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Charlie Maxx leaves B-101 nights

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All Access reports that Charlie Maxx has left nights at B-101.

"It was my choice," she's quoted, "and I'm confident I will have other news to share shortly."

Other NEWS to share shortly.

Hm.
 
B101 has seen much better days... Loss of airstaff, and less ratings then normal (usually it stays first after Holiday/Dec)
 
SO I guess that means somebody else does nights? I hope it steys local. Local AC personallities at night has been dieing for ages. They braught nighttime personality back to Philadelphia. Let's hope they continue to do this.
 
The article makes it clear they're looking to fill the slot, not eliminate it.
 
John Holcomb II said:
SO I guess that means somebody else does nights? I hope it steys local. Local AC personallities at night has been dieing for ages. They braught nighttime personality back to Philadelphia. Let's hope they continue to do this.
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Wired has always had nighttime personality. Local, nightime, personality. B101 had it off and on.
 
@John: The best decision B101 can make is to NOT give that vacant nighttime slot to Delilah!
 
Which since they're hiring for it, would seem fairly unlikely. ::)
 
There are lots of female voices on B101 right now. I think they should break the trend go with a male, albeit a soothing one that appeals to their demo. All Access did report Mark Shepperd was leaving WLEV in Allentown, headed for Philly. Could he be in-line for nights on the B?
 
DToTheJ said:
@John: The best decision B101 can make is to NOT give that vacant nighttime slot to Delilah!
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That's exactly my point. I'm also aware that WBEB had it off and on. When I spoke of local in my earlier post, I was talking about AC as a format,and WBEB in particular. Not sure how wired got dragged into it?
 
Macy93 said:
There are lots of female voices on B101 right now. I think they should break the trend go with a male, albeit a soothing one that appeals to their demo. All Access did report Mark Shepperd was leaving WLEV in Allentown, headed for Philly. Could he be in-line for nights on the B?
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Mornings are split with a male/female lead, male news & traffic, female producer. Then a female middays and a male in afternoon drive. Even weekends are split up fairly evenly overall, so there's not a "trend" to break.
 
John Holcomb II said:
DToTheJ said:
@John: The best decision B101 can make is to NOT give that vacant nighttime slot to Delilah!
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That's exactly my point. I'm also aware that WBEB had it off and on. When I spoke of local in my earlier post, I was talking about AC as a format,and WBEB in particular. Not sure how wired got dragged into it?
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Well, you said local; Thought it was a general statement about the city. Wired's in Philly (obviously not AC, I think CHR is far from) and I don't see any other AC's in Philly. Mix is a Hot AC and WPST is a CHR that leans Hot AC (or vice versa). Neither really show any similarity to B101. I'm sure that BEN shows more of one, but BEN has no night air-staff. LEV is an AC that covers a good deal of Philly, same with JBR, but I highly doubt anyone will tune to a less-local FM just for nighttime airstaff. I thought you meant "local" by talking about a Philly FM that has a local night DJ. Out of what I listen to, Wired and WSTW do.

I'd imagine that she left (sorry, never listened to B101 in my life) because of the possibility to enter a larger market's better rated FM. The path B101 is on, they may trail WDAS in a few years, unless Mix goes away, which with how much they're making and taking one of B101's top demo's, I doubt it.
 
The path B 101 is on? The one that keeps them dominating their demo?
 
imhomerjay said:
Macy93 said:
There are lots of female voices on B101 right now. I think they should break the trend go with a male, albeit a soothing one that appeals to their demo. All Access did report Mark Shepperd was leaving WLEV in Allentown, headed for Philly. Could he be in-line for nights on the B?
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Mornings are split with a male/female lead, male news & traffic, female producer. Then a female middays and a male in afternoon drive. Even weekends are split up fairly evenly overall, so there's not a "trend" to break.
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Has B101 always had this near 50/50 split or has it developed gradually over the past 5 years or so?
 
Morning show has almost been a 50/50 split over the years (one year it was two females, but that's all). They've had a male in PM drive for years and years now. Middays basically went from female to male to female again most recently. Nights have also bounced a bit over the years, more women than men overall, but both have been there.

So it's been pretty much all along, with the parts just having moved around.
 
Homer, are there any FM's in Philadelphia with an entire female airstaff?

Or for that matter AM?

You seem to know MUCH more about radio then I do. I'm not even being sarcastic.
 
Unless you stretch....really stretch....the point and say that with the only full-time on air personality at Ben being Marilyn Russell that it could maybe fit, then no. (And even there, since the morning producer is on air sometimes, plus the occasional call-in contests handled by a guy, that would be a questionable one at best.
 
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