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K-104.7 Format Change!

Someone help me understand a typical six hour airshift with voice tracking... I am assuming that is how a morning man stays on the air until noon. I know with cutbacks, the six hour shifts (and one twelve hour shift is reflected on their website...) must be necessary. But give me an idea of how they do such a shift...
When I was 18, being on from midnight to 6am wasn't a big deal, more recently, being on 6pm to 11pm wore me out some nights...
Just curious how they do these things, live 6-9, run in the production room and do vo for half an hour to cover the other three hours?
 
K won't play anything that's charting in the top 5 forAC....Come on now, those who know this station know this will never happen. They only have a 20 maybe 30 song rotation playlist. Has anyone heard the HD2 station? Another disaster station for CBS in a market this size.
 
What is the strategy for not playing anything in the top 5? WMYI in Greenville does the same thing (except for You Belong w/ Me) but it doesn't make sense to me.
 
Holly Haze said:
Kent, the 6 hours shifts are all live. unbearable to sit a shift for that long, but tis true
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Back in the day, I used to do 6 hour shifts frequently, 6 pm - mid and mid - 6 am. All the other shifts were shorter.

In the day of vinyl records and carts, that was exhausting, and there was no way of voice tracking.
 
In my case I thought it was more fun when there were records and carts to pull and play rather than just starting and stopping the computer. There was about 90 seconds of jock content each hour when I was at K and I doubt that has changed much. The rest of the time you just sit there. If there was some need for show prep that might have been a plus, for awhile I tried but gave up when the said just do a quick break and get back into music ASAP.

Trying to catch the new guy the other day I noticed the "Commercial Free Workday Kickoff" has been moved up to 8am. I know they want to get the jump on Lite and maybe Lite is doing the same thing by now. Doesn't that give them fewer spots to sell in a prime (expensive) time?
 
Mike Sheridan said:
In my case I thought it was more fun when there were records and carts to pull and play rather than just starting and stopping the computer.
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I worked in radio for 8 years with carts, before my 18 years with the computer, and I agree, it was a LOT more fun pulling carts and, for me, watching the cart wheel rotating. But having it all on computer does free up a lot of time, especially for a morning show, to get more phoners edited and ready, and to do "on the fly" bits and character voices, but all that time is wasted at most stations now, as I hear less and less phoners and hardly no comedy bits or characters anymore.
"Just starting and stopping the computer" never applied at the stations I have done on computer, when programmed properly, it starts and stops on it's own, except of course for starting a stopset, but it always stops automatically at the end of a music sweep.
 
I just spent 3 1/2 years with the computer and HATED it...
I think it had a lot to do with my most recent exit...give me the cart machines back, and I'm not real crazy about the linear board either...
 
Night shift on 104.7 was 6-Midnight back when it was WSSS "Star 104.7." I know this because I did it during 1995-96.

Makes for a LONG airshift, no doubt. But it also builds "character." If you can go 6 hours and still be reasonably entertaining after 4, you're golden! :)
 
I hope this station flips. Its a horrible AC station. In my opinion Christmas would have been the best time to do it as the Christmas music could have transitioned from the old format to the new. If it does flip, I hope it goes to something this market is currently lacking, like maybe a classic hits or a 90s station. Charlotte doesn't need another urban or religious station.
 
H. Haze -

"Unbearable" to do a six hr. shift?

I've done it for years.

Others have, too, & the new crew on K will have to, too.

You would, too, if you still had a gig.
 
WPOI in Tampa has two 9 hour shifts, although part is VT'ed
 
I heard "Union of the Snake" during an evening shift. I don't think they do that sort of thing during the day, though a real soft AC would be nice considering this music is forced on some of us from time to time.
 
CBS has been changing a number of their FM sticks to all-sports. A new one debuts in Pittsburgh next week. Just sayin'... although I would tend to think Greater Media might wish to get a jump on CBS by flipping 107.9 to sports talk with ESPN Radio...
 
Sports? Let's hope not! I've never heard of any sports stations booking decent numbers. They already have a sports station anyway, forgot about WFNZ? and the ratings are the worst in the cluster. They just dropped the simulcast for a garbage right wing hate station. Besides sports is boooooooooooooooorrrrrring... In your dreams buddy lmbo :D
 
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