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arnoldevns

So now we know 93.3 is a CHR station. Fine. That might work. Nothing else they've tried on that frequency has worked - so why not?

But I have to say, as I listened to the stunt tape playing the past couple of days, it got me to thinking that someone should try to do what the tape suggested. It had classic rock, country, jazz and CHR "legends" playing all the time. I'm not suggesting you mix all that music together in one really weird format, but you could do blocks of different types of music at times when you think they might get the best audience.

Again, this follows along the theory that nothing else has worked at 93.3 - so why not? Maybe classic rock in the morning, AC in the mid day, CHR on the drive home, jazz in the evening and classic country overnight. It would be different and might get some buzz going about an otherwise invisible station.

It wasn't too many years ago that WBAP ran country overnights with news/talk all day long. KRLD used to do all news all day with the CBS radio mystery theater at night and big band music overnight. It was a clear recognition on the part of those stations that the market might want something other than their primary formats at different times of the day. So why not try different types of music at different times of the day and see if you can make that work?
 
Block programming is very pre-70s. Format specialization became popular after the expansion of FM.

It was pretty common for stations to focus on a mainstream format during the day, then broker the evenings and nights to someone who'd play R&B and other less popular genres. That may become popular again.

I actually would prefer what you said about "mix all that music together," and program to a demo rather than a genre. Hot AC kind of does that now, but I'd suggest doing what WABC used to do and play the most popular songs regardless of genre. Mix Black Eyed Peas and Jason Aldean. Red states and blue states on the same radio station. Can we all just get along?
 
Radio in the DFW market is just one big "Kiddie" Pool.....

No Diving.... and no Deep End.....

Other than beinf self-serving..... a Cultural Abyss

What will Obama and the FCC have to do to bring back the "Deep End" to the Public Airwaves... or is the general public just too #*%^ing Stupid to swim in anything but shallow water ? ? ? ?
 
TheRover said:
What will Obama and the FCC have to do to bring back the "Deep End" to the Public Airwaves...
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If you're waiting for the gov't to do anything with broadcasting, you're going to wait a long time.
 
TheRover said:
What will Obama and the FCC have to do to bring back the "Deep End" to the Public Airwaves... or is the general public just too #*%^ing Stupid to swim in anything but shallow water ? ? ? ?
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I think the one who needs to be examined is you. In matters of taste, leisure time activities, etc., people are free to do whatever they want within the law. Until it's illegal to listen to CHR or "corporate rock" or whatever it is you don't like, apparenly people will continue to do that.

If you bang your head against the wall, albeit verbally, over and over without offering an economic model or manner in which different programming could be supported and become viable, you are, at best just whining.

Calling "most people" dolts and using the poorly obfuscated F-word really does not make us think that you have any better taste than the rest of us poor shallow-water-swimmers.
 
TheRover said:
Radio in the DFW market is just one big "Kiddie" Pool.....

No Diving.... and no Deep End.....

Other than beinf self-serving..... a Cultural Abyss

What will Obama and the FCC have to do to bring back the "Deep End" to the Public Airwaves... or is the general public just too #*%^ing Stupid to swim in anything but shallow water ? ? ? ?
Click to expand...

Why on Earth do you think think President Obama would ... or should ... make radio a priority over the myriad other national and international problems?
 
oldmanradio said:
TheRover said:
Radio in the DFW market is just one big "Kiddie" Pool.....

No Diving.... and no Deep End.....

Other than being self-serving..... a Cultural Abyss

What will Obama and the FCC have to do to bring back the "Deep End" to the Public Airwaves... or is the general public just too #*%^ing Stupid to swim in anything but shallow water ? ? ? ?
Click to expand...

Why on Earth do you think think President Obama would ... or should ... make radio a priority over the myriad other national and international problems?
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I'm not w-a-t-i-n-g for the World to be fixed before change that's meaningful to me to take place.... Obama has the power to set --many-- agendas.... Or haven't you noticed all the of the Czars....

The squeaky wheel gets oiled... as it goes....

:)
 
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