Rick has internet again

[Rick Rose 2.0]

I had to be away from the internet for 3 months and wanted to comment on the changes on Atlanta radio.

I happened to catch the change at 1160 and glad to know that Phil Hendrie is on our radio again because I missed Phil Hendrie by not having internet. I have to wait for high speed again to do any internet listening of any station or programming on the computer.

I heard that WGST got the weather channel back from WGKA and Salem went Accu-weather. Outside of Rush, Beck and Coast to Coast..WGKA is better than GST.

I started seeing the Steve and Vikki spots on TV but I guess b98.5 can not mention the new morning team until later on its air or web site.

I read the Fish finally broke into the top 10 in 25-54 and that it billed around 10 million last year. I was suprised to see that they finally did a major revamp to their site and it looks great. I see that PM Driver Dan Ratcliffe is on a 4 day work week with middayer Parks covering the Friday drive home and PD Mike Blakemore covering her shift on Friday. It looks like they locked the part-timers into shifts so the on-air current jock picture pops up the web site.

I am suprised to read that Steve Harvey on 102.5 was tied with Tom Joyner on 104.1 in the latest ratings. Pretty interesting that Cox's top 5 rated 100kw Kiss has real competition from the Radio one's 3kw Grown Folks Radio.

I still find it hard to believe that I don't hear country on 106.7 because I was here for the launch in the mid 80s but the signal loses me now.

After spending the last 5 years on my own I had to move back home while I lived just off of 285 on the northside for that time but now I am back in Stockbridge. I was scanning the dial and catch J's 100.1 translator and WMVV's 107.1 translator along with some coverage of Macon radio again. I will be able to sample radio towards Macon again.

Overall there was no major format changes in town but its nice to finally have the world wide web again.


I could not fiqure out my password so I had to re sign in to radio-info so Rick Rose is now Rick Rose 2.0

 

[X-14]

This is so odd because a few days ago I was thinking "Hmmmm.... haven't seen or heard from Rick Rose here in quite a while" and here you are! Rick, I've always enjoyed your unbiased, non-confrontational and highly intelligent observations on this board over the years. Welcome back. And while I won't reveal my identity here, you've even commented on one of my airshifts in the past which I very much appreciated.

Good to see you back on the boards!

 

[amlover]

I'm glad Phil Hendrie is back on Atlanta radio too but 1160 only carries two hours and that's just not enough. Plus afternoon sky wave beats on 1160 so bad here in Gwinnett it almost impossibe to hear it clearly. It would be nice for them to rerun the entire show at least on the weekends before the sun starts going down and NOT replay Dr. Laura. Her time has come and gone! Hopefully Phil will re-surface on xm satellite where I use to listen.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I see that PM Driver Dan Ratcliffe is on a 4 day work week with middayer Parks covering the Friday drive home and PD Mike Blakemore covering her shift on Friday.

Rick, what do you think is the reason for this unusual scheduling?

 

[SuperFan1329]

I see that PM Driver Dan Ratcliffe is on a 4 day work week with middayer Parks covering the Friday drive home and PD Mike Blakemore covering her shift on Friday.

Rick, what do you think is the reason for this unusual scheduling?

I'm pretty sure that schedule was just for this past week. They update the schedule every week on the Fish website. The website is updated Sunday evenings, so we should know if this is for reals real soon. If so, that is very odd.