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WBUD-AM NOW ALL CHRISTMAS

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Vince2003

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WBUD 1260 has switched to all xmas music,it happened on Wednesday.

In addition to that News morning has dissapeared as well.Save for a traffic and weather update at 20 past the hour from 6-9am.

I smell a format change or perhaps a switch to satellite after the new year!
 
> WBUD 1260 has switched to all xmas music,it happened on
> Wednesday.
>
> In addition to that News morning has dissapeared as
> well.Save for a traffic and weather update at 20 past the
> hour from 6-9am.
>
> I smell a format change or perhaps a switch to satellite
> after the new year!

think the satellite switch is a done deal
>
 
Yes i would say it is starting around January 3rd.

WBUD-AM will be ALL SATELLITE.No local personalities at all,with the exception of Jill Mira's traffic,and Alan Kasper's weather at 20 and 50 past the hour from 6-9am and millenium news hour from 5-6am.

I also think Ken Wright and Mike Landry will probably still be with bud/101.5 in some capacity dj work commercials behind the scenes etc.Jack Pinto will probbly retire.

I think it will be the music of your life format with the same songs heard on bud at present with maybe a little more 70s in the mix.

I believe that format from abc radio feaures legendary game show hosts as air personalities(Peter Marshall/Geoff Edwards etc)in addition to others.

Sad to see a once proud radio station go down hill like that but i guess this is a cost saving measure.
 
> Sad to see a once proud radio station go down hill like that
> but i guess this is a cost saving measure.
>

I'll second that! As if having ONE Jock VoiceTrack an entire 8 HOUR SHIFT wasn't enough of a cost-saving measure to begin with and now to go with satellite!? Now 'BUD will have obligations to hold up with ABC Radio if they are going to be using their feed. I certainly would have thought that having all the music originate from "in house" would have been the most cost-effective route to go. So there goes one more heritage station in NJ...

The biggest tragedy in this day and age of radio is that the "listeners" are the ones who lose without any "locality, personality, or information!" I guess it's time to start chipping away at those HEFTY $8 an hour rates that some of the stations are paying to save even MORE money!!!

:-(
 
Thoughts on WBUD-AM

I second your thought about losing the local info sports etc.Bad timing for WBUD-AM to do such a thing during the winter season where info is much needed particularly during snow storms for closings cancellations etc.

Its very sad that the 25 year old locally produced MOR/Nostalgia/Big Band/Oldies format which was VERY SUCCESSFUL in its 25 years on BUD in various combos is coming to an end January 1 or shortly therafter in favor of an ABC delivered satellite format.

If WBUD is taking ABC RADIO im sure part of the deal is airing the ABC newscasts at the top of the hour and in their entirety not just the 1st 2 minutes,so i believe AP radio news on BUD will end soon too.

Also WBUD will probably continue to air the New Jersey News Hour at 5am as the only real break in the satellite feed and the only real extended source of news in the morning,other than the local weather with Alan Kasper and Jill Mira Traffic in morning rush and the top of the hour weather during the rest of the day with Kasper and the ABC newscasts.

Very sad indeed that Millenium is running BUD into the ground and eliminating a successful format that was a success for over 25 years in favor of sateillte oldies to save $$$$$$$$$!

This was a format that made BUD a major powerhouse in Central Jersey.

This was a format that rose WBUD from the bottom of the ratings WAY behind WHWH AND WPST in 1980 before this format started to finally knocking off WHWH in the AM ratings and a few ratings periods even beating WPST AND MAKING THEM and WKXW serious players.

Before this format began WBUD struggled in the local ratings for years after its ill fated news and info nbc service went down the tubes after 2 years around 1976 or 1977 replacing a SUCCESSFUL top 40 format that WBUD had most of its history.

BUD was way behind the nassau powerhouses for years until 1980 when the then new owners(Fidelity Communications and Ed Hurst)decided on bring the WPEN formula to BUD,and rehired 50s and 60s BUD personalities Jack Pinto and Dick Harvey as well as other personalities like Dick Burns Barbara Spinelli and others for this format.It worked and BUD was VERY SUCCESSFUL in the ratings and as mentioned before finally beat Nassau in the ratings.

Good mix of big bands(eventually big bands were mostly dropped)nostalgia and MOR hits of the 70s and 60s plus oldies and news heavy mornings was what made bud a 25 year success in the ratings.

Its sad to see that after 25 years of success Millenium is pulling the plug on a local format which began in 1980(mix of MOR/Nostalgia and Big Bands at the beginning-to its present MOR format)to pull BUD out of the ratings cellar and INDEED IT DID COME OUT to a satellite format that features NO LOCAL JOCKS and very little local info.

Any of you guys and gals remember the GOOD OLE DAYS OF WBUD-AM 1260?
 
Re: Thoughts on WBUD-AM

> >is
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> Any of you guys and gals remember the GOOD OLE DAYS OF
> WBUD-AM 1260?

At the risk of being a "devil's advocate......yes I do remember the (not so) good days of WBUD in the 60's/70's. The station was considered by most people in the biz at the time as pretty substandard. This was when they were across the street on Ewingville Road. The equipment was old and not properly maintained, the offices were a mess. When the dj's opened their mike you could clearly hear the transmitter fans. They mainly played around as some sort of AC station. The mainstay, Jack Pinto, did mornings there for years as well as some moonlighting on WNEW-AM. The FM, at the time had their antenna on top of one of WBUD's towers. It sounded really bad...automated beautiful mx...WBJH''
what a mess..lots of hum....dead air...when there was dead air you could clearly hear the AM bleeding through. On the other hand their AM competition was not too bad. WTTM-920 did a full service AC...they even rocked a bit at night with the infamous "Ron Diamond" doing some time there. WHWH-1350 sounded pretty decent..even though their pasttern had a few dead spots. WAAT-1300 had a good run twice as a Top 40 outlet and had quite a few top pro's working there. Then there was WTOA-97.5...which later evolved into "passport radio" WPST (& those calls linger on!). Of course the other FM sleeping giant was all religious WCHR..which was a Great Scott station along with WTTM. WCHR's studios then were in the transmitter shack up in Yardley, Pa. while WTTM had their studios in an apartment building, the Carteret Arms. Getting back to WBUD...they tried Top 40 a few times...I remember hearing them doing the format around the summer of '71.....bad audio, very repetitious, very few spots. But they came in well where i was working ..in the basement of the state capitol building. I believe Len Murray was PD there for a while (WAAT,WEEZ,WIBG) as well as Mel Phillips (WRKO,WCBS-FM). I recall they were an NBC NIS affiliate...a friend of mine worked their briefly....said that after paychecks were issued there was a mad dash to the bank...before the funds were depleted.!!







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