I suppose he is the boss over there so he can do what he wants.
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Rick "Rocco" Bennett is the program director over at V 107.3.
 
Rocco's best work was with Gonzo Radio on WMMS in the early 90s. He was told to tone down the metal/hard rock and eventually was replaced from there even though his ratings were through the roof at the time. Ever since Rocco has just not fit that well with alternative rock.
 
CleveRadioInsider said:
Rocco has just not fit that well with alternative rock.
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What is amazing is that after he got run out of WMMS ( where he was an engineer and on air talent ) he got a PD gig in a major market ( WENZ ) with no prior programming experience anywhere. Who was the GM who made that hire?
 
Capulet said:
CleveRadioInsider said:
Rocco has just not fit that well with alternative rock.
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What is amazing is that after he got run out of WMMS ( where he was an engineer and on air talent ) he got a PD gig in a major market ( WENZ ) with no prior programming experience anywhere. Who was the GM who made that hire?
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If I'm not mistaken, Rocco got the PD slot at WENZ after Bob Neumann left said slot at WNCX/WENZ to take similar duties at WMMS. In 1996 or so. That's when Bill Louis took like duties at WNCX.

Neumann took over for Sean "Bull" Robertson, who lost those duties after WENZ went into a lease by Metroplex (which would be absorbed into Clear Channel). Rocco was initially at WNCX in an off-air role, then scooted over to WENZ with that LMA.

Rocco also took over, in a sense, the local music show vacated by "Inner Sanctum's" cancellation (Jim Benson has always held the rights to the show's name).
 
Was WNCX/WENZ owned by the same company? I thought WENZ was a CC station later spun to Radio One?

As Nathan stated Bob Neumann left WNCX for WMMS. And up until a few months ago was PD at HAC WRMF/West Palm Beach FL, where former WQAL and WMMS morning talent Danny Czekalinski did AM drive (and left due to well documented issues). Neumann came to Cleveland via Columbus. Also worked at DC101. Neumann had WMMS sounding like crap.

Neumann now with CBS Tampa WSJT (PLAY 98.7)

I know Dan Binder was PD at WENZ at some point. Binder now OM for Sunrise Broadcasting, Wilmington NC. Sunrise an owned subsidiary of Raleigh-based Capital Broadcasting.
 
VODood said:
Was WNCX/WENZ owned by the same company? I thought WENZ was a CC station later spun to Radio One?
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Indeed they were.

In the mid 90s, WERE (then at 1300), WNCX, and WENZ were all owned by Clear Channel and based at the Halle building.

CC then unloaded them when they swallowed up Jacor.

WERE and WENZ went to Radio One (who then ultimately bumped WERE down to 1490), and WNCX went to Infinity/CBS.

Radio One then moved all 4 of their stations down to St. Clair Ave, and CBS brought over 92.3 (I believe in the infancy of the WXTM "Xtreme 92-3" era) to keep NCX company at the Halle building.
 
WZJM/92.3 (still "92.3 The Beat") moved to the Halle in September 2000 after AMFM sold it to CBS, and sold prior clustermates WJMO and WZAK to Radio One.

For almost one year, WNCX was by itself in the Halle - WERE and WENZ were long gone. They left shortly after CC spun them off to Radio One, and 107.9 flipped to mainstream urban (I think they were at a former dentist's office).

Both WERE and WENZ moved to St. Clair in late 2000; I believe WENZ has been located in the former 92.3 studio all along.
 
I think this market could do with another Top40 or country. A good old fashioned format war. Hasn't been one for a long time. Of course WGAR not fairing well of late.
 
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