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NW Georgia FM dubbed the worst station in America

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It's not that often that you hear a morning drive show with such exciting programming... like this live interview promoting canned vegetables.

See what I'm talking about: http://youtu.be/jUlbb14s518

The programming geniuses at this station are to be commended.
 
This could be required some of the required public programming to keep the FCC happy.. Or some kind of infomercial. I have put on some preachers that always had to pay before going on the air. Such things happen in small market radio. I have had the wrong song start too. Who was it that "changed" all the cart labels as a prank?
 
This sounds like a certain well known operator in East Tennessee. Who sometimes has these infomercials of a morning on occasion. Nothing says, fifth rate small market radio like this station does.
 
I am not a part of this station or have any financial interest. But how can this be a "fifth rate operation"? They have a live and local morning show even on Saturday morning. I wish I had a $100 bill for every station that syndicates or gets their morning show from a satellite. I could easily buy a good station in a sub 100 market. If you really want to bad programming watch cable between 1 AM and 5 AM. One night (morning) the same infomercial (Girls Gone Wild*) was on 5 channels in a row! Discovery often has infomercials until 9AM.

* I sorry to offend anyone or sound like I am a censor, but I question whether this (GGW) should be shown over basic cable channels.
 
Having worked at a little station like this myself, this is the quandary you find yourself in. You're not going to get to spank strippers and hold a farting contest in Summerville, Georgia. The station owners will be afraid of scaring away their last three mom n' pop shop advertisers, plus the citizens of a ultra-conservative little country town won't be amused. So you're down to talking to someone about canned vegetables for half an hour. And now that you've got that jewel of an interview on tape, you have a demo to send around that will get you absolutely nowhere.

I don't know about today, but back in 1998, nothing got a small town audience going like a solemn reading of the local funeral announcements, followed by the Tell n' Sell swap shop segment. The phone lines lit up like you were Neal Boortz!
 
By the way, I once conducted a similar interview with a representative of Spam about the 50th anniversary of their product. I got three or four Spam t-shirts out of the deal that I still wear. So if this guy got a couple of cans of canned peaches for his time, who laughs last, huh?!
 
I was going to ignore this one and let it pass. But, it seems there is no pleasing you guys on this board. You complain endlessly of the radio in a major market. Why can't Atlanta be more like small market radio? Then you blow up a small station and say they are the worst in America! MAKE UP YOUR MINDS! If they are meeting payroll and have LIVE AND LOCAL, they are successful! You guys might try SUPPORTING a station once in a while.
 
Good point, John.
Any and everyone who has been on air in a small market radio has done their own version of the "canned vegetable show."
I just thank Gawd no one has ever posted any of my on air work on Youtube!!
 
Oh, the irony...

You're talking about WATG/95.7,. right?

Is this the little station that's blocking big-time WSB/95.5 from moving closer to Atlanta? :D

Also, is this a station that carries a format that people on this board having been screaming about? (Classic Rock - deep cuts) :eek:

THIS is funny; I love it!
 
JohnAllan said:
I was going to ignore this one and let it pass. But, it seems there is no pleasing you guys on this board. You complain endlessly of the radio in a major market. Why can't Atlanta be more like small market radio? Then you blow up a small station and say they are the worst in America! MAKE UP YOUR MINDS! If they are meeting payroll and have LIVE AND LOCAL, they are successful! You guys might try SUPPORTING a station once in a while.
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John, you took the words right out of my mou...... no, make that: Out of my fingertips!!!

The fans of radio seem to be singing from a hymn book entitled: Damned if you DO, damned if you DON'T. We don't care what you program... we're going to give it thumbs down.

I need to make a trip up there sometime soon. We spent some time in those hills tracking down family from 150 years ago and we've got one elusive rascal we can't find. My current theory is they buried him over in Alabama in a cemetery that was where Weiss Reservoir is now. Anywhere you go in rural Georgia you are going to find a significant number of potential listeners whose ears are tuned a bit differently than what folklore tells us nationally that listeners want. Rural Northwest Georgia would certainly be a place to use creativity in making radio LOCAL.

Radio-Info posters are a tough crowd to please! ;D
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
Radio-Info posters are a tough crowd to please! ;D
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Good grief, Charlie Brown, I'll say that's true! I've never seen such a fuss over something minor, trivial, and inoffensive as this. This one takes the cake for making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, folks.
 
Mike Stroud said:
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
Radio-Info posters are a tough crowd to please! ;D
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Good grief, Charlie Brown, I'll say that's true! I've never seen such a fuss over something minor, trivial, and inoffensive as this. This one takes the cake for making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill, folks.
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I agree, everybody in radio has hit the wrong button before, and he quickly corrected it and apologized and laughed about it. I wish we had this format here in the big ATL.....As you all know. Honestly there is nothing on the local dial that is even remotely worth listening to. Not going to repeat this again. I just do not listen to local radio at all any longer.
 
BRENT said:
Honestly there is nothing on the local dial that is even remotely worth listening to. Not going to repeat this again. I just do not listen to local radio at all any longer.
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If you don't listen, how do you know there's nothing worth listening to?
 
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