How do you arrive at that conclusion? New York can't support anything more than a classic rock station (plus a few lowly rated college stations that play rock). The minority population of Dallas is a higher percentage than New York. Dallas is doing better now than New York. Modern rock is struggling in markets that don't have rock heritage. Trying to build rock radio heritage is a very long process because the audience has already found what it wants on other platforms. Building a "good morning show" is not as easy as it sounds, as Kevin Kline demonstrates at KROQ. His biggest problem was replacing Kevin & Bean.
First, comparing New York to Dallas - which had The Eagle with decades of legendary personalities and heritage doesn't mean anything to this conversation. (Neither do any of the other posts.)
The post is: If you were going to change formats of the current KEGL format, what would you change it to. Maybe 2 people answered. The rest is just bullsh*t hyperbole on arbitrary content.
The minority population means nothing in the conversation about formats that are non Hispanic. We're not talking about that. Having said that, hmmm . . . lets look at the numbers though. In the top 15 stations, there's ONE Hispanic radio station. So . . . get back to me on that argument.
Rock, done properly in this market would be in the top 10 . . . with a good morning show. Thanks for the news that building a successful morning show is hard. The rock format in general has to be a format that regains it's loyalty. It has to constantly be IN the culture. Look at The Ticket. Everything they do is centered around it and it's audience's culture. EVERYTHING. Rock stations now just throw on some 80's and 90's music, have a voice tracked morning show, and don't give a sh*t beyond that - as a whole. I was offered a job in the last year to voice track the morning show in Detroit - AND do 4 other mid size markets - for part time wages. I couldn't believe my ears. Listen to WQLZ in Springfield, IL. That is a station in a small market that sounds like a top 10 market station, because they're so unbelievably ingratiated to their audience . . . and their audience gives that back. There is some fantastic music from the last 10 years in this format, but it never gets played because programmers are afraid and terrified to play something from the last 2 decades. Playing Motley Crue, Poison, Led Zepplin, and Aerosmith with a Godsmack record every 5 hours doesn't make you a rock station. It makes you an oldies station. A 50 year old man has heard all of that 5 million times. KZPS has it's ratings because of the upper end of the demo. KVIL sound just OKAY to me. It's a middle of the road, predictable alt station. I've said this until I'm blue in the face, but rock done correctly here could win.
I will repeat, THE EAGLE out billed what the Freak is billing now. Imagine if it had been programmed correctly.
