Lex & Terry (KDGE)

[charles123]

I think it's time we get a new morning show, these guys suck. They need to be on Live 105.3 Free FM not the Edge. I notice they've been playing more old stuff too. They would be even greater if they got rid of the morning show and get a new morning show that actually plays music in the morning and not talk for 5 hrs. a day. Any thoughts!!

 

[miked5551]

They were ran out of town when they were on Q102 and will be now that they are on KDGE. Spares!

 

[Slambang]

They're half-wits, I have a feeling they'll be off in this market by the end of the year.

 

[Tookiebird]

They beat the hell out of walton and johnson.

 

[tennvol]

They were ran out of town when they were on Q102 and will be now that they are on KDGE. Spares!

Didn't Q102 flip formats? I would hardly call that getting run out of town. Wasn't that where Redbeard was too? I guess by your definition he got run out of town too.

Based on my visits to DFW, the radio scene sucked there long before Lex and Terry arrived.

 

[charles123]

YES, THEY FLIP TO MAGIC 102 BEFORE THEY MOVED TO 94.5

 

[klifhanger]

Beating Walton and Johnson is not much an accomplishment. Hell the morning show on WRR and KCBI beats them.

 

[TheRover]

Based on my visits to DFW, the radio scene sucked there long before Lex and Terry arrived.

The quality and especially the integrity of album rock radio has sucked since the mid seventies. You can't have it both ways, as far as integrity goes.....

Pop/Commercial Rock deserves it's own outlet, but it's always a rub to to hear those crass commercial rock songs mixed with quality rock from basically the same artists.

If you have to lessen the musical integrity of a station to pay the bills, then already crossed a line that indicates "Sell Out".

I know what I'm talking about. The Musical Integrity of a station. You either have it, or you simply don't.

When the focus was taken off off the music played and out onto on-air "personalities" and all of the other stuff.... then you're just another commercial crap station.

I never confuse the two.....

 

[little1]

Based on my visits to DFW, the radio scene sucked there long before Lex and Terry arrived.

The quality and especially the integrity of album rock radio has sucked since the mid seventies. You can't have it both ways, as far as integrity goes.....

Pop/Commercial Rock deserves it's own outlet, but it's always a rub to to hear those crass commercial rock songs mixed with quality rock from basically the same artists.

If you have to lessen the musical integrity of a station to pay the bills, then already crossed a line that indicates "Sell Out".

I know what I'm talking about. The Musical Integrity of a station. You either have it, or you simply don't.

When the focus was taken off off the music played and out onto on-air "personalities" and all of the other stuff.... then you're just another commercial crap station.

I never confuse the two.....

Could you be any more of the stereotype of a bitter old fart complaining about how much better thinsg were back "in the day". So AOR hasn't been the same since the 70's. Dude, that was 30 FREAKING years ago.

Get over it.

Your schtick is old. Yeah, AOR sucks. But in case you haven't noticed, it's sucked for 30 years, and it ain't getting better. There hasn't been a rock station in decades that didn't KNOW they were a 'commercial crap' station....Because most of us are grounded in reality. And realize that stations have to pay bills. And that means playing music, that (god forbid) people actually WANT to hear. And what is proven time after time, most people want to hear that commercial crap.

 

[Sp1c3run]

Because most of us are grounded in reality. And realize that stations have to pay bills. And that means playing music, that (god forbid) people actually WANT to hear. And what is proven time after time, most people want to hear that commercial crap.

Then explain XM or Sirius Satellite Radio where people *PAY* for programs they "actually WANT to hear" including AOR.

Who made you the spokesperson for everyone who listens to radio? Just because AOR suxs for you doesn't mean it is nothing anybody wants to hear. Unlike you, though, I'm not going to pretend to know what everyone wants to listen to, I happen to believe there is room for all formats, regardless if you or me like them all or not.

Get over yourself!

 

[klifhanger]

I said it before I just love to hear from those who only been in radio since 1996 and after. AS one has said before"they haven't done radio".

 

[little1]

Because most of us are grounded in reality. And realize that stations have to pay bills. And that means playing music, that (god forbid) people actually WANT to hear. And what is proven time after time, most people want to hear that commercial crap.

Then explain XM or Sirius Satellite Radio where people *PAY* for programs they "actually WANT to hear" including AOR.

Who made you the spokesperson for everyone who listens to radio? Just because AOR suxs for you doesn't mean it is nothing anybody wants to hear. Unlike you, though, I'm not going to pretend to know what everyone wants to listen to, I happen to believe there is room for all formats, regardless if you or me like them all or not.

Get over yourself!

Yeah, people are paying for programs they actually want to hear. And yet both Sirius and XM are losing moneyhand over fist. Any idea what their churn rate is? Any idea what they spend on attracting listeners? Right now, they're in an unsustainable buisness model- and unless something radically changes, I wouldn't be at all suprised to see one absorb the other-
And read this board, and I don't think there's 'anybody' who thinks there's a decent AOR station in town. And few (if any) around the country. But I'm not sitting here pining away for the 'good old days' like the Rover. It's just tired, tired schtick...

And my point is that for 30 years people have been compalining about stations playing the same commercial crap- and yet, stations come in and DON'T play that commercial crap, and they go nowhere in the ratings.
You know, maybe people DO wantto listen to the non-commercial music- but is there enough to support a station?

Because unlike the ROver, (and you apparently) I realize that this is a buisness we're talking about. And it doesn't matter how 'good' a station is, how 'cool' their music is, etc etc, if the ratings and revenue isn't there to sustain it.

Maybe you just don't get that. It wouldn't suprise me. From what I've seen around here, there's a bunch of people who liek to talk 'about' radio, and very few that actually work in it and have any idea what it's really like in the belly of the beast...

 

[klifhanger]

I have worked "in the belly of the beast' for over 30 years and I still work in "the belly of the beast" . Rover is not so far off the mark in his opinion and neither are you. Folks will always complain ,no matter what, BUT the chorus has gotten a lot louder after 1996. A recent Univ. Of Missouri at Columbia study shows there were more stations pre-1996,and the audience level was fine. Post 1996 there are fewer stations, and the audience level has dropped off considerably. Poor management who refuse to use the basics in "listening " to listeners, can be attributed to the decline of radio today. Listeners want something compelling, and more exciting and enticing than the homoginized thing that passes off as radio today. The Passion is what they seek from their station,and its only a small flicker of a candle compared to the raging fire it once was. PD's took a chance,Pd's programmed only one station,now its pretty much by a committee of researchers,and some of whom never opened a mike. Bring back the station's OWN identity and not shared with another market's identity plus reinstall the air personality/disc jockey who knows and cares about his city,not some VT who could care less. The music then will follow as it did before. If you disagree,go read your history about Alan Freed in Ohio and the Memphis DJ's. It was then, and improved upon in the 60's,70's 80's ,early 90's then it withered and was placed on life support.

 

[johnqdoe]

People have SOOOOOOO many more choices these days. The comparisons to the old AOR 70's heyday are about as relevant as comparing the Cowboys of the mid 90's to the Cowboys of the mid 70's. IN both cases, the game has cheanged dramatically.

 

[TheRover]

People have SOOOOOOO many more choices these days. The comparisons to the old AOR 70's heyday are about as relevant as comparing the Cowboys of the mid 90's to the Cowboys of the mid 70's. IN both cases, the game has cheanged dramatically.

Look. KAAM has a format that I think would work nicely for the Quality Album Rock that rarely gets played. The DJs attitude and sincere love of the music, and knowledge about it too, as well as the lack of obnoxious commericals, makes listening to KAAM easy, for more than the 15 minutes that Corporate America targets those who listen to Classic Rock Radio for the MUSIC....

Yeah, that's it -- KAAM is all about THE MUSIC ! ! !

What a Concept..... Putting the Music as the main thrust of your radio station..... Instead of having, as the main focus of the station: promotions, wise-cracks, talk, jokes, and commericals.

Perhaps they'll be room for a Digital Stereo AM Album Rock station, whose actual focus is the Music, all the time, day or night, 7 days a week......

(It does not require huge overheads, large sales teams, and the listening research of a CC staff to simply play good music. Leave the gross commercialism to the CCs.)

 

[TheRover]

But I'm not sitting here pining away for the 'good old days' like the Rover. It's just tired, tired schtick...

And my point is that for 30 years people have been complaining about stations playing the same commercial crap- and yet, stations come in and DON'T play that commercial crap, and they go nowhere in the ratings.

As for what I want being something that goes back 30 years.... The right kind of Nostaglia --is-- what people desperately want. What I like (in Rock) I know that discerning young people would also like. The old lines of demarcation between AM and FM still mean something to me. It's what you play, and it's how[i/] you play it, that makes all the difference.

 

[johnqdoe]

But I'm not sitting here pining away for the 'good old days' like the Rover. It's just tired, tired schtick...

And my point is that for 30 years people have been complaining about stations playing the same commercial crap- and yet, stations come in and DON'T play that commercial crap, and they go nowhere in the ratings.

As for what I want being something that goes back 30 years.... The right kind of Nostaglia --is-- what people desperately want. What I like (in Rock) I know that discerning young people would also like. The old lines of demarcation between AM and FM still mean something to me. It's what you play, and it's how[i/] you play it, that makes all the difference.

The rock product ona whole just hasn't been that good the last 10 years. That has a weeee bit to do with the stations flipping. Blame radio, blame records, blame whomever....and I'm sure you will

 

[bueller]

KDGE used to be awesome. Do any of you remember George Gimarc or Ferris O'Brien? The current KDGE is an active rock 40, the music is tired, and Lex and Terry put me to sleep. KDGE used to mean something. Back when it was an alternative station. Now it's the same old song.