When will the cuts begin at CC South Florida

[Groove1670]

The cuts have begun in Tallahassee. Will they make it to the South Florida market. Any predictions,

 

[bat manny]

what cuts ? people/administration or station/clusters up for sale ?

 

[jbrasco951]

Well, 3 jobs were already cut from CC in Palm Beach. Gerard Campbell from WJNO, Vinny from the Gater and a board op from WJNO.

Campbell had been with WJNO during toh newscasts for a long time and now they're going to use WIOD talent to take his place, and then Vinny, who was voicing overnight and weekends, will be replace by out of town vt.

Thanks for coming back, Spineless Dave Denver

 

[radiolover78]

I wouldn't be surprise if the cut backs reached South Florida. They reached the all mighty Lite FM in New York City, releasing two long time personalities at the station. Both have been there since the 1980s.

 

[The-Major]

You know if a longtime (and radio-knowledgeable) Y-100 listener who hadn't listened to Y-100 in more than a year tuned in today for the first time that longtime listener's first thought could probably be something like:

'Gee Y-100 must have been hit hard by some MASSIVE budget cuts. This sounds nothing like I remember it. Kenny & Footy are gone. The're simulcasting a morning show out of New York City. They've got out-of-town / out-of-state deejays voice-tracking during the day. Adam Bomb is gone. They may be saving a lot of money, but is this what the heritage has evolved into ?'

THE MAJOR

 

[Radaioman]

OR...they mihgt think...hey I'm a 24 yr old female...I don't notice the things message board guys do....the music is the same, Michael Yo is still there, the other DJ's....never knew them anyway (based on the ratings of the past year) and the morning show (which you, Major, have admitted to liking) is more in touch with my demo and culture than before, it's funnier and it features 2 people that I really liked. (Carolina and Froggy). That listener, that DEMO listener might actually LIKE Y100 now. She doesn't care about budgets, which by the way, have not been the reason for any of the temp or permanent changes you wrote about.

You know if a longtime (and radio-knowledgeable) Y-100 listener who hadn't listened to Y-100 in more than a year tuned in today for the first time that longtime listener's first thought could probably be something like:

'Gee Y-100 must have been hit hard by some MASSIVE budget cuts. This sounds nothing like I remember it. Kenny & Footy are gone. The're simulcasting a morning show out of New York City. They've got out-of-town / out-of-state deejays voice-tracking during the day. Adam Bomb is gone. They may be saving a lot of money, but is this what the heritage has evolved into ?'

THE MAJOR

 

[The-Major]

OR...they mihgt think...hey I'm a 24 yr old female...I don't notice the things message board guys do....the music is the same, Michael Yo is still there, the other DJ's....never knew them anyway (based on the ratings of the past year) and the morning show (which you, Major, have admitted to liking) is more in touch with my demo and culture than before, it's funnier and it features 2 people that I really liked. (Carolina and Froggy). That listener, that DEMO listener might actually LIKE Y100 now. She doesn't care about budgets, which by the way, have not been the reason for any of the temp or permanent changes you wrote about.

YOU are so correct, and your post sounds very much like some of my posts from about a month or two or three ago when a lot of people on here were talking negative about all of Y-100's MASSIVE changes and I felt the need to come to their defense. I still defend Y-100. My post from a few days ago illustrated what 'a longtime (and radio-knowledgeable) Y-100 listener who hadn't listened to Y-100 in more than a year (and) tuned in today for the first time' could possibly think about how much it has changed so much and that perhaps budget cuts may have had something to do with it all. (I am not that person that I illustrated.)

The 'typical' Y-100 listener does not care about such things (as I have pointed out on here numerous times). She just wants to laugh in the morning while she is stuck in rush hour traffic on her way to work, and then hear all of her favourite hits throughout the rest of the day while at work, and then on her way home from work. Y-100 is doing a great job in delivering to her what she wants in the morning whether she lives in Kendall and works in Miami, or lives in New Jersey and works in Manhattan.

As a 39-year-old 'way-off-the-target-demo' male I personally listen to Y-100 five days a week from 6 AM to 3 PM, and I like what I hear - especially in the morning. 'Elvis Duran & The Morning Zoo' is consistently the funniest morning show that Y-100 has had on its airwaves since perhaps the old 'Bobby & Footy' show from the 1990s, and the playlist during the rest of the work day has loosened-up a bit over the past few months with less repetition and more adult rock material.

As a 19-year listener of Y-100 and a 35-year listener of TOP 40 radio stations (going back to when I was 5-years-old) I generally defend the often-maligned TOP 40 radio and music industry. I recently defended 93.3-FLZ over on the Tampa board (just a few days ago).

THE MAJOR

 

[radiolover78]

This is something we as radio fans seem to forget. We will notice some changes, no matter how small, but the listener doesn't care or doesn't really notice.

Some folks here complain about how someone is voicetracked in from Chicago. We may not like that, but does the listener care? Heck no! They only care about the music!

(By the way, I'm listening to FLZ online right now. They just played Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy". I believe that was written in 1998 or 1999! So, their playlist must not be too tight!)

 

[The-Major]

Some folks here complain about how someone is voicetracked in from Chicago. We may not like that, but does the listener care? Heck no! They only care about the music!

I personally do not care for Nikki's style of delivery (from 10 to 3 weekdays on Y-100), but I am a 39-year-old male and she is not talking to me. She is talking to her 'home-girls' who are her age and love what she has to say in-between the hits. She's pretty much derogatory towards guys. I still listen though - not for her - but for the midday music while I am at work.

I could probably guess that 99% of Nikki's casual listeners assume that she is broadcasting LIVE & LOCAL from the Y-100 studios right here in South Florida, but then again those same listeners really don't care where she is.

(By the way, I'm listening to FLZ online right now. They just played Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy". I believe that was written in 1998 or 1999! So, their playlist must not be too tight!)

That is one of the greatest rock songs of its era, and a MASSIVE Memory from 2000 !

THE MAJOR

 

[radiolover78]

I checked the "Massive Memory" on your website!

My Own Worst Enemy
A. Jay Popoff (lead vocalist), his brother Jeremy Popoff (guitarist), Kevin Baldes (bassist), and Allen Shellenberger (drummer) are Lit, and they've been together since the late-1980s. "My Own Worst Enemy" was their biggest smash to date, as it spent 3 months at # 1 at U.S. modern rock radio and finished 1999 as the # 1 song of the year at the genre. It enjoyed great success here on our chart as well - a year later. It was the # 60 smash of 2000.

I do remember when that song came out. It was a great song.

 

[Groove1670]

I agree with everyone. In reality, there is no need for a jock so sit behind a console if he or she is gonna read liner cards, or do generic bits less than 20 seconds. It makes a lot of "cents" to pay a jock a 8 hour a day salary, and voicetrack 6 or 7 stations, and make any weather changes via fax if needed. That gives them time to do production people time without the hassle or a live airshift.

Alot of station now have just said forget announcers user liners sweepers and imaging and let us make money. Gotta say pretty smart.

So with that in mind, load up the selector, download the tracks, and move on.

You gotta keep in mind, alot of the 18-34 demos, don't remember personality driven radio. So they are missing nothing. They also find MP3's Ipods, and other technology more exciting.

All of the "Jak" and "moovin" formats were not created by accident. They know the prized demo is going away, and the might try to recapture some of us grown folks. However the verdict is out.

I love on air radio, and I wish it the best. I just discovered the world of XM and I gotta say, I like it. For me it is more bout hitting the scan button for choices.

 

[The-Major]

I agree with everyone. Alot of station now have just said forget announcers user liners sweepers and imaging and let us make money. Gotta say pretty smart.
You gotta keep in mind, alot of the 18-34 demos, don't remember personality driven radio. So they are missing nothing. They also find MP3's Ipods, and other technology more exciting. I love on air radio, and I wish it the best. I just discovered the world of XM and I gotta say, I like it. For me it is more bout hitting the scan button for choices.

I split my precious radio-listening time about 3 equal ways - Y-100 at work, CALL-FM (91.7) in the car and at home, and XM (also at home). Even though I have a couple dozen 'favourite' stations programmed onto my XM buttons I pretty much only listen to a select few - the hit music stations led by '20 On 20'.

Y-100 uses the term 'Y-POD' to identify its continuous hit music sweeps. CALL-FM has one afternoon deejay, but pretty much uses excellent sweepers and imaging in-between their continuous positive hits. XM is the jukebox - again with sweepers galore.

This is radio in 2006. Nothing is as good as it used to be (or as we remember it to be), but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not good. Everything evolves into something different. Evolution is a part of life. Clear Channel's budget cuts (the original subject of this thread) will save a lot of money, allow them to make more profits (everyone's goal in life), and position themselves with what today's young and busy radio listeners are looking for on their favourite radio stations - more music with less interruption.

THE MAJOR

 

[Mike Sheridan]

Y-100 uses the term 'Y-POD' to identify its continuous hit music sweeps. CALL-FM has one afternoon deejay, but pretty much uses excellent sweepers and imaging in-between their continuous positive hits. XM is the jukebox - again with sweepers galore.

This is radio in 2006. Nothing is as good as it used to be (or as we remember it to be), but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not good. Everything evolves into something different. Evolution is a part of life. Clear Channel's budget cuts (the original subject of this thread) will save a lot of money, allow them to make more profits (everyone's goal in life), and position themselves with what today's young and busy radio listeners are looking for on their favourite radio stations - more music with less interruption.[/color]

THE MAJOR

The trouble is I remember when radio was more than just music. Now there are no news updates and the weather is really hit or miss since it was probably recorded the day before. As for loading up the vault and letting it go, I often wonder if programmers would make some of the lame choices they do if someone at the station had to listen to it? If they aren't listening (and many times they aren't) then why should I?

 

[The-Major]

The trouble is I remember when radio was more than just music. Now there are no news updates and the weather is really hit or miss since it was probably recorded the day before. As for loading up the vault and letting it go, I often wonder if programmers would make some of the lame choices they do if someone at the station had to listen to it? If they aren't listening (and many times they aren't) then why should I?

Once upon a time about ... (we'll call it 33 years ago) ... there lived an FM station in Washington D.C. (not too much different than all of the others) that had a booming top-of-the-hour station identification that went on forever (it seems) complete with voiceover artist work and jingles. That led to the top-of-the-hour news from that station's actual newsroom which led into a brief sports update from that station's resident sportscaster which led into a detailed weather report from that station's in-house meteorologist. At about 7 to 8 minutes past each hour it was all over with - and the hit music of the time proceeded. YES - this was actually a hot adult contemporary station at the time !

I still remember much of it today even though I was only about 6 or 7 years old at the time. We always listened to it on the radio in the cars, and I wanted to listen to it at home as well but I only had an AM radio. I listened to a TOP 40 station on my radio at home (the music was a bit harder than the FM station), and it piped-in news at the top of every hour from the 'ABC Contemporary Network'. I still remember the quirky theme music that led into that hourly newscast.

That was typical radio back in the early-to-mid-1970s. It was memorable !

THE MAJOR REMEMBERS ...

 

[radiolover78]

Once upon a time about ... (we'll call it 33 years ago) ... there lived an FM station in Washington D.C. (not too much different than all of the others) that had a booming top-of-the-hour station identification that went on forever (it seems) complete with voiceover artist work and jingles. That led to the top-of-the-hour news from that station's actual newsroom which led into a brief sports update from that station's resident sportscaster which led into a detailed weather report from that station's in-house meteorologist. At about 7 to 8 minutes past each hour it was all over with - and the hit music of the time proceeded. YES - this was actually a hot adult contemporary station at the time !

I still remember much of it today even though I was only about 6 or 7 years old at the time. We always listened to it on the radio in the cars, and I wanted to listen to it at home as well but I only had an AM radio. I listened to a TOP 40 station on my radio at home (the music was a bit harder than the FM station), and it piped-in news at the top of every hour from the 'ABC Contemporary Network'. I still remember the quirky theme music that led into that hourly newscast.

That was typical radio back in the early-to-mid-1970s. It was memorable !

THE MAJOR REMEMBERS ...

Some stations still have that booming top of the hour identification, but today, many just bury it in in the middle of a commercial break or something.

 

[abombshow]

Major your a good radioman...even though your not in the "demo" like mr radioman pointed out..your not the only one in and out of the demo that has told me how much they notice the change...don't think the avg listener doesn't notice..when I did mornings with footy more often then not they noticed I was gone from nights and when I left completly they noticed..sometime we'll chat about old Y stuff..love that shiz...abomb

 

[The-Major]

Major your a good radioman...even though your not in the "demo" like mr radioman pointed out..your not the only one in and out of the demo that has told me how much they notice the change...don't think the avg listener doesn't notice..when I did mornings with footy more often then not they noticed I was gone from nights and when I left completly they noticed..sometime we'll chat about old Y stuff..love that shiz...abomb

Hey Adam,

After Kenny suddenly left the station and you took over and co-hosted with the Foot-Meister I thought to myself that you were probably the best person that Y-100 had at that time that could possibly continue on the legend of the '... & Footy' show. I thought for sure that you would get the gig, but then after a few months you were back on at nights and Michael Yo stepped in to co-host with the Foot-Dude. We all know what happened after that. Footy announced his 'retirement' on a Monday in May and then had his final show (on-the-road) that same Friday. Shortly thereafter (in July) you left Y-100 and headed for Q-100.

Aside from the obvious (being able to work with Rob Roberts again) WHAT is 'Mr. South Beach' doing up there in land-locked Hot-Lanta ? I figured that you would be a Y-100 mainstay for years to come. Are your core listeners as nutty up there as they were down here ? Does the Atlanta club scene even come close to ours down here ? WHY are you up there ?

THE MAJOR