Next question...who is "actually" making these decisions? Many PD's have their hands tied from higher floors.radioho said:
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It may just be all about the bottom line-as with everything else in the broadcast industry these days. In order to save dollars, they obviously feel finding someone who is "just barely good enough" is the way to go, but when the building that houses your corporate headquarters is worth almost as much as the outstanding shares of your company, you'd probably be cutting some corners too.radioho said:
In the bigger picture, though, I'd bet they are trying to kill two birds with one stone. It's obvious they desperately want a younger audience, they spent MILLIONS transferring the AM audience over to the FM station, and so some brain surgeon over there probably figured "Hey if we put younger sounding people behind the mic on FM and tell them to talk about things the kids are talking about these days, it'll cost us less AND we will attract a younger audience!". Taking a look at the most recent book, it doesn't look like that's even started to happen yet, and the on air product now sounds like a bunch of high school kids are running the place. No continuity, obviously inexperienced people behind the mic, and Dave Wilson who-since Stayzniak moved to mornings-sounds like a guy whose best friend just stole his girl, and then kicked his puppy on the way out the door with her.
The worst part of it is, with the exception of Steve Simpson, most of the on air people there just plain sound bored as bored can be. I guess I am too, because I can't really listen much anymore, it's 1430 or WLW for me until someone at Emmis wises up and either gets some good programming people in place or finally sells the company to someone with some cash to make it right again. But of course, that's just my opinion
I don't really feel that Mel is boring. I don't think that she would be a good co-host for Dave Wilson, but (like I wrote some days ago), her bit role on Indianapolis Tonight enhances the show.
Last i recall Emmis was doing Traffic in house unless they farmed it back out because i know around 97/98 ish they took it in house from save Big John Farming everything out to Metro. they took it in house so they could get there own adverts instead of having Metro get the money from the traffic Adverts.bigtime said:
bigtime said:
I think we got it bigtime.
I could care less about the traffic people - from what I hear, most of the traffic people don't even LIVE in Indy, or they'd know their streets better. My references on this thread are directed to the morning, afternoon and evening shows NOT TRAFFIC -for the record.
They made a wise move taking the high AM ratings to FM. WKLU is now kicking the ass of 1070.
cold_coffee said:
That's the most ridiculous statement I've seen on this board yet! You brag about 'kicking the ass' of an AM sports station? Is THAT what you consider to be your competition?
cold coffee - we all know you are the owner of WKLU.
Comparing Apples to Apples - Q95 and Jack are "kicking the ass" of WKLU. Shouldn't THAT be your concern?
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