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Triangle Sports Talk 1490/1090 is stunting

Last two songs I don't recognize.
First one sounded like some old Neil Young, this one sounds like maybe a local band singing something about "She wants higher."
 
This new song also sounds like a techno-David Bowie-beer commercial jingle like many others have.
Something about "when I wake up in the morning" and a bunch of computerish techno sounds.

Right at 2:00 the song stopped, Brian Hart with a legal ID, then the song started up right where it left off.
Straight into this new song that sounds like the Cardigans or some mid90s band.
 
Last song, no idea.
Now, "Before you accuse me" by Clapton
Haven't heard a commercial or a liner or anything personal besides that one legal ID.
 
I spoke too soon about liners and commercials.
Almost made it to the end of the song then a Brian Hart-voiced Office Depot :15 spot, a Diabetes supply line commercial for :60, a :60 for Genesis Financial debt relief, a :60 for MegaLife Health & Insurance, a :30 for Lucinda Bassett's Center for Stress & Anxiety, Lottery stations commercial for :30, Brian Hart with a Centrum Silver spot :15, and straight back into the end of a song. Then another song started up but there's an electric guitar so the vocals are hopelessly muddled.

All the non-Brian Hart commercials sounded like they might have been produced by the same production people.
 
Now for some 10,000 Maniacs or maybe it's Natalie Merchant solo. I can't recognize the song but the muddled vocals in the background are definitely hers, even though the song is kind of upbeat.
And then into something else that sounds almost familiar but can't quite tell because the vocals are so far under the music. It's "I wish I was special" by whoever sung that one.
 
This one sounds like Tom Petty's muddled vocals (man that is a new level of muddled ;) ) but I don't think it's ever been played on the radio.

Maybe today is Pop/Alt Wednesday.
 
Recognized "Let the Good Times Roll" by the Cars and almost the same commercial stopset at 3:17 (2:17 on here). Might have even been the exact same one. All the other songs were nondescript up to that point, when I had to bail for a while.
 
Has anyone told you that you might be obsessed with this thing? ::)
 
It can now be officially stated that more people have viewed this chain than ever listened to that awful simulcast. And Taylor Zarzur's poor old man is back filling cavities in Alabama to help pay for his idiot kid's assanine idea to compete with the Buzz.

Can we officially kill this thing off?
 
Dang fellas just wanted to sample an hour or two of the "stunting" for those outside the listening area. ;D

"Awful simulcast?" It was mostly ESPN radio. ???
 
CCAlumni said:
It can now be officially stated that more people have viewed this chain than ever listened to that awful simulcast. And Taylor Zarzur's poor old man is back filling cavities in Alabama to help pay for his idiot kid's assanine idea to compete with the Buzz.

Can we officially kill this thing off?
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I thought Taylor Zarzour was no longer affiliated with the station? Last I heard, he was no longer on Triangle Sports Talk, although he is still affiliated with the Tar Heel Sports Network as the play-by-play man for Carolina women's basketball.
But I am wondering when they will quit stunting and flip to whatever they will flip to; the longest I've heard of any of the FM stations stunting was a week (flash back to November 2004 on WTRG between Oldies 100.7 and 100.7 The River), or, more recently, four to five days (over a weekend with the new station launching the following Monday), as in the former WFMX. I've never heard of any station--- AM or FM--- stunting for a month and a half as Triangle Sports Talk is apparently doing now.
 
CCAlumni said:
It can now be officially stated that more people have viewed this chain than ever listened to that awful simulcast. And Taylor Zarzur's poor old man is back filling cavities in Alabama to help pay for his idiot kid's assanine idea to compete with the Buzz.
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Idiot kid? Maybe it wasn't the best idea in the world to try to compete with the Buzz, but Taylor was and is a very bright and talented broadcaster with quite a future if he sticks to it. And from the looks of it, he is.
 
Last I heard, they let all the employees go except Brian Hart (didn't he post here once or twice?), and they were rejiggering the facilities in order to make them more attractive to sell them. So it looks like there isn't really a plan to stop this "stunting" method/madness, unless/until somebody buys them.

Doctor Zarzour is Taylor Zarzour's dad, who financed the stations. Taylor and the others' plans apparently didn't work out, but I wouldn't call any of them "idiots" either. Man alive, they were doing something we would all love to do, even if it wasn't exactly the way we would do it (and we'd probably end up with somebody calling us "idiots" too though, because "they" know better). ::)
 
Okay students I'll explain. No one is knocking the idea of a second sports talker. No one is saying Taylor doesn't have talent. The guy hustles for sure. What I am saying is that if Taylor had done his homework instead of following his "dream" he would have known he talked his dad into buying the worst signal in the market. Had he learned from that he probably wouldn't have talked dad into buying the second worst signal as a simulcast. Taylor's father was making an investment for his retirement not buying toys. Dad has now lost almost everything and is forced to go back to work...in his 60's. Meanwhile Taylor has moved on to Tarheel Sports. Dad is f----d. Maybe "idiot" is the wrong word. Tell me one that is more fitting.

What you are hearing isn't "stunting." You are hearing a station with no capital, no staff, no real market value that is forced to stay on the air by the FCC. The only winner in this thing was Clear Channel. The best move they made in the last five years was selling WDUR to the Zarzors. Everything else was just a disaster.
 
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