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« on: July 13, 2012, 04:46:08 AM » |
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You'd think that they'd be stressing the FM simulcast on 105.9 FM like a lot of AM/FM talkers do. In fact, in the new logo, 970 is in a bigger font and more prominence than 105.9 FM: http://www.970wfla.com/template/masthead/wfla_logo_new220.jpgOf course, they were due for a new logo ever since they dropped the Fox News affiliation. |
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2012, 05:12:34 AM » |
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It is also in bigger font than "Texaco Lube" studios...
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2012, 08:45:51 AM » |
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Of course, they were due for a new logo ever since they dropped the Fox News affiliation.
Have they dropped it? I know they stopped playing the Fox newscasts during the day, but I hear them still at night and on weekends... Plus I hear Fox stuff inside the local casts too. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2012, 02:48:57 PM » |
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Wow, people get lubed in-studio? Could be fun.
Logo redesign when the sponsor exits.
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« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 10:42:42 AM » |
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I would suspect the "970" is still "the face of the franchise" and by leaving it bigger than the 105.9, stresses that if you run out of 105.9, there is the larger 970 signal.
They ID the HD-2, but don't promote it any other place. So, I wasn't surprised to see it continue to stay missing from the new design.
What I DO find curious is, with as much as CC is promoting iheart over the air, the iheart logo is missing from the new design.
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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2012, 08:54:29 PM » |
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I'm a big fan of 970, but that new logo is pretty lame. I could have come up with something a little more flashy using Microsoft Paint. I hope they aren't plastering it on billboards...
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2012, 04:29:15 AM » |
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I'm a big fan of 970, but that new logo is pretty lame. I could have come up with something a little more flashy using Microsoft Paint. I hope they aren't plastering it on billboards... Send your logos to them, you have already seen what THEY like. Heck, couldn't hurt... Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta! |
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« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2012, 01:13:03 PM » |
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What do you all expect... I mean, just listen to the new news sounder... should have figured that anything else coming out of there would also be pretty lame...
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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2012, 10:46:08 AM » |
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Are you insinuating that RATT is lame?  |
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2012, 11:12:44 AM » |
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970 is such a huge disappointment to me. They were the go to talk station for over 20 years... and now they've been relegated to playing all of CC's crappy syndicated programming. The news department is weak and over stretched, the local talent isn't much better than the syndicated garbage, and the whole station smacks of neoconservative propaganda. Their new logo should be the least of their concerns.
The reality is that their audience base got cut drastically when they decided many years back to be the #1 propaganda outfit for the modern republican party... let's remember this is at a time when every other AM talk station was also fighting to hold that title. Before that, this is the station Mark Beiro and Bob Lassiter used to call home. If you didn't like the show content, you could wait a couple hours and a different host with a different opinion would come on... it's not like that anymore. Every show host loves war, every show host agrees on who you should vote for... none of them sound like they have an original opinion in their head. Their talking points come from politicians and sponsors. The only person I know who still listens to the station regularly is my 80 year old neighbor, who loves Sean Hannity and Shnitt (although she's afraid to pronounce his name), and thinks that bombing the hell out of Arab people is something God smiles on.
I'm glad they got a translator up... merely because I'm a radio tech nerd. So it was sort of exciting to hear their signal on analog FM. But the content still nauseates me to my stomach. Lassiter was right on Radio For One... where are they going to find the next schmoe who can actually talk to you for 3 hours and say something meaningful... it doesn't exist anymore. The art of radio is dead, now they just want to tell you who to vote for and what to buy. Yeah... their logo sucks... and so does their station...
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