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Happy October! Brace yourselives for the annual Yule Tide Flips soon!

R

Rob

With the year almost over, it's only going to be under 60 days (give or take) until radio flips formats to the traditional shopping music of the season, with that in mind, I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the year, am still in shock this year has been quiet with flips.

107.3 is still failing and a sucky format, our audience doesn't care for the same songs over and over again. The reason why Highway 98 is dewing so well, is they don't play the same old songs over and over. Country 105.5 is corporate owned, crappy signal, and yea.. why are they keeping it there?

WXBM is a good contender for a flip, will Cumulus decide to bring in NASH FM to the gulf coast? YOUR Country sounds so 90's, it's bleh.

If Cumulus wants to keep things rolling, they should merge 93.3/96.5 (keeping the 80s weekends going) and re brand 96.5 to Country 96. Only with a powerful signal, can they dominate this area. Even out here, 105.5 tends to suck, bad. Put a new format on 105.5. Even 105.5 Jack FM would work.

With that said, time will tell what they decide to do.

-Rob
 
100.7 will be dropping political talk. Savage, valentine, Huckabee will be reading Christmas stories, and singing their Christmas favorites.
 
From what I've been hearing about WCOA-FM they have been having problems, does anyone care anymore? Big 100KW taker?

-Rob
 
100.7 is a cursed frequency. How can it be saved? Here's an odd idea, swap frequencies for WCOA-FM and WKSM 99 Rock. Cumulus already has 106.5 in Mobile willing to pay for syndication rights to the shows carried on 100.7, but poor old FWB doesn't have a 24 hour news talk station.... and Cumulus currently doesn't have rock in the Mobile market...

Just sayin'...
 
I am MORE convinced that we will see sports radio grace both the Pensacola and Mobile markets through 100.7 soon enough. Cumulus is a partner in distribution of CBS Sports Radio, and thanks to its acquisition of Westwood One, it has even more national sports content including NBC Sports Radio. Cumulus could probably add LSU, Florida, Florida State, or even Navy football rights to placehold its way into someday/somehow nabbing Alabama or Auburn on fall Saturdays. Having the Saints would be ideal , but the Westwood. NFL slate would still give you the flexibility of airing the most nationally relevant game on Sunday to Monday most weekends. Pelicans basketball might be a possibility too.
 
I have a gut feeling that if Cumulus launches a 100kw sports station from a Baldwin County signal that Clear Channel will immediately counter with their own Sports station. Can't explain it, it's just a gut feeling I get thinking about non-music FM stations in the future.
 
Wanna come and help me build a new strobey here in Selma? If so, stay tuned. I'll let you know when the construction will begin. Fixing to file for a license to build it, during the week of the 15th and the 29th of this month.

I'm very excited over it.

Hope to turn the thing on, sometime within the next two years, once I get it constructed and on the air.

My strobey is going to rock out and play some of the coolest music on the planet too. I'm ready to give my area a taste of the good stuff like Skillet, Switchfoot, TobyMac, Newsboys, Leeland, Chris Sligh, Michael W. Smith, LeCrae, Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Audio Adrenaline, Todd Agnew, Big Daddy Weave, Newsong, Laura Story, Natalie Grant, Delirious? and Seventh Day Slumber.

Dan <><

P.S. Hope your many strobeys are still working strong Mr. Rob. Make sure you protect them, during this upcoming storm. Hope none of them get damaged in any way.
 
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Good luck on that, my strobies™ will play a mixed variety. We have an over saturated market as it is! Do people really listen to the same old music across the dial? I really enjoyed Journey-FM, if ONE just ONE of the stations, BLX, COA, Cat 98.7, etc.. switches to an adult hits station like Journey was, it would lighten the load and add more variety. Despite BLX is #1, I still don't think Mobile is that urban! I kinda pictured Mobile 'ers enjoy mostly Country and pop.

-Rob
 
We heard WABB AM was leased and the new format is the Christmas Mormon Tabernacle Choir. the slogan: MoTab 1480. Wait...maybe is was the Mobile Tabernacle Choir.
 
Rob said:
Good luck on that, my strobies™ will play a mixed variety. We have an over saturated market as it is! Do people really listen to the same old music across the dial? I really enjoyed Journey-FM, if ONE just ONE of the stations, BLX, COA, Cat 98.7, etc.. switches to an adult hits station like Journey was, it would lighten the load and add more variety. Despite BLX is #1, I still don't think Mobile is that urban! I kinda pictured Mobile 'ers enjoy mostly Country and pop.

-Rob
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Explain your reasoning on why Mobile is not "that Urban?" Rob, where do you come off?
 
No tourist travel to Mobile except a few during Mardi Gras. Mobile sucks, that's why people live in Baldwin county or Pensacola and commute to work in Mobile. The "party town" idea for Mobile stems from it being one of the few cities in the US with a 24 hour liquor license. The only reason Mobile has a 24 hour liquor license is to serve the shift workers that don't get off work until 2 or 4AM. Dauphin St. is no Bourbon St!

Since you don't know Mobile, Rob, here's some advice: if you see a sign saying "Welcome to Pritchard", turn around and ride that mule away as fast as possible!
 
Is it that bad there? With a city this small, do we really need three urban stations? (Does 980 reach Mobile?) We got BLX, DLT (and the simulcast on 106.1) and 980. One of them will have to give.

DLT may be a legend, but so was ABB, Looking at their history was indeed sad to see this loss, the family should have just sold it. ABB can still be alive and well in Mobile FM. So far, the only historic station in FL I'm aware of is WAPE, they started what, in the 30s on AM?

-Rob
 
Mobile has three very popular urban stations: WDLT, WBLX, and WGOK. Fort Walton has none. Pensacola has two: WRRX and WRNE. Panama City has one: WEBZ. Tallahassee has three: WWLD, WHBX, and WANM... but keep in mind Tally is a college town.

I can't think of any major urban markets in north Florida. Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana all have many big time urban stations. WANM in Tallahassee might be the biggest urban station in north Florida.

As for historic/heritage stations in North Florida, have you forgotten about WPFM?!? ;)
 
and 98.1 is also historic, back in the 80s, not the country crap it is now.

-Rob
 
Nah, 98.1 has no heritage. Heritage would require the same format and remaining relevant and popular back to the 1970's. The closest thing we have to a heritage FM in N. Fla. would be TK101. A few country stations probably also qualify (WPAP, WTNT). I think WXBM 102.7 is too new (as a Pensacola station instead of a local Milton station). WAAZ could be considered "heritage" as a Crestview station. I believe WMEZ's evolution from elevator music to light rock qualifies as a format change.
 
Heritage stations:
WMEZ (most B/EZ's did the transition to AC)
WKSJ
WBLX
WTKX
WHIL
WHEP (Foley)
WABF (Fairhope)
WAAZ/WJSB
 
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