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Post by vm88 on Jan 6, 2013 10:29:40 GMT -5
In South Florida, I used to frequently listen to 103.1 The Buzz, labeled as "Florida's New Rock Alternative." It had competition from other rock stations over the years like 94.9 Zeta (Now Mega 94.9, Spanish music), Planet Radio 92.1 (Now Mia 92.1, another Spanish music station) and 93 Rock (93.1, now known as Easy 93.1).
Once all the active rock stations were gone, The Buzz made a decision that eventually killed the station: It became active rock as well, playing bands like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Aerosmith, alongside modern rock bands. After one year of this format, The Buzz was gone, and it was replaced by a station called Now 103.1 which had the tagline "Today's Best Hits Without the Rap." Seriously.
That station did last long either, and it was replaced by WIRK, a Country Station that used to be on 107.9. The 107.9 spot was replaced by Sunny FM, which used to be on 104.3. Now, the 104.3 spot belongs to The Ticket, which is South Florida's Sports radio station which is also on AM 790. That's the station that has Dan Le Batard (from ESPN2) hosting his own radio show in the afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 10:58:54 GMT -5
Forget Q101, Chicago went bat-crap crazy when they yanked the one GOOD oldies station (104.3) away a few years ago.
Luckily, WLS was already doing an AM/FM simulcast and turned the FM station to True Oldies. (WLS was once a huge AM station for pop & rock music, known as "The Big 89".)
Q101 dropped the adult contemporary and went to "i101", which is like your iPod on shuffle. "The best of the '90s...and today."
No, more like the Best Of TLC. Holy crap do they play "Waterfalls", "No Scrubs" & "Creep" a lot.
And Hanson. Yes, frickin' HANSON!
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 6, 2013 11:12:34 GMT -5
When did the Oldies 103.3 changeover happen? Because one day I happened to switch to it on the radio and was shocked to hear Nicki Minaj playing. And what were the other stations that changed? Because right now, I only really listen to Country 102.5, WEEI, and WROR. 96.9 WTKK switched 101.7 WFNX switched 104.1 WBCN switched 103.3 OLDS switched Oh yeah, Boston Radio sucks out loud now. Let's not forget about WFNX switching twice! It became "The Harbor" playing "Everything".....then just a couple of weeks ago became an elctronic/dance music station |
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Post by twiggy101 on Jan 6, 2013 11:19:59 GMT -5
A radio station in my city recently laid off all of the staff and started playing hits from the 80s, 90s and 00s. Before that they were playing today's hit song at least 3 times in an hour.
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Post by Banecat on Jan 6, 2013 14:03:30 GMT -5
Our 96 K-Rock went from late70s-mid00s rock to talk radio just last year. I hate Bubba, I hate Stan and Haney, I hate Zeto and Garrett, the only one I enjoyed was Nikki Sixx's show but they cut that one out too.
The pop music station that played girlie pop from 80s up, cut all that out to play only the hits. No more occasional Stevie B song, but Ke$ha (I'm way more tolerant of her then most of the board but We Die Young after the 15th time in one day) and Taylor Swift (like ever) every 45 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 14:22:06 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZONThis one here. Used to be the best rock radio station in the Phoenix area. It rebranded to Free FM in 2006, lost most of its listeners, and re-rebranded to a rhythmic CHR format. It has not recovered.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 6, 2013 20:27:57 GMT -5
96.9 WTKK switched 101.7 WFNX switched 104.1 WBCN switched 103.3 OLDS switched Oh yeah, Boston Radio sucks out loud now. Let's not forget about WFNX switching twice! It became "The Harbor" playing "Everything".....then just a couple of weeks ago became an elctronic/dance music station 'BCN being gone saddens me. Man I miss that station. Boston Radio consists of A rap, a Country, 2 classic Rock and about 5 stations that play the same top 40 music |
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Post by Mr T L Wolf on Jan 6, 2013 20:50:36 GMT -5
I'm annoyed, and it's barely a format change, but 106.3 The Bone just changed to Rock 106.3. Same music, but man, that name sucks.
I do remember when Cumulus started buying stations in my area, including the one my mom works at, they also bought a station to switch it to Top 40. The station, now Z107.3, played nothing but station breaks, commercials, and "The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum" for 24 straight hours, then switched format.
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Post by mattperiolat on Jan 6, 2013 21:31:03 GMT -5
I'd contribute to this thread, but unfortunately, it would involve politics, which would make me spend the night in the Cooler.
Actually, one story I can tell is my old news radio station KNX 1070 in LA used to run an hour of old time radio programming at 9 PM and 2 AM every night until their old VP and GM retired. The drama hour was abolished, more business talk was added and honestly, the station kind of lost its soul.
Sad fact is radio, at least what I grew up with, is dying. Very few all news stations left and more and more are either sports or talk radio. Sad to see really.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 7, 2013 1:13:45 GMT -5
Not a format change but a name change.
In Melbourne, Australia there is a station called Mix FM. They used to be called 'TT FM' said like Double T FM.
From what I heard they were forced to change their name because people would often go around Melbourne and vandalize their billboards and other advertisements by putting an 'i' between the 't's '.
Don't know if that is true.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Jan 7, 2013 2:30:58 GMT -5
New York City - The largest city in the USA yet they can't support a modern rock station. I was surprised when 98.7 Kiss fm went off the air in favor of ESPN, but then again, R&B as they knew it is pretty much dead these days. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 12:20:59 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm learning of something in radio called "stunting." The news/talk station I mentioned in the original post - WTKK in Boston - has apparently *THREE TIMES NOW* (since Jan 1st) changed formats. It was originally urban/rap, then late in the week changed to electronic/dance, then at some point became a Mike FM "playing whatever" station, and now yesterday it changed to classic rock. W. T. F?!?  |
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 7, 2013 13:50:29 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm learning of something in radio called "stunting." The news/talk station I mentioned in the original post - WTKK in Boston - has apparently *THREE TIMES NOW* (since Jan 1st) changed formats. It was originally urban/rap, then late in the week changed to electronic/dance, then at some point became a Mike FM "playing whatever" station, and now yesterday it changed to classic rock. W. T. F?!? Freaking what? That's a lot of changes. And yes, add me to the list of Boston listeners who misses the rock stations, especially WBCN, the station that got me into music in the first place. But we've still got two left, Radio 92.9 and WAAF. (But does that last one not count because it's hard to get good reception of it in Boston?) Both play a lot of old rock, which is both a good and a bad thing, because the old stuff is nice and familiar, but I really want to follow the current rock scene, all varieties of rock really, which is really hard to do nowadays. I miss rock & roll. |
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jan 7, 2013 15:58:19 GMT -5
I'd contribute to this thread, but unfortunately, it would involve politics, which would make me spend the night in the Cooler. Actually, one story I can tell is my old news radio station KNX 1070 in LA used to run an hour of old time radio programming at 9 PM and 2 AM every night until their old VP and GM retired. The drama hour was abolished, more business talk was added and honestly, the station kind of lost its soul. Sad fact is radio, at least what I grew up with, is dying. Very few all news stations left and more and more are either sports or talk radio. Sad to see really. I can see that. Let's be honest, we get our music from so many different sources now with some being commercial free and streaming it's hard for radio to compete. |
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Post by BearDogg-X on Jan 7, 2013 16:12:09 GMT -5
I'll add a few:
106.7 KKND New Orleans - Played Modern and Alternative Rock(aired Howard Stern's show for a while in late 90s), switched to Country after Katrina, I think they switched formats again.
94.9 New Orleans - Used to be a Modern Rock(aired Opie & Anthony and Jim Rome), switched formats to Gospel after a few months.
Entercom, which owns WWL 870AM(Saints' primary radio station), started simulcasting 870AM on 105.3FM after Katrina, moving their classic rock format to 95.7.
Last year, the company that owns 106.3(classic rock/modern rock hybrid, but more of a focus on classic rock) and 107.5(country, airs LSU and Saints games) here in the Houma/Thibodeaux area, moved the country format to 96.7 and made 107.5 a Spanish music station.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 7, 2013 16:54:19 GMT -5
WLRS started off as a rock station, but it changed to soft rock the same weekend as Woodstock 99. A year and a half lasted, they came back at a different location on the dial. The station changed to classic rock.modern rock in 2006. LRS changed back to modern rock for a year or so and then they became a talk radio station until the middle of this past year. Now LRS is an easy rock station. It seems like every other station here is light, easy, political. or religious.
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