Weather Boys

[Daenerys]

The demographic on this board is likely white men in their 50's, not the target audience for early morning news or the Nine. It isn't 1975 anymore. You can't just read the news and weather and give sports scores. The young people want to be entertained. They want fun, they want to connect personally with the on air talent. The elderly folks love the silly stuff and want to hear about their kids and families. My mom talks about Amy, Deena, Alan and company like they're her family. Deena's son is starting college this fall. Amy' went to see her Dad in Florida. Stuff like that. She couldn't care less about the celebrities on Live. Those are her people. They'll get off your lawn now.

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The demographic on this board is likely white men in their 50's, not the target audience for early morning news or the Nine. It isn't 1975 anymore. You can't just read the news and weather and give sports scores. The young people want to be entertained. They want fun, they want to connect personally with the on air talent. The elderly folks love the silly stuff and want to hear about their kids and families. My mom talks about Amy, Deena, Alan and company like they're her family. Deena's son is starting college this fall. Amy' went to see her Dad in Florida. Stuff like that. She couldn't care less about the celebrities on Live. Those are her people. They'll get off your lawn now.

So if the entire industry went straight news ala 1975 nobody would watch anymore and be perfectly happy going newsless because it isn’t entertaining? Let’s say folks take over media who think news isn’t supposed to be “fun”.

[Daenerys]

Um, yeah, pretty much. It's already happened. How many people under 40 watch the evening or morning news on a regular basis? I don't know of any. They get their news from social media. Same with reading a newspaper. Does it suck? Absolutely, but look around. Things have changed.

[deadend]

I beg to differ.

I’m under 40 and watch the news.

And I don’t want to see Derek Kreepvra and Alan ShlongStreet or anyone for that matter being all lovey dovey with each other and running around without shirts on hugging each other during a news and Information program.

I don’t like Jason Carr but I never saw him and Taryn Asher hugging each other without shirts on like Allen ShlongStreet and Derek Kreepvra do.

[TC Talks]

Um, yeah, pretty much. It's already happened. How many people under 40 watch the evening or morning news on a regular basis? I don't know of any. They get their news from social media. Same with reading a newspaper. Does it suck? Absolutely, but look around. Things have changed.

I've been preaching this for a decade. Glad to see someone else reads the data.

[sinklair]

If you want to be an influencer. Go for it.

But if you want to work in the news, you should try to have some credibility. The Weather Boys have none.

[km1125]

I beg to differ.

I’m under 40 and watch the news.

And I don’t want to see Derek Kreepvra and Alan ShlongStreet or anyone for that matter being all lovey dovey with each other and running around without shirts on hugging each other during a news and Information program.

I don’t like Jason Carr but I never saw him and Taryn Asher hugging each other without shirts on like Allen ShlongStreet and Derek Kreepvra do.

I'd give her a pass if she was going to do that, but i'm 100% with you on the 'weather boys' take.

[Michiganviewer]

The demographic on this board is likely white men in their 50's, not the target audience for early morning news or the Nine. It isn't 1975 anymore. You can't just read the news and weather and give sports scores. The young people want to be entertained. They want fun, they want to connect personally with the on air talent. The elderly folks love the silly stuff and want to hear about their kids and families. My mom talks about Amy, Deena, Alan and company like they're her family. Deena's son is starting college this fall. Amy' went to see her Dad in Florida. Stuff like that. She couldn't care less about the celebrities on Live. Those are her people. They'll get off your lawn now.

Please see my comment on the first page.
I am in the same age range as “The Weatherboys”

[Daenerys]

The demographic on this board is likely white men in their 50's, not the target audience for early morning news or the Nine. It isn't 1975 anymore. You can't just read the news and weather and give sports scores. The young people want to be entertained. They want fun, they want to connect personally with the on air talent. The elderly folks love the silly stuff and want to hear about their kids and families. My mom talks about Amy, Deena, Alan and company like they're her family. Deena's son is starting college this fall. Amy' went to see her Dad in Florida. Stuff like that. She couldn't care less about the celebrities on Live. Those are her people. They'll get off your lawn now.

Please see my comment on the first page.
I am in the same age range as “The Weatherboys”

So what? I'm female and am an obsessive sports fan. Does 97.1 or Bally Sports cater to me? Of course they don't. They focus on the majority. That's common sense and how it works. I don't complain about it. If you don't like it, don't watch it. If the women and the old folks don't like it and tune out, that'll change.

[sinklair]

Many people are already tuning out due to this crap. The problem is some of these people don't care that their antics are driving away news viewers.

[Bobbert]

Many people are already tuning out due to this crap. The problem is some of these people don't care that their antics are driving away news viewers.

I saw it for the first time this morning. If you spend too much time watching it, your brain cells will start to die, which means that you will be much more likely to watch it in the future.

[Bobbert]

The demographic on this board is likely white men in their 50's, not the target audience for early morning news or the Nine. It isn't 1975 anymore. You can't just read the news and weather and give sports scores. The young people want to be entertained. They want fun, they want to connect personally with the on air talent. The elderly folks love the silly stuff and want to hear about their kids and families. My mom talks about Amy, Deena, Alan and company like they're her family. Deena's son is starting college this fall. Amy' went to see her Dad in Florida. Stuff like that. She couldn't care less about the celebrities on Live. Those are her people. They'll get off your lawn now.

Please see my comment on the first page.
I am in the same age range as “The Weatherboys”

So what? I'm female and am an obsessive sports fan. Does 97.1 or Bally Sports cater to me? Of course they don't. They focus on the majority. That's common sense and how it works. I don't complain about it. If you don't like it, don't watch it. If the women and the old folks don't like it and tune out, that'll change.

I sometimes wonder about the target audience for 97.1. Yesterday I tuned in and they were talking about Canadian bacon. Today I turned in and they were talking about tater tots. Both times were around 8:30 a.m.—does this happen every morning at this time?

[Round Six]

I sometimes wonder about the target audience for 97.1. Yesterday I tuned in and they were talking about Canadian bacon. Today I turned in and they were talking about tater tots. Both times were around 8:30 a.m.—does this happen every morning at this time?

Yes it is like that up until Valenti comes on. It's been posted here before that non-sports chatter is by design. They're doing what the program director wants. I dunno.

[Round Six]

I saw it for the first time this morning. If you spend too much time watching it, your brain cells will start to die, which means that you will be much more likely to watch it in the future.

What surprises me is how long this was on during morning drive time. Not only weather boy antics. They'll show a 10 minute chunk of last night's Let-R-Rip at 8am. Or 10 minutes of Health Works at 7:30.

I dunno about anyone else. But my #1 interest at that time of the morning is weather and traffic.

[RayQix]

Content moderated by the weather boys there?

Maybe that’s why it made the cut to go to air.


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