Come on RFF

[eyg2181]

ok, its been on over a year. its time to interact with the listeners dont you think? get the request lines up. instead of telling the listeners to go to the website after every other song, give the number to call in. the music mix sounds grat for a clear channel station, although, it wouldnt hurt to go heavier. set up a request houror something. the perfect example of what rff should sound like is G-Rock. they got the music part, now its time to go all out and get like the other rock stations. look at mmr. ysp, and mgk. they got listeners on the air all the time.

 

[BRUSSTAR]

Well, "they got listeners on all the time" because they have airtalent present to TAKE the calls.

It's pretty pointless to set up a so-called "request line" when there's no one there to answer the phones.

 

[BRUSSTAR]

P.S. -- The station in question is 104.5, to save some from needing to figure out what the heck "RFF" is...

P.P.S. -- What do you do at 'MMR and "The Bone"?

 

[DStroyer]

There's nothing more irritating than a DJ talking to a listener on the phone. Instant tune-out. The only 4 people who care are the listener and her friends. The rest of us think they should just shut up and play another song.

Jock: "Hey, Rachel! What's going on in Upper Darby today??"

Listener: "Aaaoooo, nuffin. Om jus gaw gao haome n tawk on da phaone n eat a haogie. Yo, kin I give a shau-ow??"

And, do you really still believe that calls into "request lines" have some sort of impact on the upcoming song selection? Even on a request show, it's a thousand people calling in hoping to help fill 4 or 5 open spaces in the station playlist... Yeah, that's not going to disappoint TOO many people when their "obscure, eclectic" song request doesn't get played.

(Side note: I used to go through the listener e-mails at Y100, and I guess whoever the night jock was at the time was doing some sort of new music feature, and he promoted that he was going to be playing the new Bad Religion single that was out at the time... I actually got an "anti-request" e-mail from somebody that said, "DON'T YOU DARE PLAY BAD RELIGION!!!!" I hope we played Ace Of Base "The Sign" before it, and Donna Lewis "I Love You Always Forever" after it )

 

[aindik]

There's nothing more irritating than a DJ talking to a listener on the phone. Instant tune-out. The only 4 people who care are the listener and her friends. The rest of us think they should just shut up and play another song.

Jock: "Hey, Rachel! What's going on in Upper Darby today??"

Listener: "Aaaoooo, nuffin. Om jus gaw gao haome n tawk on da phaone n eat a haogie. Yo, kin I give a shau-ow??"

Love the bad philly accent phonetics.

But seriously, this is why DJs are supposed tape calls. So ones like these don't get on the air. Listener calls are good, when done well, and, as you demonstrate above, can be awful when done poorly. They shouldn't play calls just because the format says play calls. But they should take calls, and when they get a good one, they should play it.

I think a listener call should be no longer than a talk-up of a record. Most of the time, the DJ should have to fit the edited call into the intro of the song before the vocals.

But perhaps listener calls make more sense on a station that plays currents than a station that plays songs from 10-15 years ago. Especially rock songs where you're not supposed to talk over the music.

 

[EasyBakeOven]

Fildar...the trick is to find air talent that can do phoners well enough so that there's some kind of payoff. It's all about content! Putting your listeners on the air is a great way to get ratings. The listener who calls in and gets on the air will probably tell a couple of their friends and that's how word of mouth spreads. Phoners are also a great way to air localisms, eveyone else in Upper Darby will also feel a sense of community when they hear their fellow Darbians on the airwaves.

 

[eyg2181]

P.S. -- The station in question is 104.5, to save some from needing to figure out what the heck "RFF" is...

P.P.S. -- What do you do at 'MMR and "The Bone"?

at least mmr and the bone answer the phones

 

[hamNcheese]

There's nothing more irritating than a DJ talking to a listener on the phone. Instant tune-out. "

Love the bad philly accent phonetics.

But seriously, this is why DJs are supposed tape calls.

there is the problem. the reel to reel at RFF is broken. they are waiting for a new one on back order. a teac 2340 multi track recorder if im correct.

now if they could just fix that darn cart machine. keeps eating the tape.

 

[aindik]

There's nothing more irritating than a DJ talking to a listener on the phone. Instant tune-out. "

Love the bad philly accent phonetics.

But seriously, this is why DJs are supposed tape calls.

there is the problem. the reel to reel at RFF is broken. they are waiting for a new one on back order. a teac 2340 multi track recorder if im correct.

now if they could just fix that darn cart machine. keeps eating the tape.

Excuse me. Record calls....

 

[wprt949]

a cc station with a live dj oh come on you gotta be kidding me

 

[DStroyer]

a cc station with a live dj oh come on you gotta be kidding me

Oh, DAAAAAAMN!!!!! No you dih-int!!

 

[hykos1045]

ok, its been on over a year. its time to interact with the listeners dont you think? get the request lines up. instead of telling the listeners to go to the website after every other song, give the number to call in. the music mix sounds grat for a clear channel station, although, it wouldnt hurt to go heavier. set up a request houror something. the perfect example of what rff should sound like is G-Rock. they got the music part, now its time to go all out and get like the other rock stations. look at mmr. ysp, and mgk. they got listeners on the air all the time.

excuse me, but what the hell do you expect from the jukebox industry? this post could be about a whole lot of stations, in this day and age. pretty much all of them except 610, 88.5, and maybe just maybe WUSL and WPHI 100.3 but that's a stretch.

 

[Soon Yi CIV.V]

The studio number is the same as it was for Rumba 104.5, Sunny 104.5, Alice 104.5, and Star 104.5. 215-263-1045. The only difference now is that no one's there to answer it.

 

[DToTheJ]

You know what? I think New York's 105.1 has used the same 800.585.1051 hotline number for all of its last eight or nine incarnations!

 

[evolve991]

You want to complain about 104.5? At least they play alot of the songs that were LIKED on Y100!! Sister station Channel104.3 in Baltimore keeps playing the garbage that killed WHFS and some stuff they found in the dumpster behind 98Rock.