Thursday, December 11, 2008

WBKM...what the f@#?

Ray Davies is coming to town tonight.  Yes, the leader of the Kinks, my all-time favorite band.  This is going to be pretty killer.  What's the problem?  The show is being put on by WBKM, and internet-only station  based out of Burlington.  Click the link to see their really bad website.  Just don't click on the 'listen  now' icon lest it totally fuck up your browser as it did mine, after installing the crap plugin required.   If you're an internet-only station, don't make it hard to listen to your streams you friggin idiots. 
Apparently tickets haven't been moving too quick, no shit, these guys have done pretty much zero promotion on it, and their on-air promos go out to a tiny listenership.  They have tried hardballing local media outlets for a shot at an interview with Ray, when in the end they couldn't even get him into their studios for an on-air. I actually listened to The Point on my ride in to see if they were running promos, but of course not; it's not their show and WBKM isn't smart enough to buy time to promote on the station that actually matches both the target audience and the quantity of customers needed to pull this off. With the expected snowstorm the Point was actually encouraging people to stay home tonight and watch Christmas Cartoons rather than go to this pretty amazing show. Unfortunately this will leave a bad taste in Ray's management's mouth and we'll be lucky to see him set foot in Burlington again.
I expect that WBKM will have a hard time covering Ray's guarantee and can only hope that it bankrupts them out of business.  Thanks for getting Ray to town, but no thanks for the botched promo of the gig, you tools.

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