After driving from my home in Atlantic County to Trenton 3 times this week I was able to listen to IQ 106.9 alot. As a listener, here are my thoughts.
I don't understand who's in charge. Today you had Mendte screaming about how large a supermarket is on my way to a meeting, and Michelle Jersin discussing something mindless with nobody calling in on my way home. The other day it was Casey, who was the reason I stopped listening to WKXW slandering a dead woman and making jokes nobody thought was funny, being beligerant, and also not getting any calls for the more than a half hour I was listening before I disgustedly went to Pandora. Your "IQ" has to be low to use formerly fired WKXW talk show hosts. Why were they fired? Maybe it was because nobody wanted to listen to them?
The news was bad until you guys sounded good with the whole chemical fire thing. I've read that Hillery Barski at one time was a talk show host. I hope she was good at it because she's not a good news reader. She sounds old and whoever is writing for her isn't really good at it. You need someone who is a good reader and can tell a story. She can do neither.
The weather geek idea isn't a good one. Is this guy the son of the owner or something? He sounds very amateurish and if I were them I'd bring in one of the TV weather guys in Philly and at least get a name in there who sounds good.
My only likes so far are Al Gardner who is much nicer sounding and sounds like he's someone's dad. He was a great choice. and seems very likeable. The other positive is the traffic. I found your Jersey coverage even better than WKXW. The other day I was stuck in that mess on 42 and Jeff McKay said it would take me 50 minutes to get through the delay. He was wrong but not by much. It took me 48 minutes because I timed it. WKXW didn't even have where the delay actually began right. And KYW barely talked about it. BTW, I like him alot better than Sam Clover. McKay has more energy and he's much more fun to listen to, and I think your traffic is better than KYW in the morning which is hard to imagine.
You guys really need to build this station around Gardner and McKay. They are your two best assets IMHO, and stop with the old 101.5 talk show hosts, unless you get Tommy G. I miss him at night.
I hope your station succeeds, but you need to make some changes before it gets any worse.
I don't understand who's in charge. Today you had Mendte screaming about how large a supermarket is on my way to a meeting, and Michelle Jersin discussing something mindless with nobody calling in on my way home. The other day it was Casey, who was the reason I stopped listening to WKXW slandering a dead woman and making jokes nobody thought was funny, being beligerant, and also not getting any calls for the more than a half hour I was listening before I disgustedly went to Pandora. Your "IQ" has to be low to use formerly fired WKXW talk show hosts. Why were they fired? Maybe it was because nobody wanted to listen to them?
The news was bad until you guys sounded good with the whole chemical fire thing. I've read that Hillery Barski at one time was a talk show host. I hope she was good at it because she's not a good news reader. She sounds old and whoever is writing for her isn't really good at it. You need someone who is a good reader and can tell a story. She can do neither.
The weather geek idea isn't a good one. Is this guy the son of the owner or something? He sounds very amateurish and if I were them I'd bring in one of the TV weather guys in Philly and at least get a name in there who sounds good.
My only likes so far are Al Gardner who is much nicer sounding and sounds like he's someone's dad. He was a great choice. and seems very likeable. The other positive is the traffic. I found your Jersey coverage even better than WKXW. The other day I was stuck in that mess on 42 and Jeff McKay said it would take me 50 minutes to get through the delay. He was wrong but not by much. It took me 48 minutes because I timed it. WKXW didn't even have where the delay actually began right. And KYW barely talked about it. BTW, I like him alot better than Sam Clover. McKay has more energy and he's much more fun to listen to, and I think your traffic is better than KYW in the morning which is hard to imagine.
You guys really need to build this station around Gardner and McKay. They are your two best assets IMHO, and stop with the old 101.5 talk show hosts, unless you get Tommy G. I miss him at night.
I hope your station succeeds, but you need to make some changes before it gets any worse.
