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MAGIC 98,3 CHANGES

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THOMAS1562006

LEEZA AT NITE IS NO LONGER ON MAGIC 98.3 HER CONTRACT HAS EXPIRED AND MAGIC NEVER RENEWED HER CONTRACT JOHN LIST THE MIDNIGHT GUY MOVES FROM
7:00 TO 12:00 THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT IS NOW BEING VOICE TRACKED BY BERT MAT NEWMAN USED TO BE FULL TIME ON MAGIC 98.3 HE USED TO BE ON FROM 7:00 TO MIDNIGHT UNTIL LEEZA CAME AND MAGIC TOOK THE FULL TIME AWAY FROM MAT NEWMAN AND NOW THAT THEY GOT RID OF LEEZA SOME PEOPLE WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD BRING MAT BACK FULL TIME SINCE IT WAS HIS SHIFT TO BEGIN WITH BUT THEY GAVE THAT SHIFT TO JOHN LISK I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH JOHN LISK BUT MAT SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN HIS SHIFT BACK SINCE IT WAS HIS
 
This has got to be the longest run-on sentence in history.

Here's a hint: use punctuation!!! That way, your post will be a much better read.

Taking this back to radio: does anyone really CARE about Magic 98.3?
 
THANKS...I THOUGHT IT WAS ME.....OOOPS...That's I thought it was me.
 
Also - when did they become "Magic 98 comma 3"? Nobody listens to Magic 98.3 at night Thomas...it's actually a major cause of impotence = not good.
 
Back to the original point of this thread. WMGQ has had quite a few on-air changes in the last 5 years or so. For years they had a stable morning show and PM drive show. They suddenly went away. Since then there have been a few different people in AM drive as well as evenings. They've changed airstaff more often then their music selection. Perhaps it's the music and station image which are stale and not only (if at all) the jocks. I realize that many on this board don't have a high opinion of WMGQ but it once was a stronger player in Central NJ. Being squeezed between NYC and Philly gives it an "also ran" identity, I know.
 
blueboy said:
For years they had a stable morning show and PM drive show. They suddenly went away.
Since then there have been a few different people in AM drive as well as evenings.
They've changed airstaff more often then their music selection..
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Listeners could care less about the jocks on music stations. They come and go and no one really notices.
People can listen for years and not even know their names. Jocks leave and no one calls to ask about them.
 
It's no surprise that Magic does things like this. Having a live overnight show and a syndicated evening show made no sense for the past 5 years over there. Maybe this is something that actually does make sense for a change: an overnight personality moving to evenings and NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!! Wow, it only took Magic 5 years to figure that out, those geniuses. Cheers!!
 
Listeners could care less about the jocks on music stations. They come and go and no one really notices.
People can listen for years and not even know their names. Jocks leave and no one calls to ask about them.
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Tom: My original post was not about whether or not the listeners cared about jocks leaving. Some listeners do, most do not. And you are correct, most listeners can not identify the jocks. They do, however, wonder why there's a new person "on my station". But my original point was that perhaps WMGQ should at least think about changing their music as often as they change jocks. I think the music is stale, that's all. New people on the air won't suddenly freshen up the sound.
 
Magic 98.3 -- doing it bass-ackwards

kingofpain said:
It's no surprise that Magic does things like this. Having a live overnight show and a syndicated evening show made no sense for the past 5 years over there.
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Only 2-3 months ago Magic brought in a high-profile morning show host -- Steve O'Brien. That's a familiar name to Magic's target audience. In the 70's he did weekends/swing at WABC Musicradio 77. In the 80's he did afternoons (I believe) at 97 WYNY when it was an AC powerhouse.

Last week Magic 98.3 had an ad in the Friday entertainment section of the New Brunswick newspaper. Does the ad promote Steve O'Brien? No -- it promotes the evening jock. D'OH!

I have to put up with the station at work and some of their "Continuous Soft Rock" is borderline CHR. Not to mention the whiny jingles, whitebread music library and lame format elements.
 
While live and local is much better than either Leeza or AlanDavidBoucher from Boston being "simulcasted" or voicetracked, dont' John Lisk and Tim Teft sound an awful lot alike?

But, I applaud the move. And agreed, SOB in the morning is a major jump. Best they've had since Lou Russo.
 
Tom, you're usually right, but so wrong on "nobody cares" who the jock is on a music station.

In Linwood, I would swing my yagi around to listen to Dan Ingram every weekend on WCBS-FM (when it was a real station). If it's "Lite"music, yeah, probably no one cares, but an "sit up and listen" presentation, we care.

Hell, I listen to you every weekend, and even though playing "Dancing In The Moolight" must make you grit your teeth because you'd probably rather be playing Warren Zevon, you make it sound like it's the most important part of Top 40 history. You verify the listener's choice of tuning into you as time well spent.

You're old school, and do it very well.
 
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