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"Inner Sanctum's" outer issue

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johnbasalla

With the change in ownership and format at WNWV, it would appear to me that the Local Rock music show "Inner Sanctum", which airs on Sunday nights, will be shown the door. Will they land on their feet at another station?
WMMS would be the next station for the producers to approach. I think that "Inner Sanctum" would fit right in at "The Buzzard". The show could move in a more Active Rock direction playing acts like Chiamera, and for "oldies" content Mushroomhead, more often.
 
Not sure if WMMS would pick up the show, though that's a good idea. I personally think WMMS should lean more alternative with no classic rock. The Lake can pick up the classic portion, or maybe they can lean more in a modern AC/rock direction to compliment WMMS without a lot of overlap.

If not regarding Inner Sanctum, then they can air on WBWC, WJCU and WAPS as part of a network. That can give the show more freedom.
 
After this week, the only alternative on the commercial dial in the Rock N Roll Capitol of the World will be middays and evenings on WMMS, or on the automated jukebox Lake, in between Cindy Lauper and the Black Eyed Peas. We've come a long, long way down from the glory days of WMMS breaking rock in the 70's, 80s and 90's, and 107.9 the End, or even the less than glory days of the past few years of Xtreme KRock Radio 92.3 and V Boom 107.3 CLE. Or we can listen to the glory days regurgitated on 98.5 or 105.7.
 
wffm78 said:
After this week, the only alternative on the commercial dial in the Rock N Roll Capitol of the World will be middays and evenings on WMMS, or on the automated jukebox Lake, in between Cindy Lauper and the Black Eyed Peas. We've come a long, long way down from the glory days of WMMS breaking rock in the 70's, 80s and 90's, and 107.9 the End, or even the less than glory days of the past few years of Xtreme KRock Radio 92.3 and V Boom 107.3 CLE. Or we can listen to the glory days regurgitated on 98.5 or 105.7.
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I've been to plenty of major cities and I can confidently say that Cleveland has the best 88.1-91.9 dial anywhere, which makes up for the dwindling presence of rock on commercial radio here. WCSB's warped hot-talk-on-crack / abrasive industrial music late-night format, particularly, is absolutely brilliant (to me, anyway...it's a niche audience to be sure). It's a shame that Inner Sanctum, which has shuffled between three different stations at this point, is now in limbo...but at least they're not the only option in the market for local bands to get radio access, even if they were the most prominent.
 
wffm78 said:
After this week, the only alternative on the commercial dial in the Rock N Roll Capitol of the World will be middays and evenings on WMMS, or on the automated jukebox Lake, in between Cindy Lauper and the Black Eyed Peas.
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Well said. With a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum operated from New York who's inductees include Madonna, Miles Davis and Run-D.M.C.
 
It's not just Cleveland. Rock radio in general is suffering an identity crisis. The product has not been great in the last few years with only a handful of standout acts. When Nickelback sells more rock product than any other rock band, the format is in trouble. (that's not a knock on NB, but I can't say too many people would call them innovative)
 
John Baylor said:
It's not just Cleveland. Rock radio in general is suffering an identity crisis. The product has not been great in the last few years with only a handful of standout acts. When Nickelback sells more rock product than any other rock band, the format is in trouble. (that's not a knock on NB, but I can't say too many people would call them innovative)
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The format totally collapsed when Q101/Chicago and WRXP/New York both flipped to female-oriented "all-news." Both station failed mostly because of bad management, the lack of innovative programmers, and a cash-strapped owner in Emmis that needed a quick transfusion of money. (And this ISN'T the first time Emmis has gotten in money trouble... their ownership of the Seattle Mariners in the early 90s was so disastrous that they were forced to unload both WFAN/New York and WAVA/Washington DC.)

What stands out with WRXP is that it, too, was an AAA which was as badly focused and bi-polar as "Boom!"/"V" was. It too was doomed to fail from the start.
 
The worst speciality show was "Local Licks" on WRQK. Most of the music was played from muddy cassette tapes recorded by somebody who thought they were a recording engineer, but mostly managed to make the music even muddier. In an attempt to clean it up, they'd add reverb to almost every track. That multiplied the muddiness. Some of the cuts sounded as if they were recorded on a piece of rope. Being in radio does not make you a recording engineer. Live music is much different than a multitrack Vo promo.
 
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