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Who's my taker for this talk format?

J

jetfli

Enough personalities and talk shows have left the local airwaves in the past couple of years -- leaving loyal followers behind -- to build a new format. Someone looking to make headlines should flip to News and Entertainment Talk, featuring:

6-10 a.m. Rick & Bubba
10-12 HHH
12-3 The Roundtable
3-6 Carl P & the Duke
6-9 Lars
9-12 Rollye
12-6 whatever

Considering clearances can be secured, of course. All would be live.

Add or subtract as ye will...
 
> Enough personalities and talk shows have left the local
> airwaves in the past couple of years -- leaving loyal
> followers behind -- to build a new format. Someone looking
> to make headlines should flip to News and Entertainment
> Talk, featuring:
>
> 6-10 a.m. Rick & Bubba
> 10-12 HHH
> 12-3 The Roundtable
> 3-6 Carl P & the Duke
> 6-9 Lars
> 9-12 Rollye
> 12-6 whatever
>
> Considering clearances can be secured, of course. All would
> be live.
>
> Add or subtract as ye will...
>

not often do you find "entertainment" and "Carl P" in the same post:
good luck finding anyone willing to work with him: too much baggage
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> > Enough personalities and talk shows have left the local
> > airwaves in the past couple of years -- leaving loyal
> > followers behind -- to build a new format. Someone looking
>
> > to make headlines should flip to News and Entertainment
> > Talk, featuring:
> >
> > 6-10 a.m. Rick & Bubba
> > 10-12 HHH
> > 12-3 The Roundtable
> > 3-6 Carl P & the Duke
> > 6-9 Lars
> > 9-12 Rollye
> > 12-6 whatever
> >
> > Considering clearances can be secured, of course. All
> would
> > be live.
> >
> > Add or subtract as ye will...
> >
>
> not often do you find "entertainment" and "Carl P" in the
> same post:
> good luck finding anyone willing to work with him: too
> much baggage
>

I doubt the Roundtable people would actually consent to be on the air for 3 hours. Best bet for that is to let Teddy do a show by himself.
 
> 6-10 a.m. Rick & Bubba
> 10-12 HHH
> 12-3 The Roundtable
> 3-6 Carl P & the Duke
> 6-9 Lars
> 9-12 Rollye
> 12-6 whatever

Oh yeah, that's what we need... another Talk FM!

...

Now if this were a plan for an underperforming AM, then I'd be all for it.
 
> Oh yeah, that's what we need... another Talk FM!
> ...
> Now if this were a plan for an underperforming AM, then I'd
> be all for it.

Actually, my proposal was made tongue-in-cheek, and I didn't really propose it as AM or FM. But I can't resist the opportunity to say that with the advent of the iPod, I believe we'll see music becoming less important to the FM dial. People will soon be scanning the dial to find live local programming as an alternative to the music or "canned" shows (podcasts) they can get via downloads.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by jetfli on 08/02/05 11:57 AM.</FONT></P>
 
That is pretty close to what WTN tried

when it first went on the air. The Round Table (did anyone ever decide whether that was oneword or t wo?), Steven Wesley Bridgewater, plus a guy who talked about the history of popular music (either taking a song and tracing its origins, or grouping song by subject), and local sports, from 2p to 10p, which retreated gradually to 4 to 8, before expanding again Doug "NashRadio"<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by NashRadio on 08/02/05 01:30 PM.</FONT></P>
 
FM music vs. MP3 players

> Actually, my proposal was made tongue-in-cheek, and I didn't
> really propose it as AM or FM. But I can't resist the
> opportunity to say that with the advent of the iPod, I
> believe we'll see music becoming less important to the FM
> dial. People will soon be scanning the dial to find live
> local programming as an alternative to the music or "canned"
> shows (podcasts) they can get via downloads.

Not in the huge numbers that you think. I have an MP3 player which I dearly love, but I still depend on radio more for music. An MP3 player is great when you can use it, but I can't take it to work with me, I can't take it the shower, I can't leave it sit in the hot car all day during these Nashville summers, etc... So even for the percentage of of us who do have MP3 players, sometimes radio is just more convenient. And until that changes, music will remain the biggest part of FM programming.
 
Re: FM music vs. MP3 players

> Not in the huge numbers that you think. I have an MP3
> player which I dearly love, but I still depend on radio more
> for music. An MP3 player is great when you can use it, but
> I can't take it to work with me, I can't take it the shower,
> I can't leave it sit in the hot car all day during these
> Nashville summers, etc... So even for the percentage of of
> us who do have MP3 players, sometimes radio is just more
> convenient. And until that changes, music will remain the
> biggest part of FM programming.

I have seen the future and it is here. Like you, I have an MP3 player, but I'm not part of the iPod culture. My college-age son and his friends, however, and a group of 20-somethings I'm around quite abit, are. They have essentially become their own broadcasters. They carry around their iPods, equipped with iTrip, and have their music collection at their fingertips wherever they go. My son has only two presets in his car dedicated to radio, one to 104.5 the Zone for sports talk, live games, traffic updates, etc., the other to Jack 96.3 just in case he wants to be "random." A third preset is for the frequency to which his iPod's iTrip is tuned, the others for the frequencies to which his friend's iPods are tuned. Whether in the car or at each other's homes or dorms, they take turns listening to music on each other's iPods. They don't have to switch stations to find rock, classics, country, or Christian, they have what they like on their playlists. They are their own DJs in that they learn about new or different music from each other. They depend on the iTunes music store to know about new releases. So unless it's live, relevant programming, they don't care about what's on radio. And as these kids grow up with this mindset, radio will begin to change, and "playing records" will become so much less important on radio.
 
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