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Bubba Comes To Dayton

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One Who Knows

Just announced on the 953, the Eagle website:

Bubba The Love Sponge starts Monday morning at 6.

Also heard on the station:

Music like "Turn Me Loose" by Loverboy and "Dance The Night Away" by Van Halen.

Guess since their owners have apparently decided not to sell 95.7, now there's a move to put some effort into a 95.3 upgrade.

Hey...you guys think Dayton can handle BTLS?
 
I think the question is more like... can Xenia handle BTLS? This station does not cover Dayton very well at all.
 
The problem with the 95.3 upgrade is that it's contingent upon the 95.7 upgrade. If WHIO doesn't move to Sharonville, 95.3 doesn't get its improvement.

Cox needs to help those LPFMs get new frequencies. Maybe that will be easier when the interference rules are eased.
 
BUBBA ARMY!! Mother's, lock up your daughters and don't listen this with the kids in the car on the way to school! The s**t's gonna hit the fan and STOP calling me on the phone you MotherF**ker!
 
A quick clarification on my part here:

Bubba, though not a Cox employee, is carried on several Cox stations as of this time. So, I wouldn't be so surprised. Maybe it's different for Dayton, I understand, but...times do change, you know...
 
I was aware of the Cox connection, but somehow just seemed a little out of place. I'd never heard him before, certainly heard about him, but I will say the little bit I heard wasn't bad. I'll give another listen or two.
 
That is soooo un-Cox!

As if Rush's rants and 95.7 in Piqua going mono for an AM/FM simulcast wasn't bad enough.

Let Sharonville have its LPFM (The ultra right wing Limburgher weasel is already on 'KRC!)
 
kirkiefan said:
That is soooo un-Cox!

As if Rush's rants and 95.7 in Piqua going mono for an AM/FM simulcast wasn't bad enough.

Let Sharonville have its LPFM (The ultra right wing Limburgher weasel is already on 'KRC!)
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Ah, Kirkie Fan...

Perhaps it's a switch for Cox in Dayton, but not for Cox in general - Bubba is on 6 or 7 of their stations now, and pretty much all are doing quite well. (One station reportedly went from a 1 to a 7 share almost overnight.)

WHIO's decision to move talk to simulcast on FM has made a radical improvement to the station's ratings. Right now, it's seeing the kinds of numbers not seen since the Lou Emm days. And no one (other than you) has noticed it's in mono. At least, as I understand it, the station has had zero complaints about not being in stereo. The talk audience couldn't care less. Which might give you an idea of why it was done. The move gave WHIO far more coverage to the north than that puny 5 KW AM signal could muster, and put a city grade signal into Springfield (a real necessity to get big numbers on any station these days). It also helped lower WHIO's demos, which were starting to approach geriatric prior to the move.

I can appreciate you're not a Limbaugh fan...but he had around a 15 share 25-54 in the latest trend. Don't know if that will continue, but if it does...Rush can only thank the man in the White House for all the attention he's attracting to EIB.

As for Eagle, it might have been done earlier. But now that it appears as though 95.7 ain't goin' nowhere, the decision to move more into the 80's, and making the change seems logical, if you consider the changes in the Dayton radio market landscape in the past year or so.
 
During the aftermath of the windstorm, thank God for that FM signal. When 1290 gets interference as close as Xenia, it was a great move
 
gr8oldies said:
During the aftermath of the windstorm, thank God for that FM signal. When 1290 gets interference as close as Xenia, it was a great move
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You are correct about the Xenia interference...it's being, so I'm told, allegedly caused by a station to the East which reportedly refuses to either power down or calibrate its directional array at night. Some operators do this thinking they can plead poverty to the FCC (we don't have the money to fix it, so we'll just leave it on). Some do it thinking they can't get caught. As for me, I'd like to see all operations of this type shut down...and the frequency vacated to reduce interference. (I know - I'm being harsh and hateful here...but I think the only way to save AM if that can even be done, is to reduce the interference on the band...and if that means closing down radio service in towns that can't or won't support a station, so be it. Last time I looked at the Constitution, there was no "right" for any community to have a radio station.)
 
Did anyone hear Bubba talk about the angry Eagle listeners. Read TONS of comments and took callers who were either happy or upset about Bubba coming this way. Put Dayton/Xenia on the map ;D
 
With Bubba now on 95.3 in the morning, this leaves Fly 92.9 as the only station in Dayton that plays only music in the morning on top of running jockless in the AM. This could be a great opportunity for Fly to pick up angry music fans that liked hearing music in the morning on The Eagle. It's not like Fly and The Eagle are that different format-wise.
As far as someone saying that Bubba took a station from a 1 share to a 7 overnight, don't look for that to happen on The Eagle. The signal is better than it's ever been, but it still has its limitations. I'd say The Eagle could probably do a high 3...and that's about it.
One last thing...Bubba seems like a strange fit for a Classic Hits station if you ask me...Isn't Bubba usually on Rock stations? ???
 
Something about a lighter, older leaning music format all of of sudden with a very blue morning show doesn't quite seem like a fit. Maybe they need to chainsaw-out the music on 95.3.

Fly would be smart to stay music-oriented maybe with a very low-key morning personality,
 
gr8oldies said:
Something about a lighter, older leaning music format all of of sudden with a very blue morning show doesn't quite seem like a fit. Maybe they need to chainsaw-out the music on 95.3.

Fly would be smart to stay music-oriented maybe with a very low-key morning personality,
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Every song on the station is a bonafide rock-leaned hit song (with only one or two minor exceptions. If you really listen, the station is not focused largely on the 1970's anymore...it's younger than that. Considerably younger than it was, and not really that "older leaning".

Just my opinion, but I've got a family member in his 20's that likes current hits, and this music as well. In my opinion, to think you have to "chainsaw the music out" to reach people from 20-40 or so is a myth...
 
KevinFodor said:
kirkiefan said:
That is soooo un-Cox!

As if Rush's rants and 95.7 in Piqua going mono for an AM/FM simulcast wasn't bad enough.

Let Sharonville have its LPFM (The ultra right wing Limburgher weasel is already on 'KRC!)
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Ah, Kirkie Fan...

Perhaps it's a switch for Cox in Dayton, but not for Cox in general - Bubba is on 6 or 7 of their stations now, and pretty much all are doing quite well. (One station reportedly went from a 1 to a 7 share almost overnight.)

WHIO's decision to move talk to simulcast on FM has made a radical improvement to the station's ratings. Right now, it's seeing the kinds of numbers not seen since the Lou Emm days. And no one (other than you) has noticed it's in mono. At least, as I understand it, the station has had zero complaints about not being in stereo. The talk audience couldn't care less. Which might give you an idea of why it was done. The move gave WHIO far more coverage to the north than that puny 5 KW AM signal could muster, and put a city grade signal into Springfield (a real necessity to get big numbers on any station these days). It also helped lower WHIO's demos, which were starting to approach geriatric prior to the move.

I can appreciate you're not a Limbaugh fan...but he had around a 15 share 25-54 in the latest trend. Don't know if that will continue, but if it does...Rush can only thank the man in the White House for all the attention he's attracting to EIB.

As for Eagle, it might have been done earlier. But now that it appears as though 95.7 ain't goin' nowhere, the decision to move more into the 80's, and making the change seems logical, if you consider the changes in the Dayton radio market landscape in the past year or so.
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I know many of folk in the northern Miami Valley including some in Lima and Celina that love the fact that they can listen to talk radio on FM versus having to listen to try to pull in 1150 WIMA's 1kw signal. I also know some talk radio converts in Minster and Ft. Loramie who never listened to talk radio before Cox flipped 95.7 to talk, now thats all they will listen to. If Cox wants to disappoint more people then they can imagine they will indeed move 95.7 to Sharonville.
 
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