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The Dove Gets Its Wings Clipped

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Nobody has yet to mention the summer book that was released last week... The Dove is still Number 1 but it's down about one-third! Where'd their listeners go?
 
ok radiodork, that made me chuckle.

I have to be honest, the Dove has been a guilty pleasure of mine for many years. But over the past year or so, it seems they have tweaked it. More 80's, 90's and less of what my parents listened to like Glen Campbell Witchita Lineman, Michael Murphy Wildfire, Paul McCartney, Mamas and Poppas, John Denver and an occasional Bing Crosby or Dean Martin.

I have found myself listening to them less and less and it doesn't surprise me they went down. Yes their listeners are going to heaven and back north, but they've been doing that for years. I can't imagine they all died and move out of Tampa in a short 3 month period or else the dove would dive this much every Summer Book. They need to get it back on track and ditch the jazz tracks and 90's all together and make it sound special again and the discruntled listeners will find their way back. Unless they all really did die.
 
Number One is still.......well, Number One

"No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
 
Don't they go down every summer? I think they need Marvin Boone in PM drive
 
>>>"Ditch the Jazz Tracks."<<<

Oh, no! The Dove plays an instrumental every hour in the daytime (around :35) and two per hour at night :)10 and :35). Sometimes it's a Smooth Jazz song, sometimes something from a movie. But I really don't think they should omit this last trace from their Easy Listening days.

I really don't understand the decision to get rid of nearly every MOR artist. Even Sinatra hardly gets airtime anymore. Maybe once an hour at night for the Sinatra, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Barbra Streisand, Fifth Dimension and Petula Clark hits, if they're worried about sounding too old for office listening. But if the song was a hit in the 60s, 70s or 80s, it makes sense to still have it in some sort of rotation... even if only at night.


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I think that the guys who program The Dove have forgotten the demographics of this area. This population enjoys Sinatra, Crosby, Denver, etc. They are looking for a true mix. By essentially dropping this MOR kind of music, The Dove is creating an opportunity for a competitor to step in.
 
Like who? There used to be one called WGUL. If 50's 60's oldies can't get a major station, who would adopt a MOYL format with a signal to compete. I guess WSJT is their closest competition and they seem to on some kind of bubble with CBS. I would presume that if WDUV is truly declining, the format will just disappear, go HD radio, or maybe noncommercial radio.
 
Seriously, I don't know Marvin Boone. His style just takes me back to the good old days of radio when stations like KDKA , WKYC, and WBZ played pop music and had warm and interactive dJ's. Sort of Rock'n'Roll with MOR style. What he does is really rare and I enjoyed his show. I hope somebody picks him up. As a long time radio groupie going back to WABC and WMCA, I just thought he was great and still is.
 
But back to WDUV. Stations that played what they play were personality intensive when the music was new. Part of the whole package would be people like Marvin Boone or Gary Owens. If WDUV is really sinking, maybe some live DJ's could help it out. Cox did hire Bubba to fix WHPT----------------------. I am just using Gary Owens as an example. I don't suggest he would come here ;D
 
The old dove in Sarasota was ruined by "updating" it a few years ago. I remember when all the station swapping went on The Dove was on 103.3. Then Clear Channel upgraded it, moved the transmitter to the Baum antenna farm, and it reappeared on 103.5 as a max class C signal. The old Dove formats were split between 105.5 and 92.1 out of Venice. Same playlists, liners and everything in the beginning. Then CC started to mess with it and it lost a lot of its ratings at least the 12+ ones anyway. 105.5 stayed true to the Dove for a much longer period. In Manatee and northern Sarasota, both signals are listenable and the 105.5 signal would dominate the ratings over the 92.1 local signal. You can still get the old Dove on XM78. To me, that is the old Dove.
 
By the way, I've always wanted to know who the voice guy is for the Dove and his story. Was he a jock here years ago, the station manager or a pd? Someone's grandfather? Dick Rings uncle? Anyone know? Just curious.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Seriously, I don't know Marvin Boone. His style just takes me back to the good old days of radio when stations like KDKA , WKYC, and WBZ played pop music and had warm and interactive dJ's. Sort of Rock'n'Roll with MOR style. What he does is really rare and I enjoyed his show. I hope somebody picks him up. As a long time radio groupie going back to WABC and WMCA, I just thought he was great and still is.
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And so far, everytime a radio station needs to improve, has an open time slot or whatever..... Marvin Boone is your answer.

Obsessed much?
 
If you want to play a bsically soft oldies format like WDUV, Marvin is a real throwback to guys like "Handsome Harry Harrison" and "Dandy Dan Daniels". " Marvelous Marv" is in that league. As I said, I don't know him, but I think he is a great fit with WDUV music and IF he wants back in, why not add him to WDUV? That is my only oint. :p :p :p
 
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