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KISS 107

ncincy1 said:
Fully agree with the fact that this particular demographic listens only for the music - when they don't have iPods with them..... ;D
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Actually CHR does well with strong personality radio, always has, always will. Key to compete with Ipods is to have personality and new music. The station did very well ratings wise when Rod Phillips & BJ Harris were the respective PD's and was usually one of the top 3 music stations 12+.
 
Not saying you're wrong at all tito, but no one I know really... likes it when the jocks come on air. Maybe I haven't been exposed to "real jocks" in this market or something, but I've never met someone who traditionally listens to CHR-oriented radio who have any positive feeling about the DJs. The traditional response is "I wish they'd shut up" or "Yeah he's funny but I really wish he'd play music instead".

New music to me is the only way to compete with the iPod, and thats only for the part of the market that either doesn't have an iPod, or uses the radio to decide WHAT to download on their iPod.

Just curious, when were Rod Phillips and BJ Harris the PDs? I mean, 2000s? 1990s? 1980s?

Showing my ignorance here.
 
titoisradio said:
ncincy1 said:
Fully agree with the fact that this particular demographic listens only for the music - when they don't have iPods with them..... ;D
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Actually CHR does well with strong personality radio, always has, always will. Key to compete with Ipods is to have personality and new music. The station did very well ratings wise when Rod Phillips & BJ Harris were the respective PD's and was usually one of the top 3 music stations 12+.
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Agreed. I mean no disrespect to any one working on the Kiss staff with my next statement. But I think Kiss in Cincy is a prime example of what happens when you follow the CC policy. When they first came on the air. They had great jocks and good music. Their imaging was hot and their rotation was solid. Now, with CC slimming operations down more and more every year. Now you see what happens to a station when you take away their "Live and Local" appeal. They have dropped in the ratings for several reasons. No live and entertaining jocks, CC cooperate adds and rotations, and CC cooperate imaging. CC's biggest lesson they need to learn is, what might work in one market, won't always work in another. People and cultures are different. LIVE AND LOCAL!!! That's why Patti Marshall and Grover Collins and the whole Q staff have been banging it out for years. LIVE AND LOCAL!!
 
2 words: Ryan Seacrest :(
Let's save some money and take away the "local" aspect even more...and he's really not that great of a DJ (IMHO)
 
ncincy1 said:
2 words: Ryan Seacrest :(
Let's save some money and take away the "local" aspect even more...and he's really not that great of a DJ (IMHO)
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Agreed. SeaFag is aweful. We are under contract to run his AT40 for another 6 months and then we're done with it. They tried to sell us his syndicated program. We kindly told them to shove it. HA!
 
HafDawg said:
Not saying you're wrong at all tito, but no one I know really... likes it when the jocks come on air. Maybe I haven't been exposed to "real jocks" in this market or something, but I've never met someone who traditionally listens to CHR-oriented radio who have any positive feeling about the DJs. The traditional response is "I wish they'd shut up" or "Yeah he's funny but I really wish he'd play music instead".

New music to me is the only way to compete with the iPod, and thats only for the part of the market that either doesn't have an iPod, or uses the radio to decide WHAT to download on their iPod.

Just curious, when were Rod Phillips and BJ Harris the PDs? I mean, 2000s? 1990s? 1980s?

Showing my ignorance here.
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Rod was PD in the early 2000s(possibly late 90s), BJ was PD after him in the mid 00's.

As far as personality radio, it simply works if done correctly. Kane had big numbers voice tracked at night on Kiss before he left for XM, Puddin had huge numbers at night before he went to WEBN. However if the DJ simply has breaks of I'm Tito here is Jessica Simpson or simply reads liners about station events without injecting his personality or a listener in the break then yes there is no entertainment added to the programming.
 
I guess I'd just be interested in meeting teens to twenty somethings interested in the things you mention. Everyone I know just wants the music. Thats why the Ipod is so successful, no annoying DJs, no commercials, just good music.
 
HafDawg said:
I guess I'd just be interested in meeting teens to twenty somethings interested in the things you mention. Everyone I know just wants the music. Thats why the Ipod is so successful, no annoying DJs, no commercials, just good music.
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You are looking at the world from an ethnocentric point of veiw. If I asked everyone I know who they voted for, John McCain would have been President elect.

The Ipod is successful for the same reason that the Walkman was succesful. It is a way to listen to personal music on the go.

Radio has always been about information and entertainment. Hosts/personalities should do just that, entertain, inform, and interact with their audience, especially CHR.
 
We fill auditoriums for music tests with ppl that are in our 18-34 demo four times a year. You're more than welcome to come and meet'em all if you like.
 
Nick Scott said:
ncincy1 said:
2 words: Ryan Seacrest :(
Let's save some money and take away the "local" aspect even more...and he's really not that great of a DJ (IMHO)
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Agreed. SeaFag is aweful. We are under contract to run his AT40 for another 6 months and then we're done with it. They tried to sell us his syndicated program. We kindly told them to shove it. HA!
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CLASSIC!!! ;D
I wonder how many stations would actually keep him-AT 40 and the three hour syndicated show-if they didn't have to. Once again, the mighty Cheap Channel makes up the minds of its local affiliates. ::)
 
But with an ipod you can't here new music unless u put it on the ipod.With radio u here new music and i like to be entertained by djs.

We have this station in louisville ky a everything that rocks format on wlrs owned by mainline and 2 months ago or so they fired the whole staff and have none on the station. I find the station very empty without on air talent even though they only had one good jock.
 
Talk is that Bain is going to force CC to feed more Ryan Seacrests down everyones throats from New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Look for syndicated Country mid-day show on every CC Country station next year along with an additional rock show on top of Bob and Tom in almost every CC market.
 
I detest all this syndicated crap!!!I remember and it was only 2003 when ryan was doin afternoon drive on star 98.7 in los angeles with lisa.
 
Nick Scott said:
We fill auditoriums for music tests with ppl that are in our 18-34 demo four times a year. You're more than welcome to come and meet'em all if you like.
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I AM in Charleston a lot. lol
 
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