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Electric106 Weather mix?

J

JH_Radio

I've heard that some people liked one thing about Electric106 WTRK. The Weather mix! i'm going to assume this was a jingle of some kind.
I've never heard it I don't think so wondered if anyone can give me a clip as to what it sounded like?
Thanks!
John
 
Yep. Jingle and music bed. I actually thought their jingles and imaging were fun for the era. But holy heck that hot-hits-on-steroids approach wore thin fast.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Yep. Jingle and music bed. I actually thought their jingles and imaging were fun for the era. But holy heck that hot-hits-on-steroids approach wore thin fast.
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I know WCAU-FM used different packages over the years. So are you talking about the first one used in what was it. 1982?
Not that I have ever heard that either.
 
The Weather Mix was the best jingle in the entire package IMO. Electric Fun wasn't bad either... the rest I was like huh? I can't even picture how this station sounded.
I thought it'd be him if anyone would have the jingles.
Sure would love to trade airchecks with him someday!
 
JH_Radio said:
I know WCAU-FM used different packages over the years. So are you talking about the first one used in what was it. 1982?
Not that I have ever heard that either.
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Was I talking about it? Not to my knowledge. Can’t say I recall the specific years WCAU used what. They certainly sounded great over the years. Just commenting that WTRK, overall, sounded fun over its short-circuited life.

I far preferred Eagle. Not even close. But apart from the annoying music approach (I know, that’s not exactly a small matter), Electric had some good elements. Why the weather mix bit stuck with several of us, I don’t know, but it seems to have done that.
 
When I was a kid, we listened to Hot Hits 98 because that's what was available. It flipped to Oldies on my birthday, if I remember correctly, and when I got back to school, we were all wandering the halls like "What are we supposed to do?!" LOL. My first adverse format flip experience was before I even knew the phrase "format flip." I mean, I was like 12 or 13.

I loved Eagle 106 not because it was all we had (it wasn't), but because it really was an amazing station. Great library (I mean, compared to Hot Hits 98, an iPod with 200 songs on it could be considered great) and great personality. I was truly upset when they flipped...but then I listened to Smooth Jazz pretty much daily until I was upset that they flipped.

Seems I have a complicated relationship with that frequency.
 
Miguelito said:
When I was a kid, we listened to Hot Hits 98 because that's what was available. It flipped to Oldies on my birthday, if I remember correctly, and when I got back to school, we were all wandering the halls like "What are we supposed to do?!" LOL. My first adverse format flip experience was before I even knew the phrase "format flip." I mean, I was like 12 or 13.

I loved Eagle 106 not because it was all we had (it wasn't), but because it really was an amazing station. Great library (I mean, compared to Hot Hits 98, an iPod with 200 songs on it could be considered great) and great personality. I was truly upset when they flipped...but then I listened to Smooth Jazz pretty much daily until I was upset that they flipped.

Seems I have a complicated relationship with that frequency.
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I listened to 98, heck, seemingly all young people did. But was the one who preferred Z 106, including/especially when they brought in Ross Britain. Electric…yeah….no.

Then Eagle…and I pretty much never looked back at 98. Well, until they hit the 80s music gain as WOGL.

The Lander era Eagle was not my favorite. The wholesale makeover when he came aboard didn’t click for me. I listened, but mostly because it was there. Lots more skipping around the dial. Hated Q when it launched.

WJJZ was meh to me but my dad loved it. Basically handed off 106 on the family car radio to him.
 
I thought the days of The New 106/Z-106 with Randall & Cooke in the morning was the best version of their top 40 days.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Yep. Jingle and music bed. I actually thought their jingles and imaging were fun for the era. But holy heck that hot-hits-on-steroids approach wore thin fast.
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I had a friend that could actually tell what song was coming up next. He was pretty flawless, too. Their playlist was so tight that he told me it was pretty easy. He even knew that they made music changes on Thursdays because he'd be thrown off for a bit.

I think the hottest songs played every 45 minutes.
 
I wasn't around for Hot Hits, but remember Eagle as a child.
Hot Hits was a very tight CHR then?
Eak, every DJ that must have worked there must have song burnout.
John
 
AMRocks said:
I had a friend that could actually tell what song was coming up next. He was pretty flawless, too. Their playlist was so tight that he told me it was pretty easy. He even knew that they made music changes on Thursdays because he'd be thrown off for a bit.

I think the hottest songs played every 45 minutes.
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Since it was a perpetual countdown, it was indeed entirely predictable. Same songs, same order for a week. And it was indeed Thursdays.

Only variation was which number they’d restart the countdown at. 10? 9? Maybe all the way down to 12.

Much as 98 was tightly formatted the order varied a bit. Electric took that concept to another level of insanity.
 
JH_Radio said:
I wasn't around for Hot Hits, but remember Eagle as a child.
Hot Hits was a very tight CHR then?
Eak, every DJ that must have worked there must have song burnout.
John
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It was literally the same 30 or 40 songs over and over and over. I can't believe the concept worked for as long as it did. I don't think I could further explain it any better than Wikipedia does:

The concept was to play only the current hits on the Top 30 (or Top 50 on some stations) and no recurrents (that is, recent hits which had already finished their run on the charts) or oldies whatsoever (unless they happened to be cuts on current chart albums).
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wow. I don't know of any library that small today . poor DJs! lol
SO same songs, same order. so then they'd add what. 1 or 2 new songs every week thursday?
Did new music come out not on Friday then?
 
Same songs, same order for a week. Over and over and over. Once in a while a new song not yet on the countdown. That was it. That was the gimmick.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Same songs, same order for a week. Over and over and over.
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Not sure about the "same order." They played the Top 5 every hour, interspersed with the other hits. So the rotation on the Top 5 was more frequent. Keep in mind these were heavy personality stations too. So while the music was repetitive, the DJs provided a lot of entertainment of their own. The format started to evolve into a conventional CHR after about a year. The CBS FM stations bought into this format for their O&Os around the country.
 
No, it was the same order. Electric current number whatever-it-was. And they played on the same exact order for a week. Maybe they reset to number 10 one time, number 13 the next, number 9 the next. There were widely scattered up-and-coming hits interspersed. But it most assuredly was a countdown repeated over and over.

(Talking TRK here; CAU did vary things up more.)
 
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