10.08.2006
Blog Reflections
With respect to Allan Sniffen... and truly, I do, I mean, I don't know why he gets a bad rap, he's just trying to keep things civil over on his board...
Anyway, what a wild and wooly week it has been in terms of format flips - as well as prospective ones.
First and foremost, I'd like to set the record straight about a prior post regarding movin1019.com. Know that it was never my intent to intentionally disseminate any of Mr. Lawrence's personal information. At all. I didn't copy and paste that information over here, nor did I post a direct link to the whois information for that domain. I was only reporting this discovery as fact, and that the trust of this blog's readers wouldn't lead them to do their own search and confirm what I've already reported.
That said, the fact that the registrant info has been changed to private definitely raised my eyebrows. And it doesn't have anything to do with whether WQCD does change formats down the road: I'm actually wondering if there was any harm done. And if there happens to be, I sincerely apologize. Of course, the domain's registration was over a week old, so anybody could have broke the same news. Yes, it can be fun to scoop Clear Channel whenever they register a new domain - but they use a business address. This was something completely different. Yet interesting to those who follow radio. At any rate, I never mean to do any harm, and if such was done, I'm sorry.
Movin' on... I'd like to take full responsibility for WMQX/Greensboro's premature flip to country as 93.1 The Wolf, scheduled for Thursday at 3 PM, as the computerized countdown voice was scheduled to count to - was actually established on Wednesday after 12 noon. 27 hours early. Could it be related to my report the day they dropped oldies, that 931wolfcountry.com was recently registered? Hmmm...
And ya know, sometimes, you can't scoop 'em all. Thursday, word leaked - not by me - that WRDU/Raleigh would be dropping its heritage rock format for country. Of course, any genius could assume such after sister 100.7 The River stockpiled its playlist with classic rock. Of course, this had gnomes doing what gnomes do - try to figure out what the new domain is. Sure enough, moments before 5 PM on Friday, someone actually scooped me - that roostercountry1061.com was actually registered on Thursday, the day before the flip. Maybe they're thinking twice about preregistering domains so far ahead of the actual format flips, I dunno... but that's the magic of radio, and trying to pull back the curtain... but not too far.
Anyway, what a wild and wooly week it has been in terms of format flips - as well as prospective ones.
First and foremost, I'd like to set the record straight about a prior post regarding movin1019.com. Know that it was never my intent to intentionally disseminate any of Mr. Lawrence's personal information. At all. I didn't copy and paste that information over here, nor did I post a direct link to the whois information for that domain. I was only reporting this discovery as fact, and that the trust of this blog's readers wouldn't lead them to do their own search and confirm what I've already reported.
That said, the fact that the registrant info has been changed to private definitely raised my eyebrows. And it doesn't have anything to do with whether WQCD does change formats down the road: I'm actually wondering if there was any harm done. And if there happens to be, I sincerely apologize. Of course, the domain's registration was over a week old, so anybody could have broke the same news. Yes, it can be fun to scoop Clear Channel whenever they register a new domain - but they use a business address. This was something completely different. Yet interesting to those who follow radio. At any rate, I never mean to do any harm, and if such was done, I'm sorry.
Movin' on... I'd like to take full responsibility for WMQX/Greensboro's premature flip to country as 93.1 The Wolf, scheduled for Thursday at 3 PM, as the computerized countdown voice was scheduled to count to - was actually established on Wednesday after 12 noon. 27 hours early. Could it be related to my report the day they dropped oldies, that 931wolfcountry.com was recently registered? Hmmm...
And ya know, sometimes, you can't scoop 'em all. Thursday, word leaked - not by me - that WRDU/Raleigh would be dropping its heritage rock format for country. Of course, any genius could assume such after sister 100.7 The River stockpiled its playlist with classic rock. Of course, this had gnomes doing what gnomes do - try to figure out what the new domain is. Sure enough, moments before 5 PM on Friday, someone actually scooped me - that roostercountry1061.com was actually registered on Thursday, the day before the flip. Maybe they're thinking twice about preregistering domains so far ahead of the actual format flips, I dunno... but that's the magic of radio, and trying to pull back the curtain... but not too far.
