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People don't want Imus on 105.9

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A web poll on trueoldies1059.com asks: Are you happy to have Imus back on the air in DC?

61% of the people voted no

I guess that's what he gets for insulting *our* women's basketball team last year.

I don't think Imus fits on an oldies format.
 
I did not get to vote in the survey but, I couldn't care less about the return of his show. Unfortunately, the honchos at Citedel don't care at all about what I want in a morning show. If they cared about what I wanted they would not have put that sorry old radio station together. I am no fan of smooth jazz either, but stale oldies? Give me a break! I do disagree with the notion that Imus is wrong for an oldies station. He's an old fart doing mornings on an old fart station. Seems like a match made in heaven to me.

What will be interesting to see is if the Old I man can do any better on a powerful FM signal than he did on scratchy am. My bet is nope. Any takers?
 
pbf1 said:
Real scientific survey, there. (not)
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Interesting how the other survey ("What do you think of the new format") doesn't have
"Don't Like It" option... so much for research!
 
lol, I noticed most of the comments are for bringing the smooth jazz format back. :D I want it back, not so much for the current so called smooth jazz they were playing, but to hear Al Santos Sunday Brunch, which was on the HD2 sub-channel.
 
Frankly, I'm happy the I-Man is on the station. And it gives the station the rare, live show, as opposed to the primarily voice-tracked True Oldies. And Imus definitely belongs in DC.
 
WTUX said:
Frankly, I'm happy the I-Man is on the station. And it gives the station the rare, live show, as opposed to the primarily voice-tracked True Oldies. And Imus definitely belongs in DC.
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I don't get what's so appealing about him. He's a shock jock like the rest. That's fine if they want to put him on, but I don't see why they took a station that did so well in ratings and had a loyal fan base and decided to flip it. I believe Citadel did the format in, with their selection of so called jazz songs, Timbaland and Fergie come to mind.

These corp radio bubble heads just don't get it. I don't care about "big" names (like Imus, Ryan Seacrest, Dave Koz, etc) hosting shows, if the content is crap, which is the state of radio right now. That's why people are flocking to the Internet, their iPods, and satellite radio and not HD radio. /Rant
 
JoshB said:
WTUX said:
Frankly, I'm happy the I-Man is on the station. And it gives the station the rare, live show, as opposed to the primarily voice-tracked True Oldies. And Imus definitely belongs in DC.
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I don't get what's so appealing about him. He's a shock jock like the rest. That's fine if they want to put him on, but I don't see why they took a station that did so well in ratings and had a loyal fan base and decided to flip it. I believe Citadel did the format in, with their selection of so called jazz songs, Timbaland and Fergie come to mind.
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So well? 13th place 12+, worse P25-54.

And Imus is NOT like all the rest, like him or not.
 
pbf1 said:
JoshB said:
WTUX said:
Frankly, I'm happy the I-Man is on the station. And it gives the station the rare, live show, as opposed to the primarily voice-tracked True Oldies. And Imus definitely belongs in DC.
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I don't get what's so appealing about him. He's a shock jock like the rest. That's fine if they want to put him on, but I don't see why they took a station that did so well in ratings and had a loyal fan base and decided to flip it. I believe Citadel did the format in, with their selection of so called jazz songs, Timbaland and Fergie come to mind.
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So well? 13th place 12+, worse P25-54.

And Imus is NOT like all the rest, like him or not.
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So they had one bad quarter, and one could argue that is because of the crap that Citadel decided to start playing, which had nothing to do with the format at all. I mean how is Timbaland's "Apologize" and Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" consider anywhere close to jazz? The summer ratings were excellent and previous books have been in the 3.0s and 4.0s in the 12+, so how is that bad? I could see if there ratings were low for several books or no one was showing up at the events, but that's simply not true for this area.

Okay, what's so different about Imus than what's currently out there now?
 
JoshB said:
So they had one bad quarter, and one could argue that is because of the crap that Citadel decided to start playing, which had nothing to do with the format at all. I mean how is Timbaland's "Apologize" and Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" consider anywhere close to jazz? The summer ratings were excellent and previous books have been in the 3.0s and 4.0s in the 12+, so how is that bad? I could see if there ratings were low for several books or no one was showing up at the events, but that's simply not true for this area.

Okay, what's so different about Imus than what's currently out there now?
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They have always had trouble cracking a four, and now they can't seem to crack a three. And look at P25-54; it's not any prettier (and it NEEDS to be, in that demo).

What's different about Imus?? OMG......sounds like you've never actually listened......
 
pbf1 said:
JoshB said:
So they had one bad quarter, and one could argue that is because of the crap that Citadel decided to start playing, which had nothing to do with the format at all. I mean how is Timbaland's "Apologize" and Fergie's "Big Girls Don't Cry" consider anywhere close to jazz? The summer ratings were excellent and previous books have been in the 3.0s and 4.0s in the 12+, so how is that bad? I could see if there ratings were low for several books or no one was showing up at the events, but that's simply not true for this area.

Okay, what's so different about Imus than what's currently out there now?
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They have always had trouble cracking a four, and now they can't seem to crack a three. And look at P25-54; it's not any prettier (and it NEEDS to be, in that demo).

What's different about Imus?? OMG......sounds like you've never actually listened......
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They can't seem to crack a three?, They've always been in the 3-4 range, this past fall is the first time they've been in the two's in the 12+ and before that they were at 4.2, so it's not like they had consistent bad ratings.

OMG, sounds like you don't have an answer.
 
^ So I guess we should just ignore the previous ratings, and look at one book fall book and a part one winter trend, okay... Like I said before, the ratings weren't that bad, and I believe a lot of it had to do with the content that was being played, not that the format wasn't profitable or popular in this market.
 
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