It is time...to dump 790 am. as our flagship

790

The early years of 790 saw the station as a top 40 radio station --not a sports talk station. CNN (680 The Fan) was the genesis of sports talk in Atlanta (unless you want to consider Beau Bock's sports talk tv show on ch. 69, where he would take calls from fans at the end of each show).

In the early 90's, Bock left 680 and started up sports talk on 790, calling it 'The Jock'. The station is privately owned and air time had to be paid for. Beau provided an alternative to 680 but financially he couldn't make a run at it, so the sports talk format on 790 went dark for a spell.

Randy Blake, who along with AJ Cannon and Harmon Wages was on mornings at 680, reignited sports talk on 790 --again buying air time from the privately owned station. After CNN cleaned house, firing Steak, AJ, etal after their morning show one day, and kept Terrence Moore and Herb White off of the air that afternoon, Steak and AJ and others eventually ended up at 790, while Randy Blake was still in control of the affairs of the sports talk format.

Eventually Blake's time expired and he was fazed out, with Steak taking over with financing from Big League Broadcasting --still under time share status. I'm not certain if that has changed or not, but JWE37 is correct about some of 1gtfan's facts. For one, Max Howell was never on 790.
 
This is really easy.

790 is a sports talk radio station. GT choose to use a Sports Talk Radio station as their "Flagship" station.

UGA on the other hand does not use a sports talk radio station as their flagship station.

In radio the way you make money is secure a large listening fan base. You can't do that if you are not appealing to all your potential customers.

If you owned a hamburger joint, and you decided that you were only going to serve people who were located in your neighborhood and not surrounding neighborhoods, don't you think that's a stupid business decision?

If you owned a radio station, why would you eliminate a huge portion of your listening base? You wouldn't. Doesn't make business sense.

Hating on 790 is stupid. You can hate on our GTAA if you want they were the ones who ultimately made that decision, but that would be stupid too. By having 790 as our flagship that gives GT the ability to appeal to other sports fans who are in Atlanta and that is smart for GT.

So to summarize....

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BarrelORum said:
This is really easy.

790 is a sports talk radio station. GT choose to use a Sports Talk Radio station as their "Flagship" station.

UGA on the other hand does not use a sports talk radio station as their flagship station.

In radio the way you make money is secure a large listening fan base. You can't do that if you are not appealing to all your potential customers.

If you owned a hamburger joint, and you decided that you were only going to serve people who were located in your neighborhood and not surrounding neighborhoods, don't you think that's a stupid business decision?

If you owned a radio station, why would you eliminate a huge portion of your listening base? You wouldn't. Doesn't make business sense.

Hating on 790 is stupid. You can hate on our GTAA if you want they were the ones who ultimately made that decision, but that would be stupid too. By having 790 as our flagship that gives GT the ability to appeal to other sports fans who are in Atlanta and that is smart for GT.

So to summarize....

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You made some good points, but, I want to know why we dumped our longtime partner WGST for 790 the zone...I thought this was one of the many mistakes Braine made?

I don't buy that we just did it to go onto an all sports station, there has to be some other reasons. For years, WGST and GT went hand in hand...
 
Re: JacketDan...I think you are in the minority in your love

1gtfan said:
If Max Howell was not on 790 as a regular, he sure was on a lot as a guest, at least on my radio he was....
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Max Howell was never on 790 as an on-air personality, as a guest or otherwise. He started on 680 in 1993 and left that station in 2003. 790 used to clown around and do a fake Max Howell, called 'The Coach' back in the late 90's when 790 emerged as The Zone.
 
I can't answer that. The bottom line from a marketing perspective is being with 790 am actually enables GT to potentially sell to sports fans looking for a college team to root for. WGST doesn't have that ability because the chances of you selling GT on WGST to someone tuning in to hear the news is far less.
 
The simple fact is there are more UGAy fans than there are Tech fans. Even if they are the flagship for GT, they are not going to openly bash a team that the majority of their listeners support. That is just bad business. Also, more of the people calling in are wanting to talk UGAy, so that is what they are going to talk about. If you want to hear more GT talk then start calling in and getting them to talk GT.
 
BarrelORum said:
Hating on 790 is stupid. You can hate on our GTAA if you want they were the ones who ultimately made that decision, but that would be stupid too. By having 790 as our flagship that gives GT the ability to appeal to other sports fans who are in Atlanta and that is smart for GT.

So to summarize....

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+1 except that I will still hate on 790, because my cock has more broadcasting power than them
 
Well, first, we can blame that Blame America first pile of trash jimmy carter for letting WGST be taken away from GT.

And after that, WGST ventured into another direction.

Then the team brilliant clough/braine idiots get us hooked up with ISP and they, in turn, hook us up with a candy ass signal station like 790.
 
texstinger said:
Well, first, we can blame that Blame America first pile of trash jimmy carter for letting WGST be taken away from GT.

With that naive liberal, it wouldn't surprise me a bit....

WGST needs to be with GT again....They fit us like a glove going back to the ole Al Ciraldo days, just as Wsb fits ugag WGST fits GT...IMHO..
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texstinger said:
There is no more wgst.

I have not liked 790 because anytime someone farts in Gwinnett County their signal is gone.

On the other hand, with the way we will build this program it will be fun to listen (when someone doesn't fart) to pollock choking on dog cum .
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Great drunken rant! Sorry your home life sucks so bad. Have you considered a hobby?

We need to rid ourselves of 790 at all costs.
 
I don't think they rag on us that much and glorify UGA, we've lost 7 years now, come on, wtf do you expect.

I think 680 does a decent job, and I can hardly stand 790 anymore, not so much b/c of Tech but b/c they just suck, especially the Stews, they annoy the living Hell out of me and I find it amusing they have such a large following b/c of the garbage they talk.
 
Allen Koholic said:
I'd call them both NFL rejects. One because he can't play and the other because he can't play without being turned into a N


Nice, I love that someone hates those pricks as much as I do. "Hey did you know they were room mates?" I'll get arrested for domestic abuse if I hear that ever again on live TV.
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My comments weren't a slap to Rick, I think he's doing a fine job myself. I was talking about Kim when I believe he and a couple other guys owned a radio station in Atlanta. I was thinking late 70's early 80's.
 
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