Only the keen eye of a grizzled old veteran.... Pure speculation my friend.
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Wizard done on Monday?
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Yellow Moon
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Blues For Breakfast is not part of everyone's Sunday breakfast. The glut of corp commercials and absence of true knowledge of The Blues is blatant. Charlie plays what he wants to. Like......Trey Anastasio(?!).....who is not and has never been a Blues musician. However, he is probably singin' the Blues now!
YM:
Mr. Charlie is the best… The commercials are not his fault. Nuff said
Mr. Charlie is the best… The commercials are not his fault. Nuff said
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Okay. Never mind the commercials. He might be a really great guy. (Although he has a weird habit of coming out of the spots right into a tune, with no station ID, show ID, self Id, or intro to song. That's just bad DJ skills.) And what about playing Trey Anastasio? I see that there was no comment on that. Okay. He's got under two hours to present some great Blues music to his thousands and thousands of listeners......(those dratted commercials again that totally wreck the flow of the show.)
and he chooses to play someone who has never been, is not now, and will never be a Bluesman. One more thing....Sunday morning is a really weird time for a Blues program. WIZN barely touches The Blues any other time. Why do they even bother with a "special" Blues show?
and he chooses to play someone who has never been, is not now, and will never be a Bluesman. One more thing....Sunday morning is a really weird time for a Blues program. WIZN barely touches The Blues any other time. Why do they even bother with a "special" Blues show?
Yellow Moon,
I can't answer your questions about the formatics of the show in particular, but I can maybe shed some light regarding WIZN's interest and placement of the show.
First, I guess this show is planted on Sunday mornings because that's when it's available live off the bird? That's my assumption anyway.
I'll also assume that this has been carefully thought out by the syndicator because that time slot is stereotypically the "throw-away" programming zone. Sunday mornings are a chance for a station to broaden its horizons in one aspect or another that it normally doesn't cover during the week in any form. Many choose PSA type programming to satisfy Public Service requirements. Others choose to carry syndicated shows that don't generally mesh with a popular-formatted station, which is what WIZN has done. Additionally, as WIZN is (currently) a rock station, as the blues was a base for rock, it's sort of like the station's time-warp to cover their historical roots.
I can't answer your questions about the formatics of the show in particular, but I can maybe shed some light regarding WIZN's interest and placement of the show.
First, I guess this show is planted on Sunday mornings because that's when it's available live off the bird? That's my assumption anyway.
I'll also assume that this has been carefully thought out by the syndicator because that time slot is stereotypically the "throw-away" programming zone. Sunday mornings are a chance for a station to broaden its horizons in one aspect or another that it normally doesn't cover during the week in any form. Many choose PSA type programming to satisfy Public Service requirements. Others choose to carry syndicated shows that don't generally mesh with a popular-formatted station, which is what WIZN has done. Additionally, as WIZN is (currently) a rock station, as the blues was a base for rock, it's sort of like the station's time-warp to cover their historical roots.
YM:
Nice rant! ( I say that in the respectful tongue and cheek way) My only comment is… Radio is a business in America. One of the unfortunate by-products “of the best way of life in the world” is that the free market system is a double edged sword - opportunity and expression on one side and economy of scale and lust for profit on the other. (something sucks about everything doesn’t it?)
It was inevitable that the corporations would take over radio just like they took over hamburger stands and coffee shops. It’s cheaper to keep telling everybody how hip you are, or how much you rock with slogans and imagery than to actually rock or be hip. Hey, enough people seem to have bought in on it because it’s been working for a long time. The WIZN of yore that you are lamenting about has waned largely because of it’s own success… Larger and larger companies want to own that warm-fuzzy feeling that you have for “The Wizard”.
Who could blame WIZN for reaping the seed they planted. Other cool things will emerge and people will gather and connect and eventually the corporation’s will buy that up too. And before we know it, what ever it happens to be, won’t be quite as cool as it use to.
Corporate America’s attention span lasts as long as a common stock profit trend. Eventually “The Man” looses interest and it falls back into the hands of Mom and Pop who will make it good again and sell it to the corporations at a substantial profit… Good for them! It all happens in cycles and the pendulum may very well be swinging back …If it does…enjoy it while it lasts.
Louie Manno
Nice rant! ( I say that in the respectful tongue and cheek way) My only comment is… Radio is a business in America. One of the unfortunate by-products “of the best way of life in the world” is that the free market system is a double edged sword - opportunity and expression on one side and economy of scale and lust for profit on the other. (something sucks about everything doesn’t it?)
It was inevitable that the corporations would take over radio just like they took over hamburger stands and coffee shops. It’s cheaper to keep telling everybody how hip you are, or how much you rock with slogans and imagery than to actually rock or be hip. Hey, enough people seem to have bought in on it because it’s been working for a long time. The WIZN of yore that you are lamenting about has waned largely because of it’s own success… Larger and larger companies want to own that warm-fuzzy feeling that you have for “The Wizard”.
Who could blame WIZN for reaping the seed they planted. Other cool things will emerge and people will gather and connect and eventually the corporation’s will buy that up too. And before we know it, what ever it happens to be, won’t be quite as cool as it use to.
Corporate America’s attention span lasts as long as a common stock profit trend. Eventually “The Man” looses interest and it falls back into the hands of Mom and Pop who will make it good again and sell it to the corporations at a substantial profit… Good for them! It all happens in cycles and the pendulum may very well be swinging back …If it does…enjoy it while it lasts.
Louie Manno
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