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Bubba The Love Sponge...Headed to West Palm?
- Thread starter JayR
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He would fit best at the Buzz. And if I remember right, this won't be his last go-round in this market. Wasn't he on one of the incarnations of 92.1, when it was an Alternative Rocker, back in the late 90s?
jmtillery said:
I'd rule out The Buzz. The station clearly hated having syndication in mornings, and they can't stop promoting their morning show as live and local.
Then if not the Buzz, which station? The Gater? I don't see Clear Channel doing that, especially with Paul and Young Ron.
Bubba again? Hmmmm. The post above was right, he totally crashed and burned when he was on Clear Channel's stab at alternative rock with 92.1 The Planet (now the Hispanic Mia 92.1).
West Palm, the only logical choices are 103.1 the Buzz and 98.7 The Gater, like the other poster said. Bubba would only work on a rock outlet. But as in the previous post, the Gater's not going to dump Paul 'n Ron. I think CC likes having Paul n' Ron on the air from the Gold Coast up through the Treasure Coast. And the Buzz likes having their morning show local.
I wonder....someone mentioned in another thread regarding 93.1 Rock ditching rock n' roll....their thought was that CBS could move the Buzz from 103.1 to Sunny 104.3's spot...thus the Buzz would cover Broward and Northern Dade and pick up all the old 93.1 Rock listeners. Could that be it? Certainly, with those higher stakes, I could see CBS dumping Buzz's local morning show and going for Bubba.
Or...is there another station in Palm Beach ready for a flip that we don't know about?
West Palm, the only logical choices are 103.1 the Buzz and 98.7 The Gater, like the other poster said. Bubba would only work on a rock outlet. But as in the previous post, the Gater's not going to dump Paul 'n Ron. I think CC likes having Paul n' Ron on the air from the Gold Coast up through the Treasure Coast. And the Buzz likes having their morning show local.
I wonder....someone mentioned in another thread regarding 93.1 Rock ditching rock n' roll....their thought was that CBS could move the Buzz from 103.1 to Sunny 104.3's spot...thus the Buzz would cover Broward and Northern Dade and pick up all the old 93.1 Rock listeners. Could that be it? Certainly, with those higher stakes, I could see CBS dumping Buzz's local morning show and going for Bubba.
Or...is there another station in Palm Beach ready for a flip that we don't know about?
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Remember that Buzz once blew out a local show for Opie & Anthony - it could happen again for Bubba. CBS Radio has never done business with BTLS, but it doesn't mean that it won't happen, particularly if it means being able to cut salaries.
92.1 had some decent ratings in the male demo; I remember one book where Bubba beat Bob & Tom, Stern etc. in M18-34 there. What will happen next remains to be seen, but it would make sense for BTLS to go on there.
92.1 had some decent ratings in the male demo; I remember one book where Bubba beat Bob & Tom, Stern etc. in M18-34 there. What will happen next remains to be seen, but it would make sense for BTLS to go on there.
Maybe I am wrong, but I thought The Buzz blew out their best Live and Local show they ever had-Mark Jenny and Dahlmer for Howard Stern, who then left less than a year later before ramping up any ratings, who was then replaced by Opie and Anthony who failed miserably.
By the time CBS could change frequencies through all the FCC, there will probably already be a new Rock station on somewhere. Besides, ratings in Fort lauderdale-Miami won't make CBS money from WPB advertisers.
By the time CBS could change frequencies through all the FCC, there will probably already be a new Rock station on somewhere. Besides, ratings in Fort lauderdale-Miami won't make CBS money from WPB advertisers.
I don't think Sunny 104.3/WEAT's signal into Broward and Dade Counties is strong enough to warrant a frequency swap, as some of you have suggested. First, Sunny is a Heritage station. Second, it has good ratings. And again, while WEAT-FM's frequency has some good coverage in Broward, the signal is very weak in much of Dade County. I really do not see CBS flipping frequencies...
Beachit said:
Don't forget David Lee Roth. They had to carry him too. The Joel Hollander regime at CBS at the time forced them to carry syndication in the mornings, until Dan Mason came in and gradually dismantled the FM talk syndication operations.
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