KCYE Coyote the little engine that did!

[vegasradio]

Congrats to Coyote! They beat KWNR who has been the #1 country station since they defeated KFMS in the spring of '92. It was nice of KWNR to can their night and morning shows and piss off their listeners. It was better that Coyote canned their loser P.D. and finally have one that knows what he is doing. Coyote is musically more familiar than KWNR. The only thing KWNR has is Bob Bishop and he's not doing so well in the ratings. Best to Rick and Tom, and Cadillac! Clear Channel might as well change formats already and avoid the inevidable. They had a night show with #1 RATINGS...and when u listen to a station at night, you wake up with them in the morning...Now they have some clown out of Michigan...so much for locality....Then they change a successful morning show....So let's make a recipe for disaster....fix a night show that was never broken, fix a morning show that was never broken, and the competition firing their dumb P.D, and what do you have? KWNR going from billing a million dollars a month to absolute crap! CC needs to change KWNR and Party and just let Tom Chase do what he does best, program radio stations....the other 2 P.D.'s can't get it done. Isn't it obvoious?

 

[Jay F]

To be fair to KWNR, they were billing a million a month when they were (A) format exclusive and (B) the economy (and radio revenue in general) was a whole lot better. It's a totally different era.

While KWNR had been number one at night many times in the past (including Spring 06), Rob Banks was #1 in the Summer 06 book and Delilah was by far and away #1 in the Fall 06 book. As I mentioned in a previous thread, I listen to a lot of out of market radio online. I would estimate that 90% of nightime radio in the U.S is automated, especially adult formats. In all reality KWNR would have been tracked by now (just like most every other station) no matter what. That's just the way it is. Your posts are certainly passionate and opinionated, but you are living in a another time and place, far far away from 2009.

I'm sure KCYE is celebrating the Spring book, but I wouldn't expect KWNR to change formats anytime soon. I can't imagine CC just handing the entire country share to Beasley becuase they lost by 0.1 share in one book, that's just not going to happen. One station would have to be completely dominant over the other for one to flip.

I am curious on how the Country stations will do with PPM? That will be a real wild card. Will the country share increase or decrease? It seems country does better with PPM in many (but not all i.e San Diego) markets.

 

[Jay F]

vegasradio you mentioned that the music is more familiar on COYOTE than KWNR. KCYE is playing lot's of 90s country and a classic country song every hour or so. Being more gold based seems to be working. But I wouldn't say KWNR is unfamiliar by any means right now. They are playing the hits.

There was one time period where I thought the music on KCYE was superior to KWNR...the Summer of 2006. KCYE was playing all the hot reaction songs such as Carrie Underwood "Before He Cheats" and Rascal Flatts "Life Is A Highway". While COYOTE was pounding these hot hot songs, KWNR was not playing them at all and added them super late. I don't know what the PD at the time, Brooks O'Brian, was thinking. Sure enough, COYOTE made gains against KWNR in the Summer 06 book.