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Huh? Rick & Bubba Huntsville Squabble Effects Nashville?

Funny how quickly we got off the subject of R&B. I understand. It's clearly a show for medium markets because they just fart around with a lot of time to kill and little focus or direction. Seems like when they were on the very small Turner South network they tried a little harder. I guess it's just comfortable for those that don't want to bothered all that much. But if you want to see real filler look at one of the books they wrote. Even though it was mostly ghost written it's just kind of rambling around with no point of purpose. You'd have a better shot of being entertained spending that $20 on lottery tickets. It didn't sell well but it puzzled me that Dave Ramsey endorsed it. I thought he was about not blowing cash unnecessarily.

Not sure on this but I'm guessing Nashville is their largest market, followed by Birmingham, then Timbucktwo in Alabama. Are any of these syndicated shows making money? It just seems when a syndicator lumps a bunch of small to medium to some large markets in a pot and sells the spots for bottom dollar, we continue to cheapen the value of radio as bargain basement media. After all these years we still sell it in volume and give it away and past the top 10 obvious home runs most are just bland, average, and wouldn't be missed if they folded tomorrow.
 
jy said:
But if you want to see real filler look at one of the books they wrote. Even though it was mostly ghost written it's just kind of rambling around with no point of purpose.

Not sure on this but I'm guessing Nashville is their largest market, followed by Birmingham, then Timbucktwo in Alabama.
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Not that I necessarily want to be in the position of defending these guys, but (1) the books were mostly text versions of some past on-air bits, edited but not ghosted, and (2) Atlanta, market #9, is their largest market.

As for getting off the subject, so often posts here seem to trigger the reminiscing of local long-timers...
 
This longtimer pretty much believes R &B ramble on, loose focus and are much more boring than the majority of the posts on here.

Concise and on subject...regardless of market size they ****!

Anybody notice the KDF tower lights still don't work? hehehe./
 
wondering out loud..are other markets across the country as dull, boring and repetitive as nashville.? does cumulous or cc in other cities sound like nashville.. ???
 
jetfli said:
jy said:
But if you want to see real filler look at one of the books they wrote. Even though it was mostly ghost written it's just kind of rambling around with no point of purpose.

Not sure on this but I'm guessing Nashville is their largest market, followed by Birmingham, then Timbucktwo in Alabama.
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Not that I necessarily want to be in the position of defending these guys, but (1) the books were mostly text versions of some past on-air bits, edited but not ghosted, and (2) Atlanta, market #9, is their largest market.

As for getting off the subject, so often posts here seem to trigger the reminiscing of local long-timers...
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Well, back in my day, we didn't have no new fangled high falootin stereo or home theater stuff see. We had good ole tabletop radios see and we liked it see. ;)

Seriously, I guess I am guilty of talking about days long ago. To new people living in this great city, I guess stories about radio formats from the olden days get tiresome. lol
 
deltas69 said:
wondering out loud..are other markets across the country as dull, boring and repetitive as nashville.? does cumulous or cc in other cities sound like nashville.. ???
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Nashville has a few bright spots, but to somewhat answer your question, see the article about the top 10 markets for listeners on the radio-info home page.
 
Jetfli is correct that a station in Atlanta carries a couple of hours of R&B in the middle of the night one day a weekend. Sounds more like filler than commitment. Point is in weekday to day efforts it's mostly viewed as a Dothan, Selma AL or Albany GA kind of appeal. Folksy and casual. It's pretty hard to play both worlds. It is what it is and seems to be more compatible in that size town. Speaking of syndication did you notice the other bubba, Big D and bubba has been dropped by CC Atlanta and Cledus T Judd will do mornings on their country station. I'll stop so Tibbs can the words of the post. Interesting he doesn't think the ramble. Ask major market PD's what THEY think.
 
jy ---

Where did I mislead you on my love for R & B, John Bob whoever, Bubba, this, Bubba, Sponge that. No. No. No.

R & B DO RAMBLE ON.....why have the true, elequent, polished, professional sounding air personalities been
replaced by this type of stuff?

Someone smarter than me can explain this mindset. It sounds like we're twenty years behind the times.
If this is so popular, why doesn't one of the local news programs have Bubba John Dawg as their lead
anchor, etc? I think Gerry House is a totally professional and funny. He should be the one with the multiple markets.

Seriously, why R & B get's the chance over and over defies logic to me. I think I am clear on this.
 
Deeply apologize tibbs2, I jumped in late and misunderstood. I'm with you. It's unkind of me to jump on these guys but I really like Nashville and I get a little defensive when I see anybody exaggerate the charicature of Southerners as this show does. Sitting around scratching your butt on the radio just doesn't seem to reflect a city attracting businesses like Nissan headquarters.

I always thought it was interesting that the mother of all country shows, the Grand Ole Opry, never had a announcer with a drawl. Hairl, Grant, Hal, Tony, etc., and even Ralph Emery always had a Middle America sound in the heart of the South. It's like a bad dream of Hee Haw returning to radio in the 21st Century.
Jest when we thot we'd all growed up guys that sounded like their cousin runs moonshine is up on morning drive on the big 1510, dadburnit. I remember people across America laughing AT Hee Haw, not WITH Hee Haw and as a loyal Southerner I might be too emotional to be fair on this one. I'm sure R&B are swell guys. I feel like I'm about to be seated at Cracker Barrell everytime I accidentally tune in.
 
The thing I never understood was why WLAC which was known for being a politically driven talk radio radio station with the big hitters of talk radio, Rush, Sean and Glen Beck, all of a sudden I tune in one morning and I hear these two cotton mouthed guys yaking about one of the guy's broken lawnmower or yaking about his neighbor's dog barking all night. I knew these guys had been on several Nashville stations since when 1997 or so?

I did tune in the other morning and they were interviewing talk radio host Mark Levine. Mark Levine was polite but I got the feeling he thought: Who are these two bumpkings?

My Brother absolutely cringes when he hears John Boy and Billy show and the UT fight song, Rocky top, even though he is as big UT Vol fan as I am. He claims the song is hayseed and perpetuates that stereotype of inbred hillbillies. LOL Of course we started out in Columbus, Ohio. Hey I love Nashville and it is a great up and coming city. I wonder why a city that has come so far along in the last 15 years can be a haven for R and B on a political talk and current events radio station?
 
jy said:
Jetfli is correct that a station in Atlanta carries a couple of hours of R&B in the middle of the night one day a weekend.
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I'm thinking of Magic 98.1 which I hear sometimes when I'm in Atlanta. I realize it's heard strongest in the southern part of Metro Atlanta, and it's actually based in Newnan I believe, but it's marketed as Atlanta. They air R&B weekdays, 6-10 AM, and Saturdays, 6-9 AM.

It's heritage WSB that airs R&B on a weekend, Sunday, but it's 4-6 in the afternoon. Don't know of any station in Greater Atlanta that airs R&B at night.

By the way, R&B are friends with Sean Hannity, and Sean Hannity works with Mark Levin, and that's why both Hannity and Levin came to be regular guests on R&B's show. It also helps push R&B to news/talk stations.
 
Jetfli, Waffle House works for me. And I'll buy. Not familiar with Magic 98 on the Southside of Atlanta. I can tell you it doesn't make an impact in the market. And in a city where doing mornings right takes cash, I guess running R&B on barter gets the job done. This thread is getting more wierd all the time. I listen to R&B about as often as I go to Big Lots to buy stale candy, so when I see a show with good ole boys aimed at good ole boys talking to Mark Levin I'm wondering if (1 R&B are getting aroused talking to a big network guy and kissing up to him and (2 if Levin is saying anything of interest to a listener in Muscle Shoals.
It's one of the problems radio seems to be facing: loosing identity at times and being something your audience doesn't expect or know you for. Maybe they get tired talking to each other. Maybe their call ins aren't inspiring them like they used to, or maybe they're trying to land bigger markets by implying "see we can pull in bigger names." They want a big name? Get Paula Dean out of savannah..food network..funny as can be ) Their audience would eat her up, but I think she's busy doing Oprah, The View, the Today show and other Tv media with tonage audience. If they had Levin on I guess they were getting into topics like The war, and Political primaries and topics covered by 98 other shows every day.

Since you got me venting now what I'm beginning to really dislike about talk radio in addition to a lack of civility is where do you go to get the truth anymore? I mean Hannity has HIS version of the truth..so does Limbaugh and Valentine. Savage has a version of the truth and so does Laura Ingram and if you listen carefully each seems to conveniently leave something out of the total picture. Al Gore is the same way.
Everything is spin. So shows end up preaching to like minded people and at the end of the day, nobody has learned anything new, but they got so many pats on the back from people in agreement, everybody leaves thinking they're the smartest person in the room. Talk radio has given a lot of air time to people who you'd have never hired to be on your station and who's only talent seems to be to dial a phone and gripe.

The only wisdom I've heard lately was from Buddy Sadler who said "life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes."

Please note the previous joke is not copyrighted and may be used for show prep by Gerry House, Carl P, Dave Ramsey or the entire staff of the River. Wait. Bulletin. R&B just called in. They want to use that line every hour tomorrow. Sorry Gerry
 
The only wisdom I've heard lately was from Buddy Sadler who said "life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes." i remember when "dead mans curve" was written on his first sheet... ;D
 
Paula Dean with her Southern recipes would be a good frequent contributor to R and B. Or maybe get Terry Bowden from ABC sports or wherever Bowden works these days, Bowden was with ABC college football last year right up to that royal sucking up to Big 10 and Michigan in the 2007 BCS game. I'm not totally sure where Bowden is these days, but he might be good contributor as he talked about college football and particularly SEC football.

Let's face it, I think most of us agree that R and B is a small market to medium market morning show. The way this city has grown the last 10 to 15 years, not only in population, but also in terms of a cosmopolitan ibig city mage, Nashville might one day soon outgrow Rick and Bubba.
 
What is the real reason WLAC carries R&B. On first listen it makes no sense for a news talk station. The R&B station list is all really small markets then the WLAC WSB thing looks wierd. WSB is obvious and someone in B'ham confirmed the reason it's on Sunday afternoon in Atlanta. R&B are on one Cox country station in Am drive (WZZP) then reair on another Cox station in PM drive (wncb) and somehow in the deal Cox had to throw in WSB. Since wsb AND wlac are both 50,000 watt monsters something is going on.
Having a Mark Levin appear one day surrounded by Waffle House waitresses etc, it sounds like R&B must be trying to make a WSB or WLAC PD happy. But it's still a country show trying to suddenly fit on N/T formats? How does that work without blowing off the country base. There must be a political reason. Does anyone work at CC Nashville or WLAC and care to clear it up.
 
deltas69 said:
After Sutton graduated from East Nashville High School, he returned to Clarksville to become a radio disc jockey, then enlisted in the United States Army during World War II, and after basic training, was sent to the South Pacific, taking part in 14 assault landings.[1] TAKEN FROM WIKAPEDIA...SHAZAMMM !!
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Frank worked at WJZM in Clarksville, from what I gather. My cousin, Johnny Bailey, was a owner/partner in that station with Charlie Malone. My grandfather, Hugh Bailey and Johnny Bailey were 1st cousins.
I just remember my dad taking me up there at the age of 4 to the studios on Madison Street, back in the 60's. I would sit and watch the guy through the window on the air. My mother worked across the street in a small departmet store. Taking me to the station was to keep me quiet until time to go home.
 
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