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WNAK Playing Chic "good times"

> >
> Though I'm not positive "that guy" works for "that company".
>

Oh Yeah, "That Guy" programs "That Station" in "Downtown Hazelton."
 
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Re: If Margie didn't do it... ??

>>>Lazarus out of the tomb? Is that a cheap shot at Terry McNulty???<<<

No; I meant bringing WNAK back from the dead. Had I realized a possible McNulty connection, I would have worded it differently. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
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> I am. He works for their Hazleton station using the name
> Rocky Brown, and he comes on this board all the time spewing
> negative charisma and bashing people...mostly me.
>


As far as "negative charisma" I say things the way I see them. I am way too old to care about whether people think I am positve or not.

Now about "bashing" you Kevin, I don't bash..I tweak. And you're just so darned adorable to tweak. You take yourself so seriously it's a riot to tweak you a bit and then sit back and watch you steam and froth. It's relaxing after a hard day. Not that you would know anything about hard days. Kevin, even the youngest school kid knows that if someone is picking on him, if he ignores them, they will get bored and go away.
 
Re: WNAK Playing Chic "good times"; Rocky Brown

>
> As far as "negative charisma" I say things the way I see
> them. I am way too old to care about whether people think I
> am positve or not.
>
> Now about "bashing" you Kevin, I don't bash..I tweak. And
> you're just so darned adorable to tweak. You take yourself
> so seriously it's a riot to tweak you a bit and then sit
> back and watch you steam and froth. It's relaxing after a
> hard day. Not that you would know anything about hard days.
> Kevin, even the youngest school kid knows that if someone is
> picking on him, if he ignores them, they will get bored and
> go away.
>

You obviously don't know Fennessy. I'm the one having the fun...outing you was the most fun I've had all week. Downtown Hazleton is a board op at WAZL who thinks he's really a general manager...and everytime he says something on these boards, he demonstrates that he knows little or nothing about the business ( despite being in it since Jesus was doing weekends)or even the company he works for. And his name is Rocky Brown...that's Rocky Brown.
 
Re: WNAK Playing Chic "good times"; Rocky Brown

> >
> > As far as "negative charisma" I say things the way I see
> > them. I am way too old to care about whether people think
> I
> > am positve or not.
> >
> > Now about "bashing" you Kevin, I don't bash..I tweak. And
> > you're just so darned adorable to tweak. You take yourself
>
> > so seriously it's a riot to tweak you a bit and then sit
> > back and watch you steam and froth. It's relaxing after a
> > hard day. Not that you would know anything about hard
> days.
> > Kevin, even the youngest school kid knows that if someone
> is
> > picking on him, if he ignores them, they will get bored
> and
> > go away.
> >
>
> You obviously don't know Fennessy. I'm the one having the
> fun...outing you was the most fun I've had all week.
> Downtown Hazleton is a board op at WAZL who thinks he's
> really a general manager...and everytime he says something
> on these boards, he demonstrates that he knows little or
> nothing about the business ( despite being in it since Jesus
> was doing weekends)or even the company he works for. And his
> name is Rocky Brown...that's Rocky Brown.
>
Yes, I am. And anybody who mattered, already knew who I was. Obviously, you didn't and still don't matter.
Brown
 
Personal Attacks

Hey Guys!!! Can we stop with the personal attacks NOW before I'm forced to do something I'd rather not do here?

I quoteth from the Radio-Info Good Book:

The following types of messages are not permitted (posts which violate these rules will be removed without notice to you):

Messages containing personal attacks, slanderous material, and similar nonsense.
 
Re: Personal Attacks

There's a great line from one of the Police Squad movies that applies here:

Priscilla Presley: " The two of you are acting like children, just stop it right now".
Leslie Nielsen: " I will if mister poopie-pants will !"<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by fennessy on 11/11/05 04:49 PM.</FONT></P>
 
zzz-zzz-zzz...zzz-zzz-zzz

See subject regarding the effect this fascinating thread has had.

Really, the only other thing I can add is, have you noticed that anytime there's a pi _ _ ing contest here, it has Fennessy in it?
 
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> >>>Lazarus out of the tomb? Is that a cheap shot at Terry
> McNulty???
>
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But just as with New York, the
> Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton market now has no place to
> turn if you want to hear standards.
>
Neither does Philadelphia, since September 2004. Or Wilmington, DE, since October 2003.

ixnay
 
In this thread and on other boards, we all lament the passing of standards radio, but a related form of radio passed into history besides this music...and maybe revisitng it might be the answer. Ready? Personality MOR or Personality driven A/C.

My favorite stations of this type were Metromedia's WIP in Philadelphia, and, WNEW-AM in New York, This is where you had a polished relavent and smooth personality who was equally important as the music. The personality actually chatted instead of jocked, was a real "companion", and no matter how aggressive the new and recent music became, the audience level remained consistent month to month, book to book, year to year. The conversational and personality-driven approach and execution was the glue that held it all together.


The closest thing we've had to that here has been the old WARM from about '70 to '76. Most recently, Terry Mc Naulty's mornings on WNAK. A lot of subsequent upper demo radio stations have been juke boxes. There are all kinds of alternatives to this, many now without commercials...but as listeners mature, there's never been a replacement for what was always a leading market position for a radio station.


Does revisiting this make sense...or is this sorta like the idea of Westerns on TV, where once seven of the top 10 shows were westerns and now there are none, and all of that has passed into history.

What do you think?
 
> But just as with New York, the
> > Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazleton market now has no place to
> > turn if you want to hear standards.
> >
> Neither does Philadelphia, since September 2004. Or
> Wilmington, DE, since October 2003.
>
> ixnay
>
Indianapolis had a single Standards station that generally got a respectable 3.5 in each book. They dropped standards to go to News/Talk against heritage 50Kw WIBC, and wound up with a rousing 1.3 share. Makes no sense. The Standards station of the year, dropped it's format immediately after winning the award at the NAB and flipped to country! To some extent, it depends on what you call "standards". If you assume that WNAK has a core ACTIVE audience that is between 50-70 years old, you're not really talking Tony Bennett & Sinatra. You're definately not talking Guy Mitchell & Gogi Grant. You're really talking soft pop/rock. If you look at the national satellite forms of this program, most of them have left behind the so-called older material. I'm not sure you can develop a big enough crowd who want to hear what is sometime referred to as Martini Music.
 
> If you
> assume that WNAK has a core ACTIVE audience that is between
> 50-70 years old, you're not really talking Tony Bennett &
> Sinatra. You're definately not talking Guy Mitchell & Gogi
> Grant. You're really talking soft pop/rock. If you look at
> the national satellite forms of this program, most of them
> have left behind the so-called older material. I'm not sure
> you can develop a big enough crowd who want to hear what is
> sometime referred to as Martini Music.
>

Yeah, that 50-70 yo demo was 34-54 yo when "Good Times" was a hit in the summer of 1979. I turned 18 that summer.

ixnay
 
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