The Buzz sucks!

[bobbybooey]

Lowest common denominator is what wins in mass-market business. McDonald's, Walmart, Budweiser... all targeted towards blue-collar America, and all some of the biggest brands in the world. Why should radio be any different? Do you know what, aside from on the West Coast, TRUE alternative stations do? They flip formats after a couple of years due to lack of ratings and revenue. Good (read: successful) stations cater to what their market wants to hear, not what a particluar format's chart on Radio & Records says they "should" be playing. You may not like it, which is fine, but the Buzz IS one of the most successful alternative/rock stations in the country these days... huge ratings and revenues, and they're even beating out KROQ/LA - everyone's darling of alternative radio - for industry awards, like FMQB (another trade magazine) Alternative Station of the Year, and Don Jantzen won Alternative Music Director of the Year. You may not care for their particular recipe for success, but the Buzz most definitely does not "suck" in the minds of Houston radio listeners, and that's really all that matters.

 

[texasskywatcher]

Lowest common denominator is what wins in mass-market business. McDonald's, Walmart, Budweiser... all targeted towards blue-collar America, and all some of the biggest brands in the world. Why should radio be any different? Do you know what, aside from on the West Coast, TRUE alternative stations do? They flip formats after a couple of years due to lack of ratings and revenue. Good (read: successful) stations cater to what their market wants to hear, not what a particluar format's chart on Radio & Records says they "should" be playing. You may not like it, which is fine, but the Buzz IS one of the most successful alternative/rock stations in the country these days... huge ratings and revenues, and they're even beating out KROQ/LA - everyone's darling of alternative radio - for industry awards, like FMQB (another trade magazine) Alternative Station of the Year, and Don Jantzen won Alternative Music Director of the Year. You may not care for their particular recipe for success, but the Buzz most definitely does not "suck" in the minds of Houston radio listeners, and that's really all that matters.

No one cares about a bunch of trophies, rags, and (cough cough) CUME....all we care about about is the music. Sounds like a Vince Richards Production, even though he resides up here near the corner of Spring Valley and the Tollway.

KDGE is KTBZ and they're both CC

 

[sdh483]

Lowest common denominator is what wins in mass-market business. McDonald's, Walmart, Budweiser... all targeted towards blue-collar America, and all some of the biggest brands in the world. Why should radio be any different? Do you know what, aside from on the West Coast, TRUE alternative stations do? They flip formats after a couple of years due to lack of ratings and revenue. Good (read: successful) stations cater to what their market wants to hear, not what a particluar format's chart on Radio & Records says they "should" be playing. You may not like it, which is fine, but the Buzz IS one of the most successful alternative/rock stations in the country these days... huge ratings and revenues, and they're even beating out KROQ/LA - everyone's darling of alternative radio - for industry awards, like FMQB (another trade magazine) Alternative Station of the Year, and Don Jantzen won Alternative Music Director of the Year. You may not care for their particular recipe for success, but the Buzz most definitely does not "suck" in the minds of Houston radio listeners, and that's really all that matters.

Here's what people think of The Buzz, and other alt. stations:
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,84461.0.html

That is why I don't drink down watered-down piss Budweiser, eat crappy McDonalds double cheeseburgers, or listen to The Buzz.

 

[aunti-terrestrial]

Life is way too short for crappy double McCheeseburgers.

 

[bobbybooey]

But you're missing the point... you may not like McDonald's or Budweiser, but A LOT of people do (though I am not one of them). Do you think that the heads of those companies worry that people on micro-brew and steak message boards think that their companies suck? No, because that's not their market. They do research to find out what their target wants and they deliver. Same thing with radio. The Buzz and other successful stations do a ton of research to ensure that they're giving their respective markets what they want. And honestly the kind of music snob that complains that the Buzz's playlist isn't hip enough is the kind of music snob that gets pissed off when they DO hear their hip new band on the radio because now now "they've sold out"... whatever. :

 

[purplejay]

and people wonder why rock, much less "alternative" rock is losing record/music sales. the A&R at music labels pushing the crap that sounds like Nickelback. Nickleback sold alot of albums to somebody.
but when you see Radiohead with a small but strong support and the only thing you hear on the local radio is their first single from 15 years ago. you have to know the bands audience probably doesn't listen to radio because they don't hear all of the band's library.

yep - lowest common denominator! Budweiser and McDonalds are good analogies. they have been around a long time and the bigger they got, they had to "water down" their product. the same with radio.