Bob Bids Adieu To Stacy Barton

[DToTheJ]

The Oklahoma City radio veteran is out at KQOB (96.9 Bob-FM). Phil Inzinga will now assume sole hosting duties of the station's morning show, which has seen a drop in ratings since last year:
http://newsok.com/short-takes/article/3505733

[OKCRadioGuy]

Sadly, this is the trend lately, and the reason that good people are exiting the industry, and radio consumption is going in the toilet.  The head jerks at the very top of the food chain continue to steal their investors by padding their own perks and salaries and they cut back on the very people that are their face to the public, the consumer.  The only way this industry will get better is for those type of groups to have to have a fire sale.  Unfortunately, that's going to cost a lot of great people their jobs getting there.  I sincerly hope Stacy will find a good next gig, either in radio or out. She deserves it.

[hello4]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters.  Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic.  Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other.  Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

[ionosphere]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters.  Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic.  Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other.  Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

4 classic rock stations? Bob, The Brew, KRXO...what's the 4th?

[Kent]

Well, we don't need four Classic Rock stations either ... that didn't help matters.  Hopefully there's no sour grapes with Steve O'Brien, and maybe she can pick up a few weekend shifts back at Magic.  Or if CC had any sense, they'd dump the Brew for something more GenX-y, lean a little more late-80s to utilize Stacy's cachet from her Top 40 days, and install her in mornings there with somebody or other.  Four Classic Rocks, four Countrys ... why are our market's programmers so dumb?

I've heard rumors the Brew isn't long for the world.  However, time will tell...

[hello4]

4 classic rock stations? Bob, The Brew, KRXO...what's the 4th?

Okay, overexaggeration, but the KATT does average 6 golds an hour, from the 70s 80s and up to mid-90s, so half their hours are at least 15 years or older.

[lurker34]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

[ionosphere]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

KOMA also plays the likes of The Supremes, Neil Diamond, and The Bee Gees...none of which I would consider to be "rock" in any context.

KOMA is a Classic Hits station (NOT Classic Rock), which a very broad and vague format that (to me) usually ends up in a channel change once a song from an unfavored genre hits the speakers.

[lurker34]

It's a matter of semantics. They're all basically oldies stations.

[oldmanradio]

I'd consider KOMA Classic Rock. They play Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Bob Seger, etc. Never understood that, taking from KRXO's pocket and putting it into KOMA's pocket.

With all due respect, KOMA has never been classic rock.

Classic hits.

The Brew?  Really?

Regards,
Tony