Didn't Live 105.3 Suck?

[LibertyNT]

I was just wondering... when people said 105.3 Sucked. No one Defended it.
No that its gone its all everyone's talking about. And its all about how much they miss it.
Makes me wonder.... :-\

 

[Slambang]

Liberty, people also talk about the good ol' days when Polio, Ration Books and commie witch hunts were all the rage too...

Lets be honest, KLLI began to lose it around 2003, when P&K came in and started their 3h45m of live spot schtick, it got worse when spittle took over and Russ's attitude and issues didnt make it any better. The only thing that held it together was Stern, when he left in 2006, the whole thing began to crumble. Why it took CBS Radio this long to demolish it is a question many have asked and still wonder...

At least with this new start, we're getting a different format on FM that can succeed in this market...

 

[LibertyNT]

Liberty, people also talk about the good ol' days when Polio, Ration Books and commie witch hunts were all the rage too...

Lets be honest, KLLI began to lose it around 2003, when P&K came in and started their 3h45m of live spot schtick, it got worse when spittle took over and Russ's attitude and issues didnt make it any better. The only thing that held it together was Stern, when he left in 2006, the whole thing began to crumble. Why it took CBS Radio this long to demolish it is a question many have asked and still wonder...

At least with this new start, we're getting a different format on FM that can succeed in this market...

I gotta Agree with you 105.3 Used to be an Excellent Talk Station.
In my opinion Gavin Murdered it. But oh we'll past is past.
Russ has gotten worse though...

 

[PyThomasTX]

Of all the changes to implement... did they HAVE to add the tired stuck-in-the-70s singing-chorus station ID's? That crap should stay on Lite FM.

I'm only tuning in for Jagger... and after that, it's iPod and XM for me.

 

[jkentclax]

I think the station was fine when Gavin got here and was fine for a while. When he brought in BDH and started moving leykis around is when it started to spiral out of control. WE NEED RUSS BACK NOW!!!!!!!! David, Gavin and Brian are FOOLS!!!!

 

[outlaw2448]

I was just wondering... when people said 105.3 Sucked. No one Defended it.
No that its gone its all everyone's talking about. And its all about how much they miss it.
Makes me wonder.... :-\

I defended 105.3, but I got overwhelmed because I'm only one person who was trying to defend a castle against millions of haters. No offense to anyone who didn't or doesn't like Live 105.3

 

[board monkey]

Jan 17 2004 is when things changed at 1053 as I remember it. Liz Wilde got bumped from 7-11 to 10-2. Leykus replaced them and that was the day Eddie Boyd left the RMS. He used to write all the game bits and was a master at the explosives wiring. Then IF I remember correctly Liz Wilde was bumped to 12-2 and Lovelines took over at 10-12 slot. I always thought the live, local show was a better fit, but Adam and Drew had the ratings. It wasn't long Liz was gone and in came Don & Mike. OH! that show was horrible. Many of you can say that was the year the RMS started to decline, but I will contend it wasn't. It did change because games like "What Did I Tell You" and "Can The Answer Be C" really left. Later to try to be written by Trey, but IMHO it just wasn't the same. Eddie was good at it. I'm not sure how much Russ had to do with writing those games. Anyways, P&K was still a good midday show and started to REALLY pick up sponsors. I believe that's when the half hour spot breaks began. Later to be replaced by half hour segments of on air endorsements. Then P&K get full of themselves and let Sybil go. Now I will contend that one person on a show leaving doesn't kill a show, but Syb had a following too. Many people turned off P&K after Syb's departure. Fortunately she had the NASCAR gig. Which for her was a blessing. For the station, I dont know. Maybe it was sign of a test of what was to come from the higher ups. NASCAR does well, the station will implement more sports. After all the target audience was male 18-35 and 25-54. After Stern left we all knew that no one would be able to pull numbers like that again. Unless Russ goes mornings and we all heard that wasn't happening. So in comes David Lee Sloth and kills for two freaking months. Then he is out and O&A return. I never liked O&A so my opinion is biased but they had a horrible show. Then came the split with Jagger and O&A. That was just a bad move. Either Jagger or O&A, not both. Then O&A are gone and jagger gets the slot. I dunno, but I just do not like Jagger. His whole cast is hack. So a decline in the mornings due to the musical morning show chairs and ratings decline. So now the morning and the midday numbers are on a down hill decline. Then P&K split and who fill in Big Dick Hunter. A horrible show. I mean this guy had a segment on his show called the "Top 10 Ticket Moments" anytime you have a segment on your show highlighting other moments from the station, you must have no talent, prep, or show content. With all this cluster "F" of rotating shows and the lack of appeal to a mass audience your listeners will go elsewhere. My opinions are not the definite answers to how or why 1053 declined to a flip, but I believe that some of the answers can be found in this post. I'm thinking that with the station flipping to sports they believe they will have a stable cast and stable sound of sports and that's what they can focus on without a different reset point of sports and random talk throughout the day. JMHO

 

[elokiddy]

Jan 17 2004 is when things changed at 1053 as I remember it. Liz Wilde got bumped from 7-11 to 10-2. Leykus replaced them and that was the day Eddie Boyd left the RMS. He used to write all the game bits and was a master at the explosives wiring. Then IF I remember correctly Liz Wilde was bumped to 12-2 and Lovelines took over at 10-12 slot. I always thought the live, local show was a better fit, but Adam and Drew had the ratings. It wasn't long Liz was gone and in came Don & Mike. OH! that show was horrible. Many of you can say that was the year the RMS started to decline, but I will contend it wasn't. It did change because games like "What Did I Tell You" and "Can The Answer Be C" really left. Later to try to be written by Trey, but IMHO it just wasn't the same. Eddie was good at it. I'm not sure how much Russ had to do with writing those games. Anyways, P&K was still a good midday show and started to REALLY pick up sponsors. I believe that's when the half hour spot breaks began. Later to be replaced by half hour segments of on air endorsements. Then P&K get full of themselves and let Sybil go. Now I will contend that one person on a show leaving doesn't kill a show, but Syb had a following too. Many people turned off P&K after Syb's departure. Fortunately she had the NASCAR gig. Which for her was a blessing. For the station, I dont know. Maybe it was sign of a test of what was to come from the higher ups. NASCAR does well, the station will implement more sports. After all the target audience was male 18-35 and 25-54. After Stern left we all knew that no one would be able to pull numbers like that again. Unless Russ goes mornings and we all heard that wasn't happening. So in comes David Lee Sloth and kills for two freaking months. Then he is out and O&A return. I never liked O&A so my opinion is biased but they had a horrible show. Then came the split with Jagger and O&A. That was just a bad move. Either Jagger or O&A, not both. Then O&A are gone and jagger gets the slot. I dunno, but I just do not like Jagger. His whole cast is hack. So a decline in the mornings due to the musical morning show chairs and ratings decline. So now the morning and the midday numbers are on a down hill decline. Then P&K split and who fill in Big Dick Hunter. A horrible show. I mean this guy had a segment on his show called the "Top 10 Ticket Moments" anytime you have a segment on your show highlighting other moments from the station, you must have no talent, prep, or show content. With all this cluster "F" of rotating shows and the lack of appeal to a mass audience your listeners will go elsewhere. My opinions are not the definite answers to how or why 1053 declined to a flip, but I believe that some of the answers can be found in this post. I'm thinking that with the station flipping to sports they believe they will have a stable cast and stable sound of sports and that's what they can focus on without a different reset point of sports and random talk throughout the day. JMHO

That was one of the most difficult paragraphs to read. Ever.

 

[board monkey]

Jan 17 2004 is when things changed at 1053 as I remember it. Liz Wilde got bumped from 7-11 to 10-2. Leykus replaced them and that was the day Eddie Boyd left the RMS. He used to write all the game bits and was a master at the explosives wiring. Then IF I remember correctly Liz Wilde was bumped to 12-2 and Lovelines took over at 10-12 slot. I always thought the live, local show was a better fit, but Adam and Drew had the ratings. It wasn't long Liz was gone and in came Don & Mike. OH! that show was horrible. Many of you can say that was the year the RMS started to decline, but I will contend it wasn't. It did change because games like "What Did I Tell You" and "Can The Answer Be C" really left. Later to try to be written by Trey, but IMHO it just wasn't the same. Eddie was good at it. I'm not sure how much Russ had to do with writing those games. Anyways, P&K was still a good midday show and started to REALLY pick up sponsors. I believe that's when the half hour spot breaks began. Later to be replaced by half hour segments of on air endorsements. Then P&K get full of themselves and let Sybil go. Now I will contend that one person on a show leaving doesn't kill a show, but Syb had a following too. Many people turned off P&K after Syb's departure. Fortunately she had the NASCAR gig. Which for her was a blessing. For the station, I dont know. Maybe it was sign of a test of what was to come from the higher ups. NASCAR does well, the station will implement more sports. After all the target audience was male 18-35 and 25-54. After Stern left we all knew that no one would be able to pull numbers like that again. Unless Russ goes mornings and we all heard that wasn't happening. So in comes David Lee Sloth and kills for two freaking months. Then he is out and O&A return. I never liked O&A so my opinion is biased but they had a horrible show. Then came the split with Jagger and O&A. That was just a bad move. Either Jagger or O&A, not both. Then O&A are gone and jagger gets the slot. I dunno, but I just do not like Jagger. His whole cast is hack. So a decline in the mornings due to the musical morning show chairs and ratings decline. So now the morning and the midday numbers are on a down hill decline. Then P&K split and who fill in Big Dick Hunter. A horrible show. I mean this guy had a segment on his show called the "Top 10 Ticket Moments" anytime you have a segment on your show highlighting other moments from the station, you must have no talent, prep, or show content. With all this cluster "F" of rotating shows and the lack of appeal to a mass audience your listeners will go elsewhere. My opinions are not the definite answers to how or why 1053 declined to a flip, but I believe that some of the answers can be found in this post. I'm thinking that with the station flipping to sports they believe they will have a stable cast and stable sound of sports and that's what they can focus on without a different reset point of sports and random talk throughout the day. JMHO

That was one of the most difficult paragraphs to read. Ever.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SORRY! I was writing it straight off the top of my head.

 

[puffpuffgiv]

I think board monkey had some interesting points that are noteworthy on a grander scale of time.

 

[dirtyd]

lol i thought it was BIG dick hunter writing that until the knock down power he had about BDH. HAHAHa hard paragraph to read, but almost right on. gj. thanks for your opinion.

 

[marksman]

In hindsight, it is clear that Gavin destroyed the station.
What is not so clear is why CBS let this moron flip this station to fit the format he tried to semi-force on it for years with his stupid incongruent sports programming. the second he signed the Nascar deal CBS should have fired him for not knowing what he is doing.