New Orleans/Baton Rouge 12+ (Spring '05)

[catcountry]

Re: more thoughts..

> the one thing they really need to do is drop all the local
> crap except for afternoons..3-7..thats it. the rest of the
> time it should be espn. unless there is a game on. and
> speaking of games. why arent the astros on there? i dont
> like the astros but it seems logical as houston is only 4
> hours away. jbo has the saints. why dont they have the
> texans? ( i dont like them either)...?? they have the
> hornets and tulane but what else? i agree they need a new
> pd.
>

I guess the PD doesnt feel that they have enough interest in the stros here. Plus, you cant pic up the station at nite when most games are. It just wouldnt make sense. Then again, they do it with the Hornets. What local people would you keep on? I think they still need local programming in this town since it is a college town. Some of the local guys are good minus Jon Fine, Blake Andrews and Buddy Songy

 

[smashedcd]

Re: more thoughts..

> > the one thing they really need to do is drop all the local
>
> > crap except for afternoons..3-7..thats it. the rest of the
>
> > time it should be espn. unless there is a game on. and
> > speaking of games. why arent the astros on there? i dont
> > like the astros but it seems logical as houston is only 4
> > hours away. jbo has the saints. why dont they have the
> > texans? ( i dont like them either)...?? they have the
> > hornets and tulane but what else? i agree they need a new
> > pd.
> >
>
> I guess the PD doesnt feel that they have enough interest in
> the stros here. Plus, you cant pic up the station at nite
> when most games are. It just wouldnt make sense. Then again,
> they do it with the Hornets. What local people would you
> keep on? I think they still need local programming in this
> town since it is a college town. Some of the local guys are
> good minus Jon Fine, Blake Andrews and Buddy Songy

i havent actually heard anyone good enough to keep. the two guys you named may be ok but i havent heard them. songy and company made me turn them off after the major leage playoff fiasco last year. they played songy instead of the espn games...that was it! wwl pretty much has the local sports scene covered. plus i can pick up 1280..i personally dont care about high school..
>
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note to tvland...bring back wkrp!!!</P>

 

[RFLA]

> For the record, 93.7 flipped to Red at the end of April, but
> your point is well-taken. But I disagree with your
> statement that the X was no competition for Rock 93.7. A
> year ago, they were half a point away from Rock for no
> reason. And, the drop in 93.7's numbers is so sharp that it
> could only have begun before the format flip. Also, it can
> be argued that since 93.7 didn't force The X to change
> format, they failed to remove a big impediment to their
> future success.
>
> Yes, I like the X. They play great music. I prefer AAA but
> since we don't have that here, I'll take 104.9.
>


Rock 93.7 had a decline going but not the decline that ultimately showed up in the final book IMO (which is more casued by the "jacking" IMO of 93.7 a week after listeners were starting to settle in on the classic hits)... They have gone back for the most part to being a classic hits station (with the occasional weird placing) but I think what ever they built in early May got blown away and would take a few books to fix....

Rock toward the end didn't know what to do cause it seems in trying to save itself (plus having forces trying to kill you doesn't help)so it alienated listeners.... I would like to see it come back but that won't happen.

Yeah Rock never got the x to drop format cause they wouldn't go after the core audience of the X ..mainly the teens and twenties the x was catering to (most of the phones at the time for x were 16 YO kids)... and stay with a format that older listeners loved. The X actually shifted more alternative during that time so they did slighty adjust their playlist.. But since the flip, they have gone back to playing more mainstream and I've gone back to it being one of the stations I listen to.

RFLA