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10/3: Changes at night for Eagle 106.7
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eagle 106.7, working with ABC Networks and Great American Country cable, this week launched a new 7 to midnight country music show featuring GAC hostess Suzanne Alexander (above) out of Nashville. Eagle will be the pilot “test” station.
The new show will feature interviews with country artists and slightly more current music than Eagle’s normal mix, which has already gotten more modern in the past couple of years. It will air Monday through Friday, which means the Southern Fried show on Fridays from 9 to midnight is moving this week to Saturdays. Former 96rockers Steve Mitchell and “Southside” Steve Rickman remain as hosts. That show has done well since its launch earlier this year, mixing southern rock by David Allan Coe and Hank Williams Jr. with ZZ Top, Bob Seger and Creedance Clearwater Revival.
This also means Country Gold with Rob Lee, featuring mostly classics from the 50s through 70s, loses its Saturday night slot but Lee (above) will stay on Sunday night and get an extra hour so it runs from 6 to midnight instead of 7 to midnight.
Mark Richards, the Eagle program director, said this is a “soft opening” for the new evening show which can hopefully become a syndicated show starting in 2008 available to stations across the country. He says the show currently is partly taped, partly live but he hopes to see it fully live five hours a night at some point, much like Blair Garner’s “After MidNite” syndicated overnight show heard locally on Kicks 101.5.
Until this week, Kevin O’Brien has been holding fort at nights for Eagle, but O’Brien (above) was “voicetracked,” not live.
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By DOA
October 3, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this
This makes Saturday and Sunday night well worth listening too! Working the swing shif I missed southern fried Fridays so you all just made my day. Thank you Eagle 106.7!
By DOA
October 3, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this
This makes Saturday and Sunday night well worth listening too! Working the swing shif I missed southern fried Fridays so you all just made my day. Thank you Eagle 106.7!
By Michelle
October 3, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this
Hmmm, interesting. That Suzanne chick’s a bit annoying on GAC.
By Roger
October 8, 2007 3:44 PM | Link to this
YAY more syndicated crap…not having a live DJ cost them how much…oh wait $1 is too much.