WHY WYSP IS BETTER NOW!

[JohnnyPatriot]

wow I'm sure I'm NOT the original Howard hater. I can't believe I'm not the only one who doesn't enjoy the radio equivalent of dragging my tongue across a used diaper...but then again maybe I am.

You certainly aren't the only one who doesn't like to lick diapers.


As far as my comment about "news blips" and weather: I'm glad I could provide you with the chance to keep repeating yourself , the mentally challenged people I know seem to love it alot too so have yourself a ball.

I don't really think saying "news blips" and weather twice is worth calling somebody mentally challenged, which is just a polite way of saying retard.

I simply meant a MUSIC ( thats that thing where there are noises arranged in patterns and words that sort of tell a story,maybe your nanny can explain it better) played on a station that also happens to serve a local area and that people with a brain may want to know something that affects that area. Weather reports are for people who live in a world where elements affect the temperature and amount of sun or clouds that the region will experience rather than a bubble which consists of what a small mind can provide for content. Once Upon A Time in a land where the idiots were easily identified there were radio stations that played some music,then told you the name and artist and maybe some info on them,then what it was doing outside( or maybe YOU would go around the corner to see if its raining there) then some more music,then a few sentences about something the grownups might find interesting,then some more music and so on. Of course there is the alternative: A station that broadcasts some people who love to hear themselves talk about what they like and why anyone who doesn't agree is stupid and take some calls from people who agree and hang up on anyone who doesn't and some commercials by them for them praising them and why they are in love with them. Then they can cut to a full color interview about what kind of silicone tassle racks the speaker is drooling over and we can all be treated to extraordinary events like which listener can't spell thier name but can drink 2 beers in one gulp and race another listener to fill up a cup with pee. Or something like that. I'm sorry I don't share your enthusiasm to join a world that is in a full out contest to sift sewer mud thru its teeth and call the chunks a winner.


And on behalf of all the "mentally challenged"... They all can write better than you. Maybe you can get one of the "mentally challenged" people you know to proof read your posts, so you don't make a "mentally challenged" person out of yourself. "Mentally Challenged."

Call me "mentally challenged" but when O&A put naked girls in 50 gallon drums and dropped bugs on them, it was glorious!!!!!!!!

 

[aindik]

CBS has not flipped an FM station to sports in a market where they already had an AM sports station doing well. They had a sports station in Baltimore on AM, but it was doing terribly. There was also one in Detroit but I don't think it was doing well either.

They are not going to flip 94.1 to sports for so long as WIP is getting the ratings that it's getting.

WYSP has a TSL problem. They have more listeners in a given week than WMMR does (some of that has to be football-related), but MMR's AQH share is much higher because the people who listen to it spend more time there. YSP needs to tweak the music mix because they are inducing tune-out way too much for a rock station.

I think they need to focus the music more on the 80s. Leave the 70s to MGK and 90s and today to MMR and RFF. I'm not sure how much overlap there is anymore between fans of Van Halen, Pink Floyd, Nirvana and Korn. As between those four, Van Halen is the one that nobody else in the market is playing.

 

[JohnnyPatriot]

I pretty sure WYSP holds the all-time record for most spins of "Panama."

 

[aindik]

I pretty sure WYSP holds the all-time record for most spins of "Panama."

My point wasn't that they don't play enough Van Halen. It's that they play too much stuff that will cause Van Halen fans to tune out.

 

[Betrayed]

Could this be the problem - 'The Rock You Grew Up With' ? ?

Then you hear Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kansas, Skynyrd, The Who, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, and what have you.

My points-

Nobody grew up with those bands. Me, I grew up listening to rock from the early 60s thru about 1995. When Nirvana, STP et al came in, I realized, 'Wow, they all really stink' and I've grown up. I took life and musical tastes in a better direction. If you grew up with Beatles, D.C.Five, Beach Boys, The Who, Bad Co, Kansas and Springsteen, you really don't give a rip about STP, Alice In Chains, Chili Peppers etc.

Secondly, if you're gonna play Skynyrd, hey folks, WE GREW UP. So I really wouldn't need another dose of Call Me The Breeze or Freebird. I'd probably still listen to Simple Man, Lend A Helping Hand or Things Goin' On(That you don't know) though.

So figure out who you wanna play to and then do it. I'd not be a listener either way. Because they'd either go with the same worn out songs MGK plays and I don't need to hear those same songs over and over because, I'VE GROWN UP! Or, they'd go in the MMR direction and I wouldn't listen to that either because, I'VE GROWN UP!

 

[DToTheJ]

CBS has not flipped an FM station to sports in a market where they already had an AM sports station doing well. They had a sports station in Baltimore on AM, but it was doing terribly. There was also one in Detroit but I don't think it was doing well either...

1. They have another sports talker on AM in Baltimore; it was and still is largely a repeater of ESPN Radio.

2. The FM sports talker is virtually a simulcast of its original AM sports talker, "The Ticket." (Which, for a short while, carried "Opie & Anthony" in the morning.)

 

[aindik]

CBS has not flipped an FM station to sports in a market where they already had an AM sports station doing well. They had a sports station in Baltimore on AM, but it was doing terribly. There was also one in Detroit but I don't think it was doing well either...

1. They have another sports talker on AM in Baltimore; it was and still is largely a repeater of ESPN Radio.

Right. What I said is they never flipped an FM to sports in a market where CBS had a sports station that was getting ratings. The former 1300 WJFK(AM) (now WJZ) never did anything in the ratings as a sports station. It did OK in the ratings way back in the 90s when it was the Baltimore affiliate of Howard Stern, G. Gordon Liddy and Don & Mike (when it was affectionately dubbed "JFK Junior" because it simulcast 106.7 in DC from 6a-7p), before Infinity flipped 105.7 to hot talk. But never anything good with sports.

It was largely a repeater of ESPN Radio. It is now pretty much exclusively a repeater of ESPN Radio, with all vestiges of local sports moving over to the FM side.

That's not an option for CBS in Philly. They could repeat a national network 24/7 on 610 after they move local sports to 94.1, but it can't be ESPN Radio.

24/7 local on FM, 24/7 national on AM is something Greater Media should do with its sports stations in Philly, but it doesn't make sense for CBS because WIP is getting ratings on AM.

2. The FM sports talker is virtually a simulcast of its original AM sports talker, "The Ticket." (Which, for a short while, carried "Opie & Anthony" in the morning.)

How were the ratings for the Ticket on AM before they flipped an FM to sports?

 

[MarkW]

The changes in Detroit were prompted by a combination of signal issues at AM 1270 (the flagship of the Tigers and Wings), listener demand, and a slumping "Free FM" format on 97.1.

BTW, Opie & Anthony had atrocious ratings in Detroit. They weren't even in the Top 15 in Men 25-54, if I remmber correctly. Around a 1 share in Ages 12+. They were dumped as soon as 97.1 went Sports.

The ratings for the Sports format, which was rebranded shortly after the move to FM, virtually doubled within 6 months. The Ticket is frequently the #1 rated station in Detroit in Men 25-54.

Clear Channel had a golden opportunity to replace a number of failed formats at 106.7 FM in Detroit with its own sports station -- WDFN -- but refused to do so, believing Sports on FM wouldn't work. Today, 106.7 continues to be a near non-factor in the local radio scene and WDFN has lost 60% of its cume from a few years ago.

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On to WYSP...

For staters, I would dump Bonnadouchebag. .

Next, whoever is responsible for the current direction of the station needs to be fired. Is it Andy Bloom? He got his ass kicked by 93X in Minneapolis. Not the right guy to have doing battle for you in a competitive situation where Stern can't be relied upon to bring in numbers.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I would change the format to Active Rock. Play the music people expect WYSP to play. And I don't mean a half-assed, watered-down version of the format like WYSP was playing a couple years ago. Instead, adopt a playlist similar to the aformentioned 93X, 93-5 The Beach, WCCC, etc.

 

[buffalotom]

You're talking about WYSP following a logical course of action. CBS doesn't make logical decisions.
They're going to let Bonadouchebag dangle in the low ratings breeze for a long time. Why?
Because some a-hole thinks he's going to magically catch on one day. Probably the same
a-hole who thought up "The Rock You Grew Up With."

Matt & Huggy forever!!

 

[musicman3355]

I don't understand... why would WYSP flip to sports when WIP is actually doing great? It just doesn't make sense they would launch WIP on FM when WIP is actually doing great in the ratings. I know I've said this a lot of times already but I'll say it again - if anything, if 'YSP will change format, they will switch to CHR.

 

[htowler]

I thought CBS Radio already Flipped a station in Philly to a Now FM

 

[aindik]

I thought CBS Radio already Flipped a station in Philly to a Now FM

Nope. CBS only has 2 FM stations in Philly - 98.1 WOGL (Oldies) and 94.1 WYSP (Classic Rock).

If there were only one CHR in Philly, CBS probably would have flipped WYSP to CHR like they did in LA and NYC. They didn't because Philly already has 2 CHRs.

 

[buffalotom]

Thank goodness I'm not the PD of WYSP?

Here's my to do list, if I was...

1. Put Bonadouche on overnights, til his contract is up.
2. Cuzin Ed back to afternoons.
3. Matt & Huggy back to nights
4. Hire a REAL hot chick to do middays
5. Find a talented funny morning show - they're out there.
6. Balls to the walls rock all day
7. Burning party for all the crap that says The Rock You Grew Up With
8. Pick up some adult diapers.

 

[Onyx]

Someone posted "music is not the problem with YSP."

Response: Music typically occupies, what, about 80 percent of the airtime in any given day? So, the thing that occupies most of the airtime doesn't affect the success or failure of that station? Please! That's the main problem with radio right now, everyone is trying to do everything but fix the real problem --- the music, not trust. People don't hear a series of great songs but then look the dial and say, "good music, but I don't trust them, so I must turn the dial."

Someone else posted "give YSP credit for hanging in with the morning show."

Response: Hanging on to a total loser deserves credit!? Radio is a business, not an assisted living facility or half-way house. The 'duce is an anchor on that station, since the morning show typically drives the rest of the day's ratings. I'll wager YSP's weekend numbers are higher without that screaming clown kicking of the day.

 

[Wil]

Onyx, pick up on the sarcasm! When "someone" (me) wrote that YSP should be given credit for sticking with the morning show I was being sarcastic, given the fact that every morning show since Stern has tanked in the ratings and been dropped faster than the ink dried on their contracts. I am genuinely surprised they have stuck with him this long given their track record, maybe they are just out of ideas.