http://radioinsight.com/boards/ RadioInsight Discussion Boards en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:24:54 +0000 http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18302#post-74402 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:29 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74402@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Christmas music began today Friday, Nov 20 on air. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74401 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:02:50 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74401@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>God, I&#39;m good. Haha. 106.7 Lite fm is all-Christmas as of today. Finally! Weird, because in past years they always used to be first in the area until Now came along. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/4#post-74400 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:16 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74400@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>No clue about the AM. Never used AM before. And yeah at certain parts of the day I guess they talk between songs. Never noticed it though. Mostly in the morning though. Sometimes I actually like the talking, because it makes me feel like it&#39;s an actual radio station playing Christmas music. Haha. As opposed to my iPod, where there is obviously no talking in between. Sometimes it makes it feel more like Christmas rather than Christmas whenever I want. I know... I&#39;m weird. Ha. They talk between every song during the afternoon because it&#39;s a request show. So they announce the name and location of the person who requested the following song. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18404#post-74399 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:49:13 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 74399@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Oprah Winfrey, whose talk show in recent years has been the mosty popular daytime television show in the nation (network or syndicated), has announced that she will end the show at the conclusion of the 2010/2011 TV season, which would make an even 25 years in national syndication.</p> <p>The much-speculated announcement was made official this morning (November 20th) during a taping of her show, which was broadcast live on WLS-7 in Chicago (prior to going national in 1986, Oprah did a local talk-show for WLS) and will be seen on tape (later today?) on most of the stations that air her show in afternoon timeslots.</p> <p><em>Washington Post</em> article: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/tvblog/2009/11/oprah-yellow-brick-road-of-ble.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/tvblog/2009/11/oprah-yellow-brick-road-of-ble.html</a> .</p> <p>I would guess that the actual final first-run episode will air on May 26th, 2011 (the final day of the May, 2011 ratings &quot;sweeps&quot; and the 2010/2011 TV season), with reruns continuing until September.</p> <p>Oprah is expected to help launch a cable network she part-owns (along with Discoevry Communications) called OWN. The launch date has slipped from this Fall to a date to be announced.</p> <p>In the months ahead, expect syndicators to pitch numerous talk shows to stations that will be losing Oprah. Most &quot;Oprah&quot; stations air the show as a lead-in to early-evening local newscasts. If at least some stations find that expanding their late-afternoon/early-evening local news block would cost less than buying a syndicated talk show, the end result of Oprah leaving syndicated TV could be an expansion of early-evening local news on many stations that had been running her show. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/4#post-74398 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:06 +0000 oasisrulz 74398@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>When I was in Cherry Hill the other day I picked up JRZ they sounded really good but this female air talent was talking between each song it made it un holiday like...I just want to hear the music without the talk....that is why 97.5 was so good last year they just had song tags and liners, you could have them on a long time....on another note what ever happened to JRZ-AM many many years back they had a allocation at 1550 with Seaside Park as the COL...I think they had the towers up on route 38 near the retirement rentals a few miles east of the Lakehurst circle....this is going back to the 80&#39;s I recall.... </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18401#post-74397 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:18:54 +0000 LinoNYC 74397@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Thanks for this sample of LI radio. Sounds like early &#39;74. I also get a snippet of WCBS-fm at around the 33:00 mark.</p> <p>Interestingly, it seems that WBLI&#39;s format was essentially the same as WCBS in that it was primarily;y oldies based with some current each hour. They didn&#39;t call it &quot;future gold&quot; as WCBS and the emphasis seemed more 60s while WCBS was more late 50s, but the approach seems similar.</p> <p>Lino </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18403#post-74396 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:10:46 +0000 LinoNYC 74396@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>-As of approx 8:30 11-20. Well, I would have waited &#39;till the day before Thanksgiving..but here we go.</p> <p>Now, will a second shoe (station) fall.</p> <p><a href="http://www.1067litefm.com/main.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.1067litefm.com/main.html</a> </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/4#post-74395 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:57:02 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74395@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Well in my area, we went all-Christmas Friday, November 6th. WJRZ... they have alot of commercials, but they play what you want to hear. I really like B101 Christmas music, but the only way to listen is online, but there are no commercials online which is cool. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/4#post-74394 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:11:09 +0000 oasisrulz 74394@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Its a shame you did not hear the Holly of past years, before the merger, it was a combination of Sunny and 97.5... unbeatable, now its urban leaning, and current, When Sunny went away they were my channel of choice, they replaced the void Sunny left. Last year when they merged with Siriius they were getting bad, but at least there was the fantastic 97.5, so I really did not care, but this year nothing.....They are surely not as good as they were in the past....I also noticed JBR has loads of commercials and constant talk, same for B but not as much...Bottom line the Philly market stinks this year for a good Christmas outlet....except for 97.5 HD-2....for what that is worth signal wise... </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/4#post-74393 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:49:52 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74393@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I listened to Holly today as I tanned and for 15 minutes they played all normal music that you would hear on B101. I was impressed. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74392 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:44 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74392@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Just like right now... haha WLTW is playing normal Delilah. 1067litefm.com </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74391 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:44:59 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74391@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Yeah, stations can play whatever Delilah they want. They&#39;re all pre-recorded. Because a couple years ago, after Christmas... Delilah kept playing Christmas music on WOBM through New Years, but normal Delilah was on WLTW (Lite fm New York) at the same time. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74390 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:39:46 +0000 e gill cvi 74390@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Delilah <em>is </em>doing the Christmas shows already. I think she starts them on November 1? Regardless, WJBR is still carrying her and tonight&#39;s was the Christmas version. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74389 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:08:05 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74389@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>WOBM in Toms River canned her a few weeks ago, thank God. I can&#39;t stand her. But her shows are all pre-recorded... in response to homerjay, I don&#39;t think that would be the reason. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74388 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:35:30 +0000 homerjay 74388@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Is Delilah feeding a Christmas show yet? Just wondering if they made a temporary switch until they could get the Christmas feed going so as to not break format. Doesn&#39;t entirely explain things, but who knows. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18402#post-74387 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:06:56 +0000 e gill cvi 74387@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I guess I&#39;m going crazy again. I&#39;m almost certain I heard her on B101 tonight. Two hours later, I&#39;m hearing the voice of someone who is definitely a part-timer. </p> <p>So I go to the Google because that&#39;s what you do when you have a question. I look at B101&#39;s DJ&#39;s page and she&#39;s gone. In fact, there&#39;s no one listed from 8pm until the morning show. </p> <p>Now, I&#39;m thinking, I&#39;m pretty sure I saw her big old face on there the other day. So I go to the Google again. I decide to look for a cached version of the B101 DJ&#39;s page. And there&#39;s her big old face on the page, cached from just the day before yesterday. (<a href="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:B7AEoCarKOIJ:www.b101radio.com/static/airstaff/djbios.asp+b101+dj%27s&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us" rel="nofollow">http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:B7AEoCarKOIJ:www.b101radio.com/static/airstaff/djbios.asp+b101+dj%27s&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us</a>)</p> <p>Did they yank her off the station in the middle of the show?! Don&#39;t get me wrong: I can&#39;t stand her show so it&#39;s not like I&#39;m upset or anything. It&#39;s just that...well, I&#39;m pretty sure I heard her on there just a couple hours ago! </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18401#post-74386 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:21:12 +0000 TigerRay 74386@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>This 60 minute reel tape starts out with Jim Driscoll and then TJ Cassidy back in 1974<br /> on WBLI FM N.Y. This is a stereo FM station but I recorded it in mono.<br /> Finding this tape was a total fluke!</p> <p><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/155544787/a09b3c9a/WBLI_FM_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.4shared.com/file/155544787/a09b3c9a/WBLI_FM_.html</a> </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18400#post-74385 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:51 +0000 jasonharper2007 74385@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Today At 6am KOLA 99.9 Out Of Riverside Has Gone All Christmas </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/3#post-74384 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:44:27 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74384@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Holly actually looks a little bit more tolerable. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/3#post-74383 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:34:11 +0000 e gill cvi 74383@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p><blockquote>E Gill - Don&#39;t judge the satellite holiday channels based on this board. Check out the logs at <a href="http://dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?channel=4" rel="nofollow">http://dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?channel=4</a> and <a href="http://dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?channel=3" rel="nofollow">http://dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?channel=3</a> and judge for yourself. In all honesty, they might suck, but I&#39;m hearing good things from the XM fan boards. I&#39;m not a Christmas music fan so I have no idea.</blockquote><br /> .<br /> Yikes. They both look terrible. I mean, that&#39;s just my opinion. I couldn&#39;t listen to either of them for longer than ten minutes. I could listen to B101 longer than I could listen to either of them! </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74382 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:27:19 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74382@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I know... wrong city, but I&#39;m thinking 106.7 Lite fm New York will flip either today or tomorrow. On their website, their Top 20 On Demand are all Christmas songs as of today. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74381 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0000 e gill cvi 74381@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>[I was wrong on this one. So I deleted it.] </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18374/page/3#post-74380 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:23:54 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74380@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Haha, good answers. But yeah, even though they drop out of the Billboard Top 50, they are still popular... they don&#39;t play many of the songs in the Top 50. I don&#39;t know... the whole thing is strange. They played Million Dollar Bill before it got to the Top 100... the highest it ever reached was 100. But they still played it. And yeah, I guess that makes sense about the Christmas music... but I highly doubt Wired is worried about losing listeners to B101. Haha. Totally different crowd. B101 would never play a Ludacris Christmas song... ever. Drop It Low would definitely do very good on the 20 on 20 because when I play it in my car, everyone&#39;s like OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS! Lol. Not to mention it&#39;s Chris Brown... major artist. It&#39;s just weird, because if what you say is true... they&#39;re not making sense, but I guess they don&#39;t really care. They take an unpopular song, that would never make it onto the charts if it weren&#39;t for experimentation by XM and make it popular... then once it is popular and people want to hear it... they drop it... lowwww. Okay, that was a bad joke. Haha. Then, when there ARE song in the top 40, 50 or 100 on the Billboard charts... they don&#39;t play them. The number one song in America is now Empire State Of Mind. Whaaaatever. I guess no station can be perfect. But they should really play alot more songs, even if they number 51 (God forbid)... so that they don&#39;t have to play the same song more than once in an hour. </p> <p>I think the worst thing is the switchover each night. When a song plays twice in less than 10 minutes, I don&#39;t care what anyone says... it&#39;s unacceptable. Lol. It happened again earlier this week. They should really pay better attention to each other. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18399#post-74379 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:36 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 74379@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I wonder if the wave of FM stations going talk is a response to the very chance that radio stations may be soon charged fees for playing music that artists recording songs would receive.</p> <p>Such high fees may force many stations out of music formats altogether. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74378 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:05:58 +0000 Joseph_Gallant 74378@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>According to WBEB-101.1&#39;s playlist as posted on yes.com, Andy Wiliams&#39; &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; was the first Christnmas song on WBEB&#39;s analog signal. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74377 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:05:04 +0000 TomsRiverOC 74377@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>Lol, I just read my email! So exciting for you guys... Merry Christmas! </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74376 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:59:47 +0000 e gill cvi 74376@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I want B101 to play &quot;Here Comes the Sun&quot; at 1:54. LOL. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18399#post-74375 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:52:15 +0000 buffalobill 74375@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>IT seems that WHLD will flip to become a talk radio station to compete against WBEN and WECK. Unlike WECK and WLVL WHLD has a better signal and will take on more successful shows. The flip will come in January. I&#39;ll secretly share the schedule here: </p> <p>5AM-6AM: Wall Street Journal This Morning<br /> 6AM-9AM: Buffalo This Morning; hosts TBA<br /> 9AM-12PM: Glenn Beck<br /> 12PM-2PM: Fred Thompson<br /> 2PM-4PM: Joe Scarborough show from WABC<br /> 4PM-6PM: Buffalo This Afternoon; hosts TBA<br /> 6PM-9PM: Mark Levin<br /> 9PM-12AM: Michael Savage<br /> 12AM-3AM: Curtis Sliwa<br /> 3AM-5AM: Roy Masters</p> <p>Weekends will feature a special editions of our new afternoon show along with brokered programming and local home&amp;garden shows including a two hour show sponsored by Wegmans Food Markets airing Saturday mornings from 9-11AM. Stay tuned for more! </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18398#post-74374 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:47:27 +0000 homerjay 74374@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>And the net impact will be....about zero. &lt;img src=&quot;http://radioinsight.com/boards/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18398#post-74373 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:12 +0000 phillyradiogeek 74373@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I called it! &lt;img src=&quot;http://radioinsight.com/boards/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18396#post-74372 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:03:33 +0000 e gill cvi 74372@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p><font color="#006600">They apparently just this minute tweaked again. They added those recorded Santa phone calls from last year. They&#39;re actually working on this thing! I wish it was gonna be on the FM somewhere! </font> </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74371 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:15 +0000 e gill cvi 74371@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>WJBR flipped an hour ago. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18398#post-74370 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:57:29 +0000 e gill cvi 74370@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p><font color="#006600">Hahaha. Love it.</font> </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18397#post-74369 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:56:04 +0000 phillyradiogeek 74369@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>At least one other station will flip this weekend based on this news. If not OGL, then likely WJBR in Wilmington. </p> http://radioinsight.com/boards/topic/18396#post-74368 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:47:38 +0000 oasisrulz 74368@http://radioinsight.com/boards/ <p>I posted pictures of the Mermaid Lane tower last holiday if anyone can go back that far...I think around the end of December 5 nice shots I took while up that way....its understandable why the signal stinks smaller tower, location, two bay...you name it....their HD-2 is very weak and spotty...why they did not put the format on the main signal this year is ridiculous. </p>