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Jason Tomlin-WSM midnights
while i have just registered, i have monitored the board for sometime now and i feel compelled to give what will probably be my first and only post. and i am not sure where to even begin........
i personally know some of the people on this board, many of them worked at WSM at one time or another. and the "nashville radio" people that i do not have the pleasure to know personally, i respect and have listened to for years. (Romer etc) these are not necessarilary the people i shall be addressing......
why does it appear that this board (ESPECIALLY when it comes to WSM) is jammed full of people that just talk out of their ass? people that sound like they have NO CLUE, not only about WSM, but radio in general? is it necessary to keep discussing the same topic(s) over and over again?
how many times, and from how many different newbies, is a post gonna be made that states "I wish Gaylord hadn't sold....this and that..... what ? 95? 99.7? tnn? cmt? opryland?
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, GAYLORD SCREWED UP A FEW YEARS AGO. THEY SOLD A BUNCH OF STUFF THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE. AND THEY CLOSED A THEME PARK. THIS IS NO LONGER NEWS!
i am talking years ago, they did this folks....years ago, not last week....i hated it then, and i hate it now. i am sure that 98% of us on this board hated it. when you bitched about it then, it made no difference. and it sure makes even less difference now. GET THE HELL OVER IT. they know they made a mistake, and they fully realized it when they attempted to change the format of WSM-AM. by then, it was too late to right the wrongs, and they just decided to leave well enough alone and let WSM/OPRY fend for itself. also, the CEO of Gaylord got multiple death threats, and i hear still to this day will not travel to Nashville without a security detail. so by letting the controversy "die down", they figured WSM would "die down" in short order.....once again the minds at Gaylord are wrong, cause WSM is going nowhere.
and it appears many, many of the members here are right there with em, just waiting for it to die......
is it jealousy? envy? is the bitterness too much for some of these people? the people i am referring to, wouldn't know a true "classic" country song if they had to play one. they probably have never heard even a quarter of the music that WSM has to offer. what gives these people the right to condemn the station to the smithsonian graveyard? what gives them the right to sit back and "armchair program" the most prestigous country station of all time? it has been proven that there are many members who come here and post all kinds of "facts" that they believe to be true, or they make up just to get into the conversation. someone recently got their hand called on this......a truer post was never typed concerning the "crap" that was being discussed.
the last time i checked, there was a HUGE difference between 50,000 watts and 1,000 watts.
what i don't get is the 1,000 watt station owners, and the radio boys of the board, the out of towners that say stuff about people over/under 65: these people that are so dead set on am being dead? then why bother? when all there is to choose on the am dial is talk, and ABC satellite music feeds that dont even have local jocks,where you have to type a zip code in to get information then yes am WILL BE dead.....according to some, we are already at that point?
perhaps, a "fact finding" mission is in order.
obviously there are many that do not realize the history and background of the station. this again, has been proven time and time again. i doubt some of the people here, even listen on a regular basis, if they did then they wouldnt be posting some of the stuff they post. what does it say as broadcasters, how does it make us look to other broadcasters, to sit here and discuss how it's gonna happen? like vultures flapping their wings in the distance? how stupid........how pathetic.
many of the posts sound as if they cannot wait until the Opry goes off the air.....1925. that's 82 years. just how many people on this board were alive in 1925 when the station signed on? just how many people were actually listening when the Opry signed on a month later?
i am still waiting on an answer........
it amazes me that anyone in this business, especially in NASHVILLE, would not want to see the historical program and station that carries it continue forever. given the misinformation of some other posts, perhaps there are people that do not realize it( The Opry) is indeed the longest running CONSECUTIVE program in the history of broadcasting. there is NOTHING in the entertainment field that can touch this. no newspaper columns have went this long with the same writer. magazines? tv hasnt even been on the air that long. come on people......KDKA, WABC.....there are about 5 or so stations that can claim any type of historical significance. i mean REAL Pioneering historic significance. we have one of them in Nashville. and the opry actually makes it the most prestigous. why would anyone in broadcasting, especially another station owner, want to see this happen. why would anyone even entertain the thought that it could/would happen?? why would radio people not be proud to even work in the same town, as such a broadcasting legend?? i mean KDKA can only sign on the air one time, after that all that mattes is that they stay on the air.....everyday they are on the air is history in the making.....same goes for WSM, every saturday night that show comes on the air, it is history, and the other few broadcasting legends left.....may you keep what little heritage you have left. .any other kind of negative mindframe IS the problem with radio today. everyone forgets where they come from.....everyone except WSM. someone made the remark that the horse was replaced with the train. that is in fact true. but did we start killing all the horses off? the train was replaced by the airplane? so what, do we go around derailing all of them now? HELLO< IS THIS THING ON??
WSM is NEVER gonna go away. the Opry is NEVER< NEVER gonna go away. not in our children's lifetime. those that think no one is listening to the radio on saturday night, are much bigger fools than they let on. i suppose SIRIUS decided to pick them up because they had an extra channel to fill.......the only reason they did not re-new a contract was so they could pay Howard Stern. this is a fact. they lost way too much business when they dropped WSM. and i suppose the fact that XM picked them up means nothing either.
WSM is poised to go into the next 82 years, again, as a pioneer. i feel, when the merger is over, and all the beds are made, WSM will be back on satellite full-time. WSM will be offered on any type of internet radio package that comes down the pike too. when the small 1,000 watt stations are long gone, it is nice to know there will still be an old dinosaur that our grandchildren can listen to. it will not have to die off.....
again, i know everyone on this board that works at WSM.....i do not recalll seeing any outsiders at any staff meeting in the last couple of years, so i am not sure where the group gets their figures on the amount of money that is being made by WSM. are there a bunch of gaylord stockholders in this group? WSM is making money....plain and simple. has been for a few years now. maybe not as much as the next fellow, and ratings do say something, but not everything.......you have to sell the demographic. but wait, have you guys figured out what that is yet?
it is a shame to know there are folks around here, that would just pull the plug.
some of the posts are dead on......news. god knows, they need more news. sales......that is all changing with the departure of cumulus JSA. music? ya'll need to get a life.......it would take 5 years to play all the music WSM has......and that is without repeating a song. and the sad part is, some people think they would recognize every song, and if they didn't they would say it did not belong. i stress that Merle Haggard has forgotten more songs in his life than say: bon jovi, sheryl crow, rob thomas, or kelly clarkson have ever charted or recorded. classic country is too broad to categorize with just 2 decades....and it is NOT just the songs YOU grew up listening to.......WSM is doing something that NO ONE ELSE, ESPECIALLY in Nashville, is doing.....catering to any and all age brackets with something.....it is called a niche. i GUARANTEE that is not being done by any other station in Nashville. WSM caters to the person that has been listening all their life, whether that be 1 year 2 years or 82 years. they listen to WSM because they can actually hear something different than any other station in town, or the country!
now i may have went too far in some areas, and not far enough in others, and i really didn't meant to write this much, nor to offend those that i have undoubetdly offended. but the truth hurts sometimes.
how many of us here that are worried about the opry have actually patronized the establishment in the last few years? do you just listen when it strikes you once or twice a year? how many people have contacted a sponsor and thanked them for their ads on the radio?? we all know how beneficial that can be to an advertiser and a station......have you taken a friend from out of town to the opry? or have you just sit back and spoke of "well, if cumulus had done this and simulcasted this, and if they had let me run the place from the lazy boy, and if SM95 had never came along".........
there are those that are hell bent on all the opry stars dying off? the opry just added 2 members BOTH over the age of 75.
the top 10 most eligible "Bachelors" in country music, well 5 of them are over the age of 40.....what does this mean? the class of 89 are now all close to 50 or over 50. and magically they are still ALL making records.
5 years ago, that would have never been said. Country, like all other formats, is struggling. but it is taking a turn in another direction, and i want to come back to the board in 2 or 3 years and see where the nay sayers are sitting then.
Bottom line: the negativity about am radio and WSM is absurd. only a fool cannot see that is was here way ahead of any of us, and shall remain when we are gone. i fault no one for their opinion, but it is the mixing of fact/hogslop that i see should quit. Cumulus does not nor have they ever, nor will they ever own and operate WSM-AM. 95.5 WSM-FM will never carry the opry/simulcast, they are no longer affiliated in any way with the opry......give up on that idea. when AM dies, so will FM. the same reasons that many feel am is dead now, are the same reasons that people will abandon fm in 10 years when satellite is commonplace. come on, huh?
so is it jealousy? what makes many people in this group so down on such a legend? hey you aint gotta like the music, not everyone does....whats that saying, don't hate the player, hate the game?
i am more than glad to discuss this with anyone that feels they want to say something. i know there are some problems with WSM just as there are other stations, but they are getting better all the time. constructive criticism is good, i am open to it. but i am not much for listening to bunch of people badmouth something, and then still get it wrong.......does track record not mean anything now? cause it did, when i got into radio.
while i have just registered, i have monitored the board for sometime now and i feel compelled to give what will probably be my first and only post. and i am not sure where to even begin........
i personally know some of the people on this board, many of them worked at WSM at one time or another. and the "nashville radio" people that i do not have the pleasure to know personally, i respect and have listened to for years. (Romer etc) these are not necessarilary the people i shall be addressing......
why does it appear that this board (ESPECIALLY when it comes to WSM) is jammed full of people that just talk out of their ass? people that sound like they have NO CLUE, not only about WSM, but radio in general? is it necessary to keep discussing the same topic(s) over and over again?
how many times, and from how many different newbies, is a post gonna be made that states "I wish Gaylord hadn't sold....this and that..... what ? 95? 99.7? tnn? cmt? opryland?
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, GAYLORD SCREWED UP A FEW YEARS AGO. THEY SOLD A BUNCH OF STUFF THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE. AND THEY CLOSED A THEME PARK. THIS IS NO LONGER NEWS!
i am talking years ago, they did this folks....years ago, not last week....i hated it then, and i hate it now. i am sure that 98% of us on this board hated it. when you bitched about it then, it made no difference. and it sure makes even less difference now. GET THE HELL OVER IT. they know they made a mistake, and they fully realized it when they attempted to change the format of WSM-AM. by then, it was too late to right the wrongs, and they just decided to leave well enough alone and let WSM/OPRY fend for itself. also, the CEO of Gaylord got multiple death threats, and i hear still to this day will not travel to Nashville without a security detail. so by letting the controversy "die down", they figured WSM would "die down" in short order.....once again the minds at Gaylord are wrong, cause WSM is going nowhere.
and it appears many, many of the members here are right there with em, just waiting for it to die......
is it jealousy? envy? is the bitterness too much for some of these people? the people i am referring to, wouldn't know a true "classic" country song if they had to play one. they probably have never heard even a quarter of the music that WSM has to offer. what gives these people the right to condemn the station to the smithsonian graveyard? what gives them the right to sit back and "armchair program" the most prestigous country station of all time? it has been proven that there are many members who come here and post all kinds of "facts" that they believe to be true, or they make up just to get into the conversation. someone recently got their hand called on this......a truer post was never typed concerning the "crap" that was being discussed.
the last time i checked, there was a HUGE difference between 50,000 watts and 1,000 watts.
what i don't get is the 1,000 watt station owners, and the radio boys of the board, the out of towners that say stuff about people over/under 65: these people that are so dead set on am being dead? then why bother? when all there is to choose on the am dial is talk, and ABC satellite music feeds that dont even have local jocks,where you have to type a zip code in to get information then yes am WILL BE dead.....according to some, we are already at that point?
perhaps, a "fact finding" mission is in order.
obviously there are many that do not realize the history and background of the station. this again, has been proven time and time again. i doubt some of the people here, even listen on a regular basis, if they did then they wouldnt be posting some of the stuff they post. what does it say as broadcasters, how does it make us look to other broadcasters, to sit here and discuss how it's gonna happen? like vultures flapping their wings in the distance? how stupid........how pathetic.
many of the posts sound as if they cannot wait until the Opry goes off the air.....1925. that's 82 years. just how many people on this board were alive in 1925 when the station signed on? just how many people were actually listening when the Opry signed on a month later?
i am still waiting on an answer........
it amazes me that anyone in this business, especially in NASHVILLE, would not want to see the historical program and station that carries it continue forever. given the misinformation of some other posts, perhaps there are people that do not realize it( The Opry) is indeed the longest running CONSECUTIVE program in the history of broadcasting. there is NOTHING in the entertainment field that can touch this. no newspaper columns have went this long with the same writer. magazines? tv hasnt even been on the air that long. come on people......KDKA, WABC.....there are about 5 or so stations that can claim any type of historical significance. i mean REAL Pioneering historic significance. we have one of them in Nashville. and the opry actually makes it the most prestigous. why would anyone in broadcasting, especially another station owner, want to see this happen. why would anyone even entertain the thought that it could/would happen?? why would radio people not be proud to even work in the same town, as such a broadcasting legend?? i mean KDKA can only sign on the air one time, after that all that mattes is that they stay on the air.....everyday they are on the air is history in the making.....same goes for WSM, every saturday night that show comes on the air, it is history, and the other few broadcasting legends left.....may you keep what little heritage you have left. .any other kind of negative mindframe IS the problem with radio today. everyone forgets where they come from.....everyone except WSM. someone made the remark that the horse was replaced with the train. that is in fact true. but did we start killing all the horses off? the train was replaced by the airplane? so what, do we go around derailing all of them now? HELLO< IS THIS THING ON??
WSM is NEVER gonna go away. the Opry is NEVER< NEVER gonna go away. not in our children's lifetime. those that think no one is listening to the radio on saturday night, are much bigger fools than they let on. i suppose SIRIUS decided to pick them up because they had an extra channel to fill.......the only reason they did not re-new a contract was so they could pay Howard Stern. this is a fact. they lost way too much business when they dropped WSM. and i suppose the fact that XM picked them up means nothing either.
WSM is poised to go into the next 82 years, again, as a pioneer. i feel, when the merger is over, and all the beds are made, WSM will be back on satellite full-time. WSM will be offered on any type of internet radio package that comes down the pike too. when the small 1,000 watt stations are long gone, it is nice to know there will still be an old dinosaur that our grandchildren can listen to. it will not have to die off.....
again, i know everyone on this board that works at WSM.....i do not recalll seeing any outsiders at any staff meeting in the last couple of years, so i am not sure where the group gets their figures on the amount of money that is being made by WSM. are there a bunch of gaylord stockholders in this group? WSM is making money....plain and simple. has been for a few years now. maybe not as much as the next fellow, and ratings do say something, but not everything.......you have to sell the demographic. but wait, have you guys figured out what that is yet?
it is a shame to know there are folks around here, that would just pull the plug.
some of the posts are dead on......news. god knows, they need more news. sales......that is all changing with the departure of cumulus JSA. music? ya'll need to get a life.......it would take 5 years to play all the music WSM has......and that is without repeating a song. and the sad part is, some people think they would recognize every song, and if they didn't they would say it did not belong. i stress that Merle Haggard has forgotten more songs in his life than say: bon jovi, sheryl crow, rob thomas, or kelly clarkson have ever charted or recorded. classic country is too broad to categorize with just 2 decades....and it is NOT just the songs YOU grew up listening to.......WSM is doing something that NO ONE ELSE, ESPECIALLY in Nashville, is doing.....catering to any and all age brackets with something.....it is called a niche. i GUARANTEE that is not being done by any other station in Nashville. WSM caters to the person that has been listening all their life, whether that be 1 year 2 years or 82 years. they listen to WSM because they can actually hear something different than any other station in town, or the country!
now i may have went too far in some areas, and not far enough in others, and i really didn't meant to write this much, nor to offend those that i have undoubetdly offended. but the truth hurts sometimes.
how many of us here that are worried about the opry have actually patronized the establishment in the last few years? do you just listen when it strikes you once or twice a year? how many people have contacted a sponsor and thanked them for their ads on the radio?? we all know how beneficial that can be to an advertiser and a station......have you taken a friend from out of town to the opry? or have you just sit back and spoke of "well, if cumulus had done this and simulcasted this, and if they had let me run the place from the lazy boy, and if SM95 had never came along".........
there are those that are hell bent on all the opry stars dying off? the opry just added 2 members BOTH over the age of 75.
the top 10 most eligible "Bachelors" in country music, well 5 of them are over the age of 40.....what does this mean? the class of 89 are now all close to 50 or over 50. and magically they are still ALL making records.
5 years ago, that would have never been said. Country, like all other formats, is struggling. but it is taking a turn in another direction, and i want to come back to the board in 2 or 3 years and see where the nay sayers are sitting then.
Bottom line: the negativity about am radio and WSM is absurd. only a fool cannot see that is was here way ahead of any of us, and shall remain when we are gone. i fault no one for their opinion, but it is the mixing of fact/hogslop that i see should quit. Cumulus does not nor have they ever, nor will they ever own and operate WSM-AM. 95.5 WSM-FM will never carry the opry/simulcast, they are no longer affiliated in any way with the opry......give up on that idea. when AM dies, so will FM. the same reasons that many feel am is dead now, are the same reasons that people will abandon fm in 10 years when satellite is commonplace. come on, huh?
so is it jealousy? what makes many people in this group so down on such a legend? hey you aint gotta like the music, not everyone does....whats that saying, don't hate the player, hate the game?
i am more than glad to discuss this with anyone that feels they want to say something. i know there are some problems with WSM just as there are other stations, but they are getting better all the time. constructive criticism is good, i am open to it. but i am not much for listening to bunch of people badmouth something, and then still get it wrong.......does track record not mean anything now? cause it did, when i got into radio.
