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Dolly And Oscar
March 3, 2006
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Busy with Oscar stuff as we go into Academy Awards weekend. Dolly may win. She should win. I hope she wins. She's an icon that Country radio really does NOT recognize but she's a legend and a great person.
June Carter Cash would never believe her character would win an Oscar, but she will. And it's great for the memory of June and Johnny, two others that Country radio left on the side of the road.
How did Country Music become the format that went from having the most respect of its elders to the one with the least? Where did that turn in the road come? The 1980's, I guess, but you can't blame Garth! He was all about saluting the Gods of Country who came before him. It is odd that you would never hear Cash on most Country stations EVER today. But I guess you don't hear an Elvis or a Beatle on a POP station today. That's just the way it is.
Sometime Hollywood residents Tim and Faith are selling tickets, boy. They are over 350,000, and they're not even half way done with pre-sales. Chesney is selling big numbers, too. Impressive, but not a surprise.
Montgomery Gentry going to Iraq for the USO this month is fantastic news. As Toby challenged, more need to sign up and go. Eddie and Troy will be great for those men and women in need of some smiles.
ACM nominations coming out Wednesday. Not sure what surprises we can predict. Love the ACM's, but it feels like we were just at the show. Time is moving way too fast!
Josh Turner's song took over 30 weeks to climb the charts to the top. It's a crazy business, this radio thing. CBS suing Stern will make for interesting legal classes and a new legal precedent if CBS wins. Very crazy business.
You can always write me ... it's fun to hear what YOU think. Here's one from last week:
Jimmy,
Thanks for the article about "Billion served." Programming radio is very easy. So easy that there are alot of people in the power chair that spew everything and anything to justify their big paychecks. There are so many ignorant so called programmers out there saying that there is too much burn on this song, let's not play this because it doesn't test well, or they (The big shot radio programmers) will not play a song until it hits the top 10 or 20. If everyone thought that there wouldn't be any new artists to play. With that said, a recent consultant at CRS told me that his playlist was reaching heavy burn, playing 350 songs or so this makes sense. This is the solution to fix this problem. Remember , his playlist is reaching heavy burn. Scale it down. Go from 350 to 300. TAKE AWAY SONGS.The problem was that the listeners were getting tired of the same old 10 in a row. My philosopy, by the way I am just a jock with really no "classes" to learn all of this radio science stuff, ok, if you shorten an already tight playlist, the burn will be even greater. I just don't understand. Radio is an evergrowing chain of grocery stores, we stock our shelves with songs by major brand names, artists, groups. If the "customer" or listener enters our store or "radio stattion" and does not find what they are looking for THE WILL GO ELSEWHERE. I am sirrius, The will hop to another IPOD and digitally download another radio station or song fresh enough to last a lifetime and not like this terrestrial dinosaur that is afraid of change because it was the first one here. Thanks for letting me vent.
In closing radio needs a good ole' fashioned colonic, then it needs to go back to being entertainment, then it needs to start focusing on its customers and the local area. Let the listeners help you stock those virtual shelves and I guarantee you will have a successful business!!!!!!Thanks.
AMEN! JC
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