suggested new year's resolutions

[indieradioguy]

For KBAQ - promote more stuff on KJZZ so we still know you're there
For KJZZ - dump the jazz and play more blues
For KTAR - go back to "the source," as Dumb & Dumber call it, more often, since you are still a "talk radio" station
For KDKB - bring back Zelisko's show
For KOOL - more Bowie
For KSLX - less Doors
For EVA - don't stop being 80's-era KZZP
For 103.9 - flip to EDM (doubt the PPM's could get any worse)

 

[EricStein]

For KDUS: Upgrade your sports radio network to CBS if 103.9 doesn't beat you to the punch. Quit wasting opportunities. YSR and the brokered shows can always go to 1340 when they move to A.J.

 

[landtuna]

For KEZ-HD2 - Keep what you're doing!

 

[KeithE4]

For KDUS: Upgrade your sports radio network to CBS if 103.9 doesn't beat you to the punch. Quit wasting opportunities. YSR and the brokered shows can always go to 1340 when they move to A.J.

Or be moved to the Lumberyard.

 

[MC]

Barry Young - only miss one day a week
Jim Sharpe - go one week without referencing a "secret source" of information that he can not reveal

 

[Legend City]

Mike Broomhead, tell the listeners that you did Glen Beck's show only once per hour...

 

[DrAkbar]

Mac & Gaydos: Insist Tim & Willy do your show when you're gone so we can hear how it really should be done.

Dr Akbar 'n Nurse Jeff: Never, EVER, try making a gremturducken* again.



* a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey stuffed into the back seat of a Gremlin

 

[azenergyfan]

92.3 - Tim and Willy for either am or pm drive
95.1 - Turn this into Energy 95 FM with a touch of latin to the pop/dance
95.5 - Finally put KFYI on this signal. I am not a listener of KFYI but Eva has got to go
96.9 - Something needs to be done but I am at a loss for what. Just seems this station is not "exciting"
1039 - I think they should do a classic alternative format w/ sprinkles of new alternative as in "KUKQ Nights" and see how it goes

 

[Billkex]

KOOL: Play less Michael Jackson music and 80s stuff. Go back to more of the real oldies.
KTAR: Give Mac & gaydos their much deserved walking papers so they can both go find real jobs.
KFYI: replace the always absent Barry Young with Jim Sharp (he deserves a better time slot)
KSLX: Stop playing "Men at Work" songs, they are NOT classic rock.
KOY: Stop playing the smooth jazz format. No one wants to listen to that on the AM band, it sounds awful.

 

[landtuna]

KOOL - go back to the jocks and music that made you great.
KOY - get back on a good AM signal or move to FM.
KEZ-HD2 - don't change a thing.

 

[Ford]

For stalwart radio info posters:

Realize that 2013 will not be "the year Dance came back as a format."

Accept that KTAR doesn't care if you don't call anymore.

Come to grips with the fact that KOOL is actually still playing "oldies," since 1983 was 30 years ago now.

Stop clinging to the notion that "alternative" on a rim shot will be able to compete with the full strength signals.

Don't, in any circumstances, think Clear Channel will do anything with their stations that isn't cheap, safe, and vanilla.


And finally, tip your fez to the Middle Eastern Men of the Media and everyone else here who makes being a dedicated fan of increasingly unreachable radio goals entertaining to read. Happy New Year, folks.

 

[landtuna]

Come to grips with the fact that "oldies" are not determined by dates on a calendar.

 

[Ford]

Come to grips with the fact that "oldies" are not determined by dates on a calendar.

I used to think that "oldies" were only 50s and 60s Top 40 hits. When KOOL started in on the 70s hits, I thought it was terrible.

Then I realized that the reason I thought it was terrible is because the music I listened to growing up was officially old. Now, the music I played as a young radio jock is old. That Huey Lewis record I played as a current in '83 is every bit as much an "oldie" as an Elvis record was when I was that young radio jock.

The fact of the matter is that for the people at the lower end of the 25-54 demo, 80s songs ARE oldies.

 

[landtuna]

The fact of the matter is that for the people at the lower end of the 25-54 demo, 80s songs ARE oldies.

Oldies are the first and second generation of pop/rock which didn't go very far into the 80's.

Video did indeed kill the radio star (and the music).

 

[99KTKT]

Come to grips with the fact that "oldies" are not determined by dates on a calendar.

How true! So let's start hearing '90s oldies, KOOL! And dump those tired late'60s/early'70s songs while you're at it. ;D

 

[DJ_Perry]

I think Tucson's K Hits 107.5 is a bit better. They do include some 80s, but they also play the full version of Light My Fire. That 7" edit on KOOL is embarrassing

 

[Billkex]

Come to grips with the fact that "oldies" are not determined by dates on a calendar.

How true! So let's start hearing '90s oldies, KOOL! And dump those tired late'60s/early'70s songs while you're at it. ;D

Maybe that's why KOOL's ratings are dropping?
People don't want to hear the 80s stuff, they can listen to 98.7 96.9 or 99.9 for that.
Go back to what they were known for.... the early rock & roll.