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What radio format would your ideal radio station play?

cer1992

cer1992

Following radio formats: Mainstream Top 40, Rhythmic CHR, Urban Contemporary, Adult Contemporary, Hot AC, Rhythmic AC, Country, Dance, Mainstream Rock, Active Rock, Alternative, Triple A, and Urban AC.

My ideal radio station (as the music on my phone's memory card show) would play a blend of Gold-based Hip-Hop (2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Puff Daddy, Eminem)/R&B (Usher, Chris Brown, Aaliyah, TLC, 112)/New Jack Swing (Bel Biv DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Janet Jackson, Tony Toni Tone)/Golden-Age Hip-Hop (LL Cool J, Grandmaster Flash, Rob Base & EZ Rock, Salt-n-Pepa, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy)/Urban Pop (Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Prince/House (Daft Punk, Planet Soul, Afrika Bambaataa, Stardust, Alice Deejay, Evyptian Lover)/Freestyle (Shannon, DebbieDeb, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam), as well as the occasional post-disco/funk titles rangingpredominately from the late 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.

This pretty much desribes my main taste in music and what I'd my ideal radio station to be like. This is basically 93.5 KDAY meets Hot 92.3 (Before it bacame Urban/Hip-Hop Real 92.3 meets Power 106 (during the years between 1986 until they dropped dance to became stroctly Hip-Hop in 1997)

Tell me what you think about this playlist and what your ideal music programming would be.
 
cer1992 said:
Tell me what you think about this playlist and what your ideal music programming would be.
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Everyone has their own personal playlist. Playlists are like noses...everybody's got one.

To program a radio station, you need money and an audience. An audience of one won't get you any money.

So my ideal radio station plays whatever attracts the biggest audience, and allows me to charge the highest rate. I don't care if it's Dr. Dre or Dr. Doolittle.
 
My ideal format would sound exactly like the playlist on my iPod (rock and pop from the 60s thru the current decade mixed with about 25% jazz)...but I'd hire Rick Dees to do mornings. :rolleyes:
 
Polka Music has been a long under appreciated genre. Myron Floren, Walt Groller, and Jimmy Sturr are a few of my favorites.
 
Rant: Really! We are discussing this on a industry board (maybe it isn't)? This has become the TMZ of radio.
 
Groove1670 said:
Rant: Really! We are discussing this on a industry board (maybe it isn't)? This has become the TMZ of radio.
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Indeed. My ideal station plays all the crap I like
runs 100 kW from a satellite in space
with nary a dropout from LA out to Vegas....

Oh, wait...I've got 20,000 microwatts (µW) in the back seat of my car. (Am I running superpower part 15? I don't know.)
 
Seventies, eighties and early nineties metal from the famous (AC/DC, Metallica, Black Sabbath) to the cult bands (Saxon, Motorhead, UFO) to the downright obscure (Picture, Hawaii, Raven) with lots of deep cuts. Oh, and vinyl rather than CDs. (Yeah, I know about the cuing issues discussed in another thread.)
 
LKellerIII said:
My ideal format would sound exactly like the playlist on my iPod (rock and pop from the 60s thru the current decade mixed with about 25% jazz)...but I'd hire Rick Dees to do mornings. :rolleyes:
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Exactly. I'd lean on songs hitting the top 10 positions from the 60's thru the mid 90's, with a lost 45 segment on a lower charting hit. Weekends would be fun and special.
 
All Gregorian chants...there's a hole in the market for those toe-tappin' tunes!
 
Our sound company did an event last night. The coordinator (in his late 50's early 60's) insisted we play Paradise by the Dashboard Light (luckily I had the edit - which is still long). The majority crowd was female (very young to late 40's).

Needless to day, it didn't go well.

The coordinators wife walked up to me and could see the distress on my face. her response was "the crowd has no idea what this is" while here husband was desperately trying to get the group to dance.

Good thing this guy doesn't program his ideal radio station.
 
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How's about Irish & Celtic music, mixed with country and Celtic rock? I would like to see something like that succeed in Los Angeles.
 
I'd offer this new, just announced sound from the KMR Family of Formats!

K.M. RICHARDS PROGRAMMING SERVICES is offering a more rock-oriented version of its THE EIGHTIES CHANNEL format as an additional option. Rock songs can be used as a category within the Classic Hits format for stations wishing a harder edge to the music rotation. “As we developed the Classic Hits version of the format at KRKE/ALBUQUERQUE over a 16- month period, we realized that a significant percentage of songs in our ‘mainstream’ category were from artists such as AEROSMITH, BON JOVI, and DEF LEPPARD,” said RICHARDS. “With that in mind, we reviewed songs from the 1980s that are getting airplay on Classic Rock stations and created a list of those which enjoyed heavy radio play and MTV exposure as currents.” RICHARDS added that “the vast majority of stations will want the basic version of the format,” and can also use an Early Alternative version adding more Alternative cuts from the 80s - See more at: http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...riented-version-of-eight#sthash.58DVCuju.dpuf
 
How about all environmental sound all the time...rain, surf, etc.

As crazy as it sounds, one company used it to keep stress down for employees in the office. It worked in the normally stressful office and productivity stayed up. And there was a Public station that once programmed homemade recordings of the San Francisco Bay for their overnight hours, I think 10 pm to 7am. Believe it or not, they claimed they got more donations from listeners, many saying it was great for 'bedroom activities' and to keep on all night. They whispered the ID on the top of the hour. I believe they were classical 7am to 10pm. This was a Public station.

At least there would be no music royalties to pay, no air staff and such but you'd have to be non-commercial because commercials would be too much of a distraction.

Seriously, I can think of tons of other potential formats and Gregorian Chants would rate higher.

I did help a friend try to develop a Hearts of Space type format for overnights and HD channels...Ambient Music. The big issue is most works are CD length, so creating breaks for IDs and Underwriting was an issue and forget NPR News at :01 past when some works might be 70 to 75 minutes. It never got past developing the base library and format delivery style.
 
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