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Lexi Kaye on the River

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Okay boys and girls...the river is the 800 lb gorilla in town and Cox continues to play it safe and that wont change....but what gives with the am show???...Lexi Kaye is literally reading liner cards "verbatim" you can listen to her sometimes slow down and make sure she catches words and say them correctly...can you believe this?...major market and a am liner reader...i have never heard one solitary ounce of personality out of her. The show even sounds tracked at times like she did it the night before....

Anyone agree or disagree?....this is as bad as radio gets and the suits want to know why kids and adults are buying ipods in record numbers or turning to satellite....and why revenues continue to wane....
 
Back off Lexie. She's just doing what she's told to do. Truth be told, you'd probably give your left arm to "read liners" on a morning drive show in a top 10 market.
 
Back off Lexie. She's just doing what she's told to do.
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Agree.

Truth be told, you'd probably give your left arm to "read liners" on a morning drive show in a top 10 market.
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Disagree. Making a lousy $60 grand - or whatever voicetrack money is - and reading the computer 4X per hour? That takes a toll on a talented person.

I'll keep my arm.
 
Is this what the research tells us about what people want in radio? I'm confident that Boy Bob has researched this 'til all the juice was squeezed out.......did he simply realize that's what the majority of whoever listens to the "River" want?
Maybe....just maybe.....people ARE tired of what is served up as "personality" radio these days. The Regular Guys did "personality" radio.....no liner cards there....but many people did NOT listen because of their "personalities." Howard Stern does "personality" radio but Geesh.....how many times do you wanna' hear about Howard sleeping with blind midgets,hookers, and non-vegan sheep?
For classic rock(hits....whatever)female listening is probably up with this approach.
How do you think Lexi affects Q100?
 
taylorengineer said:
Is this what the research tells us about what people want in radio? I'm confident that Boy Bob has researched this 'til all the juice was squeezed out.......did he simply realize that's what the majority of whoever listens to the "River" want?
Maybe....just maybe.....people ARE tired of what is served up as "personality" radio these days. The Regular Guys did "personality" radio.....no liner cards there....but many people did NOT listen because of their "personalities." Howard Stern does "personality" radio but Geesh.....how many times do you wanna' hear about Howard sleeping with blind midgets,hookers, and non-vegan sheep?
For classic rock(hits....whatever)female listening is probably up with this approach.
How do you think Lexi affects Q100?
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You obviously have never listened to Howard Stern, otherwise you'd know he's never mentioned sleeping with blind midgets, hookers or any sort of sheep. Yes, he (and his staff) took turns with a Real Doll, but that's beside the point. As for 'personality radio' - people aren't tired of it, there's just nothing on the air resembling that right now. Check out Sirius. Howard 100 is a breath of fresh air; from the anchor show to Bubba, to Scott Ferrall. No awful Clear Channel-type middle-management derailing good content, no bland talent on air because they used to do the RVPP's laundry, and no FCC interference. And hey, if you want music, there's a station or two for you as well.
 
Walt's right. Bob doesn't sneeze without research. Every step is well thought out in advance. That's why he is where he is today. He's a businessman and very successful at that.
Also right about "talent". Creative talent died with Bobby Harper. Most young turks today wouldn't know talent if it bit them in the _ _ _.
LEXI is following orders....which anyone who wants to keep their job in radio today will do. No employer wants an employee who will not
follow instructions. A lesson many of the "would be stars" need to learn if they expect to make a career in radio. If a would be talent doesn't like the situation...tell their ego to do a podcast and see how many people agree. As for why people listen to "the River"..IT's ABOUT THE MUSIC. Granted I personally would like more variety but that's a personal choice and why I have an iPod. Instant Gratification.
RADIO IS A BUSINESS. It's about making money and to do that you've got to pull numbers. Playing it safe, methodically usually wins. It's not a hobby. It's a business.
 
hoarsevoice said:
Walt's right. Bob doesn't sneeze without research. Every step is well thought out in advance. That's why he is where he is today. He's a businessman and very successful at that.
Also right about "talent". Creative talent died with Bobby Harper. Most young turks today wouldn't know talent if it bit them in the _ _ _.
LEXI is following orders....which anyone who wants to keep their job in radio today will do. No employer wants an employee who will not
follow instructions. A lesson many of the "would be stars" need to learn if they expect to make a career in radio. If a would be talent doesn't like the situation...tell their ego to do a podcast and see how many people agree. As for why people listen to "the River"..IT's ABOUT THE MUSIC. Granted I personally would like more variety but that's a personal choice and why I have an iPod. Instant Gratification.
RADIO IS A BUSINESS. It's about making money and to do that you've got to pull numbers. Playing it safe, methodically usually wins. It's not a hobby. It's a business.
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You are right us young whippersnapper have no idea what talent is....at least not for those on social security. All talent started and stopped with Skinny Bobby Harper. When was the last time he was on the air. A different generation now.
As far as Lexi goes nothing personal but I barely listen to hear her but when I have I thought she was a good cure for insomnia. She sounds like she should be hosting some overnight radio show for truckers. The station is boring. Plain and simple it is the "rock" version of B98.5. If you are boring and think music on the radio is background noise then the River and B98.5 should be preset 1 and 2 for you.
 
Hoarsevoice is completely correct.

RTibbs--wish you were right, that maybe there's a new generation of radio talent just rarin' to go. But you're not, and more's the pity. I couldn't count the number of godawful airchecks I had to listen to from people who actually thought they had a shot at whatever shift my station had open-- tapes of people with zero word economy, with no knowledge as to how to sell a break, how to make the station position "pop", how to carry a listener from the left side to the right side of a break, how to recycle horizontally...the list goes on and on. And I'm talking people applying for jobs in top 10 markets.

Talent has very little in the way of good teaching examples to rely on now. Nearly everyone's doing liners--there's hardly any stations left with non-morning drive dayparts that allow/encourage creative, relevant, SHORT breaks ("short" meaning, hit it and get it....outta there...come in for a landing, don't circle the airport. Get to the point and hit your spots). And if they're not doing liners, the only thing newbies have to model themselves after is self-indulgent yakkety-yak stupid trying-to-be-funny incredibly long break aren't-we-cool smug and "inside the building" oriented morning shows.

Too bad.

As for your comment about Bobby Harper--I knew him well and admired him on the air (we never worked together, though). He was great at all the things I mentioned above. I haven't heard anyone "new" who's close. But the list of guys with lots of experience who could do all that is pretty long. Anyone new could learn a lot from listening to airchecks of say, Tony Taylor, Gary McKee, JJ Jackson, and Jeff Winter...there's just 4 names from Atlanta's radio past who excelled this way.
 
taylorengineer said:
Is this what the research tells us about what people want in radio? I'm confident that Boy Bob has researched this 'til all the juice was squeezed out.......did he simply realize that's what the majority of whoever listens to the "River" want?
Maybe....just maybe.....people ARE tired of what is served up as "personality" radio these days. The Regular Guys did "personality" radio.....no liner cards there....but many people did NOT listen because of their "personalities." Howard Stern does "personality" radio but Geesh.....how many times do you wanna' hear about Howard sleeping with blind midgets,hookers, and non-vegan sheep?
For classic rock(hits....whatever)female listening is probably up with this approach.
How do you think Lexi affects Q100?
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Yes, those are fine examples of unsuccessful shows. But Lexi Kaye, atop all the jukebox liner card shifts at 9th place 25-54, is the future of terrestrial radio.

Research is for cheap, uncreative people to justify their existence. It is not a reflection of what people want to hear. There has never been a successful radio show that was borne of research or auditorium testing.

There is plenty of talent out there. Just too many crappy sales-oriented managers who don't have the skills to find it and develop it for contemporary audiences. It's been this way since forever, yet talented people still manage to escape the traps set for them and get on the air.
 
Just wanted to congratulate ck dexter haven on an outstanding post.
 
winreader said:
Research is for cheap, uncreative people to justify their existence. It is not a reflection of what people want to hear.
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I'm completely serious when I ask this question: If all of these companies are doing research, what exactly is it that they are researching then? When I worked in research at 99X way back when, we were specifically calling to get feedback on whether songs were played out, still listenable, never liked, etc..Is this not the same today???
 
I use to take part in the surveys that radio stations conduct. They are still the same fomat,it doesnot change. It is basically rate a song. It is a worn out format that should have been done away with.
Why does The River still run ads calling themselves new station? it has been over a year since the format change.
They need to expand the playlist to include hits from mid to late 80s to early 1990s.
 
I was once told that a station can call themselves "new" until they reach their initial ratings projections...even if that's not for 2 years or more. I personally disagree, but whatever... ::)
 
Lexie Kaye here...no liner cards in the studio guys and I've been out of town recently so I'm not certain what you're hearing?? RadioMan is correct, programming is structured (but not written out for the jocks) and it's all about the music. Thanks for having my back. It's one person, me, in the morning slot keepin' the music going. Not a team of people considered to be a morning show doing topics, taking calls, etc. So it's limited but that doesn't necessarily equal lack of personality. Our research shows listeners want more music w/ less chatter so we're providing them that choice. Thanks for the comments!




atlantainrearviewmirror said:
Okay boys and girls...the river is the 800 lb gorilla in town and Cox continues to play it safe and that wont change....but what gives with the am show???...Lexi Kaye is literally reading liner cards "verbatim" you can listen to her sometimes slow down and make sure she catches words and say them correctly...can you believe this?...major market and a am liner reader...i have never heard one solitary ounce of personality out of her. The show even sounds tracked at times like she did it the night before....

Anyone agree or disagree?....this is as bad as radio gets and the suits want to know why kids and adults are buying ipods in record numbers or turning to satellite....and why revenues continue to wane....
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Dearie,
Big city 101. . don't respond to a board full of unemployed radio people.
We feed on yer kind.
Now go back to your line-er-ah-er cards.
 
I thought I heard a new voice somewhere in the mix? It was in the am, and the jocks name was 'Racheal', I think? Nice delivery, didn't seem forced, kinda caught me off guard.

I looked at the 'personality' page, but could find no sign of 'Racheal'. Anyon got any info on the newbie? Hope she sticks around....
 
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