Those of you who tune in regularly probably already know this, but WHTQ 96.5 FM recently dropped the long running syndicated morning show “The Big Show” to bring in some local DJing, namely the Birmingham, Alabama imports Richard Dixon and J. Willoughby. Dixon and Willoughby will be starting on January 2, bright and early. But for the time being, mornings on 96.5 have been just music.
Well, along with traffic reports — so vital in Orlando and on I-4 in the a.m. — and the obnoxious car dealer and appliance ads that make you want to renounce all electronic media forever and just hum to yourself, sure, but otherwise it’s been nuthin’ but tunes. No commentary. No call-ins. No cute skits or parody songs. No contests or trivia. No banter. No personalities. No one talking over the opening and closing of the songs they do manage to fit in.
I like it.
It wouldn’t attract the listeners or the advertising dollars that a morning show does, and I’ll admit that even though I tend to prefer Scott and Erica at MIX 105.1 part of me misses The Big Show already (ever have those days when you thought you were Billy and the rest of the world was John Boy?). But I’ve been arriving at work very relaxed these last few days, driving in circles around the parking lot to finish singing along with that last song before I have to bring my mobile concert to a close. Just music. Intact, not talked over, relatively uninterrupted music, one song after another.
Sigh. It’ll never catch on.
I couldn’t have agreed MORE if I tried! I don’t care about how drunk you got last night, how big the girls hooters were that were there nor do I really care about anything you have to say when I am driving on I-4 in the mornings. Radio shows are the reason I put in a $3000 dollar stereo in my car, so I DON’T have to listen to people I would normally just ignore out in public! … but, as it is stated, all good things must come to an end… but I’ll enjoy it while its here!
this wonderful place already exists and its called satellite radio. i use a sirius myself. lets just say that i siriusly took a trip from seminole county to cocoa beach without the terrestrial aka normal radio both ways because i left the sirius unit at my house by accident.
There are many reasons to invest in satellite radio. The biggest one that comes to mind is CLEAR CHANNEL. I am tired of the mindless idiots trying to talk trash to me in the morning and the non stop commercials that rubbed on my nerves from TV the night before. Long live XM.
I have a long commute to Daytona M-F and didn’t know about the change because I was away for the holidays until today. I think it stinks. If I want to listen to local DJ’s and traffic reports every ten minutes there is plenty out there. I will never listen to 96.5 ever again. It is good to have a laugh to start your day and John Boy and Billy brought that, I will miss them. Well at least I have my cd player