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WEHM Changes

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I am sad to say that today is Brian Cosgrove's last day on WEHM. After 10 years Brian has decided to move on and will surface again on the air very soon at WLIU / WCWP. Cosgrove has also been serving as director of programming for Cherry Creek's 3 stations on the East End of Long Island. I would like to take this opportunity to wish Brian much luck with his move. Brian is a nice guy who always had the back of jocks on his staff. He has also been recognized by industry heavyweights like Howard Stern for his on air and programming skills.

Taking over Brian's PD chair will be WEHM's midday personality Lauren Stone. I want to tell Lauren congratulations on her promotion. It is just a shame that Ms. Stone is receiving a station that is damaged goods now. The management running these stations out there has let go and / or chased out almost all the other first rate talent they had. WEHM will be down to its one live jock Ms. Stone herself with voice tracked afternoons being held down by an experienced and polished CHR jock at this Triple A station where he just doesn't know the music or the format. I just hope that the owners out there wake up soon and give Lauren what she needs to do the great job she is capable of doing.

East End radio will be much different these days with Brian's voice missing in the morning. At least it is good to know that Brian will be back on the air soon enough at WLIU / WCWP. I for one will be tuning in when he returns to the air waves !!!!!!!
 
Do you know what Brian will be doing at WLIU/WCWP? Considering they have only one fulltime employee and no one else is paid there......

Also who is the current management staff at WEHM, that is GM? GSM?

Are any of the orignal people there, aka Paul Conroy etc?
 
engineer16 said:
Do you know what Brian will be doing at WLIU/WCWP? Considering they have only one fulltime employee and no one else is paid there......

Also who is the current management staff at WEHM, that is GM? GSM?

Are any of the orignal people there, aka Paul Conroy etc?
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Only one Paid employee at WLIU? Better check on them figures. That may be the case for WCWP, but not for WLIU. LIU has done with WLIU (formerly WPBX) what Fordham has done with WFUV, Sacred Heart has done with WSHU, etc.

WEHM has changed a lot since the early days. So have all of the stations in that cluster. Especially Beach, which is back to being Beach-Radio once again. The days of driving past WEHM and looking in the window at all the tape machines doing their thing are long gone.
 
Brian Cosgrove is top notch, it is too bad the management in charge of WEHM didn't realize what kind of talent they were letting go...There have been significant changes at the WEHM cluster since the window front studio and apparently few have been for the better...good luck to Brian at his new gig.
 
WEHM in its original state, along Pantigo Road with the big window, was great. Passersby could stop and see the jock live on air....it was real. Than they ruined it, sold it and turned it into the nothing it is today....a real shame. There were a few good people who worked there when the stattion was born and it was a top notch technical facility.......
 
>>Than they ruined it, sold it and turned it into the nothing it is today....a real shame

The nothing that it is today? What planet are you on? It's the number one station in its market!
 
I've been pretty impressed with 'EHM as late, their playlist is so varied, you never know what you'll hear when you put it on.
It's a shame that they don't have that storefront studio I know. I remember back in the days of Beach 104.7 they were in an old house in Amagansett village.
As far as Beach 101.7, why are they always broadcasting in mono?
 
IslandDixer,
Not only The Beach is in mono...but EHM's EHN simulcast at 96.9 has also been in mono for many months. First, 96.9 was stereo and 92.9 mono, but they moved the stereo over to the stronger, bigger coverage 92.9 signal months ago! Basically...since literally everything out at that cluster is being slashed to save cash...Why would you expect stereo anytime soon? They are also looking to move 92.9's stick further west...so my guess would be that a quality product is not a priority at this time (or maybe ever). Bottom line...the absolute cheapest way to get the maximum cash for the summer (based upon the almost ready to be rated Spring Book) is their only goal. Who get's rid of all your live experienced talent in The Hamptons, no less, at the brink of summer? Will someone just shoot me in the foot please...so I can run this marathon...Will You???
 
That's a real shame that they stripped 'EHM. I make it out that way a few times a year and always looked forward to tuning them in. WEHM was right there with Baltimore's WRNR the last time that I was up there, which is really good.... I don't get cutting the live talent because jocks will work for very little money, as we all know. They could staff the place for $70 a shift - and maybe less.
 
From what I understand, Brian Cosgrove quit--he wasn't fired. EHM still has live talent,
I've heard jocks all weekend long and the music is fantastic. How can you comment if you're not even in the listening range?
 
Rich said:
I don't get cutting the live talent because jocks will work for very little money, as we all know. They could staff the place for $70 a shift - and maybe less.
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Significantly less. Cherry Creek pays their jocks only $8 per hour, unless they're "Management." Barely covers the cost of traveling out there to work a 4 hour shift.
 
hopwilson said:
From what I understand, Brian Cosgrove quit--he wasn't fired. EHM still has live talent,
I've heard jocks all weekend long and the music is fantastic.
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Hop if you read my original post you will see I said that Brian decided to take another job. He is just the latest in the departures from the 3 stations out there. Some have quit some fired but all as a result of a bad GM. The management is running the place into the ground which is a shame. I am glad that Lauren Stone has the chance to be the new PD because she is a talented jock and programmer but she is being asked to do the job without all the tools necessary to do it. I like the station owner and I hope he realizes before it is to late what is going on with his stations. As for hearing jocks meaning they are "live" in the studio makes me wonder what job you have in radio that you've never heard of voice tracking.
 
hopwilson said:
>>Than they ruined it, sold it and turned it into the nothing it is today....a real shame

The nothing that it is today? What planet are you on? It's the number one station in its market!
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Its simple. They had a live staff, fully operational and committed news department, top notch technical facility. They were committed to real honest community service. They did news every hour, they did live promotions and broadcasts that sounded studio quality. Now they are nothing more than second rate cookie cutter small market radio. When that station went on the air, you had PD's from WALK, WBLI, NY City stations who would stop by when out for the day in the Hamptons, and remark how great the station sounded and how impressed they were with it overall. It was major market quality with a small market committment to community. It sounds nothing liek that now and does not have the committment it did during its first 2 years on air....
 
That being said, I do still like their music mix, which I wouldn't say is anywhere near as "cookie cutter" as most other area stations. Indeed, I think an AAA format like that, but more polished (and not as eclectic as WFUV) could win over a good audience in NYC.

What always struck me about the Cherry Creek stations, however, is the atrocious sound quality on all of them.
 
Well if WEHM sounds bad, I pretty much blame the station engineer for that. The original WEHM on Pantigo Road, used a T1 for STl and a the first generation Cutting Edge unity Processor built by Frank Foti for audio processing. The station was designed and engineered to sound like major market outlet and it did. Once they brought in a contract engineer, it went to hell....
 
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