AM now mostly music in NO/ BR

[smashedcd]

While scanning the dial today I noticed music on
640
690
750
830
940
1190
1230
1260
1280
1380
1400
1450
1460
1500
1540
1550
1570 (Amite)
1600


I didnt not realize there was that much music on AM now.

Talk on
600
870
990
1060
1150
1210

6 talk 18 music! WOW! How does this compare to other states? Some of these stations were on the fringe but come in clear on my CCrane radio in Livingston.

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Well of course. There are 4x as many stations on AM/FM as there are viable formats, including niche appetites. We need half of these AM stations to go dark before the FM collapse begins this year. How many AM religious/sports/inane talk (KOOOOOOOORY)/classic country stations are needed on AM? If these slug owners don't want to invest in aggressive local programming then let them go dark. After all, what were they thinking when they took over some AM? That the Swap Shop would pay the bills? AM can still make a mark and be profitable, I believe, but clueless owners depending on Dollar For A Holler deserve what they got themselves into. There are only so many simple-minded marks out there to be profitably drawn to the bullsh*t preacher flim-flams.

 

[ksw2844]

Can Latenight get an "amen?"
Yes.
AMEN!
Only caveat?
I do believe their are some niche's not filled.
True Mississippi Blues, Ragtime, Standards, and others... but i quibble over an outstanding observation.
88

 

[LateNiteSkip]

AMEN, KSW !

I agree with you 100%. I'm really surprised that no one yet has gone to the format you mentioned, standards. Standards would be a home run on AM or FM but, duh, what does our 31 year old consultant think?? Seems the clueless owners just want to follow each other and BAHHHH BAAAAAH like lost sheep.

Geez, they should turn off the lights if they don't want to get on the field and into the game.

 

[smashedcd]

Isnt 690 Standards? Or is it just old music ;D

 

[RFLA]

While scanning the dial today I noticed music on
640
690
750
830
940
1190
1230
1260
1280
1380
1400
1450
1460
1500
1540
1550
1570 (Amite)
1600


I didnt not realize there was that much music on AM now.

Talk on
600
870
990
1060
1150
1210

6 talk 18 music! WOW! How does this compare to other states? Some of these stations were on the fringe but come in clear on my CCrane radio in Livingston.

I thought it was reported WIST went standards.....

Most of those are religious stations that do a lot of praise and worship music and usually are owned by churches
That eliminates 600,750,940,1460 and a few others.

You are on the northshore which I find is like most places where people still air music on the Am band, I know here I can't catch country on AM at all

Here is a run down for me on the Bayou (Houma/Thibodaux)
640 - Oldies/Talk (he still does Moon)
690- reported standards
750- religious (daytime only)
800- religious music/talk
830 - spanish a/c
870- WWL talk
940- Black gospel
990- Talk
1010- religious talk last I listened
1060- religious talk
1150- WJBO talk
1230- Old school r&b
1260- R&B
1280 - Black Gospel (waste of a signal on what is already airing on 940 IMO)
1350- Sports
1380- Relay of spanish station
1430- Swamp pop from Morgan City
1450 - Radio Disney (through the noise)
1490 - ESPN Sports
1510 - Swamp pop from Buras
1540 - Spanish
1590 - Variety (talk, R and B, supposedly country but hadn't heard it in about 2 years)
1600 - Swamp pop relay of KLRZ 100.3

I would love more music variety on the AM band than this. Most stations that would run country in other parts of the nation are running the regional favorite swamp pop after Gisclair made the format work

RFLA

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Dunno if WIST is playing actually standards or just old music. I guess Buck figures just throw anything out there out of desperation and see who bites, because he probably figures that every now and then even a blind squirrel finds an acorn!

I haven't heard WIST yet playing music, but I tried yesterday afternoon and there, instead of music, was the horribly boring KOOOOOOOOOry, whom I cannot stand to even hear much less listen to. Block programming during the daytime will never work, but this is typical of Buck. Programming should be consistent at least from 6a-7p. I understand the music is like what The Music of Your Life was on WBYU-AM (or was it WWIW?). I enjoyed an occasional listen to them back then but their ratings never left the tank. Can you say "syndication" with no local identity??

It *could* work on 690 because of its strong legacy and identity, but the wise Mr, Buck would have to bring back the call letters and at least commit to music all during daytime hours with at least a live morning show (or voicetracked all day by someone well-known and identified with WTIX), and put the radio tit-on-a-bull KOOOOOOOOOry and his crap after 8 or 9 pm.

A good old music format on 690 could take out the too-slick Scott Shannon quickly and make available at least a total 4.0-5.0 for an old music format between TIX-FM and BUCK-690.

Buck is going to have to make up his mind on what he wants. Just my $0.02.

 

[smashedcd]

It says one thing on their website but is doing another . This music is just old. This is what Johnny Fever was playing on WKRP before flipping to Top 40 Rock.

http://wistradio.com/index.php

 

[LateNiteSkip]

I finally got listen this morning for a while to WIST and its music.

WHEW. What a stinker. Long-forgotten and totally unrecognizable titles. In other words - junk. Sounds like he's going after that desirable 70-89 demo.
If you thought 690 was bad before, it's indescribable crap now. Horrible!

Buck is obviously one of those AM owners who hasn't a clue and doesn't want to put out the money to get on the field and into the game. People like him should not be owners, and his station is a worthless waste of a frequency, even on AM. He and his station are an embarrassment to broadcasting. Next he'll be playing 78's that they find under boxes and couches and in closets that have been lying there under dust since 1948.

Either this is a rich person's "I've got money so I'll do what I want" or Buck is ready for the mental ward at a nursing home.

Give it up, Buck and get this drunken laughingstock station of yours off the air. Then take a long walk in the Quarter, get lost and never come back.

 

[Pigvomit]

So, it seems lateskippingnite takes to task the AM owners as people who don't know a thing about radio. Well, whereas that may be true in some cases, have you ever considered the fact that a lot of those small owners running those stations take on waaayyy more work than they would at many other jobs??? Have you ever done it? what makes you so qualified to pontificate about how bad they are? or, do you just think the corporate big boys have done such a wonderful, outstanding, and might I add UNIQUE job of making the 100KW FM's stand out! I mean, c'mon skiplate night the fm's in New Orleans just sound the best! Huh? You a real big fan?
And, lets talk about that dollar a hollar. You have COX cable in the overnights charging that. Seems like in this economy, that's all most people can afford. No granted, there is some truth in some of what you say, but it seems that with where radio is in 2009 if you want any semblence of what radio used to be like (and, why most people actually got into it) you have to go to the AM band and sniff around. Perfect? No. But, are AM stations as cross-country, homogenized & formatted as a lot of the bigger stations? no. Find me a consultant with a paycheck from AM and I'll show you a Saints team in the superbowl. Fact is, a lot of these AM owners LOSE money. But, they try and keep "creative" radio alive. After all, maybe you are right. Why even bother? They are fools.

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Pigvomit, I am a listener. I speak as a listener. I, like you, am a consumer of products being offered by companies. We all have first amendment rights to free speech about those products. In return people like you have right to rant in return if you don't agree with somebody's opinion.

I don't know what the owners know or don't know about the radio business, and I'm not aware of, and neither do I care how much work goes into the product a company offers, in this case the soundwaves that eminate from your speaker on a particular radio frequency. But I do know when a hamburger restaurant serves a hamburger that tastes like crap on a bun. Do you? Can you taste it? Would you patronize that business again? Oh, but before you decide whether or not you like your hamburger which tastes like crap, think how much work went into it by the company, the manager and the workers. Then eat it all out of respect to their hard work.

It's still crap. So this has nothing to do with the amount of work put into delivering a crap product to consumers. But hey, this is my opinion only. You can agree or disagree, though I really don't care.

 

[airczech87]

clueless owners depending on Dollar For A Holler deserve what they got themselves into

I hope you're not only talking preachers. It would be interesting to know how many hosts are paying for their own time. I know there are a few.

The problem is no format. Talk is perfectly fine. The problem is axing talented, creative people, and not allowing them to flourish. It helps to have people that can communicate, too. What a concept!

I worked in New Orleans before Katrina. I'm here to tell you, there are very few people who know what it actually takes to put on a good show. Prerecord and edit? No thanks! That's only good enough for such failures as Limbaugh, Hannity, Boortz, Savage, Medved, Levin, Scott Slade, and countless others who GET RADIO. The people I worked with there DIDN'T GET IT. It takes work, not just an ego.

True, you'll hear more music on AM, more talk on FM, and it's happening. Some things never change, they are always constant. No, not baseball, but hard work and personality. They are not mutually exclusive.

Thank God I got into the web when I did. I still make money from producing radio bits for the friends I met that are still in it, but everyday at a studio without a full-blown, professional team who knows you've got to work your doodads off? No thanks.

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Preachers? At least they pay for their slots while preying on the weak, the poor and the vulnerable, while still increasing the vile programming stench that, except for WWL, is now AM radio.

690 - bizarre and gonzo block programming with unidentifiable, unlistenable music, then comes KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORY during daylight hours.

I suggest a new theme song for the radio legend and genius Mr. Buck, the brains behind this innovative roller coaster from hell programming:

He's a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody!

 

[Pigvomit]

Pigvomit, I am a listener. I speak as a listener. I, like you, am a consumer of products being offered by companies. We all have first amendment rights to free speech about those products. In return people like you have right to rant in return if you don't agree with somebody's opinion.

I don't know what the owners know or don't know about the radio business, and I'm not aware of, and neither do I care how much work goes into the product a company offers, in this case the soundwaves that eminate from your speaker on a particular radio frequency. But I do know when a hamburger restaurant serves a hamburger that tastes like crap on a bun. Do you? Can you taste it? Would you patronize that business again? Oh, but before you decide whether or not you like your hamburger which tastes like crap, think how much work went into it by the company, the manager and the workers. Then eat it all out of respect to their hard work.

It's still crap. So this has nothing to do with the amount of work put into delivering a crap product to consumers. But hey, this is my opinion only. You can agree or disagree, though I really don't care.

uh, actually, I prefer a burger that is tasty. In the words of Jules from Pulp Fiction, "mmmmm...now that...is a tasty burger!"

 

[VAlley4337]

Gee LateNiteSkip - did you work for Buck and are bitter about something? Why all the personal attacks?

I've listened to the music on WIST and find it very nice. Personally, I don't find the music on WEZB/WQUE/etc. very "listenable" and certainly couldn't identify any of it. That why there are different formats. I also would not personally attack the programmers or owners of Q93 just because I think their "music" is offensive - they're making their money - that's the way the world goes.

Did you ever consider there are millions of people in the world who own radios *and* have no interest in pop music from the last 20-25 years?

Also, Mr. Buck is in his eighties and is not involved in the day-to-day operations of WIST.

Good luck, and take a chill pill...

 

[Pigvomit]

Gee LateNiteSkip - did you work for Buck and are bitter about something? Why all the personal attacks?

I've listened to the music on WIST and find it very nice. Personally, I don't find the music on WEZB/WQUE/etc. very "listenable" and certainly couldn't identify any of it. That why there are different formats. I also would not personally attack the programmers or owners of Q93 just because I think their "music" is offensive - they're making their money - that's the way the world goes.

Did you ever consider there are millions of people in the world who own radios *and* have no interest in pop music from the last 20-25 years?

Also, Mr. Buck is in his eighties and is not involved in the day-to-day operations of WIST.

Good luck, and take a chill pill...

Valley: I have to agree with you. In my post, I was simply trying to share thoughts about AM stations trying to be unique, kinda like radio used to be. Versus the bigger FM's that sound pretty much the same, from city to city. And, skipping at night jumped all over me and went into his problems with crappy burgers he gets. Between you & me, I think he's an angry elf!

 

[nolaradiobuff]

One of the major problems with WIST is and always will be, a lack of focus. Mr. Buck is not involved in the day-to-day operations. They have a corporate guy from Atlanta come in once a month or every other month. Dan Frazier, the GM, doesn't sell, doesn't know how to market or promote, and can't program. There is no Program Director to guide Eric, Kaare, or any of the weekenders who are paying for their time on air. The station has one salesperson in addition to Eric and Kaare (who combined produce about 60% of the station's revenue). Kaare's been there for 2 years and hasn't generated an audience. The station spent big dollars on Mancow, who didn't fit the station. They traded advertising with New Orleans Magazine (hence the Errol Laborde Show 3 times over the weekend) to promote Mancow when New Orleans Magazine's audience isn't Mancow's audience.

No direction. No promotion. No marketing or advertising. Those are some of the reasons that WIST is where it is: a poorly run, directionless, bleeding money, last place (except for WGSO) radio station.

While I applaud Local Ownership, it needs to be Active Local Ownership. Mr. Buck is a hermit who is not involved in the community. Dan Frazier may be a nice guy, and maybe things would have been different if the station had some kind of budget for marketing or promotion or talent development, but you can't run a station with one salesperson and PI ads. At the end of Eric's show yesterday and before Kaare came, they ran 10 minutes of ads (from 2:57 - 3:07). If they've dropped the news break at the top of the hour, why not put Kaare on then. Why make us sit through 10 minutes of bad ads?

 

[LateNiteSkip]

Good God, Valley, why is it that if one posts a negative personal opinion against a station's offerings, right away someone like you jumps on and accuses the poster of having worked for the person the comments are about? I have never worked for Buck. I don't even know Buck. As I stated before it was only my personal opinion of their switch. If you listen and find he music very nice, that's your opinion. Am I attacking you for your opinion? No.

Please specify what I said that brought on your comment that "Did you ever consider there are millions of people in the world who own radios *and* have no interest in pop music from the last 20-25 years?" If you're gonna attack my general opinion, show me where I alluded to that before you smear me with allegations.

Go put looser drawers on, dimwit and read the first amendment. You might learn something.

 

[LateNiteSkip]

And Valley, welcome to the board:

Name: VAlley4337
Posts: 3 (0.500 per day)
Position: rimember
Date Registered: January 01, 2009, 10:30:43 pm
Last Active: Today at 04:36:55 pm

New to the board or hiding behind a new 3 post name since January 1 ?

 

[smashedcd]

WIST owner is in his 80s. Wow I would have never guessed ;D Well actually I would with the 80 year old format! ;D