On 3 Apr 2004 15:32:09 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote:


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...

There's 5 stations in one office, here, and only one of them actually
has a talking head live on the air. He's also an automaton because
the computer warns him he has 10 seconds before its his turn to talk
and starts warning him he has 5 seconds to stop before the next row of
12 spots we've all heard a hundred times in the last 8 hours plays
over again.

There are 10 AMs in the metro; WSCC is in a virtual 3-way tie for second. It
has about a 2.6 share, and bills proportionally to the ratings share.

However, were it not part of a successful cluster, the station would
probably not be viable as a stand-alone.


Number one is Citadel's WTMA on 1250?

Just a guess....(c;

TMA's sister station is WTMZ 910. It's a bit of a shock for the
visitors to Charleston to hear "good music" on AM, but that's what's
on there. It failed, miserably, as news-talk, sports, sports-talk,
and some other formats. Not sure it shows up in the rating book,
though. The locals all listen to it over 40 years old. Reminds them
of Harry Weaver's old WOKE on 1340 I used to work for part-time when I
was a Navy sailor. That station actually had a STUDIO, complete with
a Steinway grand! There was a big sign up over the board we all had
to stare at all day. "If in doubt, DON'T do it, DON'T say it and, for
God's sake, DON'T PLAY IT!" Harry, the station's owner and VERY
conservative, WAS listening to what you did. I think he had the first
speed dial phone in the world...(c; It never made the ratings book,
either, but I spent many happy hours sitting at our little home-made
console with two old transcription players and 2 cart machines in the
middle of Diana's Dress Shop window on King Street actually feeding
the station audio into a telephone loop from a permanently-installed
jack in the wall direct to the station. For a young kid, ratings or
not, this was RADIO in 1968.

Hand me that Harry James album, would you? Lemme cue it up on 2.
It's next on the air after John, our silver-tongue, dashingly dressed
radio personality those two ladys are blushing over across the room on
the other end of the mic cord interviews a customer on why she's
buying that particular dress from Diana's. Thanks.

Wireless mic on the end of a Marti in the van my ass.....That ain't
radio!



Larry W4CSC
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