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The Listenin' Pickin's Are Pretty Slim in E'town...

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basixdj

Back in the good 'ol days, radio life was decent in Elizabethtown. 30 years ago we may have had WAKY and WKLO in Big Lou which ruled the airwaves, but we also had a couple of excellent Top 40 stations of our own...1400WIEL and WQXE. I'll even throw in WSAC in Fort Knox-they were pretty darn good, too. Consultants, combined with cultural change and deregulation and multi-station ownership have ruined radio, first on the AM dial and now I even see an erosion of FM. Maybe I'm basing my opinion on my age, but I think it's more a marriage of opinion and reality-radio sucks! The Hardin County dial consists of an overload of so called 'country', current Top 40, classic and current rock (which sounds like noise and there's too much of the newer rock) and finally we have a pathetic facsimile of a once revered Louisville powerhouse that's packed with mostly overprojecting DJ's, many of whom sound like they're in a constant state of goosing (JR being the exception).

The only saving grace for Central Kentucky is in two smaller markets. Bardstown's 102.7 WYSB and Lebanon's Mike FM 100.9. These two stations have, in my opinion, very good formats for a guy my age, although I'm sure there's alot of automation/voice tracking there. For the most part, WLUE 100.5 has a decent format, but there's too much repetition. I think the many stations who tout 'variety' obviously think most of us are radio 'surfers'. Not me, I normally like to set a station and leave it there, but with 98% of radio owning only limited playlists that's not possible these days.

QMF, all in all, has an okay playlist. I'd rather listen to them than SFR, who spend too much time keeping track of all the commercials QMF supposedly plays-which is annoying in itself. Although I've never actually taken paper and pencil and kept track, I've been told that claim is a little skewed, because QMF plays alot of :30's and SFR plays mostly :60's.
 
I defend quick 98.3 they are a very interesting hot ac that trends a bit modern a good station wish they would get rid of the 70s crap they play but a very good station for todays times. They play a dashboard confessional song a little tori amos and beth orton depeche mode personal jesus and a couple green day tunes that even alt stations i never here on like nice guys finish last i also remember from way back when i was a kid k 105 at 105.3 what i great alt station that was well i would call it alt in todays times. Mark stahr who you can here on louie use work there along with scott gettle who does production work for clear channel he worked there.
 
hotpatrick2004 said:
...scott gettle who does production work for clear channel he worked there.
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As talented as he is, I'm confident Scott Goettel will be picked up somewhere...don't count him out. He's done liners recently for a couple of my internet stations, so I can vouch for that!
 
I dont think E-town is all that bad for a city of its size. Maybe thats because I like Star 107.3 and 98.3 WQXE,,, Plus, you can still get most of THE VILLE's stations down there, like DJX, and Louie... I dont think Max makes it that far south, but QXE is basically the same format. I remember a few years ago there was no top 40 station at all in E-Town, and QXE was very soft at that time.
 
True, but your timeline is off. WQXE was beautiful music not just a few years ago, but 28 years ago...I was there. Quicksie has pretty much always been Top 40 except for a couple years. And Star and Quicksie both play today's music, which is a good sell, just only appealing to the younger set. The Star transmitter is currently piggybacking a cellular tower just off I-65. Yes, most of the Louisville stations reach down here, but I still think most of the stations even in Big Lou today are unlistenable. I forgot 106.9...that is listenable (boy, am I aging myself!).

But I digress from the subject at hand-that local radio down here is not much...yes, I realize to some I'm biting the hand that feeds me, but I'm speaking as a listener. And local radio is just a sampling of what is wrong with radio nationwide.

And again, aside from the issues of automation and V/T's, most of my comments are just opinion, attributable to the generation gap.
 
Yes, but alot of computers do. Just a little advice to help all readers...besides, why in the world are YOU getting huffy?
 
basixdj said:
QMF, all in all, has an okay playlist. I'd rather listen to them than SFR, who spend too much time keeping track of all the commercials QMF supposedly plays-which is annoying in itself. Although I've never actually taken paper and pencil and kept track, I've been told that claim is a little skewed, because QMF plays alot of :30's and SFR plays mostly :60's.
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If you've never counted QMF's commercials, then why are you spouting off? The count is accurate.

By the way, two :30s = two commercials.
 
Stating I don't like SFR's constant blasting of QMF's commercials is 'spouting off'? And yes I know my arithmetic and that two :30's make a :60. I thought the obvious point was if, by chance, they sell the same amount of time as QMF, but run just 60's versus 30's, why cry about QMF running more commercials?

And most of us in the business know that you can't operate a radio station without advertising dollars, so I don't see really what the gripe is. Are SFR's pockets so fat they don't need the money? I don't really get your argument at all...unless you work at SFR, which would explain it all.
 
I'm a member of a group you might be intersted in joining. Clean Up Radio Broadcasting (CURB), Dr. Bob Halyers is our front man. I can give you his number if you like.
 
I think SFR is jealous of QMFs heritage and much higher powered signal. I think QMF has 50kw or equivalent with tower height, and SFR only has 8,200 watts, ironically they broadcast from the same exact tower. I cant even barely get SFR at my girlfriends house without lots of static, north of Austin Indiana, about 40 miles from The Ville, but QMFs signal just melts the antenna there. Not to surprisingly, 106.9 is the strongest Louisville station at my girls house, with Kiss and DJX tied for second strongest, but she is only 28 miles from THE KNOBS, so that make's sense. 100.5 LOUIE barely comes in at all because we have a local on 100.3 KORN COUNTRY splattering over them, plus Louie is all the way over at Jeffersontown, about 20 miles farther than the stations on THE KNOBS.
 
kyscott said:
I'm a member of a group you might be intersted in joining. Clean Up Radio Broadcasting (CURB), Dr. Bob Halyers is our front man. I can give you his number if you like.
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Are you kidding? :D Is he real? I know he was portrayed in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. By the way, I think you're the same guy I've chatted with on the 79waky.com site. You were, at the time, interested in seeing if your engineering services were needed at the stations I work at. They went with Mike Graham, although Jerry Shouse still pops in every now and then.
 
How many of you have noticed the rebranding at star 107.3? They no longer go by most music and most fun now it is "hits now" No jocks yet just music. Much more like djx now and they have added more old school like enjoy the silence by depeche mode and new order's blue monday and duran duran's is there something i should know.
 
I'll check that for you next time I go in...personally I only go into that studio to do production. But as far as I know we still have jocks there...last time I heard we were still the same format.

Standby...
 
Mid West Clubber said:
100.5 LOUIE barely comes in at all because we have a local on 100.3 KORN COUNTRY splattering over them,
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KORN Country? Are you serious?! Who does the news for them, Charlie Farquharson?
 
basixdj said:
kyscott said:
I'm a member of a group you might be intersted in joining. Clean Up Radio Broadcasting (CURB), Dr. Bob Halyers is our front man. I can give you his number if you like.
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Are you kidding? :D Is he real? I know he was portrayed in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. By the way, I think you're the same guy I've chatted with on the 79waky.com site. You were, at the time, interested in seeing if your engineering services were needed at the stations I work at. They went with Mike Graham, although Jerry Shouse still pops in every now and then.
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Yes I am, on both counts. I was watching that episode while reading messages on here.
 
basixdj said:
The Hardin County dial consists of an overload of so called 'country', current Top 40, classic and current rock (which sounds like noise and there's too much of the newer rock) and finally we have a pathetic facsimile of a once revered Louisville powerhouse that's packed with mostly overprojecting DJ's, many of whom sound like they're in a constant state of goosing (JR being the exception).
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But I digress from the subject at hand-that local radio down here is not much...
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In case it is unclear, let me state the underlying theme of this thread (that may have been lost in my initial post) is the lack of variety in E'town radio. It's the lack of choices that sucks, not any particular station (well... ::)).
 
Mid West Clubber said:
I think SFR is jealous of QMFs heritage and much higher powered signal. I think QMF has 50kw or equivalent with tower height, and SFR only has 8,200 watts, ironically they broadcast from the same exact tower. I cant even barely get SFR at my girlfriends house without lots of static, north of Austin Indiana, about 40 miles from The Ville, but QMFs signal just melts the antenna there. Not to surprisingly, 106.9 is the strongest Louisville station at my girls house, with Kiss and DJX tied for second strongest, but she is only 28 miles from THE KNOBS, so that make's sense. 100.5 LOUIE barely comes in at all because we have a local on 100.3 KORN COUNTRY splattering over them, plus Louie is all the way over at Jeffersontown, about 20 miles farther than the stations on THE KNOBS.
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Yeah and Bill O'Reilly is probably jealous of Larry King for all the same reasons.

North of Austin and 40 miles from the 'Ville would put you in Crothersville or Uniontown? That's kinda out of the metro.

Incidentally, SFR's tower is 2.6 miles closer to Austin than QMF's.

And if you're going to give QMF 50 KW @ 150 meters, you have to give SFR 25 KW @ 100 meters.

And for what it's worth, QMF puts a .319 mV/M signal over Austin, Indiana. That's 10% of a city-grade signal. I think your antenna is probably safe with that.
 
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