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Changes at 93.3 The Bone

They need a P/D who can turn the station around, any ideas????
 
It would need to be blown-up. The "Bone" name is worthless at this point. The music has been adjusted so many times over the years, keeping some sort of rock format on it with that name on it would be pointless.

I'm not sure I understand the point of the PM drive show. The few times I have tried it on the way home from work, all they are talking about is what happened on some reality show, what they plan to watch on TV tonight, celebrity gossip, etc. Since rock and classic rock generally is geared towards a male audience, I just don't know how many guys waiting around to here a ZZ Top or Stone Temple Pilots song care about what's happening on some reality show on TLC or Bravo. There seems to be a disconnect here...
 
Since the PD/Morning guy's last day is Friday, do you think The Bone will go bye-bye along with him?
 
txchipk said:
It would need to be blown-up. The "Bone" name is worthless at this point. The music has been adjusted so many times over the years, keeping some sort of rock format on it with that name on it would be pointless.

I'm not sure I understand the point of the PM drive show. The few times I have tried it on the way home from work, all they are talking about is what happened on some reality show, what they plan to watch on TV tonight, celebrity gossip, etc. Since rock and classic rock generally is geared towards a male audience, I just don't know how many guys waiting around to here a ZZ Top or Stone Temple Pilots song care about what's happening on some reality show on TLC or Bravo. There seems to be a disconnect here...
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TV adds on radio, I'm sorry, seem as queer as radio adds on TV.

When the TV adds come on radio, that's a spilt second changer to another station for this one!
 
bucwhyl said:
Since the PD/Morning guy's last day is Friday, do you think The Bone will go bye-bye along with him?
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No, I'm putting my money on hearing "The Regular Guys" come Monday morning..
 
PD Gary Thompson is usually fast with returning emails...but the one I sent him last Sunday evening never got answered. So I'm guessing he left last weekend, and didn't get to finish out this week there anyway. Understandable from both sides...why would Cumulus want to pay a departing employee one more week's salary, knowing that he's in a lame duck position and nothing much is going to happen (or perhaps they didn't want him tinkering with anything, anyway?) For Gary, his next job's all locked in, there's nothing left to do or "show" the folks at Cumulus, so why not take the extra week to pack?

Best of luck to Gary. Nice guy and I'm sure he'll do well out there. Yeah, he couldn't help what he inherited at The Bone, but the music HAS improved there in the last 9 months, at least for my tastes.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
The music HAS improved there in the last 9 months, at least for my tastes.
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I hear a lot of people talk about the music 9usually bad), out of morbid curiosity, how could they make the music better? Play more or less of something?

Classic rock? Active rock?

Just curious, not looking to tick anyone off.
 
The music at the bone has somewhat improved compared to what it was a year ago. That was worse than nails on a chalk board or an ex wife at your door step.
 
Speaking of changes at The Bone.
Did anyone else notice they have a new website for the cluster as of Friday?

www.dfwradio.com

It doesn't work very well, but it's up and running about as well as the station. :p
 
Stinkymess said:
Speaking of changes at The Bone.
Did anyone else notice they have a new website for the cluster as of Friday?

www.dfwradio.com

It doesn't work very well, but it's up and running about as well as the station. :p
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That's not a new website...dfwradio.com has been around for a decade as a generic page for the cluster originally set-up during the Susquehana ownership.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfwradio.com
 
Stinkymess said:
Speaking of changes at The Bone.
Did anyone else notice they have a new website for the cluster as of Friday?

www.dfwradio.com

It doesn't work very well, but it's up and running about as well as the station. :p
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A skyline of Dallas without Reunion Tower? Not too sharp.
 
dfwradio.com is the site that Sucksquehanna used to reference in their "Want a job in radio?" PSAs. It's main purpose was that of a job board for the cluster. (It also earned points with the EEOC for its annually-audited minority outreach efforts.)

Yeah, no Reunion Tower, but look at the angle...it could well have been taken from 3500 Maple (Cumulus' offices, 'Reverchon Plaza' [IIRC?])

I don't foresee a change there at KDBN. With KZPS now in a Top 5 position (thanks to PPM,) KDBN could survive just off of ZiPS' sloppy seconds. Me, I'd still ponder culling out the oldest stuff, and (as I've suggested MANY times, and did last year with "Retro Radio" on KMNY,) go to a Modern Classic Rock format. Gary Thompson understood that concept, but didn't (or couldn't) implement it across the board. THAT'S where your Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Def Leppard, Van Hagar, etc comes in, intermingled with your Boston, Stones, Foreigner, etc. Sure, it doesn't have the depth of the old Album Rock stations (sorry, Rover) BUT it uses many "safe" tunes (mainly those that were pop successes) while mining songs from an otherwise untried music genre in DFW. That part makes it palatable to PDs who don't get a blanket blessing to program things by instinct or personal choice (as Jeff K. did, and you remember how unlistenable the station was then.)
 
Quote from: Stinkymess on Yesterday at 02:00:11 am
Speaking of changes at The Bone.
Did anyone else notice they have a new website for the cluster as of Friday?

www.dfwradio.com

It doesn't work very well, but it's up and running about as well as the station.


That's not a new website...dfwradio.com has been around for a decade as a generic page for the cluster originally set-up during the Susquehana ownership.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfwradio.com
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Let me clarify, since you evidently didn't take a look at it. They have NEW VERSION of the dfwradio.com website up, and it doesn't work very well. New graphics with logos floating around in a circle. Click-throughs dont' work very well yet.
When I looked at it Thursday it was still the same old thing. Friday it was NEW AND IMPROVED!
 
Actually, I evidently DID take a look at it before posting; perhaps I should have said "same domain" instead of "same site." But it serves the same exact purpose it did under Sucksquehanna...jobs, and quick links to their individual stations. If they want to doll it up with floating logos, so be it...but it's the same general info it has been for nearly 10 years.
 
MikeShannon914 said:
Me, I'd still ponder culling out the oldest stuff, and (as I've suggested MANY times, and did last year with "Retro Radio" on KMNY,) go to a Modern Classic Rock format. Gary Thompson understood that concept, but didn't (or couldn't) implement it across the board. THAT'S where your Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Def Leppard, Van Hagar, etc comes in, intermingled with your Boston, Stones, Foreigner, etc. Sure, it doesn't have the depth of the old Album Rock stations (sorry, Rover) BUT it uses many "safe" tunes (mainly those that were pop successes) while mining songs from an otherwise untried music genre in DFW. That part makes it palatable to PDs who don't get a blanket blessing to program things by instinct or personal choice (as Jeff K. did, and you remember how unlistenable the station was then.)
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I have compelety given up hope on Dallas Rock radio. When comes down to nothing more than what you'd hear played on a jukebox, at a local bar, or pool hall, then, I couldn't be interested. We're in an "American Idol" stage of music, and there's no end in sight. The day when only "The Hits" ruled the airwaves, is back, to stay, until Kingdome Comes, I suppose. The communal sharing of sowmthing other than big commercial hits was what I found so special about FM Rock radio, back in the day. Nothing going on in terrestrail radio approaches that feeling, and so, I am out of luck, in that department. I love the medium of terrestrail radio, for Rock Music. I just never was a Top 40 kind of guy. There was day, when the 'Sun shined', for me in radio. But now, it's like Groundhog Day, with just the Top 40, and that, and nothing but that.
 
All Access has reported on Friday that Jeff Catlin is now OM at all Cumulus stations here including The Bone. First of all, who is this guy and second, where does he come from?
 
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