Will someone please upset the apple cart?

[soundsandsports]

It's been forever since we had a format flip in Nashville, and I'm getting bored! When is somebody going to have the onions/money to change things around here? (hopefully for the better)

Heck, even one Cookeville cluster swapped frequencies between its stations a few months ago!

Even if Mayor Dean decides he wants a tourist station on the expanded band like a station outside Atlanta had a while back on 1690 advertising a water park on a loop when it signed on (now they play a bunch of folk music after Air America died) or Radio Free Nashville finds a big pile of money on their doorstep to add some juice to their operation, something has to be done.

This is a good radio market, but it could be better

 

[romer979fm]

Even if Mayor Dean decides he wants a tourist station on the expanded band like a station outside Atlanta had a while back on 1690 advertising a water park on a loop when it signed on

just so ya know...the 1690 you're referring to was licensed to Adel, GA (near Valsosta) when they
ran the water-park loop...actually called it "Wild Adventures Radio" with the calls WSWK in 2003-2004.
Full-time repeating informercial for the "Wild Adventures Water & Theme Park" in Valdosta...
The COL was moved to Avondale Estates (Atlanta 'burb) in 2004...and ran Air America for a while.
I believe they run an eclectic "arts" format now with calls WMLB.
City of Atlanta never had anything to do with it.

 

[Davy D]

I took a brief respite from the norm and listened to 1680 AM for traffic info today. Not a lot of variety, but I think they were neck and neck with WNFN in the latest trend.

 

[Tibbs4]

watch out! Dumbuluss might take that idea and flipp RQQ to traffic, racing and vandy 24/7.

 

[Davy D]

I almost used WRQQ instead of WNFN. It was just too easy.

 

[jharmon]

The apple cart turned over a long time ago when corporations like Cumulus came to town. No apples left.

 

[soundsandsports]

The apple cart turned over a long time ago when corporations like Cumulus came to town. No apples left.

Well let's see:

Mix 92.9 should change its name to Star 92 or Star 93 (seeing as though they sound like Star 106 and later Star 97 with all the fading pop hits/Hot AC currents they play)

The Buzz needs to go back to its roots as a "new/current" rock station like X103 in Indy and let The Rock handle all the "classic" rock in town like QMF in Louisville does (The Buzz and the Rock sound too much alike except for the Buzz's three new/current songs a month)

RQQ needs to decide what the heck they want to do (AAA, classic rock, alternative, sports, classic hits, Americana, Spanish rock, polka, smooth jazz, Radio Disney, classical, etc...)

So there's some ideas how to upset the apple cart...now how do you like them apples?

 

[Tibbs4]

Mix is nowhere close to Star 97. Star never played Rupert Holmes or had any listeners, because they flipped from one side of the format to another like a dead fish. Star 106 or Sunny 106 or whatever you remember was closer. I blame that on SARGE. He had an addiction to "The Rose" and Elton John...but he refuses to add
other Rupert songs. I don't know why. I have begged "HIM"...

The Rock is dead Classic Rock with NO REAL ROCK that really rocks. Jimmy Buffet, while a great Kappa Sig, is NOT real rock. Neither is sappy Foreigner. Yawn. Buzz is not that close.

RQQ is a damn disaster thanks to stupid people with no passion at Crudulus who obviously care nada. They were good three or four times for a total of about three months since the clowns put that station on the air a decade plus ago. Who would have thought a 50kw station would have floundered so sadly for so long. Go back to either the Hot Hot AC Star without the 16 stupid 80's songs that lasted about a month or the six hundredth version of RQQ that was good for three weeks with a great variety that was kinda close to the rockier songs on a real station like WRLT. Sadly you chemically induced corporate tool programming morons that think Nashville is a 70's current city need to have a serious enema shoved up you tweeter if you keep playing a bunch of overplayed, tired crap like Steve Miller, The Eagles and redneck swill. You will F A I L and you deserve I T. GET REAL and either rock or flip and screw it up again. NO OTHER COMAPNY would let this flounder for this long. No more excuses/ someone needs to lead that team. WHAT A JOKE>



Okay. I have said it. Can we all move on and accept that nothing will change in 2010?

 

[firepoint525]

The Buzz needs to go back to its roots as a "new/current" rock station like X103 in Indy and let The Rock handle all the "classic" rock in town like QMF in Louisville does (The Buzz and the Rock sound too much alike except for the Buzz's three new/current songs a month)

You must be listening to a different Buzz than I am, because I don't hear one song in ten that I recognize on that frequency. Of course, I can only hear Buzz in the car, and can't receive them very well on my stereo here at home.

Of course, they're a Cromwell station, so who really cares?

 

[beatlenut]

RQQ is a damn disaster thanks to stupid people with no passion at Crudulus who obviously care nada. Who would have thought a 50kw station would have floundered so sadly for so long. NO OTHER COMPANY would let this flounder for this long. No more excuses/ someone needs to lead that team. WHAT A JOKE.

What a shame. Sadly, I don't think there is anyone here who doesn't agree with you. Back when (2002-ish), they weren't doing too badly, they had a solid on-air team. Then, one by one, they fired all of their key players, the people who worked hardest to make that station sound as good as it could with what management gave it to work with. Could they possibly be wondering what they did wrong? It's highly unlikely. If they did wonder, they wouldn't still be floundering.

I don't remember what 106.7 did during that period, but I bet they rated better with The Rooster than they have done in recent years.

 

[soundsandsports]

RQQ is a damn disaster thanks to stupid people with no passion at Crudulus who obviously care nada. Who would have thought a 50kw station would have floundered so sadly for so long. NO OTHER COMPANY would let this flounder for this long. No more excuses/ someone needs to lead that team. WHAT A JOKE.

What a shame. Sadly, I don't think there is anyone here who doesn't agree with you. Back when (2002-ish), they weren't doing too badly, they had a solid on-air team. Then, one by one, they fired all of their key players, the people who worked hardest to make that station sound as good as it could with what management gave it to work with. Could they possibly be wondering what they did wrong? It's highly unlikely. If they did wonder, they wouldn't still be floundering.

I don't remember what 106.7 did during that period, but I bet they rated better with The Rooster than they have done in recent years.

They came to snuff the "Rooster"!!!!!!! (well Cumulus did)

Odds are 15-1 of anybody getting my AIC reference

 

[firepoint525]

What a shame. Sadly, I don't think there is anyone here who doesn't agree with you. Back when (2002-ish), they weren't doing too badly, they had a solid on-air team. Then, one by one, they fired all of their key players, the people who worked hardest to make that station sound as good as it could with what management gave it to work with. Could they possibly be wondering what they did wrong? It's highly unlikely. If they did wonder, they wouldn't still be floundering.

Crumbuless needs to sell 97.1. They clearly don't know what they are doing with it. But I have a feeling that they never will, because a new owner would probably beat Crumbuless in the ratings with it!

I don't remember what 106.7 did during that period, but I bet they rated better with The Rooster than they have done in recent years.

106.7 was at their best when they were The Planet (1998) and their R&B oldies format (1999). But they only kept each format for only about a year or so. I remember them playing listener comments during their waning days as an R&B oldies station, including one from a listener who said "don't ever change!" Yet literally days later (later that same week, in fact) they did just that: they changed. I haven't listened to them since. They probably knew that they were going to change, even when they aired that listener comment. (The fact that a listener would make such a comment in the first place indicates to me that even everyday listeners know that stations are constantly changing formats, and are worried that their personal favorite station may be gone just like that!)

 

[jwk1979]

I don't remember what 106.7 did during that period, but I bet they rated better with The Rooster than they have done in recent years.

106.7 was at their best when they were The Planet (1998) and their R&B oldies format (1999). But they only kept each format for only about a year or so. I remember them playing listener comments during their waning days as an R&B oldies station, including one from a listener who said "don't ever change!" Yet literally days later (later that same week, in fact) they did just that: they changed. I haven't listened to them since. They probably knew that they were going to change, even when they aired that listener comment. (The fact that a listener would make such a comment in the first place indicates to me that even everyday listeners know that stations are constantly changing formats, and are worried that their personal favorite station may be gone just like that!)

I don't think those were local listeners as much aa they were some generic comments made by someone that can be used in other markets as well. I remember the first time 105.9 the Rock did the Classic Rock A to Z, a "Listener" stated that who ever came up with this "Idea" was a "Genius" and that this was their "Favorite" radio station. Yet a few weeks later, I was in Knoxville after WIMZ was also doing Classic Rock A to Z, and at the conclusion, this very same "Listener" made the same statement, word for word, on WIMZ. I also heard it a year or so later in Myrtle Beach, SC. So don't be so sure that the comments made on 106.7 when they were R&B Oldies came from "Local" Listerners!!!

 

[Journeyman]

So don't be so sure that the comments made on 106.7 when they were R&B Oldies came from "Local" Listerners!!!

I once bouhght some sweeper fx for my home studio. It came with pre-recorded listener comments for promos. Just sayin'.

 

[Doc]

I don't remember what 106.7 did during that period, but I bet they rated better with The Rooster than they have done in recent years.

106.7 was at their best when they were The Planet (1998) and their R&B oldies format (1999). But they only kept each format for only about a year or so. I remember them playing listener comments during their waning days as an R&B oldies station, including one from a listener who said "don't ever change!" Yet literally days later (later that same week, in fact) they did just that: they changed. I haven't listened to them since. They probably knew that they were going to change, even when they aired that listener comment. (The fact that a listener would make such a comment in the first place indicates to me that even everyday listeners know that stations are constantly changing formats, and are worried that their personal favorite station may be gone just like that!)

I don't think those were local listeners as much aa they were some generic comments made by someone that can be used in other markets as well. I remember the first time 105.9 the Rock did the Classic Rock A to Z, a "Listener" stated that who ever came up with this "Idea" was a "Genius" and that this was their "Favorite" radio station. Yet a few weeks later, I was in Knoxville after WIMZ was also doing Classic Rock A to Z, and at the conclusion, this very same "Listener" made the same statement, word for word, on WIMZ. I also heard it a year or so later in Myrtle Beach, SC. So don't be so sure that the comments made on 106.7 when they were R&B Oldies came from "Local" Listerners!!!

Thats a good trick. I never thought radio stations would stoop that low. lol

 

[NoMoreMornings]

Clear Channel a.k.a. Premiere Radio Network and Citadel, among others, sell production libraries that include listener's generic, that is to say, fake, testimonials ("oooh, it's my favorite station".."I listen all day long", ..."They play all of my favorites", etc.).
Classy, huh?

 

[firepoint525]

I remember a business that once advertised with us (I think it was a furniture store) sent us a reel tape of spots to air (okay, so this was the early '90s). Keep in mind that these were all on ONE tape!

1) a pre-sale spot promoting an upcoming sale
2) a spot or spots promoting the sale, to run while the sale was going on
3) and a spot that said that the sale was being held over due to better-than-expected response! ;D

Wow, they must have been clairvoyant!

 

[DToTheJ]

When is somebody going to have the onions/money to change things around here? (hopefully for the better)

What, the demise of Rick & Bubba isn't good enough for you? :

 

[soundsandsports]

When is somebody going to have the onions/money to change things around here? (hopefully for the better)

What, the demise of Rick & Bubba isn't good enough for you? :

They'll be back in Nashville, probably when Rick & Anna Marie go stale at Mix (I stopped listening to them years ago when they began to sound too predictable) or, 97.1 when either Bob or Tom kicks the bucket first (Great show, but all good things must come to an end) or, 102.9 when Free Beer & Hot Wings get promoted to Howard Stern's AAA farm team on satellite radio

 

[Davy D]

What, the demise of Rick & Bubba isn't good enough for you?

They'll be back in Nashville...

Does that mean Bob & Sheri will be back, too? MERCY! SERENITY NOW!