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Which Station Will Make Nashville A "2 FM Talker" Town?

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TRN is taking ads to promote FM Talkers (and TRN programs you can air on them) to the radio world. In fact, at this time, their ad is among others rotating in the banner spot at the top of this page. One of their selling points is that Knoxville now has two FM Talkers, WOKI and WNOX, and they urge other stations to "be next."

If it can happen in Market 71 (and also, TRN take note, in Market 106), will a station in Market 44 take TRN's dare? (I guess sports stations are now in a class all their own and not considered talkers, especially since TRN doesn't have any sports programming — so like WNML, WGFX wouldn't count.) If so, which FM station in this market will "be next"?
 
Not while LAC has the power brands. Would be tough to get a decent line-up that would pull a 3. If CC had a FM dawg, maybe they could justify adding the AM format to the FM. Depending on the way the next few months go with stations stupidly being charged more to play music, this could be come an option for many companies. But, that's a tirade left for another post.
 
I think a lot of posters would have suggested 97.1 WRQQ or i106, but since they are both owned by Cumulus, as well as WWTN, they are not going to compete with themselves. Now if either one of those singals were sold to Clear Channel, I could see WLAC programming being simucasted on both 1510 and the FM signal.
 
Ya know, they say it's the little things that matter. Like paying attention to details.

This bold ad about a talk station being everywhere (top banner of R I) is certainly firing a shot.
They are bold, powerful. Ready to take no prisoners. Think maybe it would be that damn hard to get the call letters right for Knoxville?
 
Tibbs2 said:
Ya know, they say it's the little things that matter. Like paying attention to details.

This bold ad about a talk station being everywhere (top banner of R I) is certainly firing a shot.
They are bold, powerful. Ready to take no prisoners. Think maybe it would be that damn hard to get the call letters right for Knoxville?
Click to expand...

ROFL, KNOX, I just read right over that.

It's just now happened again... At noon today, Cox brought WSB over for an FM simulcast. As radio faces more pay to play, the Talk Switch is beginning!
 
I'm not so sure more talk is better. There are a lot of talk shows syndicated, but not many that are all that good. Topics seem redundant. Drama seems overstated and it becomes less interesting and almost a cliche if you listen all the time.
Nashville doesn't have great news stories to keep a news station alive 24/7 so honestly, if you go and add more talk, you're probably adding more B tier talent and it becomes noise.
 
Just think about when the "record" companies "win" their war against radio and charge even more for every song radio plays and helps sell the greedy bastardos songs (like the net could come close) and see how many talk-style (i.e music free) stations will suddenly appear. This ought to stir up things. ;D
 
I've seen that banner ad. A few grammatical errors, for example, the phrase "will you be next" does not end with a question mark; in fact, there is no punctuation at all. Then a blurb about another station seeing "it's" ratings increase 100% with TRN programming... sorry but no need for an apostrophe there... Who proofread the text on that ad?
 
DttJ: There are no proofreaders anymore. Read the Tennessean for... well, proof-
 
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