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'F' bomb dropped on 97.1

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deltas69

anyone else hear the F word this morning on 97.1 ? happened at 7am during roxannes alledged newscast. some sound bite with a comedian doing a fat joke...no aknowledgement from the bored op...just out of the bite into a spot..precise term used was F'ING...i realize that now i've admitting to listening to them but only one of four i tune into depending on the locality of my commute.....
 
The F word was used Tuesday Morning on 102.9, the Buzz duirng the Free Beer & Hot Wings Show. That show is stupid, and totally nasty. During the 6 AM hour, all I heard was B***H, whore, and I did hear the F word.

I can handle a "morning show for adults" and the topic discussed of sex is brought up between married couples, but some of this stuff on FM is getting out of hand.

There is rulemaking somewhere I saw where the commission will allow the F Word used on the air between 10 PM and 5 AM. Gee, makes me think if the older TV/Radio broadcasters of the early 50's could hear all this non-sense, what would they think?

I believe one day, Howard Stern will return to the free airwaves, with his hookers, and nasty words. :mad:
 
you who requested Free Bird after playing that as our encore song back in my band days, i've probably heard it all i need to ..i'll admit to "that smell" as my favorite skynard song..strictly from a musical arrangement aspect..but don't confuse skynards arrangement on that with say a count basie, or duke ellington arrangement...but then..97 doesn't have those cats in the playlist.. ;D i used to play big band on the original 104.5 WFMG..as a budding drummer/bassist/guitar player..strictly leaning toward rock..i couldn't appreciate that stuff at the tender age of 21..strange how age makes you smarter and more appreciative..... :eek:
 
H*ll Delta**, neither Crumy or Cromy will probably get any FCC fines since no one listens to either frequency and both stations are to pathetic
and boring for even a top secret FCC special undercover super agent complete with badge, decoder ring and vintage 1978 casette recorder to monitor. They've probably said those words a couple hundred times just wondering if anyone would notice. Two total waste trees in a forest of valuable air space.

EARTH TO CRUMNASHVILLE --- read the Atlanta boards to learn how to compete...get some life into those tin cans and stop worrying about the COL.

Oh, and Delta@& --- remember you agreed to never admit to actually listening to any Crumulus station when you signed on this board. Don't give them the credit again or we'll never get any good stations here. :-\
 
scottwmro said:
The F word was used Tuesday Morning on 102.9, the Buzz duirng the Free Beer & Hot Wings Show. That show is stupid, and totally nasty. During the 6 AM hour, all I heard was B***H, whore, and I did hear the F word.

I can handle a "morning show for adults" and the topic discussed of sex is brought up between married couples, but some of this stuff on FM is getting out of hand.
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I think we put too much emphasis on specific words and not enough on context.

A lot of this crap in the morning does manage to avoid using actionable words, but the intent is obvious. (and to me, not entertaining at all. It's getting harder and harder to DX, because one can't stand to listen to stations long enough to figure out where they are!)

In the other direction... while travelling in Saskatchewan last summer, I was listening to a radio play on CBC Radio 1. It made repeated use of the "F-word" and "S-word" - but in the context of the everyday life of Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. From context, it was obviously reflecting what you'd really hear if you were serving in the military in a war zone. Really, it added to the program; one felt like they were in fact listening in on a military base.

They wouldn't dare air that program in the States; they'd get fined into oblivion. (they'd probably just bleep out all the "bad words". 99.9% of the audience would know exactly what word had been bleeped. And 100% would have a lesser radio experience.)
 
H*ll Delta**, neither Crumy or Cromy will probably get any FCC fines since no one listens to either frequency ...just thought..maybe they let it SLIP on purpose..just to see if anyone DID call and complain..that way they would know that SOMEONE was listening. I'll admit to about an hour a day..switching from 92,96,97,105.9..but i start out at 5:30 with the vol state station 88.5..a WIDE variety of 60s/70's..but they do fade out past rivergate on my car radio..strange..in 3 of the shops i call on around nashville..i've found them listening to vol state..there is an audience for that format...but i digress on that can of R&R worms...... ::)
 
I am surprised 97.1 recognized the letter F. F is missing in the station's thousand-times-a-day slogan, "Bob and Tom all morning, and classic hits all day, the new 97.1 The Tower...".
 
Come on, let's get off of WRQQ's tail for a minute. Everytime I get on here, somebody's got to be slamming them and it makes one think you are one of those still mad about a format changed the station decided to take that's not coming back, so get over it. That's been a year and one-half ago.

My beef is not with just WRQQ, but with a good portion of the FM's, not just our market, but others as well, with this mentality that they have to use nasty words just to get an audience. I heard some slamming words Tuesday morning on 102.9 that really shocked me.

Where is radio headed? Do we really need all this fowl & nasty programming on? I don't think so.
 
Scott, I would enjoy seeing 97.1 succeed. From what I read on these boards, 97.1 is management and programming dysfunction. They begged to take oldies from 96.3 when Jack signed on. Jack continues as a ratings success. Oldies went the way of the Edsel. Nearly everybody with any radio background but the Cumulus brass saw that oldies, while a popular format, attracted a penny-pinching audience. Consider this dead horse throughly beaten.

Enter Steve Dickert who promises to hire local. B&T mornings, St. Louis jocks and programmers did not have enough time to unpack suitcases before they were out the door. Dickert was not around very long.

Jake Wylde's Sunday evening show (IMHO one of their better programs) was given the heave-ho. Don't call our vitriol sour grapes. I like that 97.1 got off the all-Seger-all-the-time format and added Greg Kihn and other 80's music to the rotation. Once we see or hear something positive at 97.1, they pull a brain fart. 97.1 retreats into their mediocre, tired sound with that same image liner after every other song, into and out of breaks.
 
What about "Flash" as in "in the pan"? ;D

I really think they hoodwinked the oldies audience into thinking they were going to take over the "oldies" format. They hired Coyote and Cathy, and Bobby Knight, and I think they even brought in the syndicated Dick Bartley programming.

But they really tried pulling the wool over listeners ears when they did their format change over Labor Day weekend 2006. They tricked listeners into thinking that even though they were playing more '70s, and even '80s-based oldies, that they were still going to keep Coyote and Cathy, and Bobby Knight. I don't think they even kept Bob August doing traffic! And then that whole imaging thing, adding "tower" to their name, even though they didn't change anything else (at that time). But it was still better than burning their call letters WRQQ into our brain the way they constantly did for about six months!

I really believe they deserve the criticism we are giving them. Are we "piling on"? Well, I suppose that is open for debate!
 
Scott --- sorry, 97.1 and Crumulus ain't gonna get a hall pass from me. The frequency is full of such bad karma
that nothing will probably ever work. They have treated 97.1 as a hated mother-in-law. They have had some
incredible talent roll through like waves crashing on the beach and have disrespected the listeners request to
operate a station worth a damn. If I was a manager of the Nashville cluster, I would flip that station and go
get some real ratings and create a stir. But, no, we're just going to play Bob Seger for the one trillionth time.
Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAD EXCUSE OF A WASTE OF A GREAT SIGNAL.
 
scottwmro said:
Come on, let's get off of WRQQ's tail for a minute. Everytime I get on here, somebody's got to be slamming them and it makes one think you are one of those still mad about a format changed the station decided to take that's not coming back, so get over it. That's been a year and one-half ago.

My beef is not with just WRQQ, but with a good portion of the FM's, not just our market, but others as well, with this mentality that they have to use nasty words just to get an audience. I heard some slamming words Tuesday morning on 102.9 that really shocked me.

Where is radio headed? Do we really need all this fowl & nasty programming on? I don't think so.
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I, for one, am not only disappointed with WRQQ for changing the format - yes, I enjoyed the oldies but South Central (96.3) had started leaving the format long before 97.1 claimed it. It's ancient history now. The disappointment is, like Tibbs said, the revolving door of good talent and the incredible waste of a station. Go to a polka format, go to a new wave format - but at least attempt to do it well. The poor staff just has no backing.

As for the obscene scene on radio today, I agree with you and I'd imagine neither you or me are prudes by any stretch of the imagination. I enjoy healthy humor up to the line but there is a lot of "over the line" happening today. There is still the idea that shock gets ratings and looking at Bob & Tom's ratings here, I'd have to say they are wrong.

It's the same mentality that has taken over TV programming. But, here's the irony - it's funny that the FCC might go after ABC because Diane Keaton said the F word on Good Morning America and they take a blind eye to what Desperate Housewives gives us an eye-full of every Sunday. You can do it and joke about doing it in HD, but you can't say it!! Think of what TV was like when the TV Content Ratings first came out in 1996 vs. what is on tv today. Of course the networks wanted the content ratings - they wanted the ratings up there so they could have permission to go further than ever before. "Well, Two and A Half Men is about a sex maniac. That's why it's TV-14! We warned you! You shouldn't let your kid watch TV at 8pm in 2008!"

It's funny that they wonder why ratings are going down - there is very little suitable for a whole family to watch together. So, in our house the TV is either off, on Disney, or we tape stuff to watch later when the kids are asleep. Funny thing is, I tape less and less since TV is worse and worse. And, I would never turn on Bob & Tom or Free Beer and Hot Wings driving the kids to school. And I don't turn them on without the kids in the car either. I'm just tired of them. I want to hear something positive because there is plenty of negative already out there.
 
If anyone from Cumulus were reading this board, the first thing I would ask them is, "if Bob and Tom are SOOOOO great, then why don't you just run them all day? Run them live in the mornings, and run tapes of all their other shows the other 20-21 hours! ALL Bob and Tom, ALL the time! Great new slogan for you! What?? Too much of a good thing, you say? Surely you jest! Just think! Even fewer jocks to pay, and more $$$$ for you!! And we'll even change the call letters to WB&T!! You'll be the first station with an ampersand in your call letters! Who cares if the FCC won't let you do that!! Do it anyway!! And then you can drill it in our heads every chance you get like you did with WRQQ last year!! And then I can take you out of my presets and be done with you forever!!"

Wow! That felt good! ;D

Seriously, isn't their Saturday morning show already a rerun of stuff that ran earlier in the week?
 
you don't have to wait til saturdays..B&T xtra @ 9am..everyday...a rerun of either the day before or the first hour..maybe at age 56, i've matured..just a little..but i just can't listen to them like i did a couple of years ago. just don't find them all that funny anymore...seems like they were better on the buzz..but that shouldn't make any difference..i think they pulled bigger numbers over there though..personally i can't find anything on the dial that excites me..i'll grab MTSU jazz when i get close enough..
 
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