News opening in Coos Bay:


News Director Position Available
Categories: Radio
Ad Number: 10032
Date Posted: 12/27/2006
Contact: Mikel Chavez
Box 478
Coos Bay, OR 97420
United States
Telephone: 5412690935
E-Mail: oldies@kdcq.com
Web Site: http://www.kdcq.com



Description
Succesful Oregon Coast Oldies FM station is currently seeking a part time/full time News Director.
Hourly wage plus benefits if you qualify. Excellent insurance and 401k program. Must have a strong
desire to produce excellent news casts.

Send air check and resume to;

oldies@kdcq.com

or to

KDCQ
Attn: Mike THE BEAR Chavez
Box 478, Coos Bay, Oregon 97420.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

Would someone please explain to me what a part time/full time news director is?

Is it full time work at a part time wage? Or maybe it is working full time hours but only being paid 30 hours a week? Nice...good luck and ask the manager if he knows the definition of "ambiguity".

But don't ask him over the phone. You know those Coos Bay guys are MUCH too busy to answer the phone...

WOW! not only do I have a place to live in North Bend, I was a news director once upon a time...

Plus I have a strong desire to produce excellent newscasts... Ability to produce em might be a different story... :-)

If you Qualify? That's kind of subjective isn't it?

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. of course. Who ever saw a bear use the phone.... or maybe it's for the sales departments use only, or maybe they don't have a phone and the number listed is an answering service.

No emails either I guess. What if someone has questions?

Still, it's a real radio job, so ya can't beat that with a stick.

Oh please never call radio a "real" job. After nearly 30 years in it, I still can't call it a real job.

Real RADIO job.......

How about, EXCITING OPPORTUNITY in the audio broadcast industry.

everything else in the want ads is just a JOB!
Selling cars...JOB
receptionist...JOB
pizza delivery...JOB
truck driver...JOB
retail clerk...JOB
warehouse worker...JOB
roofer...JOB

radio broadcaster...Enjoyment with a paycheck.

>>>"Hourly wage plus benefits if you qualify."

I wonder what they give you if you don't qualify?

left over donuts and day old pizza........

(I am experienced at "not qualified")

I wonder if you'd have to do the news during The Wolfman Jack Show? Yes, they run repeats of the syndicated show he did before going to the great broadcast booth in the sky. People might think the news is repeats too! (Those who know that the wolfman passed on, anyway.)

I hadn't checked if any Oregon area stations carried The Wolfman Jack Show, so hadn't brought it up for discussion here. We've had it here in Edmonton for over a year now and it has really improved the ratings for the 10-noon time period on weekdays. Initially, the weekend re-run was faltering, but I don't have any recent info. Was originally 1-6 Sat. and Sunday afternoons, but has been scaled back to Sundays only.

When it first hit the air, I was skeptical. But I quickly warmed to it, and currently find it the programming I am most interested in tuning into on our local Oldies station, Cool 8-80 (CHQT, Edmonton). Admittedly, the lack of Canadian Content is a big factor, although Wolfman does play much more CanCon than most U.S. Oldies stations because of the time he spent in Canada doing television.

But his real appeal is the songs he plays that you wouldn't otherwise hear on the station. Plus, his heavy focus on pre-Beatles era music. All the way back to the early '50s. And you know that he knows the music.

The way it is aired here is that the NewsTalkSports sister station's Newsman records a newscast around 9:50 a.m., for airing at 10 a.m. on Cool 8-80, just before Wolfman. Then does a slightly longer live newscast on the sister station at 10 a.m. Automation does the rest.

Both weekdays and weekends, there are no ads between hours (i.e. - at the top of the clock) of the show, so it sounds a might weird to have him doing his goodbye shtick, a jingle, local imaging intro, then Wolfman's own hello shtick.

The show is distributed in stereo, so it works well on FM, too. We are lucky to have Alberta's only AM stereo station (Cool 8-80) plus a stereo studio feed (before the transmitter audio compression) on cable FM, so it is fun to listen to.

I can see Coos Bay being a good market to air it in, because XERB must have been much stronger there than KING at night on 1090 in the late '60s. And long time Oregonians would be familiar with Wolfman Jack. Not to mention imports from other states that heard him on XERB, XERF and XEG.

That is why we were all so surprised that Wolfman got decent ratings here in Edmonton, where very few listeners would have had any exposure beyond American Graffiti and Midnight Special. Stations in southern Alberta and Seattle on 1090 effectively locked XERB out of Western Canada, although Manitoba would get both XERF and XERB. More than half of Edmonton's Baby Boomers were raised in another province, so you just never know what your Oldies audience is familiar with.

I used to pick up CHED here at night all the time! Do you know how long they were Top 40?

Until the early '90s, when they went Oldies. This was to make way for Power 92, which had bled money big-time as Country CING-FM ("King"). Power 92 was Top 40, but squarely aimed at the young, and they had a huge following until they switched to Power 92.5 "Super Hits of the '80s and '90s" around 2003, and a Jack-like format called JOE-FM a few months later, after piloting the format on Cool 8-80 for a few months.

Going back in time, CHED was the only Rock station that Lloyd Moffat ever owned. And then, only briefly, around 1959, I think it was. Lloyd died young and his young son Randy switched all of the mid- and major market stations his father had owned to Top 40 in 1964.

More recently, they were Oldies for only a year or two. CJCA, which had been Top 40 all through the '60s, had huge ratings and revenue as a Talk station by the later part of the 1980s, but managed to put themselves into a loss position by the early '90s. The owners mailed their license back to the CRTC, and CHED hired all the staff and switched to NewsTalkSports the next day. And quickly became almost perpetual ratings leader ever since.

Correction: CHED did not hire the CJCA PD and PM Drive Talk Show host, as there was general agreement that he was the reason for CJCA's rapid descent in revenue and ratings.

In the Portland area "The Wolfman Jack Show was carried on KAAR 1480 "The All American" when I was hired in 1985.

Was that the one for the armed forces?

That I don't know. Michael Jack Kirby would most likely remember. He was the PD.