Dick Biondi signs on with "True Oldies 94.7"

[b344077]

Look at Bob Sirott, he's part of the older folks crowd and he's still working. Only weekends, but working.

 

[BarneyPip]

Granted, some of that music is good and worth listening too. But I don’t want to hear a 70 year old man ------, wheeze and gurgle on the air!

But you do want to hear someone who actually KNOWS SOMETHING about that good music...............not some twenty-something reading off of a script!

Sure...but there's something between a twenty-something liner reader and what you hear on 'ZZN. God bless him -- Biondi sure isn't going through the motions. He loves the music, loves his audience, loves radio. It would be great have him on the air maybe once a week, like Sundays noon to 4. But the station sounds just awful. Scott Shannon sounds terrible (to my ears), Records sounds like he's going through the motions (I could always be wrong), mornings are unremarkable. For contrast, listen in at www.wmji.com. It's Majic in Cleveland. You'll hear Oldies/Classic Top 40 being done right. Market legend John Lanigan is on in the mornings, but like Dick Purtan in Detroit and Dees in L.A., he still sounds pretty fresh and timeless. There's a reason WMJI wins Cleveland running away. They're a testament to what can happen in a mainstream format if you decide to just do great radio with great talent, creative approach to music, great production and formatics. And they're a ClearChannel station. I think they're v/t-ing middays with their country stations pm drive jock (not sure if it's v/t'd or not -- haven't listened in since he started).

Listen to Tommy Edwards at WILV. You may not like the music (I actually do), but Tommy sounds absolutely ageless. He's a phenomenal jock. He sounds great wherever he goes.

Here would be a fun oldies/classic top 40 station lineup in Chicago:

6a - 10a: Steve King and Johnnie Putnam
10a - 2p: Tommy Edwards
2p - 6p: Scotty Brink
6p - 10p: Jeff Davis
10p - 2a: Tom Kent's national show
2a - 6a: Java Joel (he did a great job with oldies at that suburban Crystal Lake station)

Jeff Hendrix for news
Mr. Biondi, Mike Kelly and Turi Ryder for weekend shifts
John Driscoll and Phil Duncan for image/production voices

That would be a fun sounding radio station. Heavy on 70s catalog...even some 80s (like Huey Lewis). Coax Sirott and Brant Miller to do guest shifts every now and then. The idea is that it's people who think it's an absolute blast to be on the air and sound like it. Couple it with a fun, fresh sound, not overly nostalgic. If 'ZZN can pull the numbers its pulling by phoning it in, imagine if a station actually was trying.

For the person wondering how Landecker and Biondi ended up on the air there in the midst of a sale -- yep, it's a little confusing. I guess the GM calculated the cost per point of hiring these guys and liked what he saw to his bottom line. And these guys were on the beach. I'll bet it didn't take a whole lot to get them.

 

[JeremyAndrews]

Listen to Tommy Edwards at WILV. You may not like the music (I actually do), but Tommy sounds absolutely ageless. He's a phenomenal jock. He sounds great wherever he goes.

I agree. Tommy sounds really good on WILV.

 

[Reggiefan1945]

He doesnt sound that old and age does not matter as long as he entertains. Dick Biondi is a true entertainer and he knows the music. People under the age of 25 are looking for good music. Some of the most downloaded songs are from the younger generation getting classic oldies....Good music is good music, whether it came out in 1965 or 2005.

 

[TheFonz]

Good music is good music, whether it came out in 1965 or 2005.

Or 1957

 

[yocco]

Enjoy this station while it lasts. Farid and company will probably take it off the air.