Re: Boring?
> >> Almost everyone outside this market finds it boring? I
> > would love to see the research on that. Even though they
> > can't hear it? I would not say it is any more boring than
>
> > radio anywhere else. Unfortunately, Albany is not large
> > enough to splinter formats among 30 stations or a disco
> > slanting format might be viable. For example, In NYC
> where
> > a 2 share means 300,000 listeners, you might get away with
>
> > it. In Albany, a 2 share is 15,000 listeners, hardly a
> > number worth experimenting for.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hmmmm.....Ever wonder why you don't see many radio people
> outside this market wanting to come into Albany? As someone
> who is in the business I can tell you there are those that
> have knowledge, listen to other markets, work in other
> markets and stay on top of the radio business.
> Unfortunately, many in the Albany market haven't even HEARD
> NYC radio much less anywhere in the country!!!
> THAT is one of the reasons the market BECOMES boring! The
> talent only hears the same BAD people and the same bad
> crutches used by everyone else and regurgitating it all year
> jock after jock! For instance how many times do you hear a
> jock in Albany say an address or location and say Albany,
> NEW YORK or so and so NEW YORK!! HELLO!? What else would
> it be..Albany, Kentucky? Or... how about this one...just
> listen real close to spots and I gurantee it won't be long
> before you hear "That's right!" or "located at.." One
> hears it and it's repeated again and again...bad radio!
> Nothing new or exciting is happening very often (although I
> do give credit to Candy and Potter and FLY for the student
> scholarship stunt that worked well)! No one seeems to want
> to "rock the boat" with guerilla marketing, if you
> understand what that is. The ROck format in and of itself
> is BORING!! If you go through the dial in Albany it's all
> the SAME!!!! If you can keep an open mind and think about
> what most radio scanners (almost everyone) would hear if
> they scan..ROCK...scan....ROCK...scan...ROCK
> ORIENTED....scan.....LITE MUSIC......scan.....CONSERVATIVE
> TALK RADIO...scan....DANCE!!!!! It would stand out and
> make listeners certainly take notice-even if you didn't
> particularly care for the format!!!! That's my
> two-and-a-half cents!!
>
Sorry to burst your NYC bubble, but NYC has some of the worst radio I've ever heard. The playlists are tighter than Eliot Spitzer, the jocks are pretty bland and the spotloads are INSANE!!!!!(do your own Crazy Eddie impression). The problem with Albany is what you said though, lacking imagination. There's way too many rock stations as we all know. The feeling I get from listening to Albany stations is that they mostly just "mail it in". The CC stations for instance, PYX just brought back their morning retred Ellen Z who has done nothing for the show except maybe do the impossible and lower the intelligence level even further. Lisa was much better. She actually said things that weren't nonsense. Why is Vito still on the air? The Channel just seems to be lost in the shuffle. You have to figure, in light of WHRL be mentioned in the recent payola news, the station will be undergoing some major changes if not a total format flip. It's not like CC counts on the 2 share they bring in each book. ABC has issues after canning Sugarbear at JAMZ. FLY's #'s are steadily declining. Regent's big question? What to do when Howard leaves? It should all make for a very interesting Fall book don't ya think?
