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Gone in Lafayette.........

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jimjones95

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What happened to Tara at WAZY, Eric at WKOA, and Dan at WASK? I havent heard any of them all week?
 
Well, it is a holiday week. Just because you haven't heard them in two days doesn't mean they're out.
 
I don't know much, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Lafayette/West Lafayette desperately needs something new! The current product put out there by the stale two (Shurz/AMP) is just that... STALE! The stations sound professional, just the product is warn-out and exhausted. I honestly don't know how 102-9 and 96-5 can both survive. Unless you work in the radio industry, the average listener can't tell a difference between the two. Even the jocks sound similar and have similar personalities, although it's not like they talk much to begin with. A bum off the street can announce a song or two, step outside for a smoke and tell you how warm or cold it is. 93-5 updates there playlist twice a year. A "new" song on that station is already six months old on Indy's X-103. 98-7 should just be rebranded Beatles Radio. 105-3 plays the same promo's over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (gets a little annoying doesn't it?).

As I said, Lafayette needs something fresh. You could wake from a 6 year coma, flip on the radio and think you'd just taken a great nap.

Boiler Up!
 
Boiler*FM,

Unfortunately that is the case for radio in general. Management just wants to play it safe. When's the last time a station has tried something exciting and new? No one wants to be bold or daring.
 
Boiler*FM said:
I don't know much, but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Lafayette/West Lafayette desperately needs something new! The current product put out there by the stale two (Shurz/AMP) is just that... STALE! The stations sound professional, just the product is warn-out and exhausted. I honestly don't know how 102-9 and 96-5 can both survive. Unless you work in the radio industry, the average listener can't tell a difference between the two. Even the jocks sound similar and have similar personalities, although it's not like they talk much to begin with. A bum off the street can announce a song or two, step outside for a smoke and tell you how warm or cold it is. 93-5 updates there playlist twice a year. A "new" song on that station is already six months old on Indy's X-103. 98-7 should just be rebranded Beatles Radio. 105-3 plays the same promo's over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (gets a little annoying doesn't it?).

As I said, Lafayette needs something fresh. You could wake from a 6 year coma, flip on the radio and think you'd just taken a great nap.

Boiler Up!
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Hey Wolfman Jack did something new way back in the middle 1900's. He's the guy Tom Petty's last DJ song is about.
A few people tried to do something new after him. But, they were put down like dogs and they gave up and are gone
from this biz.
 
Bankrupt? The WIIZ 98.7FM -Wizard Broadcasting came on the airwaves around March 11, 1993 - when did they sell? Don't know how much Mick had invested when he sold the WIIZ, but the WIIZ sold for $810,000. Never heard the company was bankrupt?
 
I don't know about the others but I know that Tara's out. Such a shame... AMP has no clue what they're losing.
 
WIIZ was silent for quite some time. Obviously Mick couldn't afford to keep operating. I don't know if a formal bankruptcy happened, but, there was little to no revenue. Shurz returned the station to the air and it went News/Talk (with weekend music) in march of 1995. Maybe WIIZ really wasn't that original since they cloned WXRT's format.
 
Bro, where did you get your facts? The Wiiz was silent for quite some time... is this true? Schurz Partnership started to transfer the license around 03/23/1993. Disposed date 12/14/93. The WIIZ was billing around $20,000. a month in revenue in Aug. 03. The WIIZ sold for around $810,000. NO FORMAL BANKRUPTY? Not any kind of bankrupty. The offer was right and the owners sold.
 
Dude, they were off the air, silent. I lived there at the time. They did not sell a station that was on the air and flourishing. The morning man at the time was quoted on TV saying "we got lots of nice letters, unfortunately, none of them contained checks". They weren't silent for a day or two, they were silent for several months at least.

You don't just shut the station off to sell it. You keep the billing as high as you can, which is difficult when you aren't actually on the air. No, noble as it was, the format failed. I'm not saying there wasn't a loyal audience, but not a saleable one..at least saleable enough to stay on the air with a live staff.
 
Bro, since you were in Lafayette at time the Wiiz went on the air and then sold to Schurz, do you remember another Broadcast company in Lafayette file papers with the FCC to stop the transfer of ownership? :eek:
 
Actually, University Broadcasting was the license holder of WAZY-FM & WGBD at the time. It must have been before University Broadcasting's name officially changed to Artistic Media Partners.

Another error in that document was KVB Broadcasting being incorrectly identified as KGB.
 
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