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Monday, May 15, 2006
5/16: More black talk on 102.5
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WAMJ-FM, which is currently focused on R&B music, will be adding all-talk during the mid days. Author and intellectual Michael Eric Dyson will be on from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting Tuesday May 16. He’ll be followed by former Presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton from 1 to 3 p.m. Michael Baisden will continue from 3 to 7 p.m. and SiMan remains in the mornings. Both those shows will keep playing music.
Both Dyson and Sharpton are heard mostly on AM stations in 20 markets including Boston and D.C. But this is one of the few on an FM signal, albeit a relatively weak one. Until now, the station has been running music without jocks between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
“We decided to do something different,” said Wayne Brown, who oversees all the Radio One radio stations in Atlanta, including WAMJ-FM, smooth Jazz 107.5 Hot 107.9 and Praise 97.5. “Black talk is something that has been bandied about for a long time. They’ll talk about daily topics that impact the African Ameircan community.” They will be competing directly with local black talk over at WAOK-AM.
Here’s the links to Dyson’s bio and Sharpton’s bio.
Give it a listen Tuesday and tell me what you think!
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5/15: WATL adding telenovelas
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WATL-TV, abandoned by the WB when it combines UPN this fall to become the CW (WUPN-TV locally gets that), has signed on with Fox Twentieth Television’s My Network TV. That means 13-week telenovela soaps in the beginning starting Sept. 5. They’d run from 8 to 10 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays with Saturday being recap day. WATL will fend for itself on Sunday nights.
As for other new syndicated programming, WATL will add a new talk show starring comic Greg Behrendt, “According to Jim,” old episodes of “American Idol,” “Scrubs” and “The Shield.” Other main stars of WATL, such as Jerry Springer, Maury, Friends, Sex & the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, My Wife & Kids and Family Feud will remain. A fuller schedule is forthcoming.
For now, the WB primetime leftovers will air on WATL until the end of August.
Here’s a fuller story.
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5/15: Craig Cornett back in St. Louis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Allaccess.com is reporting that Craig Cornett has returned to his old station KDS the Bull in St. Louis after just four months in Atlanta at Kicks 101.5 He ostensibly left Atlanta because of his ailing father but it was pretty obvious that things weren’t working out between him and Kicks management either.
I need to check up with Kicks to see how things are going for the hunt for another morning host.
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5/15: Unique songs per station
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
According to Mediabase 24/7, here are the stations that play the most unique songs per week. Since I last looked in September 2005, only a few stations have seen their playlist depth change significantly.
Oldies stations usually play more unique titles since they don’t have to repeat new songs. So the polar opposites are Eagle, which is the epitome of variety and the Beat, the epitome of repetition.
Eagle: 919 (That’s by far the most in the market and it’s deeper than it was in September when it aired 841 unique songs in a given week. They do play currents though so Joe Nichols’ “Size Matters” got 27 spins last week and Eagle gave 22 songs at least one spin a day on average.)
Kiss: 733 (From April 30-May 6, it was a tie between Stephanie Mills’ “I Feel Good All Over,” the Spinners’ “Love Don’t Love Nobody” and Intruders’ “I’ll Always Love My Mama” with seven spins each.)
Lite: 683 (Dido’s “Thank You” was heard 10 times last week as the most popular song.)
102.5/WRNB: 639 (No. 1 song last week: Brian McKnight’s “Find Myself In You” with 25 spins)
Smooth Jazz: 547 (deeper by about 20%. Mindi Abair’s “True Blue” was spun 30 times)
Dave FM: 600 (In just the past week, the station tightened its playlist by about 20%. The station aired 768 songs the week ending May 4, 2006. It cut the number of current songs by the likes of Shawn Mullins, Ray LaMontagne and Mark Knopfler and added a couple of recent songs well burned by other stations such as Green Day’s “Wake Me Up Before September Ends,” Gorillaz’ “Feel Good Inc.” and the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.” Most played song last week: 29 spins of K.T. Tunstall’s “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree.”)
Kicks: 495 (Top tune: Macon’s Jason Aldean single “Why” was spun 44 times last week.)
V-103: 453 (Top song: Jamie Foxx’s “DJ Play a Love Song” was spun 51 times, seven times a day)
Viva: 432 (Top songs: Aventura’s “Un Beso” and Franco De Vita’s “Tu De Que Vas” were spun 41 times each)
99X: 431 (down from 561 songs in September 2005. The new owners have cut back a bit on the “variety” kick the station went through for awhile. Two songs tied for most spins: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Dani California” and Panic! At the Disco’s “The Difference Between Martyrdom…”)
96rock: 383 (No. 1 song: Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son,” spun 11 times, or slightly more than one a day. The station’s most spun song since 1998 that’s on the current playlist is Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” which has been heard 3,064 times or on average about once a day.)
Hot 107.9: 373 (No. 1 song: Lil Jon’s “Snap Yo Fingers” with 70 spins or once every two hours, 24 minutes or so)
Fish: 368 (Top Song: Mark Harris’ “Find Your Wings” was spun 32 times.)
The River: 324: (Top song: ZZ Top’s “La Grange” at 17 spins.)
Buzz: 270 (Top song: Gorillaz’ “Feel Good Inc.” with 54 spins, or every three hours)
B98.5: 247 (that’s actually tighter than the 300 songs they had eight months ago. The station is playing only eight songs defined as “current” and four of them are by Kelly Clarkson! The top song is Rob Thomas’ “Lonely No More” with 27 spins along with Kelly’s “Since U Been Gone”)
Star 94: 197 (Top song: Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” with 69 songs)
Q100: 171 (Significantly tighter than it was last fall when it aired 250 songs. Clearly, the new owners like it tighter. It’s also amped up the frequency of the hit songs. Rihanna’s “SOS” is the No. 1 song, spun a whopping 94 times last week. That’s once eveyr hour and 47 minutes.)
Beat: 134 (Remains one of the tightest playlists for any top 40 station in the country. And it actually played T.I. “What You Know” 99 times last week or once every hour and 42 minutes.)
