All the brains and talent on this board....

[dbaker910]

noone could have pegged the MIX 1067 flip. Everyone thought it was going to be "Jack". Congrats to Citadel for keeping it under their hat. Whether you like the music or not....it is certainly targeted towards one demo. I would hope that those of us that understand radio know this is key. This "all things to all people" "Wink" mentality is old and depressed. It will give River and Wink a run for it's money, especially in the upper demos. Good luck Citadel, you will need it.... BTW....they were all over the American Music Fest in Hburg this weekend. Good marketing presence....

 

[thinkingman]

Kudos indeed to Citadel for keeping a format switch quiet and for gearing their music toward one demo. Such concepts have baffled the radio world for so very long, and it's good to see that Citadel has such a keen grasp of the more arcane complexities of radio. We have much to learn from them. Don't be too quick to mark my words, but I hear that they'll be "grouping" their commercials into "sets" on the new station and working very hard to minimize "dead air." Revolutionary.

Clearly, if you're not with Citadel, you're simply a step behind.

 

[TheAmishTerp]

wow....yea, what brain surgery it is to run a radio station....hmmmm......what we are doing sucks and gets no ratings......what should we do? lets change format a bit..yea, you guys are right..what geniuses these people are..nobody ever could have thought of doing that...and as for keeping it under their hat..again, who cares...you act as if this will send that station to number 1 in the ratings....

it kills me how people like you guys think making a decision to "flip" is so earth shattering and worthy of so much praise...what a joke

 

[DickHempstaed]

> wow....yea, what brain surgery it is to run a radio
> station....hmmmm......what we are doing sucks and gets no
> ratings......what should we do? lets change format a
> bit..yea, you guys are right..what geniuses these people
> are..nobody ever could have thought of doing that...and as
> for keeping it under their hat..again, who cares...you act
> as if this will send that station to number 1 in the
> ratings....
>
> it kills me how people like you guys think making a decision
> to "flip" is so earth shattering and worthy of so much
> praise...what a joke
>

Thanks to Lew Dickey for the first two posts in this string. Yes, the managment team locally and the national gurus at Citadel are amazing! Gosh, who are you kidding?

While the music list is good, the station in freaking boring. A voice-guy and good music list does not a station make. What reason does a listener have to leave WARM or the Rose? Just because a new AC signs-on, folks are supposed to tune out because the station that they've liked for years now suddenly sucks? COOL POP was a good concept, only NOBODY cared. The same will likely happen with this move. In terms of Harrisburg, what many radio folk forget is that for quite a few years WTPA was #1 12+ with a 12-share at 104.1. There was no top-40 in Harrisburg. Sunny 99 was doing AC, as was WKBO at that time. Q106 only ever did so-so. AOR was THE contemporary station in the area. Do the timeline. AOR classics are the oldies for this age group. That is why WRVV appeals to both men and WOMEN. And why it will not be hurt by MIX. COOL POP was supposed to de-rail WNNK. That did not happen either, did it?

Bottm line is: signing on any new station is not easy. The cemetaries are filled with PDs and GMs who thought that they were the ones who could do it better. Good luck to Citadel. They need it.<P ID="signature">______________
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[thinkingman]

> > wow....yea, what brain surgery it is to run a radio
> > station....hmmmm......what we are doing sucks and gets no
> > ratings......what should we do? lets change format a
> > bit..yea, you guys are right..what geniuses these people
> > are..nobody ever could have thought of doing that...and as
>
> > for keeping it under their hat..again, who cares...you act
>
> > as if this will send that station to number 1 in the
> > ratings....
> >
> > it kills me how people like you guys think making a
> decision
> > to "flip" is so earth shattering and worthy of so much
> > praise...what a joke
> >
>
> Thanks to Lew Dickey for the first two posts in this string.
> Yes, the managment team locally and the national gurus at
> Citadel are amazing! Gosh, who are you kidding?
>
> While the music list is good, the station in freaking
> boring. A voice-guy and good music list does not a station
> make. What reason does a listener have to leave WARM or the
> Rose? Just because a new AC signs-on, folks are supposed to
> tune out because the station that they've liked for years
> now suddenly sucks? COOL POP was a good concept, only NOBODY
> cared. The same will likely happen with this move. In terms
> of Harrisburg, what many radio folk forget is that for quite
> a few years WTPA was #1 12+ with a 12-share at 104.1. There
> was no top-40 in Harrisburg. Sunny 99 was doing AC, as was
> WKBO at that time. Q106 only ever did so-so. AOR was THE
> contemporary station in the area. Do the timeline. AOR
> classics are the oldies for this age group. That is why WRVV
> appeals to both men and WOMEN. And why it will not be hurt
> by MIX. COOL POP was supposed to de-rail WNNK. That did not
> happen either, did it?
>
> Bottm line is: signing on any new station is not easy. The
> cemetaries are filled with PDs and GMs who thought that they
> were the ones who could do it better. Good luck to Citadel.
> They need it.
>

Clearly, you didn't read the second post in this string very closely, or all the way through, because in no way is it complimentary of Citadel, nor was it written by anybody named "Lew Dickie."

 

[SamBuca]

> Clearly, you didn't read the second post in this string very
> closely, or all the way through, because in no way is it
> complimentary of Citadel, nor was it written by anybody
> named "Lew Dickie."

Tell Lew I LOOOOOVE what he did to the Harrisburg cluster.

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