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Is Classic Hits 92.9 Sounded A Lot Better Than the Return of WCBS-FM?

P-Town said:
Back to a previous thread within this thread.

Here's a quote from Randy Turner's bio on the WBPM website:
"Greetings, neighbors, I’m Randy Turner – a lot of people call me “The Ran-Man”. I’m proud to say that I’ve had a career in radio for over 20 years.... Probably the biggest highlight of my career has been creating the format for Classic Hits 92.9 WBPM. "

By the way, does anyone really think a lot of people call him "THE Ran-Man," as in, "Good afternoon, THE Ran-Man, please play the classic hit, 'Snoopy vs. The Red Baron' for me."
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Should be "Rain MAn"
Sounds like a self created nickname, kind of like the Seinfeld episode when George Costanza wanted people to call him T-Bone :D
 
P-Town said:
Back to a previous thread within this thread.

Here's a quote from Randy Turner's bio on the WBPM website:
"Greetings, neighbors, I’m Randy Turner – a lot of people call me “The Ran-Man”. I’m proud to say that I’ve had a career in radio for over 20 years.... Probably the biggest highlight of my career has been creating the format for Classic Hits 92.9 WBPM. "

By the way, does anyone really think a lot of people call him "THE Ran-Man," as in, "Good afternoon, THE Ran-Man, please play the classic hit, 'Snoopy vs. The Red Baron' for me."
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Hey -- don't mess with Snoopy! That;s a great song! ;D
 
Yowzah....he did create the format, go figure....ask him, he'll tell ya!!! :)e

Park your car in the Fishkill area, and flip back and forth between CBS-FM and 'BPM, and tell me who sounds better- again we are comparing apples to oranges by comparing CBS to a pea shooter: better delivery, better sound, seasoned jocks with legendary voices, super jingles, better music mix....

At least the programmers at CBS-FM can thank Turnip for inventing the format!! :eek:

pass the bernz-o-matic....

warm590 ;D
 
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman said:
CBS-FM should broadcast live from the Red Hook Pool on there first day. From What I hear theirs lots of 4 Year old kids just waiting to be interviewed! That would give CBS-FM an instant ratings boost that they so desperately need!
http://musicradio77.podomatic.com/entry/2007-07-01T12_06_43-07_00

p.s. Can someone tape the first hour for me? i just found out that i wound be able to recieve CBS-FM on thursday due to the fact that i live in White Planes and not in Newburgh or Peekskill. Thanks a bunch :)
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Gunnery, stop posting a link to an episode. It's my podcast! I have CBS-FM tributes on my other podcast here:

http://99x.podomatic.com

I did my show and it has nothing to do with CBS-FM. CBS-FM was not broadcasting live from Red Hook Pool. I recorded the show live in the pool with my parents and family, not on the radio from a live feed. Please calm down. ;D
 
warm590 said:
Yowzah....he did create the format, go figure....ask him, he'll tell ya!!! :)e

Park your car in the Fishkill area, and flip back and forth between CBS-FM and 'BPM, and tell me who sounds better- again we are comparing apples to oranges by comparing CBS to a pea shooter: better delivery, better sound, seasoned jocks with legendary voices, super jingles, better music mix....

At least the programmers at CBS-FM can thank Turnip for inventing the format!! :eek:

pass the bernz-o-matic....

warm590 ;D
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I dunno. I kinda like BPM. To me, its what radio needs. Not a lot of repetition, some nice deep cuts, and jocks who aren't tear-your-eyes-out hacky and annoying. CBS-FM is okay, but its what they played before JACK... the same songs everyone has heard over and over. I guess it's safe and all, and keeps the advertisers happy, but its just BORING to listen to, IMO. You need a good mix of the hits and deeper stuff that people haven't heard as often.

Thats why I never got the appeal of WPDH. I mean, for crying out loud, how many times can you play "Roadhouse Blues" by the Doors, Gary? There are SO many great classic rock album cuts. Artists like Steely Dan and Elton John (except for "Saturday Night's...") have basically disappeared from the playlist. UGH :-\
 
I understand that the Valley will be subject to the "rollin' home show" afternoon drive show by Randy Turnip...I wonder if it will be as awful as it was on W-sleazy-x....love the ending comment, I'll see you around town-wait are there people actually driving around looking for mr Turnip???

However, I'm sure it will not be as insulting at the closing of 92.9 afternoon drive,when it was oldies, where these woodchucks had the cajones to play " Tri-Fi Drums", the instrumental that Dan Ingram used to use as his closer...

I wish somebody around here would come up with something orginal that the listener would find more enjoyable than root canal...this crap of recycling of bad stuff shuffled from station to station is getting old and nobody like it the first time....

bring on the flamethrower 8)

warm590 ;D
 
Warm590 wrote:I understand that the Valley will be subject to the "rollin' home show" afternoon drive show by Randy Turnip...I wonder if it will be as awful as it was on W-sleazy-x....

Turner's been doing the afternoon dirve show on WBPM for several months now. You may not be the only one who hasn't noticed.
 
I'm not sure I follow the reason for the animosity....but here are some thoughts....

1) What does WBPM's wattage have to do with anything?? There are some pretty great small wattage stations out there and some pretty crappy 50k (including some in the area)and 100k stations!!

2) From what I see Turner claimed to have created the format for BPM...which he has evidently done. He certainly didn't "invent" classic hits (but neither did CBS-FM).

3) As it goes, WBPM seems to be a pretty decent station....you can go back and forth as to whether some of the cuts really should be there....but (as it all is) it's just a matter of taste....one person says CBS-FM plays a great mix of true hits, someone else calls them "burnt to a crisp"....if its going to be familiar for 30+ years....its bound to be a little crisp. If Randy could put Pat St. John on to do weekend mornings, Im sure he would. Give the guy a break, as someone said, he seems to be a pro and "busts his hump" trying to do decent radio....and that alone is more than most.
 
disney fanatic said:
Are they looked exactly different than CBS-FM? WBPM had so many heavy playlist except album and deeper cuts that you don't hear on CBS-FM. Those songs that WBPM plays that are not hits.
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Huh? In english, please.
 
Hmm, PDH is actually doing a good job this weekend. They're doing one of those "block party weekend" deals, but they play a hit, and then play a nice deep album cut.

They're playing "Almost Cut My Hair" now by CSNY... NEVER thought I'd hear that on WPDH. Nice job. ;D
 
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