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Cumulus Announces an All-News Station on 106.7: To Debut Mid-May
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poledo said:
No point in "luring" personalities. If the station is all-news, they likely will not have a Scott Slade type person as a host. They will just have news people presenting news. The CNN people hired for this new station are people who used to work for CNN Radio. They all lost their jobs when the network went away. So unless you are talking about CNN-TV people, the people hired would not be working for 106.7 and CNN. And TV people make crappy radio reporters.
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littlejohn said:
Exactly! Cox wouldn't ever voluntarily dilute their own product at WSB-AM. Adding an All News channel of their own would've siphoned away listeners.
It's funny to read even radio people talking about this station having to compete with WSB, when it's an entirely different format once you get out of Atlanta's Morning News.
Really - it may compete as much with WABE throughout the day. As was said - it may take time to change the perception that WSB is the news source, but if it happens, this could be one of the first big shifts in Atlanta radio in a long while.
Except for extended drive-time hours, WABE is noise (sorry, classical music) during the day unless you have an HD radio (most don't). Other than the early morning news segment on WSB, I don't think there is a constant news stream available in Atlanta unless you hit the top/bottom of the hour for recaps. It seems to me that 106.7 has a good chance to succeed as a news outlet, if people find out about it 
Kilbasa123 said:
And I hope this announcement from WYAY doesn't cause WABE to change its strategy.
WSB 750/95.5 is already getting a jump on the upcoming All-News 106.7. There is a WSB 750/95.5 "sticky note" on top of the front page of this morning's AJC newspaper.
I listened for two days to Cumulus' KGO All News (except weekends) in San Fran to get some idea as to what type of job Cumulus does with news. I will say it was not bad. Here are a few observations:
--I was not happy that mid-day they had all women voices... the two anchors... the field reporters... even the weather. There was not one male voice for a few hours. I do not think that was by design... one of the female anchors kept saying every 30 minutes that she was filling in for someone who had a male name.
--They missed one big story local story that KCBS was carrying in the evening about May Day protesters bashing in windows. KGO eventually picked it up and did a great job, but they were a couple of hours late.
--The imaging does not have any pizzazz. It actually sounded cheap. The one news sounder they play four times an hour is very underwhelming. One thing that CBS has shown is an all news station should have good imaging. Very distinctive sounds for different sections of the news cast. If you are zoning in the car, you wake up when you hear the sounder for traffic. Even KGO's traffic sounder was boring. WINS has always been known for it's imaging... CBS' new WNEW in Washington, DC took what WINS had and pumped it up. Listen to the top or bottom of the hour with WNEW and it is real clear what they are going to cover, it is dramatic, and it draws you in. The traffic sounder is loud and high pitched which gets your attention to pay attention. Granted, WNEW has a few of their own issues like saying "repeating the current temperature of 80 degrees". That is a no-no in radio. Never say repeating.
--There is a big push for the 11:00 PM news on KGO. It has the feel they are tying to compete with the TV broadcasts at that hour.
Overall, I would be happy with a KGO type product if they could work on their imaging. Make it sound like a news station.... make sure the sounders don't sound cheap and all of the announcers know where to start talking. Make sure the sounders are bright in sound. The KGO sounders are not bright and actually sound like they are being played on a cart machine with a dirty tape head.
Well, this is enough to begin a conversation on what we would like to see in the station.
--I was not happy that mid-day they had all women voices... the two anchors... the field reporters... even the weather. There was not one male voice for a few hours. I do not think that was by design... one of the female anchors kept saying every 30 minutes that she was filling in for someone who had a male name.
--They missed one big story local story that KCBS was carrying in the evening about May Day protesters bashing in windows. KGO eventually picked it up and did a great job, but they were a couple of hours late.
--The imaging does not have any pizzazz. It actually sounded cheap. The one news sounder they play four times an hour is very underwhelming. One thing that CBS has shown is an all news station should have good imaging. Very distinctive sounds for different sections of the news cast. If you are zoning in the car, you wake up when you hear the sounder for traffic. Even KGO's traffic sounder was boring. WINS has always been known for it's imaging... CBS' new WNEW in Washington, DC took what WINS had and pumped it up. Listen to the top or bottom of the hour with WNEW and it is real clear what they are going to cover, it is dramatic, and it draws you in. The traffic sounder is loud and high pitched which gets your attention to pay attention. Granted, WNEW has a few of their own issues like saying "repeating the current temperature of 80 degrees". That is a no-no in radio. Never say repeating.
--There is a big push for the 11:00 PM news on KGO. It has the feel they are tying to compete with the TV broadcasts at that hour.
Overall, I would be happy with a KGO type product if they could work on their imaging. Make it sound like a news station.... make sure the sounders don't sound cheap and all of the announcers know where to start talking. Make sure the sounders are bright in sound. The KGO sounders are not bright and actually sound like they are being played on a cart machine with a dirty tape head.
Well, this is enough to begin a conversation on what we would like to see in the station.
kal30005 said:
I do think that they will compete with WSB, and Who knows we may see some changes. I think we need some REAL competition for ole WIZBEE. They have sat , STAGNANT for a long time, so lets see what the future holds for them. I can see this being something that WSB can't ignore. Hopefully we will have some local news from this outlet. GOODBYE Atlanta's Greatest Hits.. I didnt like the way the went into this format, and added songs that really dont sound good on a true oldies station. The actual format flip to True Oldies, was horrid to say the least, no build up , no anything !!
It was just cheap background noise to keep the transmitter warm.
Read on Facbook where Pamela Furr of RushRadio Greensboro and fill-in host for WBT Charlotte saying she has been tapped for there and making the move to ATL next week.
I know you remember as we sat listened to the flip from country to oldies.. It was just stupid. Lets hope that when they make a move it actually is stunted. That would sound so much better ! ;Dfrdeaconjosephz said:
106.7 should have stayed Classic Country. Eagle 106.7 was a classy operation.
lilburncommunityradio said:
I respectfully disagree. IMHO a lengthy stunt (more than 60 seconds) is going to confuse any body who is tuning for the new format. A large number of Radio Geeks get excited but [/b]most of us [/b]do not have PPM units so we don't count. Had Citadel not been bought out by Cumulus some form of oldies: either True Oldies (which did OK and even beat 97.1 one month 6+ but older demos) or R & S and Atlanta's Greatest Hits (which was doing OK before Cumulus) would still be on 106.7. I can understand the temptation for somebody to go all news when you consider some of the top billing stations in the nation are all news. I always thought it would be CBS with ratings challenged 92.9 since they have WINS, WCBS, and WBBM and lots of all news experience.
Having just moved from the Bay area, I listened to KGO after the change, and it wasn't all that impressive, especially compared to their competition at KCBS. I don't know if they have changed much in the last 4 weeks.
I'm a bit saddened to hear WYAY is changing, though. Although the oldies format there never did much for me, I thought it had a tremendous upside if done well.
Dang... sure do miss being in ATL...
I'm a bit saddened to hear WYAY is changing, though. Although the oldies format there never did much for me, I thought it had a tremendous upside if done well.
Dang... sure do miss being in ATL...
I mentioned earlier that Cumulus owned KGO (mostly news) in San Fran has tired imaging and I contrasted that to WINS or WNEW (the new CBS newser in DC). Today in TRI's News/Talk column they talk about jingles. Specifically, they mention new technology that CBS is using at WINS (1010 WINS) and WNEW to make the music/jingles match the tempo of what is happening. The on air talent can make that happen on the fly. The software is how WINS and WNEW are doing those dramatic headlines at the beginning of each segment (20 minute segment on WINS and 30 minute segment on WNEW). Those segments make you want to hear the story and make the station very destinctive. If Cumulus goes the route of KGO, it just sounds boring.
Here is the link for the TRI news/talk jingle column:
http://www.radio-info.com/programming/newstalksports/the-power-of-jingles
Here is the link for the TRI news/talk jingle column:
http://www.radio-info.com/programming/newstalksports/the-power-of-jingles
It's about time for a city Atlanta's size. Yes, another oldies station has been sacrificed, but WSB won't go all-news. Not with Clark Howard in the way. Let's see how Cumulus does it.
When Atlanta's Greatest Hits flips to All News, you can still listen to basically the same station online from Buffalo, NY. Cumulus-owned Classic Hits 104.1 WHTT.
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