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I miss not having live local wlw during 9am till noon.

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The mcconnell program just doesn't seem the same anymore, it seems too distant. Also, theres no breaking in for first hand news or weather/traffic info from callers or extended info from newsroom or local weather people.
 
I haven't gotten to listen since the switch to national, but, yeah I can see it not being the same. Won't even be able to hear people callingin about "white death" this winter. I still don't know what affiliates he's actually landed. I did hear him say on the weekend show that WABC has picked up the weekend show.
 
I listened to the 'new national format' a couple times, though not for very long at all. Pretty much lacks the spontanaity that you grew to enjoy with local shows. No bantering with weathermen, no bitching about local traffic or construction projects, no calls from Martin. Its just all the old stories that worked for Mike, but only when they were spontaneous, not pre-planned. I also don't really enjoy hearing banter with the shows producer or whoever is running the show in the booth.

One thing that did jump out at me was the very noticable point where it switches away from the national feed and jumps to local feed (with the mandadory and annoying self promotional adverts).

I havn't been listening to Mike for a couple years now as his show just wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be. If you ask me, its gotten even worse now.

55 has already lost all its locally originated broadcasts after 9am. But even that morning show is so full of commercials I've started listening to public radio.

Bad times ahead I'm afraid.
 
I was a transplated native of Cincinnati from 1982-1993. During the 82-86 years, I was in Wichita, Ks. I bought a 10' satellite dish to pick up Reds and Bengal games, plus all the feeds were free at the time. I bought a special SCPC radio to get Reds audio feeds. What fun. Then from 86-93, I lived in Lima, Ohio. I was so happy to get WLW again, over-the-air! I loved listening to Mike, Burbank, and Cunningham. I can't stand the entire station anymore. Sick of commercials, and it's the same old crap everday. I'm finally tired of "Argue Radio". Burbank is just not funny to me anymore.

I miss jazz on WNOP even more.......
 
Well, I stand corrected. If you pay attention, you can sort out where they drop the national feed, and Mike reads a promo for Willie or some other WLW event.

Now thats excellent local programing. Two 15 second segments per hour.
 
The same 15 second drop-ins with weather or whatever started showing up on the weekend show today. I listened to the last hour on WTVN and one of them alsmost got through on the 610 airwaves. Reminds me of Bob and Tom on their originating station, Q95 in Indy. While the network's away it's "Q95, this is Bob and Tom" with weather and seeing exactly how many times they can say "Q95" before rejoining the network.

Still, no one can tell me any station that's actually clearing McConnell's weekday show.
 
Makes you wonder if there really IS a Mike McConnell anymore..?!?

Maybe theres just a "McConnell 5000" piece of equipment in the studio. If there isn't, there may as well be. That show is such a patchwork of promos and going back and forth from local to national its become a chore to listen to.
 
major said:
I was a transplated native of Cincinnati from 1982-1993. During the 82-86 years, I was in Wichita, Ks. I bought a 10' satellite dish to pick up Reds and Bengal games, plus all the feeds were free at the time. I bought a special SCPC radio to get Reds audio feeds. What fun. Then from 86-93, I lived in Lima, Ohio. I was so happy to get WLW again, over-the-air! I loved listening to Mike, Burbank, and Cunningham. I can't stand the entire station anymore. Sick of commercials, and it's the same old crap everday. I'm finally tired of "Argue Radio". Burbank is just not funny to me anymore.

I miss jazz on WNOP even more.......
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Alas, I too miss the Jazz Ark. I worked there in the early 80's, & was fortunate enough to meet Ray & Walt. Surely a free-form, no play-list format (jazz or otherwise) can make it these days if you have the right talent. HD perhaps??
 
Someone called McConnell this morning and wanted to talk about Norwood's emminent domain case and the Cross County Highway project and how it ended abruptly at the edge of Indian Hill (local Cincinnati issues). Probably trying to tie the two issues together somehow.

I suppose it just a sign of the times...Mike had to tell the caller that he couldn't talk about that because his show was national now. McConnell didn't even try to have the foresight to try make a local issue interesting to a national audience.


I think they have taken a very good product and ruined it.
 
Might be an outcome similar to Gary Burbank's foray into syndication...the local ratings dropped because Burbank couldn't do local humor...at the time Marhe Schott was providing a boatload of material.
 
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