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Hoosier Daddy wrote:Obviously a hot-button issue with Arp.

Light him up and watch him go ...

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I knew I was being baited....I responded, anyway.....

Seriously, though, if you're going through life believing the stuff from the whiners and gripers you're reading on the internet,....well, you're sure as heck not getting smarter about things.....

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From a local music/entertainment scene writer:

I'm alright Jack. Keep your hands off my stack...
With Jack FM gone, I remembered that I did a post or two on the subject a year ago for the now defunct 'Grossly Underpaid' blog. It turns out that Jack and I have a little in common. We both lost our names and got reformatted.

What strikes me in looking back at this old post is how much restraint I showed. Glad I don't do that here.

Anyway, Jack... I never liked you, though I listened in every now and again. Mostly, I kicked you while you were up. I thought you were pretty hollow, even if you did play Starfish and The Ramones (Memo to the locals: increase your fucking play lists ). Still, I'm even a bit proud that little Charleston, for all its failings, flipped you the bird.

Rest in Peace, asshole.

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Finding a radio station that you liked used to be a little like falling in love. Both you and the station were in the right place at the right time. You liked the music and the silly things they did. They liked that you dressed in their t-shirts and showed up like a stalker to their strange but meaningless spectacles and commercial events at used car lots. You liked that they told you they loved you. They liked that you did the same thing -- if you were caller number nine.

Of course, it never lasted. There could be be a million different reasons: they changed formats and went from Top 40 to the porn songs of the '70s. They brought in a canned morning show, some overpaid chuckleheads who can't get over just how funny they are. Or maybe you just grew a little. Maybe you noticed that the same couple of local burnouts you'd been listening to weren't that funny any more. Maybe you started to think that they should have taken that job at Sears long, long ago. Maybe you just decided that you'd had enough of Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw for a while and want some music that doesn't reek of old socks. Whether it was you or them, it was over.

You both decided to see other people.

These days, after all the ugly things that have happened to radio, it's hard enough just finding a radio station you can stand to listen to even some of the time. Enter 107.3 Jack FM. This is radio at it's best -- and worst. Unlike other radio stations, it comes with a seemingly bottomless play list and a song rotation that moves very slowly, like the planets rounding the sun. What you hear one day, you might not hear the next. (Pop princes and princesses beware. You ain't all that.)

The downside is that there is nothing local about it. It's piped in from parts unknown, programmed by garden gnomes for all you know. There's no DJ, no announcer except for the boob recorded to do the mindless sweeps. There's nobody to tell you about the weather, the traffic or surprise you with some insight or a joke (granted in these parts, those moments are as likely to happen as the governor inviting me over to his place for a beer). You still get the crass (and poorly done) radio commercials, but Jack FM is as locally involved as a Long John Silvers, probably less.

Jack FM is the big box store interpretation of a girlfriend. Like a girlfriend that you pay, she can do lots of neat tricks. She can do things the other radio stations can't or won't do, like play three songs in a row that don't sound exactly like the three they just played. Still, no matter how many tricks she does, no matter how much fun she is, something about it seems a bit phony.


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That's why music research or even perceptuals can't be the the only gun in your arsenal. Great air talent or even just decent air talent is a major factor as is promotion and marketing.

"Just shut up and play the music" or "most music in the morning" is an easy fix to a broken station, but it NEVER wins.
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304live wrote:what happened to you running for gov. of wv?



i seriously would vote for you
I was never able to raise more than $11.87 in campaign funds. Also, I realized winning the election would be the worse thing that could possibly happen to me. Besides, the coal barons would have me killed (or worse) if it even looked like I might get more than a thousand votes.
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Bullshit, Jay took a massive payoff from big coal and big logging and big chemcal and big oil to not run for governor.
Where do you think he got the new car and all those tee-shirts?
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Well, that can't be true. They don't MAKE enough Tudor's biscuits to deliver to jay and sell to the public.
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Jay, give yourself more credit..you are from Logan after all, specifically Island Creek. Does the name Raymond Chafin mean anything to you?


BTW some of you that have been here longer than me may know the answer to this...we are up to page nine on this thread. What's the record?

Just wondering.
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Post by Lester »

So much to do....

CoolBreeze: EXCELLENT POST!

Dave: Not sure what the record is. For some reason 13 comes to mind.

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The Democrats are saving Jay for a big post in the up-coming Randy White administration.
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Bob Campbell wrote:Well, that can't be true. They don't MAKE enough Tudor's biscuits to deliver to jay and sell to the public.
Ouch! I guess the Metamucil isn't working for you. Maybe your AARP magazine will have some tips on what to do.
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Why you young whippersnapper, I'll....uh...what was this thread about?
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Bob Campbell wrote:Why you young whippersnapper, I'll....uh...what was this thread about?
it's about breaking the old posting record to old senile fart!!!!!!!!! ok, maybe not i just felt like being an ass... :)

[/being an ass]

by the way... don't know what's happened, but it looks as though someone has added an "arp function" to the board. correcting spelling and grammar... ooooohhhhhh, ahhhhhhhhhh :)
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13 comes to mind.... times 2.

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HOLY CRAP!

and speaking of records... how the hell did we get 110 people all on the board at once... that had to be planned. i was unfortunately out of the loop at that point in time so i wasn't able to participate.
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'at that point in time'? :)
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Rock wrote:'at that point in time'? :)
YES!!! (bitchy) at that point in time.... :)




and still occasionally ;)
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it's about breaking the old posting record to old senile fart!!!!!!!!! ok, maybe not i just felt like being an ass...

Oy....my ass DOES itch.

So this old guy checks into a senior citizen's home. He meets a senior lady he's attracted to, and, after a few weeks, gets up the courage to ask her to dinner. They enjoy a meal in the home and one thing leads to another. They wind up in her room. He asks her how she wants him to make love to her. She says, "Go down on me". He does. But after about 30 seconds, the smell is so bad he's about to puke. He comes up and apologises, says, "I'm sorry, but the odor is making me sick".
She says, "Oh, that must be my arthritis".
He replies, "Arthritis? How could arthritis cause that awful smell?".

And she says, "Well, I haven't been able to wipe my ass in six years".

Bada Bing!

is Nunley governor yet?
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I think that was due to a bot attack that was going on against unpatched PHPBB message boards. In other words, there were 110 computers, but I doubt 110 people were on the other end.
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Lester wrote:I think that was due to a bot attack that was going on against unpatched PHPBB message boards. In other words, there were 110 computers, but I doubt 110 people were on the other end.
then maybe we should reset that and start over.... just from a competitive radio geeks point of view :)
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Bot attacks must have decreased. I check that stat every time I'm on and several times recently, I have been the only one on. Anal retentives check that stat a lot.
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