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HOMETOWN 1230 WECK WEEKDAY LINEUP

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GeorgeKramer

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STARTING APRIL 11, 2011


6AM-9AM Good Morning Buffalo with Loraine O’Donnell and Tom Donahue

9AM-12PM The Bill O’Loughlin Show

12PM-3PM Nick Mendola

3PM-6PM Riter Radio with Brad Riter

6PM-6:30PM Channel 2 News

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Thoughts and observations on the new look for WECK?
 
It'll give me something to listen to from 12-3PM, because I no longer like Rome or Rush.

But, Nick has to bring his hosting skills up. He's a good reporter and play by play guy, but his night show drags, so I don't listen to it too much..........I do think he's got good potential and he seems like a great guy. This shift might be what he needs.

I know I'll be tuned into Brad and the Yanks, as usual.
 
BillO for 3 hours will be rough if he doesn't start taking guests or changes it up somehow.

I've been a long time fan of Mendola. I think he'd even admit that he struggles by himself as goes off tangent easily. Hopefully that improves with new producers and the pressure of knowing more people are listening now.
 
You've got to give Brad credit for these changes. Providing a local talk show between 12noon and 3, when his two prime commercial competitors are in syndicated programming, is a good move and could attract some listeners. It's also good that they got rid of the 11am shows, which were more of an interruption and had to be a drag on the ratings.

Here's the challenge. Their hosts have to step it up. Just because you're offering local content doesn't mean you're offering something better. The programming has to be compelling. Rush on WBEN and Jim Rome on WGR are proven commodities. Plus, there are compelling interview, state politics and issue-oriented talk shows with guests on WBFO and WNED-AM. Frankly, I haven't heard Nick Mendola at night, so I can't comment on his abilities. I'll leave that to others. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I listened to a good chunk of Bill O'Loughlin's show for the first time in a while last week. Again, he had no calls during the time I was listening, and he seemed to be rambling at times. Admittedly, I'm a public radio guy who rarely tunes away from NPR's On Point and Tell Me More on most days.

I find it extremely interesting that WGRZ will provide newscasts after FOX world and national news at the top of the hour. That allows WECK to have a local news presence throughout the day. I have a feeling that a Channel 2 news anchor will simply deliver headlines. But if these casts include stories from on-the-scene Channel 2 news reporters in breaking news situations, that would certainly be an enhancement, especially since WBEN has not had a full-time daily street presence since Barbara Burns left. But that's probably wishful thinking on my part.

The bottom line is that this is an example of Brad putting some actions behind his recently-released manifesto. The question is whether these changes are enough to provide a boost beyond the 0.5 to 0.7 12+ share WECK has received in its three years with this format. We can debate this here. But the true answers will be found when the ratings come out.
 
Another hour of O'Laughlin. Three hours of amateur talent. I wonder who's more concerned - Rush or Rome? Somebody on Genesee Street better come up with a much better rolodex if they expect this to break a 1 share.
 
Not being in Buffalo, I must ask: are these WECK talk show show hosts on the WECK payroll or are they leasing time?
 
Reminds me of a remark by Howard Stern about the old WMCA in New York: "you'd have more listeners if you yelled out the window."
 
SirRoxalot said:
WECK may have more of an audience on this board than they have on the street.
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Rox, if so, it's PPM methodology and not the diary. Few, if any of us, are "listening" by choice.
 
yugoidar said:
SirRoxalot said:
WECK may have more of an audience on this board than they have on the street.
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Rox, if so, it's PPM methodology and not the diary. Few, if any of us, are "listening" by choice.
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Heh. The difference between "hearing" and "listening".
 
Friends don't let friends post on W**K threads. Anybody else for a moratorium or boycott? It's gotten more tiresome than Big A's board brawls with me, Roxalot, Bob1370 and Savage. W**K gets more attention here than a station with a point 7 deserves. Meanwhile WYRK, a station that owns every demo in Buffalo gets squat. Just ain't right, people. I think I know what the ploy behind flooding the board with W**K posts is and I salute "GK" for a nicely devised diversionary tactic to divert attention from his station. It worked buddy, but the jig is up. You proved your point. Now get those numbers up before Cumulus takes over.
 
9, I second that motion. Enough already with the W**K posts! I don't know how GK's been able to make all his sales calls and hit his numbers with the number of posts he's thrown up on these boards the last few weeks.
 
yugoidar said:
9, I second that motion. Enough already with the W**K posts! I don't know how GK's been able to make all his sales calls and hit his numbers with the number of posts he's thrown up on these boards the last few weeks.
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Third.

Jesus, I'm even getting sick of us on here.
 
Fourth.

I may have a bit of a "problem."

Sorry about that.

All in favor? "AYE!" Opposed? "NAY!"

MOTION CARRIED.
 
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