Bob Bids Adieu To Stacy Barton

[DToTheJ]

The Oklahoma City radio veteran is out at KQOB (96.9 Bob-FM). Phil Inzinga will now assume sole hosting duties of the station's morning show, which has seen a drop in ratings since last year:
http://newsok.com/short-takes/article/3505733

 

[OKCRadioGuy]

Sadly, this is the trend lately, and the reason that good people are exiting the industry, and radio consumption is going in the toilet. The head jerks at the very top of the food chain continue to steal their investors by padding their own perks and salaries and they cut back on the very people that are their face to the public, the consumer. The only way this industry will get better is for those type of groups to have to have a fire sale. Unfortunately, that's going to cost a lot of great people their jobs getting there. I sincerly hope Stacy will find a good next gig, either in radio or out. She deserves it.

 

[hello4]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters. Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic. Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other. Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

 

[ionosphere]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters. Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic. Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other. Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

4 classic rock stations? Bob, The Brew, KRXO...what's the 4th?

 

[Kent]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters. Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic. Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other. Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

I've heard rumors the Brew isn't long for the world. However, time will tell...

 

[hello4]

4 classic rock stations? Bob, The Brew, KRXO...what's the 4th?

Okay, overexaggeration, but the KATT does average 6 golds an hour, from the 70s 80s and up to mid-90s, so half their hours are at least 15 years or older.

 

[lurker34]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

 

[ionosphere]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

KOMA also plays the likes of The Supremes, Neil Diamond, and The Bee Gees...none of which I would consider to be "rock" in any context.

KOMA is a Classic Hits station (NOT Classic Rock), which a very broad and vague format that (to me) usually ends up in a channel change once a song from an unfavored genre hits the speakers.

 

[lurker34]

It's a matter of semantics. They're all basically oldies stations.

 

[oldmanradio]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

With all due respect, KOMA has never been classic rock.

Classic hits.

The Brew? Really?

Regards,
Tony

 

[ionosphere]

It's a matter of semantics. They're all basically oldies stations.

Lemme guess...you're no older than 26.

 

[oldmanradio]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

KOMA also plays the likes of The Supremes, Neil Diamond, and The Bee Gees...none of which I would consider to be "rock" in any context.

KOMA is a Classic Hits station (NOT Classic Rock), which a very broad and vague format that (to me) usually ends up in a channel change once a song from an unfavored genre hits the speakers.

Well, it beats listening to KLUV in Dallas with the same old ... same old ... hits all the time.

And more entertaining.

The limited playlist obviously draws ratings, although listeners complain about it.

When I started at WKY, in late 1974, we were playing a lot of album cuts. It was not Top 40.

We had to change.

Regards,
Tony

 

[lurker34]

So Simon & Garfunkle never got airplay on Classic Rock radio? I'd hardly call their music rock either.

 

[ionosphere]

So Simon & Garfunkle never got airplay on Classic Rock radio? I'd hardly call their music rock either.

I've never heard S&G on anything I would consider to be a true Classic Rock station. The catch to that is, I would consider some of Paul Simon's solo stuff to be Classic Rock.

 

[Fred Hendrickson]

KRXO played Simon & Garfunkel under consultant Fred Jacobs and program director Dan Balla in the '90s, when it was often at the top 25-54, and more recently on "Sunday Morning Overeasy," which is often one of its highest rated dayparts. When I started at KATT in '81, James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" was a power under consultant Jeff Pollack and program director Andy Lockridge (who would program Q102 in Dallas for over 15 years). True, something like that would not likely be played by most classic rockers today, but it always depends on the competitive situation. Like most leading AORs thru about the mid-'80s, Serius XM's superb wide-playlist classic rock channel, Deep Tracks, plays Simon & Garfunkel and the like quite frequently (but no Supremes!).

 

[lurker34]

It's a matter of semantics. They're all basically oldies stations.

Lemme guess...you're no older than 26.

Sweet! I wish. Actually I'm 47. I think you've helped prove my point. It's a matter of perspective. In order for a Classic Rock station to truly compete with the younger end of the 25-54 demo, they're going to have to think out of the box.

 

[ionosphere]

It's a matter of semantics. They're all basically oldies stations.

Lemme guess...you're no older than 26.

Sweet! I wish. Actually I'm 47. I think you've helped prove my point. It's a matter of perspective. In order for a Classic Rock station to truly compete with the younger end of the 25-54 demo, they're going to have to think out of the box.

And playing Simon & Garfunkle is thinking out of the box?

 

[lurker34]

Nope. Going the other direction. More appealing to 25-35 year olds.