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Matty production

Oh God....like even with a 30 second delay someone would be able to time things out better...what f'n planet are you living on!?! Coast/Kiss match up with most music seeing as it is a Hot A/C matching up with a CHR station...STOP the nitpicking....
NOTHING is going to change with the current climate of radio...if you don't like it, either get in the game and do something about it or just face facts!
 
If you actually hear how botched up it can get; it is not nitpicking. I imagine if the Oxfords could post here they would probably tell you Boston is to blame and does not stick to their hot clock.

This morning was a much smoother 6am switchover ;)
 
wknd92 said:
Oh God....like even with a 30 second delay someone would be able to time things out better...what f'n planet are you living on!?! Coast/Kiss match up with most music seeing as it is a Hot A/C matching up with a CHR station...STOP the nitpicking....
NOTHING is going to change with the current climate of radio...if you don't like it, either get in the game and do something about it or just face facts!
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Relax. No need to get your panties in a bunch. Open up your ears and listen to the broadcast. It's botched! Any board op who is tight on the board can work with that 30 second delay better then they do. When Stern was on HOT 106 it was flawless. That board op had no problem taking a show that had virtually no format and he timed things out just fine. We are a bunch of radio people. We are going to be criticial. So face those facts.
 
If you're forced to do crapola radio, at least do it professionally. As far as getting in the game to make a change, those already in the game can't make any changes so why encourage anyone to get into a business where all they will be up against so much frustration? The days of future radio stars are over. The days of future programming stars are over. No one is going to get in and make any kind of a splash in the future.
 
Well I do believe Radio will have plenty of Stars in the future. All the current stars will be dead within 50 years. There will always be new people needed to replace the ones who die off. However I do agree that it's just plain silly to try and say listeners do not have a valid point or a right to complain just because they do not work in radio. That's kind of like saying that you aren't allowed to bitch about the President unless you work in Politics.
 
Skynet74 said:
Well I do believe Radio will have plenty of Stars in the future. All the current stars will be dead within 50 years.
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Dead, along with all potential listeners if today's Doom-Sayers have anything on the ball!
 
It's incredible at how ill-informed the majority of you are. Most are so far off base it's laughable.

There's a little bit of difference between running a syndicated show that is formatted to run on an affiliate network and airing a live local show that's attempting to run as a network show on a single affiliate.

Having some actual intel as to what is going on with Matty on Coast...there isn't any 30 second delay, and the show is largely controlled from Boston. Also, Coast & KISS share some similar songs on their playlists, but Coast is playing their own music, except the playlist is severely limited as each song has to be timed to be in sync with whatever tune KISS is playing. That is why you'll sometimes hear the same song playing simultaneously, and sometimes you won't.

Without going further into detail...the situation is far from ideal, and the show's is nearly impossible to run without some minor hitches regardless of what some of you seem to think.
 
Oh I didn't say it had to be perfect. I do think there is room for improvement. Dead air and joining the show late IS NOT a good indication of how the show should be run. Contrary to what you said, there was certainly a 30 second delay (or close to it) on the morning that I listened. I was tuned in to KISS 108 and then I switched over to COAST and heard everything again about 30 seconds later. So check your source and believe what you want. I choose to believe what my ears heard.

When Howard Stern was in this market I would love to know why the show was tight with no dead air and no late start times. Why could that board op at HOT 106 handle a program that had virtuallly no format. A program where Howard would do Live commercials from New York and the affiliates didn't even know how long the breaks would last. Stern never sticks to a clock. A one minute LIVE commercial often turned into a three minute bit in New York. However every affiliate I ever heard the show on handled it like a Pro and rejoined the show without a glitch.

In my opinion it's really a simple answer. Hot 106 had an awesome board op and Coast has one that sucks.

The end.
 
I think blaming the situation on Boston & calling it virtually impossible is defeatist.

The amount of defects happening today should be far less than 14 months ago; and it may be the opposite. The mgmt team should count the average # of defects per day and work to lower that number to an acceptable target. A few defects per day is your trade off for having the best FM morning show in New England on your station.

I would love to know how 'Boston' is responsible for:
1. Providence traffic playing in the middle of a song
2. Boston traffic playing during a Providence commercial

The Oxfords need to work with the Medfords and communicate to make things work. Matty was shocked to hear Providence listeners complaining about the production so it's obvious things are very disconnected. I may listen to the NH broadcast just to see if it's a botch as well.
 
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I think blaming the situation on Boston & calling it virtually impossible is defeatist.

The amount of defects happening today should be far less than 14 months ago; and it may be the opposite. The mgmt team should count the average # of defects per day and work to lower that number to an acceptable target. A few defects per day is your trade off for having the best FM morning show in New England on your station.

I would love to know how 'Boston' is responsible for:
1. Providence traffic playing in the middle of a song
2. Boston traffic playing during a Providence commercial

The Oxfords need to work with the Medfords and communicate to make things work. Matty was shocked to hear Providence listeners complaining about the production so it's obvious things are very disconnected. I may listen to the NH broadcast just to see if it's a botch as well.
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You can't really take into account the first year of the show with the current problems of today...up until 2-3 months ago the show was fed entirely from Boston without a daily live board-op...the only local break was for spots/traffic. The decision for Coast to play their own music forced an entirely new method of running the show which included a daily live op.

I wasn't trying to point a finger at the direction of Boston, just saying that they are the ones controlling what mic audio gets fed down to Providence...which likely is the reasoning behind the traffic botches.
 
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