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- Thread starter MarquisP4
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All right....I assume unlimited budget 
First the Airstaff....
5a-10a: More Music Mornings with some no-name DJ
10a-3p: Dianne House from WTHI-FM
3p-7p: The Program Director, me!
7p-MID: Syndicated Program: ABC Real Country and Steve Lewis
MID-5a: this is rough...I think I'd go automated...I like Blair Garner, but the playlists wouldn't mesh. For practical reasons, I'd probably go with ABC Real Country's overnight show if I were to run Steve Lewis
Weekends...If I'm going to affiliate with ABC for the evening show, I'll probably run them all weekend.
Otherwise, I'd run:
Top 40 Countdown with Bob Kingsly 4p-7p Sat.
Country Gold Saturday Night 7p-mid on Sat.
Automated mid-6a Saturday and Sunday
Racin Country USA Sunday 4p-7p.
Live Jocks Saturday and Sunday 6a-4p
Live Jock Sunday 7p-mid
And a sample Playlist:
And again, If I'm affiliating with ABC for the evening show, I'll probably brand as "Real Country 98.7 FM WQQQ" or some variation thereof. If I could hire a great evening talent, I'd be more creative. In fact, I'd probably be so creative as to call it "Country 98.7" and order the KILT jingles from ReelWorld ("Real Country Variety - KILT!") resung with appropriate freq/calls.
That's about it, I guess.
First the Airstaff....
5a-10a: More Music Mornings with some no-name DJ
10a-3p: Dianne House from WTHI-FM
3p-7p: The Program Director, me!
7p-MID: Syndicated Program: ABC Real Country and Steve Lewis
MID-5a: this is rough...I think I'd go automated...I like Blair Garner, but the playlists wouldn't mesh. For practical reasons, I'd probably go with ABC Real Country's overnight show if I were to run Steve Lewis
Weekends...If I'm going to affiliate with ABC for the evening show, I'll probably run them all weekend.
Otherwise, I'd run:
Top 40 Countdown with Bob Kingsly 4p-7p Sat.
Country Gold Saturday Night 7p-mid on Sat.
Automated mid-6a Saturday and Sunday
Racin Country USA Sunday 4p-7p.
Live Jocks Saturday and Sunday 6a-4p
Live Jock Sunday 7p-mid
And a sample Playlist:
- Steve Earle - Guitar Town
- Vince Gill and Dolly Parton - I will Always Love You
- Rodney Adkins - If you're Going thru hell
- Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - Buckaroos
- Brad Paisley - She's Everything
- Tanya Tucker - Strong Enough to Bend
- Conway Twitty - You've Never been this far before
- Dan Seals - God Must be a Cowboy
And again, If I'm affiliating with ABC for the evening show, I'll probably brand as "Real Country 98.7 FM WQQQ" or some variation thereof. If I could hire a great evening talent, I'd be more creative. In fact, I'd probably be so creative as to call it "Country 98.7"
and order the KILT jingles from ReelWorld ("Real Country Variety - KILT!") resung with appropriate freq/calls.That's about it, I guess.
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alamo33
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I'd begin with a solid medium market morning team and hire a producer to help with prod elements, prep and securing good interviews. I'd also add an hourly 90 second news report/traffic/weather from the most reputable TV station in the area. I'd have more features than music... much like morning TV news has more features than real solid news. Music played would be current hits.
Middays, I'd get a seasoned vet looking toward the latter third of their career, I'd play all currents or recurrents and hot golds. Maybe a High Noon Saloon where the split is 50 classic 50 gold recurrent... similar to an 80's or 70's lunch on an AC station... something solid and consistent. Businesses that tune in would know exactaly what they'd get each day they'd tune in. Community Bulletin board events sprinkled throughout. Lots of latter Tim, Faith, Rascal Flatts, earlier Shania, Martina, Sugarland, Lonestar Mellow Chesney...etc. etc.
Afternoon Drive I'd get someone just entering their prime 2-5 years experience with energy and the ability to be on top of local events. Work in some more new songs as well as a few well known older hits, like Randy Travis, Early George Strait, Edgier female songs, etc. Keep local news affiliation around 5pm or 6pm.
Evenings begin the evening with some hot recurrents, Big and Rich, Keith Anderson, The New Female Artist of the Week, etc. From 9pm-12am mon-thurs all request style format... where anything goes... like a country Jack. Old, new, independent and at 11 spotlight local/regional acts. get a young person with solid skills in to do that shift.
Overnights I'd have a live DJ... give someone their first break. I'd program it with a lighter emphasis on currents and dig deeper into the archives for overnights. Emphasize local local local.
Weekends I'd line up solid part timers for day parts and overnights and evenings I'd look at students/interns. I'd carry Nascar Races, and probably Rick Jackson's Country Hall of Fame sunday evenings.
Middays, I'd get a seasoned vet looking toward the latter third of their career, I'd play all currents or recurrents and hot golds. Maybe a High Noon Saloon where the split is 50 classic 50 gold recurrent... similar to an 80's or 70's lunch on an AC station... something solid and consistent. Businesses that tune in would know exactaly what they'd get each day they'd tune in. Community Bulletin board events sprinkled throughout. Lots of latter Tim, Faith, Rascal Flatts, earlier Shania, Martina, Sugarland, Lonestar Mellow Chesney...etc. etc.
Afternoon Drive I'd get someone just entering their prime 2-5 years experience with energy and the ability to be on top of local events. Work in some more new songs as well as a few well known older hits, like Randy Travis, Early George Strait, Edgier female songs, etc. Keep local news affiliation around 5pm or 6pm.
Evenings begin the evening with some hot recurrents, Big and Rich, Keith Anderson, The New Female Artist of the Week, etc. From 9pm-12am mon-thurs all request style format... where anything goes... like a country Jack. Old, new, independent and at 11 spotlight local/regional acts. get a young person with solid skills in to do that shift.
Overnights I'd have a live DJ... give someone their first break. I'd program it with a lighter emphasis on currents and dig deeper into the archives for overnights. Emphasize local local local.
Weekends I'd line up solid part timers for day parts and overnights and evenings I'd look at students/interns. I'd carry Nascar Races, and probably Rick Jackson's Country Hall of Fame sunday evenings.
Country Legends 98.3, High Point, N. C., has it just about figured out. Just add DJs more of the time to tell us what we heard. And Alan Jackson. Don't go too far in adding new stuff, though. I'm trying to make a list of what's acceptable.
core artists:
waylon
willie
david allen coe
johnny cash
jerry reed
charlie pride
shooter jennings
hank III
kevin fowler
dixie chicks
tanya tucker
the station would be 70/30. 70% classic outlaw country. 30% new real country. (americana). no carrie, garth, shanai or any fm radio country hits past 1999.
airstaff:
anyone i could find from wsm from 1975-present
pd/md would be shooter jennings ;D
i would sit back and just enjoy. like any good owner should.
wait thats my fantasy. not being a pd. but being an owner..
waylon
willie
david allen coe
johnny cash
jerry reed
charlie pride
shooter jennings
hank III
kevin fowler
dixie chicks
tanya tucker
the station would be 70/30. 70% classic outlaw country. 30% new real country. (americana). no carrie, garth, shanai or any fm radio country hits past 1999.
airstaff:
anyone i could find from wsm from 1975-present
pd/md would be shooter jennings ;D
i would sit back and just enjoy. like any good owner should.
wait thats my fantasy. not being a pd. but being an owner..
I would have to do like smashedcd and be a owner but I'm sort of a control freak on sound so I'd have to be PD/MD also ... someone willing to take more risks on a property than your favorite (insert conglomerate cluster here) station.
I would have today's country top 40 like everyone else, but in my recurrants, I'd add the normal ones that test well but I'd do a some of the 80s-today recurrants that hit the charts but no one hears anymore (like for example "the day she left Tulsa" by Wade Hayes is a song I like, was a radio hit at number 5 in 1998 but is MIA at most country radio today).. probably a lost classic like that one of those an hour or so.
So basically a breakdown of an hour for example would be some of today's country, mix in recurants, forgotten classics , one or two of the "timeless classics" and a new country first (new songs coming up)
Add a program say featuring the alternative country artists on say Sunday nights. Show some of the Texas country,Canadian country and such coming out... See how the songs rate by listeners and if enough pull, they go into regular rotation
Possibly a show devoted to classic country also... Someone who will take requests but go into a vault for "deeper classics" people tended to forget about...
for example, a playlist would be something like this:
Gonna hire a whino - David Frizzel
Wasted - Carry Underwood
Carrying your love with me- George Strait
Good Directions- Billy Currington
Down at the twist and shout - Mary Chapin Carpenter (Big in Louisiana where I'm from still)
Settlin'- Sugarland
I admit it isn't perfect (I'm trying to figure out good combos on the fly is kind of hard) and would need some work but the big goal would be a bigger catalog than most stations in the south.
RFLA
I would have today's country top 40 like everyone else, but in my recurrants, I'd add the normal ones that test well but I'd do a some of the 80s-today recurrants that hit the charts but no one hears anymore (like for example "the day she left Tulsa" by Wade Hayes is a song I like, was a radio hit at number 5 in 1998 but is MIA at most country radio today).. probably a lost classic like that one of those an hour or so.
So basically a breakdown of an hour for example would be some of today's country, mix in recurants, forgotten classics , one or two of the "timeless classics" and a new country first (new songs coming up)
Add a program say featuring the alternative country artists on say Sunday nights. Show some of the Texas country,Canadian country and such coming out... See how the songs rate by listeners and if enough pull, they go into regular rotation
Possibly a show devoted to classic country also... Someone who will take requests but go into a vault for "deeper classics" people tended to forget about...
for example, a playlist would be something like this:
Gonna hire a whino - David Frizzel
Wasted - Carry Underwood
Carrying your love with me- George Strait
Good Directions- Billy Currington
Down at the twist and shout - Mary Chapin Carpenter (Big in Louisiana where I'm from still)
Settlin'- Sugarland
I admit it isn't perfect (I'm trying to figure out good combos on the fly is kind of hard) and would need some work but the big goal would be a bigger catalog than most stations in the south.
RFLA
I *really* like alamo33's idea of significant dayparting. I've always said I'd like to lean more rock in AM drive (Charlie Daniels Band, Gretchen Wilson, Sugarland). Using overnights for "anything goes" is a great idea too.
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