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Has anyone seen any Indy radio personalities lately?

J

Jinglefreak

The downward trend of live, local, on-air full-time Indy radio personalities continues.

By my count:

WTPI - 0
104.5 Jack FM - 0
WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
WXNT - 1
WIBC - 3 (2 in morning show)
And of course, no one overnight at any station.

Sure seems like forever since the days where a typical radio station would have 4-5, even 6 airshifts. With 7-8 legit stations in a market our size, that would mean about 40 on-air personalities (and jobs).

Is radio in Indy really reduced to nothing more than broadcast versions of our ipods with clever liners in-between each song? Even jingles have been eliminated to save costs.

IMHO, I'd rather hear a really good national syndicated personality like Tom Kent (now on Gold 95.9) or even Jon Rivers on K-love that no one at all.
 
> The downward trend of live, local, on-air full-time Indy
> radio personalities continues.
>
> By my count:
>
> WTPI - 0
> 104.5 Jack FM - 0
> WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
> WXNT - 1
> WIBC - 3 (2 in morning show)
> And of course, no one overnight at any station.
>
> Sure seems like forever since the days where a typical radio
> station would have 4-5, even 6 airshifts. With 7-8 legit
> stations in a market our size, that would mean about 40
> on-air personalities (and jobs).
>
> Is radio in Indy really reduced to nothing more than
> broadcast versions of our ipods with clever liners
> in-between each song? Even jingles have been eliminated to
> save costs.
>
> IMHO, I'd rather hear a really good national syndicated
> personality like Tom Kent (now on Gold 95.9) or even Jon
> Rivers on K-love that no one at all.
>


My wife thinks differently. She was surprised when I told her Jack doesn't advertise that they don't have DJs, she likes it that way. As a geek, I think it is sad it has come to this, but when I listen, I get it, and like it. When I want talk, I listen to AM. When I want music, I flip on Jack or WKLU (WTPI may get a spot on my radio now, too.)

Hey, doesn't KLU have 24 hours of DJs?
 
> Hey, doesn't KLU have 24 hours of DJs?
>

KLU, Q-95 and FMS all have personalities 24/7.
 
> > Hey, doesn't KLU have 24 hours of DJs?
> >
>
> KLU, Q-95 and FMS all have personalities 24/7.
>
I think Q-95 is on auto pilot between 12 am and 2 am

FMS has Darrin Tandy whose show is syndicated (Like B&T).
 
I think it all sucks...more and more it makes me wonder about the viability of local radio - if I want that - I will go to my iPod, 6 disc in-dash cd's or my XM.

I think personalities, traffic, news, and some humor are the reason I even listened to the radio in the first place...

I think doing what Hank did makes sense against 'FMS. But I also think 'FMS did the right thing by not changing what they do. They have a niche' and I think both stations are growing that format's piece of the Indy pie - as The Bear did in it's day.

So the debate is - Do No Jocks Really matter? I think one or two Jockless formats make sense - but come on people...Even Jock Light sucks a bit (ala B105).

It comes down to the almighty dollar and economics - if you are going to play less commercials and the ad community won't bear out the pricing for the higher spot rates...then you need to cut costs. i.e. Jocks. Promotions. Marketing. Jocks seem to be first on that list right now.

In my opinion, I think they put some lipstick on that fat ole' pig they call WTPI (as they really did with ZPL a ways back - saying no rap - then they play rap - that audience has no idea what to expect...) look for this to do nothing - I say personalities will come back to Indy Radio; give it a year.

Thoughts?

> The downward trend of live, local, on-air full-time Indy
> radio personalities continues.
>
> By my count:
>
> WTPI - 0
> 104.5 Jack FM - 0
> WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
> WXNT - 1
> WIBC - 3 (2 in morning show)
> And of course, no one overnight at any station.
>
> Sure seems like forever since the days where a typical radio
> station would have 4-5, even 6 airshifts. With 7-8 legit
> stations in a market our size, that would mean about 40
> on-air personalities (and jobs).
>
> Is radio in Indy really reduced to nothing more than
> broadcast versions of our ipods with clever liners
> in-between each song? Even jingles have been eliminated to
> save costs.
>
> IMHO, I'd rather hear a really good national syndicated
> personality like Tom Kent (now on Gold 95.9) or even Jon
> Rivers on K-love that no one at all.
>
 
> About 3 years ago, I was returning to the crazy world of radio in Fort Wayne. I ended up with 3 offers, 1 on air on The Fort (Classic Rock) and 2 different sales offers. I decided to do sales, it offers more security. Hey I've spent 12 plus years on the air in Ft Wayne, Marion, Kokomo, Indy, and Detroit, along with 8 years in sales or Production. I took a job with Summit City Radio a 6 station group. 2 stations are jockless (1250am The River, and MIKE-FM) 2 have daytime jocks and will add night jocks as the stations grow(MY 103.9 and Z-94.1), the other 2 have day and night jocks (WILD 96.3 and X-102)

The downward trend of live, local, on-air full-time Indy
> radio personalities continues.
>
> By my count:
>
> WTPI - 0
> 104.5 Jack FM - 0
> WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
> WXNT - 1
> WIBC - 3 (2 in morning show)
> And of course, no one overnight at any station.
>
> Sure seems like forever since the days where a typical radio
> station would have 4-5, even 6 airshifts. With 7-8 legit
> stations in a market our size, that would mean about 40
> on-air personalities (and jobs).
>
> Is radio in Indy really reduced to nothing more than
> broadcast versions of our ipods with clever liners
> in-between each song? Even jingles have been eliminated to
> save costs.
>
> IMHO, I'd rather hear a really good national syndicated
> personality like Tom Kent (now on Gold 95.9) or even Jon
> Rivers on K-love that no one at all.
>
 
> WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
WLHK has "personalities" all day -- just they aren't allowed to talk about anything except what songs they've just played and station promotions. I'd probably prefer they didn't have the personalities to the way they've been doing it.

The query I have is whether the "success" of Jack is because it is largely jockless or because of the broad playlist.
 
> > WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
> WLHK has "personalities" all day -- just they aren't allowed
> to talk about anything except what songs they've just played
> and station promotions. I'd probably prefer they didn't
> have the personalities to the way they've been doing it.
>
> The query I have is whether the "success" of Jack is because
> it is largely jockless or because of the broad playlist.
>
The Jack format is not successful in Indy because it's merely a hodge podge format.
 
> The downward trend of live, local, on-air full-time Indy
> radio personalities continues.
>
> By my count:
>
> WTPI - 0
> 104.5 Jack FM - 0
> WENS - 2 (both in morning show)
> WXNT - 1
> WIBC - 3 (2 in morning show)
> And of course, no one overnight at any station.
>
> Sure seems like forever since the days where a typical radio
> station would have 4-5, even 6 airshifts. With 7-8 legit
> stations in a market our size, that would mean about 40
> on-air personalities (and jobs).
>
The four Radio One stations in Indy have several live announcers.
 
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