1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Segment 1 - June 17th, 10:00am

Episode Date: June 18, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Happy Friday. Happy Father's Day weekend, I hope. And ask, I beg of you.

do something good for yourself this weekend, please. Please, please, please. You have earned it. You deserve it. You deserve it every weekend. But listen, dads, this weekend, do something good for yourself because that allows you to do something good for everybody else. Start with you. This is the fastest, fastest, fastest hour of radio.

Allo Communications and the milk. Coffee are pleased to announce to return to the much-loved summer concert series in Lincoln's Telegraph District, 330 South 21st Street. The Live at Telegraph series will take place from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. every Wednesday from now through August 3rd. Members of the community are invited to enjoy free local music and featuring a variety of genres. A live at Telegraph is a free community event. It is free. With food and drinks available for purchase starting at 5 o'clock, so you've got time before kind of gather around and meet some people and people watch all of that courtesy of the mill a different local brewery will be present each week to help you beat the summer heat mark that

makes mark smile that's good stuff right not only is this a family friendly event appropriate for all ages but dogs are welcome as well what about cats the cats available to this thing are you going to show up if there are cats there i don't mind them in space okay i actually love kittens kittens are number two my favorite thing yeah everybody loves kittens i don't like cats but they're They're kittens for like a month. Look, we know people, I fail at this. We like the little version of things a lot more than the grown-up version. I am one of those people.

I am one of those people. But dogs are welcome as well. Parking will be available for each event in the Allo parking lot. This upcoming Wednesday's entertainment. The bottle tops join Allo and bringing the community together to celebrate local artists, food and businesses, and maybe in one of these, maybe we'll put something together. Maybe we'll try to get down there. Cool. Right? It seems like a good time.

Right? Six to nine, we could take the six to nine folks down there. Yeah. Yeah. Let's think about that. Let's get that time. Allo. Let's talk. Yeah, let's talk. In the middle, let's talk. 424645. Sartreheving text on Honda. Linkin Hotline, if you want to join in the conversation via text or phone call. Do so. You have an open invitation. Sartre having me is video stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter Live. Join us. Join us, join us. we shall rejoice i had a show planned originally because i thought riko's going to be here but because it's mark i want to have a conversation that's been long over you got to dumb it down a little no no no no no i have i have never once thought dumbed down and mark onweller um

i want to have a discussion about the station okay right and direction mission purpose history all of those things, right? Look at Rick Meyer. Are you, brother? He's dropping off cakes, so everybody should be happy. But in your experience at the station, what should be focus one for 93-7-2? I've always thought of our differentiator. I've been here for nine years now.

I've always thought of our differentiator being our engagement with our listening community. the fact that folks really get to know the hosts that they feel like we are part of the family. We were out at the Salt Dogs last night and Gus, who's been texting in this morning, hi Gus, good to meet you last night. But he came up and all he had to do was give his take. And Nick's like, oh, Gus, good to see him. Like we have that sort of, I never met Gus before, but I knew Gus, you know. Tori, same with Jory.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So having those relationships with folks, both directions, I think, has always been a big differentiator for who we are as a station. Now, moving forward, we've evolved into having the athletes as part of our programming, rather than having us tell their stories, having them tell their own stories. And I think that's fantastic. It allows them to develop those same relationships with our listening community.

And that only helps grow themselves as a brand, their programs, their sports. to, I mean, I know about swimming and diving and I know about bowling and I know about gymnastics now. I never did before. So that's something that I think is really cool that only our station is doing for the community. When we talk about the student athletes, the thing that I've noticed is

that the listeners talk about them differently. Right? Familiarity. Proximity matters. for you, I've also noticed that your engagement and your interaction with the student athletes has also changed. Sure. Right. Explain to the listeners what's happened in your dealing with these student athletes. Well, it's like I was saying.

It's getting to know who they are as individuals, you know, not as entities that exist on a box score. It's the person behind the athlete. You know, and not that I didn't know that before, but I didn't know them before. So getting to know them on that personal level. And it's, I don't have frequent interactions with them. They're here at night. I'm not. But when I do, it's, it's much more familiar than it was before.

And I think that's, I think that's beneficial to everybody. And I think that's what the listeners are getting out of this, too, is, you know, you, you know, you know Michaela Curtis. You know Reagan Hensie. just as people. What's the common thread? What's the common trait that you notice about these student athletes? Right? And I knew that that was going to be your reaction to it, right?

Right? I think what I'm finding is that they're curious across the board, and especially the folks who are coming to us that want to engage in what we're doing and what we're offering to them. They are curious individuals who they're ambitious individuals. They want to learn. You know, they're not here to just goof around for an hour. They want to be good at what they're doing,

which is how they became college athletes in the first place. They want to be good at what they're doing. That transfers over to how they're doing their radio shows. They're putting thought into it, effort into it. They're being mindful about it. And I think that's across the board. How do you approach the bridge between entertainment and media.

Do you think of us as more media or entertainment? I've always thought of us as media, but we have an entertainment aspect to us. Because we go back and forth, you know? I mean, even this show. I mean, yeah, right. There are times where we're goofing around and we're laughing. We are here to entertain both ourselves and the listeners,

mostly ourselves. Yeah. Well, we figure if we're laughing, it should be okay. Well, and that's kind of always been my philosophy towards it is if we're having fun, the listeners are having fun. And there's still structure and thought that goes into that. You still have to produce a good radio show. But if we're having fun doing it, you know, it could be a slog for us, and nobody would want to listen to that. If we're having fun, then they're having fun.

You're having fun listening wherever you're listening to us. now we are still journalists we are still delivering news there are aspects you know information that you're getting from us that you're not getting elsewhere so we have to be accurate about that there's a responsibility that goes along with that you know we were issued press passes to go and collect information for you that's why we get to exist as a radio station is because where you are performing a service for you. So I don't take that side of it lightly. That's a responsibility.

And I think we try to make that clear across the board with all of our hosts is if you're going to say something, you better know that to be fact if you're going to report it. Yeah, if you're going to report it as fact. Yeah. Confirm it and verify it. Talking to Mark Rondweiler. And like I said, this has been a long overdue conversation.

A lot of the space that we work in now is the, there's a space and it's bridged by the idea of podcasting versus broadcasting. Yeah. Break that down for listeners, the difference between what a podcast is and what broadcasting is. Yeah, I was actually, I was asked that question yesterday and it was more of a broad industry question about how much of what we do do we consider to be live radio and how much do we focus on on what it is as a podcast. And first and foremost, we're a radio station. We have to abide by what the FCC says. We have to be responsible to our advertisers.

We have to, again, certain structure that has to exist with it. So we are a radio station first and foremost. But we would be naive to think that the, The only way that people listen to media anymore is sitting in their car, or we can even go back to sitting around the tube radio and hearing about Little Orphan Antic. Like, that doesn't exist anymore, right? Nobody's listening to DP sitting around the radio on the carpet. Well, there's some.

There are a few. I was told that. I'd like to meet them. I was told that. I was told that in some of the outlier parts of the state. There are people. Our signal gets to the outlier part of the state? That's nice.

Good to know. But because of that, what people do want is the ability to listen anywhere, right? Because you don't have to be tied to your car. You don't have to be tied to that radio, that physical box anywhere. You can take it with you wherever you want. So what we've tried to do is make that as accessible as possible. I mean, you started by talking about Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter. We've got our app.

You can go to our website. But also, if you missed it, it's not just gone. Like, my daughter is still fascinated by the idea that if you missed something in the past, you never got to go back and get it again. Ever. If you missed the ending of Sopranos, sorry. Like, you missed it. You'll have to read about it the next day in a magazine or something like that. And it was a while before you could do it.

Right, right, yeah. No instant reaction. Didn't know none of that. No Twitter. No Twitter to share news. There was no. To cut the clip and put it out there. Right.

There's no way of knowing that. Yeah. So we want to be part of that world. Podcasting is a big part of that. And so we make sure we're on Spotify, Google, Apple, Stitcher, Amazon. I mean, all of the platforms, wherever you want to find us, you can find us. And that's important, you know. Because people like to ask me,

how many people are listening, right? And whether that's, whether that's from an advertiser or a fan standpoint or even guests we bring in, like how many people are listening. And I said, well, it's a tricky question because if you ask me in 24 hours, how many people have listened? Yeah, it's a bunch.

It's a bunch. Much easier to tell that story. Yeah, absolutely. And I'll have the analytics to show you. There's active listening and then there's reach. Our reach is off the charts. It's big, it's big. Like our reach is off the charts.

And it's geographically. It's, it's a big area. Like we've crept into other places that didn't think they wanted us there. Well, we were just, I mean, we can be specific about it. We were just looking at what our reaches in Omaha. And it's, it's a chunk of people. It's, it's a sizable, you know, if it were a pie, I would be happy with the piece of pie that I was given if it's just the Omaha part of the pie. Right. Right. Right. Like that's a big number to get that a number of people in that space who are paying attention. And then I do get a lot of the folks who go back and get clips from things that they missed.

So Greg and Lincoln just said, are there any plans to extend your radio coverage? I can't get a good signal south of Beatrice or east of the interstate. So there's the radio aspect of it. But that's not the listenability or the tracking aspect of it. Because for the very reason you're talking about, we wanted to give. of listeners a way that no matter where they were, they could hear the show or see what's going on in the studio. We hope that the listeners have figured out how to navigate.

If you're traveling in your car, most stereos nowadays have access to this stuff. They have YouTube. They have Spotify. At the very least, there's an ox input that you can start the app up on your phone and plug it in. And that's the thing. The app is another part of it. YouTube is another part of it. Facebook.

It's another part of it. Everybody has, I don't know anybody on Facebook on their phone. So, well, I don't know a lot of people who don't have to strike that. I was going to say that there's a little bit too much because I thought of three people that just in my name. Yeah, right. But that's a big part of it. So explain to folks why we can't or what would be required to expand the radio coverage.

Yeah, so the radio side of it, we're bound again by the FCC. So we are a, I mean, I can give specifics again. We're a Class A station. That means Class A can go up to 6,000 watts. However, we're restricted even less than that because of overlapping signals out of a retransmitted station out of Omaha. So we're at, I think it's 4,400 watts that we actually operate at so we don't run into trouble with them. The FCC had discussed changing the rules so that a station like us that's giving a really, original content gets priority over a retransmitted station like the other one.

That hasn't happened yet. So call the FCC and let them know that you'd like that to be a thing because that would help us a lot. And we could just turn the power up. There are other options. I mean, we could be one of those retransmitters, but we'd have to, you know, buy another radio tower and get the FCC to give us another signal. Yep. Yeah, there's a, you want to write that check? No.

Okay. Just checking. No, I do not. You never know until you ask. No idea. Right? We found that out a lot lately. That it's all in the asking.

But that's also the point. And Dusty says this. What up, fellows. I lived, I just lost that. I lived down by Beatrice, and the app has made it possible to listen all day. The app travels. The app is literally worldwide. Yeah, the app travels.

So, and again, a lot of cars, steering. Areos are now phone adaptable, phone adjacent. And so you can do that. So we recommend the people. Look, first of all, if you're listening in the car, go to your phone and download the app so that when you reach tough spaces, the app doesn't break up. It's good. Well, yeah. So I was listening to our station the old school way on the radio the other day and having a hard time with the signal because I kept hearing Ryan's.

Seacrest. And I finally heard their call letters. It was a 93.7 out of Carroll, Iowa. Right. Which is two and a half, three hours away, something like that. So I texted our IT guy and I said, what's going on? And he sent me this long list about ionospheric disturbances and reflections. And all of that is real.

I mean, it's as basic as temperature and humidity, but it leads to signals from far away bouncing off clouds and coming back here because that's the reality of FM. and AM signals is they bounce. That doesn't happen on the app. Ryan Seacrest is never going to come on our app. I can almost guarantee that unless we want them to. Ryan, if you're listening. Sure.

Right. Through all of that. But you also get on your phone, Facebook, Twitter, things that most people have on their phones and have accessible. Yeah, absolutely. Like you can go, you can go Twitter live. Just go to Twitter and put a 937 ticket. It'll bring it up. Facebook.

Just go to Facebook. You're getting the same audio. It's there. Yeah. And it's, what I like about our system is it just pushes out every single show. So whatever, I mean, it's almost always going to be our most recent post is whatever show is currently going on because it just, it just automatically. Yeah.

And there's the thing. So Pilk says, yeah, I've been on. on your app since it came out. You suffered with us then because it wasn't always very good. Thank you for sticking with us. Right. Yeah, Pilk says it's all day long. Fred Nott-Hoyberg says for this old guy,

older than UDP, your archive shows on YouTube are Godson. Yeah, so you can go back and get it. You can go back and get it, and it's immediate. So you can pick up where we are, you can go live with it, or you can rewind it and start the show from the very beginning. you can go back to your favorite show at any particular point. You can stop it. You can screenshot one who make funny faces.

Yeah. Like, I mean, well, so there are two listeners who do that. And it's usually like when I'm laughing. So they have laughing or dancing. So if they catch me dancing on, you know, in the chair, they will clip it and send it to me that day. Should we have a contest for who can capture the best gift? Yeah, for all day long.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. each show for each show. But they, these two friends, so one's one of my old dance partners. Okay. And so whenever I'm doing a move and they would say, okay, this was this club, 1984.

And the other one is whenever I laugh, whenever I laugh and throw my head back, they go, oh, we got a D-P headback. They'll throw that there. So we tried to provide opportunity and options for whatever your excuse for not listening to the ticket, we have an. answer for it. We have an answer for it. And I think we can share that in the near future, that we will have better cameras. Yeah, we got a lot of things in the works to improve the listener experience. What can you share? Well, I would, I would start. What do you want to share? What do you want to share is

probably a more appropriate question. I mean, I don't know the exact. I don't know the exact timeline on things, but we've got lots of in-studio upgrades planned that should give us more flexibility in how we are giving programming, more options, more. I mean, if we want to have more voices involved, that should become easier. That's true both in studio and out of studio, so where we have currently been limited to about three people on mic at a time, if we're at a remote or on location somewhere that's doubled now we can do a nice big round table

at your location if you're interested give me a call Yeah we had a lot of people ask Like what's gonna take Reach out Yeah yeah yeah Reach out

And like I mean Our pregame experience I think is going to shift Because we can have I mean we we've always done Road games here And I hear from people Like you guys do road games in studio

And you've got four or five people Doing this big old round table And then it's different When it's a home game And you're on location and you're limited to just the two people talking. I don't think that's going to be the case this year. No.

You know, when we can get you and Strick and Frasian and Jay and we will. And you will. Will. You know, I just, I just, you want to talk about Kool-Aid, 937th ticket pre-game show. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Buy it now. Hyped. As a matter of fact, Big Ten Media Day was announced. So we know when it. Yes. You didn't get that. I missed that one. What?

I would have thrown a party because I've been waiting for that one. But it's not the week. we thought it was. Of course it's not. Is it in the city we thought it was? It is in the city. Okay. Okay. It is in the city. But imagine that we're going to roll into Indianapolis on July

26 and 27. So Tuesday and Wednesday. If you want to be a part of the sponsorship package to upgrade it, you want us to we're going to be in the, we're going to be in Lucasaur Stadium. Just peep this stuff. So this year

when we roll in, we're rolling in. We're not tiptoeing in. We're not sitting in the corner. We're not. I'm picturing boombox on the shoulder. Right. We're walking in announcing ourselves like the TC Titans. Like remember the Titans. We're rolling

in and imagine that I don't know, guy that's pretty familiar with the Big Ten network going to be the first dude in the door. Jay Foreman in the door. Right? All those is those conversations. Imagine the different conversations we're going to have with Jay Foreman in the building.

He's familiar with the building too. Yeah, right, right? Like familiar with the building, familiar with the people. Oh, yeah, Rashon Jackson. So Vichon's never gone anywhere quietly. So imagine. Is he going to wear all three of his championship rings? I would imagine.

I would imagine. I would imagine. So, oh, oh, another guy familiar with Indianapolis, Eric Strickland. We just got his Pacer's jersey. Right? Like it's, we need to take a picture of that. I know we do.

We need to take a picture of that. Can he wear that? You, oh, you, he's absolutely going to wear it in the, in the, in the building,

in the building. So imagine with that lineup, Sip and Jake, you're going to be there. Yeah. Imagine the presence. Oh, yeah,

I am. Yeah. Doggone it. Uh, so imagine, and it'll be different because this year I can just, like, I could be the sheep herder, just like push people in direction. But everybody, that presence, that presence of football folks, high IQ, athlete, high IQ, clear cachet.

It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be fun. So start to get hype behind it because, and then that flows into the pregame shows and the postgame shows. We will have greater, longer football programming this year. I was poke at Steve Taylor last night. All right. He goes, post game, like, yeah, that allows, right? You know, he's got to poke.

Who are you going to pair him with? Well, I mean, don't make any promises on air. No, no, no, no, it's all, but it's all these people, right? I mean, AD is another, you poke and you go, AD, hey, bro, postcase show, postcase. So what we're trying to do and what we're trying to provide is an answer to all of your questions and your needs and your wants. We'll talk more about that when we'll come back with Mark O'Don. while on one-on-one.

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