> > Comments from the Peanut Gallery?
>
> What kind of comment were you expecting? Stations are
> hiring for part-time shifts quite often. This is routine.
> In fact this is about the third such ad that I've seen for
> The Wolf this year.
>
I know it's routine. I was just waiting to see what the Wolf bashers on this board had to say. You can't take away the fact they've gotten better numbers
since John Sebastian took over. Sure, who wouldn't like to work part-time in Nashville? But when the jocks only talk on an average of three times an hour, where's the motivation? The station sounds boring on the air. Would you want to work there to hone your craft, or just to have something on your resume? Under John's guidelines, you're nothing more than a glorified liner club reader, and THAT'S IT! You can't be creative. That being said, I'm not trying to take away from their success. Congrats to John and the Wolf as they move onward and upward. He's doing something right.
What they're doing on air really doesn't qualify it for the title "the most unusual Country station in the nation." Back in the '70s thru the late 80's, Bristol Broadcasting's WKYQ in Paducah, KY mixed in one non-Country song an hour. It wasn't unusual to hear the Eagles, Creedence, Buddy Holly, the Everleys, Linda Rondstadt, Skynard(just "Sweet Home Alabama"), England Dan and John Ford Coley(waaaaaayyyy before Dan found great Country success in the '80s)
Elvis, Marshall Tucker Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, even Lobo("Me and You and a Dog named Boo"). The station was, and is today, a ratings giant. Even though you only hear mainstream Country on WKYQ nowadays, the station was going beyond it's boundries even before John did the same experiment with KZLA and now with the Wolf.
