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So... THIS is Raleigh! HUH.

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chadd

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New resident, Chadd Pierce, checking in.

Haven't heard much Ral. radio yet-- just got here

I've hooked up with prod-cution supercenter, Krash Creative Solutions (throw a dot com on the end there and you've got our site)

My former situation with Sacramento's KRXQ and KWOD ended last month and here I am just unpacking after a LOOONG roadtrip.

I've had some fun imaging for Q101 Chicago from afar for the past year... Whipped together some commercials, voiced some schtuff, make funny bits and cartoons on my site.

That's who I am.

So, what's to know in Raleigh? I'm 27, with wife, and looking for... actually, I'm not sure.

HELLO, NC! Thanks for having us.

Hit me up: [email protected]
 
Welcome to God's Country, Chadd. You will find a large number of broadcasters, and former broadcasters lurking here! Might want to visit Eastern North Carolina and Charlottee boards is addition to this one.
 
XTalker said:
Welcome to God's Country, Chadd. You will find a large number of broadcasters, and former broadcasters lurking here! Might want to visit Eastern North Carolina and Charlottee boards is addition to this one.
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Gracias, friend. I'll check 'em out. In the meanwhile, if you hear of anything a socially paranoid producer can meet people at...
 
Glad to have you on board. Welcome to "variety weatherland"!

Don
 
Welcome Chadd and Family ;D

With the exception of "Y-102.9" (and sometimes "100.7... The River"), Radio here is not very good.

My advice: Get XM Radio!!!!!!

One more thing. You will have to pick a Basketball Team. You basically have three choices...NCSU in Raleigh, UNC in Chapel Hill, and Duke in Durham ;D Once you pick this team, you will have to hate the other teams. If Duke wins a key game ;D you can celebrate on the Duke Campus. If UNC wins a key game :'( you can go to Franklin Street and watch the fans burn down the town. If UNC does not win a key game ;D you can watch Coach Williams whine and cry on TV! If NCSU wins a key game.....Wait, you do not have to worry about that!!

Enjoy,
Stuart
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
Welcome Chadd and Family ;D

With the exception of "Y-102.9" (and sometimes "100.7... The River"), Radio here is not very good.

My advice: Get XM Radio!!!!!!

One more thing. You will have to pick a Basketball Team. You basically have three choices...NCSU in Raleigh, UNC in Chapel Hill, and Duke in Durham ;D Once you pick this team, you will have to hate the other teams. If Duke wins a key game ;D you can celebrate on the Duke Campus. If UNC wins a key game :'( you can go to Franklin Street and watch the fans burn down the town. If UNC does not win a key game ;D you can watch Coach Williams whine and cry on TV! If NCSU wins a key game.....Wait, you do not have to worry about that!!

Enjoy,
Stuart
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so I guess State beating you Dookies in the ACC Tourney isn't a KEY GAME then... ::)

ouch...
 
Please don't forget Wake Forest - while basketball was a struggle this year, they did win the ACC Football Championship!!!

Forget XM .. you can live anywhere and hear that crap. Decide for yourself if there are any good radio stations in the region. In Raleigh, you can pick up dozens of stations that are not home to the metro. Who knows, you might find one you like.

Or one that needs your services!
 
If you need a Job 96Rock has nights/ APD open since JJ left for QDR just something to think about
Heres the opening:

APD-Evening Jock in Raleigh, NC
EVENING PERSONALITY/ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR

You are a prep machine. You are intensely committed to live and local radio. You are a team player that everyone on the staff admires and respects.

WBBB/96rock, Raleigh’s #1 rock station, has a rare opportunity for an evening air talent with additional Assistant Program Director responsibilities. The last person to hold this position has been promoted within the company. Our ideal candidate will sound incredibly natural on the air and will have a knack for identifying and delivering music, pop culture, and local interest stories. You’ll be a production wizard, highly creative and imaginative, and a great multi-tasker with superior organizational skills.

96rock is owned and operated by Curtis Media Group, the largest independent broadcaster in North Carolina. We offer a fiercely competitive environment that’s untainted by Wall Street insanity. We have but one goal: to be the absolute best in our market. Speaking of our market, you’d be hard pressed to find a better place to live than Raleigh, North Carolina.

Rush your aircheck, resume and salary requirements IN TOTAL CONFIDENCE to Jay Nachlis, 96rock Program Director, 3012 Highwoods Blvd., Ste. 200, Raleigh, NC 27604 or e-mail to [email protected].

96rock is proudly independent and an equal opportunity employer. Females and minorities are encouraged to applyut if your lookin for a radio gig
 
Chadd

I've heard your work. Extremely talented! Someone of your skill level, if turned loose on a 96rock or G105, would rock Raleigh hard!

Alas...no one wants "creative" imaging these days. All 10sec less bull[EDIT] Jocks who came up in the 80s with less talk more music are now PDs, VPs, SVPs, etc. They don't know creative.

CC SVP Marc Chase used to be creative. He lost his soul years ago.

Krash does great work. You and Krash are a great fit.

Raleigh is an awesome town. Growing but retaining that college town feel.

Best of luck.



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Ignore. Posts here are from 14 year old kids, radio wannabe's or has been guitar players. I just play the guitar. Raleigh is all that and a bag of tostitos....but I am a down easter.
 
yankees said:
Chadd,
you should go for that night/APD job at 96Rock
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Chadd's worked in Chicago. Nights on 96rock??? Seriously? He's SO over qualified it's not even funny! If he wants to give up his nights for $18k a year...cool. Methinks Chadd has better things to do, and makes more with freelance in his underwear.
 
Look, I wasn't just holding out for this one to fall in status in the boards so I could run in, reply, and get it back on top.

See, since I got here I've been having all kinds of login issues (anybody know if Macs are unkind to Radio-Info?), but finally got things settled by the admins: THANKS!

I really appreciate the welcomes. The more I see of this place the better.

Actually talked to J over at 96 Rock-- to shoot the shit. Cool guy, offered a weekend gig... maybe I'll just show up one of these days:) But if ya know the guy, put an imaging bug in his ear for me, will ya?

As for the Big Ral, I can appreciate the difference from my old West home. Our state motto here is Esse quam videri, meaning "to be, rather than to seem". Now, I'm sure you've met your share of "fake" people here-- but trust me: I've been there, bought the t-shirt, wore the t-shirt, left at some party, got it mailed back, used it as a dust rag, and sold it at a flea market for a $2 bill. This is nice.

Gimme a buzz/email/shout out any time, anyone.
 
96rock could use an imaging facelift. In fact, it's never been well imaged. Need creative writing that makes sense and can be done with the least amount of words.
 
I have to disagree Dood. Imaging and promotions on 96.1 are IMHO perfect for what their doing. Admit it was weak a few years back but everything about that station is better and my buds are all listening-some for the first time. I personally wonder if the morning show will work but otherwise have no complaints. I also hear they pay a lot better than some give them credit for but can't verify. If Chadd wants to work for good people who seem like they want to win and do it right, he should stay on the PD for a shot.
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
Welcome Chadd and Family ;D

With the exception of "Y-102.9" (and sometimes "100.7... The River"), Radio here is not very good.
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You missed a crazy year (in both Raleigh and Greensboro) that was highlighted by an unusually high number of radio format changes:

The craziness started in Greensboro last February when WGBT 94.5 The Beat went "94.5 El Beato" (Spanish) as 94.5 La Preciosa;

Then, in another crazy move by CC-G, heritage country station 105.7 WFMX moved from Statesville to Clemmons (near Winston-Salem) last July and became WMKS 105.7 Kiss-FM (with a quiet-storm format that most certainly doesn't sound like any Kiss station I'm familiar with!). The WFMX calls have since been snatched up by a station in Maine;

Next, in September, CC-Raleigh butchered its attempt at a mainstream AAA station on 100.7 The River, keeping the WRVA calls and the River name and logo but shifting the format to classic rock, leading to...

... a wild week at the beginning of October in which two stations in neighboring markets would flip to the same format in the same week. First, in Greensboro, Entercom's longtime oldies station WMQX Oldies 93 "died" and began stunting a robotic countdown leading to the new station, country-formatted "93.1 The Wolf" (and later changed its calls to the wolf-flavored WPAW). Two days after The Wolf's launch, CC-R butchered another heritage station, this one legendary classic-rocker WRDU. After an hour-long stunt featuring a clip from Alice in Chains' "Rooster," followed by rooster sounds and promos redirecting classic-rock listeners to 100.7 The "new" River looped over and over, WRDU returned to the air as--- you guessed it--- a country station named "106.1 The Rooster." Ironically, Raleigh's leading country station, 94.7 QDR, had similar beginnings in the '80s, flipping from rock to country at roughly the same time WRDU first hit the airwaves after "fading out" in Wilson and "coming back on the air" in Raleigh.

Meanwhile, in Greensboro, Davidson Broadcacsting, owners of Lexington-based WTHZ 94.1, killed two birds with one stone by flipping 94.1 from '80s-rock Hitz 94 to oldies as "Majic 94.1," thus offering a replacement oldies station for both the Triad (replacing Oldies 93) and Charlotte (replacing the late WWMG Magic 96.1 two years after it became WIBT 96.1 The Beat).

Back at the Smoketree ranch (CC-Raleigh's headquaters) came the final piece of the "total makeover" that would leave only G105 intact: the post-Christmas format change of the former WRSN "Sunny 93.9" to rhythmic AC as WKSL "93.9 Kiss FM," featuring the syndicated morning show "Wake Up With Whoopi." Rumors of this format change started back in August when they abruptly dumped Sunny's former morning-show host Madison Lane. Her former morning-show partner, Dave Kent, held the fort down in the mornings until the format change and is now the afternoon-drive guy on Kiss.

It's been quiet (as far as format changes are concerned, anyway) since Sunny became Kiss, but who knows what will come next...
 
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