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Does anyone remember WQMF's hourly format change?

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killemall

Iheart's recent idiotic change to their Rock stations made be think back to some other changes to WQMF over the years. Does anyone else remember in the mid to late 90's, when WQMF played a different format every hour. They played Classic Rock, Alternative Rock, Metal, R&B, Top 40, Country, even DISCO etc. I think it may have lasted 48 hours. After which, I recall the manager announcing that he could not believe that he was talked into such an idea. Then they let their listeners decide which format would stay. They played a few minutes of each format and let people vote. Obviously, classic rock won. I remember hoping for Alternative but that had about as much chance as R&B.
I hope the recent changes made to WQMF and WTFX go down as one of the biggest blunders in Louisville Radio. We will see when the ratings come out. I deleted them from my radio settings. I do check their website to see the last 10 songs played. I have noticed that they have added a few older songs back in, but very few. The only songs from the last 6 years are still Pretty Reckless and Shinedown's Second Chance. Still make zero sense to me.
 
It makes no sense to me either. Either add currents and keep the classics as well, or go all classic, including the 90s. I thought the mix before the format change was sounding good, with some 80s Bowie, etc thrown in. The current mix makes no sense at all. Play Shinedown, but only one song. Add one Stained song, a couple of newer Chili Peppers songs and expect to keep the 93.1 crowd?
Anyway, the "Wheel of Format" was awesome, and I wish someone had some airchecks of it. Dr. Dre was played on QMF for the first and last time.
 
killemall said:
I hope the recent changes made to WQMF and WTFX go down as one of the biggest blunders in Louisville Radio.
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I absolutely hate the new format. It plays the same tired songs from the "classic rock" era, and started playing the same tired Nirvana, Pearl Jam, RHCP, and STP songs that I got so sick of listening to on WTFX. There is not 1 station in Louisville that appeals to me now that WTFX and WQMF have changed for the worse. I too hope it goes down as one of the biggest blunders in Louisville Radio.
 
Dec of 96 is when qmf did the format wheel. It was done when qmf had been acquired from otting broadcasting to clear channel. My favorite format louisville radio ever had was Q2 105.9 a good alt station. I remember bob sokoler doin a segment on them for louisville tonight live in 1994. Da ville needs a rock station between fpk and the fox
 
hotpatrick2004 said:
Dec of 96 is when qmf did the format wheel. It was done when qmf had been acquired from otting broadcasting to clear channel. My favorite format louisville radio ever had was Q2 105.9 a good alt station. I remember bob sokoler doin a segment on them for louisville tonight live in 1994. Da ville needs a rock station between fpk and the fox
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I agree Q2 was the best. They played all kinds of alternative songs. Classic alternative to the Top 40 Alternative. They even had Jed the Fish's "Out of Order" weekly countdown. Back then Sarah Machlachlan, Hootie, and Goo Goo Dolls were considered alternative. It had a weak signal. I live in Indiana so I had to have my antenna just right to hear it, sometimes wrapped in foil. Reason #3,893 to hate Clear Channel and the FCC deregulation.
 
Q2 was playing on a big CD jukebox system...I think made by Sony. And then later it was playing on long playing VCR tapes, with like 8 hours of music on each tape. They just let it play. And people loved it.

You should have seen the public file complaints when Q2 went away. It was the biggest complaint file I ever saw.
 
greg.hahn said:
Q2 was playing on a big CD jukebox system...I think made by Sony. And then later it was playing on long playing VCR tapes, with like 8 hours of music on each tape. They just let it play. And people loved it.

You should have seen the public file complaints when Q2 went away. It was the biggest complaint file I ever saw.
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Just think what it could have done if they had put some effort into it.
 
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