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Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
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Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
So the next time there's a chemical plant explosion in the wee hours (think Danversport): "so like there's
um a big fire in uh Chelmsford uh now and the umm 96.9 news team will have...details in the morning,
I GUESS."
So the next time there's a chemical plant explosion in the wee hours (think Danversport): "so like there's
um a big fire in uh Chelmsford uh now and the umm 96.9 news team will have...details in the morning,
I GUESS."
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
The only way "Amp 103-3" might be able to compete with WXKS-107.9 might be, in fact, to remain automated.
The only way "Amp 103-3" might be able to compete with WXKS-107.9 might be, in fact, to remain automated.
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
if they changed the call letters from WODS to let's say WXYZ (just random call letters), are they still obligated to follow AFTRA?
reelyreal said:
if they changed the call letters from WODS to let's say WXYZ (just random call letters), are they still obligated to follow AFTRA?
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
Yes.
Staffed can mean a board-op, and in some situations it does. However, there also have to be full-time AFTRA employees, not just non-union part timers. If you're going to pay the full ride on a full time AFTRA employee, you're gonna put them on air.
CBS believes in local talent. I'm telling you, give it time. Ride the summer commercial-free for a while, then build the music. The personalities will come. Wait for it.
TravisWMLN said:
Yes.
Staffed can mean a board-op, and in some situations it does. However, there also have to be full-time AFTRA employees, not just non-union part timers. If you're going to pay the full ride on a full time AFTRA employee, you're gonna put them on air.
CBS believes in local talent. I'm telling you, give it time. Ride the summer commercial-free for a while, then build the music. The personalities will come. Wait for it.
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
I agree. They will def have live jocks on the radio station by the fall. I wouldnt' be suprised if we have a lineup of radio jocks by Labor Day.
I agree. They will def have live jocks on the radio station by the fall. I wouldnt' be suprised if we have a lineup of radio jocks by Labor Day.
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
Interesting. This seems to be a cure for which there is no known disease.
Just wondering, but if you were GMing or NDing a station, 1. what would be the rationale for staffing an overnight AFTRA news dept for covering the once-in-a decade major story which breaks during the time of lowest listenship and lowest revenue generation, 2. what is the definition of a story which is so important that everyone, no matter how far removed or unaffected, needs to be informed at 3am. If you were living close enough to that "Chelmsford inferno" be affected by it, I bet the sirens, flashing lights, and the cop on your doorstep would supply all the information you would immediately need.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
TSB
raccoonradio said:
Interesting. This seems to be a cure for which there is no known disease.
Just wondering, but if you were GMing or NDing a station, 1. what would be the rationale for staffing an overnight AFTRA news dept for covering the once-in-a decade major story which breaks during the time of lowest listenship and lowest revenue generation, 2. what is the definition of a story which is so important that everyone, no matter how far removed or unaffected, needs to be informed at 3am. If you were living close enough to that "Chelmsford inferno" be affected by it, I bet the sirens, flashing lights, and the cop on your doorstep would supply all the information you would immediately need.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
TSB
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
This is the niche that 1030AM fills so when you see a fireball and want to know what it is thats where you go. That's not the kind of thing I would expect to hear about on AMP even with a full on air staff.
If the event was big enough all the CBS stations would likely switch to a WBZ simulcast.
This is the niche that 1030AM fills so when you see a fireball and want to know what it is thats where you go. That's not the kind of thing I would expect to hear about on AMP even with a full on air staff.
If the event was big enough all the CBS stations would likely switch to a WBZ simulcast.
Re: Will 103.3 Amp Radio stay without Personalities?
Back in the 1980s, a listener survey was done occasionally asking the question..."If you heard that the Third World War (or something of that moment, I forget the exact wording) had erupted, where would you turn for more information?".......
The winner, far and away, was WBZ Radio, which at the time was a 'full service' music and talk station. This used to really stick in the craw of WEEI, which at the time was all news at 590, but such was the power of a well-established news team (LaPierre and crew), a station which had been around forever, and a big signal.
The only reason most of the music stations in the market even bothered to have their TOH news briefs was to assure listeners that nothing was happening in the world so you didn't have switch to WBZ. WJIB-FM was a classic example. Heck, I heard more than one music PD describe news as 'clutter.'
Of course, this was all before the web revolution and the evolution of 24/7 cable news operations. I'm afraid if the same question was asked today, no radio station, even an all-news one, would make the top-ten. Even WBZ acknowledges that now even they can't compete against the cable news operations (combined with the local TV station newsrooms) during high TV viewing times, so they program local talk, which has no national cable counterpart.
Nobody is going to invest resources building an in-station radio news operation reaching mainly cab drivers, grocery store stockers, and insomniacs. In this field of dreams, you can build it, but nobody will come. They're already gone.
Regards,
TSB
spt87 said:
Back in the 1980s, a listener survey was done occasionally asking the question..."If you heard that the Third World War (or something of that moment, I forget the exact wording) had erupted, where would you turn for more information?".......
The winner, far and away, was WBZ Radio, which at the time was a 'full service' music and talk station. This used to really stick in the craw of WEEI, which at the time was all news at 590, but such was the power of a well-established news team (LaPierre and crew), a station which had been around forever, and a big signal.
The only reason most of the music stations in the market even bothered to have their TOH news briefs was to assure listeners that nothing was happening in the world so you didn't have switch to WBZ. WJIB-FM was a classic example. Heck, I heard more than one music PD describe news as 'clutter.'
Of course, this was all before the web revolution and the evolution of 24/7 cable news operations. I'm afraid if the same question was asked today, no radio station, even an all-news one, would make the top-ten. Even WBZ acknowledges that now even they can't compete against the cable news operations (combined with the local TV station newsrooms) during high TV viewing times, so they program local talk, which has no national cable counterpart.
Nobody is going to invest resources building an in-station radio news operation reaching mainly cab drivers, grocery store stockers, and insomniacs. In this field of dreams, you can build it, but nobody will come. They're already gone.
Regards,
TSB
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