WestwoodOne adds new 24/7 format Good Time Oldies...

[Lori Pollitt]

Congrats to Jim Zippo, John Summers and Kevan Browning.

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WestwoodOne Likes Good Time Oldies
March 27, 2014 radiosyn Leave a comment

WestwoodOne has announced that it will add “Good Times Oldies” a new syndicated radio 24-hour Oldies format to its line-up of program services. “Good Times Oldies” will debut on Monday, April 28 and feature music from the golden era of pop, rock and soul-centering on hit music from the 60s and 70s -and positioned slightly older than traditional Adult Hits-formatted stations. This is the first new format since WestwoodOne and Cumulus Media Networks merged.

Good Time Oldies will feature a line-up of veteran radiopersonalities, including Jim Zippo, John Summers and Kevan Browning. Zippo is well known for his years at WDRQ Detroit, WEAM Washington DC, KQOL Las Vegas and KTKS Dallas. He’s also done mornings nationally for over 12 years. Summers marks 30 years as a PD/MD and air personality on such stations as BJ105/Orlando and WMMO/Orlando, and he currently does PM Drive on KLUV/Dallas. Browning joins from his current role on WestwoodOne’s Classic Hits format, after a long on-air and programming career with stops in Milwaukee, Memphis, Houston and Dallas.

“We are excited to bring this product to market,” said WestwoodOne President of Programming Kirk Stirland. “Good Time Oldies is a great strategic format, and one our customers tell us often fills a void in their market.”

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Thursday, March 27, 2014
WWOne Cancels True Oldies Channel
To the surprise of no one...Westwood One has officially served notices that it's dropping Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel.

The 90-day notice went out Wednesday to some 100 affiliates that the syndicated music format would be ending at the end of June.

WestwoodOne President of Programming Kirk Stirland indicated that current TOC affiliates would get first refusal rights on the company;'s new "Good Time Oldies" format which debuts April 28. GTO will be hoster by Jim Zippo, John Summers and Kevin Browning. Zippo previously hosted oldies shows for SMN's "Pure Gold" format. Zippo can now be heard on CBS Radio's classic hits KLUV 98.7 FM in D/FW. Summers marks 30 years as a PD/MD and air personality on such stations as BJ105/Orlando and WMMO/Orlando, and he currently does PM Drive on KLUV/Dallas. Affiliated stations will have the option to either take the channel as a nationally branded format, or adopt their own localized imaging.

Shannon departed Cumulus' WPLJ in February and is now hosting mornings at CBS Radio's WCBS 101. FM. Shannon owns the rights to TOC and says he's currently exploring his options.

 

[ContinuousWave]

Lori happens to be Zippo's executive officer and his CLOSEST fan

lol

 

[Robert Bass]

Plus, she's a former Cowboys cheerleader!

R

 

[Lori Pollitt]

No, I'm his CEO...Chief Exploitation Officer!!! Love to promote him because I have always been his biggest fan. I'm his wife so it's perfectly natural that I am biased! No one can disagree with that, I would hope! And yes, I have the "cheerleader" in me...Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 82-85 and Head Cheerleader and Choreographer for the Houston Rockets 80-81, so I'm qualified!

 

[BBontheRadio]

Jim is the best. I'm honored to work around him! Congratulations to Jim and John on the new format!

 

[ContinuousWave]

No, I'm his CEO...Chief Exploitation Officer!!! Love to promote him because I have always been his biggest fan. I'm his wife so it's perfectly natural that I am biased! No one can disagree with that, I would hope! And yes, I have the "cheerleader" in me...Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 82-85 and Head Cheerleader and Choreographer for the Houston Rockets 80-81, so I'm qualified!

And always looked great in a princess outfit at one of their costume parties at the Plano house!! IS the Westwood channel to be done at the old ABC RN studios Lori?? Or does this require a move to the North as Jim alluded to on FB?

 

[Lori Pollitt]

Princess costume at our Zipporama parties? Don't remember that! Remember dressing up in 50's garb, poodle skirt and saddle shoes, and a 15th century Scarsborough Fair type costume, definitely not a princess. Those parties were fun!

Jim turned down the offer for a Morning Show gig up north as the WW1 opportunity came out of the blue. We truly are feeling blessed! We will be staying in Dallas. Announcement of which studios and a lot more details will be coming shortly (we know, just can't say!)

Today, Jim got a call from the brass at WW1 and the response they are receiving has far exceeded their expectations. Jim's boss said the WW1 sales department is getting overwhelmed with calls seeking affiliation and wanting the Zip Dude back in their markets...BIG and small!

 

[ContinuousWave]

Could have sworn you were dressed as Snow White/princess at the Halloween party in 96, Lori.....was definitely not anyone else ....ahhh the Grita and Pina Colada machines flowing......I remember the cute "mime" (Debbie Allen was her name) who I was able to unlock her van after her friend accidently shut the door with the keys still inside!...but she was getting divorced and moved back to KS......but we had a great two weeks after the party together

Glad to hear you're staying in Dallas.....

 

[Lori Pollitt]

Thanks CW, we're glad to be staying too. That's so funny that you remember a Snow White/princess costume. Never happened, probably someone else. We can definitely blame that memory haze on the margarita machines we had cranked up. Was that the only one of our parties you came to? And, who are you????

 

[Lori Pollitt]

CW, my daughter, Angela dressed up like this at one of the parties. That's the only princess/Snow White costume I remember. The kids always got to scurry around at the beginning of our parties and then went upstairs with the baby sitter. She's 20 now and expecting her first baby...our first grand child! We've already decided Zippo will be "Zippaw" and I'll just be Grandma!

 

[Lori Pollitt]

To get back on track....here's a little more info on the new format. I've also heard talk of a potential Dallas affiliate. Could just be talk, but that sure would be cool!

"GOOD TIME OLDIES features the golden era of pop, rock, and soul: hit music of the '60s and '70s with a healthy portion of "oh-wow" songs from other decades. The music is up tempo and the presentation is full of energy, including features about rock and roll history and the timeless artists of the era. And of course...there will be JIM ZIPPO to kick it off in the mornings!"

 

[R. F. Burns]

This is just publicity hype for a format that is going to babysit small market radio stations just like ABC Pure Gold did. If this was not the case, they'd hire better djs and pay them more money.

To get back on track....here's a little more info on the new format. I've also heard talk of a potential Dallas affiliate. Could just be talk, but that sure would be cool!

"GOOD TIME OLDIES features the golden era of pop, rock, and soul: hit music of the '60s and '70s with a healthy portion of "oh-wow" songs from other decades. The music is up tempo and the presentation is full of energy, including features about rock and roll history and the timeless artists of the era. And of course...there will be JIM ZIPPO to kick it off in the mornings!"


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[Lori Pollitt]

Pure Gold had approximately 250 affiliates in markets of all size, including New Orleans, Salt Lake City, El Paso, Austin, Midland/Odessa, Buffalo, Sacramento, Bakersfield, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Anchorage, Little Rock, Albuquerque, Orlando...just to name a few, plus Armed Forces radio. That's a lot of combined AQH that created a lot of advertising revenue. Jim not only was am drive personality, but also the PD of Pure Gold and was in charge and oversaw all the budgets. Pure Gold was a $4.5-$5 million annual business.

Jim Zippo is a well known and respected talent, but of course I am biased. The trades such as R&R, Radio Ink, etc., commonly referred to him as "Legendary Jim Zippo." I can dig up the many trade publication PDFs we've saved, but I doubt that would impress you as you have chosen to be a "nay sayer" before this format even launches. I don't know who you are, but by your name I hope you haven't been burned by this industry. Radio has changed, everyone knows that. It doesn't pay the big bucks that it used to, but there still are a lot of talented jocks throughout the country that want to give radio their all and are producing good radio shows.

I welcome your feedback once the format launches and has had some time to get it's legs, until then why be so negative? Again, I hope it's not because you have been "burned."

Best regards, LP

 

[ContinuousWave]

CW, my daughter, Angela dressed up like this at one of the parties. That's the only princess/Snow White costume I remember. The kids always got to scurry around at the beginning of our parties and then went upstairs with the baby sitter. She's 20 now and expecting her first baby...our first grand child! We've already decided Zippo will be "Zippaw" and I'll just be Grandma!

it definitely was not one of your kids Seems like yesterday....sometimes...that was the first party I had attended (Halloween 96)...after joining ABC 3 weeks before..Clark Tucker in Engineering urged me to go...he wasn't lying about how much of a party they were! (I found out in 2009 while helping KUVN move to digital; the new CE and I worked together before, that Joe Carnes had died in his sleep after going to KERA...he was a great guy!)

Congrats on the family addition!!

 

[R. F. Burns]

Is it true or not true that Jim Zippo got fired from ABC's Pure Gold format?

Pure Gold had approximately 250 affiliates in markets of all size, including New Orleans, Salt Lake City, El Paso, Austin, Midland/Odessa, Buffalo, Sacramento, Bakersfield, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Anchorage, Little Rock, Albuquerque, Orlando...just to name a few, plus Armed Forces radio. That's a lot of combined AQH that created a lot of advertising revenue. Jim not only was am drive personality, but also the PD of Pure Gold and was in charge and oversaw all the budgets. Pure Gold was a $4.5-$5 million annual business.

Jim Zippo is a well known and respected talent, but of course I am biased. The trades such as R&R, Radio Ink, etc., commonly referred to him as "Legendary Jim Zippo." I can dig up the many trade publication PDFs we've saved, but I doubt that would impress you as you have chosen to be a "nay sayer" before this format even launches. I don't know who you are, but by your name I hope you haven't been burned by this industry. Radio has changed, everyone knows that. It doesn't pay the big bucks that it used to, but there still are a lot of talented jocks throughout the country that want to give radio their all and are producing good radio shows.

I welcome your feedback once the format launches and has had some time to get it's legs, until then why be so negative? Again, I hope it's not because you have been "burned."

Best regards, LP

 

[Lori Pollitt]

Totally not true. Jim was one of about 40 jocks cut when the corporate bean counters came in and did not renew contracts with anyone making any kind of significant salaries. I think Bob Leonard was the 2nd one not renewed. Ask around, when contracts came up for renewal they just weren't renewed and instead talent was replaced making about 25% of what the former jocks made. Pure Gold was highly successful at the time, so it was purely a monetary decision.

Jim had been there 12 and a half years. He was the first big name true personality jock that was brought to satellite radio. R&R did a story about it. He served also as PD and over the years, his salary just got too expensive for them. Today, those kind of salaries don't exist in radio any longer.

PS - Thanks RF for helping me keep the discussion going. I like the free publicity you are giving us!

 

[R. F. Burns]

The corporate bean counters were right. The djs didn't talk that many times per hour to make that much difference. Their main job was to push buttons and get all the tones right. The formats did just fine with cheaper djs. If Zippo's talent had any real value to them keeping affiliates, they would have done everything to keep him, but he and everyone else who left, made no difference to any of the 24 hour formats. I will get into some of the other things that you said that were fabrications in posts in the near future.

Totally not true. Jim was one of about 40 jocks cut when the corporate bean counters came in and did not renew contracts with anyone making any kind of significant salaries. I think Bob Leonard was the 2nd one not renewed. Ask around, when contracts came up for renewal they just weren't renewed and instead talent was replaced making about 25% of what the former jocks made. Pure Gold was highly successful at the time, so it was purely a monetary decision.

Jim had been there 12 and a half years. He was the first big name true personality jock that was brought to satellite radio. R&R did a story about it. He served also as PD and over the years, his salary just got too expensive for them. Today, those kind of salaries don't exist in radio any longer.

PS - Thanks RF for helping me keep the discussion going. I like the free publicity you are giving us!

 

[Lori Pollitt]

RF- you really don't know what you are talking about. Go find someone else to argue with you. I can see you must have gotten burned and I was a sucker to buy into it. I won't bother to respond to any additional posts. Go pick on someone else, you're obviously just jealous.

 

[Sgt. Hans G. Schultz]

RF- you really don't know what you are talking about. Go find someone else to argue with you. I can see you must have gotten burned and I was a sucker to buy into it. I won't bother to respond to any additional posts. Go pick on someone else, you're obviously just jealous.


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(with apologizes to Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber Burns, Sr.)

...and Lori, 'RF burns' are what you get when you grab the business end of the power input of a transmitter!

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[BBontheRadio]

I welcome your feedback once the format launches and has had some time to get it's legs, until then why be so negative?

Because, Lori, being negative is their specialty around here! Just ignore them and don't feed the trolls!

Today, radio is about making the most of the opportunities you get and/or make for yourself, Jim has more talent and success than most of us will ever be lucky enough to even sniff, and he deserves it!