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Keith Todd Now Mornings on WRDU

Whew...now, just posting one's opinion on this site is subject to critique?
My OPINION on JB&B is mine. You can't change my mind, and I shoudn't
be taken to task for it. That's bad social skills.

You guys are angry!
 
surfdude said:
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'?
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Can't knock them overall. They're bank accounts are fatter than mine most likely will ever be. With that said John Boy (not sure about Billy) is just mailin' it in. All he wants to do is fish and drink.
 
surfdude said:
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.
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I agree with you there, I also liked listening to JB&B when I lived in Charlotte.
That was in 1990, though.
I can't laugh at the same jokes for 17 years, most people can't.

WRFX must have some hot sales people or something. :eek: ;D
 
When WE (the people who h8 the rednex) attack the show, we get personal attacks back (i.e. "they have had a long, lucrative career in AM. How r u doin?"). I believe that's called an ad hominem attack and it's usually used when u have NO defense. Also, the "bank account" argument is b.s. By this standard, Bob Dumas makes more money than Pat Patterson ever did, so he MUST be a better jock.

Please, try defending the awful CONTENT of the JB&B show...
 
dittohead1 said:
Please, try defending the awful CONTENT of the JB&B show...
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Defending or talking about the content of the JB&B show is like talking about the content in the show about that big purple dinosaur, Barney. It's not about content, it's all about age appeal. In one case it's physical age and another it's mental age. Both for kids. ;)
 
It's about the money. As long as JB&B make money for themselves and their employer, they will continue to be on the air. As long as the stations that air them can make money with them, they will! Like it or not, they have been successful!
 
JB&B suck. They need to retire. And never come back. :-[
Keith Todd rules.
 
Anything "live and Local" is much better than satellite fed "re-hashed" gobble-d-gook! I wish Keith T. much success at the Rooster.
 
JimA said:
What happen to WRDU? On CheapChannel - but it was on its way to a heritage station. Sad another corp mess up.
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To make a long story short, they took what was a heritage rock station, ran it into the ground, watched the ratings slide into a bottomless pit for four or five years, then completely butchered it and changed it to a format where they know full well they can't compete. At least they stopped running those annoying rooster sounds in their voiceovers...
Basically, they tried to mimic what whoever owned 94.7 QDR back then did in 1984, which was transition a highly popular rock station into a successful country station. QDR (now in the Curtis Media stable) is doing so well nobody can compete with them. Capitol Broadcasting wised up last fall and bailed out of the country rat race with WCMC, changing it to its current sports format (and stunting in the transition with a much better classic-rock format--- now heard on WCMC's HD-2 channel--- than that mess playing on 100.7 The River), but CC-R just won't kill The Rooster...
Hmmm... can you see how Smoketree Court got its name... ??? They got G105 and 93.9 Kiss right; now if they'd just fix the two messes on 100.7 and 106.1...
 
berlin201 said:
JimA said:
What happen to WRDU? On CheapChannel - but it was on its way to a heritage station. Sad another corp mess up.
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To make a long story short, they took what was a heritage rock station, ran it into the ground, watched the ratings slide into a bottomless pit for four or five years, then completely butchered it and changed it to a format where they know full well they can't compete. At least they stopped running those annoying rooster sounds in their voiceovers...
Basically, they tried to mimic what whoever owned 94.7 QDR back then did in 1984, which was transition a highly popular rock station into a successful country station. QDR (now in the Curtis Media stable) is doing so well nobody can compete with them. Capitol Broadcasting wised up last fall and bailed out of the country rat race with WCMC, changing it to its current sports format (and stunting in the transition with a much better classic-rock format--- now heard on WCMC's HD-2 channel--- than that mess playing on 100.7 The River), but CC-R just won't kill The Rooster...
Hmmm... can you see how Smoketree Court got its name... ??? They got G105 and 93.9 Kiss right; now if they'd just fix the two messes on 100.7 and 106.1...
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WCMC is a class A barely covering half the metro. Never was a true competitor to WQDR.

RDU, as a classic rock could've been saved but it would've taken a lot of marketing to overcome the negative slope the station took between Fall 2003 and the flip.

If anything 100.7/WTRG should've went country. That didn't happen. The classic shits format that mgmt wanted on RDU is now starting to find an audience on 100.7. Ratings are getting better on River, but what's the revenue like? That's the true barometer.

WTRG, as oldies, beat the floudering RDU the last two years 100.7 was oldies, including in AM drive against RDU and Bob and Tom ( a better show than JB&B). However, WTRG drove away it's female base with JB&B and therefore the 25-54s suffered. And, WTRG did not bill what RDU did (at that time).

Oldies is still a viable format, even P25-54 in some markets, mostly "northern" rust belt cities. True demo is P35-64 with a core of 45-54. Music center of 1968-73. With that said you can still play Pre-68 tunes with theme weekends, specialty shows and features. And as lunar "oh wows".
 
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