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mountaineer
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Dayparted Contemp with New Flip?
... and some new jox? Yes, we'll all check it out. Just hope y'all don't f***k up the progress you've made over the past 8 or 9 months by trying to tackle the world before you're certain you've taken the neighborhood. In other words, the 18-24/18-34 demo has just started to get comfortable with 101 as a pop/hip-hop mix. Nine months might seem like a long time inside the station walls, but the audience just found you. To veer off course now is kinda like breaking up after a great first date. Well, the Simpsons have always had great radio instincts...
> Revoluton is DEAD...the evolution is on and the curtain goes
> up and something else entirely tomorrow AM....you will join
> us won't ya???
>
... and some new jox? Yes, we'll all check it out. Just hope y'all don't f***k up the progress you've made over the past 8 or 9 months by trying to tackle the world before you're certain you've taken the neighborhood. In other words, the 18-24/18-34 demo has just started to get comfortable with 101 as a pop/hip-hop mix. Nine months might seem like a long time inside the station walls, but the audience just found you. To veer off course now is kinda like breaking up after a great first date. Well, the Simpsons have always had great radio instincts...
> Revoluton is DEAD...the evolution is on and the curtain goes
> up and something else entirely tomorrow AM....you will join
> us won't ya???
>
M
mountaineer
Guest
Re: Dayparted Contemp with New Flip?
Just an oldtimer who hung around radio long enough to learn how it works--and still finds it interesting. Obviously I enjoy the competitive aspects of the biz. As you know, one can leave radio but radio doesn't leave you! As far as the Simpsons go, EVERYONE in Pennsylvania radio knows them or about them. Shoot, how many stations do they own? A dozen? For how long? 50 years? No, I have no close relationship--but I would've had to be deaf/blind not to know a lot about their radio history. I know that Cary & Ted are very well liked. Steve, I really do wish WGMR the best of good fortune. I don't have a dog in the fight, but I do enjoy watching from afar, and the monopoly shenanigans of the Forever/Galli tandem is just wrong--so I've enjoyed watching 101 give 103 fits.
And, like I said before, I just hope everyone there realizes that the gains they've presumably made are risked by change. Change the flip? Yes. But don't change the guts of the programming so much that you have to start from scratch with the audience. It takes radio listeners awhile to find a station... sample it, get to know it, and finally like/love it. Change things too much and you chase them away and you have to start all over. Especially if you're not gonna drop a half-million dollars to promote it--and that doesn't seem to fit Cary's history. (If anyone wants to know the ill effects of too much change too quickly, they should give Don Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
> Mountaineer...I will comment on this TOMORROW!!! Sure wish
> I knew who you were...would be nice to talk to you sometime
> off board...you seem to know a LOT about the biz!
> Well...and the Simpsons too.
>
> Hitman
>
Just an oldtimer who hung around radio long enough to learn how it works--and still finds it interesting. Obviously I enjoy the competitive aspects of the biz. As you know, one can leave radio but radio doesn't leave you! As far as the Simpsons go, EVERYONE in Pennsylvania radio knows them or about them. Shoot, how many stations do they own? A dozen? For how long? 50 years? No, I have no close relationship--but I would've had to be deaf/blind not to know a lot about their radio history. I know that Cary & Ted are very well liked. Steve, I really do wish WGMR the best of good fortune. I don't have a dog in the fight, but I do enjoy watching from afar, and the monopoly shenanigans of the Forever/Galli tandem is just wrong--so I've enjoyed watching 101 give 103 fits.
And, like I said before, I just hope everyone there realizes that the gains they've presumably made are risked by change. Change the flip? Yes. But don't change the guts of the programming so much that you have to start from scratch with the audience. It takes radio listeners awhile to find a station... sample it, get to know it, and finally like/love it. Change things too much and you chase them away and you have to start all over. Especially if you're not gonna drop a half-million dollars to promote it--and that doesn't seem to fit Cary's history. (If anyone wants to know the ill effects of too much change too quickly, they should give Don Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
> Mountaineer...I will comment on this TOMORROW!!! Sure wish
> I knew who you were...would be nice to talk to you sometime
> off board...you seem to know a LOT about the biz!
> Well...and the Simpsons too.
>
> Hitman
>
Re: Dayparted Contemp with New Flip?
If anyone wants to know the ill
> effects of too much change too quickly, they should give Don
> Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
>
> Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call, you'll find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that yet.
If anyone wants to know the ill
> effects of too much change too quickly, they should give Don
> Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
>
> Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call, you'll find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that yet.
Re: Dayparted Contemp with New Flip?
> If anyone wants to know the ill
> > effects of too much change too quickly, they should give
> Don
> > Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
> >
> > Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
>
> Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call, you'll
> find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in
> Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that yet.
>
Oh...so he still works for Forever then
> If anyone wants to know the ill
> > effects of too much change too quickly, they should give
> Don
> > Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
> >
> > Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
>
> Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call, you'll
> find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in
> Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that yet.
>
Oh...so he still works for Forever then
M
mountaineer
Guest
Steve--if you want to chat off-board, my email address is [email protected].
Mountaineer
... would be nice to talk to you sometime off board.
Mountaineer
... would be nice to talk to you sometime off board.
Re: Dayparted Contemp with New Flip?
> > If anyone wants to know the ill
> > > effects of too much change too quickly, they should give
>
> > Don
> > > Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
> > >
> > > Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
> >
> > Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call,
> you'll
> > find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in
> > Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that
> yet.
> >
> Oh...so he still works for Forever then
>
Pretty much. Call up Galli's Pittsburgh office and they answer the phone with "Good morning, Keymarket".
> > If anyone wants to know the ill
> > > effects of too much change too quickly, they should give
>
> > Don
> > > Bedell a call--he oughta be an expert)!
> > >
> > > Yes, we'll be listening. Have fun!
> >
> > Incidentally, if you want to give Don Bedell a call,
> you'll
> > find him working for Nick Galli over at Clearview and in
> > Johnstown. I wasn't sure if anybody had mentioned that
> yet.
> >
> Oh...so he still works for Forever then
>
Pretty much. Call up Galli's Pittsburgh office and they answer the phone with "Good morning, Keymarket".
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