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I Demand A Recount !

Lafayette Unplugged

Lafayette Unplugged

Monticello Community Radio WMRS Sunny 107.7 FM wins the Indiana
Broadcasters Association’s Station of the Year

Indianapolis, IN -- Monticello Community Radio WMRS Sunny 107.7
FM is the proud recipient of the Indiana Broadcasters Association (IBA)
Station of the Year Market 3; all radio stations in Indiana with the
exception of radio stations in Indianapolis, Evansville, South Bend,
Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Muncie, and Lafayette.

On Saturday, November 11th, the best of Indiana’s Broadcasters
got together for the Indiana Broadcasters Association’s 19th Annual
Spectrum Awards. The Spectrum Awards recognize Indiana Broadcasters for
excellence in broadcasting both radio and television. The competition is
stiff, and according to IBA Chairman Tom Severino the Spectrum Awards
had a record breaking number of entries.

“We were up against the best in radio, and it was such a
privilege to just be included in the top three. We love what we do, and
we love our community. It shows in our work. It’s such a tremendous
honor to be awarded Station of the Year by our peers,” Kevin Page
Monticello Community Radio WMRS Sunny 107.7 FM’s General Manager
exclaimed after they won Station of the Year.

WMRS Sunny 107.7 FM won Station of the Year Market 3 for its
overall efforts during the year in community service, creative listener
and sales promotions, quality commercial production, talk shows, and
news and features.

There must have been a mistake in the paperwork.
But I bet all three of their listeners must be proud.

The "excellence in broadcasting" part made me spit coffee all over my screen when I read it! :eek:
 
Actually I agree with WMRS winning station of the year from the IBA!! If you would take the time to listen to them you so called "seasoned professioals" could learn something from them. WMRS has fun and is one of the most community oriented stations around. Congrats to WMRS. Not everyone who works in radio needs to constantly belittle other stations!!! ;D
 
laughingstockpluggedin said:
Actually I agree with WMRS winning station of the year from the IBA!! If you would take the time to listen to them you so called "seasoned professioals" could learn something from them. WMRS has fun and is one of the most community oriented stations around. Congrats to WMRS. Not everyone who works in radio needs to constantly belittle other stations!!! ;D
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Went out of your way to come up with a clever new name to make fun of MY name? I'm DYIN' ! Good one. ::)

The only thing I've ever seasoned was my green beans, by the way.

The other part of the citation/award talking about the "quality of their commercial production" made me guffaw to the point of pulling a groin muscle.
I don't have any hard research numbers in front of me, but does Kevin Page NOT read any of their commercials?
And is it company policy that he read them all the same way?

Also, please tell someone there to get a stopwatch so they can not overlap the liners going back to the satellite feeds almost every time!

Somebody knows somebody somewhere for that award to be given to them. That's all I'm sayin'.

I looked at my "belittling" schedule, and WMRS is the only one I have entered for this week.
I think that's being pretty generous and fair considering the hundreds of others I have opinions about.

And don't worry, Big Brother, I've learned my lesson. It's the last I'll say about any of this lest I be censored again for offering up a critique of a radio station.
 
Ur-A-Dawg said:
Unplugged, do you even have a job at a radio station? Just wondering.
You spend a lot of time on here.
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the same thing could be said fo you 'dawg friend' he just knows a lot about a lot of stuff and feels reasons to say it so dont downsize him love ya un plugged!

now about this bad raydeeoo up montisello way now thats not exactly what id call pro fessional!
 
Ur-A-Dawg said:
Unplugged, do you even have a job at a radio station? Just wondering.
You spend a lot of time on here.
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Yeah, I don't EVEN have much of a life. I get up bright and early at 6am, fire up the computer (or "hate machine" as I like to call it) and go to this site for about 10 hours.
Is that too much? Should I get out more?

I don't presently work at the Pentagon but I have an opinion about the war, too.
I'm not sure I understand your question. Do I need to post a resume or something on here?
 
Seriously, whatever the topic: listening, programming, engineering, ownership, FCC rules, etc., I'm only ever going to offer up an INFORMED opinion based on personal experience.

I'm not the "Letters to the Editor" type who will spout off willy nilly like an expert of all things radio.

And If I want people to know who I am and where I work/worked, I'd open up that can of worms
(like tons of other people on here) and lay it out there and risk someone tagging some sort of imaginary bias to whatever I say like I have an agenda.
An anonymous handle and speaking only from experience (and I hope most will agree) is the best way to go for me anyway.

You're my dawg, Dawg. No venom here, brother... 8)
 
Bunny FooFoo said:
Plugged Up, Aren't you K105mark little mimi meeeeeee!?
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Again, someone has taken my name on here and worked up a little joke with it.
That is some clever wild whacky stuff!

Having said that, I don't understand your question.

Please clarify, Bunny Poo Poo, I'm thinking it has something to do with Mark Allen at K-105.
(see what I did with her name there? With the name? Huh? huh? Anyone?) :-X
 
laughingstockpluggedin said:
I have listened to WMRS for quite sometime and I haven't heard their liners overlap the satallite.
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You don't listen enough then. I haven't listened intently for a couple of months, but they well overused the magic call that says "The CD is ready...W-M-R-S". That 3 second magic call used to overlap every Jones AC jock by two seconds at the very least. If they fixed it, good for them. If it was me, it wouldn't have taken roughly a year to be corrected.

Anyway, defending WMRS a little bit, I suppose it depends on the criteria the IBA uses to come up with station of the year. WMRS is by far not the most polished station on the Indiana airwaves, but they do have very local content during the week. If that outweighs everything else, then I can understand the IBA's decision.
 
You're on it, Apollo.

I'm no fan of how rough WMRS sounds, but if they met the criteria in the paperwork to get the award, I certainly have no issue with that.

Anybody know what you have to fill out to get one of those awards? Guidelines? Who decides?

Good point.

???
 
I could be totally wrong but I think that you have to nominate yourself (station) and I think you have to include an aircheck and pay set cost to nominate your station. If that is the case then not every station will be elgible for the award if they don't include their package. If one station enters a certain category then that station would obviously win. Could be that they were indeed the only entry in this category, but like I said I could be wrong on the whole thing. It's all about positioning.
 
Bunny FooFoo said:
Plugged Up, Aren't you K105mark little mimi meeeeeee!?
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laughingstockpluggedin said:
Actually I agree with WMRS winning station of the year from the IBA!! If you would take the time to listen to them you so called "seasoned professioals" could learn something from them. WMRS has fun and is one of the most community oriented stations around. Congrats to WMRS. Not everyone who works in radio needs to constantly belittle other stations!!! ;D
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You said "not everyone who works in radio needs to constantly belittle other stations." If a station/broadcast group is pulling in fantastic ratings, has great talent/announcers, on track from a managerial, sales, and programming perspective, and do a superior job at serving the community, then I'd agree with you. Then again, if a station was perfect in all the criteria above, a message board such as Radio-Info wouldn't need to exist because people wouldn't have a problem with how certain stations/companies/officials/DJs/etc. operate their respective ships.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and radio PROFESSIONALS know this. I've taken heat for how all of the stations I've worked for, past and present, haven't been to someone's liking. At the same time, I've been praised for how great they've sounded. It's all relative. However, when the majority thinks you stink, that's when there's a problem. I, like many, don't like WMRS. It's a trainwreck of a format and very sloppy, but that's my overall opinion, and I'm entitled to it. Kevin, Laura, and the staff could be great people, but the critique is not about them personally. It's the quality of the station that I'm sure Unplugged was referring to. If WMRS bills well, gets massive ratings in White County (as it should being the only station), and keeps the Twin Lake area informed unlike any other station, then great, but don't condemn Unplugged for his/her, mine, or anyone else's thoughts concerning Sunny 107-7. Constructive criticism and opinions are all this is, my friends. Take it for what it's worth.

The one thing I dislike about this board is how some people, who are without a question, connected to a station that's getting critiqued have to jump in with their two cents on how great the station is and hints at the notion that if you think otherwise, then you're deemed an idiot. If you want to hold the award, certificate, whatever in your hand while jumping up and down in your office to "We are the Champions" playing in the background, great, but keep the personal insults to yourself. You talk about how everyone belittles stations, well Laughingstockpluggedin and Bunny FooFoo, don't belittle Lafayette Unplugged for disagreeing with an outcome of a stupid IBA Award.

That said, congratulations on your achievement.
 
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