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If you were going to put together the best ever TOP 40 station for Pittsburgh and you could select the best jocks from all the TOP 40's from KQV through the old B94 using a typical 6 dayparts, who would you choose? What if you wanted to create a second station for competition, who would you choose. This has to be only people who were on the air on TOP 40 stations in Da Burg .
 
Let's start out our day with a lot of laughs from O'Brien and Gary. We will combine the 10-2 shift with Chuck Brinkman and Dave Scott. Fred Winston spent some time here and still sounds good when he fills in at WLS- FM in Chicago so we will go with him from 2-6.Quinn ( along with Fred- remember him) takes us from 6-9 and Jackson Armstrong keeps everything heated up from 9-midnight. We used to be risin with Rizen, but he has to teach all day so Steve Rizen spends midnight to 6 with Tom Lee. Greg Benedetti, Myron Cope and Stan Savran do periodic Sports Commentaries throughout the day and Alan Jennings, Bob Kopler, Ron Rinninger and Alan Boal do the news at the top of the hour.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
If you were going to put together the best ever TOP 40 station for Pittsburgh and you could select the best jocks from all the TOP 40's from KQV through the old B94 using a typical 6 dayparts, who would you choose? What if you wanted to create a second station for competition, who would you choose. This has to be only people who were on the air on TOP 40 stations in Da Burg.
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Why are we concerned with rehashing the good ol' days with jocks that are way past their prime? Why aren't we mining the market for young, hungry and hip talent that needs to be given a break? People wonder why Pittsburgh radio sounds so stale and recycled, and a reason is because we're reverting back to 'name-dropping', back when talent reigned supreme. Living in a vacuum! BTW...nobody has done 6 dayparts in forever. But, I'll play ball with ya, just for grins. Here's my five daypart picks:

Mornings: Mike Frazer and Beth Bershok, Kelly Pidgeon with news
Middays: Chris DeCarlo
Afternoons: Rockin' Rich Anton
Evenings: Brother Matt
Overnights: Jammin' John Anthony
 
Gee. I didn't mean to get anyones back up in replying to the post. I m not in the radio business so you have to excuse my lack of knowledge as far as 5 or 6 go. I had a lot of pleasure taxing my memory to come up with some guys to reply to the post. The same thing is going on in Chicago with 94.7 changing their call letters back to WLS fm. They currently have Dick Biondi on along with Greg Brown a 30 plus year vet there. The names are flying there as to whom to add locally ( if they even have any intention which I doubt). As far as I am concerned that speculation real or just a dream is lots of fun. Nothing wrong with thinking about the past.
 
kenhawk1160 said:
MsMusicRadio said:
If you were going to put together the best ever TOP 40 station for Pittsburgh and you could select the best jocks from all the TOP 40's from KQV through the old B94 using a typical 6 dayparts, who would you choose? What if you wanted to create a second station for competition, who would you choose. This has to be only people who were on the air on TOP 40 stations in Da Burg.
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Why are we concerned with rehashing the good ol' days with jocks that are way past their prime? Why aren't we mining the market for young, hungry and hip talent that needs to be given a break?
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That's VERY interesting Ken.

Of the young talent that you're aware of in the market, what would your line-up be? Any format, not just CHR and part-time talent can be included.
 
kenhawk1160 said:
Mornings:  Mike Frazer and Beth Bershok, Kelly Pidgeon with news
Middays:   Chris DeCarlo
Afternoons: Rockin' Rich Anton
Evenings:  Brother Matt
Overnights: Jammin' John Anthony
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Isn't Rich Anton the program director of Forever's classic rock WUZZ/WUUZ in Meadville, PA in addition to being a DJ for the station?
 
If It's a Top 40 Fantasy Station, Here's My Lineup
530-10 DC Taylor and Tony Q Foxx with Shelly Duffy doing the news (naming it DC,Tony and Shelly in the morning)
10-3 Heidi Stern from B 94 in the mid 90's who I belive is on XM radio now.
3-7 Clarke Ingram
7-12 Zach Zabol
12-530AM Troy The Bad Boy Garrett
 
Jim Trefney said:
YOU WILL NEED AT LEAST $400,000,001 TO PULL THAT OFF! :eek:
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Yeah? So how about any of the fantasy listings that included dead disc jockeys. How much money would it take to make those fantasies real? ???
 
Steve Rizen
Henry DaBecco
Sam Holman
Clark Race
Jackson Armstrong
Dean Anthony
 
keystone.doug said:
Isn't Rich Anton the program director of Forever's classic rock WUZZ/WUUZ in Meadville, PA in addition to being a DJ for the station?
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Yep...after he was shown his walking papers from what was left of the old Energy 105, he packed up and left for Indianapolis, then came back about ten years ago. Doing a great job in Meadville, too. I had the privilege of meeting him about 2 1/2 years ago. Straight-up class act.
 
Interested Observer said:
That's VERY interesting Ken.

Of the young talent that you're aware of in the market, what would your line-up be? Any format, not just CHR and part-time talent can be included.
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You mean currently? I have to be honest, I haven't listened to Pittsburgh radio that frequently to really know who's out there that's really fresh. We still have market veterans, but they're younger talents that are replacing the talent pool that's either aging or retiring from the business altogether.
 
Younger people ask why are there such strong memories of 60's, 70's jocks? Maybe because they were the backbone or radio and as airshifts get longer or just disappear for robojocks, they just aren't as significant today. I could not name any significant CHR personality except for maybe Scott Shannon and Ryan Seacrest and that is not because they are new. I have no idea who is on 96.1. Could somebody like "kane" or whomever become a legend? I don't know. WABC, WLS, and WCFL jocks were heard across the country. I guess the only thing like that today is right-wing talk radio with nationally know "personalities".
 
MsMusicRadio said:
Younger people ask why are there such strong memories of 60's, 70's jocks? Maybe because they were the backbone or radio and as airshifts get longer or just disappear for robojocks, they just aren't as significant today. I could not name any significant CHR personality except for maybe Scott Shannon and Ryan Seacrest and that is not because they are new. I have no idea who is on 96.1. Could somebody like "kane" or whomever become a legend? I don't know. WABC, WLS, and WCFL jocks were heard across the country. I guess the only thing like that today is right-wing talk radio with nationally know "personalities".
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Maybe it's because the radio industry doesn't provide many entry level opportunities any more. It takes a combination of raw talent and experience to develop that talent to be good at anything. It strikes me that the young people with the raw talent to become good disc jockeys are now channeling their talents towards becoming stand-up comics or some other branch of show business.

And before anyone points out that being a stand-up and being a DJ are two different things, I know that. I'm not saying that they are the same thing. I'm saying that the fundamental raw talent needed for either is almost the same, it's a question of how a rookie develops his raw talent that determines if he'll become a good DJ or he'll become a good stand-up.

It would be like Major League Baseball finding that there weren't many good pitching prospects because every little kid with a strong arm who might have become a good pitcher with coaching and training was coached and trained to be a quarterback instead.
 
All true. The small-market stations that used to be the feeders for the bigs either run satellite now or are content to run really awful programming most of the time, as they now make their meager incomes from a handful of specialty shows.

I'll use the former WKEG (1110 AM, now WKZV) as an example. I started doing weekends there in 1979. They played music all day, had 2 fulltime jocks and a news director, ran NASCAR and a polka show on the weekends, and had three or four people on the streets selling. We'd have full spot loads all day every day, and it was a good-sounding operation. The PD/afternoon jock was John Gallagher, who went on to 20+ years with WLTJ. I went on to do about 10 years of weekends in Pittsburgh, and Al Steele from WKYE in Johnstown also started at 'KEG.

Now they segue old country records all day and you hear no spots at all. I am under the impression that the polka shows on the weekends are pretty much their only revenue source.

There are exceptions, like the operation up in Butler (and for that matter, WJPA) but this is more typical of what has happened to these small stations.
 
What if personality radio held fast. Rush would still be Jeff and playing all the hits. Maybe Billo would be a DJ and Sean Hannity too. Maybe the personality type that loved to expound to listeners like they did on KQV long ago just go into talk radio today. Todd Schnitt does both down in Tampa .
 
OldSchoolWoman said:
What if personality radio held fast. Rush would still be Jeff and playing all the hits. Maybe Billo would be a DJ and Sean Hannity too. Maybe the personality type that loved to expound to listeners like they did on KQV long ago just go into talk radio today.
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Well, yeah, uh, you see, talk show hosts are actually allowed to say something when they crack the mic, just like jocks used to be.
 
You could probably put music back on 77 WABC with the same cast of talk characters and they would sound natural.
 
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