salemjedi54 said:
Okay you rack and roll fans, how do you want the "New Eagle" to stand out.
Within the constraints of a typical CC model, or do you want us to dream aloud about things that will never, ever happen?
One reality here is that there will be absolutely no crossover between KEGL and KDGE. This new PD would have been hired with the strict understanding that one station was not to steal anything away from the other station. CC does not compete with itself, period (or with C-BS, for that matter.) Remember the early post that puts this guy in charge of BOTH KEGL and KDGE. There's an obvious reason for that.
Just for laughs, some level of commitment to the local music scene should be a staple of the station, even if it's just Sunday nights again. Problem is, your local music whiz (Robert Miguel) is employed elsewhere now, was unemployed for a long time after the last Eagle folded, and is probably too bitter to return. Who's your guy/girl now?
And I'm sure there's still some level of stunting going on right now (some songs have a similar theme...'Been Awhile' and others whose titles are about returning or coming back) BUT I've heard some song about "hypocrite" twice now in a 3-hour span. I'd hope that this new programmer has something more than a 50-song playlist planned.
And since the demo is still pretty narrow, KEGL has to do something LIVE and LOCAL to get this 4-years-later-breed-of-listener to abandon the iPod and satellite radio and CDs and come back to terrestrial radio. If this is going to be an 18-34 male station again, someone will have to actually put their brain and skills to work to drag listeners back...and not just be the fax-interceptor who gets all orders from corporate and simply implements some cookie-cutter garbage that corporate dictates. With any luck, perhaps this new guy programmed KLOL or other heritage rockers in Houston and knows his stuff. Knowing which corporation we're dealing with, I'd lay my bets on a yes-man who's great at recognizing when the fax machine is low on paper and toner.
Yeah, I'll give the station a chance, but I've grown out of their demo since the last time around, and this newer breed of crunk JUNK (white kid's rap) is a joke...but apparently is a staple of active rock now.
Oh, and to the "genius" who put together the changeover at 10AM today, "Sunny 97.1" was hardly a "total failure," as your "history of 97.1" put it. It was the first to give KVIL a run for its money, and improved on The Eagle's faltering and steadily-declining ratings over the couple of years prior. Had it been given a chance to succeed, I believe it would have closed the deal by now, taking all the steam out of "Default 103.7" and pulling ahead as the solid winner. And by the way, your city of license is FORT WORTH, not Dallas.
And for the Smooth Jazz fans and others who thought this frequency might give us a format for the masses, or one that might actually compete with some of the slackass, excuse-for-a-format stations...well, pray that CC will come to a similar realization about Mix 102.9 and some of their other properties that have worn out their welcome in this market, and make some more changes.
