The WBT Oldies Show

[yugoidar]

Ooops!  After just a few short months, it appears that Boomer Von Cannon's Saturday Night Oldies Show has been dropped from the WBT schedule replaced by another supposedly local, but out of market, ISDN hosted talk show called "The Saturday Night Special". 

I'm sure it was a lot of prep work for Boomer and frankly, he received little to no promotion on the station's other shows across the week.  I guess listeners were just supposed to stumble on the show on their own.

Anyone have the story behind the story?

[TheStoker]

I saw that in the paper too. Wow, they gave it just over 7 months.

[Mike Sheridan]

I heard it was because of high music licensing fees that non-music stations have to pay.  I don't know how true that is.

[MORE RADIO TRUTH]

Charlotte Observer: WBT's oldies show dies for lack of ads
http://www.charlotte.com/326/story/709028.html

[LaidBackJack]

I can't believe that the licensing fees for 40 or so tunes a week is gonna influence any rational programming decisions at WBT. More likely that listeners prefer talk programming on their favorite talk station instead of another music show, and were vocal about it.  This isn't any sort of diss toward Boomer- he's a great guy, and I thought he did a pretty good job, given what he had to work with.

[TheStoker]

Talking about WBT, my favorite time period was 1975-76. Bob Lacy, HA, Bob Morgan, George Woods. There is little if any information, airchecks, etc. from then. They really sounded good then, doing an adult top-40 format. They were using Jam's Logoset package. "Musicradio 1110 WBT".  Anyone know where anything from that period might be?

[wmgcbs]

Wow.  Yet another time Boomer has been given the shaft.  He is one of the best oldies jocks down there, and I can't believe he hasn't been given a shift on either Majic or Oldies 106.1 (BTW - I guess those "surprises" during the first week of July from Oldies were just rumor?).  I was looking forward to hearing the Saturday Night Oldies show this weekend, but I guess that's no longer possible...

I'll be down in Charlotte later this week, and to say the least, the thing I miss most about Charlotte radio is driving down I-77 and finally hearing Boomer's voice booming out of my speakers after a grueling 12 hour drive, whether on Oldies 93, or back in the day on Magic 96.1.  It was the perfect "Welcome to the Carolinas."

I guess the novelty of Charlotte radio now for me is the country music stations.  It'll be nice to get a dose of live, local country radio, something they don't offer here in the NYC metro.

[DToTheJ]

I'll be down in Charlotte later this week, and to say the least, the thing I miss most about Charlotte radio is driving down I-77 and finally hearing Boomer's voice booming out of my speakers after a grueling 12 hour drive, whether on Oldies 93, or back in the day on Magic 96.1.  It was the perfect "Welcome to the Carolinas."

Not so fast... you can still hear Boomer doing "SkyLink Traffic" on 107.9 each weekend!