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Kim and SNAP

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So Kim has a website but SNAP wants you to sign up to get to theirs, if there even is one. Does anyone think these stations, at least SNAP, are place holders. SNAP doesn't have DJ's still and does little to no advertising and basically sucks. Buzz was a much better station in every way. I think ratings will show that.
 
What is the BS about place holder radio stations? I'm not just picking on you, but everyone who says this every time a new station signs on in any market. You know how cheap these companies are. They're not going to spend money on advertising, new voice overs, etc.. if they plan on dumping it in a few months. Snap and Kim are sticking around for at least a year, and then ratings will decide if they stay or not. The companies hope they will.
 
sooooo....play Boss.... who would you staff SNAP & KIM with, if it were up to you?

Where's Steve Conley? Jarman? Bev Hart? Wes Yahola? ....and the rest of the list of Memphis radio folks who are in the guvment cheez line? (MC...come back to the dark side!!!!)
 
I agree with Marko, I've never heard of such, a "place holder station"? And I've been in this market for 10 yrs...doubt SNAP would continue to develop their music library, if it were just temporary. These two stations are here to stay (at least until the books say otherwise). Don't know why SNAP is slow to hire jocks, but if I were boss..I'd hurry and pick up some of the recent talents that were cut, before another city snatch some of Memphis' talent. From Steve Conely all the way down to Michael Slack, great talents that need work..New stations are here..what's the problem?
 
Steve Connely cannot work at SnapFM because they are owned by Entercom, who fired Steve when they bought the FM100 and 93x stations from CBS. I wonder how Bev would sound working at Snap. I work at Entercom and from what I notice, they are looking for talent from outside of Memphis. As for KIM, I was told it's a satellite feed thats being piped in... sounds that way from the imaging... its very generic and not local. That's what I was told, that person could be wrong.
 
I do not live directly in the Memphis market, but Memphis stations are listened to a lot here.
(Although the Memphis stations don't really care this far out)
But, FWIW...
I have heard of no one that has listened to "Snap" at all.
When "Kim" first came on, there were several checking it out.
The girl that cuts my hair played it in her shop for a while. She then changed it back to-get this-her "same old" combination of "The River" and some "FM-100".
She said she and her customers all mentioned the same songs being played over and over, and she just got tired of it. Oddly enough...her name is Kim.
 
I've never heard the term "place holder" station before.

But does anyone remember when 94.1 went oldies for a little while before becoming Froggy. That sort of fits the description of "place holder" station.

Times sure do change fast, remember in 1992 how on Sundays 3 stations were playing 60s/early 70s oldies. 94, 98 and WRVR's Solid Gold Sunday.
 
There may have been several doing it, but SGS was the ShizNit!
It sounded great, the imaging was great, and it was a LOAD of fun to do!
I did Sunday afternoons on it for quite some time before becoming an inhabitant of "The Pond."
Those were the days my friend....I thought they'd never...well. you know!
 
Meepster said:
There may have been several doing it, but SGS was the ShizNit!
It sounded great, the imaging was great, and it was a LOAD of fun to do!
I did Sunday afternoons on it for quite some time before becoming an inhabitant of "The Pond."
Those were the days my friend....I thought they'd never...well. you know!
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I did the original SGS on Sunday PM in the early 1980's. There were a couple of books when this mediocre part-time jock had the highest rated daypart in town...all due to my talent of course. The tunes had nothing to do with it.
 
radio_lurker said:
sooooo....play Boss.... who would you staff SNAP & KIM with, if it were up to you?

Where's Steve Conley? Jarman? Bev Hart? Wes Yahola? ....and the rest of the list of Memphis radio folks who are in the guvment cheez line? (MC...come back to the dark side!!!!)
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Can't speak for the others but I'm working part time in not-radio land and trying to keep up with things on this day number 77 of 180. :)
 
I did the LAST solid gold Sunday on 'RVR. At that time, they were doing their "we don't talk on top of any of our songs... it wouldn't be prudent" phase, so the presentation was at times frustrating. You would play a cooking tune and want to get on there and be John Landecker or Jack Armstrong, and it just wasn't gonna happen. The almost always mostly sold out show was sacrificed because "it skewed the numbers too old". As Clark Griswold said, I couldn't have been more surprised "if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet".
 
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