TRICKS AND TREATS

[Runrigger]

Just pulling topics out of the trick or treat bag:

Sorry Providence, but Fun 107 is doing better radio. Whether you feel like dancing or not, there's more energy at the station & the people sound like they are actually enjoying themselves. Maybe the moniker says it. Maybe too many people are just not having fun.

HJY is probably the only Providence station that's as good as it once was. Not much changes from year to year, but if you're running a restaurant where the same crowds show up week after week, do you change the menu?

Coast is a good cast trapped in a bad movie.

My clock radio goes off at :50 so I miss the :55 news on WCTK. I'm still there for the news at :25, but I still don't think 2 quickie newscasts an hour in morning drive is out of line even though I've checked enough websites in the morning to know what's going on before I leave the house.

Buddy is doing a good job. Right now there's a media blitz going on which is probably aggravating some people who live to be aggravated anyway, but the blitz will die down. He has his own domain now by the way: www.buddycianci.com

Speaking of WPRO, there's a great history of the station posted on their website:
http://www.630wpro.com/Article.asp?id=452043

Stupido question, but do any of the Spanish stations do traffic reports?

If men would take control of household finances, there would be fewer AC stations.

If fewer car dealers would voice their own spots I might buy more cars.

Anyone remember what show prep was like before the Internet?

 

[Nizam]

Anyone remember what show prep was like before the Internet?

Back when I interned for Pete Braley in '01, and the Citadel Fairhaven building was.... internetless at times, so they were depending on show prep material that was faxed in.

 

[Moonstruck]

Show prep before the immediacy of the internet was leg work. You had the wire services but even then you didn't have the volume of stories and topics. You had and still have prep services, many of which are comedy services, many of which are not funny. If you did mornings you grabbed the Providence Journal and maybe USA Today and ran with it. I'd go so far as to say if you took the internet away you would have a lot more liner carding than you have now.

As far as Fun 107 as I've said before the lines between market sizes and the people who work in those markets are getting more and more blurred. Gone are the days when someone working in market 178 or 185 or whatever is on a constant mission to sound as good as market 30 or 40. Many already do.

As far as HJY there have been personnel changes but some like Laurenti and Palmieri occurred before last year's Thanksgiving bloodbath. When Palmieri left he had already been off air. HJY from the listener's point of view hasn't been as scathed by changes and when there are changes the station doesn't downgrade. Again this is from the listener's point of view. Middays at HJY is still an interactive shift with listeners. Coast and B101 are interactive with listeners who have computers.