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Boston needs an Urban Contemporary station.

dumber than a box of hair said:
Fine. Present a business case for that "certain format." Convince us it will work from a *business* standpoint. (Not you specifically. That was for those people who think they have all the answers.)

WLYNgm is correct. All we ever see on this board is "Boston needs format (x)..." without any business justification whatsoever, and no recognition that if a format had a chance of succeeding *as a business,* an existing station would be all over it like a cheap suit. It all comes off like "everyone needs to hear MY favorite music." What we *really* need is a huge dose of "put up your money and your time and get it done...or stop whining."
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Your name says it all. And they wonder why radio is dying. STOP using the "new forms of technology is killing our medium," as the excuse to why radio stations are losing ad revenue. It's losing revenue because general managers and program directors are making the same mistakes that make radio stations fail to being with. When WFNX was sold and the rumor of Talk 1200 coming to 101.7 first came about, I rolled my eyes. Do people really need to hear another loud mouth conservative on FM talk? It wouldn't work and CC would flip it to Country in less than a year.

Posts on here bother you because you are failing at running your station. Not because LAUROJIM doesn't know he/she is talking about.
 
I don't know if cons talk on FM would fail or not but if CC can make a slight profit putting on FM
they would, and I don't know if there would be room in this here town for two stations playing "both kinds of music--country AND western", to use that line from the Blues Brothers, but hey if they
can take on WKLB and make it work, who knows.

Again even if people don't like loudmouth talk hosts, they make money--multiplied by stations nationwide, you get Rush making $59 million/yr.
It wouldn't necessarily be "another loudmouth". It would be the same station, only simulcast or
moved to FM.

But as always if someone wants to try something new and it can work more power to them.
The idea of a top 40 rock n roll station, or sports talk, etc. surely had people rolling their
eyes at the very idea. But can they make it work? Maybe! Who knows! It's a risk...but for now
they go for what they think will work.
 
"dumber" is but a handful of those who post on this board, who
actually has a clue the way things actually work in the real world.
Listen carefully - you might actually learn something!
 
It is far more valuable to have an opinion based on facts and experience, instead of always trying to get in the last word
on every thread. Quality of posts, not quantity, is what actually counts.
 
raccoonradio said:
I don't know if cons talk on FM would fail or not but if CC can make a slight profit putting on FM
they would, and I don't know if there would be room in this here town for two stations playing "both kinds of music--country AND western", to use that line from the Blues Brothers, but hey if they
can take on WKLB and make it work, who knows.

Again even if people don't like loudmouth talk hosts, they make money--multiplied by stations nationwide, you get Rush making $59 million/yr.
It wouldn't necessarily be "another loudmouth". It would be the same station, only simulcast or
moved to FM.



But as always if someone wants to try something new and it can work more power to them.
The idea of a top 40 rock n roll station, or sports talk, etc. surely had people rolling their
eyes at the very idea. But can they make it work? Maybe! Who knows! It's a risk...but for now
they go for what they think will work.
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And that's fair enough. If these stations can make money off of the same neo-con talk of any AM/FM talk station in America, then more power to them. But just because someone has experience, doesn't mean that their any more qualified to run a station, or pitch a format that they thinks will work. Experience...doesn't always mean better quality.

A ball player near the end of his career is traded to a team who will take him. He now hits .178 for which he used to average .302. He's a shadow of his former self, but at least he has experience.

Better analogy? Howard Stern. Radio has-been. Sirius pays him a shitload of money for a guy who used to be edgy. He runs on his reputation and not on his humor. THAT'S experience. Are you the "king of all media," now? Or, were you the "king of all media" fifteen years ago?
 
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