WLAC changes schedule

[Nashsound]

I especially liked getting the "is there school tomorrow" calls on Saturday.

 

[deltas69]

yea..i may have called as a kid too...after 20 calls like that..id give them the principal's home phone number..but say..don't call til after 11 at night..he gets in late..

 

[onetake]

Well with the kids home today, it's a great day for tv and radio to be backpeddling on the forecast.

Remember the old days when all we had was the National Weather Service and we just read it from the AP (or UPI after they got the newspaper delivered and rewrote it). Seems like they were pretty accurate.
Now we have million dollar Doppler Quadruple thingamagigs and it still misses.
But I agree channel 5 hits it closer more often than anybody. I can't watch 2. The lady looks even bigger on my big screen tv. And I can't take a station that has a penguin as the wx champion.

 

[firepoint525]

I'd say that the school systems played it right this time. I remember the chaos in January 2003 when they tried to get the kids home ahead of the snowstorm and basically were not able to do so, and would have been better off just waiting until the snow passed. It was predicted to be a daytime snow event this time around, and that's what it was. The school systems have snow days built into their schedule to use for this purpose, and in my view, they made the correct use of a snow day this time.

Now if we don't get much more snow than we already have, and the school systems are still cancelling classes by Monday, then I may have a different opinion by then. : (Exception being the plateau, of course. I expect them to get more snow than we got, and to keep it a while longer.)

 

[Tibbs4]

Yeah, back when I wuz a kid (three weeks ago) good ole Boyce Hawkins got the weather much more right than today. I miss those old weather forecasts and seems like we always got snow the first week of January before Al Gore moved into town.

 

[firepoint525]

Kids aren't going to be calling radio stations anymore these days, looking for information on school closings. They'll just dial it up on the 'net. If they were to call the stations, they wouldn't get an answer anyway. Who is there to take the call? :

 

[olebud]

Firepoint. The first problem I remember was about 1982 when wsm radio was still on the hill with t-v. I was at the xgr when I got a call from Mike Donegan to leave and get chains on my news car down on Broad where the EXXON is now. I had them on by 11:30...and it was after 7pm before I got back to Knob Hill. New car kept dying because of pull on battery with heat, 2 ways, scanners, etc. Had to buy a new one out on west end. I could go...but in front of West High, traffic was 7 to 8 lanes wide..couldn't see lanes for snow. Finally made it up hill to station and Melissa Penry came out and wanted to throw snowballs at me. I don't think I was in the mood or a happy camper at the time. All that to say because the snow started late, many school buses didn't make it...and kids were at schools at scattered around after midnight. Most schools decided not to let it happen again. I think 2003 was last time they were surprised
we return you now to your regular show... :

 

[spew]

Please let this be the last of Rick and Bubba in Nashville. They are oh so Birmingham. Nashville has better talent...most of it sitting at home. The whole I'm a big fat redneck Baptist just like you is oh so done. Bye Bye

 

[roadrunner]

Please let this be the last of Rick and Bubba in Nashville. They are oh so Birmingham. Nashville has better talent...most of it sitting at home. The whole I'm a big fat redneck Baptist just like you is oh so done. Bye Bye

I completely agree. Back to Alabama with them!!! Don't ever wanna hear them
on the radio here again.

 

[scottwmro]

Please let this be the last of Rick and Bubba in Nashville. They are oh so Birmingham. Nashville has better talent...most of it sitting at home. The whole I'm a big fat redneck Baptist just like you is oh so done. Bye Bye

Spew,
You can down Red Necks all you want, but please, don't get on here and down religious denominations. Some of us are not "Red Neck", but we are Christians. I wasn’t a fan of the “Rick and Bubba” Show either, but I’m not going to get on here and down others.

Back when I was a just a jock on the air, I would get phone calls with some moron on the other end, complaining about what I was playing on the air. I would just tell them “If you don’t like what we are playing, then roll the dial. There are 50 signals coming into Nashville, and I'm sure you will find something you will like”. I was getting paid to play what the station’s format was and doing my job.

I say that to people complaining about TV Shows as well.

Also, Firepoint has a valid point about school closings. The kids now get the information about school closings faster than us broadcasters do. They post it on the "Net" right when the decision is made. Things like this make me think about the future of radio (both AM & FM) as we know it today, and are we going to be important to the public 10 to 15 years from now. It seems like the internet is taking over our position in getting out information to the public. Even the elderly are learning about computers. Wi-Fi may be out to kill the traditional broadcaster. I phones with FM Radio on them, and they are leaving AM off of them, another problem technology is causing us.

 

[jetfli]

I agree, let's put local people to work first. But if we can't have local, I'd far prefer something regionally-based, from say, Birmingham, than something from out of New York or LA and especially Indianapolis.

 

[almaniac27]

Please let this be the last of Rick and Bubba in Nashville. They are oh so Birmingham. Nashville has better talent...most of it sitting at home. The whole I'm a big fat redneck Baptist just like you is oh so done. Bye Bye

Spew,
You can down Red Necks all you want, but please, don't get on here and down religious denominations. Some of us are not "Red Neck", but we are Christians. I wasn’t a fan of the “Rick and Bubba” Show either, but I’m not going to get on here and down others.

I don't think he was putting down Baptists, but more the whole contrived schtick Rick & Bubba as well as people like Larry the Cable Guy do. At least that's how I read his comment.

 

[scottwmro]

I agree, let's put local people to work first. But if we can't have local, I'd far prefer something regionally-based, from say, Birmingham, than something from out of New York or LA and especially Indianapolis.

I 100% agree with you. These large corporations like South Central, Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel, Cromwell, etc. in this market, need to be live, putting "human bodies" back to work. They can afford it, even Citadel under Chapter 11 can. What burns me up is these "broadcasting schools" promise people a job in radio, and when they graduate, they can't find one.

Also, don’t bring somebody in and turn around and fire them, unless they have done something unmoral or just plain stupid. Leave them alone! These radio companies like Cumulus have a very bad reputation of this and I hope one day it comes back to bite Lew Dickey for these crazy moves he has made with the Nashville FM’s he has.

The small town AM operations, exclude them from this because the corporate giants have the ratings and the advertisers. They have to be automated some due to their budgets are low, unless the owner won the lottery and can employee live jocks. There are a few "daytime" AM's in the small towns left that are all live, but there is only so much "mom & pop businesses and money to be had. It's tough being an AM broadcaster these days.

The Corporate owned stations are who need to be live, not voice tracked. I know money is tight and the economy is not going to get any better any time soon, but consumer spending is going back up, ad agencies are working hard to get clients on these corporate owned stations, so I can't understand why they have to run out and get some Satellite Morning Drive Show, instead of hiring local talent.

I’m making some comments not as broadcaster, but your typical listener in the car. To me most of the FM stations in Nashville bore me to tears and sound canned!

There are only "two" FM stations that sound decent on in the Nashville area. WSIX-FM and Jerry House is the best. I've been listening to him on and off over the years, even back when he was on the old WSIX-AM, playing AC. Jerry House is one of the best talents around. I don't care too much for the country music they play, but his show in general is one of the best in the nation. I give Jerry House an A+ for his morning program.

Mix 92.9 is the second choice. They have done their homework and have built one of the most successful AC stations that I've ever heard. The morning show always sounds bright, middays and afternoons are good as well. The only problem is I don't care for the nighttime program with that chick, I can't think of her name off of the top of my head. If it was up to me, I'd replace her for a local female talent that can do the same thing.

The rest of the FM's in the area are just plain boring to me. If they make someone else happy, that's fine and good. But I just ignore them for the most part. I can tell you what format they are, but as far as what they are doing daily, I wouldn't know because I don't tune them in, like 97.1. I only know what they are doing because of all the chatter on this board. I don't listen to them. I don’t have a button on my car radio set to them, or any Cumulus Owned Station.

My comments here a based upon just me, in my car, as a listener, not a broadcaster. Corporate needs to bring back live, local, radio to Nashville, not some canned Satellite Program, especially in the mornings. The FM stations here have many listeners and it’s important to make them happy so their cluster of stations will be profitable.

 

[jwk1979]

It always amazes me that a lot of poster will complain about this station or that station will use a syndicated morning show based in another market or use Voice tracking by someone based in another city because it DENIES LOCAL TALENT from working in this market. Yet they say nothing when a station BRINGS in someone from another MARKET as the NEW Morning Drive or Afternoon Drive Air Personality or the host of the Mid-Day Talk or Sports show. Couldn't those slots have been filled with Local Talent as well?

Ralph Bristol came here from Spartenburg, SC, Michael Del Giornio from Tulsa, Woody and Jim on the River came here from Kansas City (though it was 10 years ago), Mack on 97.1 came Toledo, OH and it seems that every morning jock both KDF and WSM-FM have had over the past several years have come from another market ( Ft. Wayne, IN, Dayton, OH, Davenport, IA, etc.) Isn't bringing someone in from another market DENYING LOCAL TALENT from working here in Nashville?

And as far as local talent, who is there another than Bobby Knight that people are clamoring for? From my understanding, Coyote McCloud is in his mid 60's and dealing with some Health Issues, Carl P. Mayfield has burned to many bridges in Nashville and no one is willing to deal with him and most of the others have either left town or have gotten jobs in other fields and aren't interested in returning back to the airwaves. And alot of the News Personalities are working for Metro News and Traffic (Ron Jordan, Jerry Menshack, Bob August, etc.).

As far as Voice tracking goes, Joe Elvis was VTing in both Chattanooga and Jackson, TN several years ago while still doing afternoons on 105.9 The Rock and Brian Sargent was doing some VTing for Mix 92.9's sister station in Knoxville a few years ago or so. Didn't that prevent those stations in those markets from HIRING LOCAL TALENT?
So what's the difference?

 

[ShadowB]

Scott said "....are we going to be important to the public 10 to 15 years from now...."
As much as I hate to say it...NO! Think back 15-20 years and see how much it has changed. People thought radio was great. Like a song that got played, go out and buy it. Like the jock on the air, call him or her up and talk to them. Better yet go see them on remote. Another sad thing is it will never be what it once was and 10-15 years from Now people will say the same thing about radio we have now
Just my 2 cents (and some posters say I don't have that much!) haha
~Kent

 

[TruThdeTecTor]

jwk1979 posted...Michael Del Giornio from Tulsa, Woody and Jim on the River came here from Kansas City (though it was 10 years ago), Mack...

As I recall, Woody & Jim joined The River from Fly 92 in Albany.

 

[turnitupnow]

[
Spew,
You can down Red Necks all you want, but please, don't get on here and down religious denominations. Some of us are not "Red Neck", but we are Christians.



Scott I don't think the remark was meant in a hateful way toward Baptists or Christians. Rick seems like a pretty intelligent guy but it's all lost in the twang and low brow yank of trucks and boats and dumb jokes weaved into a flag waving "we know SEAN hannity and even wrote a book altho we ain't read all that many" act.

The oddity is to move from obviously hillbilly nascar into wlac expecting us to take them seriously as a new leader with smart guys smarter than anybody. Glenn Beck and Steve Gill and the whole other extreme sounds like a decision made reasons I don't really get...my solution?I don't really listen. I discovered wpln....those guys actually went to college and I don't mean Vol State or Austin Peay.

 

[olebud]

scott:

Also, don’t bring somebody in and turn around and fire them, unless they have done something unmoral or just plain stupid. Leave them alone!

There are only "two" FM stations that sound decent on in the Nashville area. WSIX-FM and Jerry House is the best.

Mix 92.9 is the second choice.

My comments here a based upon just me, in my car, as a listener, not a broadcaster.

Just another view poiont -- mine. I'm a little off in the firings of new people just brought in to stations, but you're correct, stupid or immoral..speaks for itself.

However, it's not always easy to find good, local talent. There aren't that many true Middle Tennesseans on the air here. Most have to come from somewhere else, but that's how it's always been. Years ago, if WMAK had a great air person, WKDA would make airchecks and send them all over the country to try and get that talent offers in a bigger market. Well know folks like Hairl Hensley, Alan Dennis, Scott Shannon, Jay Thomas, --and I could go on, were not from here. Because, as you know, it is a business. Stations used to try to find the best/affordable talent from wherever. By the way, Gerry (with a G) House is from Ky. But as you pointed out, that was before the Clear Channels and Cumulus and others tried to v-t to keep from sinking.

 

[jwk1979]

jwk1979 posted...Michael Del Giornio from Tulsa, Woody and Jim on the River came here from Kansas City (though it was 10 years ago), Mack...

As I recall, Woody & Jim joined The River from Fly 92 in Albany.

I couldn't recall what market they were in before they came to Nashville but the point was they were brought into Nashville from another market. They were not LOCAL TALENT as so many posters on the board are clamoring for!!!

 

[firepoint525]

Mix 92.9 is the second choice. They have done their homework and have built one of the most successful AC stations that I've ever heard. The morning show always sounds bright, middays and afternoons are good as well. The only problem is I don't care for the nighttime program with that chick, I can't think of her name off of the top of my head. If it was up to me, I'd replace her for a local female talent that can do the same thing.

Delilah! : Ugh! In a time of people saying that they are sick and tired of overly talkative jocks, we are stuck with this "chatty Cathy"! : And she is not only on the air on 92.9, but also on Lite 98.7 out of Hopkinsville! Double ugh!