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Post by CJ Lee on Jan 3, 2013 22:47:48 GMT -5
We had a KRock here in Omaha, great station. I'm in Omaha too. 96.1 the brew changed to 96.1 kiss fm top 40 station. Essentially making it a ripoff of already existing top 40 station channel 94.1.
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Jan 3, 2013 23:08:17 GMT -5
Here's another one for LA. Indie 103.1 was as the name suggested, a radio station that played more indie/college rock, but I liked it because they had good shows and actually gave metal (and I mean extreme and obscure stuff) a show on Sunday nights which was really good. About 4 years ago they switched over to a Tex-Mex/Banda Spanish music station. Hey, leave El Chupacabra alone. Just because Indie 103.1 shared the same building as Ellllllllllllll Gatooooooooooo...
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 4, 2013 2:55:03 GMT -5
BBC Radio 1
Changed in the 90's from a radio station that played popular music, to a ghettoised "urban" station presented by people who all sound like Ali G
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Post by celticjobber on Jan 4, 2013 2:59:52 GMT -5
New York City - The largest city in the USA yet they can't support a modern rock station. Aside from Nickelback, Kid Rock, and the Foo Fighters are there even any rock bands putting out stuff big enough for rock radio? Where I live, we still have 2 rock stations but they largely just play stuff from the 90's-early 2000's -- from Nirvana to Smashing Pumpkins to... Papa Roach and Seether. It seems like new rock is just about dead, or atleast so far as mainstream stuff that you would know about without digging deep on Google or something.
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Post by J.O.B. Squad on Jan 4, 2013 3:49:30 GMT -5
We have one station here that went from being a locally owned rock radio station that changed to Jack then to ESPN Radio,I miss what it first was cause they played alot of what I first got into in high school.
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Post by Wolfaga on Jan 4, 2013 4:01:35 GMT -5
BBC Radio 1 Changed in the 90's from a radio station that played popular music, to a ghettoised "urban" station presented by people who all sound like Ali G That's Radio 1 XTRA Normal Radio 1 is the same thing except they added tons of dubstep for little to no reason.
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Post by DoubleDare on Jan 4, 2013 7:40:32 GMT -5
New York City - The largest city in the USA yet they can't support a modern rock station. Aside from Nickelback, Kid Rock, and the Foo Fighters are there even any rock bands putting out stuff big enough for rock radio? Where I live, we still have 2 rock stations but they largely just play stuff from the 90's-early 2000's -- from Nirvana to Smashing Pumpkins to... Papa Roach and Seether. It seems like new rock is just about dead, or atleast so far as mainstream stuff that you would know about without digging deep on Google or something. The other day WMMR here in philly was playing a countdown of 2012's best rock songs and the black keys was #1. Again I haven't listened to the radio in a while, so I havent heard this group, its a step up from nickelback, but it's still typical radio rock.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 13:10:15 GMT -5
This can't be stressed enough. For those outside NYC, let me explain the recent saga of 101.9. They first abandoned their smooth jazz format in 2008 for a station playing classic/modern rock. Then since their owner was in serious debt, they sold it new owners which included a man who helped make Clear Channel a dirty word in radio, and made it into a female-friendly all news station. Nobody listened. Then abruptly last summer, they pulled it and brought back a modern rock format. Only months later for it to become an FM simulcast of all-sports powerhouse WFAN. The worse thing is that there is another frequency that's rumored to be flipping to country once that sale is done. Imagine that, NYC is gonna have a country station, but no modern rock station. I can't imagine any country acts that come from NYC at all. Also, it's a good thing CBS-FM flipped away from Jack, even if they had to get rid of 50's and a lot of 60's music and add more 80's music. It's these demographic reasons also as to why news/talk/sports stations are migrating to FM (ie WFAN on FM) since nobody young really listens to AM radio anymore. And it's also why smooth jazz is virtually gone from radio. Finally, I think the majority of rock stations are usually obsessed with the past over what's out now. That could explain why rock is losing ground on radio. And imo, a lot of what accounts for hard rock now isn't so inspiring. But that's for another thread. /rant over Very interesting-as an aside, I read an article a couple of years ago and Country music is actually strongest in New York-even moreso then Nashville I find that hard to believe. Of course I'm going by the fact that there have been numerous stations in the area that were once country that changed format. The latest I think was back in 96 when 103.5 went from country to dance.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 4, 2013 14:01:17 GMT -5
I can believe there's a lot of pop country fans in NYC metro area. I can even see it being bigger than Nashville's in sheer numbers due to the populations. Of course, percentages are very much another story. And pop country gets a lot of play on Top 40 and adult contemporary stations. New York City - The largest city in the USA yet they can't support a modern rock station. Aside from Nickelback, Kid Rock, and the Foo Fighters are there even any rock bands putting out stuff big enough for rock radio? Where I live, we still have 2 rock stations but they largely just play stuff from the 90's-early 2000's -- from Nirvana to Smashing Pumpkins to... Papa Roach and Seether. It seems like new rock is just about dead, or atleast so far as mainstream stuff that you would know about without digging deep on Google or something. It's a catch 22, really. Nothing new's big enough to play on rock radio stations, but rock radio stations don't give them airplay so they can get big.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jan 4, 2013 14:32:25 GMT -5
I live in a small town (roughly ten to twelve thousand people). When I was young, the local radio station had local news, local talk radio call-in programs, and tons of Canadian music, all types, new and old.
About 15 years ago it changed to 100% country, with the hourly news report being national news... nothing local. The only local thing I hear is the evening Classified program.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Jan 4, 2013 17:09:30 GMT -5
I have had one station change three time. It went from a mix station of all 90's/ early 2000 stuff. Like it would play backstreet boys, MC Hammer, and like Nirvana in one single hour. That kind stuff. So it was a blast from the passed from the pass if your a 90's kick. Then it switched too the Brew for about two months which I called KSKE Two (Which its the big Rock station in St. Louis). Same formate with Kshe old morning show Bob and Tom. Then it became some R&B station. All of them where linked too Z107 and I Heart Radio.
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Post by Beast Army Ass on Jan 4, 2013 19:28:25 GMT -5
The two big ones for me were already mentioned by others - Y100 and WYSP. I honestly thought the format switch for Y100 was a joke because (to me anyway) it came out of nowhere. I mean once I did research into it, it all came together - they were fairly recently before the switch bought by a company that specializes in "more urban" radio (aka, not rock/alternative) so my guess is they were just looking for an excuse to change it to rap. The change was obscenely lame as that made Philadelphia (at the time) the largest market with no alternative station (which in 2005 was still fairly popular)...and with the switch, at least three different rap stations that all played the exact. Same. SONGS. I'm pleased that they tried to make a bit of a comeback (most of the DJs there moving to WMMR, WXPN trying to snatch up the former fans with Y-not, followed by a full-fledged station), but I agree with the poster who initially mentioned it - the magic is kinda gone at this point. But yeah, the switch to me was abrupt as hell and caused a whole lot of swearing before I went to class.
Now with WYSP, that was more a victim of the CBS Radio machine and the loltastic Free FM movement they tried to shove down everyone's throats. K-ROCK was another rock station victim if I remember correctly. Seriously, who thought that was a good idea? Seems to me more of them throwing a panic switch in the wake of Stern fleeing for Sirius. I was into WYSP a little more over WMMR up to that point but once that switch happened, I was WMMR for life (really, I always was since that station's been rock forever and I remember listening to that as a little kid in the 80's). When they switch back to rock in the wake of that debacle I didn't care one bit. Of course when I try to get back into it, BAM FM SPORTS TALK RADIO. A good move on their part, since I certainly will give it a listen whenever I need a good laugh (I know as a general rule people who participate on sports talk can be friggin' neanderthals, but some of the things I've heard on that station...hoo boy).
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Post by Cyno on Jan 4, 2013 19:50:53 GMT -5
I remember listening to Y100 a lot when in South Jersey and driving back home from the South/Washington DC/Baltimore/whatever else required taking the Turnpike from the Delaware Memorial Bridge and up. Pretty sad the station's gone. Really liked 94.1 too.
In a lot of respects, it sounds like the saga of 94.1 in Philly is identical to the saga of 92.3 KROCK in New York. It was also Free FM, then reverted to being a rock station when that format failed spectacularly.
93.3 is pretty decent though.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jan 4, 2013 19:50:59 GMT -5
Two come to mine and both involve a local legend DJ in the Raleigh area:
WRDU 106 was the home of classic rock since the late 70's. It was home to Bob the Blade who had been with the station since I can remember. In May 2009, RDU changed it's format to country music. According to Blade on his last day he said to his listeners that he's a rock guy and this format wasn't for him. He played "The Song Is Over" by the Who and quit.
So about several months later Bob the Blade landed on the only other rock channel, 96Rock. He usually hosted the afternoon segments until the morning show was canned about two years ago and replaced them. Not a week or two after replacing the morning crew, the station changed to a dj-less format and Bob the blade was fired. Blade commented to the news and observer (our local paper):
Well this pissed people like me off who were blindsided by the change and hated seeing people like the blade lose their jobs. Plus they went soft rock as well. So in addition to having Nickelback every so often we got bands like Third Eye Blind and even chumbawamba! The management tried to justify their decision:
Looking back I'm can understand the change to a dj-less format, but the all encompassing rock format is kinda weak and I rarely listen to them anymore.
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Post by rocket on Jan 4, 2013 20:14:03 GMT -5
This is what I never got with Free FM. Why replace Stern with a bunch of ripoffs? And why hire David Lee Roth when he had no radio experience?
I guess the only good thing was Ron and Fez got an NYC-only show back for a few months before the station went back to K-Rock.
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Post by DoubleDare on Jan 4, 2013 20:53:05 GMT -5
Yea the Free FM was such a failure. WYSP still played music in the weekend, but it foreshadowed that the station could become whatever cbs radio wants it to, so it sadly wasnt a complete shock when it was announced wip was moving to fm and taking wysp's spot. I do miss goin from wmmr to wysp and vice versa. But I guess this makes me more appreciative of wmmr now since it still exists.
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Post by Paco S. Loco on Jan 4, 2013 21:44:53 GMT -5
During a power outage a couple months ago I turned to the radio to pass the time and was disappointed to find that my favorite station, the only one that played 80s music had become a current Top 40 station. Now there's no station that plays more than a rare 80s song. But hey at least we have 6 different Top 40 stations!
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 4, 2013 22:39:16 GMT -5
Down here in Mississippi we only have a handful of active rock stations, with the only other rock stations mainly being classic rock (though they are starting to add more 80s and 90s songs to their playlists so theyve got that going for them, and i can occasionally get KZMZ out of Louisiana which is more diverse in their playlists). OT, but one of the classic rock station DJs uses the on-air name "Flyin Brian". Wonder if the DJ was a pillman fan or not.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 4, 2013 23:00:08 GMT -5
This is what I never got with Free FM. Why replace Stern with a bunch of ripoffs? And why hire David Lee Roth when he had no radio experience? I guess the only good thing was Ron and Fez got an NYC-only show back for a few months before the station went back to K-Rock. I think the only reason Free FM existed is because someone high up at Viacom (I believe this was before CBS and Viacom spun off from each other) had a really petty grudge against Howard Stern and cared more about showing him up than a viable business plan. Even the name "Free FM" was a dig at Stern since he went to Sirius, which you gotta pay for.
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Post by crash1984 on Jan 5, 2013 0:24:36 GMT -5
Here in Chattanooga there used to be this big Oldies station GT108. The station was very popular with everyone. In 2005 though they decided to go to a country format so it was rebranded Duke 107.9. One of the things that made the oldies station so great were the disc jockeys. When the format change happened though they went to having no disc-jockeys. There was already two other country stations in the area. One of which is one of the most popular stations in town the other one was the classic country station (will get to this one in a little bit) so obviously all we really needed around here was another country music station. To add insult to injury guess where two of the biggest DJ's wound up. Yep one went to the modern country station and the other one went to the classic country station.
What was bad was that just before the switch was announced you could tell there something was up as there was a drop in quality. Nearly every morning about 6:45 you would either hear Listen to the Music or Long Train Running. By late 2010 The Duke had ran its course and it went through a second change to Big FM. The format to that station was hits of the 70's and 80's and yes DJs returned. While it is an improvement over the country years it still is nowhere near the level the oldies station was.
Magic 101.9-I mentioned a classic country station. The format changes that were related to this station almost a War and Peace size explanation. so here goes. The frequency is 101.9. When it started in 1989 it was an Oldies station Magic 101.9. In 1993 GT 108 came along and was a much superior station. By 1995 the oldies format was failing so it became a classic country station. The classic country format lasted for a while but when that did not work either it went to modern country and was re-branded Georgia 102. That lasted maybe a year at most and it was re-branded as Fun Rock 101.9 and became classic rock.
By 2005 they decided to re-brand it yet and again and it is here that things get complicated. First they went back to the classic country format . Eventually they moved the classic country station to 97.3 and 99.3 and was called The Legend. 101.9 became a Mexican station which it remains to this day. Both 99.3 and 97.3 were sold so the classic country station was moved yet again to 98.1. For Christmas 2008 and 2009 the station became Christmas music. Following Christmas 2009 the station was re-branded as an all request Adult Hits station.
After this happened the people who bought 97.3 and 99.3 wanted to keep a classic country station on the air in the region so they rebranded both frequencies as classic country stations and also got all the DJs who were on the 98.1 classic country station so it seemed like The Legend just moved back to 97.3 and 99.3. Confused?
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