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Which Atlanta Radio Station gets the most local and national coverage ?

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It seems to me That Q100's Bert Show seems to get the most publicity as far as other radio stations in this city.

They always seem to be in The Peach Buzz, or in the Society Page of the AJC.

They are on CNN (Thank You letters to the troops) and TMZ.

They recently were on the cover of The Sunday Paper.

Pretty good free publicity if you ask me.

I hear nothing about Dave-FM, the Beat or even The Regular Guys.
 
V103 gets the most media attention by far. Since they have been declared the southern flagship of the hip-hop community, they get a lot of attention in the national press (but not as much as WQHT and WWPR in New York). Local media attention comes because the DJ's do so much good for the community. A few years ago, Hot 107.9 was getting a lot of attention, and not for good reasons (transmitter RF issues, club violence, etc.).

Q100 and Star 94 get a lot of attention as well. Kicks 101.5 gets attention on occasion. The Zone and the Fan get frequent attention when it comes to local sports issues (the hosts on the Zone are called on as analyists for all four local TV news stations, but only WGCL I believe pays one for the "Sportsline Saturday" show). WDUN Gainesville gets frequent attention due to Martha Zoller, and WSB-AM gets theirs from Neil Boortz and Clark Howard (although much of it is confined to WSB-TV, the AJC, and CNN). Eagle 106.7 got attention before the flip to True Oldies. 99X also got frequent attention prior to its demise.

The Cox FM stations are among those that get the least (unless they buy commercial time), but Steve and Vikki will give B98.5 instant attention when they come on board. WJZZ and the Clear Channel stations also get very little (although the Kimmer gave WGST some attention). Nobody talks about WABE at all, and forget anyone talking about the Salem stations.

Generally...except for V103...the top rated stations get the least media attention, and the bottom rated ones get the most.
 
jal41 said:
V103 gets the most media attention by far. Since they have been declared the southern flagship of the hip-hop community, they get a lot of attention in the national press (but not as much as WQHT and WWPR in New York). Local media attention comes because the DJ's do so much good for the community. A few years ago, Hot 107.9 was getting a lot of attention, and not for good reasons (transmitter RF issues, club violence, etc.).

Q100 and Star 94 get a lot of attention as well. Kicks 101.5 gets attention on occasion. The Zone and the Fan get frequent attention when it comes to local sports issues (the hosts on the Zone are called on as analyists for all four local TV news stations, but only WGCL I believe pays one for the "Sportsline Saturday" show). WDUN Gainesville gets frequent attention due to Martha Zoller, and WSB-AM gets theirs from Neil Boortz and Clark Howard (although much of it is confined to WSB-TV, the AJC, and CNN). Eagle 106.7 got attention before the flip to True Oldies. 99X also got frequent attention prior to its demise.

The Cox FM stations are among those that get the least (unless they buy commercial time), but Steve and Vikki will give B98.5 instant attention when they come on board. WJZZ and the Clear Channel stations also get very little (although the Kimmer gave WGST some attention). Nobody talks about WABE at all, and forget anyone talking about the Salem stations.

Generally...except for V103...the top rated stations get the least media attention, and the bottom rated ones get the most.
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It's hands-down The Bert Show.
V gets attention in the black community nationwide but you rarely hear or see them mentioned in mainstream mass media.
Star got pub with Steve & Vikki but that's over.
The Zone will occasionally get a sports scoop and get a hit on ESPN
But nobody in town gets coverage like The Bert Show. They've been on CNN, The Today, Show, Fox, and in countless newspapers. The closest any show in Atlanta ever came to getting that kind of routine national media was The Morning X.
 
When was V-103 declared the southern flagship of the hip-hop community? I could've swore HOT 107.9 was the flagship Hip-Hop station down south, HOT 97 up north and POWER 106 out west??? V103 gets a fair shair of attention, but you see more of HOT 107.9 on BET, VIBE, THE SOURCE,etc. Reason being ATL is producing more Hip-Hop artist than ever and it always seems as if they associate themselves with WHTA before WVEE. On top of that HOT has had more jocks that've become big names in the industry (Ludacris, JazzyPhae, Chaka Zulu ,Lil Jon, DJ Drama).
 
Rock 100.5 made national news when Joh n rocker called out the baseball commisioner on steroids during the TRG show.
 
The shows that get the pub are the shows that work it. Media does not seek them out... it is the other way around. Bert! is one of the masters of this. It has been a specialty of his since the Kid Kraddick and Jack Diamond days.
 
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