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SteveL

It is also on the producers to offer "POONCH-key" to those who read the copy, or teleprompter to keep an image of awareness for the brand in place. My experience was in radio, where we said someone's first or last name to attribute a chunk of audio and if how to say that wasn't obvious, we wrote ...

SteveL

I would assume they'd get a bit of a blip because it's a change but I agree with Craig Russell - why bother? The liner I just heard said "Hand crafted in West Michigan for West Michigan" which is laughable but playing songs like "The Warrior" by Scandal will only lead to the same 2 or 3 share they ...

SteveL

I think Phil Tower may have initially hosted mornings immediately following the flip to classic rock. Correct me if I'm wrong about that. Red Noize (or one of his other names) was the morning guy when LAV made the switch to Classic Rock. Then the Evening Guy (he was a Math Teacher) and Tracy Forner ...

SteveL

And you would have to voice track two other stations for free as well as post interesting stories five times a week to “drive traffic to the website”.

SteveL

I was at FGR for eight years and I never understood the almost militant reluctance they had to adding songs to the library. That 2.2 is what you get for rotating the same 220 songs year after year and saving the best music for the occasional "80s weekend".

SteveL

I definitely remember hearing Petty on both 96.9 and 94.5 in the early or mid 90s. Remember, he had a new (and very successful) album out at the time. "You Wreck Me" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" were singles from that album. 97Rock aired the same TV commercial for months to the tune of "We Will ...

SteveL

Wasn't 1991 the year WLAV briefly tried an Alternative Rock format? Was Abrams involved on that decision? Of course, the main reason WLAV was losing so badly to KLQ was because 94.5 had an enormously popular morning show. WLAV put forth minimal effort in mornings until they stuck the (somewhat ...

SteveL

Lew Dickey, John Dickey and Jan Jefferies ruined many stations owned by Cumulus with terrible programming decisions. Those are all radio guys. Were hedge funds a big part of the problem? You bet they were. They overlent and failed to replace poorly performing executives. I think two or three ...

SteveL

I've said it before but bad things are bound to happen when you rotate the same 220 songs for eight years. FGR is finding that out.

SteveL

One of the "good guys" in the business. All the best to him!

SteveL

SteveL, the Mrs. has more or less moved on to Big 101.3, though I think she listens to JoJo and his partner on their morning show. It is an incredibly tight playlist on 98.7. I tune in 94.5 for sporadic periods, mainly having Real Oldies 1480 and WION out of Ionia on, when the daylight allows ...

SteveL

I know we were not necessarily tearing it up when I was at WFGR but I seem to remember we were up around a 4. I guess that's what you get when you continue playing the same 230 songs for 10 years.

SteveL

At this rate, "Davis" will be pulling anchoring shifts before Labor Day. Can't expect they will get a tie on him, and the baseball caps will be allowed, for the continuance of character. A plaid sportcoat might be just the accent necessary in such a case. It is sad that he is often the subject of ...

SteveL

Frosty makes some good points. No one was ever really able to explain why those of us on-air needed to "drive the listeners to the website" but every hour at FGR we had to do a break highlighting something that listeners needed to check out. Jocks were responsible for posting X stories every week ...

SteveL

I would say "all of the above". I have several friends who haven't listened to terrestrial radio in years and some are almost exclusively listening to podcasts or their own music. On the ratings post - When I was first at LAV back in 1990 I distinctly remember being told that very soon all new ...

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