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WTIX-FM is Dead

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Beernuts711

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Scott Shannon's True Oldies is gonna turn out the lights at TIX-FM, where the arrogant owner thought he had it all to himself and could force listeners to listeners to swallow his "personal juke box" of Beatles and Monkees.

True Oldies is tight and professional, not the same old stale crap sound TIX has refused to change at all in the last 10 years. Listen to a A/C of TIX-FM from 10 years ago and you'll notice it's exactly the same as the way it sounds today. Dull and boring. Michael, Hot Rod, Reno, heavyweights none.

The BIG difference here is that, even though TIX [EDIT] to the Beatles and Monkees, youy rarely hear them on True Oldies. And that's good.

Mr. Costello could have had it all, but it's over now for him.

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I remember when TIX-FM first went on the air and we heard The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Chicago, America, The Dave Clark Five, all good stuff, but then a cut by Gloria Estefaan & Miami Sound Machine!!!?????!!! And the occasional Fats Domino and ZZ Top sandwiched around Tony Orlando... now don't get me wrong, I LOVE all these genre's of music, especially The Monkees, but I do not care to hear the same three Monkees songs every two days, much less hearing Miami Sound Machine "Conga" after "Last Train To Clarksville".
Over all, I think I can truly say that every song played on TIX-FM is a bona fide hit, but the generations are so wide it sounds like a train wreck sometimes, and their dead air and long fade outs between songs is their demise, Scott Shannon will never let a song fade all the way out (tight tones) or have so much dead air like TIX-FM does, so thank goodness for True Oldies.
I have worked at and programmed several Oldies stations, and the worst thing a consultant, or anyone quite often, does to the format is schedule so many Beatles and Rolling Stones songs every day. True, both groups had enough major hits to play 12 of their songs every day without repeats for several days, but a lot of Oldies formats played a Beatles and/or a Rolling Stones cut once EVERY hour, that was an overload, and I didn't even pay it much attention until a listener called up one day and asked why we play The Beatles and The Stones so much, she said "YOU GUYS MUST BE IN LOVE WITH THE BEATLES..."
Kudos to Costello if he is making money with the station, but shame on him for making fun of our owner at KLRZ so many years ago when we were playing CHR/Rhythmic, a format Costello called "Disco".
 
It will NOT happen. The linkup to another satellite program will fail just as all others have in this city. The only reason S-itadel made this change was to cut the costs of their own dj's and eliminate another pitiful format with Martini. If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn't have three of the lowest rated FM's around. Even "Old School" lags in the urban market. WTIX-FM has been around long enough and won't be fazed by a Scott Shannon. Those who want to listen to a satellite broadcast already have XM or Sirius and don't need a commercial-filled satellite. The only change WTIX-FM should make is to eliminate the extremely lame Sgt. T-Ben.
 
Nope...BJDJ's right. Definitely not goin' anywhere anytime soon. ;D

I'm a devout listener of 'TIX-FM. (It's on as I type this, in fact.) Whatever people think of M&M, I tune in to his show on a daily basis, and have followed him since the days of the Rock-'N'-Roll Hall Of Fame days on WRNO. WTIX-FM is a blessing to those who miss The Mighty 690, even for those who, like me, got to know it for a short time. (BTW, it's been 20 years since 'TIX-AM axed the music format in favour of All-Talk [to my dismay], after 30 years of crankin' out hits; they call it WIST now.) What the station needs is to track own some of those "Fun-Lovin'" jingle packages from WTIX 690 in the late 1980s (last heard on Zippo In The Morning on the late, great KHOM-FM 104.1, to which I also tuned in to great delight).

I've also had time to check out The True Oldies Channel 106.1; nice station, but weak signal. :p

POSTSCRIPTUM: this is my debut post on this board! Glad ta be here! ;)
 
I had the pleasure of passing through downtown New Orleans last Thursday and got to hear all the stations with clarity. I gotta' say, TIX-FM is sort of like an i-Pod on shuffle, except that all the random songs are sort of "randomly out there", so wide and varied, when I did hear a song I liked, or a song that fit my age group or genre, EVERY SINGLE TIME the following song was, in my opinion, a piece of crap. So I switched around and eventually came back to see what was on TIX-FM every few minutes. I did get to hear a song that suited my tastes every now and then, but it was ALWAYS followed by some crap or annoying song I didn't care for. I could only listen for, maybe, a couple of minutes an hour total. I love the old jingles, but they only played the same three over, and over, and over again, I was getting aggravated. Someone was on that was sitting in for Mike. That station is the same way it has sounded for the past several years, some things never change.
106.1 did, however, suit me better, I was able to listen at length and heard songs that were pleasing to my ear...
 
It's all about rating baby and Mr Costello's 3.0 or whatever knocks the you know what out of Scott Shannon. No one knows how to do Oldies like Mike. Scott Shannon could learn a thing or five from the Costello lineage. TIX-FM, still spinnin the platters that never mattered
 
TIX-FM is a New Orleans treasure and I hope it stays the same forever. Sunday, I heard Sweet Charlie Babe by Jackie Moore on TIX which I have not heard since 1973. I know of no other commerical station with such a wide playlist.

Kind of funny that on most of these boards, people complain about how their oldies/classic hits station (if they still have one) play the same 200 songs everyday and play Oh Pretty Woman, Unchained Melody and Brown Eyed Girl every 4 hours. But on this board posters complain about how wide the playlist is on WTIX-FM.
 
Speaking of The Monkees, it's been forever since M&M spun a Monkees Monday... ::)

I still have a tape of an interview Michael made with Peter Tork on WRNO before The Monkees' third and final concert in The Big Easy at The Saenger back in August 1989! (I was recovering from an appendectomy at the time, and couldn't go...)
 
Still...in spite of the good memories, the 6-Packs, Twin-Spins, AT-40: The '70s and whatnot, 'TIX-FM could use a bit of spicing up a bit. :-\

These are just suggestions here...

You know what could go great with The Mighty 94? Flashback! KOOL 95 aired it here in The Big Easy every Sunday in the 1990s; I taped many an installment from that show, it was excellent! It's still running today; I feel WTIX-FM may benefit greatly from this show. 8)

Also, a series which was a Sunday night staple on The Mighty 690: The Dr. Demento Show. Or better yet, a Best Of... show. ;D
 
I find flashback would more fit Bayou's format of 1960s to 1990s compared to Mike's station.

Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits by ABC also may be a better bet for 94.3 from what I've heard about the show...
 
frequentmodulator said:
Put some good competition against it on a good signal and it will be back below a one in the ratings...they've got what they have by default.
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What he has is by purchase...
 
tix fm was dead the second it signed on because of its ownership.........i wish this station would do something other than what its doing now. anything would be better that whats being aired now!

brian
 
i might be a sick fool but with a signal like that why not flip to all sports hmmmm food for thought. i probably will get responses along the lines of dude youre crazy...
 
sportsnut37 said:
i might be a sick fool but with a signal like that why not flip to all sports hmmmm food for thought. i probably will get responses along the lines of dude youre crazy...
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Dude your crazy. I get that you LOVE sports talk. But this market has never shown the ability to support a majority local sports talk station. Doubt if it ever will. The cities that have mainly local sports talk are all generally 4 team markets- NBA, NFL, MLB and maybe NHL. We have two of those, which equals to a 1/2 sports talk station, which we already have. Good luck on your quest for 24 hour local sports though....keep posting that every station in town should try it, one may buy into it some day
 
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