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BMP cluster goes ENGLISH!

radioeye said:
Well, he's still there. That had to be a part of his plan. Spanish language programming is gone. again that had to be a part of his plan. Do I think that he really knows what he's doing. No not really.
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Format changes are certainly not decided on by a local GM in a group operator situation. This decision had to do with issues higher up than the ones brought up by the local manager.
 
DavidEduardo said:
radioeye said:
Well, he's still there. That had to be a part of his plan. Spanish language programming is gone. again that had to be a part of his plan. Do I think that he really knows what he's doing. No not really.
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Format changes are certainly not decided on by a local GM in a group operator situation. This decision had to do with issues higher up than the ones brought up by the local manager.
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I agree that your probably right in most circumstances. But Austin and BMP don't really jive with most circumstances. The word on the street here in Austin is that Jerry made the calls. Perhaps with the blessings of Larry Patrick the trustee of the lenders.

The launch of The Big Talker 98.9 sounded pretty Mickey Mouse, no offense to Mickey, I don't know what that means other than perhaps it was all done in haste. I find it hard to accept that a rational radio operator does what BMP has done in Austin with competent leadership higher up.

If what you say is true, things could get even more interesting.
 
Station really does sound amateurish. You'd think they'd hire a major market PD or bring in a consultant with some skins on the wall in talk. They sure screwed up efforts at liberal talk a few years back. Austin doesn't need a third, third rate conservative talk station. Being on FM won't help much when the product sucks.
 
Oh boy. Wall Street Jounral, that's good. And "metherologist" sounds illegal.
 
ufrustrated2 said:
gabigley1 said:
As of this week, their web site is now up here: http://989bigtalker.com.
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Wow this page looks like it was done on Microsoft Word. I see they spend BIG TALKER bucks on it... :-\ They even said they are serious about making a splash in Austin radio. The artwork and typos definitely make a splash :D
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Streamed the station yesterday and they said on the air the site is in it's very early preliminary stages. The reason they put up so early
was to allow people to be able to audio stream the station and that's all it's really useful for at the moment.
 
And they are offering the CHANGE to win two tickets, not the CHANCE ha ha ha
 
mmnassour said:
Six months will this station last....then it's on to Spanish talk, some religious thing, or something else inconsequential.
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I liked it when it was 98.9 The Hill
 
So here's a question....assuming these people are serious about doing a talk radio station, why launch before you're ready? So far, this continues to be a waste of bandwidth, given the mess of a website.

I swung by it about 10:30 this morning. Whoever was on the air was tellng some off-mic producer to (paraphrasing here) "play some music like you'd hear on NPR, the stuff funded with taxpayer money that no one listens to!"

I've got news for that dweeb....there are a LOT more people listening to NPR in Austin than even know his station exists. :mad:
 
yeahIwasinradio said:
Isn't KUT the REAL number 1 station in Austin? They don't get rated because they are public station??
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They are rated, and appear in Maximiser each book. And, yes, they are #1 12+,
 
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