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Make Up Your Mind WEZZ and/or WHPH in Jemison/Clanton

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RDP

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Heard another spot on Z 97.7 and/or Peach 97.7. Whatever you want to call them will be fine. I call them confused radio, that doesn't know what they are doing. They keep talking about making a change. Today they had a new spot speaking of this. It went like this: A Peach of a change is coming soon, stay tuned for the details. As they were speaking, I heard Changes by David Bowie, in the background.

Make up your mind WEZZ and/or WHPH in Jemison/Clanton or whatever call letters and City ID you are using for this week. You keep talking about a format change but so far is hasn't happened yet.

Great South or whoever owns this station needs to get consistent and change already. The long wait is getting very boring.

RDP <><
 
> Heard another spot on Z 97.7 and/or Peach 97.7. Whatever
> you want to call them will be fine. I call them confused
> radio, that doesn't know what they are doing. They keep
> talking about making a change. Today they had a new spot
> speaking of this. It went like this: A Peach of a change is
> coming soon, stay tuned for the details. As they were
> speaking, I heard Changes by David Bowie, in the background.
>
>
> Make up your mind WEZZ and/or WHPH in Jemison/Clanton or
> whatever call letters and City ID you are using for this
> week. You keep talking about a format change but so far is
> hasn't happened yet.
>
> Great South or whoever owns this station needs to get
> consistent and change already. The long wait is getting
> very boring.
>
> RDP <


I'm still scratching my head over this one, too. According to the FCC database, the WEZZ calls were changed to WHPH around the 26th of January. It that's the case, then 97.7 has been incorrectly ID'ing itself for more than three weeks now. Since the WEZZ calls were moved to 97.7 in Thomaston (formerly WSMO), it also would have been ID'ing incorrectly.

I figured maybe they had backed out of their plans to change the format, but if they have, they're still promoting it. Maybe they're still trying to decide themselves if they're going to switch...
lol





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> > Heard another spot on Z 97.7 and/or Peach 97.7. Whatever
> > you want to call them will be fine. I call them confused
> > radio, that doesn't know what they are doing. They keep
> > talking about making a change. Today they had a new spot
> > speaking of this. It went like this: A Peach of a change
> is
> > coming soon, stay tuned for the details. As they were
> > speaking, I heard Changes by David Bowie, in the
> background.
> >
> >
> > Make up your mind WEZZ and/or WHPH in Jemison/Clanton or
> > whatever call letters and City ID you are using for this
> > week. You keep talking about a format change but so far
> is
> > hasn't happened yet.
> >
> > Great South or whoever owns this station needs to get
> > consistent and change already. The long wait is getting
> > very boring.
> >
> > RDP <
>
>
> I'm still scratching my head over this one, too. According
> to the FCC database, the WEZZ calls were changed to WHPH
> around the 26th of January. It that's the case, then 97.7
> has been incorrectly ID'ing itself for more than three weeks
> now. Since the WEZZ calls were moved to 97.7 in Thomaston
> (formerly WSMO), it also would have been ID'ing incorrectly.
>
>
> I figured maybe they had backed out of their plans to change
> the format, but if they have, they're still promoting it.
> Maybe they're still trying to decide themselves if they're
> going to switch...
> lol
>
>
>
>
>
> **********************************************
>
> Radio stations come and go.
> Does anything last forever?
> www.PassTheWord.net
>
The switch is coming. One of board ops told me they were having some technical issues, something to do with there automation system I think. It may be a new system and they just have all the bugs worked out.
Back in my days of playing radio we had to que records. I bet very few people in radio today would know how to que a record. Many of todays "DJ'S" may have never seen a 45 record.
Best wishes to them when they do make there change.
 
> > > Heard another spot on Z 97.7 and/or Peach 97.7.
> Whatever
> > > you want to call them will be fine. I call them
> confused
> > > radio, that doesn't know what they are doing. They keep
>
> > > talking about making a change. Today they had a new
> spot
> > > speaking of this. It went like this: A Peach of a change
>
> > is
> > > coming soon, stay tuned for the details. As they were
> > > speaking, I heard Changes by David Bowie, in the
> > background.
> > >
> > >
> > > Make up your mind WEZZ and/or WHPH in Jemison/Clanton or
>
> > > whatever call letters and City ID you are using for this
>
> > > week. You keep talking about a format change but so far
>
> > is
> > > hasn't happened yet.
> > >
> > > Great South or whoever owns this station needs to get
> > > consistent and change already. The long wait is getting
>
> > > very boring.
> > >
> > > RDP <
> >
> >
> > I'm still scratching my head over this one, too. According
>
> > to the FCC database, the WEZZ calls were changed to WHPH
> > around the 26th of January. It that's the case, then 97.7
> > has been incorrectly ID'ing itself for more than three
> weeks
> > now. Since the WEZZ calls were moved to 97.7 in Thomaston
> > (formerly WSMO), it also would have been ID'ing
> incorrectly.
> >
> >
> > I figured maybe they had backed out of their plans to
> change
> > the format, but if they have, they're still promoting it.
> > Maybe they're still trying to decide themselves if they're
>
> > going to switch...
> > lol
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > **********************************************
> >
> > Radio stations come and go.
> > Does anything last forever?
> > www.PassTheWord.net
> >
> The switch is coming. One of board ops told me they were
> having some technical issues, something to do with there
> automation system I think. It may be a new system and they
> just have all the bugs worked out.
> Back in my days of playing radio we had to que records. I
> bet very few people in radio today would know how to que a
> record. Many of todays "DJ'S" may have never seen a 45
> record.
> Best wishes to them when they do make there change.




It just seems that for the station to be promoting a change for this length of time without having all these technical issues resolved beforehand doesn't sound very professional. Hasn't this format change been announced since late December or early January? That was almost two months ago. Who announces a pending format change on air for that length of time? I figure that most of the listeners probably no longer care about the format change at this point, anyhow. They've been hearing about it over and over, and all the hoopla about it now probably just sort of "fades into the background". It sounds as though the stations' management has issues over there, and it's going to take more than a format change to fix it, I'm afraid.





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> Back in my days of playing radio we had to que records. I
> bet very few people in radio today would know how to que a
> record. Many of todays "DJ'S" may have never seen a 45
> record.

WOW... talk about memories!
Step 1. Pick the vinyl disc (may be 33, 45 or in extremely rare cases, 78 RPM)
Step 2. Place the side of the vinyl disc labelled with the audio program you plan to play on the air next onto the empty, presently non-operating disc rotator and sound pickup device, commonly called a turntable.
Step 2-A. MAKE SURE YOUR TURNTABLE IS IN CUE MODE (this is a very important step!)
Step 3. Pick up long arm with a small diamond tipped needle at the end and place the needle (or "stylus") onto the vinyl disc at the outer most edge.
Step 4. If the turntable is direct drive, place the turntable into a neutral position and spin the plate on which the disc is sitting to the left... slowly (well, pretty slow anyway, at least until you get the "que-ing" process down).
Step 5. When you hear the audio program start playing, stop the turntable platter from spinning and spin it backwards (to the right)until the audio stops.
Step 6. When the audio stops, very slowly spin the platter to the left until the music JUST starts.
Step 7. Back (spin to the right) the disc slightly (about a quarter of a complete turn) to give your turntable enough time to get up to full speed before the audio program starts playing.
Step 8. Depending on your broadcast audio board, you can "pot up" (turn the audio level up on the channel that replays that particular turntable audio) the channel for that turntable. Then use whatever triggering mechanism is available to start the turntable and switch the corresponding audio into an "on" position on the broadcast audio board to be fed into the transmission device (commonly using amplitude or frequency modulation.)

Gee, that was fun!
 
> > Back in my days of playing radio we had to que records. I
>
> > bet very few people in radio today would know how to que a
>
> > record. Many of todays "DJ'S" may have never seen a 45
> > record.
>
> WOW... talk about memories!
> Step 1. Pick the vinyl disc (may be 33, 45 or in extremely
> rare cases, 78 RPM)
> Step 2. Place the side of the vinyl disc labelled with the
> audio program you plan to play on the air next onto the
> empty, presently non-operating disc rotator and sound pickup
> device, commonly called a turntable.
> Step 2-A. MAKE SURE YOUR TURNTABLE IS IN CUE MODE (this is a
> very important step!)
> Step 3. Pick up long arm with a small diamond tipped needle
> at the end and place the needle (or "stylus") onto the vinyl
> disc at the outer most edge.
> Step 4. If the turntable is direct drive, place the
> turntable into a neutral position and spin the plate on
> which the disc is sitting to the left... slowly (well,
> pretty slow anyway, at least until you get the "que-ing"
> process down).
> Step 5. When you hear the audio program start playing, stop
> the turntable platter from spinning and spin it backwards
> (to the right)until the audio stops.
> Step 6. When the audio stops, very slowly spin the platter
> to the left until the music JUST starts.
> Step 7. Back (spin to the right) the disc slightly (about a
> quarter of a complete turn) to give your turntable enough
> time to get up to full speed before the audio program starts
> playing.
> Step 8. Depending on your broadcast audio board, you can
> "pot up" (turn the audio level up on the channel that
> replays that particular turntable audio) the channel for
> that turntable. Then use whatever triggering mechanism is
> available to start the turntable and switch the
> corresponding audio into an "on" position on the broadcast
> audio board to be fed into the transmission device (commonly
> using amplitude or frequency modulation.)
>
> Gee, that was fun!
>
I thought I was the only old timer on here. I guess I was wrong.
Times have sure changed in the last 20 or so years. I wonder what we will see 20 years from now? Somebody will be saying something like: back in my day we had to reach over and press a button on a keyboard to play a song. Man that was a lot of trouble to have to do that! I hope I live another 20 years to just see what it will be like.
 
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