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Anybody hear this Star 99.9 news?

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RadioMan203

I had recently heard that longtime new voice Rich Morgal was let go as part of more cost cutting for Cox radio. Since I don't listen to Star with any sort of regularity I don't have any first hand knowledge of this, but it did sound plausible.

It wouldn't surprise me as Star started to crumble when they let John Harper got and it would only seem the trainwreck is getting ready to ignite into a ball of flames. What's next? Voicetracking morning and afternoon drive?
 
Hate to sound ultra-cynical, but who cares about live/voicetracked except radio people and (generally) older radio enthusiasts? Radio is losing market share to the iPod, which has no human voices at all, and, to a far lesser extent, satellite radio, whose music channels run voicetracked or jockless more than 75 percent of the time. Read the sat-radio discussion boards and you'll find the younger demos ranting about "idiot disc jerkeys" and how Sirius XM "should fire all of them and just play the damn music," so the argument could be made that satellite radio could gain even more traction by becoming more like a super-sized iPod and even less like the kind of radio so fondly remembered on this board.

How is old-fashioned personality radio, with maybe a dozen songs an hour and lots of talk and information, supposed to bring these people back from their iPod utopia of back-to-back songs they are guaranteed to love (because they put them on those iPods themselves) with no interruptions?
 
CTListener said:
Hate to sound ultra-cynical, but who cares about live/voicetracked except radio people and (generally) older radio enthusiasts? Radio is losing market share to the iPod, which has no human voices at all, and, to a far lesser extent, satellite radio, whose music channels run voicetracked or jockless more than 75 percent of the time. Read the sat-radio discussion boards and you'll find the younger demos ranting about "idiot disc jerkeys" and how Sirius XM "should fire all of them and just play the damn music," so the argument could be made that satellite radio could gain even more traction by becoming more like a super-sized iPod and even less like the kind of radio so fondly remembered on this board.

How is old-fashioned personality radio, with maybe a dozen songs an hour and lots of talk and information, supposed to bring these people back from their iPod utopia of back-to-back songs they are guaranteed to love (because they put them on those iPods themselves) with no interruptions?


ok, you hate radio, so, listen to your I-Pod the next time a tornado is comming to town, or when there is a national emergency. the name of this site is "Radio-Info", find an I-Pod web site and "Veg"
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Rich Morgal deserved better, he was loyal to WEZN for almost 29 years. Another example of the Cox regional VP KG showing her testicles and the new PD showing he has none.
 
But did this actually happen? I heard this and still don't know if it was speculation or fact. Rich's name is still up on the Star web site so I didn't know if this had actually happened.
 
cspotrun said:
ok, you hate radio, so, listen to your I-Pod the next time a tornado is comming to town, or when there is a national emergency. the name of this site is "Radio-Info", find an I-Pod web site and "Veg"
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I'm a big radio fan. I posted what I perceive as reality, as painful as it may be to me, not as an advocate of radio's downfall. Your points about tornadoes and national emergencies are well taken, but show me how that's supposed to pry your average twenty-something away from his/her iPod stuffed with favorite songs and back to radio with its talk, commercials and, occasionally, songs that suck.

I don't think anyone, even an iPod addict, would argue your point about radio's superiority over the iPod in an emergency. Just about everyone has a radio, even if they don't use it much, so I'm sure that John Q. Ipod would stop listening to the latest glorified ringtones by some moonlighting street thug to find out what that mushroom cloud on the horizon means. The problem is, he's not listening to radio at any other time, and once the immediate threat has passed, he'll return to "vegging" with his iPod. How can radio compete for the ears of the modern popular music fan if that fan has no desire to hear a single song he doesn't already like, or any talk or advertising between the songs, no matter how informative or entertaining it may be?
 
It sounds like "tripple threat" knows an awful lot about what goes on inside Cox radio. Between this thread and the specific posts about the number of songs in the PLR music library, he/she seems to have the inside track.

Hey Tripple, care to reveal yourself?
 
triple threat said:
Rich Morgal deserved better, he was loyal to WEZN for almost 29 years. Another example of the Cox regional VP KG showing her testicles and the new PD showing he has none.
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Morgal goes back to when Dick Ferguson was VP. Probably back before New City Communications owned them. This station's format needs to blown to bits. They have no direction at all. Maybe they will change format to jazz?
 
>Star started to crumble when they let John Harper go.

Bingo. Except to sample the station a few times, I haven't listened to Star in the morning since they got rid of Harper. He was excellent in the morning and the station has floundered since.
 
Bill1820 said:
>Star started to crumble when they let John Harper go.

Bingo. Except to sample the station a few times, I haven't listened to Star in the morning since they got rid of Harper. He was excellent in the morning and the station has floundered since.
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You're right! Since Harper has been gone the station has changed morning shows a couple of times. Harper was a good host. But Cox had to go mess with it. Are they voice tracking middays??? To let go Rich Morgal was criminal. All those years of service and it's exit stage right! Do not pass go and do not collect $200.

I can't imagine EZN continuing with the current format much longer.
 
I don't understand why you think they wouldn't continue with AC? I'm under the impression they do pretty well in their little corner of the world.

And how long has Harper been gone? Boy oh boy, let it go.
 
SoNo said:
I don't understand why you think they wouldn't continue with AC? I'm under the impression they do pretty well in their little corner of the world.

And how long has Harper been gone? Boy oh boy, let it go.
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You actually believe 99.9 is a well programmed station???? Then you must like a format with no direction. ;D
 
Well it's true Morgal is gone. This morning they were simulcasting the news with Ian Gordon from 96.7 The Coast and Morgal is officially gone from the site. As to Mid-Days, maybe someone else can share what is going on in that day-part?
 
They have someone in that slot now. I think her name is Liz K or Lisa K , I'm not sure if I heard correctly. I'm not familiar with her and not sure if she is permanent. I'm just guessing but they probably want to keep a female voice in that slot.
 
EZN has nobody listed on the web site for midday's? Must be rotating people. What was wrong with Samantha Stevens? She did a good job? Station management at Cox makes no sense?????????? :eek:
 
CTListener said:
cspotrun said:
ok, you hate radio, so, listen to your I-Pod the next time a tornado is comming to town, or when there is a national emergency. the name of this site is "Radio-Info", find an I-Pod web site and "Veg"
Click to expand...

I'm a big radio fan. I posted what I perceive as reality, as painful as it may be to me, not as an advocate of radio's downfall. Your points about tornadoes and national emergencies are well taken, but show me how that's supposed to pry your average twenty-something away from his/her iPod stuffed with favorite songs and back to radio with its talk, commercials and, occasionally, songs that suck.

I don't think anyone, even an iPod addict, would argue your point about radio's superiority over the iPod in an emergency. Just about everyone has a radio, even if they don't use it much, so I'm sure that John Q. Ipod would stop listening to the latest glorified ringtones by some moonlighting street thug to find out what that mushroom cloud on the horizon means. The problem is, he's not listening to radio at any other time, and once the immediate threat has passed, he'll return to "vegging" with his iPod. How can radio compete for the ears of the modern popular music fan if that fan has no desire to hear a single song he doesn't already like, or any talk or advertising between the songs, no matter how informative or entertaining it may be?
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and for your average 20 year old, ya, you're probably correct- but as long as radio is "commercial" there will be commercial matter on a radio station- i thought the "Jack" format without "DJ'S, & contests and hype was supposed to be the answer for these people... the only answer "Jack" has been was for "operators" to run radio on the "CHEAP".
and quite frankly, there has never been a radio station that played every song I LIKED- YOU either! so, radio will never make the "perfect" station for 20 year olds. if they're looking for that- my advice stick to your I-Pods. OR listen to an "Entertaining" radio station and be patient, your favorite song is comming up next. the "trick" is to hold em' for that... and the art of "Entertaining" listeners on the radio has been lost. the people who did THAT were layed off last week and chances are they're not comming back.
 
JACK-FM should have been JACK-OFF radio. That was another idea by a moron consultant trying to carve his nitch in the radio format world. The most totally moronic format to ever hit the airwaves debuted on DRC-Am back in the mid 90's called 'The Best of Everything". This masterpiece of a cluster screw program format was developed by Bob Bruno of Buckley Radio in New York City. So you could listen to a long nauseating song set like Borderline/Madonna, Monday, Monday/Mama's & Papa's, Begin The Beguine/Artie Shaw, Rocky Mtn. High/John Denver and lastly but not leastly The Flame/Cheap Trick. Whatever you want to call that broadcasting monstrosity lasted a very, very short time.

That is the definition of a song set abortion! ::) ::) ::) ::)
 
I agree somewhat with what you are saying. But what most people have to realize is that there are and were a lot of jocks out there who started out with no experience and became legendary jocks. So don't blame the Pd's for hiring people with no experience because that is not the problem. The problem is that the jocks are not allowed to be creative.

If you remember the Stoneman from the great days of PLR, he had zero experience until one day the on air jock quit, walked out of the studio and told the stoneman who was a salesman at the time he better get up to the studio or the station will go off the air The rest is history. So don't go after the people with no experience who are given a chance. Go after the corporate morons who stifle the PD's and the on air talent.

Another great idea! Lets put together a focus group , play them 7 seconds of a song and ask them if they like it. This will determine if this is a great song or not. GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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