Considering he made most of his fortune launching and then selling the first streaming aggregator of radio stations in the late 90s. I'm sure he's VERY aware...I'm sure Mark Cuban has no idea how volatile RADIO is. lol. hahahaha. Somebody STOP me.
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Kelly Kibler, Don Davis, Dan O'Malley and Alfie Coy - OUT at iHeart
- Thread starter Rudy Fitzneris
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Honestly it would sting a bit to lose The Eagle TWICE but they aren't flying very well lately. I maintain the only reason they've tanked so hard while Alt has shot up is the complete lack of music for half the day. The beginning of the end was Ben & Skin, the final nail was the Mavs.
And yet in markets like Seattle, combining rock music with male talk can get you a Top 5 station in all important demos.
So it can be done and done successfully if there are the right people in place.
KVIL was doing terrible even with KEGL the way it was until KVIL incorporated more rock into the playlist. It wasn’t just the lack of music that killed KEGL. It was KVIL playing many of the songs in KEGL’s library in a deliberate counter. Their imaging to this day emphasizes that they play rock music while the competition won’t shut up. It was a genius move that pulled many KEGL listeners away.
There's always 1190 to fall back on.😁
@ThePowerCow is that a reference to the old radio station in Birmingham, AL on 106.9?
This is crazy because 97.1 is such an easy fix. Less talk, more music. The fact that they’re even consider flipping is insane. Plus, how’s this going to work with one of their annual concerts (that’s being heavily promoted) taking place in October?
the same way "How The Edge Stole Christmas" still went on as it was previously scheduled before the flip after 102.1 The Edge flipped from Alt Rock to AC as Star 102.1. in fact, they still did Edgefest the next year after the flip as a way to say goodbye to The Edge.
I can see Freaker's Ball get promoted as that on a rival station (Alt 103.7) if they flip The Eagle before next month, but it would become just "Alt 103.7 presents, Disturbed featuring Asking Alexandra, Drowning Pool, Dorothy, New Year's Day, Lockjaw & Mothership", but instead of calling it "Freaker's Ball" they could just rename it to ALT 103.7's Halloween Bash.
I've thought about all of this. I know all too well how lame iHeart is. They probably just fired those people, and have absolutely zero interest in doing anything further with it. The way everything is homogenized, the fact that the sales staff isn't in the building, and programming is in the building one day per week - all of that tells you no one cares. The only thing iHeart seems to care about is promoting it's podcasting, it's concert series, Los Angeles and New York, and that's about it. Look at each formats Facebook. The Eagle posts the same thing WEBN, WMMS, WJRR, does - the same exact thing.
Many of us here are veteran radio people, people who've gone up and down the road and up and down the dial, so its really hard for us to just let it go. That time, however, has come. Radio is scorched Earth. (Unless you're Cumulus in Dallas.)
Many of us here are veteran radio people, people who've gone up and down the road and up and down the dial, so its really hard for us to just let it go. That time, however, has come. Radio is scorched Earth. (Unless you're Cumulus in Dallas.)
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Does iHeart still have its HQ in San Antonio?
And yet this same company has two of the Top 5 stations in Dallas. The pandemic proved you don't have to be stuck in a building to do radio.
Nope:
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AND YET, they aren't making money even with considerable market share strength.
THUS . . . people getting fired.
Rocket. Science.
The people being fired are being replaced. So obviously not because the market isn't making money.
Yes. Mooooooo 😀
Yes. Mooooooo
NO WAY! I worked there.
NO WAY! I worked there.
Lots of possible reasons. There's only one underperformer in the Dallas cluster.
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