> >their show as a whole might be a better afternoon drive
> fit.
> >
>
> Whether or not they deserve a chance at PM Drive, what you
> wrote is right.
> BTW, who would you give a shot to for PM Drive on Free-FM in
> New York? Or maybe you like the Radio Chick show??
>
Just because their show would be a better fit in Afternoon drive doesn't mean they should get it. They had their chance in NY, and failed misreably, when you fail as badly as they did they shouldn't get another chance.
As far as the Radio chick show, I don't like her show either, and I don't think she deseves the slot either. also a better fit in Afternoon Drive, and like D&M was on Middays in NY and got poor ratings there (though they were better than the abysmal numbers D&M had. Quite frankly I think the whole free Fm thing should be blown up. They had a chance to do it right with Stern mornings, and O&A afternoons, they blew it bigtime. The type of format isn't really viable right now with the bigboys of the genre on Satelite. Most of the markets it has worked in the past it did so with Stern or a big name market figure (which their is none in NY). Right now the station is basically what NEW was when it was hot talk, but it has no O&A (or show of the ilk that will get the ratings) to keep the station above water.
Bottom line no the Chick isn't the answer in Afternoons, D&M wouldn't be either, DLR isn't the answer in mornings. While they needed to make changes becuase K-Rock was doomed without Stern, the Free fm mess they have now is far from the answer. The format can work, and Infinity had the chance to make the format work. However they screwed the pooch bad from the start with O&A, then screwed it worse with the way they handled their departure, and then the lay down and die attitude on part of Infinity in part played a role in Stern leaving. The pieces aren't there to make it work in NY, they are on satelite. They had the chance for it, and screwed it (if they actually dealt with everything the way they should have dealt with it chances are the format would be a success now, and you might still have the building blocks in place on terretial radio with Infinity that would have made it work (Stern, O&A), and even if they did bolt you would have had a much better chance at actually being able to use middays or evenings to build a replacement for them that actually had a following. However they did not. As a result both shows are gone (the argument could be made that the FCC played a role, but them laying down & dying did as well), because of the way they situated the shows, and not building the free fm idea with them together earlier, they screwed anychance of being able to get a show that would be able to have an audience. Just blow up the whole station, its a mess all around<P ID="signature">______________
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