Dont post comments to these normally, dont have the time. My first post now. I see RMarino, Knoxbob, TN Cowboy and leadsled posted many times. On the other hand "RADIOINTHEKNOWest" has 2 posts He joined the board 20 mins. after 3 question posed about TNQ. In my opinion you four and the readers have been duped, misinformed and misled by one worker at WQLAam SEXY960 RAW pretending to be just another listener. My opinion, everything stated below's coming from jealousy, anger, and they are losing their shirts over at SEXY.My opinion, same 10 commercials repeating for months. Didnt they all grow up there? Why cant you sell anything? WQLA seems like a hobby, not a business, and its for sale.
Heard no plans of a TNQ move to K-ville. Why? Be the big fish in Campbell, not a small one in K-town, and in a clean, restored, historic building and nobodys kicking Qs tail, not SEXY for sure. WLAF does a "good job". Whats a SEXY radio station anyway, nobody can figure it out and those naked signs on the building. Disgusting? Look like they should hang on a strip club or casino. Professional sounding AM ? A little live and a lot of recorded. Pat yourself on the back....intheknowest.
VOLs have been on Q way before Jennings owned in 99. Theres plenty of stations who carry VOLs in E. TN. Get you "matter of facts" straight. Knoxbob knows. Never hear dropped/interrupted games for $$. QUESTIONABLE? RADIOINTHEKNOWest's motivation for trashing.
Floridians you say! Foreigners!! String em up! Thats a hell of a commute, because they are there every day. Why did Jennings have to sell to them anyway? Better to sell it than to lose it all together. Yeh, and playing country, southern rock, bluegrass and actually "getting out" and serving the community sure misses the mark around here. Sounds like TNQ compete just fine. And that RIVER thing, its nothing like being a SEXY RAW. Again, what is a SEXY RADIO STATION ? Cross selling or freebies as he calls them. It works both ways. Its an old thing if you havent heard when you have more than 1 station in an area. Maybe WQLAam and SEXY960 can cross sell with each other. Wouldnt surprise me if they tried it. In my opinion, the only thing RADIOINTHEKNOWest makes sense on is that Q93 is more than likely, not concerned.
I wont even get into the propaganda of the 2nd post of RADIOINTHEKNOWest but it again reads like a regular listener. We must all be stupid. my opinion this saying is appropriate. "those who live in boarded up brick buildings with no tenants think they can throw stones"
radiointheknow said:
Answers to 'TNQ questions...
1) In an effort to be a "Knoxville" station, 'TNQ has really screwed up their signal over Northern Campbell County (they're licensed to LaFollette). It's believed they're trying to figure a way to run both their stations (104.9 and 106.1) out of studios at Ceder Bluff. Both of the 1Kw AM's in LaFollette are kicking their tail locally in the county, and one of the AM's is really a professional sounding, locally oriented station and the FM simply isn't competing.
2) The previous owner of "Q105 The Boss" (a former LaFollette mayor) is good friends with Bobby Denton and the deal for the Vols was struck between them back in the Dick Broadcasting days, sometime before Citadel entered the picture. Matter of fact, it's one of the only agreements that Citadel still honors and no one knows why because the new 'TNQ ownership/management drops and interrupts the Vols anytime there is a buck to be made elsewhere. Very questionable.
3) And 'TNQ is 92% owned by a Floridian. The ownership and so call local management haven't a clue as to what local East Tennessee radio is about or how to compete. They also own Oliver Springs' 106.1 "The River" (they can't come up with anything original apparently) and use the 104.9 signal as a "freebie" bonus to sell advertising on the 106.1 signal. And anyway, the 104.9 signal (or lack of) is not a big player in Knoxville, so the Q105 - Q93 thing isn't a real concern to Journal.
Heard the station sold too. Anybody here that?