Lew Dickey is too scared to read this!

[BobSacamano]

Coyote has a health issue or 2, plus his Cumulus experience may have put him off radio for good..

How bout an Oldies station with Bobby Knight doing mornings?

 

[gHz]

hey Big A...
you're showing early symptoms of the dreaded "eduardo syndrome"...

I just spit milk out my nose again. The ricardo one?

 

[beatlenut]

How bout an Oldies station with Bobby Knight doing mornings?

I used to tell Bobby Knight I thought he was the best announcer Nashville had. He has a great voice, great delivery, and on the occasional word fumble could come out beautifully. I'd love to hear Bobby on the radio again.

 

[romer979fm]

I can't get past this point: There were 2 Coyote McClouds in TN?

don't think so: the guy in CO seems to be pretendng be someone else...
"if ya can't dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bullsh--"

 

[firepoint525]

I can't get past this point: There were 2 Coyote McClouds in TN?

don't think so: the guy in CO seems to be pretendng be someone else...
"if ya can't dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bullsh--"

The "real" Coyote McCloud is (as I said earlier) about 67 years old now. The impostor in Colorado is (judging by the photos on their website) nowhere near that. Does Coyote have a son? Could this guy be him? Coyote McCloud, Jr.?

 

[firepoint525]

probably a moot point since sales people in nashville have no idea how to sell "oldies", (hate the term)..but would not an audience listen whether coyote or anyone else was there if its an oldies fix that want ? granted in the old days a jock was a drawing card..as thats what radio was about as much as the music..but if joe an sally want the supremes on the way to work..would they really care if it's VT or syndicated from some other source ? wouldn't be as local oriented or as personal..but if its the tunes that demo is missing..then perhaps a jock(s) are not relevant..

I can agree with this. I listen to syndicated 101.7 out of Columbia, even though the signal there is sometimes less than desirable. But, yeah, I'm listening for the music, not the jocks. I was listening to their afternoon guy (Ron Foster) when I heard him announce that Michael Jackson had died.

 

[scottwmro]

How bout an Oldies station with Bobby Knight doing mornings?

I used to tell Bobby Knight I thought he was the best announcer Nashville had. He has a great voice, great delivery, and on the occasional word fumble could come out beautifully. I'd love to hear Bobby on the radio again.

Don't take this as the "gospel truth" but I think Bobby voice tracks for a few stations around the country. I think is on WAFN-FM, Fun 92.7, Michael St. John's station in Arab, AL. I agree, he has great talent! He sounds like a real human, not a robot!

 

[courier37027]

I can't get past this point: There were 2 Coyote McClouds in TN?

don't think so: the guy in CO seems to be pretendng be someone else...
"if ya can't dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bullsh--"

The "real" Coyote McCloud is (as I said earlier) about 67 years old now. The impostor in Colorado is (judging by the photos on their website) nowhere near that. Does Coyote have a son? Could this guy be him? Coyote McCloud, Jr.?

Firepoint, IIRC Nashville's Coyote McCloud lost his son in a car accident maybe ten or so years ago.

 

[deltas69]

if i'm not mistaken, coyote has lost two sons ..someone who personally knows him can verify this,,sad to lose children for any reason

 

[scottwmro]

if i'm not mistaken, coyote has lost two sons ..someone who personally knows him can verify this,,sad to lose children for any reason

Delta is correct on this. One of Coyote's sons, who by the way, his name was Scott, and we were good friends. We spent a short time together at WVCP-FM, at night back in the 80's.

WVCP was Classical Music during the day. I’ll never forget this. A chick from Portland, Kathy Stevens, was on the board playing the Classical Music Show. Back then, in the 80's, WVCP did block programming, and the Classical Music was VERY important to the faculty of the human resources dept, especially Dean Don Goss. The Classical Music was on from 9AM until 1 PM, if I recall.

Well anyway, back in the production room, Scott and I were gearing up to play a joke on Kathy. I sneaked into the control room to get the cart of the station's legal I.D. at the top of the hour. While I was doing this, Scott McCloud was recording some Led Zeppelin song on another cart. We switched the labels, and I sneaked back in the control room and put the cart in that Scott McCloud had put Led Zeppelin on, and Kathy didn’t even know what I was doing.

Scott McCloud and I was hiding and listen to the off air monitor in the production room. When Kathy played that cart, she freaked out and didn't know what to do. We ran out of the production room laughing out butts off, and ran down the hall of Vol States "N" Building! Kathy was ready to kill both of us, and so was Don Goss when he heard it!

Scott McCloud and I did some wild stuff in those days. I didn’t go to the funeral; I was too shook up over his death. We did some wild stuff in the 80’s on the air! I guess we where just kids then. I was about 21 or 22 then, heck it was so long ago, I don't recall how old I was then.

 

[Jan Jeffries]

http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/

Worth the read, but don't tell 'em I sent you...

 

[onetake]

The article Jan posted is fabulous. I'm old enough to remember when the FCC did a lot of checking into the background of license applicants. It was a sacred honor to hold a broadcast license. Frankly I hold the jerks at the FCC somewhat responsible for the state of radio today. By running through ownership transfers willy nilly to a few groups who took on more than they could handle they were acting mostly as a brokerage clearing house enabling company's who behave like whores to take over.
But now that I think about it, seems like lack of paying attention vis a vis the SEC (that's a financial agency of the govt, not the football league for those who only do sports radio on the board) allowed the banks to go unsupervised to run up a heap of debt and leave big mess.
Bottom line: so much of what has happened in broadcasting & the real world could have been avoided.

 

[Davy D]

Bottom line: so much of what has happened in broadcasting & the real world could have been avoided.

But is it past the point of rescue? If something isn't done soon, it will be. The government is reeling in the banks, but that's won't stopping further consolidation when the economy turns around.

 

[scottwmro]

Bottom line: so much of what has happened in broadcasting & the real world could have been avoided.

But is it past the point of rescue? If something isn't done soon, it will be. The government is reeling in the banks, but that's won't stopping further consolidation when the economy turns around.

Why did the music industry & labels wait until NOW to fix this problem? Back in the 70's, we were "bootlegging" songs, concerts, etc. The advent of the Cassette Tape Recorder and even the Reel to Reel, allow consumers to pirate music. It was much harder to do back then, than is now, but everybody did it in the 70's & early 80's, even going back to the late 60's. The labels gave out free samples and everybody got to record them on a cassette to give to your buddy or girlfriend.

Digital has just made it much easier to do this, and to me, the music industry is crying because of a bad economy, and they have ignored technology in the consumer world. I think concerts suffer now too more, from what I'm told. People don't have the money to pay to go see their favorite artist or groups.

As far as the FCC goes, they are losing ground everyday. There has been so much new technology that is thrown up on them to regulate, and with such a small staff, there is no way they can control what is happening as far as programming wise of broadcast stations, and they have NO control of a internet station streaming!

The FCC is worried more about Congress getting on their butts about raising more money to bail out the county and fund the military. All branches of Government are being hit hard by Congress! President Obama can’t help the FCC and the music industry; he has too many other issues to deal with as being the middle man in our government. Even George Bush knew about this problem, but there was nothing he could do about it either.

This is the reason why I’ve said AM Radio is not going to get any better, it’s going to get worse, and some folks are so blind, they can’t see that. If you are an AM station, you better start streaming your audio in the internet because not every AM Station is going to get an FM Translator. There is limited spacing for translators in Urban and Suburban areas, even in small markets!

 

[Davy D]

Another AllAccess article has CBS CEO Les Moonves with the heading: CBS is still looking to "trim down" its radio station portfolio.

"Are we a little overloaded in radio?" MOONVES asks. "Yeah,...we'd like to trim down."

Trim what? From where? What is overloaded? Have you visited your stations lately? How do you trim a skeleton crew? How many hats do YOU wear? ???

 

[TheBigA]

Trim what? From where? What is overloaded? Have you visited your stations lately? How do you trim a skeleton crew? How many hats do YOU wear? ???

He means he wants to sell some stations. And that's bad news. I know people who worked at former CBS stations. The new owners were far less benevolent when they came in. The latest house-cleaning is taking place at the former CBS stations in Denver. It's actually the second round of firings since CBS left early this year. So enjoy the lush life while you can. A time will come when people will look back at this time as the good old days.