"Mark & Mo" were fired today by Cincinnati's WEBN. Columbus radio fans remember them from their tenure on 99.7 The Blitz as BLAMO..."Blazor and Mo in the Morning"....any chance of the returning to CBus?
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BLAMO aka "Mark & Mo" fired in Cincy...
- Thread starter redsfan1966
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I don't see them coming back to Columbus at this time. No real place for them.
the marv said:
D & J I would say are safe for now as long as current Clear Channel Management in CMH is in place... If you see a change at the top (Cinci had an Operations Manager change for multiple stations) then well I would say there would or could be some shake ups at WNCI..
However outside of D and J and Chris Davis .. WNCI is "automated" ..so they are already running the station pretty thin.. I know the other night when Licking County had that Tornado warning at 3am.. the EAS "played" the warning.. then it returned back to a song and then a voicetrack came on about some TMZ-type stuff... No mention of weather.. no local cut in was nothing but the hits...
the marv said:
Yep.. Both running the Premium Choice "log" [WNCI also runs the PC voice tracks overnight because they never mention "WNCI" very generic sounding TMZ type stuff usually].
Things are pretty cut and dry on all the channels.
WNCI: Live in mornings (syndicated with local breaks), and live in afternoons. Middays is Seacrest with local music, and nights is tracked out of state with local music. Overnights completely premium choice.
KISS: Mornings syndicated, middays Seacrest, afternoons live (all local music), nights and overnights completely premium choice.
Channel 999: Mornings syndicated, middays Seacrest, afternoons live (premium choice music log, STILL not locally programmed), nights and overnights completely premium choice.
Beats me why WDKF has a local PD in the building and STILL can't schedule his own music, but whatever.
WNCI: Live in mornings (syndicated with local breaks), and live in afternoons. Middays is Seacrest with local music, and nights is tracked out of state with local music. Overnights completely premium choice.
KISS: Mornings syndicated, middays Seacrest, afternoons live (all local music), nights and overnights completely premium choice.
Channel 999: Mornings syndicated, middays Seacrest, afternoons live (premium choice music log, STILL not locally programmed), nights and overnights completely premium choice.
Beats me why WDKF has a local PD in the building and STILL can't schedule his own music, but whatever.
I had a gut feeling when BLAMO left the locally-owned NABCO for the corporate world of CC, they wouldn't last long no matter how good their ratings were. They should've thought twice about leaving 'RKZ.
Dave & Jimmy are syndicated to a few stations, and their ratings I'm assuming are good, so I doubt CC would axe them, but then again, I've been proven wrong before.
As far as the CHR PC logs go, it's sad. It doesn't make any sense why the Dayton PD of WDKF, Steven Lewis, was brought aboard and can't locally program the station and is instead told to run PC, or so I assume. Sounds like corporate has his hands tied. What makes no sense was when WNCI dumped their successful previous PD and brought back Michael McCoy when 'NCI's ratings were up under the previous PD. Unreal. Then again, CC's numbers were heading up in Cincy too and they dumped the PD at 'EBN as well.
Dave & Jimmy are syndicated to a few stations, and their ratings I'm assuming are good, so I doubt CC would axe them, but then again, I've been proven wrong before.
As far as the CHR PC logs go, it's sad. It doesn't make any sense why the Dayton PD of WDKF, Steven Lewis, was brought aboard and can't locally program the station and is instead told to run PC, or so I assume. Sounds like corporate has his hands tied. What makes no sense was when WNCI dumped their successful previous PD and brought back Michael McCoy when 'NCI's ratings were up under the previous PD. Unreal. Then again, CC's numbers were heading up in Cincy too and they dumped the PD at 'EBN as well.
alans613 said:
The PD only maintains the talent and on air presentation in most cases... They typically don't have much say in Music.. that would be the MD's job (Music Director). I am guessing why you see local PD's in these cases is they are there to interface with the talent (local or PC).
xmusicmatt said:
Not sure where you get that information, but it's simply not true. In fact, *most* Music Directors have very little say in what music gets played, and in fact, are glorified secretaries for the Program Director. They design the clocks. They pick the music. They make the rules. *If* the station even has an MD anymore, most likely they shuffle the deck to the PD's approval. Little more.
I'm really sorry to hear this. I've known Mark for more than 20 years...I was really rooting for him. He has talent, energy and a good
mind. He'll land on his feet.
mind. He'll land on his feet.
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I think most of all Clear Channel Music Stations are on PC at night. Q95 in Indianapolis never has Q95 mentioned on air when the Tracks are onxmusicmatt said:
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