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Predictions for Boom..

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1sttimecaller

-PD will last no more than 9 months as P, but stay on the air.

-Biz to Biz trivia will be played everyday.

-Brian and Joe will be the morning show sometime in 2010.

They are gonna party like it's 1988 over there.
 
Only prediction I have is I will give it at least one listen.
 
My prediction: John Madden, mornings!

"You, you've got your Collective Soul formation, here comes Pete Yorn with the blitz package, and BOOM!"
 
DToTheJ said:
My prediction: John Madden, mornings!

"You, you've got your Collective Soul formation, here comes Pete Yorn with the blitz package, and BOOM!"
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Is Frank Caliendo (the impressionist who does a better Madden than Madden himself) available? :D :D

That being said, B&J could likely surface on Boom! at some point. But salary is a big issue and could be the sticking point. Plus, I'm not confident at all that they would fit in with the format. Even though they are good guys and all-around class acts (and would be a great PR move for Boom! to make), it's not like they really fit in while at the NextGen Buzzard, for one.
 
"The Boom" is not "The Buzzard-The Next Generation". I think it will be more adult then that. Therefore, I think that Brian and Joe may work well.
 
AAA is less PPM friendly than Smooth Jazz in a lot of ways. Smooth Jazz will deliver strong African American TSL - which AAA does not in a market like Cleveland. This was a very odd change.
 
Radioresearcher said:
AAA is less PPM friendly than Smooth Jazz in a lot of ways. Smooth Jazz will deliver strong African American TSL - which AAA does not in a market like Cleveland. This was a very odd change.
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It was revenue-driven. WNWV was bleeding red ink for nearly a year, and got out-billed by Elyria-Lorain's Norwalk/Sandusky cluster (especially WKFM/96.1, a part-local, part-satellite country station).
 
Nathan Obral said:
Radioresearcher said:
AAA is less PPM friendly than Smooth Jazz in a lot of ways. Smooth Jazz will deliver strong African American TSL - which AAA does not in a market like Cleveland. This was a very odd change.
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It was revenue-driven. WNWV was bleeding red ink for nearly a year, and got out-billed by Elyria-Lorain's Norwalk/Sandusky cluster (especially WKFM/96.1, a part-local, part-satellite country station).
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It's going to get worse when this format delivers bad ratings. Not PPM friendly.
 
Nathan Obral said:
It was revenue-driven. WNWV was bleeding red ink for nearly a year, and got out-billed by Elyria-Lorain's Norwalk/Sandusky cluster (especially WKFM/96.1, a part-local, part-satellite country station).
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Sorry, Nate. As the Station Mgr for WKFM/WLKR, I can assure you that our cluster did not out-bill WNWV.

Life is good at K96 - but not THAT good!

Bill
 
While I wish the folks at the new 107.3 the best..to me, it's a weird trainwreck of mostly unfamiliar & bad music. Unfamiliar, bad. Hmmm. Maybe it's me.

Almost sounds like a 2010 version of late 60's counter-culture free form album rock. Maybe that's what they're going for.
 
I could say that lightly about unfamiliar... although there are many established artists like BNL, Sarah McLaughlin, Sheryl Crow, RCHP and Coldplay. But it's also unfamiliar in that they aren't reliant on the "clique" artists like Nirvana, Godsmack or Evanescence, nor are they playing any 80s heavy metal (very thankfully).

IMHO, perhaps they could add more 80s "new wave" acts like INXS, OMD, Psychedelic Furs, and The B-52s (plus maybe recreate the Sunday morning "Flashback Brunch" show that The End aired back in the day?)
 
IMHO, perhaps they could add more 80s "new wave" acts like INXS, OMD, Psychedelic Furs, and the B-52s.

Then it would sound a lot like how they started out WNCX [the old WGCL, G-98] before the owners ran out of money. I seem to remember it was a lot of New Wave/Dance acts when they first started [and where I think I heard the first long form version of "The Metro" by Berlin]. Gorman & Denny Sanders were involved in that endeavour also. I liked where they were going with that; too bad it never got the ratings, plus lousy ownership seems to have doomed it. It seems that lousy ownership seems to be the norm for it now that CBS owns it.
 
"I liked where they were going with that; too bad it never got the ratings"

From what I understand, the original owners of WNCX were underfunded, and ran out of money almost on day one. The original Gorman format, which was kind of a forerunner of the later Rock-CHR approach, was cut after literally 90 days because they couldn't afford payroll.
They blamed "poor ratings" (after three months!) on the move to save public face, but the real story is they were B.S. artists who didn't have the funding that they claimed. They quickly sold the station, sold their sole other station in Detroit, and went out of business.

Let's hope the owners of Boom allow more than 90 days for the station catch on.
 
Ownership is going to need a LOT more than 90 days. Seems like the owner or GM or someone just wants to hear their iPod on the air. Can't list successful stations playing bad, unfamiliar music. Isn't the unfamiliarity the catalyst for them dropping smooth jazz? Is this a frying pan into the fire situation?
 
HHH said:
"I liked where they were going with that; too bad it never got the ratings"

From what I understand, the original owners of WNCX were underfunded, and ran out of money almost on day one. The original Gorman format, which was kind of a forerunner of the later Rock-CHR approach, was cut after literally 90 days because they couldn't afford payroll.
They blamed "poor ratings" (after three months!) on the move to save public face, but the real story is they were B.S. artists who didn't have the funding that they claimed. They quickly sold the station, sold their sole other station in Detroit, and went out of business.

Let's hope the owners of Boom allow more than 90 days for the station catch on.
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Plus one of the three original owners of WNCX ended up suffering (and ultimately dying from) a brain tumor. Another owner actually left the Detroit station, of which he was a DJ. It was a true nightmare of an operation.
 
I predict that the owners are so clueless that they don't bother finding out if someone already owns the "BOOM" copyright. Then the owner of said copyright will force them to change their name and re-image the entire station.

..oh..that already happened.
 
unpwn said:
I predict that the owners are so clueless that they don't bother finding out if someone already owns the "BOOM" copyright. Then the owner of said copyright will force them to change their name and re-image the entire station.

..oh..that already happened.
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To be fair, CBS only owns the service mark for an HD-2 channel in California (which means that it didn't even exist at all). CBS doesn't own it in Ohio... what, you think CBS will put the Boom! name on 92.3? This isn't when Radio One and CC both had a "Kiss" station in Cleveland for over four months.

If anything, they would be better off imaging as "107-3 NWV" and be done with it. Obviously the Boom! name wasn't that important to fight over, even thought CBS' C&D didn't truthfully hold water.
 
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