Magic 1560 considering weekend Disco Show?

[bub]

[Nowadays, you get that "LSU station attitude" from folks who do paid local brokered talk shows. These people are always ready to give me advice about my role in radio but listen to one of these shows and you'll have an audience rooting for colon-blow infomercials. ;D

a few years ago, I was producing a Penn State basketball game at the TRN/CC studios...when one of the
"paid fors" doing a golf show on WLAC stumbled in: her advice? "keep practicing...and maybe someday you
can be on the radio like me". I never said a word...

Many years ago, I board-op'ed a "paid for" COMEDY BIT SHOW - that's right, a comedy bit show. The guy hosting the show was a retail manager out on workman's comp at the time the show got off the ground but found time to do this show and score some free PR with a story written about him and his show in the local paper. One day, he decided to cop an attitude with me, accusing me of having one year of experience 5 times instead of 5 years' experience and that it was because of his show that people were listening to the station that he was buying the time from. Less than a year later, despite unfounded rumors that the station owner threw him off the air after he put the kibosh on the guy's attempt to broadcast his show drunk, turns out the guy couldn't pay the bill for the airtime and took his show to local access cable. One year later, the station flipped format with live jocks. A year after that, the station scored in the Arbitrons for the first time in station history, and I had the highest-rated daypart.

Now, back to the topic of a disco show on Magic 1560, coming up next, over most of this station. ;D

 

[bub]

I am not smoking or drinking anything.

The weekend's still young. ;D

 

[firepoint525]

FYI, "Escape" played Thursday on Mix 92-9 early afternoon. All is well and constant in Nashville radio. CR, I am
not smoking or drinking anything, but can't think of much else to bring up. Crawling back under the rock, er pebble...now.

The first non-Christmas song I heard on 92.9 (on December 26th) was Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight." I can tolerate "Escape" (barely!), but I am still sick of "In the Air Tonight" from all the hype it got back during the Miami Vice days! If I never heard it again, that would be fine with me. I think my distaste for "In the Air Tonight" really began when someone in the record store in the Old Hickory Mall in Jackson kept playing it over and over! : (And I think I was only in there for 10 minutes or so!)

When 103.7 FM in Murray, Kentucky, changed formats back in the late '80s, they played "In the Air Tonight" over and over and over again for an entire damn weekend! And NO, I didn't listen! My sister actually likes Phil Collins, and she didn't even stay with them for that stunt! (By the way, I have no idea what their format is now.)

"In the Air Tonight" is not disco, so it shouldn't play on a disco-themed show. How's that for staying on-topic?

 

[deltas69]

a few years ago, I was producing a Penn State basketball game at the TRN/CC studios...when one of the
"paid fors" doing a golf show on WLAC stumbled in: her advice? "keep practicing...and maybe someday you
can be on the radio like me". I never said a word... THIS IS PRECISELY WHY I LEFT WLAC AFTER A MONTH..HAVING OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A JOCK, AND A COUPLE OF AWARDS, I THOUGHT I WOULD LIKE TO GET BACK IN RADIO...SO..I TOOK A WEEKEND JOB BOARD OPPING FOR A GUY SELLING "MAGIC PILLS" THAT MAKES YOUR CAR GET ZILLIONS OF MPG, WITH HIS OWN FRIENDS DOING THE CALL INS..WHAT AN EYE OPENER FOR ME..STACKING THE SHOW..THIS ALONG WITH RECORDED SHOWS THAT DAMN NEAR PUT ME TO SLEEP,..AND THE ADMONISHMENT..DON'T SAY ANYTHING,,JUST PUSH THE BUTTONS..AFTER A MONTH, I ASKED MYSELF WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?? I WOULD PHYSICALLY GET SICK THINKING ABOUT THE WEEKEND COMING UP AND HAVING TO GO IN..HELL I'VE PLAYED MUSIC FOR BIGGER AUDIENCES AT THE LOCAL AMERICAN LEGION THAN THESE GUYS HAD....now..i'll stop screaming and go get another beer..and calm down..but i hear ya bro.... :-\

 

[yorkie9]

Reviving an old topic - I got in the car Weds. afternoon and heard a promo on WMRO for "Retro Saturday Night" with the wonderful Reagan soundbite about "outlawing Russia forever". Did you put that together, Scott? I guess the retro show is full steam ahead. It's a shame I only here you in the daytime here..and I'm right on the fringe.

 

[scottwmro]

Reviving an old topic - I got in the car Weds. afternoon and heard a promo on WMRO for "Retro Saturday Night" with the wonderful Reagan soundbite about "outlawing Russia forever". Did you put that together, Scott? I guess the retro show is full steam ahead. It's a shame I only here you in the daytime here..and I'm right on the fringe.

Well, it was just a thought, and I've done nothing, nor have I had the time to put something like a Disco Show together, as much as I want to do it. Time just hasn't allowed me to get it done. When you're almost in your mid 40's, you have a wife and family, and other commitments to pay the bills, you do that first. One day, I'll just might get to it. Lot of the Disco music I like is now 30 years old. Besides Majic 13 in this market, there were other stations doing Disco/Dance formats through the 70's & 80's.

There was one on 93.3 down towards Huntsville that was a ABC produced show in the 80's I liked. I had a CD copy of it, but I lost it, and now I have forgot the name of the show, but it was nothing near that BORING House Party that is on the The River on Saturday Nights. For me, Saturday Nights on on a CHR/Hot AC/or Standard AC should have some kind of mix dance party show on Saturday Nights.

 

[firepoint525]

Well, it was just a thought, and I've done nothing, nor have I had the time to put something like a Disco Show together, as much as I want to do it. Time just hasn't allowed me to get it done. When you're almost in your mid 40's, you have a wife and family, and other commitments to pay the bills, you do that first. One day, I'll just might get to it. Lot of the Disco music I like is now 30 years old. Besides Majic 13 in this market, there were other stations doing Disco/Dance formats through the 70's & 80's.

There was one on 93.3 down towards Huntsville that was a ABC produced show in the 80's I liked. I had a CD copy of it, but I lost it, and now I have forgot the name of the show, but it was nothing near that BORING House Party that is on the The River on Saturday Nights. For me, Saturday Nights on on a CHR/Hot AC/or Standard AC should have some kind of mix dance party show on Saturday Nights.

Star 97 would have been your station to listen to on Saturday nights. From 8:00 p.m. until midnight, they did the "superadio" Supermixes on Saturday evenings. I missed that when they changed formats. I wish they would punt the "tower" and bring back Star 97, along with all the DJs they had back about that time. Yeah, wishful thinking, I know! :

I kinda wish V-102.5 would go live on Friday evenings with some type of all-'80s format to compete with Q-108, at least something similar to what Star 97 did with "Friday night '80s."

 

[jefflaurence]

Scott..I had two separate runs doing a Saturday Night Dance Show..In Atlatna at WSB-Fm I did Friday and Saturday nights for a good long time, nearly 5 years..taking calls, and playing requests..and creating a theatre of the mind "Atlanta Danceplex" with a plexiglas dance floor, and an invitation only to Atlanta's "most beautiful women and most successful men" We also had a "gift shop" and the worlds largest free buffet..All the good stuff, and all pure theatre! I did the show on the Zephyr from our studios in NC, and took calls on our own 800 number. Four breaks and hour for spots.

Most recently at CBS's WQSR-FM in Baltimore..same type of show..more personality from callers..music tracks under callers, and lots of production elements. Both shows ran four nearly 5 years at each station and ratings were outstanding. It was fun, positive energy radio that didn't make fun of the music, but a few differences. We were at the "Baltimore Boogiedome" and had an AIM account to take requests via the net..we also widend the playlist a lot..playing club mixes of hit songs, and again..nobody ever knew we were in our North Carolina studios.It was fun to do, fun to listen to. Local police kept getting calls wanting directions to the "Boogiedome" If someone called asking how to get there i would ask for thier invitation number (non existant) or I would ask whre they were calling from, and tell them that next week was open for listeners from that city and they would have to "get here early"..or "you'll have to call back from another location, you can't get here from there"

Any questions or ideas you'd like please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] Come to think of it, I'm not on any client stations in nashville any longer..we could work a barter deal!