Keith Todd Now Mornings on WRDU

[CaneStats]

John Boy and Billy out Keith Todd in at mornings on Rooster Country 1061. Now only if they can tinker with the format and go New Country and get rid of the legends. This may be there only chance.

 

[Q96 WEQR Fan]

If they had half a brain, the chicken would go after Jay Butler. He was part-time on Saturday nights at the now defunct Genuine Country 99.9, now the Fan.

It still blows my mind the way WQDR treated Jay, he should still be there today.

 

[Marathon Don]

Finally, some good news from CC. The new morning show is a big improvement. Is he live or Memorex?

 

[TheBigWhiteWolf]

What? A Rooster with no JB&B? Why, according to the commercials that they bombarded us with shortly after the flip, there's nothing else to listen to on that station!!!

Perhaps this will turn things around...not that I'm getting my hopes up or anything.

 

[XTalker]

Some of you guys will never be happy. Gotta give them credit for realizing the error of their ways!

Ditto on bringing Jay Butler back!!!

 

[VODood]

Keith was the PM driver yes?

Per the website he's now on 6am-12noon


Yet, the site also says that Trey Cooler is on from 10am-3pm.

From 10-12noon are they on together?

I'm sure Keith tracks 10am-12noon. Maybe more.

http://www.roostercountry1061.com/pages/Keith.html



Heidi is on from 7pm-12m


Sooo.... who does PM drive?

According to the present schedule... NO one is doing PM drive. Hmmmm...


Agreed about Jaybo for AM drive.

Hell... pay him part-time. 6-9am Mon-Fri is just 15 hours, plus appearances and remotes. Hell again... pay him for double, 30 hours (show prep, hazard pay for getting up early, etc). It's still technically part-time, which means no benefits. Big save of $$$ there.

Jaybo gives you a well known live/local AM personality, that is associated with country music in Raleigh.

 

[rkramden]

It would be great to have Jay B. back in the morning but that would be too simple. You put him on whatever daypart and RDU gains a few shares. I think without him it's the same 2.7 share.

 

[berlin201]

Hmmm.... it'll be interesting to see what happens here... I remember when Keith Todd did the morning show on 105.7 WFMX before they killed it...

 

[berlin201]

John Boy and Billy out Keith Todd in at mornings on Rooster Country 1061. Now only if they can tinker with the format and go New Country and get rid of the legends. This may be there only chance.

Just curious about one other thing: Is JB&B still on The Buzzard in G'boro, or is the whole show folding?

 

[nextline]

I'd say the JB&B show folded lonnnnggg ago, just the smoldering ashes remain.....

 

[XTalker]

JB&B is still on The Buzzard.

 

[JimA]

What happen to WRDU? On CheapChannel - but it was on its way to a heritage station. Sad another corp mess up.

 

[surfdude]

It's easy to knock JB&B, but those guys are pretty talented.
Their bits are well branded and well produced. Better produced
than any other AM show in Raleigh except maybe Tom Joyner.

They may not be your cup of tea, but it is a good show in today's
talent deprived radio landscape. Billy's a talented writer.
Although, a little stale, a hot, cutting edge producer could pump that show up.

JB&B have had a long, lucrative career in AM radio. How are you doin'?

 

[quadraphonic]

It's easy to knock JB&B, but those guys are pretty talented.
Their bits are well branded and well produced. Better produced
than any other AM show in Raleigh except maybe Tom Joyner.

Any talent they have is being wasted on the same bits, the same flavor of bits, and the same size and shape of bits, as well as the same general characters presented with the same canned laugh tracks in the background.
Robert D. Raiford would be palatable if it wasn't for that laugh track.

They may not be your cup of tea, but it is a good show in today's
talent deprived radio landscape.

They are a thimble of lukewarm tea in a talent desert.
A thimble of lukewarm tea might even be helpful if it were an actual desert, but it's just a talent desert. Talent is easy to find in lots of other forms and media (imagination included), entertainment abounds.

The fact that they are still on as many stations as they are is a testament to the pitiful state of talent today, not their own level of 'good.'

Although, a little stale,

One man's "little stale" is another man's "predictable and formulaic and historically repetitive" I guess.

a hot, cutting edge producer could pump that show up.

Where is this miracle worker at?
Would this miracle worker pump the show up with electricity, or just with more trademark JB&B hot air? ;D
If 'cutting edge' included 'take out the laugh track' I might could get on board with that producer.

JB&B have had a long, lucrative career in AM radio. How are you doin'?

They have been phoning it in for so long, I guess that's what I find most dislikable about JB&B. It feels like they are lying to all of us. Then there's the deals where you can listen to it on two or three different stations, and none of them are playing the same thing at the same time. ["So you want to call in or participate? Tell you what. Phooey on you. We already got what we need out of you, jerk."] JB&B might get a certificate for "hanging in there so long" but their attendance is 40%, their participation is lackluster, their grades are failing, and they cover all the problems up with a laugh track, so "No blue ribbone for JB&B!"


Seriously, I don't wish JB&B any ill will, nothing but the best and all that, but that show is past its useful date. It's like an old friend who got bigheaded and rich and snooty, then lied to us and laughtracked in our face.


I would say I hope Keith Todd is worth listening to, a real cup of tea in a real desert, but it's still on a country station, so, at least for me personally, it's probably not worth the hassle of slogging through all that country music to see if he is.

 

[surfdude]

My JB&B listening experience was mainly in Charlotte, their home station.
WRFX is a very successful, focused classic rocker, top 3 biller for 15 years!
Their show still sounded good to me, relative to the other shows in the market.

Their recent failures in Raleigh are more a reflection of the stations
they've been on, rather than their show.

I'm not a big fan of JB&B, just an occasional cumer who ends up laughing
or smiling at their bits. Just like Letterman or Carson, you know what
you're going to get when you tune in. One could say both of those guys did
the same show for twenty years, too.

 

[dittohead1]

To compare those two to Carson and Letterman is just unforgivable. They are AWFUL and have been for 10+ years.

 

[pbf1]

To compare those two to Carson and Letterman is just unforgivable. They are AWFUL and have been for 10+ years.

Reread the post. Where did it say they were AS GOOD AS Carson or Letterman?

(It didn't. It said, "Just like Letterman or Carson, you know what you're going to get when you tune in." You could say the same thing about Michael Savage, Air America, or dead air.)

 

[CCAlumni]

To set the record straight WRFX hasn't been top biller in Charlotte for at least four years. Like everything else on Morgan Bohannan's watch, the station and the whole cluster have crumbled since he took over. J

 

[dittohead1]

To compare those two to Carson and Letterman is just unforgivable. They are AWFUL and have been for 10+ years.

Reread the post. Where did it say they were AS GOOD AS Carson or Letterman?

and i didn't say that u said they were as good as carson or letterman. just putting them in any comparative situation was awful and a real misstep on your part.

i'll agree that they are consistent and when i turn them on i know what i'll get: something that's redneck, old, and not funny. in that sense, they never let me down.

 

[pbf1]

and i didn't say that u said they were as good as carson or letterman. just putting them in any comparative situation was awful and a real misstep on your part.

Yeah...if you totally miss the CONTEXT in which the reference was made!

But since said context was not about talent level or ability, your statement is completely invalid.