Congrats to Sunny 106.9

[FrankF]

Re: WMMO was better once

IMHO, WMMO was way better back in the early/ mid 1990's when they were AAA. Yes some of the same robot DJ's are still there today as well as the same liners (except I only hear them use "music is what we're all about" on Christmas), but the playlist was so much larger. I used to listen to them all the time. They played allot of obscure stuff that would make me want to tear the radio apart, but I kept listening to them wondering what they would play next, and often it was something I had not heard in years. They also took requests sometimes and put them on rather quickly as I recall. Remember select a set at 8:00AM & 8:00PM, the 98 9 theme park, your album side, and the 11 O'clock news? I even still have one of their tee shirts from The Eco Store on Edgewater Ave floating around somewhere. Thank you telcom act, ever since that I could set my watch by what they play

 

[Froggy]

Sunny will certainly need to always continue to tweak the music to stay strong. But gentlemen, go and check out the Daytona book as well. Huge spike for Sunny in that market. The station is hot, and we'll see if it has legs.

WMMO hasn't sounded great since Cary Pall programmed it. You call it legendary now, but he was the man who built it.

A few stations in Daytona took hits due to Sunny 105.9. Time will tell if people were just tuning in to sample them
or will actually stick with them. When WOCL was Cool 105.9 Oldies they were consistantly higher rated in Daytona than they were in Orlando.

 

[MsB]

Ms. B is here!

In response to the question of whatever happened to "Ms.B!" of the Philips Phile...the answer is I am at STAR94.5FM. My air shift is Sat. 11a-4p and Sun 4p-7p. During the week I work as co-owner of Pretty Women Consignment...Orlando's only plus-size consignment store. For the record: Radio ain't what it use to be...duh...people who would have never considered doing radio become famous doing something else and decide they want a radio show...get syndicated and put a lot of "made for radio" talent out of jobs. Radio...you got to love it like "crack" to do it...and I do.

 

[onejagsfan]

Amen to that, Ms B!! You are the best! It's so sad that radio has lost it's way. Years ago we would have never thought that bank managers would own/program radio stations and the only live shifts would be morning and afternoon drive.


Ah-those were the days....

 

[sux2bu]

Re: Congrats to Sunny 105.9

Personally, I love hearing Brenda Matthews and Bob Berry on Sunny and I used to love MMO and Magic, but Sunny is my favorite now. I don't care what anyone says, when I walk around Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Lake Mary into businesses (because I call on small businesses everyday) 8 times out of 10 I hear Sunny on the radio. I usually ask why it's tuned to that station and I mostly get a "oh, we all LOVE that station."

I'm just "gq public" giving another opinion of what I'm seeing and hearing out there. Go Sunny, you're the brightest spot on the dial right now!!

 

[Inventor989]

Re: WMMO Was Better Once

Frank F, you were indeed there back in the day. Thank you.

Sunny, for lack of a better term, is fresh. Time will tell if it has staying power.

If WMMO would return to the practices of old, it would be as fresh now as it was then. The question is, would there be enough fans in this age of iPods, Internet radio, cellphones and PDAs with downloadable music, and satellite radio to support it? I fear that, if WMMO were signed on for the first time today, the audience that made WMMO a case study for instant success in 1990 would not even find it today, and if they did, it ultimately wouldn't have the ability to compete with the totally customizable world today's music fan has to choose from.

But it would stand a better chance than a terminally burned-out, utterly predictable product.

And the fact that it had a long history of innovation means there are still folks like Frank F who would support it again.

Bob Poe, WMMO's GM at the beginning, was asked by some industry media reporter once, "Why would you go out on a limb with such a risky format?" Poe's answer: "Because that's where the fruit is."

 

[TrafficMan71]

Re: WMMO Was Better Once

Frank F, you were indeed there back in the day. Thank you.

Sunny, for lack of a better term, is fresh. Time will tell if it has staying power.

If WMMO would return to the practices of old, it would be as fresh now as it was then. The question is, would there be enough fans in this age of iPods, Internet radio, cellphones and PDAs with downloadable music, and satellite radio to support it? I fear that, if WMMO were signed on for the first time today, the audience that made WMMO a case study for instant success in 1990 would not even find it today, and if they did, it ultimately wouldn't have the ability to compete with the totally customizable world today's music fan has to choose from.

But it would stand a better chance than a terminally burned-out, utterly predictable product.

And the fact that it had a long history of innovation means there are still folks like Frank F who would support it again.

Bob Poe, WMMO's GM at the beginning, was asked by some industry media reporter once, "Why would you go out on a limb with such a risky format?" Poe's answer: "Because that's where the fruit is."

With all due respect to Frank F, that couldn't have been said any better, Inventor. Very well said. ;D