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busyradioguy
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Dan Dennis said:
Citadel should stay out of it and let Ron do his thing. It would be a mistake otherwise.
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Citadel should stay out of it and let Ron do his thing. It would be a mistake otherwise.
Good luck to those involved. I punched it up during my 5 minute commute from home to the DART park and ride in my suburb. Heard traffic, then cold into "Morning Has Broken." And I also heard a fair amount of the usual early morning summer tropo interference that plagues every rim shot north of DFW.
Since DFW isn't a "legacy" market like those in the northeast or upper midwest, Chapman lending his name to this concept doesn't mean a thing to the 99.99% of the great unwashed. What will mean something is if the station can evolve beyond an Ipod hooked to a transmitter. Most new takes on formats seem to be just that today.
800 or 1200 songs will burn after 3 months, what they do between the tunes is the key to their success.
The bean counters won't let them limit stop sets (remember 8-10 minutes an hour of spots, and everyone made money?). They've only announced 6AM to 7 PM weekday air talent so that leads me to believe Otto Mation will be handling some pretty lengthy airshifts. I love clever liners as much as anyone one but after awhile they become a beating.
It's the content. I'm not that hard to please, just give a reason to listen besides the tunes. Let's wish 'em the best and take a look how far they've come right after Labor Day. Let's hope there's more there than just an Ipod and a transmitter, a windmill and an armadillo.
Since DFW isn't a "legacy" market like those in the northeast or upper midwest, Chapman lending his name to this concept doesn't mean a thing to the 99.99% of the great unwashed. What will mean something is if the station can evolve beyond an Ipod hooked to a transmitter. Most new takes on formats seem to be just that today.
800 or 1200 songs will burn after 3 months, what they do between the tunes is the key to their success.
The bean counters won't let them limit stop sets (remember 8-10 minutes an hour of spots, and everyone made money?). They've only announced 6AM to 7 PM weekday air talent so that leads me to believe Otto Mation will be handling some pretty lengthy airshifts. I love clever liners as much as anyone one but after awhile they become a beating.
It's the content. I'm not that hard to please, just give a reason to listen besides the tunes. Let's wish 'em the best and take a look how far they've come right after Labor Day. Let's hope there's more there than just an Ipod and a transmitter, a windmill and an armadillo.
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EbolaMonkey
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I heard Walk The Line earlier. Has Ron Chapman ever programmed Cash before?
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AndyWaldrop
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EbolaMonkey said:
"I Walk The Line" by Johnny Cash was a "crossover" song. It peaked at #17 on the "popular" music chart (Billboard), it went to #1 and stayed there for 6 weeks on the "country" chart (Billboard). It is a perfect song for this format...as is the song that is playing as I type this, "The Most Beautiful Girl," by Charlie Rich.
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EbolaMonkey
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I don't disagree that it works on the station, especially after the movie a few years back. I'm wondering if Chapman ever spun Cash on KVIL.
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rbrucecarter5
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317C50KW said:
A lot of that is not tropo, it is self jamming from IBOC. Tropo was low this morning. Just about every station takes a coverage hit because of IBOC self-jamming - a little understood and controversial phenomenon. A lot of iBiquity cheerleaders are in complete denial about it - and vigorously argue, but we outdated DX'ers are the first to notice signal problems. KLUV lost 20 miles to the south, but they don't care about Buffalo, Teague, and Centerville. But KTYS cannot afford to lose 20 miles to IBOC, because that translates to 20 miles lost in the metroplex on marginal clock radio type receivers. They should can the IBOC immediately and go for every bit of analog coverage they can get!
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AndyWaldrop
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EbolaMonkey said:
EbolaMonkey,
I apologize. Looking back at my post I can see how someone might think that I was being a smart-a$$.
I'd be willing to bet Chapman played a number of Johnny Cash records, especially in the Big KLIF days.
This sounds a lot like the ''Solid Gold'' reel-to-reel format that Drake Chenault was syndicating back in the 1980s. It was soft gold like this.
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anne flo
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Good to hear Valier Smith do the imaging with Ron! She and Ron and Larry WERE KVIL! Nice to hear her again. I don't know if she'd be up for bringing back her Love Songs show, but it was always fun to listen to back in the day.....
317C50KW said:
''And the parade of hits continues!''
Okay. Maybe it sounds more like Hit Parade than Solid Gold. But it is very Deja Vu. I can almost hear those 10-inch decks tripping each other in sequence.
GMT is Good Morning Texas. A local show WFAA 8 doeserwin33 said:
heres the link http://www.wfaa.com/video/gmtgeneral-index.html?nvid=259030&shu=1
and heres the new website
http://www.platinum967.com
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welcome2reality
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Amazed at the lack of criticism of this format launch on this board. It shows what a bunch of syncophants many of you regulars are.
If Ron were truly in control, NONE of what was heard today would have happened...especially the part where he appeared on TV announcing the streaming website. It didn't exist for at least four hours after he announced it. That NEVER would have happened with Ron in control, and I'm sure that if and when he found out, he was furious.
This product was not ready for prime time, and still isn't. In a 25-54 world and a soft economy, this station is built for the same people that listened to it ten years ago. That's a problem, since they've all aged out of the demo since then.
If anyone but Chapman had launched this, you'd be tearing it apart.
The music, the delivery, the production values (and severe lack thereof) are amazing. NONE of the hallmarks of KVIL exist on 96-7 except the names of Larry & Gail. And they sounded as disinterested as I've ever heard anyone sound on the radio.
My suspicion: Ron is swallowing hard on behalf of his friend Farid. But he's devastated by this product that has his name attached, and NONE of his flair, creativity, delivery. I'm sure that had much to do with the delays in launching. A bit of infighting between 2008 local management and Ron's perceived corporate blank check from Farid to do it right.
Ron: Welcome to radio in the new millenium. You left at the right time, and it's a shame you would allow your first-class image to be marred in this way. The way Farid treated you as an asset in the old days has nothing to do with how he does (or ever has) run his business. You were too busy being flattered to notice how he has always treated almost everyone else.
Not a has been here. Very gainfully employed and sincerely sorry that you were suckered.
If Ron were truly in control, NONE of what was heard today would have happened...especially the part where he appeared on TV announcing the streaming website. It didn't exist for at least four hours after he announced it. That NEVER would have happened with Ron in control, and I'm sure that if and when he found out, he was furious.
This product was not ready for prime time, and still isn't. In a 25-54 world and a soft economy, this station is built for the same people that listened to it ten years ago. That's a problem, since they've all aged out of the demo since then.
If anyone but Chapman had launched this, you'd be tearing it apart.
The music, the delivery, the production values (and severe lack thereof) are amazing. NONE of the hallmarks of KVIL exist on 96-7 except the names of Larry & Gail. And they sounded as disinterested as I've ever heard anyone sound on the radio.
My suspicion: Ron is swallowing hard on behalf of his friend Farid. But he's devastated by this product that has his name attached, and NONE of his flair, creativity, delivery. I'm sure that had much to do with the delays in launching. A bit of infighting between 2008 local management and Ron's perceived corporate blank check from Farid to do it right.
Ron: Welcome to radio in the new millenium. You left at the right time, and it's a shame you would allow your first-class image to be marred in this way. The way Farid treated you as an asset in the old days has nothing to do with how he does (or ever has) run his business. You were too busy being flattered to notice how he has always treated almost everyone else.
Not a has been here. Very gainfully employed and sincerely sorry that you were suckered.
The music, the delivery, the production values (and severe lack thereof) are amazing. NONE of the hallmarks of KVIL exist on 96-7 except the names of Larry & Gail. And they sounded as disinterested as I've ever heard anyone sound on the radio.
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Well said. Someone is bound to chime in with "we can't do that kind of radio anymore." If so, then that Heller jingle that KVIL used to play proudly (you know the one) has become self-fulfilling prophecy.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, let's look at it again after Labor Day.
And please, if there is a radio god....don't wall to wall me at Christmas!
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Well said. Someone is bound to chime in with "we can't do that kind of radio anymore." If so, then that Heller jingle that KVIL used to play proudly (you know the one) has become self-fulfilling prophecy.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, let's look at it again after Labor Day.
And please, if there is a radio god....don't wall to wall me at Christmas!
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