Thursday, January 28, 2010
Cream / Hot Goss Hipbilly Jamboree Not Returning to WRVU
Posted by Steve Haruch on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:06 AM
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Wow! You Nashville Cream guys are fast! A few clarifications though...
Tuesday night was last show for a while, but the Hipbilly Jamboree is not gone for good. We are still approved to do fill-ins and subs and hope to be back on the regular schedule in the summer.
For any of our fans, "fan" or "friend" us on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hipbilly-Jamboree/421422070623 > or our MySpace page. We’ll be posting updates about when we may be doing fill-ins and other fun stuff too.
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The new schedule is now up at http://wrvu.org, and from what I can tell, most of the community DJs who made it through now have timeslots that are late at night or early in the morning - in line with the stated mission of saving prime timeslots for students.
Here's the community DJ breakdown according to the new schedule:
Assorted Fruits & Cheeses - Not Returning
D-Funk - Not Returning
Hipbilly Jamboree - Not Returning
Spoonful of Bluegrass - Not Returning
Liberadio(!) - Same Time (with a conservative follow up?)
Needles + Pins - Same Time
Swingshift - Same Time
The Future of Jazz - Same Time
Columbian Party Cartel - Tuesdays at 7 p.m. (new show)
Misplaced Tracks - Thursdays at 10 p.m. (new show)
Ready Steady Go - Mondays at 12 a.m. (new show)
Seagulls Over Nashville - Sundays at 7 p.m. (new show)
The Backchannel Broadcast - Wednesdays at 11 p.m. (from 1 a.m. Sundays)
Curse of the Drinking Class - Fridays at 11 a.m. (from 11 a.m. Thursdays)
The Funky Four Elements - Saturdays at 10 p.m. (from 9 p.m. Mondays)
The Honky Tonk Jukebox - Saturdays at 8 a.m. (from 8 a.m. Wednesdays)
Kynd Veggie Show - Saturdays at 11 a.m. (from 12 p.m. Fridays)
Loud Love - Sundays at 12 a.m. (from 11 p.m. Mondays)
Old Timey Funky Fresh Jams - Fridays at 10 p.m. (from Thursdays at 10 a.m.)
Out ov the Coffin - Thursdays at 12 a.m. (from 11 p.m. Thursdays)
Out the Other - Mondays at 10 p.m. (from 7 p.m.)
Sacred Hymns - Wednesdays at 12 a.m. (from Wednesdays at 6 a.m.)
Spoonful - Sundays at 10 a.m. (from 4 p.m. Sundays)
The Zee Train - Sundays at 8 a.m. (from 6 p.m. Mondays)
What schedule are you looking at? Neither Sacred Hymns nor Spoonful changed times, in addition to other likely misreadings of the schedule.
I checked it over and I have no idea how I got those two so wrong. Everything else is right though, comparing the Fall 09 schedule to the one that starts today.
Since Hipbilly is eligible to sub for other shows, no other community DJ slots will be opening up this semester.
Soooooo... who's got a good contact over at Radio Free Nashville?
This is a bummer, but honestly, I haven't been a loyal listener since the shift from Friday nights, when the Jamboree was my pre-gaming soundtrack. How many times did I call in to drunkenly request "Dog House Boogie"? A lot.
double F##K! hip billy will be sorely missed, nashville has so little love for its illustrious past, thanx for sharin all the gold that is old school country, hepcats
"The new schedule is now up at http://wrvu.org, and from what I can tell, most of the community DJs who made it through now have timeslots that are late at night or early in the morning - in line with the stated mission of saving prime timeslots for students."
Then for fuck's sake, why didn't they do that in the first place, instead of cancelling those shows altogether? I'm sure all community DJs would rather have to take a semester off here & there due to scheduling conflicts, rather than lose their shows because students (ostensibly) felt crowded out. If the rules state that Vandy students/staff get first pick of time slots, then the board should have recommended that the E-staff simply follow the rules, instead of taking such an extreme step.
I tried to make sense of the new WRVU schedule.The first one sent was a clusterfuck in no particular order. The first one is pretty much irrelevant now due to a few added shows, a few shows leaving, and shows being switched around. The one posted on the website based on "month" shows no endtime for the programs (making it look like "Loud Love" is on for six hours) But if you select it by "week" at the WRVU website then you see when shows end.
Here is the current breakdown:
Undesirable times-(1AM to 6AM)
These times are rarely occupied by students and have been offered to established community DJs who have jobs and families and cannot occupy them. These spots have not been offered to community DJs who have been willing to occupy them in the past. (because they have all been cut) With the exception of Fridays and Thursdays, no show is on past 1AM. (the two shows that are don't go past 2AM) AM Saturday is a barren wasteland compared to last semester. Community occupied all the AM spots of Saturday last year. Now there are none. Sure, even community can sometimes have a hard time filling these spaces, but community are the usually the only ones willing to do so. God forbid all hours are attempted to be filled. Wouldn't want to look too much like a real radio station, i guess.
Total Undesirable Time open:33hours
Daytimes - (6AM to 6PM)
Primo radio times that occupy drive time slots, daytime work radio, and pre to post church listenings. All those cars you see during the day could possibly surf their dials towards WRVU. Students should definetly get dibs during these times, but there are a few holes. Tues 11AM to 2PM are unoccupied. Also the three hour block of Wed, 10AM to 1PM is open as well. There are hour hunks also missing throughout the week. IS WRVU attempting to fill these voids? I hear that WRVU is trying to rush training more students to fill spots. (which would result in apethetic half-assed radio) Though I can't verify that statement, it is merely a rumor.
Total Daytime slots open: 12hours
Nighttime(is the right time)-(6PM to 1AM)
More primo radio real estate. The nighttime is party time. It is also the time where kitchen workers all over Nashville listened to shows like "Hipbilly" or "D-Funk" (or used to) while they gleefully made over-priced quesadillas for Nashville's consumptive masses. WRVU has done a decent job making sure these times get filled up. There are a few gaps though. It also seems strange that on 11pm Saturday night Hal takes over until 6AM.
Total Nighttime slots open: 5hours
GRAND TOTAL OF CURRENTLY OPEN SLOTS- 50 HOURS! More than two whole days of Hal! Current time slots are being renegotiated. (a common occurence at the beginning of each semester) Where one show moves, the previous time listed on schedule will then be open.
The total amount of community shows cut last semester would hardly fill this hour amount. Granted most times are AM, but community has always filled that void before. Why can't they be allowed to do so now? Based upon this current schedule, community was cut "to make way for more students" but the hour vacancy left by the cut DJs is obviously not filled. Why cut a 4AM show that no student will ever occupy? Why cut a bluegrass show when there aren't any? Why attempt to move decades long, beloved, community shows to 2AM when there are plenty of chopped DJs waiting to fill those undesired voids?
Has WRVU always been managed so brainlessly or am I just now noticing?
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