WTIX-FM: HORRIBLE STATION

[smashedcd]

why should they play it?? because we like it..and it still available at record stores (lp-vinyl) nationwide. just like all the zebra albums. and the le roux albums. why should stations have to stick to the same crappy 200 songs over and over again? i'll take my radio without the CONsultant seasoning mix..

What "record" stores? Floyd's in Ville Platte? Sam Goody's and Tower are in bankruptcy and there's virtually no vinyl in those stores or anywhere since the majors stopped making LP's fifteen years ago.

not true sir:

www.vvinyl.com look at the new vinyl.


like johnny cash?

http://www.towerrecords.com/Music/Default.aspx?free_text=johnny+cash&format=Vinyl&

or over 11,000 more titles on MAJOR labels

http://www.towerrecords.com/Music/Default.aspx?format=Vinyl&

 

[dicktriccol]

why should they play it?? because we like it..and it still available at record stores (lp-vinyl) nationwide. just like all the zebra albums. and the le roux albums. why should stations have to stick to the same crappy 200 songs over and over again? i'll take my radio without the CONsultant seasoning mix..

What "record" stores? Floyd's in Ville Platte? Sam Goody's and Tower are in bankruptcy and there's virtually no vinyl in those stores or anywhere since the majors stopped making LP's fifteen years ago.

not true sir:

www.vvinyl.com look at the new vinyl.


like johnny cash?

http://www.towerrecords.com/Music/Default.aspx?free_text=johnny+cash&format=Vinyl&

or over 11,000 more titles on MAJOR labels

http://www.towerrecords.com/Music/Default.aspx?format=Vinyl&

Those stores are great and offer vinyl for the collector and enthuisiast. But these stores and vinyl as a means for music distribution are hardly representative of the marketplace for music as we know it today.

NONE of the major labels own vinyl pressing plants. Like the indies, they now farm it out, and print a limited run. Note the band Wolfmother "now available on vinyl"...after they had a radio hit and were featured extensively in a TV commercial. Only then was a limited pressing of LPs deemed feasable. Note Tom Petty's new album on the front page of vvinyl.com...ONLY on CD. Vinyl is a specialty, a boutique market for collectors, enthusiasts, club dj's and the like who will pay a premium for the product (these LP's cost more than CD's...the cream set is EIGHTY DOLLARS on LP, compared with $23 for the double CD or the SAME PRICE of $23 for the DVD and that has pictures!) If you like it, great...but its hardly representative of the general public's music purchasing habits. It's an iPod world out there and radio must provide the general public with a steady stream of music they know and like.

This much I know: KXOR playing a cut from a long out of print WRNO album by an obscure band even the allmusic.com guide has barely heard of is either a hallucination or a joke! ANY commercial station actually having a working turntable - or even a CD player in this digital MPEG era - is far-fetched enough as it is. This is the second half of 2006, lets get real!

 

[Emarti]

ANY commercial station actually having a working turntable - or even a CD player in this digital MPEG era - is far-fetched enough as it is. This is the second half of 2006, lets get real!

You've made a number of statements in your posts that would seem to indicate that you have rarely been inside a radio control or production room.
I don't disagree with everything you've said. Vinyl--I've got about 25,000 albums, all in storage. I have no desire to listen to them, nor does anyone else I know who collects vinyl. I can only hope in about 50 years they will be worth some decent money.

In this thread you trash cds, but in another thread you defend analog television over HDTV/DTV. You are the one that needs to get out of the past.

 

[smashedcd]

well whaever..i still buy vinyl. i have all the new johnny cash albums on vinyl. i have the new stryper on vinyl.
every song is not available for download that is in print..like AC/DC's entire library!!!!!!!!

 

[Emarti]

well whaever..i still buy vinyl. i have all the new johnny cash albums on vinyl. i have the new stryper on vinyl.
every song is not available for download that is in print..like AC/DC's entire library!!!!!!!!

Don't get me wrong, I miss the artwork of those old album covers and the great posters and things inside, but since the mid80's, I've enjoyed the clarity of cd.

Also, sometime around the late 70's or early 80's the record companies started using cheaper vinyl or something inferior--probably to cause "record burn" sooner and have people run back and buy another copy.

Downloading music is not my preference, I prefer to fill my hard drive with images Anyone who lost a computer in Katrina and Rita lost the music it contained, but if they found their cds, washed em off, they still have their music.

Having a cd is like owning a master copy of the songs and I don't have to go to any trouble when I get a new p.c.
Besides p.c.s play cds and dvds, I don't consider it a burden to hit open, put in cd, close then play.
CDs still have some artwork and information in the liner notes that I like to read.

CDs and DVDs are not nearly dead. Best Buy stores don't have about 20 aisles of cds and music DVDs because they are unpopular. Even teens still buy cds, by the millions.

 

[smashedcd]

well whaever..i still buy vinyl. i have all the new johnny cash albums on vinyl. i have the new stryper on vinyl.
every song is not available for download that is in print..like AC/DC's entire library!!!!!!!!

Don't get me wrong, I miss the artwork of those old album covers and the great posters and things inside, but since the mid80's, I've enjoyed the clarity of cd.

Also, sometime around the late 70's or early 80's the record companies started using cheaper vinyl or something inferior--probably to cause "record burn" sooner and have people run back and buy another copy.

Downloading music is not my preference, I prefer to fill my hard drive with images Anyone who lost a computer in Katrina and Rita lost the music it contained, but if they found their cds, washed em off, they still have their music.

Having a cd is like owning a master copy of the songs and I don't have to go to any trouble when I get a new p.c.
Besides p.c.s play cds and dvds, I don't consider it a burden to hit open, put in cd, close then play.
CDs still have some artwork and information in the liner notes that I like to read.

CDs and DVDs are not nearly dead. Best Buy stores don't have about 20 aisles of cds and music DVDs because they are unpopular. Even teens still buy cds, by the millions.

i do agree on the cheap vinyl. but they also make 180 gram vinyl that is excellent quality. maybe its because i am about 40 but a good record on a good turnatable sounds much better (to me) than a cd in a computer. and there is a lot of stuff that has never been released on cd. nick gilder is one of my favorite artists and other than a greatest his cd none of his stuff is even on cd. same goes for cactus, thunderhead (la band 1974) and even the osmonds. (yep i liked their rock stuff ..to each his own. oh and i still like tix fm..but i am liking red more

 

[Emarti]

Re: WTIX-FM, at least Clear Channel doesn't own it!

Want to add this because this started out as a TIX FM thread. In this day and age I'm not going to knock someone who actually does what he wants on his own station and manages to keep it in business and on the air against those WalMart style radio monster companies that gobble up stations and also are the concert promoters and own billboard companies and start a traffic service to run the others out of business.

Whether it's WTIX-FM, New Orleans, or KLIL in Moreauville, there are very few stations not owned by Cheap Channel or the smaller copycats that have destroyed radio.

It doesn't matter if consultants from Los Angeles don't agree with the music...what matters is if the LOCAL LISTENERS know and like whose being played.

 

[dicktriccol]

You've made a number of statements in your posts that would seem to indicate that you have rarely been inside a radio control or production room.
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Really? Right now I am typing this from inside a radio production room!

I don't disagree with everything you've said. Vinyl--I've got about 25,000 albums, all in storage. I have no desire to listen to them, nor does anyone else I know who collects vinyl. I can only hope in about 50 years they will be worth some decent money.

In this thread you trash cds, but in another thread you defend analog television over HDTV/DTV. You are the one that needs to get out of the past.

First of all, you're mixing me up with another poster. I am not the vinyl booster, although I myself have a substantial collection. I AM the guy who questioned whether the second audio from LPB could be heard by a majority of the public, and I maintain that: I have an HDTV with an over the air antenna and I had no idea such a feed existed. It must be a recent development. Regardless, most people are oblivious to what's going to happen in 2009 when their NTSC sets go dark.

 

[smashedcd]

the futue has arrived: ;D

http://www.elpj.com/main.html

 

[DelanoBoy]

All this talk led me to the WTIX/fm website (www.wtixfm.com) hoping to hear the station, but they aren't streaming (I'm in TN). I have to warmly disagree with those who say you need to play nothing but the hits to succeed (although you'd better play hits at least 95% of the time). Think about it: if you love a song, but you can't buy it, you can just hear it on one station, will you listen to that station to hear it? Of course. It seems far more important to be the unique station than the clone of several other stations within an hour's drive. I love chocolate cake, but if all I could eat was chocolate cake, I wouldn't love it very long. XM & Sirius know this. Yes, I've successfully programmed a bunch of stations, and, yes, I've put my money where my mouth is and owned a station. The stations that only play 200 songs are easily attacked and can be beaten - I'll take 'em on any day as long as I don't have to deal with a consultant or work for one of the corporate bureaucracies. By the way, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others, WTIX/am was never a great sounding station (there were no great sounding Storz stations in the USA) despite excellent on-air talent. It was the great local music they played that made WTIX/am a legendary station - and they played several local songs every hour!

 

[LAcajun]

My parents always listened in the late 60's & early to mid 70's. I'd try to switch it over to WNOE, my favorite as a kid, and would get shot down. Costello's got the right idea but his playlist seems to get way out there. It's just all over the place. As far as TIX playing the New Orleans music that "AM" was famous for in it's heyday, you only hear Fats and K-Doe. You hardly hear any Frankie Ford or Irma unless Bob Walker is on. Costello has a shot at increasing adult listeners since Kool threw in the towel but enough of all those Monkees songs and Beatles that no one heard of. A lot of the mixes sound like train wrecks.

 

[smashedcd]

go to reel radio and listen to some of the airchecks from the 60s and 70s. most stations back then were the same way. they would go from edgar winter to the carpenters to kiss to donny osmond. even wls chicago in 1974 was aor..all over the road. why do people forget that CONsutant radio took off the way it is in the mid 90s. even wrno fm 100 played lionel richie! everyone forgets that. wrno fm 100 was a far cry from 99.5 wrno of today. the gogos ,bangles, and cindi lauper were all played on wrno in 1984. and i've yet to hear any off the wall stuff on tix. all hits. someone please name a song that was not a hit on wtix. i hate the 200 song playlist radio station no matter where it is. even where former wrno staff is at still plays the same songs everyday. i just cant take it..guess i'm stuck with red. i dont mind neil diamond b/w ozzy b/w willie nelson b/w metallica...at least it aint the same crap over and over again. and the comment about not being able to buy those old songs. its 2006 you can buy anything that was ever released...we have this thing called the internet..you can buy old lps and cds on ebay...and as far the download stores. they hardly ever have nything i'm looking for!

 

[frequentmodulator]

Michael Costello lives eats and breathes Monkees and Beatles...unfortunately he lets HIS taste program HIS station instead of the listener's, although a wider playlist is a breath of fresh air. D'ya ever notice Michael always wears his hair same style as Paul McCartney?!! LOL!

 

[smashedcd]

Michael Costello lives eats and breathes Monkees and Beatles...unfortunately he lets HIS taste program HIS station instead of the listener's, although a wider playlist is a breath of fresh air. D'ya ever notice Michael always wears his hair same style as Paul McCartney?!! LOL!

and wrno listens to its listners how? by playing the same 100 songs everyday? whats wrong witht the beatles? last time i checked they were one of the biggest groups of all time..

 

[frequentmodulator]

I didn't mention anything about WRNO. Also, I like the Beatles...until they are beaten to death and driven into the ground...

 

[smashedcd]

sorry i meant the fact that most people think stations should have a small library because thats what the listners want. i like the beatles too. and wouldnt mind them played every hour. as long as its a diffrent song every hour!! i like tix because its diffrent.waayyy diffrent..i like variety..lots of variety..

 

[dicktriccol]

Just thought I'd bump this up to see some of the brilliant posts on this thread!

 

[axedriver]

According to the Times Picayune this past sunday in the living section, King Bob and Sgt. T-Ben Boudreaux will make their return very soon.

 

[coccyx]

Don't believe everything you read in the newspaper. I read Focus Forum and believe T-Ben was being diplomatic, not forthright.

 

[1060AM]

T-Ben and Walker won't be back in the afternoon. Really, they're too good for such a chickensh*t station and Costello is the epitome of bad radio.