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Petty Complaints About 107.9 The Track

Keith Kidd said:
badstevie said:
My point is that if radio can't even get the very basics correct, like song title and artist, then that just adds to the feeling that radio is in decline.
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I'm totally with you on that. It's more than a feeling though, it's a symptom of radio actually declining. No doubt some of those songs were downloaded off of the net from a user with the title wrong and they didn't care to research it. The jocks probably aren't listening while the songs are playing either. Radio isn't what it used to be when it was actually hard to stump a DJ musically, and when being a jock was an art form and taken more seriously. Just a bunch of kids within those 'classic hits' formats with ambitious of doing something else far removed from radio.
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Ditto! and the people who KNOW what they're talking about are on the beach. WHY would anyone listen to this kind of insult?
 
It's hard to blame the people working there. Instead of 7 or 8 people in the programming department they're probably down to 2 or 3. That's a decision made by their higher ups.
It may be a matter of do it on the cheap or just turn it off.
 
Enjoy the good ones while you have them. Be good to them, even after they are already gone and have moved on to other things. You won't see the likes of them again.

BTW, love the Cass Elliott quote by Keith Kidd.
 
Cass Elliot was a beautiful lady. I wish she were still around making music. She was great as a solo artist and also one of the best female harmonizers to ever grace the music industry.

Looking at what is going on politically in this country, her quote below is more relevant today than it was when she said it.
 
bigtime said:
It's hard to blame the people working there. Instead of 7 or 8 people in the programming department they're probably down to 2 or 3. That's a decision made by their higher ups.
It may be a matter of do it on the cheap or just turn it off.
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Don't worry; these highers-up will soon be gone because the money will be gone. They have choked the Golden Goose and will move on as soon as the eggs stop coming. Then, new leaders -- people who want to do radio right -- will replace them.

The day is coming, sooner rather than later.
 
N_D_Radioguy said:
bigtime said:
It's hard to blame the people working there. Instead of 7 or 8 people in the programming department they're probably down to 2 or 3. That's a decision made by their higher ups.
It may be a matter of do it on the cheap or just turn it off.
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Don't worry; these highers-up will soon be gone because the money will be gone. They have choked the Golden Goose and will move on as soon as the eggs stop coming. Then, new leaders -- people who want to do radio right -- will replace them.

The day is coming, sooner rather than later.
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and just WHO are these people? the teenage board-ops making minimum wage?
 
cspotrun said:
and just WHO are these people? the teenage board-ops making minimum wage?
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When I was 17 working my first radio job, I thought I could rule the world.

Surely today's teenage board ops aren't that different?
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
cspotrun said:
and just WHO are these people? the teenage board-ops making minimum wage?
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When I was 17 working my first radio job, I thought I could rule the world.

Surely today's teenage board ops aren't that different?
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the difference is there is NO world for them to rule.
 
Having heard 107.9 The Track's robotic sounding title announcements & figuring it was a way of eliminating a jock/saving money, imagine my surprise when I heard the same robotic presentation on WBEB 101.1/Philly. That station is a legend & currently is perched at the #1 spot with a 7.2 share 12+. And it's owned by an independent operator with 1 station in the market.
 
The first station I know of that did this was a new AC station last fall in Philly. It was 97.3 I think. Forget the calls.

WBEB picked it up pretty soon afterwards.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
Having heard 107.9 The Track's robotic sounding title announcements & figuring it was a way of eliminating a jock/saving money, imagine my surprise when I heard the same robotic presentation on WBEB 101.1/Philly. That station is a legend & currently is perched at the #1 spot with a 7.2 share 12+. And it's owned by an independent operator with 1 station in the market.
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they won't be #1 for long with crap like that.
 
Is there some kind of research that says that listeners prefer, and will only accept the "robotic female voice that sounds like she's coming through a phone line" to do song tagging? Did anyone do any callout on that? Because every market and every station I've ever heard it on has the same auto-voice (even two in a market with different owners, in Cleveland both Salem's Fish on 95.5 and CC's Mix 106.5. Here in Dayton, our very conservative Christian WFCJ, which runs talk/teaching with some blocks of light CCM/light Praise and Worship is doing it now with the same auto-voice, and I think since they draw an older audience that would drive folks batty. At least when Drake-Chenault and TM were announcing songs on automation reels, it sounded hi\uma. Can someone in the know explain?
 
gr8oldies said:
Is there some kind of research that says that listeners prefer, and will only accept the "robotic female voice that sounds like she's coming through a phone line" to do song tagging? Did anyone do any callout on that? Because every market and every station I've ever heard it on has the same auto-voice (even two in a market with different owners, in Cleveland both Salem's Fish on 95.5 and CC's Mix 106.5. Here in Dayton, our very conservative Christian WFCJ, which runs talk/teaching with some blocks of light CCM/light Praise and Worship is doing it now with the same auto-voice, and I think since they draw an older audience that would drive folks batty. At least when Drake-Chenault and TM were announcing songs on automation reels, it sounded hi\uma. Can someone in the know explain?
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The difference is that way back when it WAS a human doing the back announce. The artists were not mis-pronounced, and most of the stations were automated 24/7. What is strange, the robot is on, even during live shifts. Who was the genius who OK'd that!!
 
It certainly was a human doing the back announce on the old reels. But again, why the same robot voice all over the country no matter what the format (even soft religious music)? I don't get it! Someone explain, please! Surely thousands of dollars went into thoroughly researching this!
 
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