Re: Barbarians....
> > Until the "barbarians at the gate" showed up, anyway.
>
> I liked the MMO concept when it signed on and wondered why
> at the time more stations didn't adapt it in a flash.....OK,
> maybe I don't agree with the liner-isms, but the music was
> fine by me. The "Male AC" concept fascinated me quite a
> bit, I was a freshman in High School and probably should've
> 'had a life', but there I was, curious about what some
> station in Orlando was doing.
>
> Barbarians?? But wasn't Intermart basically a company that
> put stations on to sell them the next day??
>
Pretty much, and still is (they're playing with an AM in the outskirts of Atlanta right now). But Jim Martin never tried to program the station or force the corporation's will down our throats. Once Bob Poe left (he was able to keep the KKR boys at bay for a while), it was pretty much over. Then they let the record company sycophants take over and damn near killed it with that deep AAA list. The minute the WMMO list started appearing on the AAA page of R&R, they were doomed. They sold in the nick of time.
At least Cox has tried to get the hour-by-hour mix closer to the roots of the station, although their militaristic approach to research and music programming has squeezed out the "wow" factor of the original list and turned up the heat on rotations and repetition.
