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All News 106.7 is Here…Finally [last song, audio, first impressions]

While i prefer the co-anchor approach i would never expect on overnights. We are lucky enough to actually have all news 24/7 because most of the recent "all news" startup do not stick with the format overnights or most weekend hours. Considering that live jocks in overnight are non existant for the most part the fact that 106.7 has a traffic person, newsreader and editor overnights they are doing good.
 
AN106.7 seems to be finding it's groove. gj567 commented on mornings, and normally, I am not out and about that early. I was this morning and when I turned on AN106.7, the voice I heard was Mike Huckabee being interviewed. After my initial shock of hearing him on *my* (yes, I have claimed the station as mine) news station, I realized it was an interview piece.

As far as the solo anchors go, Mark Woolsey seems to be great because he can make things conversational all by himself. I guess that comes from talking to himself all those years at the Weather Channel. :)
 
taylorengineer said:
Those "real time" billboards area great idea. Another (somewhat) innovative use of technology by Cumulus.
You may remember the "now playing" billboards a few years back - I think Fox97 had a few in Atlanta. It would tell you the song currently playing on air which I always thought was a great idea. After all.....that's why we push the radio buttons - to find out what's playing. It was fed by the stations RDS title/artist data stream.
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I was wondering earlier this week why AN106.7 doesn't use the RDS to display segment info . . . . . they have automated the stereo signal . . . seems it would be a small thing to update RDS with "Traffic / weather", "Local news", "ABC News" , etc. . as the segments change. That way, folks who are waiting for a segment (such as a traffic update or ABC news) can have the radio turned down/muted for other car conversations but know when to pick it back up. Not that my wife rides with me often. :p
 
Is this Josh Caray from Gwinett Braves broadcasts? I don't know.


By the way, Matt Dore (sp?) filled in for GT this morning in the traffic center.


Andy Rose and Michelle Wright continue to be great in the morning. Tey really have a good vibe together and their board operating is fantastic. They are a great start to my morning. As for middays, John Lisk and Cheryl Castro do well together. In afternoons, I think Melissa Carter and Kristen Charles sound very similar. I find that annoying.
 
All News 106.7 is now labeled as "Your Election Station". Ahead of today's GA primaries. They will air extended Election coverage, with help from Fox5, beginning tonight and 6pm and lasting until the different races are called. This is where AN106.7 can find their niche- Balanced Local and National Election Coverage. Whih you cant find on the radio on Atlanta.
 
gj567, you are right in this could be a good niche. We have not had wall-to-wall radio election night coverage in years. The TV stations will continue to air their prime time programming with scrolling. This will be an opportunity for AN106.7 to fill a whole that may not pay off this year, but will in the future.
 
I am curious as to what others thought of the AN106.7 election coverage. I thought it was just so-so.

Mark Woolsey was great, but he was alone. There should have been a second anchor for this special coverage. I think the election coverage should have been a little more long form, but Mark cannot do that if on the air alone. My expectations was an "all hands on deck" show and that is not how it came across on the air.

There were no special election night sounders to image the special coverage. It seemed like it was business as usual.

Some of the actualities sounded live but were actually recorded... what gives that away is when you hear it again in the next 30 minute block.

The format wheel should have been modified for this special coverage. Business news or sports could have been dropped to create more time for coverage. There is a break from :15 until about :23 every thirty minutes where there is no live news. Wall-to-wall coverage does not mean an eight minute break from the election coverage every 30 minutes. Of course, this change is only needed if the coverage is going to be more long form.

They missed carrying Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed live as he gave the T-SPLOST concession speech. WSB-TV carried it live. I am not sure about WSB Radio.

Things that went right:

If you absolutely must have an anchor on by himself, Mark Woolsey did a great job. The two on-staff anchors that really have the talent for carrying the show alone are Mark and David Hull.

The live remote coverage of T-SPLOST was balanced between pro and con.

There were frequent updates to races although they could have been organized a little better.

There was actually radio election coverage past the 4 minutes at the top and bottom of the hour.

There was lots of coverage election coverage during the day.

There were good promos promoting the special election night coverage along with mentions from the anchors.
 
I'm curious as well. Curious as to why evenings are not already anchored by two people. Here are my thoughts on the election coverage:

1. Ninette Sosa and Scott Kimbler did good jobs of covering the T-Splost failure.
2. Mark expanded the results of he announced- not just " 'em big four counties'".
3. There was no Jamie Dupree to speak of!
4. ABC added to the story by giving a national perspective, like the Tea Party victory in Texas.
5. Fred McFarlin gave a reference to the wiggles.

Like I said earlier, this is AN106.7's niche. They offer fair and balanced coverage of the elections, stuff you can't find anywhere else in Atlanta.

On Election Day in August: provide 6 anchors. 2 of them anchoring at all times, then 4 of them will cover the North, South, East and West portions of the metro in the newsroom. AN106.7 will deploy every reporter they got and send them to primary polling places around the Peach state. That is what will win listeners. Heck, even simulcast it across the Cumulus radio stations. And go ABC News at :00 & :30, not all the time.
 
So, I have stayed up late tonight to catch the overnight shift and MAria Boynton. She is one of my favorite anchors and is the perfect person for night time. She really seems to understand what she is doing, which is a good thing.
 
My clock radio, which was set to WYAY, started me waking up this morning, and I kinda went into the "twilight zone" - you know, that period between beginning to wake up and finally waking up, and I had this dream about being at a Buckwheat Zydeco concert. In the short dream, he started having a problem on stage - he couldn't get past the first 4 or 5 notes on a song he was trying to sing, the Cajun/Zydeco favorite, "Don't Mess with My Toot-Toot".

I finally woke up enough to realize my dream was being brought to me by the sounders on All News 106.7.

Now, most everybody here knows I have a pretty strange sense of humor sometimes, but this really happened. Check out the song HERE or HERE. Not exactly the same as the sounders, but close enough to spark a dream.


I'll never hear AN106.7 the same way again. :D
 
I too have had dreams in the mornings about stories that I have hear Michelle and Andy bringing me on my clock radio! :)

I listened to Pamela Furr's timeslot on Thursday afternoon, she was filling in for John and Cheryl, and she held onto the show quite nicely for one person. He time cues were right on, and she could actually work the boards (these weekenders make me wonder sometimes.....)! I look forward to hearing her with Mark Woolsey during evenings (COMING SOON!) She deserves a regular weekday spot and thats the perfect timeslot to do it in.

Josh Caray made his anchoring debut today, after being trained by Mark Woolesy on Friday night.
 
Pamela Furr does good radio. I don't think they will have an anchor duo in the evening. Listenership falls off a cliff after 7:00 PM.
 
I heard an additional voice imaged news sounder on AN106.7. They had breaking news yesterday and the announcer guy (who, in my opinion, really has the wrong voice for a serious news station) screamed BREAKING NEWS ON ALL NEWS 106.7 with a variant of the news sounder. Well, maybe the imaging voice did not scream, but he always sounds too loud and bold. Because he uses that same, too urgent voice for every segment, the breaking news just kind of blended into the background. It is sort of like Fox News or CNN running the breaking news banner for an hour or two... it becomes background and not noticed.
 
And for those that think I am always negative... the content has gotten so much better. Lots of live voices from the field. They are getting better and better at reacting to breaking news. The three sets of co-anchors seem to mesh together well. The morning show is doing some 3-4 minute live interviews each morning. There are fewer errors with the traffic folks.... I have not heard anybody report about the traffic at the intersection of Holcomb Bridge and I-285 in months. :p
 
Never thought I would ever utter these words, but......Cumulus has done a damn fine job with AN106.7.
Of course, anything I like seems to fail miserably.....
 
Mac Daddy said:
Who is the current voice over talent for AN106.7?
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The quarterly Cumulus earnings call mentioned a new in-house imaging service to support the stations. Maybe this is part of that new department.
 
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