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WGMD what a waste of a frequency!

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murphmac

I have never heard a woese station than WGMD. I hate it and will never listen again. I have a weekend place in Rehoboth Beach - a vibrant, diverse community. What a shame that this biggoted right winged trash bin of a station is licensed to this great place. I'm in radio and if I ever got a hold of that property, I would clean house, take it off the aoir for a few weeks and come back with a real iocal unbiased station that truly serves the wonderful diverse community. I can't believe the things I heard coming out of their trashy mouths. They are not only mis-informed but they are wasting their breath because very few listen to them. They had no storm coverage and a couple of weeks ago when someone called in to find out about a power outage, the women on the air actually sounded annoyed because she couldn't go on with her senseless rant against President Obama!

Take a walk, shut this useless trash bin down!
 
murphmac, I think if you check out the ratings numbers (12+) for the Salisbury/Ocean City MD market #140, WGMD is tied for 7th place with a higher rating by almost 4 times of WICO, the Delmarva talker in your market. WGMD's ratings are also considerably higher than either WDEL or WILM, granted they are in a different market, but both are talkers.

When I've been to the beach, I'll go around the dial to hear what's going on, and WGMD seems to have plenty of local spots, (even during Rush which WILM in Wilmington sure can't claim). So it would appear that WGMD is serving the talk audience of Sussex County and Salisbury MD quite well.

Remember, the Rehoboth Beach community may be "diversified" making the Town of Rehoboth "Blue", but the rest of Sussex County is very "RED".

Washington's WAMU now is simulcasting in Rehoboth Beach with a 50K signal, so you should easily pick up that station. That news/talk format might be a better choice for you than WGMD.
 
I always enjoy listening to WGMD when in the area. Just because one person dislikes it doesn't mean that it should be blown up and turned into something that we already have many of on Delmarva. Would you turn it into another Country station? Oh wait, a Classic hits station? Better yet the Smooth Jazz format that failed on 97.1? WGMD serves it's audience well and it's ratings and advertisements show. Find another station to listen to then, and move on.
 
murphmac said:
They had no storm coverage
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Tell that to the staff that was on the air live 24 hours a day between 6am on Saturday and 10pm on Sunday. Rush even got preempted on Friday to prepare for the storm.
 
WGMD is a class act that has been around for many years. Making a lot of money for a station that size. Murphmac, apparently your idea of "diversity" does not have room for conservatives. But you certainly have "diversity" in your spelling!
 
WGMD does more to be a part of their community and serve their community that most radio stations today. They have solid local advertising support, in a time when others struggle. I worked for them back in the mid 2000's, and I'll tell you this, they are all about serving the customer, which means the advertiser, if the advertiser didn't support them, they'd do something else. The were doing talk on FM long be fore most, and if the other groups would put half the work into their local community we'd have great local radio. Delmarva does a wonderful job with their successful stations (WDEL, WAFL, Cat Country), but they won't bring that to other stations that are waiting in the wings (97.1 The Wave, Cool 101.3, WICO-FM) Maybe if the would take some of the money that WDEL is sucking up and put it into these other stations, we'd have better radio across the peninsula. Still compared to Great Scott (boy that's a laugh) and Cheap Channel they look great down state. If you think you know how to program a station for Sussex county, put your money where your mouth is, Great Scott will sell you not one, but two stations for $800,000, and if they ask nicely they may even throw in an AM with a missing grounding system for free.
 
You may be right. I have not listened to WGMD for a long period of time and thanks for picking out my typo. The few times I have listened, I heard extreme right winged biased programming. I know many stations are like this. I don't want to hear only that kind of programming and that's exactly what I heard the few times that I've tuned in. I don't like extreme left or extreme right winged programming. I find it offensive. You are right in suggesting that I try another station. I have taken your suggestion. I just wish that WGMD was a little more informative and a little less opinionated.
Get that red pen out and make sure you point out those typos. I'm sure that it will make you feel better.
 
ka3kza said:
but they won't bring that to other stations that are waiting in the wings (97.1 The Wave, Cool 101.3, WICO-FM) Maybe if the would take some of the money that WDEL is sucking up and put it into these other stations, we'd have better radio across the peninsula. Still compared to Great Scott (boy that's a laugh) and Cheap Channel they look great down state. If you think you know how to program a station for Sussex county, put your money where your mouth is, Great Scott will sell you not one, but two stations for $800,000, and if they ask nicely they may even throw in an AM with a missing grounding system for free.
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It has been awhile, but I can tell you that they actually had to sponsor one of their own midday programs. The shame of it is that given the sound that it had and the company tolerated while losing people all around the time slot they had to sponsor themselves they never got rid of their bad apple. Not sure that it says much for the broadcasting company, other than they are shrewd for possibly not giving in to having their unemployment insurance jacked up, unless it was a chance they were willing to take for everyone else while keeping one of the worst people you ever did hear in radio while somebody might have been sleeping with the junk personnel. But more than enough attention has been given to garbage than it merits.
 
murphmac said:
You may be right. I have not listened to WGMD for a long period of time
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So which is it? Have you not listened in a long time, or did you listen and not hear the 36+ hours of live storm coverage? Did you hear the female host hang up on someone interrupting an Obama rant through the fillings in your teeth?

See, this is the problem when you get people complaining about programming. They don't actually listen to it to back up any claims they're making.
 
Talk radio these days, like music radio, is all about branding. When you tune in WJBR, you expect to hear adult contemporary music. If you switch over to WILM/WDOV, you expect to hear conservative talk. Running a liberal in one time slot and a conservative in the next is not going to be as successful. WGMD is so successful because its mostly live, local and conservative/middle of the road.
 
I tried to listen again today and I don't care what you say THE PROGRAMMING SUCKS! Bigoted, biased crap! That's it say what you want. It is the worst station I ever heard!!! They are only interested in airing their dirty,trashy laundry! There's nothing informative about their ridiculous opinions. They are not serving the community and should be shut down!! Most stations that do this eventually go off the air. People get sick of it after awhile.
 
Get over yourself. The station serves a niche and a purpose, that's the new reality of business. The most wonderful thing about America is that you have the freedom to change the station if you don't like what you hear, just as you have a forum to gripe right here and we listen to the trash and pablum that you spew Murph. It's as simple as listening to something else, why go out of your way to listen if you dislike the station?
 
murphmac, as I posted in the beginning of this thread, WAMU from Washington DC is simulcasting, on a 50K station in Rehoboth. Also there are two other NPR stations, one for Classical Music at 89.5 and 90.7 for NPR news/talk/info programming. Based on your comments, I'd assume you'd want to hear Liberal talk, or as they call it, Progressive Talk. You'll not find that in Red County Sussex, or anywhere in Delaware, other than Al Massitti's show on WDEL in Wilmington, you could pick it up on www.wdel.com and on a good day pick it up on your radio at 1150AM.

However, here's a link where you'll find all sorts of Progressive Talk including Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, etc. The link is:

www.tunein.com/ There's all sorts of various radio programs, both talk and music. Under Political talk you'll find Liberal. There you'll find a bunch of liberal talk. Also you can click to find radio station's for any city, like Wilmington. It will list the stations', their formats, and if they stream online, they provide the direct link. So where ever you move from, you could also probably find that's cities stations too and listen to your old hometown favorite online.

America is a great place where we have choices. One thing that makes America work is our ability to be TOLERANT of the other person's views, music, politics, religion, etc. Because you personally don't like the programming on WGMD doesn't make that station a waste of a frequency. They are a business. If the owner is making money playing polkas and is satisfied what's it to you? There are plenty of others who believe NPR is a total waste of many frequency's. Others who believe any and all religious stations are a waste of many frequency's, etc, etc. To each his/her own. No one is forcing you to listen to rightwing radio. There is a station selector and an ON/OFF switch, plus I've offered you a couple of other options.

You see, I'm a moderate who leans right. So I can and DO listen to right wing talk, left wing talk, NPR, SportsTalk, Topical Talk, and yes even Christian Talk, and all sorts of music (Classical, Jazz, Big Band, Oldies, Country, Classic Country, Christian hymns and CCM). So I can see value in all of those and am glad for the variety and the ability to listen to whichever I choose to hear that day. To each his/her own.
 
Mike, our friend here doesn't want to hear NPR. He wants NO ONE to hear opinions he disagrees with. So much for that tolerance thing.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and guess one of the local hosts caught him in some sort of fact "manipulation" or hung up on him for not being on topic. The way its written, without single shred of fact, just a bunch of general complaints that could be copy pasted into and TV or radio show's critique. Just a guess, though.

But I feel like humoring the OP: So, Mr. OP: Explain in detail what hosts are doing these awful things, with exact quotes. Rush and Coast to Coast don't count, since they're on 600 stations. I'm talking the local coverage that's live from 5:30 am-noon and back live from 3pm until 11pm.
 
In his first post, he referred to his "diverse" community. Whatever that means. But apparently, when it comes to free speech, the only speech to be allowed is that which expresses his views. Typical liberal, unfortunately. ;)
 
I've met many people from said "diverse community" and have found that as opposing as my views might be with theirs they are never hateful in their views. It is a diverse community, and I think they do their best to tolerate everyone, regardless of politics, as should Murph. Just my two cents worth.
 
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