ToddyO said: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
JFPO was great. He taught me broadcast writing...and advised me to quit smoking.
How about we move Fingers to WEBN (since he is on the payroll) and have him fix that station?
Bob Berry, Wildman, where did all these guys go? They should be available.
Is Frank Wood in the building???
Jerry Galvin still in Cincinnati??? (Remember Plummet Mall??!)
Marty Thompson, paging Dr Thompson you are needed at the Big One to stop the hemorrhaging!
...Remember in this exercise you are the GM you can call in help from any era and combine staff for the best possible results. Payroll is not an issue.