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Let me throw this out there...(Bruce Palmer)

K

kenwood

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Since Bruce Palmer is still with Clear Channel.How about letting him do "All Request Saturday Night" on B101. This "Super Gold" is AWFUL.Bruce's Benifits and big ticket things would come out of WSRS's budget so why not let him on the Bee just Saturday Night's.
I can almost garantee he could get the sponsers locally to finance his show.

This SuperGold is horrible..
 
> Since Bruce Palmer is still with Clear Channel.How about
> letting him do "All Request Saturday Night" on B101. This
> "Super Gold" is AWFUL.Bruce's Benifits and big ticket things
> would come out of WSRS's budget so why not let him on the
> Bee just Saturday Night's.
> I can almost garantee he could get the sponsers locally to
> finance his show.
>
> This SuperGold is horrible..
>
SRS has no budget or station since Palmer arrived.Forget it the 50s are over
Big hits is on the right track now. SRS is on the way to the scrap heap.sorry
 
> > Since Bruce Palmer is still with Clear Channel.How about
> > letting him do "All Request Saturday Night" on B101. This
> > "Super Gold" is AWFUL.Bruce's Benifits and big ticket
> things
> > would come out of WSRS's budget so why not let him on the
> > Bee just Saturday Night's.
> > I can almost garantee he could get the sponsers locally to
>
> > finance his show.
> >
> > This SuperGold is horrible..
> >
> SRS has no budget or station since Palmer arrived.Forget it
> the 50s are over
> Big hits is on the right track now. SRS is on the way to the
> scrap heap.sorry
>
>
>
Did you go out of your way to make up a "handle"?

You make One post and it's a slam.

Everything I have ever heard about Tom Holt is Positive from current and past people who have worked for him.
 
> Did you go out of your way to make up a "handle"?
>
> You make One post and it's a slam.
>
> Everything I have ever heard about Tom Holt is Positive from
> current and past people who have worked for him.

I've heard good about Tom Holt too but don't confuse a PD with what a station gives him to work with. What is WSRS now? Are they a lighter AC? WXLO owns the AC audience in that market. Lighter ACs are going to be the next format to go south. Good for Bruce for landing there but let's face it. Jocks are being put out to pasture at a younger age than they used to be. It isn't their fault but unfortunately Bruce was affiliated with an oldies station so there you have it. I'm willing to bet he'll ride it out there until something in Providence opens up but forget about the oldies. I wonder if and when Gary DeGraide or Charlie Jefferds decide to retire. Lite 105 will be faced with getting a replacement with name recognition and Bruce could be a candidate for the future.
 
> I've heard good about Tom Holt too but don't confuse a PD
> with what a station gives him to work with. What is WSRS
> now? Are they a lighter AC? WXLO owns the AC audience in
> that market. Lighter ACs are going to be the next format to
> go south. Good for Bruce for landing there but let's face
> it. Jocks are being put out to pasture at a younger age than
> they used to be. It isn't their fault but unfortunately
> Bruce was affiliated with an oldies station so there you
> have it. I'm willing to bet he'll ride it out there until
> something in Providence opens up but forget about the
> oldies. I wonder if and when Gary DeGraide or Charlie
> Jefferds decide to retire. Lite 105 will be faced with
> getting a replacement with name recognition and Bruce could
> be a candidate for the future.
>

WSRS seems to be a lighter AC than, say, WMJX or WMAS, but not as light as WWLI. It's pretty mainstream, IMHO.

WXLO doesn't really seem to own the AC audience, as the station is a Hot AC. Seeing that Citadel's oldies station WORC-FM didn't even show up in the latest 12+ Arbitrons (largely due to an awful signal), WSRS can easily claim that they are the at-work station in that market.

Though, something fishy is going on at that station, particularly regarding the firing of Worcester's top-rated morning show.
 
> > I've heard good about Tom Holt too but don't confuse a PD
> > with what a station gives him to work with. What is WSRS
> > now? Are they a lighter AC? WXLO owns the AC audience in
> > that market. Lighter ACs are going to be the next format
> to
> > go south. Good for Bruce for landing there but let's face
> > it. Jocks are being put out to pasture at a younger age
> than
> > they used to be. It isn't their fault but unfortunately
> > Bruce was affiliated with an oldies station so there you
> > have it. I'm willing to bet he'll ride it out there until
> > something in Providence opens up but forget about the
> > oldies. I wonder if and when Gary DeGraide or Charlie
> > Jefferds decide to retire. Lite 105 will be faced with
> > getting a replacement with name recognition and Bruce
> could
> > be a candidate for the future.
> >
>
> WSRS seems to be a lighter AC than, say, WMJX or WMAS, but
> not as light as WWLI. It's pretty mainstream, IMHO.
>
> WXLO doesn't really seem to own the AC audience, as the
> station is a Hot AC. Seeing that Citadel's oldies station
> WORC-FM didn't even show up in the latest 12+ Arbitrons
> (largely due to an awful signal), WSRS can easily claim that
> they are the at-work station in that market.
>
> Though, something fishy is going on at that station,
> particularly regarding the firing of Worcester's top-rated
> morning show.
>

I've noticed WSRS being on the harder side of AC in the past few years. They play songs like Creed - Higher, Bon Jovi - It's My Life. Seems like all ACs, including WWLI and WMJX are moving in that direction.
 
> Since Bruce Palmer is still with Clear Channel.How about
> letting him do "All Request Saturday Night" on B101. This
> "Super Gold" is AWFUL.Bruce's Benifits and big ticket things
> would come out of WSRS's budget so why not let him on the
> Bee just Saturday Night's.
> I can almost garantee he could get the sponsers locally to
> finance his show.
>
> This SuperGold is horrible..

Kenny, I could not agree with you more that the loss of Bruce Palmer was a hit from which B101 has yet to recover. However, while your idea is good, I highly doubt either Palmer or Clear Channel would agree to it. Clear Channel should be ashamed of what it did to B101.
 
Yeah -- how does WXLO own the AC audience -- when WSRS BEATS them?
Doesn't sound like they are owning anything.

As for Bruce Palmer -- I'm just not into the hype. The guy is ok. If I hear one more story about one of his beat ass cars, I'm going to start screaming. He doesn't seem to fit at all on WSRS, and refused to accept change at B101. That's not a recipe for success. What is he going to do when his Boston station starts taking strides forward?

The beating up of B101 perplexes me a little. People who were teenagers in the 50's are now pushing 70, if not over it. How do you expect an oldies station not to evolve to capture the younger advertising demographic? Yes, there are those under 70 who are 50's obsessed and actively complain, but not enough to keep the station stale. Make sense that things would have to move forward, no?
 
> I've heard good about Tom Holt too but don't confuse a PD
> with what a station gives him to work with. What is WSRS
> now? Are they a lighter AC? WXLO owns the AC audience in
> that market.

Incorrect. WSRS is still top in the Worcester ratings by far among all formats, and has been for quite a while.
 
Bottom line is "SuperGold" is one of those syndicated shows that oldies (or whatever) stations run when they don't want to pay a jock for a live weekend shift, when cutting payroll is more important to them than optimizing local listenership.

> Since Bruce Palmer is still with Clear Channel.How about
> letting him do "All Request Saturday Night" on B101. This
> "Super Gold" is AWFUL.Bruce's Benifits and big ticket things
> would come out of WSRS's budget so why not let him on the
> Bee just Saturday Night's.
> I can almost garantee he could get the sponsers locally to
> finance his show.
>
> This SuperGold is horrible..

Though WSRS and WWBB are owned by the same company, they wouldn't take from one stations budget to finance expenses on another when the stations are in different markets. Perhaps that may be done among stations under the same roof in the same cluster, but these two are in different cities with different local managements.
 
> > I've heard good about Tom Holt too but don't confuse a PD
> > with what a station gives him to work with. What is WSRS
> > now? Are they a lighter AC? WXLO owns the AC audience in
> > that market.
>
> Incorrect. WSRS is still top in the Worcester ratings by far
> among all formats, and has been for quite a while.
>
I'm sorry to burden some of you with the reality ,The ratings have been going
down steadily accross the board since the arrival of the current management team
What were once 20 shares 12+ and 25-54 are now 10s at best.Oh and by the way the only shift to actually increase share was the morning show and they have been shown the door. No only time will tell. Some of the shifts, am for example still hold #1 12+ not so any more for the rest of the day.Please tell me where the men went after 9:00a ------- Pike. and women 25-54 XLO If the If Citadel plays its cards right.SRS and Its glory days will be just a memory.
 
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