Sunny Jingles

[Eor36]

I hate to start a new thread on Sunny but I couldn't find a good place to interject this.
Is it just me or does anyone else think they could have picked a better jingle package.
If they were just doing the 50's and 60's their current package would be ok, but some
of their segs from jingles to songs sound like complete and utter train wrecks.

 

[radio_connector]

If I may interject, they literally recieved the jingle package and put it on the air...I don't know if those transitions are right or wrong but I am certain they will work them out. Even though they have live DJ's they are still using many part-timers that don't pay attention to these things, they read a log and put it on the air. So I don't doubt that this is the case at all. Once they get their on-air staff in-tact and actually listen to some of these jingles more thoroughly I am certain it will get better...

 

[radiosanchez]

Is it just me or does anyone else think they could have picked a better jingle package.

better than Positron?? No way!!! That's an original 70s package man!! And it was JAM's best when they made it for 77 WABC.

btw: WAPE/690 in Jax used it as well.

 

[Whiplash]

Its a great jingle package. This stations only weakness, is its music flow.

The jingles and imaging are not the problem. And train wrecks can be easily taken care of.

Gotta get our of the let Selector do it mentality, and still add the human touch to every music log.

 

[Jimbo713]

It should take a miumum 3 hours a day to put together a day's music log - even when using Selector. That's a lot of time for weekend logs!

 

[MusicMan11]

I got an idea.....have live jocks and play what the listeners want to hear!!!!!!

never mind.

 

[cflmusiclover]

It should take a miumum 3 hours a day to put together a day's music log - even when using Selector. That's a lot of time for weekend logs!

any PD or MD who spends 3 hours per every day's music log either doesn't know Selector very well or is trying to justify their job.

 

[Jimbo713]

Selector doesn't do a good job rotating songs - through dayparts - through hours within dayparts - but even after manually placing songs correctly (it's all so cold), there's the artisitc quality.

 

[cflmusiclover]

Selector doesn't do a good job rotating songs - through dayparts - through hours within dayparts - but even after manually placing songs correctly (it's all so cold), there's the artisitc quality.

IF Selector is set up properly, it works just fine. Problem is, most programmers don't make the time to get it right, in regard to clocks, rules, song info, definitions & dayparts and so on. It's a very complex, deep scheduler and if it's done correctly (which isn't really all that daunting a task), it works great. As with all schedulers: garbage in, garbage out.

All that being said, if it takes you 3 hours per day's music log, either you don't really know what you're doing or trying to justify your job.

 

[radio_connector]

In today's radio environment it comes down to a PD being not just knowledgeable of Selector or how to use it but paying attention to their stations sound and the reaction by his listening audience. It's this attention to details that makes a PD great as opposed to unemployed. You can't put a time on any logs or what get's put on the air. Lazy PD's are unemployed PD's in most cases, however, not all unemployed PD's are lazy. The PD's I have met are incredibly detailed oriented and know exactly what the public thinks about their radio stations. Dillusional PD's don't work for long in this competative world - President Bush could never be a PD.That is why radio is constantly in flux, companies maneuvering for a better position.
It's a good point about Selector but there are many factors to a stations sound...

 

[Froggy]

I think the entire BRANDING stinks!

"It's always sunny at 105.9"

reminds me of when COOL tagged the weather....

"It's always COOL at 105.9"

Does it seem like their re-adjusting the format?I don't listen much

but what little I did hear yesterday-I didn't hear the 80's stuff.

 

[radio_connector]

Though that may be true, i know that Bobby made a huge error with O-rock and that was that they lost their identy after Stern left and no one knew what they were on that station. I beleive they will not make that same mistake...They are going to stick to their branding and not let that element of radio just get away from them, the way it got away from Orock. They tried to re-establish it "Orlando's Alternative" but it was too late. Just a note to close this Orock chapter once and for all and I really don't mean to throw dirt on any stations grave...but I think it's important to give a little perspective on the station. A 100,000 watt station with one of the best signals in the market - morning show was 15th in demo this last book. We can argue on the new format direction, jingles packages and branding but what I think we can agree on is that a new direction was necessary. Again, I don't want create an arguement on here but when your beating most 5,000 watt daytime AM's in this market by .2 there is more than enough reason to flip a station. I think most articles mention that the station was struggling rating's wise, what they don't mention is how bad it was...their TSL was 24th in some cases out of 28. I don't beleive Sunny can do any worse...
Also, they won't be voice tracking as much as an earlier post suggested. Maybe, overnights, and I say maybe because they haven't gotten rid of their overnight people at WJHM and Mix but the plan for now is to have a full on-air staff.