Can anyone whoever worked at WIYQ tell me how we kept out license?

[mountaineer]

Great Training Ground!

Backtiming IS almost a lost art--since most music fomatted stations today don't use network newscasts... so don't have to meet them. But the people doing talk radio still need to be able to talk their way up, huh?

Hey, something about this WIYQ thread that struck me is how small-town stations like that were terrific places to learn. Youngsters could cut their teeth in an environment that wasn't so pressurized--they could afford to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes.

Today, so many small-town stations are automated and/or networked that there are very few opportunities for kids to learn, anymore. If you can't get started in towns like Ebensburg and Huntingdon, where can you? Not sure many of us oldsters would make it in today's radio world.

Anyway, it was great to hear them reminiscing about getting their chops down at a place that was able to allow them to do it.


> > backtiming a true radio skill........always a high five
> when you back timed a cold ending song into the id...we used
> abc contemportary radio for years always backtiming to
> 54:30.......we had a BT category songs with long fades, al
> stewarts time passages some pablo cruise etc........england
> dan was a favorite...well a lost art form.....to those
> seemless net joins...let's raise a glass of stout.....
>

 

[ErikLane]

Re: WIYQ: Worst FM Ever?

I am very curious at which AMN station you have work for. I'm not going to jump on a dogpile here, but I do find in very strange (if not creepy) that this is almost an identical pattern as my background with the AMN.



> > Thank you Cary and Ted for everything
> > that you have done
> > for me and for the industry. I was one of the thousands
> who
> > started at an
> > AMN station, WIYQ in fact! I learned, and was given the
> > opportunity to learn
> > as much as I could learn. After moving on and working for
>
> > some bigger
> > broadcasters, for most of my career, I came back to AMN,
> > because there was much
> > more that I needed to learn.
>
>
> I've lurked here unregstered for a few years. But this post
> made me gag.
>
> Hmm. Letsee what I learned from the AMN:
>
> "Don't stay here out of your loyalty to W***" (Cary Simpson)
>
>
> All these lionizing comments about Cary & the AMN are so
> sweet & heartwarming I could puke. I rarely saw Cary when I
> worked for one of his shoestring-budget stations. He never
> had a clue what went on there anyway except for what he
> could dig out of any rumormill or from other second-handed
> information.
>
> I have personally heard him talk to other co-workers & tell
> them libelous comments about me that were first of all
> uninformed as well as unfounded.
>
> Yeah, I got to stretch my wings while I was at the AMN, but
> that's all I gained from it. I'm sure Cary is a wonderful
> person if you don't have to work for him. Otherwise, my
> experience with him has been nothing but a back-stabbing,
> cheapscape who pits one employee against another for his own
> personal gain.
>
> And don't be trying to explain away my experience by saying
> I "need a hug" or that there's some kind of grudge match
> going on. Every other station I've worked for I've had
> great relations with, both co-workers and management...and
> that includes the one I'm at now. And this one actually has
> a health plan that I can actually USE!
>
> Even the local businesses who saw how his stations ran a
> high school sporting event was EMBARRASSED at the crap the
> crew had to lug to the games & then try to use bread ties
> (so to speak) to make the stuff work. One business even
> offered to BUY decent gear for the sports team. How
> pathetic.
>
> I wouldn't call WIYQ the "worst FM ever", but I would call
> the management in the "Almost Nothing Network" pretty
> primative at best...and in some cases, illegal at worst.
> Thank GOD I'm outta that hellhole.
>
> Oh, and did I mention any healthcare for his employees?
> Yeah, that's right... THERE WAS NONE unless you made $40,000
> a year. But wait! No one working for this fella could make
> HALF of that in the first place!
>
> Thank you Cary for teaching me how NOT to treat employees
> and how NOT to run a radio station.
>
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[jabberjacker]

Re: WIYQ: Worst FM Ever?

> I am very curious at which AMN station you have work for.
> I'm not going to jump on a dogpile here, but I do find in
> very strange (if not creepy) that this is almost an
> identical pattern as my background with the AMN.
>
>



HA! You think I'm hanging myself out to dry like that? I wasn't born yesterday. I worked for one of Cary's many entities, let's just say. Enough to know not to work for any more of them. Some people actually have had unpleasant experiences there. I guess other folks LIKE being "used and abused".<P ID="signature">______________
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