Yesterday morning heard a song start..halfway through..stopped..ten seconds or so of dead air..then another song starts..plays fine..first song restarts..then Joe's weather runs on top of it..I think things like this is what Tibbs was referring to..not that live jocks would be doing this...now talking up over the song intros..yea right on...the demo they want to hit grew up with this music..so..why not play it like it was heard..intros over the record pad, same with weather..why in he!! do they need someone doing the weather instead of the jock...can't Chris run a ten second forecast over the intros like we all did when real radio was in town ?? Even Spider has gotten tighter on his VT schtick...still sounds forced and fake...someone at Hippie HQ..listen to some old airchecks at WLS, WMAK,WLAC, WABC..make the station sound like that, that's what these songs sounded like when your listeners heard them back then...it should sound like you just tuned across the dial..and found a station forever stuck in a time warp....as it is ..it sounds like guys playing old records..today..but all the OlDIE stations do the same thing..is there no creativity left out there ??? ???
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Keith Bilbrey Crashing At The Hippie Pad Evenings
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Okay with talking over intros as long as they shut their yap a few seconds BEFORE the vocal starts! 
Chris overruns the vocals nearly every day!
Oh, and now they have got that new guy (Jack Flash) saying "all-new" Hippie Radio. Doesn't "all-new" expire after about a year or so? Or is it "new" until they get another "new" format, and then THAT format is "new"?
Chris overruns the vocals nearly every day! Oh, and now they have got that new guy (Jack Flash) saying "all-new" Hippie Radio. Doesn't "all-new" expire after about a year or so? Or is it "new" until they get another "new" format, and then THAT format is "new"?
It would be nice to hear some actual content. All I seem to hear is "Nashvilles Most Talked About Radio Station", and "The New Hippie Radio". They need to get rid of the term "rap" line....when was the last time anyone used the word "rap". They should throw in a few "groovy" and "far-out" mentions an hour. Will make you yearn for the Brady Bunch again...
I'm 62..and at no time have i ever called myself a 'BABY BOOMER"..nor have any of my friends described themselves as such..It's a term some ad guy came up with to define our age bracket I suppose..hard to have a great station as computers don't have "personality"..yes the same old liners have worm themselves out..months ago..
I had a consultant explain that to me once. A radio show is new every day. Although the same songs may play, they are in a different order, the jocks say different hings, etc. RAdio is a constantly changing product.firepoint525 said:
Journeyman said:
HA-ha-ha (trying to avoid using LOL). Yes, that's exactly what a consultant would tell you, a rationalization. In truth, listeners gravitate more to the word "new," and they want to be part of something "new." It's a buzzword for the belongers in the radio audience.
The term "baby boomers" as you most likely already know, relates to the generation of children born in the "baby boom" following WWII. (You know, a bunch of servicemen coming home from war and you-knowing with their wives and sweethearts and suddenly there's a bunch of kids around.) But whether it was an ad guy, or a demos guy, or a sociologist who first used "baby boomers," nobody seems to know. No one seems to be able to pinpoint origination and there's ambiguity about the starting and ending dates of said boom period.
We've discussed before how 94.5 is not a real "hippie" station, but a "Hippie"-branded station to avoid using the word "oldies." Think of their use of "baby boomers" as part of the branding.
They sort of fit chronologically between "oldies" and "classic hits." And they are not "corporate-owned," as they like to say (although their studios are on music row just a couple of doors up from all the Clear Channel stations!), so apparently they can thumb their nose at all the usual demographic b.s. that is spewed ad nauseum elsewhere on this board. A station in 2013 catering to (up to) 67-year-olds? Why, Madison Avenue and Wall Street would absolutely freak out!jetfli said:
Still, I can't help but wonder if maybe they are "hedging their bets" a bit in bringing in Americana-themed programming. Not suggesting that any format change is in the works, but the reality is that, unfortunately, a "baby-boomer"-themed station is probably living on borrowed time. I am all of 49, so that makes me younger than most of you (I think), but even I find that most radio skews too young for my tastes. And Americana might (eventually) give them an escape hatch to go try something else. (And I still miss the Phoenix.) I have listened to the Even Stevens Sunday night program. And I will listen to Bilbrey once he is (back) on the air. The only "hippie" programming that I have taken a pass on (so far) is MBA football. Yeah, I know, it is a money-maker for them, so I will give them that, but I am just not interested in hearing sports programming (no matter what it is) on the radio. However, as an announcer and board op, I always loved riding the board during ball games because it was especially easy money for me! ;D
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Gotta tell my favorite Keith Bilbrey story. Actually, my only one. It was the second Sat night show and Porter had skipped a commercial break and started to intro Martina. Bilbrey had to interrupt for the commercial. I'm watching from the audience and it seemed to tick off the Wagonmaster. After the break & while Martina was singing "In My Daughter's Eyes," Porter appeared to want to deal with it live on stage. Keith sits there at the announcers desk, a class act all the way - arms crossed and smiling while Porter looked to get right in his face. Finally, Pete Fisher walks out and personally escorts Keith & Porter off stage. The things that radio audience misses.
Lol, talk about radio being skewed too young for people. I'm 26, so I'm in the target demographic for most of the stuff that's coming out, but for the most part I hate it. What's a person like me to do? *sighs and goes back to satellite radio*. They don't consider oddballs like me. Guess they don't want my business.
firepoint525 said:
As a cusper (ie., someone born on the back cusp of the baby boom), if I looked strictly at what a "baby boomer"-targeted station might could play rather than just think about typical oldies music, I might expect to hear some Americana. Back in the day I listened to a lot of country-rock-folk, not just the usual Southern bands, but the likes of Poco, the Byrds, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, CCR, The Band, the Dead, Ronstadt, and more, all of which to me were forerunners of Americana. In fact I'll take much of what falls into Americana today over the bubble-gum country at the top of the Country charts. I'll tune in when I can to TCN's Sunday and Monday night Americana hours on purpose! So, I'm looking forward to hearing what Hippie's got in mind. Would love to hear the "Mod" music of Nashville's own Britt Savage & Twang Deluxe in rotation with with some oldies from the "Mod" era. Who says songs with the same musical style can't work side by side on radio, just because they were produced 50 years apart? They sound great together on my iPod!
I've noticed Hippie takes its Bellevue COL seriously, and works to promote community events on the West side of town. Music City Roots comes from the Loveless, on the West side of town. MBA is on Harding Road, the West side of town. They've sponsored events at Red Caboose Park, and quite a bit of their ad support is based in West Nashville. So I'm just sayin', if they are trying to serve their community by having a few things that are off-format, so be it. I wish more area stations paid as much attention to serving their COL as Hippie does.
Posted while waiting for that Bellevue Monell's location to open! ;D
The problem with cherry-picking my comments is that you miss the meat of those comments. I like the fact that they use their call letters for something other than the legal ID (thank you, Joe Case!), but yet, don't constantly whack us over the head with them (yeah, lookin' at you, 'RQQ! :)
Also loving that new Even Stevens song "When All the Beatles Are Gone." Proof positive that we baby boomers are NOT averse to new music.
I'm a "cusper" myself, if you want to call me that. Born in '63, but grew up on tunes from '50s, '60s, and '70s.
I have my hippie "window" sticker, but it is actually a bumper sticker. It is just (fortunately) not printed in reverse, and I have one on my car's rear window now!
The problem with cherry-picking my comments is that you miss the meat of those comments. I like the fact that they use their call letters for something other than the legal ID (thank you, Joe Case!), but yet, don't constantly whack us over the head with them (yeah, lookin' at you, 'RQQ! :
)Also loving that new Even Stevens song "When All the Beatles Are Gone." Proof positive that we baby boomers are NOT averse to new music.
I'm a "cusper" myself, if you want to call me that. Born in '63, but grew up on tunes from '50s, '60s, and '70s.
I have my hippie "window" sticker, but it is actually a bumper sticker. It is just (fortunately) not printed in reverse, and I have one on my car's rear window now!
deltas69 said:
Yeah, do what makes radio different from an iPod. An iPod just sound excited about a song like a live DJ. I think it would still work.
jharmon said:
18 years behind a live mic and still doing VOs for TV these days.
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