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WBLI Changes

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Just in...Gabrielle Vaughn from WPST joins WBLI as mid-day/MD starting 3/27. Al Levine goes back to PM Drive, and Wendy Wild gets wild again at nights! Ah...life as it should be! Good luck to everyone!<P ID="signature">______________

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> Just in...Gabrielle Vaughn from WPST joins WBLI as
> mid-day/MD starting 3/27. Al Levine goes back to PM Drive,
> and Wendy Wild gets wild again at nights! Ah...life as it
> should be! Good luck to everyone!
>
And LJ gets......?<P ID="signature">______________

njrm.org - The New Jersey Radio Museum
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> > Just in...Gabrielle Vaughn from WPST joins WBLI as
> > mid-day/MD starting 3/27. Al Levine goes back to PM Drive,
>
> > and Wendy Wild gets wild again at nights! Ah...life as it
> > should be! Good luck to everyone!

> And LJ gets......? LJ is no longer F/T on the air by HER choice. She still will do weekends and fill-ins. She is by far one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure to meet in radio, along with Al and Wendy.
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Re: WBLI Changes - Do we like the new morning show?

> > > Just in...Gabrielle Vaughn from WPST joins WBLI as
> > > mid-day/MD starting 3/27. Al Levine goes back to PM
> Drive,
> >
> > > and Wendy Wild gets wild again at nights! Ah...life as
> it
> > > should be! Good luck to everyone!
>
> > And LJ gets......? LJ is no longer F/T on the air by HER
> choice. She still will do weekends and fill-ins. She is by
> far one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure to
> meet in radio, along with Al and Wendy.
>
WBLI is one of the real powerhouse radio stations on LI, yet they are not often mentioned here. Dana DiDonato has been around for a while now, so what do we think. Is she a good fit with Steve Harper? What about BLI in general. While always a top 10, they're at the bottom of that pack now, and their ARBs are about as low as they've been for BLI in a very long time.

Comments?
 
Re: WBLI Changes - Do we like the new morning show?

> WBLI is one of the real powerhouse radio stations on LI, yet
> they are not often mentioned here. Dana DiDonato has been
> around for a while now, so what do we think. Is she a good
> fit with Steve Harper? What about BLI in general. While
> always a top 10, they're at the bottom of that pack now, and
> their ARBs are about as low as they've been for BLI in a
> very long time?
>
> Comments?
>
Since moving from LI a few years ago, I've only listened to the station maybe every 3 weeks or so when I'm back...

Regarding Dana, it seems like she fits in good with Harper. Obviously it was going to take some time for people to get used to her on the morning show since Maria was there for...what, 9 years? All in all, she is a good fit. I could do without Big Gay Randy - voice is terribly annoying and the gimmic was ok..for a week. Then again, I'm not in the target demo.

The rest of the staff sounds solid - Levine has been there forever and knows his stuff and sounds great; Wendy has kicked ass and seems to have a good listener base in the few years she has done nights/days/nights; Even the part timers are solid. This shows a job well done by JJ in training and mentoring his staff.

The music mix is pretty good - there are a handfull (or maybe a few fingers full) of things I would change, but its still not bad. Imaging, Tony has done a nice job, alot of stations have really boring packages, but BLI's is solid.

All of that being said, I don't sence any "excitement" or buzz about what's on the air. As Long Island's #1 CHR/TOP 40, there should be some street buzz - "Hey, did you hear what the morning show on BLI said this morning" or "I heard this new hot song this afternoon on BLI". Z100/NY has the "buzz". Q102/Philly & Wired 96.5/Philly has the "buzz". I just don't sence the "buzz" on BLI. Maybe they don't need it - as long as they can sell the spots, all is good - but imagine what the ratings could/would be if they did?

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Re: WBLI Changes - Do we like the new morning show?

Haven't heard that much of it, but the new morning show seems pretty solid. They are a powerhouse on Long Island, and do a great job for a CHR living in the shadows of Z 100 (as does K 104 in Poughkeepsie). In regards to their ratings slide, we need to see more. We sill see what happens when the full winter book comes out, if it doesn't imporve by that point, then maybe its something to wonder about, but not at this point. Judging by the way the trends were, I think the last month of the fall book (some call it December, but its more along the lines of mid nov to mid Dec) was a real bad month, a month which still shows on this trend & will on the next one (off by the full winter book). I might be wrong, but I believe they had a sharp drop from the 2nd Fall Arbitrend (which covers the last summer month & first two fall months) to the actual Fall book, and they stayed around the same (slight uptick) between the full fall book, and first winter trend, which would lead you to believe that more than likley it was just one bad month (which can be explained by a number of things, just a bad month all around, impact of Christmas music, just bad luck of who got the diaries, bad diary placement, which could be a range of things from more in Nassau and less in Suffolk than there should or even more just in western Nassau than there should)



> > > > Just in...Gabrielle Vaughn from WPST joins WBLI as
> > > > mid-day/MD starting 3/27. Al Levine goes back to PM
> > Drive,
> > >
> > > > and Wendy Wild gets wild again at nights! Ah...life as
>
> > it
> > > > should be! Good luck to everyone!
> >
> > > And LJ gets......? LJ is no longer F/T on the air by HER
>
> > choice. She still will do weekends and fill-ins. She is by
>
> > far one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure
> to



> > meet in radio, along with Al and Wendy.
> >
> WBLI is one of the real powerhouse radio stations on LI, yet
> they are not often mentioned here. Dana DiDonato has been
> around for a while now, so what do we think. Is she a good
> fit with Steve Harper? What about BLI in general. While
> always a top 10, they're at the bottom of that pack now, and
> their ARBs are about as low as they've been for BLI in a
> very long time?
>
> Comments?
> <P ID="signature">______________
PARTY 105 IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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