Taylorengineer said "Showbiz just can't be boiled down to a formula......it ain't math - it's emotion." That is whats wrong with the Industry. Imus attracted the "Wall Street" type of investers in the 80's & 90's and they have dehumanize and about killed the business. These guys are only interested in this quarter's numbers. Had these guys ran the business in the 1960's there would be no comercial FM. I personally know several operator's who lost money running a FM for years with the hope of someday reaping the rewards. Many did. There was a time in the mid to late 1960's when if you wanted an AM it would help if you would "take" a FM too. I use to work at a station that "traded" a 100KW fm for a 3 KW to save on the power bill! I see the same kind of thinking at all the clusters. It's not how can we do better but how can we do it cheaper. With streaming and better cell networks thier will be no need for over half of the stations. Just stream a New York station.
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Elvis Duran Headed to 105.7 The Groove
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So... Radioman... I decided to listen to Elvis again thinking that maybe my opinion was unjustified... Nope.. I was right. Tuned in at 9am and Elvis mentioned someone said his voice sounded like a movie trailer VoiceOver guy..(setup for... Are you ready?) movie trailer parody on Avatar called Avafart! Complete with farting sounds and his whole team gigling in the backround. Yeah Radioman... Quality parodies. I won't be listening.
OMG Avafart how freaking hysterical. I can see his cronies laugh their butts off. That is good radio. Reminds of that great morning show "The Morning Mess" with all of their clapping. Now I can;t wait for them to get here. Their target audience in Atlanta loves fart jokes.
Watch out little Bertie. Elvis is coming to get you.
Watch out little Bertie. Elvis is coming to get you.
Inside your radio said:
I heard it too. First off, it wasn't a parody. He riffed that live after a text came in saying his voice sounded like a movie trailer guy. He took the #1 and spoofed it. Great stuff. 30 seconds in a 4 hour show. Yeah, fair sampling. I guess you don't hear the relationship topics that go far beyond the male/ female thing or the compassion they show when a soldiers mom calls, or how great they are at interviewing their major name talent. I guess their other cities just like farts and that's all they get. Must be easy. Perhaps we should all get shows!
You come off like a guy who hates Rap or Heavy Metal so they say it all sounds the same because you don't have an ear for it. Just because YOU don't like a format is only an indication that YOU don't like the format. Clearly, you are not Elvis' audience. You make it sound like you are a big CHR morning show fan who can name better chr morning shows but you offer none and clearly are more the NPR, male talk radio, oldies type.
I think the posts after yours are more on target with their opinions.
Call me repetitive (from previous posts). I MUST be the only one, here. BUT, does ELVIS DURAN of Z100 know that he'll being airing on a fuzzy, mono FM signal in the majority of the Atlanta market! ???
Radaioman said:
Do you think I'm some old fart Radioman? Ha... I did mornings/middays/Pmd at rock stations for 10 years. Im in my 30's and now I'm Dj'ing nightclubs in NYC. I play AND like all music. And my Footy connection comes from being a family friend from when I was a kid growing up in Miami. So... you're idea of me is ALL wrong. You are right that I like male oriented, edgy, topical, FUNNY radio shows... agreed CHR morning shows aren't my thing but I have no problem giving props. I tuned into Elvis and thought the bit was stupid so I punched out. A total PPM moment. Good luck to him. I don't care if he succeeds in Atlanta or not. Bottom line is I don't care for his show. But I'm certainly NOT NPR or Oldies radio listening guy. Lol... Good luck ELVIS!
One could argue that it kind of makes sense since Groove's audience is basically 30 to 40 something females (who would have been teenage girls listening to Elvis at night in Z93 in '88 or so). Also since it was a rhythmic CHR at that time, Z93 played many of the rhythmic gold titles that now make up Groove's library. Sure it's a stretch, but there is a connection.BRH said:
Former "Elvis Duran Morning Show" member John Bell predicts that affiliates are going to start cancelling the show; this on the heels of WMTX/Tampa letting Elvis go:
http://www.examiner.com/x-5468-NY-M...30-John-Bell-moves-forward-since-leaving-Z100
“It’s the first of a …series of syndicated markets that [will] drop their morning show.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-5468-NY-M...30-John-Bell-moves-forward-since-leaving-Z100
“It’s the first of a …series of syndicated markets that [will] drop their morning show.”
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