Well, this IS a NASHVILLE-area station, not a Laramie or McGrath station, so I'm sure that their audience is made up of (among others) singer-songwriters who live in those bedroom communities north of Nashville, and the thought of them "running for the hills" over an "unfamiliar" song is at best laughable, and at worst, ludicrous.
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WVCP To Upgrade Coverage
- Thread starter kc4rae
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They might have a few of those singer/songwriters listening, but unless a stations programming philosophy/formula/format is built on music discovery, most people wanna hear whats familiar with a few oh wows here and there.
If I play a crappy song or two here, I'll hear about it. In a place like the Nashville area, they'd probably just find another station and not come back.
If some indy music fits the sound of the station, play one every once in awhile. But also.. if you start playing them, expect to get a ton of submission once word gets out. and then be ready to be inundated with people submitting their stuff then getting back to you when you dont reply to them.
If this is meant to be a real life/real world expierience in radio, then it sounds like WVCP is doing it right.
Would a speciality show, say on a sunday night of local/regional/state artists be a bad idea? Maybe not.
We're radio people, we think about and listen to.. the radio differently than everyone else
Everyone used to love the Sunday night R&B show back in the day.
the next question that gets asked.. how do you know? whats your sample size? who is everyone?
for a station largely run on volunteers, theres a ton of reasons whyt shows are no longer on air
I just know. All of them. (Everyone) who loved the Sunday night R&B show back in the day.
Name all 2000. I'm retired. I have time to read all of 'em.
yeah, uh huh, sure.... and how many of em ever made any donations to help fund the operation of the station?
So you don't actually listen to the station. I have never understood why out-of-towners and out-of-staters inject themselves into our threads. It never ends well for them.
This IS a "real world experience." You have twentysomethings playing music that is older than they are, thus (likely) mostly unfamiliar with. At my first few stations, I played country music. I wasn't a real big fan of it (still not), but I could play it.
I have to take up for the out-of-towners. I have listened to radio since '65. And kept up with format changes since '70. Due to WKDA AM, which i had lived and breathed for, going country. And i was within a fingernail's breadth of being shut out of this site because i wasn't a radio "insider". WARNING: here comes a lot of nothing. Btw, i walked in WWGM 1560 in the early 90s, and knew everyone in there. (There were only 3: the owner, i knew her son, Melba Ann Farrell I knew from a Nashville-area singles group, and Mark Lang, who i listened to his Sat. radio show, attended the monthly movies he sponsored, and at one point, went to the movies with him. What do i win?
And, PS, i have an Excel spreadsheet of as many Nashville stations and formats for those that i have been able to dig up.
And, PS, i have an Excel spreadsheet of as many Nashville stations and formats for those that i have been able to dig up.
Sunday nights were the one time back in the day my family and a good chunk of middle Tennessee weren't listening to 92Q, I'm talking late 1980s to early 2000s.
Now after myself and a few others that could have done a Sunday night R&B show graduated, the now retired station manager got rid of it.
Now after myself and a few others that could have done a Sunday night R&B show graduated, the now retired station manager got rid of it.
Have you thought about doing it again? Currently, there's several specialty shows on the weekends.
Do you have a link to an article about the tower collapse? I heard about it but have never been able to find anything about it doing a Google search.
Re: Prior coverage - I used to be able to listen to it in Bellevue. (I’m already prepared for someone to tell me that’s not true.)
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Luckily, The (Gallatin) News Examiner did a story on it. The paper that was published for that event is in the WVCP archives in Ramer. I'll see if I can scan it and post it somewhere. I doubt you'll find it online.
Much appreciated. I was always interested in what exactly happened. I had left Nashville by then and had lived in Gallatin in the 70s. All I heard was it fell across Hwy 109.
I have been able to receive the Austin Peay station (WAPX) from Bellevue, clear as a bell. But never WVCP.
That's pretty much the gist of it. From what I remember, it was the sole broadcast antenna on that tower and it had been there for a long time, weakened from old age and weather. There's other things in the archive that I can pull and scan. I need to anyway.
The move happened Monday, as expected. Sadly, some of the pieces were not in place and we needed to order parts. My signature is my on-air persona page that has some photos of the move.
At this stage, I'm still not sure when we will be on. Dianna, the GM has been working hard to answer questions from the public about the station.
At this stage, I'm still not sure when we will be on. Dianna, the GM has been working hard to answer questions from the public about the station.