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Friday, July 6, 2007
7/6: UGA on XM, the Nine, Clark Howard
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fans of XM radio and UGA sports should be thrilled to find out XM is picking up football and basketball games this fall.
Here’s the story from colleague Tim Tucker..
Also, ABC is burning off the final six episodes of hostage drama “The Nine,” which started out with a promising pilot last fall but never quite found its way in subsequent episodes. It starts up again August 1 at 10. The drama starring Tim Daly (“Wings”), Scott Wolf (“Party of Five”), Chi McBride (“Boston Public”) and Kim Raver (“24”) involved a bank robbery gone awry and the aftermath for the survivors. The gimmick: meting out what happened in the bank a small bite at a time. ABC aired seven and the producers created 13. But don’t expect closure because they had expected the show to go a full 22. It simply failed in the ratings. Personally, I’m surprised ABC is even bothering considering how long it’s been since ABC dumped it. “The Nine” opened October 4 at 11.9 million and by November 22, its final airing, it had fallen to 4.1 million. More info here.
Clark Howard of WSB-AM will a guest at the Lucky Yates Talk Show located in the Laughing Skull Lounge next to the Vortex in Midtown off 8th and Peachtree. The show starts at 9 p.m. and costs just $10 for general admission and $13 for VIP seating. Here’s where you can buy tix.. I’ve been to the show both at its old incarnation at Dad’s Garage and at the Laughing Skull and believe me, it’s a lot of fun. The last time Clark guested on the show, he sang Captain & Tennille off a karaoke machine. Clark will readily admit he has no talent in that arena!
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7/6: The most static station in Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
97.1 The River has not added a single new song since November of 2006, according to data collected by Mediabase 24/7.
In other words, the station has kept the same 325 songs or so on its playlist for seven consecutive months without a single change, not one tune. That’s about as close to autopilot as a station can go, eh?
Chris Miller, the program director, emailed me his explanation:
“We survey the target audience once or twice a year. We find the immensely popular stuff doesn’t change much … and since the average listener has maybe an hour a day to listen to the radio, changing the music doesn’t drive success for us. The true classics are the true classics. We work on keeping the non-music stuff really fresh — giving away a classic car, tying in with huge concerts, associating with audience lifestyle events, and so forth.”
The top 5 songs spun since July 1, 2006, when Mediabase 24/7 started tracking the River’s airplay are:
Doobie Brothers “Black Water” 763 spins, or about twice a day
Steve Miller “The Joker” 749 spins
Aerosmith “Dream On” 742 spins
Steve Miller “Rock’N Me” 734 spins
Queen “Killer Queen” 731 spins
The River has not aired a single specialty program or theme day or week in the past 12 months.
The most recent song the station has played is Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’ ” from 1989.
The oldest song? Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” from 1964
Since July 1, 2006, the station has played 23 different Beatles songs, 18 different Eagles songs, 10 different Fleetwood Mac songs, 13 different Elton John songs and 14 different Rolling Stones songs. Those were the only acts that had at least 10 unique songs played.
