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Changes at WAKS

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MediaLover

96.5 KISS FM has a new lineup just in time for summer:

6a-10a Elvis Duran in the Morning
10a-Noon LeeAnn Sommers
Noon-2p On-Air with Ryan Seacrest
2p-6p The Jeremiah Show
6p-9p Allen Colon
9p-11p The VBros
11p-Midnight The New Hit List
Midnight-6a Kayla

LeeAnn stays on afternoons at 99.5 WGAR, but will no longer host mornings on Thowback 99.1. She used to be on KISS in the early 2000s, of course has been a ton of stations in Cleveland and Denver.

Allen has also been on 99.1 FM along with returning to KISS for weekends.

The station also appears to be throwing in more throwbacks and less newer songs as I heard this morning.

More on the changes here: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/301253/waks-revamps-lineup/
 
jtakach98 said:
That "recently played" timeline literally has TEN MINUTE blanks for commercial breaks. That's INSANE.
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That is not ten minutes of commercials. It is the sum of the stop-set and the duration of the last song listed.
 
Interesting so many "short" shifts. But I guess that cuts down on the pay for the "voice tracker" surprised they are limiting Seacrest to 2 hours He airs 10a-2p on most iHeart stations that carry his voice tracker show. WNCI in Columbus, OH, 92.5 Kiss FM Toledo, 107.1 Kiss FM Cinci and even Z100 in NYC take Seacrest 10a-2p.
 
xmusicmatt said:
Interesting so many "short" shifts. But I guess that cuts down on the pay for the "voice tracker" surprised they are limiting Seacrest to 2 hours He airs 10a-2p on most iHeart stations that carry his voice tracker show. WNCI in Columbus, OH, 92.5 Kiss FM Toledo, 107.1 Kiss FM Cinci and even Z100 in NYC take Seacrest 10a-2p.
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WAKS IIRC uses the "workparts" Seacrest show so they probably concentrate all the voice tracks to those two hours.
 
Nathan Obral said:
WAKS IIRC uses the "workparts" Seacrest show so they probably concentrate all the voice tracks to those two hours.
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The whole Seacrest show is "workparts" and assembled from them. Ask anyone at the iHeart offices in Burbank how often they see Seacrest "in the studio".
 
DavidEduardo said:
The whole Seacrest show is "workparts" and assembled from them. Ask anyone at the iHeart offices in Burbank how often they see Seacrest "in the studio".
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The same Seacrest, who when broadcasting "Live with Ryan and Kelly" would go into his adjacent radio studio during commercial breaks on the live TV show to do a segment live for KIIS-FM? Every anecdote I've heard about Ryan says he's one of the hardest working people in the industry who if he had to choose only one of his jobs would give up everything else to remain on his morning show.

The reuse of segments is simply the ability to work smarter. Each morning he's producing a local Los Angeles morning show, a custom midday show for Z100 New York, and the national daypart for iHeart, plus recording pieces for American Top 40. Why can't some of those segments for one be repurposed for others?
 
xmusicmatt said:
Interesting so many "short" shifts. But I guess that cuts down on the pay for the "voice tracker"
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I doubt any of them are hourly employees who get paid for the amount of time they're on the air. The OP says the people who appear on WAKS also do shifts at WGAR and other iHeart stations. So they work full shifts.
 
So, I checked out the station, and the online stream didn't have 10 minutes of ads, but the "recently played" list did stop at 6:19, when Allen came on and then there was a podcast advertisement. The iHeart app stream had commercials going, while the website stream had more music:
6:21 - Jack Harlow "Tie Me Down"(?)
6:23 - Nelly "Hot in Herre"
6:27 - Eminem "Lose Yourself" (yes, the iHeart app is STILL doing commercials...)
6:29 - the app stream comes back with Kardinal Offishall/Akon "Dangerous", which matches the website "now playing" bar while the actual music is still Eminem
6:32 - Kardinal Offishall/Akon "Dangerous" makes it onto the website stream

Yes, Virginia, it IS a 10-minute ad break. The website doesn't reflect it in the over-browser stream audio, but the iHeart app sure as shooting does! The "now playing" bar reflects what's in the app, but the audio is behind because of the fill-in songs that get played instead of ads.

Anyone else who wants to try, load up the website stream and your iHeart app at about :17 past the hour and just listen to both concurrently to see which plays more ads.
 
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