OLDIES ON WDJZ-1530AM

[musicgal]

It is a real darn shame. This could be a great R&B Oldies station if only formatted as a music station and not a religious one. They could probably then make money.

 

[MarcB]

It is a real darn shame. This could be a great R&B Oldies station if only formatted as a music station and not a religious one. They could probably then make money.

Funny you should mention that. While not the same as what you're talking about when current ownership first took over WDJZ they played all Caribbean Music - Reggae, etc. Then they gradually phased that out and went to their current paid for program business model.

 

[JPB ENT]

You sure you don't mean 1550 AM? ? ?

 

[WPHA]

Listenership is irrelevant. Dollar-a-holler works because there are miracle cure hucksters and salvation peddlers and other subspecies out there who'll pay for airtime on the off chance that some similar lower lifeform may tune across the signal and part with his or her money. The radio station needs only an owner, a salesperson, a billing department and a couple of engineers. I would think it's hard to fail if you succeed in selling all your airtime.

That's correct. For a bona fide "Dollar-a-Hollar" operation, listenership IS IRRELEVANT! All revenue is generated by the program providers. If it's a church, then their attending congregations usually support it. They are probably the bulk of the show's actual listenership, too. Different program comes on, a different audience tunes-in, the others tune out.

When the preacher is bellowing at the top of his lungs, with the microphone halfway down his esophagus, and the gain turned all the way up to where the meter never leaves the peg... how can anyone listen to that?? I suppose the congregation does, because it's their pastor? Who knows.

At WFIF, we had HIGH STANDARDS for audio quality AND CONTENT. I was heavily involved in that aspect of the operation for many years. It continues to be a Class Act. Blount Communications is one of the BEST operations around. Bill Blount CARES about FCC compliance. I was heavily involved in THAT, too, at WFIF.

 

[MarcB]

When the preacher is bellowing at the top of his lungs, with the microphone halfway down his esophagus, and the gain turned all the way up to where the meter never leaves the peg... how can anyone listen to that?? I suppose the congregation does, because it's their pastor? Who knows.

Willie, just like the preachers on Public Access TV.

Don't you love when they're screaming into the microphone? On that note a story - One summer evening a couple years ago a buddy and I were driving around Southington. This buddy of mine knew I used to work intern at WXCT 990. He said to me "What's 990 doing these days?" I told him religious programming in Spanish and reached over and punched up 990 on the car radio. On 990 was a female pastor screaming into the microphone at the top of her lungs in Spanish. Every few minutes my buddy and I would burst out laughing and one of us would make a comment "Calm down lady before you give yourself a heart attack." We listened to this for a good 20 minutes before we said "Enough is Enough."

Another story. One night WRYM 840 didn't power down and I caught a Spanish language religious program on after Midnite. It was one of the few times I was actually creeped out and almost frightened by what was on the radio. There was a very loud speaking Spanish preacher on the air and in the background was a sound effect of someone crying.

 

[musicgal]

Marc and Willie,
Maybe they could move the preachers to one weekend day and play R&B Oldies for the remainder of the week. The "screaming" preachers are actually scaring the audience!