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Can Somebody Explain WECK?

Yeziknoradio said:
Agreed.

When CBS sold the station, perhaps the new owner saw a hole in the market.
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IIRC correctly, CBS sold the cluster to Regent, which two years later spun off WECK as part of it's own sale to Townsquare. The other stations ended up with the bankruptcy situation in 2010 and the merger of what was the Regent Trust into Townsquare.

The price of the Regent purchase from CBS was $125 million.
 
TheBigA said:
Who cares? People do things for their own reasons. Who are we to sit in judge? There are a lot of posters on this board who have lots of opinions about the major owners, and how everything was so much better when it was live and local. Here's a local guy who put his money where his mouth is. More power to him. If any of you can do it better, buy a station.
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Calm down, Michigan. It's a question, not a judgment.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Perhaps nobody has "picked up on Hippie radio" because it's not RADIO here. It's one of MANY on-line streams, competing with iHeart, Pandora, and Spotify - as well as satellite and USB drives. Otherwise, it's simply branding for a classic hits station - and we have a pretty good one here already.
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I would argue that Toronto's Boom 97.3 does classic hits MUCH better than WHTT does, with stuff that 'HTT would never dream of playing(never mind CanCon requirements. Ask yourself this: Has any Buffalo station played ANYTHING from Bob Marley? Boom certainly does.). And they are FULLY live and local(except for overnights, with the After Midnight Mix Tapes). WHTT is NOT.
 
Yeah, I and seven other 50+ guys would like to hear Bob Marley's "hits," One Love, Jammin' and No Woman No Cry, but they don't work on a Classic Hits station in Buffalo. It's not that they're not good songs. They are... for Toronto, where the population is far more diverse and significantly larger. Which is why 97.3 and 91.3 plays them, and Jack dabbles in them in lunar rotation. .

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Apparently the mods edited the little dust-up we had going earlier. Rules is rules. It's all good. It's their sandbox, they just let us play in it.
 
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The Lake played Bob Marley frequently. There's no logical reason why
that a Classic Hits/Rock format can't play some Reggae artists.
Bob Marley is an icon and people of all ages still listen to his music.

Saying it doesn't work is absurd. I really doubt that WHTT would
get howls of protest if they played Marley or Jimmy Cliff.
It really doesn't matter at this point. No new listeners are
seeking out these formats. Music lovers have unlimited other options...
 
All I can say is "scoreboard". Neither the late, sometimes lamented Lake or Boom ever garnered half the numbers that WHTT does in the Buffalo market. Would playing Bob Marley gain them any listeners? Doubtful. Is the station perfect? No. Is it pretty good at what it does. Apparently. If I feel the urge to hear Bob Marley, I simply go to Spotify, or my USB drive in my car. It doesn't happen often. Certainly not often enough to build a format around.
 
I could never see the appeal of Bob Marley. All his stuff sounds the same to me. Not sure how you'd mix his music into the typical Classic Hits station. These days you can create your own playlist listen to it in order or do a random mix of songs. There is also Pandora and Spotify. Radio as you want it. I'd like to hear more Gino Vannelli (he did record more than "I Just Want to Stop") but I expect that from a typical mass appeal radio station.

Station owners would play Hungarian War Chants if it made them money.
 
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I wanted to see what the WECK format sounded like so I went to Radiostation World
and listened for a while. It sounds similar to KAHM FM 102.1 here in Prescott, AZ
They have been playing pretty much the same kind of music since sign on in 1981
and they're laughing all the way to the bank!!!! More power to the WECK owner(s)
and their great judgement to offer something different..... If I was back in Buffalo,
I'd listen................
 
Two questions... Do we know what satellite service WECK uses? Is it "America's Best Music" from Westwood One? Or maybe it's produced in-house, since the station calls itself "Timeless." That would be hard to do if you subscribe to a service that already has a different name. I don't think there are other satellite standards services other than "America's Best Music" and "Music of Your Life." So few stations are doing the format these days, I don't think there's enough support for a third service.

Second... Does the station use the generic Delilah? In other words, she does her phone calls and tells someone she's going to play a song for that person. But she never says the names of the songs or artists, so the station can insert its own format? I couldn't imagine that the station would play Delilah's show that includes AC music. Carpenters and Sinatra by day, Lady Gaga and Pink by night?
 
Gregg. said:
I don't think there are other satellite standards services other than "America's Best Music" and "Music of Your Life." So few stations are doing the format these days, I don't think there's enough support for a third service.
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That sounds right to me.
 
Gregg. said:
Second... Does the station use the generic Delilah? In other words, she does her phone calls and tells someone she's going to play a song for that person. But she never says the names of the songs or artists, so the station can insert its own format? I couldn't imagine that the station would play Delilah's show that includes AC music. Carpenters and Sinatra by day, Lady Gaga and Pink by night?
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There are three Delilah versions, one being a modern AC, another being more gold based and the third being Contemporary Christian. In larger markets, I believe it can be delivered... like Seacrest and others... in workparts.
 
Gregg: To answer your question as to which satellite service WECK uses, it is America's Best Music(BTW, its owner Westwood One is owned by-ironically-Cumulus, which has a few stations in the area). Outside of morning drive and some dayparts on the weekends(and during Canisius basketball in season), that's what they use.
 
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