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Over a YEAR LATER and it still is bad. They've missed the 6AM B. Costa news twice this week, they cut off songs to join a show in progress, and plenty of dead air - especially in the 6-7AM hour.

How do they expect to compete?
Do advertisers get reimbursed for bad production?
 
Ha.

I don't see why they don't just flip to the Boston feed all morning except commerical breaks.

Is there really a need for RI news or traffic? I ask that seriously; just wondering.
 
I actually had Coast on in the Car Tuesday morning. Not a typical thing for me to do. But I wanted to hear Matty while I was out. I kept switching back and forth between Coast and KISS so I could hear the differences. Coast is clearly on a delay now of about 30 seconds. Coast also seemed to be playing their own music instead of just playing what Matty does on KISS. In my opinion there should be a lot less music and more Matty. He really is the star of the show and I would much rather hear him than have to sit through some bad songs. BTW... YES THEY WERE BAD.

I'm assuming that Local News and Traffic are important to people. At least that is what Program Directors would like you to believe. However when Howard Stern was syndicated into town he played no records, there was no traffic and no local news either. Yeah.. it really effected his ratings. Number one show across the board. It just goes to show you that when you have a good program people couldn't give a rats ass about News and traffic. Most people who want News and Traffic aren't listening to FM radio. They are on the AM side where they can get their News and Traffic. End of story.
 
I agree with you on the news. It's too easy to get elsewhere and quickly. Traffic is another story. Getting it elsewhere is tricky and confusing for some.
 
Skynet74 said:
I actually had Coast on in the Car Tuesday morning. Not a typical thing for me to do. But I wanted to hear Matty while I was out. I kept switching back and forth between Coast and KISS so I could hear the differences. Coast is clearly on a delay now of about 30 seconds. Coast also seemed to be playing their own music instead of just playing what Matty does on KISS. In my opinion there should be a lot less music and more Matty. He really is the star of the show and I would much rather hear him than have to sit through some bad songs. BTW... YES THEY WERE BAD.

I'm assuming that Local News and Traffic are important to people. At least that is what Program Directors would like you to believe. However when Howard Stern was syndicated into town he played no records, there was no traffic and no local news either. Yeah.. it really effected his ratings. Number one show across the board. It just goes to show you that when you have a good program people couldn't give a rats ass about News and traffic. Most people who want News and Traffic aren't listening to FM radio. They are on the AM side where they can get their News and Traffic. End of story.
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Just do a complete simulcast.I dont know why they stopped it.As for news. I do believe there is a regulation that a local news or interest story in the city of license that needs to be mentioned at least once a week.In WSNE's case it would be Taunton.
Some radio geek will help me out here........
 
kenwood101 said:
Just do a complete simulcast.I dont know why they stopped it.As for news. I do believe there is a regulation that a local news or interest story in the city of license that needs to be mentioned at least once a week.In WSNE's case it would be Taunton.
Some radio geek will help me out here........
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If I were programming an FM music station I Would play 1 MINUTE of News per hour. Right at the top of every hour. Under the news would be a high tech sounding music bed for the whole minute just so that it wouldn't sound like a news station. At least the teeny boppers listening wouldn't be completely oblivious to what's going on in the world. They would get a little education along the way. This newscast definitely wouldn't be any longer than a minute though. Anything longer than that people would just start switching the station. At 30 minutes past the hour I would slip in a Weather forecast. (No longer than 30 seconds). That's it. Each hour 90 seconds of news and weather. That should satiisfy any requirement of local News within the city of license.

As far as Matty goes.... I'm all for just a complete untouched simulcast of KISS 108. The Board op at Coast has already proven that he isn't exactly Mr. Smooth at the controls. So just leave the entire KISS Broadcast intact. It sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth to screw around with it.
 
Seems to me the idea of one-minute news with music strongly behind it was tried once in Providence some 20 years ago and failed miserably. Once upon a time The FCC was into analysis of program content at license renewal time. That was a long time ago and the practice was ruled unconstitutional in court. That gave birth to some "classified ad only" formats which also failed miserably. Oddly, though, only for radio - on TV these days it's called "Shop at home".
 
VelvetR said:
Seems to me the idea of one-minute news with music strongly behind it was tried once in Providence some 20 years ago and failed miserably.
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I'm not sure how it would fail miserably. It's only for one minute an hour. There is hardly any time for it to make that big of a difference. I would do it for a strictly public service standpoint. Not for any difference in ratings. I already realize that doing a minute of news isn't going to make any difference ratings wise.
 
One minute of news on an FM music station can results in more than one minute of tune out and with PPM coming, no one is going to put anything on the air that might chase people away. I will agree from an aesthetic standpoint it isn't a bad idea but programming is no longer done from an aesthetic standpoint. If someone were to program a station based solely on what sounds good I really don't know if the station would be successful. Oh, and no one courts teeny boppers anyway,.
 
fullabaloney said:
If someone were to program a station based solely on what sounds good I really don't know if the station would be successful.
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Radio is a crazy world to be involved in when quotes like the one above may be true. I guess that we don't want radio stations to sound
"TO GOOD".

LOL. ;D
 
Skynet74 said:
I'm not sure how it would fail miserably. It's only for one minute an hour. There is hardly any time for it to make that big of a difference. I would do it for a strictly public service standpoint. Not for any difference in ratings. I already realize that doing a minute of news isn't going to make any difference ratings wise.
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It seemed like a good idea at the time. I would have said that it simply failed if the ratings had remained approximately the same. Instead, with the one-minute of rock-and-roll news, ratings declined. Hugely. That to me says it failed miserably. It's history, not analysis.
 
Skynet74 said:
fullabaloney said:
If someone were to program a station based solely on what sounds good I really don't know if the station would be successful.
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Radio is a crazy world to be involved in when quotes like the one above may be true. I guess that we don't want radio stations to sound
"TO GOOD".

LOL. ;D
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I don't disagree with you. I'm just saying today's PDs have to be concerned with Arbitron methodology and a number of other factors that have nothing to do with quality. They actually always have for that matter but things aren't as loose as they used to be. A station programmed from the standpoint of what it sounds like to the ear and nothing more would be a niche station at best, and that's only if executed professionally.
 
One day last week while listening to Matty, Coast was playing different music than KISS. Then I listened later in the week and both stations were playing the same music. I wonder if there is any Rhyme or reason for this. It seems so inconsistent.
 
Depends on the song whether Coast will play it or not. Coast has been playing some odd stuff lately.

Also; the 6AM switchover was a disaster again this morning. I wonder if Oxford St. and Medford folks even speak?

I have a feeling the Oxford Street folks don't like having a Boston show. Have to wonder......
 
BoredModerator said:
Depends on the song whether Coast will play it or not. Coast has been playing some odd stuff lately.

Also; the 6AM switchover was a disaster again this morning. I wonder if Oxford St. and Medford folks even speak?

I have a feeling the Oxford Street folks don't like having a Boston show. Have to wonder......
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Well I noticed a 30 second delay. So the board op should be able to make use out of it to time things out better. There also has to be some kind of format clock. It shouldn't be that difficult to make things sound decent. It sounds like whoever is at the controls on Oxford St. is either Lazy or just plain sucks.
 
Skynet74 said:
It sounds like whoever is at the controls on Oxford St. is either Lazy or just plain sucks.
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Or, perhaps, decided to work only up to the level appropriate to the pay grade.
 
BoredModerator said:
Depends on the song whether Coast will play it or not. Coast has been playing some odd stuff lately.

Also; the 6AM switchover was a disaster again this morning. I wonder if Oxford St. and Medford folks even speak?

I have a feeling the Oxford Street folks don't like having a Boston show. Have to wonder......
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I doubt the Oxford folks like much of anything over the air other than HJY and mornings on B101. Then again, the Oxford folks remaining are the ones who kept their jobs.
 
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