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How long will Free FM last?
- Thread starter p_herring
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I love how people yell and scream about poorly executed hybrid talk/music formats and then doom them to fail. It's not our fault that the management is a bunch of morons, but how a station that started with a radio non-talent, a twice-failed woman talk show host, a few buffoons at night (save Booker) and some hodge-podge music format when nobody's talking. Thats SUPPOSED to work? Maybe if somebody learned how to program a TALK station
"Its the wrong kind of music and too much talk problem in my opinion."
The other FreeFMs are airing little (Phoenix) or no (LA, San Diego, SF, Dallas) music. Leykis is carrying Phoenix, the SD Free is doing half-way decent (including Carolla who is weak elsewhere), and of course the ones that just changed the imaging are still fine.
The other FreeFMs are airing little (Phoenix) or no (LA, San Diego, SF, Dallas) music. Leykis is carrying Phoenix, the SD Free is doing half-way decent (including Carolla who is weak elsewhere), and of course the ones that just changed the imaging are still fine.
WYSP in Philly is in the same boat as WFNY. Airing rock at nights and weekends while returning inferior ratings.
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Nik2.0
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Its the wrong kind of music and too much talk problem in my opinion.
free fm nyc should just be like it is in other markets
it seems my co-workers who controll the radio seem to be hitting up Jack Fm a lot now becuse they are playing better rock than free fm.
-Oz
too much talk?....Uhhhhhhhhhhh OZ?....... HEY SPECIAL ED STUDENT..........IT'S A TALK STATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that just happens to play music. Jesus "Oz' You change your screen name but post the same completely lost thoughts as always. Dude that's the FORMAT IS TALK............. That's like saying "You know, there's too much dance music on classic dance, WNEW"
Dude, let me guess........ you're in summer school right now aren't you?.
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free fm nyc should just be like it is in other markets
it seems my co-workers who controll the radio seem to be hitting up Jack Fm a lot now becuse they are playing better rock than free fm.
-Oz
too much talk?....Uhhhhhhhhhhh OZ?....... HEY SPECIAL ED STUDENT..........IT'S A TALK STATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that just happens to play music. Jesus "Oz' You change your screen name but post the same completely lost thoughts as always. Dude that's the FORMAT IS TALK............. That's like saying "You know, there's too much dance music on classic dance, WNEW"
Dude, let me guess........ you're in summer school right now aren't you?.
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Someone mentioned how they play the "wrong kind of music".
Then what music should they play?
Then what music should they play?
Well they may be a "talk" station, but aside from the good start O & A is off to, none of their "talk" programs have really been successful. Maybe music is the way to go. What music would be right for the station though? I feel that 80's and 90's rock without too much hair metal would do the trick. No, it won't light the world on fire, but I don't think the station would be stuck "in the pipes" with a strong morning show and a music mix that would do very well in the suburbs at least.
Jamie said:
I have to fully agree with you.
It just sucks now that the kids 20-21 my age just think radio sucks nowadays but only around here. when I travel to other markets most people seem to love the radio. I have see this with freinds from boarding school and college in the boston, Virginia Beach, hartford, burlington VT, Albany and central (Augusta-waterville) and southern (portland) maine markets where kids will love the radio. its too bad no one likes it around here because they don't give people what they want. oh well what you gonna do. This has been my two cents into the jar wishing I had 100 million dollars to buy my own station.
-OZ
It just sucks now that the kids 20-21 my age just think radio sucks nowadays but only around here. when I travel to other markets most people seem to love the radio. I have see this with freinds from boarding school and college in the boston, Virginia Beach, hartford, burlington VT, Albany and central (Augusta-waterville) and southern (portland) maine markets where kids will love the radio. its too bad no one likes it around here because they don't give people what they want. oh well what you gonna do. This has been my two cents into the jar wishing I had 100 million dollars to buy my own station.
-OZ
Kevin said:
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Nik2.0
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I have to fully agree with you.
It just sucks now that the kids 20-21 my age just think radio sucks nowadays but only around here. when I travel to other markets most people seem to love the radio. I have see this with freinds from boarding school and college in the boston, Virginia Beach, hartford, burlington VT, Albany and central (Augusta-waterville) and southern (portland) maine markets where kids will love the radio. its too bad no one likes it around here because they don't give people what they want. oh well what you gonna do. This has been my two cents into the jar wishing I had 100 million dollars to buy my own station.
-OZ
Bare in Mind OZ you're the same genius who was on this board convinced that Eddie Trunk was stealing the ideas for his show from your college radio show. A little pissant college radio station in Vermont that niether streamed online or was even a well known college radio station like some in say BOSTON. Yet you posted here that you were convinced that EDDIE TRUNK was monitoring your scary show and playing the exact same music on his show on Q104. So you'll have to excuse me if I question your ability to speak for the "kids" your age.
Truth is that kids in that age range have grown up with the internet so it was the main music delivery system of that age group with radio being a very close second so its not that they hate radio they're just being superserved by the internet. Plus it's cool to hate things like radio because suburban pukes aren't happy unless they're unhappy about SOMETHING, and in their lives there is very little substantive to complain about so they have to invent things to be dissatisfied with. "Corproate radio" is an easy, easy, target.
It just sucks now that the kids 20-21 my age just think radio sucks nowadays but only around here. when I travel to other markets most people seem to love the radio. I have see this with freinds from boarding school and college in the boston, Virginia Beach, hartford, burlington VT, Albany and central (Augusta-waterville) and southern (portland) maine markets where kids will love the radio. its too bad no one likes it around here because they don't give people what they want. oh well what you gonna do. This has been my two cents into the jar wishing I had 100 million dollars to buy my own station.
-OZ
Bare in Mind OZ you're the same genius who was on this board convinced that Eddie Trunk was stealing the ideas for his show from your college radio show. A little pissant college radio station in Vermont that niether streamed online or was even a well known college radio station like some in say BOSTON. Yet you posted here that you were convinced that EDDIE TRUNK was monitoring your scary show and playing the exact same music on his show on Q104. So you'll have to excuse me if I question your ability to speak for the "kids" your age.
Truth is that kids in that age range have grown up with the internet so it was the main music delivery system of that age group with radio being a very close second so its not that they hate radio they're just being superserved by the internet. Plus it's cool to hate things like radio because suburban pukes aren't happy unless they're unhappy about SOMETHING, and in their lives there is very little substantive to complain about so they have to invent things to be dissatisfied with. "Corproate radio" is an easy, easy, target.
Nik:
Are we still allowed to make fun of Parenteau?
Are we still allowed to make fun of Parenteau?
Jamie said:
Look at MySpace, Xanga, etc. You'll find rings of people who put "I hate radio" on their pages somewhere. Number of rings I've seen saying 'w00t for t3h r4d10' is 1. It was for an alt. rock station in the mid-atlantic region IIRC.
WWLR 91.5 will be streaming as far as I know come the fall.
secondly if you want you can listen to my voice on WXCI 91.7 Danbury online (their stream doesn't sound good at all but I figure I tell you about it)
third. I have actually come to the point where I have learned to believe its actually the radio listeners. With WWLR they will request it on 105.1 WTOS which syndicates ET. I have come to notice it this summer with Wxci 91.7 in Danbury as well. I think its actually cool to find classic cool song and then a week later pop up on other metal shows.
you can disagree with me if you want for I am still learning more loops in radio as I continue in college. I figure I be nice enough to respond to your comment and I will be more able to listen to your feedback for everything on R-I can be a learning experience.
Bare in Mind OZ you're the same genius who was on this board convinced that Eddie Trunk was stealing the ideas for his show from your college radio show. A little pissant college radio station in Vermont that niether streamed online or was even a well known college radio station like some in say BOSTON. Yet you posted here that you were convinced that EDDIE TRUNK was monitoring your scary show and playing the exact same music on his show on Q104. So you'll have to excuse me if I question your ability to speak for the "kids" your age.
Truth is that kids in that age range have grown up with the internet so it was the main music delivery system of that age group with radio being a very close second so its not that they hate radio they're just being superserved by the internet. Plus it's cool to hate things like radio because suburban pukes aren't happy unless they're unhappy about SOMETHING, and in their lives there is very little substantive to complain about so they have to invent things to be dissatisfied with. "Corproate radio" is an easy, easy, target.
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secondly if you want you can listen to my voice on WXCI 91.7 Danbury online (their stream doesn't sound good at all but I figure I tell you about it)
third. I have actually come to the point where I have learned to believe its actually the radio listeners. With WWLR they will request it on 105.1 WTOS which syndicates ET. I have come to notice it this summer with Wxci 91.7 in Danbury as well. I think its actually cool to find classic cool song and then a week later pop up on other metal shows.
you can disagree with me if you want for I am still learning more loops in radio as I continue in college. I figure I be nice enough to respond to your comment and I will be more able to listen to your feedback for everything on R-I can be a learning experience.
Bare in Mind OZ you're the same genius who was on this board convinced that Eddie Trunk was stealing the ideas for his show from your college radio show. A little pissant college radio station in Vermont that niether streamed online or was even a well known college radio station like some in say BOSTON. Yet you posted here that you were convinced that EDDIE TRUNK was monitoring your scary show and playing the exact same music on his show on Q104. So you'll have to excuse me if I question your ability to speak for the "kids" your age.
Truth is that kids in that age range have grown up with the internet so it was the main music delivery system of that age group with radio being a very close second so its not that they hate radio they're just being superserved by the internet. Plus it's cool to hate things like radio because suburban pukes aren't happy unless they're unhappy about SOMETHING, and in their lives there is very little substantive to complain about so they have to invent things to be dissatisfied with. "Corproate radio" is an easy, easy, target.
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I have seen that as well on myspace but wherever you have a "Hate" forum you as well will find a Fanclub forum for many radio station. one example of this is Wccc in Hartford CT
not everyone likes radio. Where theirs freinds theirs always enemys and where theirs enemys theirs always freinds.
not everyone likes radio. Where theirs freinds theirs always enemys and where theirs enemys theirs always freinds.
PTBoardOp94 said:
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Nik2.0
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WEll Jamie that is exactly what i was trying to tell you all last year. Radio Info if you use it correctly could be a great tool for someone like yourself who is obviously passionate (if not well educated) about radio and desires a place in commercial radio. I was trying to tell you that you can actually learn something about the way things actually work if you were to spend a little more time LISTENING to those who are actually doing what you're hoping to do, than you will making statements like "Eddie Trunk is copying my show" which was in a word; RETARDED. With all of your boastful posts about how huge your college radio show in Mom cant find you Vermont was, it was just hard not to say "this kid is a twirp" and sadly since you ahd advertised yourself all over here when you actually start sending out packages to the same stations you had been posting about I feared that someone would say " this is that Oz kid, he's a pin head" and your college radio career would have been extended due to your inability to get a job in radio.
So having said that, Im glad you've seen the light, LEARN my son, LEARN.
Good luck kid!
So having said that, Im glad you've seen the light, LEARN my son, LEARN.
Good luck kid!
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bueller
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What's a sample list of some of the music selections on Free FM when they aren't doing talk?
bueller said:
Nothing special. It basically sounds like WMMR in Philly - a lot of older-skewing rock mixed with today's relatively innocuous rock like Shinedown, RHCP, Foo Fighters. Never anything heavy or obscure - they play it even safer than K-Rock did. I was hoping they were going to use this new format as an opportunity to play a more diverse variety of rock on the weekends, but that was not the case. The music played by Philly's Free FM (94.1 WYSP) when they aren't doing talk programming is much better, edgier and more focused - it really doesn't sound too different from YSP when they were a full-time Active Rocker. As far as Free FM in NYC goes, you would almost think you were listening to Q104 at times with how safe they play it.
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