I was visiting my home town of Toledo over the weekend and was brutalized by the station I grew up listening to, WIOT. I sampled the station for 3 hours from 6 to 9 on Friday night and many different times on both Saturday and Sunday. It was a good 45 minutes before I heard a song that was on my stations playlist and prolly another 15 minutes after that before I heard a song that I liked. I heard Damn Yankees, Higher and very deep cuts from DIO (Last in Line), Twisted Sister, and even a Brittney Fox song for god sakes. Here's the funny part; One of the imaging pieces I heard said "Broadcasting from the Stautzenberger College Studios". Yeah, It sounded like a college radio station. Here's funny part, part deaux; I tuned in the classic rock station during one of the brutal moments and they rolled out Alice in Chains, Man in the Box! Hey, I guess if the rock station in town isn't serving the listeners formaticly, the classic rock station should move outside the box so to speak huh?
Here's th not so funny part. I looked at the ratings and holy christ they're #3 12+ with a 7.1?!? So, I hung out with some of my friends who live in T-Town and I asked them, because maybe I'm listening at the wrong time, ya know Friday night and the weekend, throw away time right? They said the station sucks too, can't stand it! So what gives? Who's listening to this garbage? Is it because it's the only game in town? Heritage? Wha?
Here's th not so funny part. I looked at the ratings and holy christ they're #3 12+ with a 7.1?!? So, I hung out with some of my friends who live in T-Town and I asked them, because maybe I'm listening at the wrong time, ya know Friday night and the weekend, throw away time right? They said the station sucks too, can't stand it! So what gives? Who's listening to this garbage? Is it because it's the only game in town? Heritage? Wha?