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Is 99.5 The Bear, in Hub City, dead?

Townsquare is buying a boat load of Cumulus properties to the tune of $116 Million...so they can work their "MAGIC" there...... with that kind of price tag, you bet, they will be "Cost Cutting". The Bear is the 1st victom, of probably many.
 
Early this afternoon they were branding B-995 Lubbock's Classic Rock. They may be messing with some heads.
 
WhoDat! said:
ash.... this will not create ANY new opportunities for ANYBODY..which is the REASON they're doing it, they're CUTTING COSTS- I.E. PEOPLE... the ONLY thing this serves is their OWN business interests given i guess, the climate over there right now.
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How ignorant. I guess you haven't been around the business long enough to know that staff changes are a regular things when stations go in a different direction. When (or as you may say "if") they start asking for applications, are you going to A. Apply, B. Admit you were wrong or C. Continue being a negative burnt out ex air personality (like Crow).
 
DMcCloy said:
Driving home I heard them tag as Blake FM 99.5. There goes 15 years of Bear branding
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I haven't heard any kind of branding today. Just the same country song after country song...followed by a few commercials and then station ID at the top of the hour.

Regardless, I'm very sad for the staff that got let go (especially because they have been in lubbock for a long time). I've actually met Jane a couple times when I worked at channel 11. One of the nicest people I've ever met. I wish them all nothing but the best.
 
I agree it's very sad when anyone loses their job, especially air personalities that we've shared ups and downs with. I'm just a little tired of the negativity on these pages. No one mentioned when the same group added a night guy a year ago to 94 and no one mentioned that they added a night girl to Kiss a few months back...they only dwell on the negative. There's not a lot of rainbows in radio right now, but there are a few.
 
i would LOVE to BE POSITIVE but unlike YOU i live in the world of REALITY...99.5 is going to get programming from a syndicator OR they are just going to program it ALLWITHOUT PEOPLE! locally... what part of THAT don't you understand??? ..
 
crow said:
I am not going to attempt to state what Local Management is or isn't doing over there. I know, personally, how Local Management WAS when I was working there. There were many good things about Local Management but there were also many bad things about Local Management. However, I believe that Townsquare is and has always been run by Corporate Jagofff's. Yes, I fully understand that is a juvenile statement to make. However, it is what it is. From day one, the GAP/Townsquare peeps never had their crap together. It came across as a bunch of so-called radio people who wandered into a large sum of cash and wanted to play like they were CC or CBS etc... It's like people seeing others buying and flipping houses... making tons of cash... so they do the same thing... thinking that it's going to be the same way for them... and when it comes down to it... they know nothing about flipping a house. So, after they have bought some decent real estate, screwed it up with their lack of knowledge, they then have to do what they can to get their money back.

I foresee Townsquare going away, selling off their broken and damaged clusters to some other Company.

However, this is just MY opinion.
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Well, when it comes to admitting that you are wrong... I simply have too. It seems, that they are not going away, as stated. So, if you needed proof that I know nothing about radio... there's your proof.
 
Crow, Townsquare is DEEP into it, in debt to the tune of $116 Million dollars with the latest station buys... they either made a Great Decision! or it will be their downfall, like others who have gone down this path. i won't made any predictions about that, BUT with that kind of debt they probably will continue Cost-Cutting like they did at 99.5 in the future.
 
Why do any of you even post on the radio boards? It's a bunch of chicken little mentality here. I noticed you guys glossed over the fact that the Lubbock cluster added two on air and one off air jobs. Isn't it possible that this one stations changes have more in common with the fact that the old staff wasn't getting it done than with any 'cost cutting'? Do you think ghosts are going to run this new station?
 
It's great that FMX and KISS have employed new staff members. I hope that Townsquare will employ even more throughout the Company and not allow "ghosts" to run stations. Ghosts have no personality.
 
am i the ONLY one?[/i What does BLAKE mean in "Blake FM"?
 
Looks like it officially launched either last night or this morning.

Website is now officially up at 995blakefm.com and kqbr.com forwards you to the blake fm website.
 
Looked at the playlist on the new website. They certainly do what they say 'play new country.' Much less of the older stuff the Bear played. Also noticed some Texas songs in there, too. Looks like they're trying to wedge themselves evenly between KLLL and 105.3.
 
DMcCloy said:
Looked at the playlist on the new website. They certainly do what they say 'play new country.' Much less of the older stuff the Bear played. Also noticed some Texas songs in there, too. Looks like they're trying to wedge themselves evenly between KLLL and 105.3.
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I admit. I do like that they announce the name of the song thats playing. Always drove me crazy when I heard a good song and didn't know the title.

I think the Bear already was shifting more towards new country. When I moved here in '05, I heard A LOT older country being played on the Bear. Seems like 107.3/94.1 has taken the spot for the the new country/classic country format (they promote themselves as classic country but i've heard both on that station).
 
This is just my personal preference, but I'm only a casual country listener: 107.3/94.1 is terrible. Seems like every time I'm browsing and come across that station it is either some awkward old country ballad or Steve Ritchie babbling. I usually listen to 105.3 or The Morning Drive on 104.3 in the mornings I admit, but during commercials I'll flip through while I'm driving to work and I can't stand 107.3. I was glad when he left 105.3.


I did notice Blake putting the names on the end of the song. I liked it, too. Cool move and a first for radio in Lubbock.
 
THIS TIME NEXY YEAR....do you think Ratings will be UP for 99.5? OR will 99.5 be deemed a Failure? or in the end they don't care, Townsquare eliminated 3 salaries? whaddyathink?
 
I think the stations will a. be a success and b. add personalities to grow the format.
 
Ash said:
I think the stations will a. be a success and b. add personalities to grow the format.
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#1. They HAD PERSONALITIES... appearantly IT didn't take them where they wanted to go... and they're gone.

#2"The Blake" format is DESIGNED to run WITHOUT AIR PERSONALITIES...so that won't happen.
 
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