Boycott - Buy Local

[spew]

Let us take back Nashville radio. Call sponsors and let them know you are boycotting advertisers on shows that do not have local talent. Let us begin with any morning show that has no Nashville talent.

 

[NHRadio]

Name one boycott that has any effect at all on local sponsors.

 

[Tibbs4]

So spew, is it okay to call and trash a "sponsor" because the spots on Bob and Tom, but not okay to call because the same ads on while Mac is on? Do you half call? Or a€€ call? What about like Mix and your buddy Delilah vs. The live parts. Do you call McDonald's and have half a conversation?Or better yet, what about the new radio station geared to geritols, Hippie, not third graders, that's like live with a real human in the morning and then voice tracked in the afternoon. Since it's kind of a new station and owned by a really nice guy who kinda ain't rich, but is just normal and trying, and is just getting started here, maybe we could call so much that it would ruin him financially so he couldnt move and live here with his whole family, but really show him he's wrong to need time to build it up financially to where he can maybe add more real people, even with a signal that's not as good as most, he wants to sound like radio used to. Maybe we should just call Pool and Spa Depot and run him off already, so one of those out of state corporations can take it for nothing? I am guessing you don't buy anything online, right? You don't eat at chains or shop at Walmart or Kroger, but always go to the little family run markets and restaurants. Be sure to boycott them, so they will go out of business, too. Or maybe, you could just listen to Cromwell, South Central, Tuned-In, Hippie and support those advertisers instead harassing them. As for listening to CC or Crums, well, I don't know what to tell you there. Just know that it must feel pretty powerful to know some of the folks that have or do work there post on here...and they'll love your idea since they probably would be hurt someway, somehow. But as long as it's a win for spew....

 

[PirateJohnny]

I would imagine most of the advertisers don't realize that the majority of the voices heard on the air in Nashville aren't in Nashville. I also imagine that they don't care.

 

[Journeyman]

I would imagine most of the advertisers don't realize that the majority of the voices heard on the air in Nashville aren't in Nashville. I also imagine that they don't care.

Barring some major change in he way corporations are run live and local is dead and it ain't coming back, friends.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

The world does not revolve around Nashville alone. So if all stations where owned by locals rather than CC and Cumulus, all programming would be local and live?

Some of you need to strap the car on your behind and take a road-trip. Don't stay on just the Interstate. Drive to Xenia, OH and back. Or maybe to Jasper, TX and back. Or if you like grits along the way, go to Brunswick, GA and back. Tune in every little mom-and-pop locally owned station along the way. See how many of these owner-occupied broadcast stations strung up and down the back roads are also broadcasting out-of-town voices that are pre-recorded. Take note of how many are something of an overgrown iPod with NO voices except for the dollar-a-holler commercials that the iPod accessory punches-in when the time is right.

I'm sure when Billy-Bob makes enough money from his overgrown iPod down in Winder, GA that he can buy his own station in Nashville, we will all be drinking Mint Juleps and eating home-baked Rainbow Pie from his Nashville station. ;D

 

[PirateJohnny]

Spew is obviously concerned about his home-town, Nashville. Substitute your current town and the message would still be the same. Spew wants to hear local air talent who know the area and can relate to local listeners. Nashville examples: How do you pronounce Demonbreun Street? Where does Old Hickory Boulevard cross the interstate?

It would be interesting to pop into some local stores who advertise locally and ask them if they knew that <DJ name here> was actually in another state and pre-recorded their show an hour before they went on the air.

 

[firepoint525]

Stores who advertise locally? Most commercials that I hear on the air (save for Hippie Radio, of course) are those that end with a 1-800 number repeated at least three times.

The "dollar a hollers" may be the only ones with local programming, because they sell airtime to local preachers, who then encourage their own congregations to listen.

 

[olebud]

Tibb....I can't believe you took so much time to preach to Spew......Spew....Tibbs are you having a shortage of Scott outbreak?
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Nashville examples: How do you pronounce Demonbreun Street? Where does Old Hickory Boulevard cross the interstate?

I CAN correctly pronounce 'mum mum street' but am I not correct in OHB does cross the interstate(s) in a number of places?
I'm not gonna say for sure...because going to Nashville from Gallatin a couple of weeks ago, I exited I65 at Trinity Lane, and visited Brick Church Pike, Joelton, Fountenaw (sp) and an hours worth of Nashville before I made it to Music Row. Darn interstates have cut off all the old ways I knew. But for a guy who's been driving in Nashville since 1957, I didn't do worth a darn finding my way around. By the way, how do you pronounce Buena Vista. And if you put the Spanish accent to it like some of our local anchors, weather people and traffic folks do..........WRONG

 

[PirateJohnny]

Buddy! OHB crosses all three interstates twice for a total of SIX OHB interchanges.

You should have taken 65S to 40E to..... Demonbruen West, circle the roundabout for a few laps, until you've seen all the statues, then leave the roundabout on Music Row.

LaFayette? I've heard Buena Vista pronounced two ways - not sure which is correct. I've been saying BWAY-na-VIS-tah. So BYOU-na-VIS-tah is correct? That's nice to know.

 

[olebud]

John, knew the I-65 way...but got off because it was the first weekend they were blocking I-24 and got off...only to see traffic was flowing on 65 -- as I passed the entrance to get back on Trinity Lane entrance. Try that sometime when you've got time. And as my wife reminds me...I am the worst person in the world to take directionsw.

So BYOU-na-VIS-tah is correct?

Yep .... reguardless of how you hear it.

 

[Tibbs4]

Thought it was BUH-weigh-know-vi(u)ss-tuh Pi-yuck, Maun.

Agree with your post on not wasting your time responding to Spew, Buddy. My fault. Krystals on me to make up for my tirade transgression? I do miss Scott. You ever hear from him?

 

[Tibbs4]

I would imagine most of the advertisers don't realize that the majority of the voices heard on the air in Nashville aren't in Nashville. I also imagine that they don't care.

Barring some major change in he way corporations are run live and local is dead and it ain't coming back, friends.

Journey --- funny you'd mention that live and local ain't coming back when the longest running top rated station just ADDED a LIVE AND AT THE STUDIO THOSE HOURS LOCAL AIR PERSONALITY less than 24 HOURS ago, after 14.5 years of running the canned Delilah show that almost every poster on here rallied against (because we guys ain't supposed to listen) and yet hardly anyone on this board has even said anything about it. Maybe this is a first shot in the future of realizing that VT and national syn-sin is really HURTING potential ratings and profits more than it is saving. Cheap radio = bad radio = underperforming industry = washed up in a decade. uh-oh.... To be honest, MIX has always been yanked on here for never making any changes, but now they have and Kronic actually had the thought that Premiere dropped MIX??? Not a chance. Delilah has been tanking for a few years in many markets. Why would they drop what was, until the ratings at night, pretty much tanked the top rated station?

 

[PirateJohnny]

Trinity to Buena Vista to Clarksville Highway. Left on Clarksville Highway, left on Rosa Parks to 65 South or all the way to James Robertson. Right on James Robertson to 8th to Demonbreun. Right on Demonbreun. You went out of town the route I take home from Metro Center to Springfield.

Nice accent, Tibbs.

 

[PirateJohnny]

Barring some major change in he way corporations are run live and local is dead and it ain't coming back, friends.

Not until radio gives listeners something their iPod doesn't and listeners prefer radio because of that.

 

[TheBigA]

Spew wants to hear local air talent who know the area and can relate to local listeners. Nashville examples: How do you pronounce Demonbreun Street? Where does Old Hickory Boulevard cross the interstate?

Why would some DJ in a music show give a street name? That's what advertisers do. They want you to come to their store. Get the advertiser to host the show. Then he can give street names all day long. Who needs a DJ? The listeners want to know how to meet the stars. They don't care about relating to some DJ. That's creepy. Shut up and play the music.

Advertisers buy numbers, not shows. All they want to know is what's the CPM. Nothing else. Period. Advertisers are the reason why radio sounds the way it does. Sit in a meeting with them someday.

 

[olebud]

Big A says

Why would some DJ in a music show give a street name? That's what advertisers do. They want you to come to their store. Get the advertiser to host the show. Then he can give street names all day long. Who needs a DJ? The listeners want to know how to meet the stars. They don't care about relating to some DJ. That's creepy.

Dear A....once upon a time...long long ago, stations had news departments which would give you info on where a wreck was, where a storm hit...and which part of OLB you needed to avoid. A local joc who could pronounce them the correct (local) way had believeability with listeners. Advertisers now have spots done out of town and that why you hear Leb-ah-NON as the location of car lots and what have you. Also, we gave the joc the info who would also know how to get it right. And when was the last time a joc here..or somewhere else told us how to meet a star. I can go to the local Kroger and church and see them.

Shut up and play the music.

Was Gerry House already gone when you got here?

 

[Tibbs4]

Funny, I've never remembered meeting anyone with your mindset in any meeting, Big A. And if I did, I'd run or fire you for the constant lack of bringing anything relevantly refreshing to radio. I am sure you are probably the life of the party or a model employee for some corporate entity that sells the thrift at all expenses handbooks for a quarter in gas station rest room. If I am doing certain promos, I may desire to live on the edge and even prefer or want the local air personality to put his stamp of approval on my business or ch, ch, charity event. He or she may give the address and maybe even do....ah....a remote. Wait, are you selling ads on Pandora and this is a conspiracy to diminish and destroy radio one post at a time? I haven't seen an amateur board for any other media that has ever spoken passionately about that genre of equipment like people do about radio on here. I wonder why.

 

[Tibbs4]

And I am Leba-done Buddy.

 

[firepoint525]

Buddy! OHB crosses all three interstates twice for a total of SIX OHB interchanges.

Correct. But the one down there near the old Starwood is probably the most confusing. Because if you want to go from Antioch (in the Hickory Hollow area) to Brentwood, you would really need to exit I-24 at Bell Road. I could probably get from Antioch to Brentwood via the OHB exit near Starwood, but I am not sure that I could explain it here! ;D

I've heard Buena Vista pronounced two ways - not sure which is correct. I've been saying BWAY-na-VIS-tah. So BYOU-na-VIS-tah is correct? That's nice to know.

I've heard that, too. Ditto for the small Buena Vista community down in west Tennessee. However, with the influx of hispanics here, that is all bound to change soon! ;D