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Middays on FreeFM

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azenergyfan

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Just read on allaccess.com that Free FM San Diego dumped the triplets in favor of a local midday show. Since phoenix is the only other afffiliate for the triplets I wonder if this is a sign of things to come for Phoenix. If Kid dosen't get the gig at KTAR, he would be my choice for middays on Free FM
 
I like the Dick and Skibba show they have on KSCF. Interesting how a highly-syndicated format has to hire four local hosts.

As to the One Share Wonders, their one-year deal with the San Diego station expired last October on the anniversary date. Seeing that this is the anniversary for 101.5, they should replace them with SOMETHING. The Triplets are very LA-centric and could care less about the 130 listeners in Phx and SD.

Not the best solution, but designed to minimize expenses for underperforming stations: simulcast Dick and Skibba to Phoenix and move Big O and Dukes to middays. Yeah, it won't change much, but it would do so on the cheap.
 
I think Frosty Heidi and Frank are one of the best talk teams in America, and having done a show like theirs in the late 90's (The Hot Tub Radio Party), I know how hard keeping multiple egos reined in enough for all to shine is. They talk about everything, and that is a big improvement over most talk shows in America today. Besides Heidi has the longest tongue on a woman who has ever existed (check out the pix on her website). No wonder she's a hit with the ladies.

One note...putting Danny Bonaduce on with the excellent Adam Corolla is a disaster. I really heard that guy refer to himself as an "Icon" today. PUH-LEEASE!

BTW, I'm not 18 years old, I'm over 50, and I think Free FM is great. I just wish Leykis would get his vocal chords worked on...that hoarse rasp is made even harder to take since they've been running 'best of's" to compare to.
 
I figured I would just add this on to the Free FM post that was already started.

Are things that bad at the station that they can't sell 4 minutes of ad time during Adam's show? They played a song during the break with no commercials at all. Not that I really mind the music, but can the salespeople not sell ads down there or does no one want to buy them???? Real sad. Yes I know it's the slow time of the year, so I'm going to give them a partial pass on this, but honestly is it that hard to fill a break?
 
The producet on Free seems ok to me..but I agree..it is very odd to hear a station filling it's commercial breaks with songs or even worse ..ads looking to hire sales people and an ad asking businesses to visit a website designed to make the sales staff's job easier.
 
I think Free FM should make a little change to the lineup -

5-8am Opie and Anthony - No matter what you think of them, they get Ratings!
8-12pm Adam Carolla - Just please get rid of Bonaduce.. ugh his voice is worst than Leykis
12-3pm Big O and Dukes - They have grown on me and who can't like Oscar chow chow happy feet sanchez!
3-8pm Tom Leykis - Yeah his vocal chords need some surgery but he does get the best raings on the station
8-12am - ???? I would tend to lean on local talent say Krazy Kid but who knows
12-5am John and Jeff

Even though I like the Triplets there show is so L.A. focused that after a couple hours, they lose my interest
 
Agree with Scott and the energyfan that the Triplets isn't a bad show, but they just can't comprehend anything out of LA. They were put on other western FreeFMs because CBS a) didn't realize that the rest of the western U.S. isn't LA, and b) they're cheap. What's wrong with being a local show in LA? Nothing. KLSX does well with it.
 
Maybe “Free rock” middays would be more appropriate. I realize that sounds like a joke, but realistically it’s about the best way to make that day-part even remotely palatable. Frosty, Heidi and Frank are so L.A. geocentric that I bet they are oblivious to the fact that they were removed unceremoniously from San Diego.. certainly their website shows that to be the case as they still have San Diego listed as an affiliate.

Local talent might be a way to go here, however the talent pool that I’ve heard in this market is even more arid than the climate itself. (Keeping in mind I’ve lived here for 24.5 years now)

Perhaps the best way to think about FREE-FM is to begin to refer to it in the past tense, as it will be put in the FM-talk graveyard within the next year or so. Normally such a ratings disaster would be put to bed sooner, but seeing as how CBS Radio insists on pumping ungodly dollars into failed concepts (Jack-FM/WCBS et al), we’ll have to deal with FREE-FM for at least 12 months more.

Adam Carolla is talented, the presentation of the show was pretty bad initially but made slow improvements, and just when it started to maybe have some semblance of momentum they decided to put Danny Bonaduncecap on the air with Adam—oof.

As to the suggested lineup earlier in this thread: Opie and Anthony do NOT get ratings, unless you mean LOW ratings. Taking a quick glimpse at WFNY (92.3 FREE FM New York), you’ll note that the 12+ numbers overall are bad (1.2) and the morning numbers… well, a slightly better 1.9, wow, that’s something. They’re syndicated to many markets because their 1) cheap and 2) (as a friend of mine who works for Citadel has told me) good at sucking up to the CEOs. Their show is a bad Stern parody and appeals to a niche audience at best.

I do sincerely apologize for bringing down the mood of this thread, but someone had to be a voice of realism.
 
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