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Marino Returns to Morning Drive

Tibbs2 said:
Man, I never thought mentioning 'SM 95 would create this kind of traffic. More has been said
about the old format from long ago than the country format has ever gotten on here. And they
claim the people forget?
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People here, who have a heart for radio, they don't forget. Most of John and Jane Q. Public, they forget.
 
Since it's nostalgia week, why not bring back Coyote and put him there, or maybe Mark Damon, or Carl P. Nashville has a soft spot for radio talent and keeps retreading them on to some station. But it's nice to think about them during their heydays and wonder how they would do now in the tightly controlled corporate vulture world of broadcasting.
 
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Wow! 111 members on the SM95 group! That's four times the listenership of 97.1 RQQ TODAY.
And someone said the public forgets.
 
I kinda hope Tim Ross does NOT become a regular on WSM-FM. (He wasn't on there the day that I was listening, the morning after reading about it here on this board.) Nothing against him personally, but if he is on WSM-FM, the old-timers here in town will use it as "PROOF" that WSM and channel 4 are "still" jointly owned!

"After all, all he had to do was just walk down the hall!"
 
I'll tell you this. I'm new at 99.7 WTN as a night time board-op, and I see Rick Marino every morning, and he sounds like he loves WSM-FM very much. He is one of the nicest guys I've ever met in my life.

Robert Wilson
Board Op. SuperTalk 99.7 WTN
 
Ricks a great guy, it's good too see him land another gig so quick. Hope everything works out for him.
 
And don't forget Kim Carnes. And if Amy Grant were posting on this board she would say back when only a few Christian formated AM stations played her stuff, she was stunned to hear her cuts on SM 95.
Another brillant move from National Life who only saw the world thru country colored glasses. Bud Wendell saw WSM AM & FM and the Park and TNN as one big thing and cool music had no place on WSM FM. So it changed. Funny Wendell was also in favorite of letting the wrecking ball tear down the Ryman (all documented in the Tennessean and Banner stores). Bill Weaver didn't see a need to keep it and Bud was a good employee and yes man. When the public outcry came Wendell shifted gears being a master politican.
Sadly nobody at WSM had the balls to tell him he was wrong about SM-95. I doubt he ever even listened.
 
Rick got the axe at Mix because you've got a Market Manager there that will whack the high salaried employees whenever he's in danger of not making his quarterly bonus. He doesn't care what it does to the ratings or station, he just cares about his bonuses and making himself look good to the owners. A real gem....
 
Radio456 said:
Rick got the axe at Mix because you've got a Market Manager there that will whack the high salaried employees whenever he's in danger of not making his quarterly bonus. He doesn't care what it does to the ratings or station, he just cares about his bonuses and making himself look good to the owners. A real gem....
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Personally, I would rather see employees let go, rather than keeping them on, cutting their pay, trying to squeeze unpaid overtime out of them, etc. At least, if they are cut loose, they can move on to another job someplace else. (And of course, the non-compete should be waived in those instances.)

I had heard that Rick had gone into real estate.
 
firepoint525 said:
onetake said:
And if Amy Grant were posting on this board she would say back when only a few Christian formated AM stations played her stuff, she was stunned to hear her cuts on SM 95.
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Was that only during Brian Mason's show, or did they play her in regular rotation?
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I don't recall Amy Grant in SM95 regular rotation. Months ago a former SM95 air personality released a playlist history. Amy Grant tunes on that list were "My Father's Eyes" (4:02) 1979 album and "Look What Has Happened To Me" (3:15) 1980 album. After SM95 change to country Brian Mason's Sunday morning Christian music show then moved to 106WLAC, if I recall.

When I worked at Q-108 we played her tune "Love Will Find A Way", and her duo with Peter Cetera "Next Time I Fall in Love" both long after SM95 switch.
 
SM95 actually launched in the mid 70s. At some point, maybe 1979 or 80 the pd went to Atlanta and the format began to change with the Kris Bradley jazz thing and some other shows that similar to but not the original format. The launch was marketed well, was very consistant and had a huge surge. Seems like the PD that followed also did music on WSM AM but reguardless they took some liberties that resulted in a rating downturn and the case was made that SM 95 peaked and should go country. It seemed for a while all the staff had input in programming the sound and it self destructed. Several former staffers remember this but most feel the station should have gone much further. We have too many country stations, too many rock stations but only 92.9 it seems knows how to do AC. All of radio is about having the right people running the station. Odd this many years later that fact still messes up a lot of success. Company's run stations by their ego igorning the facts then justifying their decision later. One poster was right. The audience doesn't forget a good thing.
 
Come on fellows, lets not act like we don't know why Marino got fired at Mix and KDF, had nothing to do with money.
 
What are you implying? I've heard rumors, but Rick was at Mix for 10 years. Don't tell me it KDF one year to find out what Mix found out in ten!
 
What REALLY happened...and in 2010 does anybody give a damn.
 
Being a former listener to the Mix Morning Show, I can only guess that the powers that be got tired of having a good morning show. So they fired Rick and then brought in Kim. But I could be wrong.
 
Don78 said:
Being a former listener to the Mix Morning Show, I can only guess that the powers that be got tired of having a good morning show. So they fired Rick and then brought in Kim. But I could be wrong.
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Since Mix's listenership is primarily women, they could have made that change in order to make the morning program more "women-centric." But my opinion on that matter is purely speculation.

Anyone here know if the "RMarino" who occasionally posts here is Rick himself?
 
firepoint525 said:
Don78 said:
Being a former listener to the Mix Morning Show, I can only guess that the powers that be got tired of having a good morning show. So they fired Rick and then brought in Kim. But I could be wrong.
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Since Mix's listenership is primarily women, they could have made that change in order to make the morning program more "women-centric." But my opinion on that matter is purely speculation.

Anyone here know if the "RMarino" who occasionally posts here is Rick himself?
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No it's not him.
 
I'm not implying anything, just stating the fact that is wasn't ratings or money that got him fired from Mix or KDF.
 
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