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Dave Merlino - WGST

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My usual station on my Internet radio was not working so I tuned into WGST's stream and heard a live and local show. Anyone ever heard of Dave Merlino? Is Scott Lindy planning a change at WGST? If so, would it not make more sense to run the show during the daytime? Oops! My mistake! It's still CC and the Building of Death!

Check out this link: http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=20460104

Yes....I know....I drew the low card, so I was WGST's listener this week.
 
I don't understand Atlanta radio. They are doing the same thing WGKA has done with Denny Schaffer. They have stuck him on from 9-11 weeknight which is a time that their signal can't even be picked up at the station. I was listening to Denny's show a couple of weeks ago and even he, himself, was complaining about nobody calling in. How do these people find an audience when nobody can pick them up?
 
R2OntheAir said:
I don't understand Atlanta radio. They are doing the same thing WGKA has done with Denny Schaffer. They have stuck him on from 9-11 weeknight which is a time that their signal can't even be picked up at the station. I was listening to Denny's show a couple of weeks ago and even he, himself, was complaining about nobody calling in. How do these people find an audience when nobody can pick them up?
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I don't understand radio in most cities. The days of analog receivers with rotary tuning knobs are drawing to a close. Most radios I've seen, whether in a car or for the home/office have digital tuners and preset buttons. The days of slowly twisting the dial and pausing at each strong signal until you find a "good" one went out with cathedral-looking Philcos. When listeners have their favorite stations programmed onto preset buttons, you're not going to get anyone except a few DXing geeks stumbling across your station by accident. If a radio station doesn't use whatever media is out there to inform listeners about new programs, then those new listeners aren't going to tune in.

When I moved to Atlanta, I searched out six radio stations I thought I'd like, and programmed the six preset buttons on my car radio. My wife did the same for her six buttons. (In the interest of marital harmony, she gets FM1 and I get FM2. Neither of us used the AM band, though I suspect it might work.)

If someone has a new program or format that they want the ordinary radio listener to sample, one that maybe he'll like and listen to, it's their responsibility to tell him about it. They're the sellers, selling their station to the customer. It's not the customers' responsibility to find them.
 
Talk_Dude: you couldn't be anymore correct, it's the radio stations job to let us know.

All to often radio stations do not advertise, if very little, listeners really have no idea as to whats really available....
 
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