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WBT's Christmas Programming was AWFUL!

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Matt

This morning I went down I-85 to Concord for our family's Christmas get-together. Out of habit, I tuned in WBT-1110, knowing that they have been doing some excellent Christmas Programming in the past few years.

In the past, each talk host on the station would do an hour or two telling the traditions of their families. I especially looked forward to Stacy Simms, who is Jewish, as she described Hanukkah's of her past.

I was not happy to find that WBT was playing some canned Christmas music programming, and worse, encouraging people to go to a website to vote for their favorite Christmas song of 2003. My assumption is that whatever they were playing (and it wasn't even very good music) has been sitting on the shelf for that long, and they figured that so few diary keepers would be listening on Christmas Day that it would not matter what they had on the air.

Surely WBT could have done something better than stale tunes and a contest that isn't even active any more. Does anyone know what or why such a let-down for the holidays?

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
:eek: Don't know about that, I'm a stockholder..BUT What were you playing on your TV Station...I hope it wasn't what FOX 8 was airing , Christmas with the Stations personalities at Home.. Who Cares? Days of Super Jocks are over!
 
Matt....

I know in the past Bo Thompson (no relation to H.A.) produced a good bit of 'BT's Christmas programming...He has gone to work for Danny Fontana...

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I think this is WBT's second Christmas without Bo Thompson. Bo worked very hard producing hours of programming for "Christmas In Charlotte".

I agree that today's programming was awful. I tuned in for 5 minutes tonight and then flipped back to WFAE.
 
BUT What were you playing on your TV Station...
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We were "All Christmas Parades, All day". We played a six-hour cycle of each of the Christmas Parades in our viewing area, plus a syndicated show called "Gospel SuperFest Holiday" to give folks a little rest from the parades.

We spent all day last Monday producing it, and all avails were sold out so we could just add the avails into the production and give the technicians Christmas Day off...not a bad way to end the Christmas Holidays.

Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
 
It's been so long since I've heard really good Christmas programming on the radio I didn't even think to turn it on.

If I had turned on the radio I doubt WBT would have even entered my mind. How times change, it used to be the one station I never would think of doing without. How I miss the "Full Service" format.

WBT is hard for me to listen to. They need a new imaging voice for one thing. The stagers, jingles, and imaging are way too jaring. Someone should tell them to mellow out a bit.
 
From 1999-2004, WBT's Christmas programming was completely locally produced.

I even tried a couple of radio dramas back in 1999 and 2000...they were fun, but too time consuming to keep doing...
 
Bo, the stuff you did at 'BT was truly top shelf. I didn't know you produced all that stuff...great work. I'm looking forward to what you have planned for WDYT next Christmas...
 
There are NO diary keepers on Christmas Day, Matt! Diary keeping ended on the 14th and will not resume until after the New Year!
 
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