than in other areas of the country? Just wondering...I'm in AL here. Friend of mine on Facebook started a group about how terrible Birmingham radio is. My thinking is radio is awful everywhere these days, not just in Birmingham. He tells me that markets such as Memphis and Louisville have "better radio". I told him I figured all that is relative...that folks in Memphis and Louisville probably would tell you that radio is terrible there, also. So...what's ur opinion of Louisville radio?
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Birmingham radio was a lot better when I was in college (1998-2002). It's a real drag when i go through BHM now.
Most people don't listen to or pay any attention to radio in markets other than where they live. So, they have no basis of comparison.
They just compare radio where they are now to how radio in the same place used to be. And they always think it's worse now than it was before. That's why virtually every thread here eventually lapses into some sort of nostalgia.
Louisville had great radio in the 60's when WAKY & WKLO were literally slugging it out. Back when each held strategy meetings to figure out how to be beat the other. Great live jocks...even at 2AM. Some markets were better than others back then...today, if you find 1 compelling station anywhere, enjoy it. It'll just be a matter of time until someone buys the golden goose & starts looking for ways to cut expenses. Only way this will improve is if the value of stations drops to the point where people who believe in the magic of radio can get back into ownership & concentrate on serving the public & not the shareholders.
I've always followed your posts and credited you with wisdom, Bob...you've said a mouthful here. I hate to date myself, but my second year of college was at U of L in the mid 70's and my tastes mandated that I was a WLRS listener. Back then, although structured, it sounded as good as any AOR station elsewhere. And they had this cool morning show....
Let's not forget about the once "Cuddly Giant" that since the mid-nineties has been reduced to a 50kw AM RF modulator for satellite radio. The only reason they have numbers today is due to the heritage those before them built.
And thus post after post only confirms what I said above.
Love this topic i have lived in many cities and louisville has a lot of variety to pick from but they do not think outside the box and when they do Q2 and she 93.1 the suits kill it!!!
Now i am not a huge talk radio fan but back in the 90s you had alan colmes and rush limbaugh on the same station wwky 790 not today not here.
Look at our only rock station except for a few hours at night it is all piped in. The suits ruined the fox!!!
back when lrs came on at 105 it was a good alt station then fast forward a few years radio one ruined it with bad talent and a mix of music that made no sense.
Yes louisville radio is worse then alot of markets even etown has a better hot ac then we do it seems they play music that the max will not like tory amos.
Now i am not a huge talk radio fan but back in the 90s you had alan colmes and rush limbaugh on the same station wwky 790 not today not here.
Look at our only rock station except for a few hours at night it is all piped in. The suits ruined the fox!!!
back when lrs came on at 105 it was a good alt station then fast forward a few years radio one ruined it with bad talent and a mix of music that made no sense.
Yes louisville radio is worse then alot of markets even etown has a better hot ac then we do it seems they play music that the max will not like tory amos.
One of the ultimate "out of the box" thinkers produced KJ-100's "lateral replays" in the late 70's/early 80's. They would play a song on 99.7 and play the same song a few minutes later on AM 1080. Pure genius IMHO. There was reportedly a run on FM car converters when AM 1080 dropped KJ-100's programming.hotpatrick2004 said:
BobOnTheJob said:
I agree with you, Bob, but wasn't that CC Matthews, the guy that now gets trashed so much for being one of the "suits" so many folks seem to hate?
Let me remind people that it wasn't corporate radio that killed Q2. Both QMF and QNF were privately owned by the Ottings at the time. And when it was on the air, the much hallowed Q2 was nothing but a Pioneer CD changer. That station was a literal jukebox, and yet if it was on the air today it would be maligned as some god-awful concoction of the suits that were too cheap to program the radio station.
And while we're at it, let me point out that WVEZ, which has always been one of the top billing and performing stations in the market, wasn't nearly as well programmed in the late 80s and early nineties as it is today. That station was completely run by the sales department with no restrictions whatsoever as far as anyone could tell. Today- 12 spots per hour, tops. I guarantee that would not have been possible in 1988. And the personalities are way better too.
I think some of radio is worse, but some of it is better. And a whole lot of our memories of the glory days paint a picture that's better than it really was.
All I know is if I hear SFR say classic rock MUSIC, not classic talk one more time, I'm going to puke.
The QMFs were great when the Ottings ran them. 95.7 played classic rock and new rock. Now they'll play Crazy Train for the hundreth time, but never play the new Ozzy single. QMF and SFR will play Free Fallin' every day, but nothing from the new Tom Petty CD. I'll never understand it.
This is why IPods are so popular.
The QMFs were great when the Ottings ran them. 95.7 played classic rock and new rock. Now they'll play Crazy Train for the hundreth time, but never play the new Ozzy single. QMF and SFR will play Free Fallin' every day, but nothing from the new Tom Petty CD. I'll never understand it.
This is why IPods are so popular.
radiorob2.0 said:
I love it! Boy that sure sums up WHAS in a nutshell. Syndicated automated and no local news after 9pm or on weekends. Of course I haven't listened for a long time but I doubt anything has changed. Of course you can still hear Ripp (read UK) sports on there live (along with seemingly ten thousand other stations) as we all know how important it is to keep up with the latest criminal coaching activities on campus in Lexington.
Speaking of WVEZ, out driving today I heard "Little Red Corvette" by Prince and "I Can't Dance" by Genesis back to back. Seems that "Lite 106.9" isn't very "lite" anymore! But it's good to hear songs on 106.9 that other stations in Louisville don't play anymore.
radiofan502 said:
If they played "Let's Go Crazy" into "Sweet Child of Mine" then you can question the "Lite" name, though that would be a cool segue.
greg.hahn said:
Funny you should mention this one...As a result, I just posted my 1974 aircheck of WJCD-FM with Dennis Redicker spinning the country hits at www.bob-on-the-job.com . I still would have to vote for the dead air (to this day) on WSLM in Salem as the cake taker though. Actually, WSLM sounded better in 1974 than they have since I moved here in the late 70's. 1974 WSLM is posted at the same site. I wasn't here to record them at the time. A gentleman named Wally Wawro was kind enough to send me these. When you hear the 1974 WSLM "Tick Tock, Tick Tock, It's 3:30", keep in mind that they still use those ditties to this day. Keep in mind, this is what was on 98.9 before Clear Channel bought it & moved it into Louisville.dfwrunner said:
BobOnTheJob said:
I remember Dennis...I remember as a teenager I cringed thinking what an embarrassment WJCD (not Dennis specificallY) was to Seymour (I was probably a little too harsh)
I remember the WSLM jingles too...like, walen walen walen from salem salem salem.
Never understood the affected voice inflections of the DJs...kinda like they were kids pretending to be DJs...I can see them cupping their ear with their hand
Q2 went away when clear channel bought qmf and sold 105.9 to cox radio and they turned it into hits 105.9 i thought the jocks were to low key then it became an all 80s station then salem bought them and became the river.
It was a pretty funny thing QMF did after clear channel took over acting as if they were gonna change the format and for a day they played a different format every hour.
Greg you are right about Q2 being a pioneer jukebox i remember when louisville tonight was there with bob sokoler celebrating there one year anniversary. Mel highlighted the cd changer where all the songs were kept lol. I remember seeing mel there at Q2. Her and tony vanneti worked there and are the only 2 left in louisville radio that worked there.
I still loved the station back then.
It was a pretty funny thing QMF did after clear channel took over acting as if they were gonna change the format and for a day they played a different format every hour.
Greg you are right about Q2 being a pioneer jukebox i remember when louisville tonight was there with bob sokoler celebrating there one year anniversary. Mel highlighted the cd changer where all the songs were kept lol. I remember seeing mel there at Q2. Her and tony vanneti worked there and are the only 2 left in louisville radio that worked there.
I still loved the station back then.
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WFPK covers a multitude of sins, though. Darn good station.
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