NEW LINEUP AT WLW

[Imlivinontheair]

Just playing fantasy radio here...wonder what could be done to tighten up the ship.

Mid-5am America's Truckin' Network

5am-9am Jim Scott (of course)

9-12p Mikey Boy McConnell(from the living room of wherever he is living these days)

12p-3p Willeeeee

3-6p Best of Burjank featuring Doc Wolfe and Duke and a cast of thousands from over 25 years of skits.

6p-9p Sports Talk with Lance or Fuhrball (take your pick)

9p-12p Gary Jeff Walker (seasoned, professional and mature)


Would love to hear some feedback. Your are the GM and can move people around and hire whomever you think to make the station really win.

This is my lineup. Let's hear yours.

 

[js]

ATN
Steve Hawkins
Mike McConnell
Jeff Katz
Darryl Parks
Sportstalk, but only if they give me a non sports/financial alternative on 550, 1360, or 1530.
Gary Jeff

 

[alans613]

ATN
Steve Hawkins
Mike McConnell
Jeff Katz
Darryl Parks
Sportstalk, but only if they give me a non sports/financial alternative on 550, 1360, or 1530.
Gary Jeff

Is that the Steve Hawkins that worked at Z-93 in the 90s? ???

 

[Lamont Lester]

Just playing fantasy radio here...

Let's hear yours.

For just one more day...say from sometime in the summer of 1971?

6-10a - James Francis Patrick O'Neill
10a-3p - Jockey Joe Kelly
3-7p - Jim LaBarbara
7-12p - Bob Martin
12m - 6a - Joe Martelle

Deliberately left off the 50/50 Club at noon. I always found that to be a full blown waste of air time.

And don't you just hate the guys who always respond to these things with some long gone lineup from a generation ago?

 

[js]

Is that the Steve Hawkins that worked at Z-93 in the 90s? ???

I'm not sure if he was ever at Z, but he was at Q102 in the 80's/90's and is a frequent fill in for Jim Scott when he is on vacation.

 

[microbob]

Steve Hawkins also did The all night Barn yard show with JC Mccoy on Q102.

 

[del_griffith]

Just playing fantasy radio here...

Let's hear yours.

For just one more day...say from sometime in the summer of 1971?

6-10a - James Francis Patrick O'Neill
10a-3p - Jockey Joe Kelly
3-7p - Jim LaBarbara
7-12p - Bob Martin
12m - 6a - Joe Martelle

Deliberately left off the 50/50 Club at noon. I always found that to be a full blown waste of air time.

And don't you just hate the guys who always respond to these things with some long gone lineup from a generation ago?

I don't remember Bob Martin or Joe Martelle, but I do remember 1973 with a similar line-up.

6-10 JFPO
10-3 Jockey Joe
3-7 Bob Beasley
7- Midnight Jim Labarbara
Overnights Nick Young

Year or two later Beasley and the Prof switched places.

 

[NDXUFan]

I will take old 'SAI any time or day of the week, top that Radio Info.

Just playing fantasy radio here...

Let's hear yours.

For just one more day...say from sometime in the summer of 1971?

6-10a - James Francis Patrick O'Neill
10a-3p - Jockey Joe Kelly
3-7p - Jim LaBarbara
7-12p - Bob Martin
12m - 6a - Joe Martelle

Deliberately left off the 50/50 Club at noon. I always found that to be a full blown waste of air time.

And don't you just hate the guys who always respond to these things with some long gone lineup from a generation ago?

I don't remember Bob Martin or Joe Martelle, but I do remember 1973 with a similar line-up.

6-10 JFPO
10-3 Jockey Joe
3-7 Bob Beasley
7- Midnight Jim Labarbara
Overnights Nick Young

Year or two later Beasley and the Prof switched places.

 

[microbob]

ATN 12-5am
Bubba Bo

5am-6am

Farm Report/local news

6am 10am

Gary Burbank

10am 2pm
Randy Micheals/Alan Gardner

2pm 6PM

Mark Sebastian I know he was on Q102 but I would've love to hear him do Talk Radio if it was around like it is today with music/entertainment talk


6m 9pm

Bob Trumpy & Andy Furman Sports talk


9-12midnghit

Bill Cunningham before He went to right wing political talk, Prefer Friday night Sex talk with the fun ladies. Remember this in the 80's? Kenny from Norwood?

 

[partymarty]

Randy and Gardner was some of the best radio ever. And probably pulled from their backside. Priceless.

Alan Brownthing or King Richard afternoons. Joe Lomas overnight

Radio rock and roll heaven.

 

[microbob]

Randy and Gardner was some of the best radio ever. And probably pulled from their backside. Priceless.

Alan Brownthing or King Richard afternoons. Joe Lomas overnight

Radio rock and roll heaven.

Who can remember Alan Browning and his wife Sue producing Desperate and Dateless on Friday Nights? Classic Radio.

 

[partymarty]

Browning does not get the credit he deserves. He really was one of the first great modern radio talk hosts. Shame he did not join the jump to WLW. He might still be on as we post.

 

[microbob]

I agree. Alan Browning was also a great interviewer as well.

He was briefly on WHIO years ago after He left 55KRC when Great American/Taft was Bankrupt and lost most of their talent. I believe the story was that He decided to stay on 55KRC after signing a contract with WLW & Randy Michaels. That's how Bill Cunningham got his gig. Imagine if Alan had gone to WLW and Bill may have never been a talk show host.

 

[del_griffith]

Randy and Gardner was some of the best radio ever. And probably pulled from their backside. Priceless.

Alan Brownthing or King Richard afternoons. Joe Lomas overnight

Radio rock and roll heaven.

Agreed. Randy's long GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDD MMMMMMMMOOOOOORRRRRRNNNNNIIINNNNNNGGG at the beginning of every show.

 

[Lamont Lester]

I will take old 'SAI any time or day of the week, top that Radio Info.

My taste in radio leaned toward the old MOR stations at a time when I should have been enjoying the top 40s. I really liked the comedy that JFPO offered, the music and artist info that the Prof offered. I have great memories of being in the car listening to WLW on the way to and home from school.

That's not to say WSAI wasn't special too. For awhile, Dick Biondi on WSAI got me to pass up a daily visit to JFPO's Shady Corners on WLW. I struggled through the static to listen to Casey Petrowski. WSAI didn't carry well toward my Indiana home at night.

Did anything every come of that idea to put a WSAI memorial of some sort on top of Price Hill at the location of those old studios?

 

[Lamont Lester]

I don't remember Bob Martin or Joe Martelle, but I do remember 1973 with a similar line-up.

6-10 JFPO
10-3 Jockey Joe
3-7 Bob Beasley
7- Midnight Jim Labarbara
Overnights Nick Young

Year or two later Beasley and the Prof switched places.

IIRC, the switch was the end of September 1975. I always sensed that Beas wasn't happy about the change. It wasn't long until he left with a reason of buying a radio station in Michigan. I want to say that about six months later, Beasley showed up doing afternoons on the old WLQA. That didn't last long and Beas ended up on KRC. Talented guy. Quirky, self-deprecating sense of humor. I always liked the daily Sinatra song out of the 5pm NBC news.

 

[Lamont Lester]

Just playing fantasy radio here...wonder what could be done to tighten up the ship.

Enough of my thread jacking nostalgia...apologies to Imlivinontheair.

I don't know that I have a lineup per se. More just an idea of what a next step for the Big One might be.

Sorry but one more backtrack. When Michaels took over WLW in '83, he referenced it being time to teach Charles K. Murdock's old lady of an MOR format to dance. IMO, the irony that I perceive now is that the MOR format Randy bemoaned had been in place for only 15 years. Yet today's WLW still roughly follows a structure that Michaels put in place almost 30 years ago. Talk about old ladies needing to again learn to dance.

To me, the WLW of today is not dissimilar to Murdock's WLW. It's a format that served the station well, but who's time I'm afraid is soon to pass. Darryl all but said so the night of the election. The younger audience that WLW needs to begin to serve won't react well to the outrageous in-your-face belligerent "noise you can't ignore" tone that Randy set in the mid 1980s.

How do you get that younger audience to tune to an AM band they've never listened to? I don't hear it happening. And when they move WLW to FM (as I believe they will need to) they'll need a different approach. Perhaps the best comparison is the birth of rock radio on Cinti FM. It wasn't with the in-your-face boss jock sound we'd gotten used to on SAI or UBE. It was WEBN with a more laid back, more personal, more organic sound.

If I had better specifics, maybe I'd be the former WENS Indpls jock now in the News/Talk programming chair for CC. As it is, I'm just glad it's Darryl who has the battle of teaching that old lady to dance. I wish him well. I'm confident that he can do the job.

 

[microbob]

Enough of my thread jacking nostalgia...apologies to Imlivinontheair.


How do you get that younger audience to tune to an AM band they've never listened to? I don't hear it happening. And when they move WLW to FM (as I believe they will need to) they'll need a different approach. Perhaps the best comparison is the birth of rock radio on Cinti FM. It wasn't with the in-your-face boss jock sound we'd gotten used to on SAI or UBE. It was WEBN with a more laid back, more personal, more organic sound.

I've been saying that for awhile now. The AM Old Angry Guy format is not the future for talk radio. Like you, I don't envy those who make the decisions on programming as they are facing some tough decisions on how to make the format compelling to younger audiences. You have just about every topic discussed with the millions of pod casts as well. I'm not sure how you're going to beat that now or in the future.

 

[ToddyO]

WLW can still get the audience without going to FM. (What ever happened to diversity?) The approach of WLW could be softened a bit while reaching those 25-54's and without the fake calls/inciting by flaming issues and the other rhetoric. Rapline succeeding because it was intelligent, didn't dumb down the listening and was entertaining. Whenever I was around the station in the early 80's, the phonelines were jammed with real callers. Can it happen today? Yes, but it will take reinventing by promotion, production and creativity - something a computer can't give you.

The dream line-up:
Mid-5 Joe Lomas if not country, otherwise, Dale Sommers
6-10 JFPO and Jerry Thomas
10-2 Randy Michaels/Alan Gardner
2-6 Rich King
6-9 Trumpy
9-Mid Alan Browning/Cunningham and others

 

[alans613]

WLW was great in the 80s. I LOVED the music they played during the Reds liners around 1987. Also, Trumpy was great. I remember the old "Head First with Pete Rose & Bob Trumpy" pre-game show. Also, I even remember in June '98 when Willie "Fired" a few of the staff members, including Cathy Lare, who was co-hosting mornings with Jim "1-800-GOTJUNK" Scott.