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Delilah song choices

KilowattKat said:
I wonder if all affiliates are required to air the same dedicated song, while the non dedicated music can be changed out.
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My local Delilah outlet, KFRO and KFRO-FM, seems to meander out of its typical song selection when Delilah's show is airing. Usually a format heavy on the classics from the 80's and 90's, but during Delilah, it almost has the resemblance of a Hot AC, with a gold or two tossed in every hour.
 
KilowattKat said:
I don't understand how the appropriate dedicated song is aired if everyone is doing their own music logs.
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There is never a specific song with the way the show is edited together if it's a station programming its own music. Heck, for all I know the satellite version doesn't even mention specific songs anymore.

It's one of those shows where Delilah could have retired 10 years ago and with a little creative editing you could have an endless supply of calls to keep the show going. I believe she does still record new content, but there's essentially no reason for her to other than she wants to.

You have syndicated weekend shows where talent like Bill St. James, Nina Blackwood and M.G. Kelly haven't recorded new content in years/decades, but "new" shows are still produced for each weekend with their years of shows.
 
IMO, the worst of the syndicated shows are the ones that are just "generic" shows that can be plugged into a multitude of formats.

A few years ago, I had to suffer through one of these syndicated morning shows (thank goodness their names escape me) which was just a "Morning Zoo" type show that did edgy put-on calls. They never mentioned any songs that would be played on the affiliate.

And in this world of the younger generation where f- and s- bombs are as common as Starbucks, very rarely was there anything bleepable. Which leads me to believe that many of the "calls" were staged.

And yet these are the people who are making the money while genuine live and local talent that rely on real calls and events get screwed.
 
kevtronics said:
At least as of the last time I listened, Delilah doesn't even pretend to do song requests anymore.
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Delilah has 6 breaks per hour. There are three caller breaks between the music. The other 3 are Delilah herself at the top of the hour and going into commercials.

For stations that do not take the satellite feed, her show is set up so that the 6 breaks can be imported into any station log as regular voicetracks.

She has stepped away from doing some things. She gave up her hometown station KDUN last year. She only records a day or two a week at this point. Doesn't take long to knock out a full week of shows. Some recycling is inevitable. 15-20 years ago I used to have friends, family, sales people or a traffic reporter call in with a request when I needed content. Sometimes we had to record shows in a production studio where there was no access to listener lines.
 
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NJnerd19 said:
Delilah has 6 breaks per hour. There are three caller breaks between the music. The other 3 are Delilah herself at the top of the hour and going into commercials.

For stations that do not take the satellite feed, her show is set up so that the 6 breaks can be imported into any station log as regular voicetracks.

She has stepped away from doing some things. She gave up her hometown station KDUN last year. She only records a day or two a week at this point. Doesn't take long to knock out a full week of shows. Some recycling is inevitable. 15-20 years ago I used to have friends, family, sales people or a traffic reporter call in with a request when I needed content. Sometimes we had to record shows in a production studio where there was no access to listener lines.
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And the thing is,, the average listener doesnt realize what we radio nerds do.. how the show is done , etc..... like you described above. if it hits the target demo, thats all that counts. listeners generally dont care how its done or particulars of the show as long as they hear what they want.

I have some listeners in wyoming who know im not there anymore.. they still listne. Why? cuse im funny, entertaining and talk about local things
 
At one point, Delilah even did interviews every once in awhile - there's one with Madonna I have an aircheck of. I doubt it was an actual interview though, probably just one of those where there are canned answers and then the host asks the questions and it's edited together.
 
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SomeRadioGuy said:
I have some listeners in wyoming who know im not there anymore.. they still listne. Why? cuse im funny, entertaining
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Not to blow smoke up your backside, SRG, but you are mighty damned funny and entertaining right here on these boards, too. You tend to be one of my favorite reads. 🤠👍
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
And the thing is,, the average listener doesnt realize what we radio nerds do.. how the show is done , etc..... like you described above. if it hits the target demo, thats all that counts. listeners generally dont care how its done or particulars of the show as long as they hear what they want.

I have some listeners in wyoming who know im not there anymore.. they still listne. Why? cuse im funny, entertaining and talk about local things
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There's less engagement these days with listeners as well. With voicetracking becoming the norm, how often do you hear the listener line mentioned anymore? If they do you get a voicemail system and any DJ can pull from those. With digital taking over, high school kids aren't sitting in their rooms with the radio on anymore while they do homework or hangout with friends. 20 somethings aren't calling in from their cars anymore. They are on TikTok or listening to Spotify. Making a good show is becoming harder without "cheating". You have to be live to do a topic based CHR show. It gets a bit easier in other formats.
 
NJnerd19 said:
There's less engagement these days with listeners as well. With voicetracking becoming the norm, how often do you hear the listener line mentioned anymore? If they do you get a voicemail system and any DJ can pull from those. With digital taking over, high school kids aren't sitting in their rooms with the radio on anymore while they do homework or hangout with friends. 20 somethings aren't calling in from their cars anymore. They are on TikTok or listening to Spotify. Making a good show is becoming harder without "cheating". You have to be live to do a topic based CHR show. It gets a bit easier in other formats.
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On KLMI, we give out the office and studio numbers on average twice a show..... we get a few calls, we get some texts.

But you haver some good points. We have voicemail on office and studio #s and those vociemails get emailed to everyone.

rosecitymedia said:
Not to blow smoke up your backside, SRG, but you are mighty damned funny and entertaining right here on these boards, too. You tend to be one of my favorite reads. 🤠👍
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Thats gotten me in trouble with some of the mods here because of my more colorful entertaining antics
 
Bongwater said:
So technically, you could have a playlist full of Thrash Metal and still run Delilah?

Hot damn! I'm all in!
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"Can you play a song for my dear husband?"
"Sure, I'll do so"
*"Hangar 18" starts playing*

In all seriousness, Delilah can be easily worked into any "light" AC format (even Christian AC can run it because she's a Christian and will sometimes mention God during call segments).
SomeRadioGuy said:
And the thing is,, the average listener doesnt realize what we radio nerds do.. how the show is done , etc..... like you described above.
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Funny enough, I wanted to note The Bobby Bones Show while this subject is ongoing, as it's a deal where you can tape delay it instead of playing it live (there's stations that play it in the evening, like Canada's Pure Country network). Tape delaying seems to work for the station for if they want to determine their own log or cut out content - and it might have benefits when something goes wrong during the broadcast (Bones mentioned in an interview that when the EAS incident occurred in 2014, the syndicator had to cut the broadcast feed because affiliates were calling them complaining that the skit caused their EAS equipment to lock up)
 
knapfordsouthern1 said:
Tape delaying seems to work for the station for if they want to determine their own log or cut out content - and it might have benefits when something goes wrong during the broadcast (Bones mentioned in an interview that when the EAS incident occurred in 2014, the syndicator had to cut the broadcast feed because affiliates were calling them complaining that the skit caused their EAS equipment to lock up)
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what EAS incident?
 
Bobby seems not to be the sharpest when it comes to having common sense. Not just for doing the EAS tones as part of the bit, but for still not understanding years later why it was such a big deal. He’s lucky he wasn’t fired.
 


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