Re: A look at the competition
> > WNCI/Columbus, OH - WINNER but why? As CbusDave said too
> > "For what? Programming? Promotions? Imaging? Tiddlywinks?"
>
your bitter envy is causing atrophe of your frontal lobe. "R&R Station of the Year" implicitly requires all of those departments be taken into account (you d-f!). If it were based on individual departments at the radio station it would not be called STATION of the year. I think other trade publications honor specfic areas/departments, like Promotions and Engineering (which I think CC's Columbus chief won that, too).
> So now we have a couple quantifiers. (I think you mean "qualifiers"?) Congratulations to
> WNCI for being the best CHR/Pop station among 5 nominated
> stations in markets smaller than Sacramento, CA and bigger
> than Lexington-Fayette. It's like being the best in the
> minor leagues.
What? "minor leagues"? Does this assume that markets #26-50 are incapable of executing major radio? Oddly, you recognize that all the nominees were/are the top-rated CHR station in their market. Well, by your criteria, those stations/markets suck really bad because WNCI beat them. Or, are you suggesting that there are other large markets that did not get nominated that had better stations? Poughkipsee? Baton Rouge? Orlando? Where? What stations?
Which only leads me to wonder... If you are only capable of standing on the street and gazing forlornly through the window, what does that say of your (in)abilities?
If you insist on making such general dismissive strokes, offer alternative suggestion(s) or shut the #$*% up, bee-yotch.
> Edited to add: I should note that I don't dislike CC or
> implicitly hold anything against WNCI except I think they
> could do much better with that station that's all.
What do you want done? Decades of top ratings and (regularly) the market's top-billing station is not enough? If not ratings and revenue, then what measures do you suggest are better?
In any business, you put up a product and let the marketplace decide. Public tastes be damned, because the almighty CbusDave knows better. We're not worthy. Please guide us from this radio desert. Please "Dave" and "Incog-know-nothing" we beg for your blessings. Save us from only achieving top ratings and big revenue. There must be something better.
> understand most of the moves they make with their playlist
> although I don't necessarily agree with them.
Can you sack-up and offer any specifics? What don't you like? Gwen Stefani bother you? Kelly Clarkson not popular enough? Will Smith too clean for Columbus sensibilities?
What would you do differently? Why that would be better? Based upon what measure, your half-facts and petty outsider jealousies?
I don't like
> the Morning Zoo but that's just a matter of opinion.
Finally, some sanity. You are welcome to your opinion. I think most can respect any individual's opinion if you explain a little about why you hold that view.
However, assuming "Dave" makes you not a woman, then you are not supposed to like a 20-something female-targeted product. Stop trying to wear a dress. Stop trying to use the tampon. It was not made for you, it makes you look bad and it only causes you great discomfort.
I like
> having CC in the market though and I look forward to the
> Dublin move in and even wish they were allowed to seize
> control of 103.1 to do something more professional with that
> signal.
They are big, but that does not make it possible for them to perform miracles. That frequency makes Marconi wish he had been working on the microwave oven instead.
It would be nice if we could get a Channel Z type
> station back into the fold.
Yeah? If it was so freaking successful (beyond just you guys that whine and cry on this board), then why has no one put it on instead of, say, Oldies or Hot AC or "Ted" that all were launched on new sticks since Z went away?
Get over it. Your tastes clearly do not reflect a broader (popular) appetite. Blacksmiths went away because people stopped buying their goods/services. I assume there were equally bitter postings as yours on the Blacksmith-Info message board during the early 1900's.
Load your iPod and play disc jockey in your parents' basement, wannbes. That's as close you're going to get.