The WYAY format clock....

[wpb1999]

Alright, everyone, I am back after my suspension and better than ever!

I was thinking during my time off about what WYAY will be like.

Here's what I think:
Traffic on the 6s
11 Alive (who I'm told will partner) weather 4 times an hour
Rotating anchors every hour(so they may do 3 hrs, but spread out.)

Then again, I'm probably wrong!

 

[Rick Rose 2.0]

so the article confirms that all news 106.7 will actually be all news 24/7...Cumulus has not done that before and they dont own any 24/7 news stations

 

[MCMagicCracker]

so the article confirms that all news 106.7 will actually be all news 24/7...Cumulus has not done that before and they dont own any 24/7 news stations

KGO, new home of WSB's Lisa Campbell, is Cumulus.

 

[acheron1982]

So am I reading this right and "ABC" will be the news affiliate? I don't see NBC anywhere. WSB tv doing news would be better than XIA (personal opinion) BUT I don't see how they can do that with WSB TV being owned by COX.

 

[jabba17]

So am I reading this right and "ABC" will be the news affiliate? I don't see NBC anywhere. WSB tv doing news would be better than XIA (personal opinion) BUT I don't see how they can do that with WSB TV being owned by COX.

"ABC" in this case apparently refers to the Atlanta Business Chronicle--which may itself have some sort of a relationship with WXIA.

But the ABC (as in American Broadcasting Company) Radio properties are owned by Cumulus. When Disney spun off most of their radio stations to Citadel, the ABC Radio properties went with them. Disney still owns the ABC trademark, and licenses it to Cumulus for radio properties as heir to Citadel. Not sure what the licensing agreement consists of, though. I know that many (but not all) of the radio network names dropped the ABC name for Citadel/Cumulus. News is still ABC.

I don't think there is any issue with Gannett/WXIA doing the local news and branding the news as ABC Radio, as long as Disney is OK with it. In other words, I don't think Cox/WSB has a say in the matter, especially since WSB (Radio) dumped their ABC affiliation for CBS.

 

[BarryATL]

WNEW in DC (owned by CBS) just started a partnership with the Gannett TV station last week. Even though the Gannett station is a CBS affiliate, it is never mentioned because WNEW is an ABC News Radio affiliate (WTOP holds the CBS Radio affiliation until 2013). I hear News 9 meteorologist so and so... Doppler 9000 Radar, etc. So, it is very doable for WXIA to partner with WYAY.

Cumulus' KGO News in San Francisco is also partnered with a local TV station and network affiliation is never mentioned. There is a 60 second promo for the partner TV station run every hour, so I guess that is part of the agreement. I imagine Cumulus will go for cross promotion to limit the amount of cash it has to put out.

 

[BarryATL]

Let's hope WYAY does not partner with CBS Atlanta. There is no credibility whatsoever with that station. Even the weather is a joke.

 

[wpb1999]

Let's hope WYAY does not partner with CBS Atlanta. There is no credibility whatsoever with that station. Even the weather is a joke.

Why would they? They would have to air "ABC News" TOTH, and then say here's "CBS Atlanta Weather". It just wouldn't make any sense, and it would confuse some of the less intelligent listeners.

 

[RadioNerd78]

Let's hope WYAY does not partner with CBS Atlanta. There is no credibility whatsoever with that station. Even the weather is a joke.

Considering 790 The Zone does the sports for CBS Atlanta, and Cumulus is affiliated with 680 The Fan, don't think you'll see CBS Atlanta anywhere near this new station.

 

[FLjack2]

Personally, I would never "partner" with a local TV station. I would, however, enter into an agreement where my station could strip the soundbites from the local newscasts and credit that station. "CBS 46 spoke with so and so and says....." or "that's so and so talking with 11 Alive." Honestly, using this scenario, you could actually enter into deals with several TV stations, giving credit when you use their sound.

TV reporters are useless for radio. (Newspaper reporters are even worse.) Their allegiance is to their TV station. Most are not likely to help the radio station especially when it's crisis time.

The weather guy? Please. Get your own from Accuweather or another service. WSB-AM has done that for years with no problems. (These guys are actually very good. http://www.hometownforecastservice.com )

 

[wpb1999]

Let's hope WYAY does not partner with CBS Atlanta. There is no credibility whatsoever with that station. Even the weather is a joke.

Considering 790 The Zone does the sports for CBS Atlanta, and Cumulus is affiliated with 680 The Fan, don't think you'll see CBS Atlanta anywhere near this new station.

Interesting that you mention that, because sports will likely come from The Fan and ESPN

 

[jabba17]

Let's hope WYAY does not partner with CBS Atlanta. There is no credibility whatsoever with that station. Even the weather is a joke.

Considering 790 The Zone does the sports for CBS Atlanta, and Cumulus is affiliated with 680 The Fan, don't think you'll see CBS Atlanta anywhere near this new station.

Interesting that you mention that, because sports will likely come from The Fan and ESPN

Dickey also has an affiliation with Fox Sports (WIFN, 1340 The Fan 3).

 

[acheron1982]

1- I actually went to school for General Science and received a certificate in Broadcast Meteorology. To be blunt, accuweather sucks. I don't mean weather channel sucks, I mean accuweather forecasts are jokes. Did a research project on the accuracy of a number of tv stations, and national news networks (accuweather, The Weather Channel) and accuweather came in last.... I don't mean barely last but instead, I mean WWAAYYY last. Still would not disqualify them on WYAY.

2- WSB Radio used CNN affiliate before switching over to CBS. They never used ABC. Only thing they have to do with ABC is when Kirk Melish is out and David Chanley takes his spot. I believe he mentions WSB Channel 2 when giving the weather.

3- WSB does not use accuweather. WSB has its on in house meteorologist that I have to give some props to (he's not my favorite however).

4- Accuweather sucks. They are really a sad work of art.

 

[recto101]

Personally, I would never "partner" with a local TV station. I would, however, enter into an agreement where my station could strip the soundbites from the local newscasts and credit that station. "CBS 46 spoke with so and so and says....." or "that's so and so talking with 11 Alive." Honestly, using this scenario, you could actually enter into deals with several TV stations, giving credit when you use their sound.

TV reporters are useless for radio. (Newspaper reporters are even worse.) Their allegiance is to their TV station. Most are not likely to help the radio station especially when it's crisis time.

The weather guy? Please. Get your own from Accuweather or another service. WSB-AM has done that for years with no problems. (These guys are actually very good. http://www.hometownforecastservice.com )

But wait in San Francisco and NYC the CBS O&O all-news radio stations like KCBS and WCBS will always borrow staff members from the CBS TV O&O's like KPIX5 and WCBS2 to appear on their all-news stations and they execute them well. But in San Francisco Phil Matier who does columns for the SF Chronicle and SF Gate to appear on KCBS 106.9 and KPIX to do segments for them. Incidentally for KGO-AM (Cumulus) they will get the Disney TV staff (KGO-TV) to appear on KGO-AM and they get another staff member from the SF chronicle C.W. Nevius to appear on KGO to do commentary for 810-AM.

 

[RTibbs]

I like the idea of having ABC news, CBS Atlanta Weather, Fox 5 Sports and 11 Alive Traffic with The Commuter Dude.

 

[thefirstgenesis]

4- Accuweather sucks. They are really a sad work of art.

You are very right and correct about that. They even have a feature where they have a 25 day forecast. Quite possibly, how can Accuweather predict the weather that far in advance if they can't get tomorrow's weather or the following day's weather correct? And speaking about the art, their forecast for the temperatures on the 18 to 25th day are almost all carbon copies of each other. But knowing the economy now, at least it provides their meteorological service some jobs for their employees.

It will be interesting to see what weather program they would use on that station a week or two weeks from now. Would it be the Weather Channel? CBS weather? Also, how frequently they would announce the local weather? Every hour? Every 30 minutes?

 

[trusty]

The format clock is still ticking. Anybody got a day and time the format change will take place?

 

[FLjack2]

Accuweather sucks. They are really a sad work of art.

Totally agree! They are awful, but they have a VERY cool name and a great "brand." That's why so many stations use them. I think it's terrible that the Weather Channel got out of radio. Again, another great brand.

If I'm not mistaken, WGST is now using Accuweather. Just like with Rush, Clear Channel might have a relationship with them at this point. And if that's the case, the new 106.7 news will not have access to them -- ever. (Although, that's not a totally terrible thing.)

 

[wpb1999]

The format clock is still ticking. Anybody got a day and time the format change will take place?

I hope they are running in-house broadcasts, because it will sound crappy and awful the first few days if they don't. The launch will probably be delayed, though.

 

[BarryATL]

I think they will eventually team up with a local TV station. It seems that all of the new all news stations across the country have gone with a local TV station. It associates the weather with a locally known brand name and costs very little (if anything) in cash. WNEW (CBS) has been on the air since December and in the last few weeks started a weather affiliation with News 9 and the Doppler 9000 Radar. It gives the anchor another voice to talk to and the local brand. The TV station gets more exposure to it's brand. It is a win, win. We just have to hope that WYAY does not team up with CBS Atlanta News.