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Clear Channel adds needless clutter to the WOR morning show

It's really too bad others cannot see and understand radio from the EARS of the ACTUAL LISTENERS. It's clutter Big A. It happens everywhere, even on classic hits.

Ever heard of "Clutter Free", the Mighty 690 back in the GOOD days of radio??
Maybe you big shots should implement that philosophy again on radio.....needless clutter is a tuneout and always will be.
 
oldies76 said:
Maybe you big shots should implement that philosophy again on radio.....needless clutter is a tuneout and always will be.
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Giving the weather isn't needless clutter in a morning show. It wasn't back in the day, and it isn't now.
 
Giving the weather isn't needless clutter in a morning show. It wasn't back in the day, and it isn't now
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TheBigA misses the point again!

If you want to talk "back in the day," listen to some old Joe O'Brien or Dan Ingram airchecks. We tend to forget that weather was part of the information they delivered to their listeners and they had fun with it -- as did J.J. Kennedy before her weather role was axed: "It's 40-degrees in Ho-Ho-Kus, 42 in Ho-Hoboken."

DJs were the listeners' source of weather and traffic info. A skilled DJ would integrate that information into the flow of the show and could adjust its length according to conditions. With the advent of drop-in weather and traffic reports, the DJ had less and less real information to impart and hence became known for needless chatter. The downward spiral had begun as the role was further reduced. This lead to the predictable, automated sound of today's radio.

This Jody Applegate is really bad radio this AM. Good Grief ,is this the best they have available.
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Agreed. :( I defended her based on hearing her fill in a few weeks ago but today's show was awful. I can only assume that somewhere there's a memo from management asking for everyone to dumb down of the morning show.

.....needless clutter is a tuneout and always will be.
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YES! That's the bottom line.
 
Yes, today's show was really bad. The suits have probably had enough with wor,to much
cost involved. how long will the new studio last?

Besides, Pittman ,has other plans and debt to reduce
 
wadio said:
DJs were the listeners' source of weather and traffic info.
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John Gambling ISN'T a DJ, this ISN'T Top 40 radio, and it ISN'T the 1960s. Anything else?

Giving the weather, especially in a morning show on a talk station, isn't needless clutter. The problem with Gambling's show isn't the weather. It's Gambling himself.
 
TheBigA said:
John Gambling ISN'T a DJ, this ISN'T Top 40 radio, and it ISN'T the 1960s. Anything else?

Giving the weather, especially in a morning show on a talk station, isn't needless clutter. The problem with Gambling's show isn't the weather. It's Gambling himself.
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Well, he used to play music on the show. Only it was full service MOR, not top 40. And let's face it, he is one of the few people in radio to inherit (literally) his gig. Given the prevalence of "on air names" in radio, WOR could have hired a really good out of town morning show host and called him "John X. Gambling."
 
I thought it, but never said it at the time -- it seemed to me that Alice Stockton Rossini was largely responsible for the cringe factor that kept 101.9 FM News from being viable. Now she's brought her schtick to WOR. More needless clutter, more pandering to the youth market that's never going to tune in 710 AM anyway. Fortunately she isn't doing full newscasts. Her fill-in for Bartlett some weeks ago was a symphony of goofs and missed cues.

It's good to have Gambling back after his vacation but the squeaky-voiced weather and traffic folks along with ASR make it a tougher listen. This kind of tinkering on an AM station can only drive away current listeners -- not add younger ones.

BTW, this isn't just my observation -- a caller to the show last week pointed out that the host filling in for Gambling sounded like Alice Stockton Rossini with an extra cup of coffee!
 
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