• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

The Journey To Re-DONE-duntcy.

S

Scooter Lesley

Guest
Randomly scanning the dial, in the last two days I have heard
Rock 101 play "Anyway You Want It" by Journey three times.
Is that a song I smell burning or is it the cheap aftershave of a hemroidal Consultant fresh from a recent auditorium music test?
Hmmmmmmmmm. I've said before to some of my brothers in Broadcasting, and to an entire room full, from a podium.
This is simple example of how you fail. Burn you playlist, and never add or rest songs. There is more to Journey than the handful of CHR hits, sang by then frontman, Steve Perry. There was Steve Augeri 1998-2006, and curently Arnell Pinetta. That is a total of five studio, and two live albums. To not harness this advantage is Boob-ism in its purest form. The material gets airplay in other...bigger markets, so where's the excuse. If you use that 'scape goat of "It didn't test well", you need to be beat like a drag queen at a tractor pull!
Short, shallow playlists, picked by a know-it-all, yet know nothing Consultant. I repeat, This is how you fail!
 
Ya know Scooter I have to agree with you that Consultants have pretty much ruined radio and the next step to water down radio even more is National Playlist IE what you might hear on a station in Bloomington IL to Atlanta GA! Radio use to be fun and creative, but with most radio stations trying to sound like each other and not take a chance and "Hold Your Breath" !!!Be Unique!!! Radio as we all know it will continue it's slow downfall. I will admit I stream a lot of the stations from SC here where I live in IL and for the most part you can't tell any difference if they are in market 1 or 101. As for songs being burned to a crisp stations like ROQ will have to come up with ways to keep what listeners they have while at the same time bring in new listeners. Funny thing while I was in College back in the late 80's and early 90's WCKN errrrr ROQ had a broad playlist, but with the times it slowly started to shrink. Funny thing it was not just ROQ, but every other classic rock or back in the day AOR was slowly doing the same thing.
 
Thanks Carroll for pitchin' in, and taking the time to see my point.
I'll continue with another artist: FOGHAT did not begin & end with "Slowride". The band's engineer, Nick, sliced & diced a single edit of the song to hopefully get the band some CHR airplay. His efforts netted them a Top 20 hit. Classic Rock formatted stations do not play edits, and to their credit, Rock 101 does play the full LP version. However, face-down they fail by not granting any airplay to the band's most influential album. I'll leave it up their pencil neck Consultant to figure out which one that is. Secondly, WROQ is still playing the edit of "Stone Blue". Neither the PD, nor the Consultant have the smarts to even notice the difference. The blander Consulting the bland!
Here...I'll toss you two Boobs a bone: Prior to his death from cancer, Lonesome Dave Peverett, wrote & recorded "Angel Of Mercy". PLAY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Like I say the two things that have really hurt radio is Consultants and having control of music come from one central location. I love to listen to a lot of internet radio where you hear net stations talk up the fact they have really big music libraries as well as playing songs you don't hear hardly any more. Would that work in today's radio I would say no because most of the listening audience of today have grown use to stations playing 300 to 500 songs. Most of the stations that are willing to go deeper into music are usually small market stations where they can afford to do that so they can say "hey we offer something different". When I worked at my little station in Camden SC we played oldies music, but also played a lot of other oldies that stations in larger markets would not touch which made for some fun times. When I would have people call me and request a song that the oldies station in larger markets could not play I knew I was doing a good job, but once again what works in one place won't work in other places. CC1
 
Aside from their lack of FOGHAT problem,...I'll continue,...with KISS: The band does not begin, and end with "Rock & Roll All Night"! Their recorded output is so massive, with reportedly, over
35-Million records sold. As for the number of tours, with countless sold-out dates, check their website it might shed some light on that. Regardless to who is responsible, it is unacceptable for Rock 101 to only play the small handful CHR hits that the band is known for. They still, shamefully, play the edit of "Detroit Rock City", and heavy hitting albums like "Hot In The Shade" get no airplay.
The last two studio albums, "Psycho Circus", and "Sonic Boom" are ignored, and their forthcoming,
"Monster" will get the same treatment. You are underserving your ever-shrinking audience.
UNACCEPTABLE!
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom