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KODA-FM "Sunny 99.1" 12AM - 5AM

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TXCalradio

I noticed that Sunny 99.1 has Bruce Scott on the air from 12-AM - 5AM during the week. He's definitely not local. I checked out other A/C stations' web pages that CC owns and noticed that he is on the air on those stations as well! When did CC start doing this? Ahh corporate radio at it's best! ::)
 
Why is this any different from the days of AM radio running Larry King or Art Bell or George Noory nationwide overnights?
 
stan said:
Why is this any different from the days of AM radio running Larry King or Art Bell or George Noory nationwide overnights?
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To me, the difference is that the listener knows King or Noory or Art Bell were nationwide broadcasts. When listening to a local FM music station, listeners -- at least some of us -- are still a little disappointed (if that's the right word) that the DJ isn't local. That's an old-school mindset, I know, but still... :-\
 
You'd be surprised how many listeners don't realize a program they're listening to doesn't originate where they're listening. I used to get all kinds of calls asking to be put on Mitch Albom, Jim Bohannon and Rush Limbaugh when I worked at a cluster with a talk station. They'd also call and ask to talk to Casey Kasem on the top-40 station!

Clear Channel has been remote voicetracking overnights on some of its stations for several years now. It used to be a woman on in the overnights, but it looks like Bruce has replaced her. I want to say her name was "Maureen McClain," but I'm not 100% sure. I first noticed this at KGBX in Springfield, MO a few years ago, which was previously just music and liners overnight.
 
I happened to be suffering from insomnia this past early Saturday morning (from 2:30am - 4:00am) and noticed it was Howard Reynolds. The music selection was great and the number of commercials was minimal. I really wish Sunny would sound like Lite FM in New York City, especially with their all-80s weekends. I'm enjoy having Lite on XM 13.
 
TXCalradio said:
I noticed that Sunny 99.1 has Bruce Scott on the air from 12-AM - 5AM during the week. He's definitely not local. I checked out other A/C stations' web pages that CC owns and noticed that he is on the air on those stations as well! When did CC start doing this? Ahh corporate radio at it's best! ::)
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I'm sure you think the "Delilah" show is local too, right?
 
Native Houston, Zoe Bonet did the "Lovesongs" show for KODA "Sunny 99.1" for 17 years. She was replaced :mad: by Delilah, which is nationally syndicated and based in Seattle, WA.
 
TXCalradio said:
Native Houston, Zoe Bonet did the "Lovesongs" show for KODA "Sunny 99.1" for 17 years. She was replaced :mad: by Delilah, which is nationally syndicated and based in Seattle, WA.
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I was at a party not long after that happened, and sitting in a room filled with wives and their young children as they started talking about Zoe being gone. Several of the women actually produced tears; she was inextricably and intimately part of their love stories: their proposals, their weddings, the arrivals of their children.

You don't get that out of a can.
 
The more big-market radio stations go to voice tracking, the more it reminds me of the "Christmas Carol" episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati." When Mr. Carlson cancels the Christmas Bonus.

Specifically, Howard Hessman's "Ghost of Christmas Future" scene when it's just Herb Tarlek running the entire station from a little control panel, because he's the only one who stuck around.

It was good for a laugh then. No one's laughing now.
 
I notice that Lia on 93Q certainly tries hard to sound local, with the tag lines "you're listening to Lia... on the new 93Q" before the commericals, in her voice, and it seems that she never has the callers give their location, which is odd for a national show that usualy highlights that it is getting calls from all over. But when you hear a caller talking about listening while ice fishing, you know the show isn't local....
 
Lia is not local. She prerecords those liners for stations to add in at designated times. I was able to catch her show on an out of town station to hear the same break but delayed enough to catch the liner of that station then I flipped over to 93Q to hear it with the custom for 93q. So no Lia is not live and local
 
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