Another Pittsburgh rimshot?

[trefdawg]

Hey I've even heard "Shake Down Cruise" by Jay Ferguson on JPA :... and I'm sure 620 has it in their library! JPA the River in Steubenville and yep, KHB during music hours ...are my "go to" stations locally owned and doing it right!

 

[Biz Listener]

And...they blip in just about every Arbitron book. It's usually less than a 1 share, but so what? They sell by reputation, not the numbers. All it is is an added bonus that might help you pick up a few agency dollars along the way.

Is any of the content that you described done in such as way as to make the station sound "small town"? In my hypothetical example, if someone had just transferred to a new job at Southpointe and didn't know the geography and place names, would he think WJPA was the big city station, or would he think 3WS was?

 

[kenhawk1160]

Is any of the content that you described done in such as way as to make the station sound "small town"? In my hypothetical example, if someone had just transferred to a new job at Southpointe and didn't know the geography and place names, would he think WJPA was the big city station, or would he think 3WS was?

WJPA is a small-town station that sounds every bit as professional as any of the ones you'd find in Pittsburgh. In your example, the subject of whom you speak would likely find that 3WS is the big city station, simply because of the top-of-the-hour ID and lack of full-service content. But if he wanted to know more about the geography and other relative surroundings, he might turn on JPA and leave it there if Oldies are his taste.

The jocks are top-notch, on-air equipment failures don't exist, and the overall presentation is excellent. The jocks do their shows in real-time, and there's a chance that if you call the request line, the person on the air is the same one on the phone.

 

[corporateradiosucks]

Someone on this board said JPA hasn't progressed much past 1982.

That was me. I meant as far as what's in their playlist, not in how they run the station. And it was most definitely a compliment. :-*

In answer to BL's question, I think that nowadays "big city" doesn't always mean "most professional" anymore. This is not just true in radio, but in lots of things. (Macy's Department Store, I'm looking at you.)

 

[Biz Listener]

In your example, the subject of whom you speak would likely find that 3WS is the big city station, simply because of the top-of-the-hour ID and lack of full-service content.

Isn't that sad? The mark of a big city station isn't what they have, it's what they don't have.

 

[kenhawk1160]

Isn't that sad? The mark of a big city station isn't what they have, it's what they don't have.

That's the long and short of it, I think. Listeners need a reason to tune in, and having heard most of the Pittsburgh stations, I can't think of one offhand.

 

[Biz Listener]

Isn't that sad? The mark of a big city station isn't what they have, it's what they don't have.

That's the long and short of it, I think. Listeners need a reason to tune in, and having heard most of the Pittsburgh stations, I can't think of one offhand.

I can think of one (and only one) very good reason to tune in. They play music. Broadcast radio is a delivery system for music. Period. Nothing more, nothing less. It runs advertising to pay the bills. Beyond that, it's a no-cost alternative to an iPod or other recorded music device.

 

[Boss Radio]

User name changes, trolling rant stays the same....






Bring me a side order of sonic parsley.

 

[kenhawk1160]

User name changes, trolling rant stays the same....


Bring me a side order of sonic parsley.

I know...shades of the dearly departed 'radio realist', I think.

 

[kenhawk1160]

I can think of one (and only one) very good reason to tune in. They play music. Broadcast radio is a delivery system for music. Period. Nothing more, nothing less. It runs advertising to pay the bills. Beyond that, it's a no-cost alternative to an iPod or other recorded music device.

Rrrrrright...based on that argument, how do you explain talk radio, sports radio, or any other non-music format?

 

[Biz Listener]

I can think of one (and only one) very good reason to tune in. They play music. Broadcast radio is a delivery system for music. Period. Nothing more, nothing less. It runs advertising to pay the bills. Beyond that, it's a no-cost alternative to an iPod or other recorded music device.

Rrrrrright...based on that argument, how do you explain talk radio, sports radio, or any other non-music format?

I don't. I figured if you could use a little hyperbole ("Listeners need a reason to tune in, and having heard most of the Pittsburgh stations, I can't think of one offhand".) to make a point, I could too. I thought that maybe I should get all pedantic like I was some sportswriter who was bitter about never getting anywhere. I could have gotten on your case about your claim that you couldn't think of one single, solitary reason to listen to Pittsburgh radio. But I thought that would have been a rather churlish thing to do. I could have done a rude and crude rant about your claim that there wasn't one good reason to listen to Pittsburgh radio, but I thought I'd take the high road. I figured you were just exaggerating to make a point, and you really didn't mean to insult every single broadcaster in the entire city of Pittsburgh.

So instead, I decided to match overblown hyperbole with more overblown hyperbole, assuming the people who read it would get it. I was wrong. At least two people didn't get it. Right over your heads it went.

It's funny. You can make a statement that if taken on pure face value was a major insult to every broadcaster in Pittsburgh, but if I respond to say that people listen to the radio to hear the music (which is the overwhelmingly major content on what most stations broadcast), then I'm accused of being a troll.

 

[kenhawk1160]

I figured you were just exaggerating to make a point, and you really didn't mean to insult every single broadcaster in the entire city of Pittsburgh.

Exactly! Thank you for seeing through my facetiousness.

 

[Biz Listener]

I figured you were just exaggerating to make a point, and you really didn't mean to insult every single broadcaster in the entire city of Pittsburgh.

Exactly! Thank you for seeing through my facetiousness.

I wish you would have made the effort to see through mine. Or at least have given me the benefit of the doubt.