> The ratings have arrived and the anxiety is over or just
> beginning. Here is another biased spin of the latest
> ratings
I'm biased too, and a Liberal. Can you actually believe I have Evansville roots(I was born there in 1977)
>
> WIKY-Consistency pays off for the gang at “Xanadu”, high
> atop Mount Engelbrecht. They celebrate once again as
> everything seems to work. Don’t screw it up!
Yeah, they are reliable. Exciting, no. But then again, soccer moms don't want exciting. Well, Radio that is.
>
> WKDQ-The Wolf chewed off a couple of their carrots, but this
> too shall pass. It just means you have to work a little
> harder reinforcing who are and what you do. Most of all
> remember 100,000 watts has better penetration downtown than
> 3,200 watts ERP does emanating from way out in Warrick
> County.
Mabye WKDQ needs fresh blood? I mean, it's cool that Bill has worked in Evansville for over 30 years and I apreciate his contributions and such, but mabye it's time for a slightly younger WKDQ.
>
> WSTO-Hot 96 has finally purged itself of the Brill Media
> trade and the after effects of its jackass management.
> Congratulations.
No kidding. A station that sounded so horrible, and someone I wrote off years ago has actually been making moves to sound better and it's paid off!
>
> WJLT-After South Central ditched the oldies format for the
> “Wolf”, it was a given Regent would change “Light Rock with
> Less Talk, Lite 105.3” to oldies. Let’s face it, John Tesh
> tried, but in “The River City”, Delilah wears the balls.
> The former WJPS audience found 105.3, as did a bunch more,
> and life is good at the corner of Highway 41 and Lincoln
> Avenue. It was a surprise they didn’t keep Sam Yates for
> the format, but such is life. Personal note: Cindy Patrick
> is doing well programming Oldies 105.3, but the radio geek
> living inside me wonders what life would be like if Johnny
> Randolph had been in the building when the format change
> happened. Imagine the possibilities!
Don't know.
>
> WLFW-Nice debut, now you have to maintain it. Remember your
> weakness is your lack of penetration, signal that is, and
> WKDQ has you beat.
It's not over until the next book. I just wish there was this much competition in formats I would listen to in Evansville, like AC, Urban, CHR/Pop/Rhythmic/Dance, New Rock, etc etc.
>
> WABX-Just keep updating “The Babe of the Day” on your
> website.
Well, they pretty much own the classic Rock field. WKTG is too far out to make a dent.
>
> WDKS-Brill Media was the best thing to happen to Kiss.
> Their bastardization of WSTO basically handed Kiss an
> audience and eventually beat the trade heavy WSTO. South
> Central has reinvented 96.1 and rest is in the numbers.
> Don’t give up quite yet. It’s just back to the drawing
> board.
Well, I've said it before and I'll get somebody going "dude, you know NOTHING about this market" but Regent should explore the idea of a Rhythmic CHR(Hip Hop, R&B, mabye Old Skool, mabye a little pop/dance). There is a 6-7% black population and didn't people on this board already say that Kiss was regarded as the black station anyways? Well, why not go full blown and serve them? And yes, white kids would listen too. It's about the only thing I see working on 106.1. They've been down the Talk and Hot AC road already and the signal covers Evansville efficently.
Or MOVE GBF to 106.1 and put a Urban on 103.1, as 103.1 might get a signal into the black area which is west of 41 and borders the Washington/Lincoln Area.
>
> WGBF-FM- Nothing to see here, let’s move on.
I'd agree except people whine about the lack of signal particulary north of Diamond Ave.
>
> WEOA- Here is a music intensive station transmitting to
> receivers producing audio bandwidth that is less than a cell
> phone and they have ratings? What would happen if you put
> this on FM? Oh well, I’ll guess we’ll never know.
>
I think we will know. We just have to change some conservitive attitudes.
> WGBF-AM-Obviously the ratings fall is due to a Liberal
> conspiracy.
And it's all syndicated. The only employees that WGBF-AM have might be a engineer and mabye the Janitor.
>
> WSON-Henry Lackey could care less about anything other than
> what concerns Henderson. Best of all he’s having a blast
> doing local radio. He gets a preset on my car radio just so
> I can hear AM stereo.
Well, he's not wasting a frequency unlike Regent. And there is still a sizable senior population still in Evansville.
>
> WYXY-The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Yeah, but they can do better. I would have thought this station would be tailored made for a market like Evansville as there are a lotta christians and churches and those christians who don't listen to WIKY or WKDQ and are white would have picked this station as a primary station. Would have expected a 4 or 5 out of this station.
>
> WBKR-They own a chunk of the Western Kentucky TSA, any
> Evansville numbers are a sweet bonus.
Those 74 ratings and todays ratings all tell a story. BKR is as steady as she goes.
>
> WKTG-Power Rock has a few fans in the metro, way to go.
Just a few though. Wonder if they should start leaning more new rock?
>
> WYNG-Even in mono and using ESPN programming, 94.9 can’t
> make much of a dent in metro. Maybe the next book will be
> better.
It better. Us Radiogeeks(no pun intended to me) WYNG country fans and everybody else will pounce on them if it don't.
>
> WQXQ-It’s one of the biggest signals in the area and it just
> sits there. Such potential wasted.
Agreed! Satellite on a 100kw signal? I would expect that in Colby KS, but In Evansville?
>
>
> We start the madness again September 22, the fall book.
>
I can't wait!
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