While cooking, my wife listens to WDAS, which got me started listening too by overhearing from the other room. I enjoy their selections, some good classic 1950's and 60's r&b and soul. My wife kept asking me "who recorded this, who is the group" which made me notice it is all automation, except for Bobby Holiday in the morning. Now I know some will say....OH, you don't listen to radio much, you finally noticed. Well...give me a good reason to listen to radio and i'll listen. Now that there is a station that's tolerable....it's automated. No mention is made of who the artist is or the name of the song, how impersonal. Yeah I know...it's a business blah blah blah, screw quality, it's just a cash cow.
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They had Butterball V/T'd in the afternoon, noon-6pm. But then he died suddenly, so no more voice on pm drive.
I know the artists for 90% of what they play. If you listen on-line, I-Heart Radio shows the artist.
besides that, do you really expect live dj's for a major market station with around 30K listeners?
I know the artists for 90% of what they play. If you listen on-line, I-Heart Radio shows the artist.
besides that, do you really expect live dj's for a major market station with around 30K listeners?
jhguthlac said:
luperm said:
If I had a partner...believe me...I would. What they have now is the equivalent to calling a DJ service to provide music for a party, and they show up with an ipod and speakers, start playing music and walk out of the building. I actually get the feeling that you think radio is better today than 20, 30 40 or even 50 years ago. I remember the WFIL Boss Jocks, the WIGB Good Guys, Jocko, Carl Helm etc....believe me, today...it's a frigging joke, a bad joke at that.
luperm said:
yeah....at least brokered shows would bring some creativity and originality, something fresh....which radio has lost long ago.
Good stuff, DooWopVault.
I'm an 'outsider' here, a former NYC kid who lived and worked in Philadelphia for a few years and then moved permanently a hundred miles north. I haven't gone near a mic for a paycheck in twenty years (although we do some minor voice work here).
Yet, even *that* demi-tasse cup of coffee is enough of a chit to keep me checking the radio boards for a sign or two of some sort of renaissance.
Long before I had internet, I airchecked a few dozen Philly Radio casettes from my time there and still have them. Eventually I'll put them on CD and play them on car-rental trips. There is a lot of WPEN when they were Standards, and from WRTI when some fellow -- please pardon my memory ; Troy-something? -- did a soft-jazz show, from WHAT when they had a sunset music program called Night Flight, and a bunch of stuff from WPGR 1540.
Anyway ; Summing up : As long as WDAS 1480 is playing music, enjoy it -- and if possible, record it. It's extremely rare for an AM station at the cusp of 2013 to be 'doing it' musically for any human being. Some enterprising company ought to try it on FM and worry about the age of the demo numbers later. In fact, a Solid-Gold R&B station should have been done twenty years ago.
Preserve those rare musical and radio-magic memories. Computers indeed make it possible to do just that, even while the wingtip guys with the clipboards in the boardrooms seem intent on eradicating the notion of people older than they who've have the nerve to accumulate actual memories.
I'm an 'outsider' here, a former NYC kid who lived and worked in Philadelphia for a few years and then moved permanently a hundred miles north. I haven't gone near a mic for a paycheck in twenty years (although we do some minor voice work here).
Yet, even *that* demi-tasse cup of coffee is enough of a chit to keep me checking the radio boards for a sign or two of some sort of renaissance.
Long before I had internet, I airchecked a few dozen Philly Radio casettes from my time there and still have them. Eventually I'll put them on CD and play them on car-rental trips. There is a lot of WPEN when they were Standards, and from WRTI when some fellow -- please pardon my memory ; Troy-something? -- did a soft-jazz show, from WHAT when they had a sunset music program called Night Flight, and a bunch of stuff from WPGR 1540.
Anyway ; Summing up : As long as WDAS 1480 is playing music, enjoy it -- and if possible, record it. It's extremely rare for an AM station at the cusp of 2013 to be 'doing it' musically for any human being. Some enterprising company ought to try it on FM and worry about the age of the demo numbers later. In fact, a Solid-Gold R&B station should have been done twenty years ago.
Preserve those rare musical and radio-magic memories. Computers indeed make it possible to do just that, even while the wingtip guys with the clipboards in the boardrooms seem intent on eradicating the notion of people older than they who've have the nerve to accumulate actual memories.
Why not at least voice track it using jocks from other markets? While not the same as "live and local", it at least gives the illusion of being live. If voice tracking is done right, the average listener would never know the difference. CC has ben widely known to use cross-market VTs, so why not on WDAS-AM?Fakeem said:
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jhguthlac
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If I had a partner...believe me...I would. What they have now is the equivalent to calling a DJ service to provide music for a party, and they show up with an ipod and speakers, start playing music and walk out of the building. I actually get the feeling that you think radio is better today than 20, 30 40 or even 50 years ago. I remember the WFIL Boss Jocks, the WIGB Good Guys, Jocko, Carl Helm etc....believe me, today...it's a frigging joke, a bad joke at that.
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And after your partner runs out of money, what will you do?
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And after your partner runs out of money, what will you do?
And after your partner runs out of money, what will you do?jhguthlac said:
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First off, you need backup money till it gets going. 2nd, why is it only the partner running out of money and not you? 3rd it's called taking a risk, as every business owner takes. The difference would be I would not only care about bringing money in...but I would also care about the product that i'm putting out.As the old saying goes....you need to spend money to make money. The problem is, stations don't want to spend money, which is why they are gutting their stations, but they want to make money, which is why radio today sucks.
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