Honestly, the jocks shouldn't mention 106.1 at all. Don't confuse listeners, let them know Q102 can be heard on 106.1 just for Q102 to disappear from 106.1 at some point soon. If Q was moving to 106.1, I could understand it, but not this.
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The Breeze Blows Out of Town
- Thread starter kenneykop
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Times are different. Look at the ratings of MGK/MMR combined. Yes, it would be challenging to siphon off listenership from those two, but then again, flipping to country would have the same effect. Just because Bobby Bones is the company's poster child doesn't mean it will get ratings.
Two Country stations for Philly,but ZILCH for us in Brooklyn,NY????
So 106.1 has aired Beautiful Music; Hot AC; Mainstream Top 40; "Hot Hits"-style Top 40; back to Mainstream Top 40; Smooth Jazz; then (as "Philly's 106.1/My 106.1/Mix 106.1") they seemed to go from Rhythmic AC, to Hot AC, back to Rhythmic AC, and then back to Hot AC; then Rhythmic AC (as "Real 106.1"); Soft AC; and now whatever it is they're cooking up. Has any other station in Philly had this many formats?!
104.5 for a while was the AC/Hot AC/CHR/Hot AC/Rock AC/Soft AC/Spanish/Alternative trend. (Some of that Hot AC/CHR jump was during the Star years where they could be Hot AC/Rhythmic AC or CHR depending on the day. lol)
100.3 also has a tough run:
AC, Hot AC, Alternative, Urban, RNB, Old School, R&B AND Old School, RNB, and now R&B and HipHop.
The difference is that there's an audience for country in Philly. WXTU is rated #5 in 6+ with a 5.3 share. WNSH barely had a 2.0 for most of it's history. The demographics are different.
I'd also argue that during the "Philly's 106.1 to My 106.1 to Mix 106.1" period, they only really went from Rhythmic AC to Hot AC and didn't bounce back and forth too much. Once they adopted the Mix moniker, they stuck with straightforward Hot AC
Why would they launch a format on a Saturday? What is the significance of March 12, other than that being the date in 1993 when they launched Smooth Jazz (an obscure fact that has no bearing on what's happening in 2022)?
I may be misremembering. I feel like they wobbled back and forth a couple times and that us geeks found it rather amusing.
I didn’t realize it was a Saturday sorry I was thinking mabye an eagle 106 relaunch under the hot ac format
The web site now says "Under construction - Now playing Philly's #1 hit music station!"
The last song on the playlist was Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" at 11:52 PM, and then they shut off the Lite at midnight.
Thanks to the unexpected simulcast on 106.1, this is the first time I've listened to Q-102 for any length of time recently, and I noticed they're pitching up the music quite a bit. Considering how many artist these days are using pitching and Auto-Tune to sing higher than their natural range (most obviously on Ed Sheeran's recent hits), speeding it up even further sounds like everyone's inhaled a little bit of helium.
The last song on the playlist was Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" at 11:52 PM, and then they shut off the Lite at midnight.
Thanks to the unexpected simulcast on 106.1, this is the first time I've listened to Q-102 for any length of time recently, and I noticed they're pitching up the music quite a bit. Considering how many artist these days are using pitching and Auto-Tune to sing higher than their natural range (most obviously on Ed Sheeran's recent hits), speeding it up even further sounds like everyone's inhaled a little bit of helium.
That's part of why the whole speeding-up-peoples'-art thing drives me nuts. The artists and producers work damn hard to get a record to sound the way they want it to sound and then some...um...spreadsheet-wielding executive in a suit (I believe that's the new technical term?) mucks it up. It makes me wonder if anyone at those stations actually ever listens to what's on their air.
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They have no real reason to recycle the Eagle 106.1 name but they recycled the Sunny 104.5 name so I guess I wouldn't put it past them. I'd certainly enjoy seeing the name return to the market. Strategically though, it would be nothing more than a cute nod to those of us who remember WEGX. And I am leaning toward a return to Hot AC as opposed to trying to duke it out with WXTU or WMGK.
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It really was quite bad. Bland music, bland imaging, no live talent outside of the morning show. Just a cheaply run, throwaway format. Why do people want radio stations to be so boring? The 6+ numbers weren't great and I'll bet a lot of them were not even in the advertising demos.
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Does anyone else not get why, if the demos were so bad, they didn’t just segue in to mainstream AC a la KOST/WLTW/etc? They were coming close with some of the newer stuff and could have made a pretty easy transition.
With a signal that’s had so much trouble finding success, and AC being a successful format in the market, I don’t get why they gave up so easily on competing with B101.
With a signal that’s had so much trouble finding success, and AC being a successful format in the market, I don’t get why they gave up so easily on competing with B101.
Just because previous people tried recycling Sunny doesn’t mean today’s people under today’s conditions would even consider bringing back Eagle. Heck, bucking the “Breeze” moniker in favor of WISH might have made more sense for soft AC. And even that would have been a stretch.
Weirder things have happened. Regurgitating a long dead brand isn’t the most bizarre.
Moving the Gambler to 106–now that might be the most bizarre thing they could do.
Weirder things have happened. Regurgitating a long dead brand isn’t the most bizarre.
Moving the Gambler to 106–now that might be the most bizarre thing they could do.
They're still local in the morning in a few markets. Previously cited Hartford is one of them, with WWYZ's Damon and Corey, whose show predates Bones' by several years, still a fixture in a.m. drive.
Right? If they had a hot format they want to switch to, they'd have it ready to go. If they were trying to beat a competitor to a format too (like when Max 95.7 suddenly flipped to Jammin' Gold), it'd be right away. I don't get the simulcast.
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