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Do you have anything good to say about Columbus radio?

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dawg4life

I don't have much but I'll try to come up with a few things.

The Brew @ 105.7 really isn't that bad of a station. Sometimes they play good variety of rock but it's inconsistent. I can actually listen to the station for a while before it gets old and any station that's the home of The Cleveland Browns is a great station to me although the Browns suck really, really, really bad.

I like radio 106.7 even though they're as cookie cutter as they get.

I have always enjoyed the Saturday Night Club Mix on WNCI even though I hate WNCI with a passion.

Aaaaaaaaand.....that's about all I got.

OMG, I just realized the only things I like are from Clear Channel!
 
dawg4life said:
The Brew @ 105.7 really isn't that bad of a station. Sometimes they play good variety of rock but it's inconsistent. I can actually listen to the station for a while before it gets old and any station that's the home of The Cleveland Browns is a great station to me although the Browns suck really, really, really bad.
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That's about how I would size it up, too, although, I'd make that "very" inconsistent for the Brew. But when "isn't really that bad" is high praise locally, it's another indicator of the sorry state of this market. I'm not even considering the many of the non-viable signals, but right now none of them are more than mediocre at best, anyway. Sorry state of affairs,. Name any other market in the Top 50 (or the great majority of the Top 100), and there will be at least a couple doing good formats/approaches very successfully (usually of a mainstream nature) that aren't available here, and never have been (again, on a viable signal).

Of course, as I've said before, Columbus's viable signals *do* excel at two things: (1) duplication (2) making money without optimizing, due to the sparse number of viable signals. Nothing to be proud of, though.

If you look at some individual personalities and community service, there are certainly some positives around (won't try to be more specific here). But overall, Columbus is absolutely the worst decent-sized market in the U.S. No contest.
 
Good for you for liking crappy cookie cutter radio. The only half decent CC owned FM stations is 106.7 HD2 FM. The only FM stations I listen to are WCRS, WWCD, WCBE, WOSU, WBNS, and WDTA for Phil Hendrie and Science Fantastic. WLZT HD2 FM for WTVN news. Too bad there isn't a good FM talker here in Columbus.
 
Great post! Here's my 2 cents. There are some great programmers in this market. Jay at The Fan, Andy at CD101, Hal at The Rock, Tony at SUNY95 and There is a reason McCoy is in Detroit now. Say what you want about those guys, some of them you may like some you may not, but they all have track records of success and they all know the biz.

There are some excellent jocks in cbus. Ronni Hunter, Joe Show, Blazor. Those three alone have 60+ years of community service rocking this city and rocking it well. I didn't even get in to the other guys, I'll leave that up to you.

I've worked at radiohio, cc and nabco and all 3 engineering staffs are top notch. I've been in the biz for 20+years in many markets and with the exeption of WLUP in Chicago, I've seen none better.
 
Image99Seven said:
Great post! Here's my 2 cents. There are some great programmers in this market. Jay at The Fan, Andy at CD101, Hal at The Rock, Tony at SUNY95 and There is a reason McCoy is in Detroit now. Say what you want about those guys, some of them you may like some you may not, but they all have track records of success and they all know the biz.
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Unfortunately "good programmer" does not equate to "radio Columbus needs."  I'm always thrilled when a programmer of a station I really like in another market comes to town, but for a host of reasons they never seem to end up creating anything similar in Columbus.  I keep waiting, but it never happens.  Conversely, I've seen Columbus programmers move to other markets and -- for a host of reasons -- successfully create the kind of radio station Columbus really needs...but somewhere else.

Image99Seven said:
There are some excellent jocks in cbus. Ronni Hunter, Joe Show, Blazor. Those three alone have 60+ years of community service rocking this city and rocking it well. I didn't even get in to the other guys, I'll leave that up to you.
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I've always found Mr. Show to be shockingly under-appreciated.  He is a real talent.


Image99Seven said:
I've worked at radiohio, cc and nabco and all 3 engineering staffs are top notch. I've been in the biz for 20+years in many markets and with the exeption of WLUP in Chicago, I've seen none better.
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I'm always coming down hard on CC.Columbus despite some talented people (including JBC), but when it comes to engineering they really impress.  Nabco is good on that count, too.  I guess I have a hard time giving any attaboys to RadiOhio engineering simply because 97.1 always sounded way too flat for a Hot AC instead of more foreground.
 
Hal Fish is incompentent when programming WTDA. The last public ratings book show the station at the bottom. The whole weekday line up needs to change. Add talkers that have an actual following here in Columbus. For example Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, and Matt and Romana. Heck put Mark the Shark in the afternoon drive time.
 
Hey at least Country fans are happy. Now that Hee-Haw-Way 102.5 is finally blasting banjo all over the whole Columbus metropolitan area, we could probably make a case for the most Country stations per capita in the United States.
 
dawg4life said:
Hey at least Country fans are happy. Now that Hee-Haw-Way 102.5 is finally blasting banjo all over the whole Columbus metropolitan area, we could probably make a case for the most Country stations per capita in the United States.
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Ain't no "probably" about it.  Fact.  In the top 379 markets, anyway.
 
A placeholder automated format being programmed out of Zanesville is an asterisk on this list. It won't be there inside of a year.

And since I've been pleading this on the 102.5 thread...can anyone confirm that they are indeed pumping the automated country out of the new Baltimore COL site today?
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
A placeholder automated format being programmed out of Zanesville is an asterisk on this list. It won't be there inside of a year.

And since I've been pleading this on the 102.5 thread...can anyone confirm that they are indeed pumping the automated country out of the new Baltimore COL site today?
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Yes automated country is coming in loud and clear here in NW Columbus (near Dublin).

Matt
 
xmusicmatt said:
OhioMediaWatch said:
A placeholder automated format being programmed out of Zanesville is an asterisk on this list. It won't be there inside of a year.

And since I've been pleading this on the 102.5 thread...can anyone confirm that they are indeed pumping the automated country out of the new Baltimore COL site today?
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Yes automated country is coming in loud and clear here in NW Columbus (near Dublin).

Matt
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The Columbus stick signed on at 7:00 P.M. last night, as planed. The GM of 102.5 announced those plans yesterday
on the www.whiznews.com news report. Did you see that video report?
They are doing Program tests today and tommorrow.
 
I can't actually access that video for some reason, but I did read the text. It didn't say that the new 102.5 signal was actually on (at 7 PM or any other time), but that it was coming Wednesday. I wanted confirmation from people with actual radios and actual ears. :D
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
I can't actually access that video for some reason, but I did read the text. It didn't say that the new 102.5 signal was actually on (at 7 PM or any other time), but that it was coming Wednesday. I wanted confirmation from people with actual radios and actual ears. :D
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You need to download the Flash Player to be able to see that video. This is a seven minute interview with the owner of the station. The text you saw was a condensed version of the video interview with the owner. It is highly recommended you are interested in why they moved the stower to Columbus and how it will impact the Zainesville audience while expanding into the Columbus radio market.

If you need MORE proof that they DID indeed sigh on as of 7:00 PM yesterday, this is the email I received from the Chief Engineer of the new 102.5:

As of 6:59PM last night we have been on the air. Thank you for all of your interest in the past.
 
gabigley1 said:
You need to download the Flash Player to be able to see that video. This is a seven minute interview with the owner of the station. The text you saw was a condensed version of the video interview with the owner. It is highly recommended you are interested in why they moved the stower to Columbus and how it will impact the Zainesville audience while expanding into the Columbus radio market.

If you need MORE proof that they DID indeed sigh on as of 7:00 PM yesterday, this is the email I received from the Chief Engineer of the new 102.5:

As of 6:59PM last night we have been on the air. Thank you for all of your interest in the past.
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Again, gabigley...thank you for that last bit of information. When you have actually confirmed information from a reliable source (i.e. the WHIZ CE), please let us know.

I did manage to get that video going, which mentioned the 7 PM time (beforehand, at that point, of course, since the interview was done before the sign-on of 102.5/Baltimore). It had the long explanation from Mr. Littick about the Columbus audience, some of which didn't really make it into the text.

I still don't get the idea that WHIZ Media Group intends to run 102.5 for Columbus in the long-term. I'm thinking Mr. Littick can try getting some more money out of Columbus-based regional sponsors which already run commercials for Zanesville on his three other stations (AM/FM/TV), while he's still controlling the station.
 
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