MoJo 9.5.0. Review

[InTIMadate]

Very funny!

It's like saying McDonalds doesn't care about fries!
Look, each market runs itself and reports up. Sometimes a good idea happens and it get syndicated, sometimes you get a McRib.
I doubt if anyone in San Antonio even knows the new line-up. Consider Clear Channel a big Irish Catholic family. If the child lives, they'll pay attention. If it dies from an early infection, there will be another.  If you're that upset, turn it off and revisit in a few weeks when it has jelled.

I remember when ABC changed WZZN in Chicago from alternative rock to "True Oldies." They had strip bar spots running over the middle of Beach Boys songs. That was a train wreck. This is a work in progress. It's summer, the perfect time to launch and work out the bugs.
By the way.... agencies don't buy new formats. They want ratings first.

[stillworkin]

I tried checking out the 9-5-0 on Thursday afternoon.   I just didn't get the humor of either W&J or Mancow.  I have enjoyed Mancow's reports on Fox News Channel over the years, but his bits on the woman who "cooked" her kids when she left them in the car were too much for me.  I know he was trying to show how stupid it is to lock your kids in a hot car, but it was just too much IMO.  And the promos running for the Baker and Hunt show did nothing to make me want to tune in.  I like Chris Baker, but I don't think I will be able to listen to this show when it begins in a week or so.

[adguy]

Thought I would review after listening off and on for a week.  W&J: Worse on Friday and deteriorating day-by-day if that's even possible.  Mancow is not that bad, but 9-5-0's problem is that there will be no lead-in when W&J chase off 100% of KPRC's current morning listeners.  Cutting Hannity off at the last hour is another move that is part of this abortion called Mojo 950.  If they were smart, they would move Savage up, slot in Phil Hendrie to fall in Drive or put Hendrie live midday.  Just trying to give some programming advice as the powers at be prepare their attempt to revive KPRC when it crashes and burns in the next couple of months.  This is going to be very ugly.  My smart dog could program a station better than this.

[photog]

I may put in an application to 9-5-0- MOJO.  I'm nobody and I could have done better.  Hey adguy, I'll keep your dog in mind!!

[truthsayer]

My Niece has a hamster that is pissed off too.  He told her that he could program better than the current management.  I would not apply there.  They are a bunch of Pythons ready to put a strangle hold on you til to are dead!  Example: look what they are doing to the 9-5-0!

[photog]

I tuned in this morning and found a finacial show on both 9-5-0 & 740.  Maybe it's just me, I'm not radio pro, but that is DUMB!  The only thing I see on the weekends I want to hear is Gardenline and Michael Garfield.  Oh yea, I forgot, I was told what I want to hear is not what "Houston" wants to hear.  Well I guess I'll have to wait and see if that's true.

[stan]

Weekends I used to listen to KTRH because they had the home improvement show with Tom Tynan and occasionally I caught part of the gardening show and it seemed like there were plenty of callers with both shows.   

What is amazing to me is how clueless the present Houston CC management must be.  You wouldn't run a small market station this way - well, maybe someone would.

By the way, on KPRC's web site they have the following statement regarding W&J -


Will I like Walton & Johnson? Probably not, unless you like to have fun. Fuddy-duds need not apply. This is your daily news, but this is comedy, wit, biting sarcasm, social commentary, and a touch of irreverence all rolled into a morning show. Make a comment HERE.

Well, the "HERE" link doesn't work - probably disabled from all the comments already made - or more likely never enabled because CC doesn't care.

[adguy]

My Niece has a hamster that is pissed off too.  He told her that he could program better than the current management.  I would not apply there.  They are a bunch of Pythons ready to put a strangle hold on you til to are dead!  Example: look what they are doing to the 9-5-0!

Checked with my dog.  She would rather heard sheep than program 9-5-0.  She believes working for a station like that is an insult to her intelligence.  She told me that we should check with the ant bed in the backyard.  Maybe a group of ants can pull collectively to provide a bit more brainpower over current management to fix KPRC. 

[adguy]

I tuned in this morning and found a finacial show on both 9-5-0 & 740.  Maybe it's just me, I'm not radio pro, but that is DUMB!  The only thing I see on the weekends I want to hear is Gardenline and Michael Garfield.  Oh yea, I forgot, I was told what I want to hear is not what "Houston" wants to hear.  Well I guess I'll have to wait and see if that's true.

The financial show probably pays around $1500 for an hour of time on KPRC & $2000 on KTRH.  With the money CC is sure to lose at KPRC they need to whore every bit of weekend time possibly available to produce revenue.  Unfortunately that will mean preemptions or cancellation of long-time standbys like Gardenline.  Garfield should be relegated to weekends.  That's where he belongs talking about tech.  A weekday show is too much for that guy.  He's no good at politics and he really comes across as very arrogant a....hole on air.

[CaptainShowbiz]

Whatever else they've done, and they have dumped several good shows, they have truly pissed me off by pushing Mark Levin late, to 10 p.m.  For Phil Hendrie?  Please!  He soiled this market before, talking to himself in goofy voices.  It didn't work then, and it won't work now.  Levin had to have numbers...I must check.  Now, for my long commute home I still have Michael Savage (thank God), but at 8 p.m. I have to switch to K-Hits.  Or anything else.  And whereas the only time I ever actually parked my car and went into the house and switched on the kitchen radio to keep listening to a radio show was when the Great One (ML) was on.  That will never happen again!  Hendrie seems to have moderated his stupid conversations with transsexuals and seriel killers of his own invention, but why bury Levin for him?  Hope the People Meter will punish the idiot who made that decision.