Why 5 after instead of 5 before? If the audience wants to hear music, not news, they will presumably tune out station #1 when it goes to news, and you win the audience by playing music. But then won't those same listeners tune out your station when you go to news 5 minutes later, returning to station #1 for music and staying there for the next 55 minutes?
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WCBS 880 to have early morning simulcast on WCBS- FM
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Why 5 after instead of 5 before? If the audience wants to hear music, not news, they will presumably tune out station #1 when it goes to news, and you win the audience by playing music. But then won't those same listeners tune out your station when you go to news 5 minutes later, returning to station #1 for music and staying there for the next 55 minutes?
People listen to us mainly for the variety music mix and local information... were not a news station, dont have a news staff.. us DJ's do the news. We aim to be accurate, not first.. and have caught our competition in a few stretches of the truth.
As for why 5 after? humans do know news should come at the top of the hour.. ours come later, and shorter.
Something about quarter hour and Time spent listening
and when our TSL was the leader by 2x our nearest competitor and 3 to 4x that of most everyone else ,were doing something right
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In addition to mornings on WCBS-FM, now that John Foxx will start doing mornings starting February 13th, Anne Leamy from “Annie in the Morning” is now joining with John Foxx starting next week.
As you know, Anne Leamy from “Annie in the Morning” who usually did mornings on WRNQ’s “Q92” in Poughkeepsie which is in the Hudson Valley where she took over for Joe Daily back in 2020, she is going to join with John Foxx to do mornings down there.
This is not a good change following Scott Shannon’s departure. I’m not a John Foxx fan and not a fan of Annie Leamy at all. We shall see.
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As you know, Anne Leamy from “Annie in the Morning” who usually did mornings on WRNQ’s “Q92” in Poughkeepsie which is in the Hudson Valley where she took over for Joe Daily back in 2020, she is going to join with John Foxx to do mornings down there.
This is not a good change following Scott Shannon’s departure. I’m not a John Foxx fan and not a fan of Annie Leamy at all. We shall see.
Annie Leamy To Co-Host Mornings On WCBS-FM
Audacy Classic Hits 101.1 WCBS-FM New York has announced the addition of Anne Marie 'Annie' Leamy as morning co-host for
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I don't know if they still do this but in the middle of the local morning show on an oldies station where I live, that's exactly what the "news" was. Two anchors, one male and one female, going back and forth saying one sentence and never giving us more detail. It's something you would expect to be a preview of more detail. However, this station has Fox news at the top of the hour. Not biased on the radio version.
61 Big WAYS was the Top 40 station in Charlotte. They advertised news at :55 and music on the hour.
That's fine, because you have twenty other options, or whatever you regurgitate every time you post about this station.
In addition to mornings on WCBS-FM, now that John Foxx will start doing mornings starting February 13th, Anne Leamy from “Annie in the Morning” is now joining with John Foxx starting next week.
As you know, Anne Leamy from “Annie in the Morning” who usually did mornings on WRNQ’s “Q92” in Poughkeepsie which is in the Hudson Valley where she took over for Joe Daily back in 2020, she is going to join with John Foxx to do mornings down there.
This is not a good change following Scott Shannon’s departure. I’m not a John Foxx fan and not a fan of Annie Leamy at all. We shall see.
Annie Leamy To Co-Host Mornings On WCBS-FM
Audacy Classic Hits 101.1 WCBS-FM New York has announced the addition of Anne Marie 'Annie' Leamy as morning co-host for
@MTNProductions I'm guessing then that this was you commenting about the same story on the radioinsight.com facebook group.
Bitter Party of 1! Love it!
We should point out that the poster declared over two months ago that he would no longer listen to the station once Scott Shannon left. For some reason he continues to threaten leaving five weeks after Shannon is gone. How many times does one have to make the same threat? If you're no longer listening, then you lose the right to complain about who they hire. Radio stations do not program to those who do not listen.
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Perhaps the announcement of 15 minutes of simulcast news from WCBS-AM was enough to bring him back (see how I pivoted back to the topic!)
Yay for cheap gimmicks that have the lifespan of a day-old donut.
Of course, that was in the Sis and Stan Kaplan era when AMs were expected to have around 8% of all air hours dedicated to News, Public Affairs, Educational and Other non entertainment programming. So we pretty much had to have about 8 to 10 hours of newscasts and 3 to 4 hours of Public Affairs, Religion and Other if we wanted a license renewal without a costly hearing or extra filings.
Do what I did after oldies stations started leaving the airwaves and amass a huge collection of oldies music, then let the good times roll for hours on end commercial-free. Or get SiriusXM.
The problem is that most people don't want to take the time and spend the money to buy and assemble that "huge collection".
And the 60's and 70's oldies channels on Sirius/XM spend way too much time spinning minor / secondary hits. I gave up on listening to either and my choice is to moderately listen to the 80's channel which is a bit better. I programmed Top 40 in the 60's and 70's and find too many songs that I am rather unfamiliar with or which I know don't research today.
Of course there's a Facebook group for fans of 60s Gold with a bunch of posts with "why doesn't SiriusXM play everything that ever made the charts from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969? Lots of folks cannot be pleased.
Have you ever heard an unfamiliar song and liked it? And are there songs that don't research well today that you know and like anyway, just would never play them on a radio station you were consulting/programming?
I had come across MTN's YouTube by mistake one day. There was a video mocking the death of a reporter in a helicopter crash. Very insensitive, their work IS crap.
Sirius-XM needs to focus more on musical eras than on decades. By running one 60s decade channel and another 70s decade channel they are dividing the oldies music era onto two separate channels that you have to flip between to hear everything you like from the format. Then they have to add filler songs to each channel to make up for the lack of available hits that resulted from partitioning half of them off into the other decade.
The same is true with many of their other channels. They are too narrow and you end up having to flip around way too much to hear a well rounded mix of songs in the format you like.
For years, 40s on 4 had songs from the mid-'40s through 1954, 50s on 5 had songs from 1955 through 1963, while 60s on 6 covered 1964 through 1969, with a few exceptions in the "cusp" years. But I'm hearing more pre-British Invasion music on the renamed 60s Gold channel now. Not sure if the other two channels have expanded their range, But yes, the strict '60s/'70s split is still in place, which is why acts like Stevie Wonder and Three Dog Night have a bunch of stylistically similar hits played on only one of the channels.
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