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The Atlanta Country stations.....

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taylorengineer

Are you as disappointed as I am about the current state of country radio in Atlanta?
We have several stations "competing." Two are owned by the company that invented "imagineering." One is owned by the largest broadcast concern in the world.
And this is the best we can come up with????
The Bull now has announcers. They are not DJ's, jocks, performers, communicators, or even interns that can talk schmack....they are just very plain, small market sounding radio announcers.Not one iota of sizzle....just generic, blah,blah,blah,Bull,blah,blah,blah......
For a company that brought us DisneyWorld, WKHX is not much better.
The trailer population is getting restless for some real country radio........
 
taylorengineer said:
Are you as disappointed as I am about the current state of country radio in Atlanta?
We have several stations "competing." Two are owned by the company that invented "imagineering." One is owned by the largest broadcast concern in the world.
And this is the best we can come up with????
The Bull now has announcers. They are not DJ's, jocks, performers, communicators, or even interns that can talk schmack....they are just very plain, small market sounding radio announcers.Not one iota of sizzle....just generic, blah,blah,blah,Bull,blah,blah,blah......
For a company that brought us DisneyWorld, WKHX is not much better.
The trailer population is getting restless for some real country radio........
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As of Monday, the mouse folk no longer own Kicks or Eagle. Citadel now owns them.
 
So Citadel is going to make this any better?
Walt is turning in his grave right now! The opportunities Disney had with this ocean front collection of stations is now lost.....the very people who helped develop the American imagination and creativity have simply "thrown in the towel" and given up.
There is a winter day in the season of discontent in the trailer parks. Dangerous men carry gallons of gas - trailers will burn, races will not be run, bass will not be caught, if real country music does not soon appear on Atlanta country radio.....
 
jal41 said:
taylorengineer said:
Are you as disappointed as I am about the current state of country radio in Atlanta?
We have several stations "competing." Two are owned by the company that invented "imagineering." One is owned by the largest broadcast concern in the world.
And this is the best we can come up with????
The Bull now has announcers. They are not DJ's, jocks, performers, communicators, or even interns that can talk schmack....they are just very plain, small market sounding radio announcers.Not one iota of sizzle....just generic, blah,blah,blah,Bull,blah,blah,blah......
For a company that brought us DisneyWorld, WKHX is not much better.
The trailer population is getting restless for some real country radio........
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As of Monday, the mouse folk no longer own Kicks or Eagle. Citadel now owns them.
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Not until mid-June.
 
Kicks: Good station. Had some morning show issues and they addressed them. Kudos.
Eagle: An absolute mess. This station is suffering through a major identity crisis.
I don't know what audience they're going after and I don't think they know either.
Bull: Similar issues but, since they're new, I'm willing to give them a little more time
before I make up my mind.
WNGC: Moby is painful to listen to. But outside of mornings, this is my favorite station
of the four. I especially enjoy listening to the two guys who are on afternoons.

Four Country pre-sets in my car. When I start hearing crap on one, I simply move on to the
next one. I'm happy.
 
They are not DJ's, jocks, performers, communicators, or even interns that can talk schmack....they are just very plain, small market sounding radio announcers.Not one iota of sizzle....just generic, blah,blah,blah,Bull,blah,blah,blah......


I take offense to the small market sounding comment. I jock in a "small" market in afternoon drive, on a country station. I air 7-10 topical phone calls a day, cut-edit- and play sound (today i used Bush's corespondence dinner speech), and do nothing that is "just generic, blah,blah,blah,Bull,blah,blah,blah......". In fact I believe if ATLANTA radio sounded more like my "small" market station you guys would have less to complain about.
 
The only person dissatified with Atlanta Country is an engineer it seems in this post. People who run stations, are talent at stations and can deliver a consistant top five country station in a heavy urban market, would disagree with his statements. I personally respect all market radio, maybe its engineers who have never ran a station, had to survive as talent at a station, nor earned their living selling one that dont.

I for one would never be so arrogant to sprew out what is written here about the challanges and skills that I dont possess. Maybe more people should have opinions on processing, tech personnel, budgets and managing engineering depts. You would not like someone second guessing what you intimately know and posting it when your experience and skills and ultimate accountability tell you differently in order to succeed. And that by the way is all our charge...get the job done, not to please people who have nothing vested and know less about your role.
 
The trailer parks are going to burn to the ground if you guys don't play better country radio.....the pink flamingos will be shot at dawn and all velvet Elvis paintings will be besmirched.
We're dang serious out here......
As for the engineers......they're all whining twits anyway. I'm not a real radio engineer....but when I get my G.E.D. I'd like to be. Maybe then I could work at your station and help you pick out country records and adjust the knobs and switches on yer broadcastin' station.
 
Hey, has someone hijacked Tom's profile, or has he been drinkin' the "crazy juice" again?

All I got's to say is, Tom, if you got some mo o dat crazy juice, den pass da Mason jar over!
 
My philosophy prof back in school used to call me "usquequaque adversus" which, roughly translated, means "always the opposite."
It is a good indication that the country stations are doing it exactly right if I don't like it. I do the opposite of what I think is right....it works around 95% of the time.( The other 5% is just pure statistical chance.)
But I do like country music.....And I know that country attracts a very desirable demo- it's not the "trailer park/white trash stereotype some folks(in agencies)think it is. Country music is, indeed, the "white man's blues".....I think that is why it has such universal appeal....and there is so much good country being cranked out by some really great performers.
I just wish that radio(not just country)was better.....just like television(which I cut off almost one year ago!) I think the talent "school"...small market radio, went out of the business of training new talent years ago....there is no place for the talented kid to learn his/her chops anymore. Most of radio today is over researched and generic......programmers are research scientists....not talent scouts with a sense for "showbiz." My choice of words could have been better- I apologize for framing this discussion with negativity. It is awfully easy to "armchair quarterback".....Teddy Roosevelt was right when he said"the credit belongs to those in the arena."
And to Countryboy....yes, many small market jocks are great! No offense intended to you guys/gals either. I hope you get your chance too!
 
Hell, I spent a few years in a slew of Small Market stations.. Then got my big break on Atl's airwaves... Whoooo Hoooo, I prefer small market radio to large.. Thank you very much. My first job at a now HISPANIC am station, WACX am 1600 was the greatest. We had all the makings of a real life WKRP. I so miss those days.. Hmmm,
yes...,,, Well now back to reality and counting more and more hair missing, and damn this beard is so grey now...... By the way, Taylor and I shared more than one day in that very control room, and I remember when his chops were being cut as far as turnin, dem dare knobs.... Great memories...
 
Clark2 said:
WNGC: Moby is painful to listen to. But outside of mornings, this is my favorite station of the four. I especially enjoy listening to the two guys who are on afternoons.
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Funny how we remember the people we don't like. ;D
 
Not a problem Taylor, everyone needs to vent, I withdraw my offense and say thank you. ;D
 
taylorengineer said:
I think the talent "school"...small market radio, went out of the business of training new talent years ago....there is no place for the talented kid to learn his/her chops anymore. Most of radio today is over researched and generic......programmers are research scientists....not talent scouts with a sense for "showbiz." My choice of words could have been better- I apologize for framing this discussion with negativity. It is awfully easy to "armchair quarterback".....Teddy Roosevelt was right when he said"the credit belongs to those in the arena."
And to Countryboy....yes, many small market jocks are great! No offense intended to you guys/gals either. I hope you get your chance too!
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Hey, I said basically the same thing on another thread (I think it was the 99X ads thread), but not so articulated, Taylor, so your choice of words are just right there. It was hard enough to get into the biz, but just that much harder when all of the jobs are replaced by a computer that just plays songs or has a higher-market jock VTing.

And, the state of the business has just about every area of it riddled with negativity. So, as Countryboy said, vent away, our friend. Vent away.
 
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