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Dead Air-A-Thon on WHVW

WHVW morning how host Sally Stark is missing in action again this morning. No replacement, just the automation machine.
 
No good deed goes unpunished...sounds like ferraro's trail of debt, hard feelings and alienation are catching up with him. When you have someone with 3 so called personalities doing morning drive and then not showing up half the time, ya gets what ya pays for. You couldnt make this stuff up.....

oldies4ever
 
283rich said:
Next day, same tired, old story: Once again Sally Stark is a no-show for the morning drive show she supposedly hosts.
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Isn't she a volunteer? If so, she is just doing WHVW for 'fun', and figures she can show up when and if she wants. If JP is indeed mistreating people, you can't blame her for not showing up.
Never heard of that. WHVW is the next WCKL. Both stations on 950 AM and 560 AM had terrible signals when it comes to that.
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Disney: Considering WHVW is only 500 watts, their signal is not so bad. Perhaps not as good as, it was back in their heyday in the sixties and seventies when the sounded pretty good with only 500 watts with 950 krispy kilocycles. 950 is not a bad frequency, with less co-channel interference than others. WCKL is another matter, which has already been covered.
 
If this is the case, MHVRadiofan: "Isn't she a volunteer? If so, she is just doing WHVW for 'fun', and figures she can show up when and if she wants."
...how do they convince advertisers to spend money to run spots in their morning drive programming, the must lucrative profitable time of day for any radio station?
 
283rich said:
If this is the case, MHVRadiofan: "Isn't she a volunteer? If so, she is just doing WHVW for 'fun', and figures she can show up when and if she wants."
...how do they convince advertisers to spend money to run spots in their morning drive programming, the must lucrative profitable time of day for any radio station?
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I believe they don't and there is no profit! This is a hobby station for the owner. I have been unable to force myself to listen to WHVW for more than a short period of time, not even in the interest of science. However when I have listened, I have not heard a commercial in a very long time. They likely pay the bills through time brokered airtime sales. Their costs are very low. There is no paid staff, besides owner JP. They rent one room in the back of an insurance agency on Main Street Poughkeepsie. Besides that, they have the electric bill and minimal maintenance on ancient equipment.
 
Thursday Report: WHVW's morning drive show today once again had a live (if somewhat lethargic, sleepy-sounding) host, Sally Stark. And once again, it had no paid commercials. But I guess you could call this progress. Or what passes for progress in J.P. Ferraro's world.
 
Dead carrier describes WHVW perfectly. Sally must be hung over, but is so terrrible you couldnt tell the difference...as far as showing up goes---anyone with an ounce of integrity or work ethic will tell you that if you commit to being there, be there on time. And if you work for nothing, the programming should be as good as it can be. Anyone can sound like s*it. Low operating costs??? Mortgage on tower site....taxes on tower site. electricity for studio and transmitter site... Fees to ASCAP and BMI.....telephone line to studio...telephone line to transmitter from studio...rent..... yes he has paid programming but if they pull out its over. I'm sure he's behind on any and all payments....when u hear no advertising, its taps playing, sooner or later....dont forget the automation with the dinosaur 386 processors.......

oldies4ever ;D

somewhat lethargic....LMAO.......
 
In these post-Sandy days when every radio station on the east coast (or at least every one in the Hudson Valley that I can hear) is doing everything it can to provide news and information to its listeners about road closings and conditions, emergency shelters, dry ice distribution, power outage updates, school and office closings, postponements, etc. ... where is WHVW? Not a peep out of morning show host Sally Stark who apparently has taken the week off, replaced by their prerecorded, commercial-free mix of music from the 30s, 40s and 50s via "Murray the Machine" for all of morning drive. And J.P. Ferraro wonders why he and his station are considered irrelevant?
 
Commercial free, and not in a good way. I'm surprised that HV is still on the air, have been for years. There's only one source of income for it, and if he loses that, who knows...someone always steps out of the shadows and bails him out at the last minute. He had the chance to have may influential people get him advertising, help him thru it, but he's such a *rick he pisses everyone off and they leave. Like I said---all good things come to an end. I have always maintained that run properly, this station could make money as a small hometown niche station. I go back to the late 80's here-everyone who has tried to manage the station has used it for their own personal piggy bank---trades maxed out by greedy sales people...advertising salespeople who sit around the office all day, and now, personal juke box for music thats so old and crusty that no one wants listen to...yodeling?? Gid tanner and the Skillet Lickers??? He had a first class morning drive oldies show by a great DJ , who had all his own music, and he blew that one. Chamber of Commerce Lunch time show, chased it away. Cnn news. gone. don't know if midhudsonnews.com still runs their feed, but most of the news you hear is a day old. And if you tuned in monday, the news feed was from friday afternoon. This guy could screw up a soup sandwich....

Like I said--it could make money with some real radio people in there...

oldies4ever ;D
 
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