Y100 Miami being different than other CHR (Top 40) radio stations in the United States.

[vw86]

XL 1067 here in Orlando is one of the only major market CHRs that has been doing quite well in the 6+ numbers. I believe they are the only CHR in the Top 50 Share. What are they doing right and what is it about the Orlando market that is still so receptive to CHR?

 

[Bongwater]

Does anyone know why doesn’t Y100 Miami play new music just like the other CHR (Top 40) radio stations?

Every CHR/Top 40 is different. Some are edgier, others stay with solid, tested hits. Others even play more gold. But each station has it's own core audience.

I don't know Y-100's, But they've been around for 50 years, so I think they do.

 

[TheBigA]

If anything, this is a positive sign that iHeart is paying attention to the differences between markets rather than creating cookie-cutter CHR stations that are the same in every city.

Keep in mind that the rules of being a CHR chart reporter require that the station playlists be unique to its market, that it is compiled by a station representative, and that representative must be available to take phone calls from record label promotion people. So as long as iHeart wants its stations to remain chart reporters, they should continue to have unique local playlists.

 

[AM-FM-DXer]

Keep in mind that the rules of being a CHR chart reporter require that the station playlists be unique to its market, that it is compiled by a station representative, and that representative must be available to take phone calls from record label promotion people. So as long as iHeart wants its stations to remain chart reporters, they should continue to have unique local playlists.

That's interesting; I did not know that. Does this rule apply only to CHR chart reporters? Or is it in place for other formats, such as country?

 

[CentralFL]

XL 1067 here in Orlando is one of the only major market CHRs that has been doing quite well in the 6+ numbers. I believe they are the only CHR in the Top 50 Share. What are they doing right and what is it about the Orlando market that is still so receptive to CHR?

WXXL does quite well and they are competing with WOMX which puts enough Hot into Hot AC that they are basically a CHR. For whatever the reason Central Florida likes its hit music.

I can think of a couple of a couple of major markets with successful CHR stations:

Detroit WKQI bounces around a 6 share

Long Island (Nassau Suffolk) WBLI around a 5 share plus combine WHTZ in the 4-5 share range. Combining the 2 CHRs in the market and it's nearly a 10 share..

 

[TheBigA]

Does this rule apply only to CHR chart reporters? Or is it in place for other formats, such as country?

All format chart reporters.

 

[vw86]

So does that mean that iHeart stations taking the nationally curated Premium Choice playlists are ineligible to report? Or do they just need to program a certain number of hours locally?

 

[TheBigA]

So does that mean that iHeart stations taking the nationally curated Premium Choice playlists are ineligible to report? Or do they just need to program a certain number of hours locally?

A majority of the day has to be programmed locally.

 

[Phil Harmonic]

Back in the late 70s, early 80s... Y-100 was thinking about the possibility of goin' Hot AC. I believe the Coleman/Media Associates people did a presentation that suggested the change from Top 40 to Hot AC, but our PD, Bill Tanner chose not to do that... Of course that was a way different time, teens and young adults were still cool!

 

[davideduardo]

Back in the late 70s, early 80s... Y-100 was thinking about the possibility of goin' Hot AC. I believe the Coleman/Media Associates people did a presentation that suggested the change from Top 40 to Hot AC, but our PD, Bill Tanner chose not to do that... Of course that was a way different time, teens and young adults were still cool!

I was in the building as GM of Y-100’s sister WHTT from 1980 to 1983 and had many occasions to talk to Coleman. He was ther often as Y-100 was the pilot station for his computerized callout system (using System 100 computers). I was an early geek and followed that project.

Coleman did not quite get the huge day parting in style and music that Tanner had. In the end, before Tanner went to DC, Normbob had more confidence in him than Coleman.

 

[Phil Harmonic]

Y's first callout started in 1978, it was hand tabbed and was based on a plan designed for WMYQ/Chicago, Bob Pittman helped create it! Now we're talkin' back in de day...

 

[AM-FM-DXer]

Back in the late 70s, early 80s... Y-100 was thinking about the possibility of goin' Hot AC. I believe the Coleman/Media Associates people did a presentation that suggested the change from Top 40 to Hot AC, but our PD, Bill Tanner chose not to do that... Of course that was a way different time, teens and young adults were still cool!

Y was Hot AC in the early 90s. It corresponded to the time that Y virtually ignored Miami and tried to be a Fort Lauderdale station. I never really understood it. I guess the consultants saw Fort Lauderdale as the suburban area.

By 1995-1996, Y was back to CHR.

 

[radio128]

A lot of CHRs turned Hot AC in the early 90s including KIIS-FM with Rick Dees in the morning. At the time the slogan was "Best of the 8 Dees and 9 Dees."

 

[TheBigA]

A lot of CHRs turned Hot AC in the early 90s including KIIS-FM with Rick Dees in the morning. At the time the slogan was "Best of the 8 Dees and 9 Dees."

That was during a period similar to now when there was a shortage of quality new releases.

Sean Ross talks about this in his columns a lot. There's a shortage of consensus new music that appeals to a wide audience. Just because a song gets good streaming numbers doesn't mean it will appeal to the radio audience.

 

[davideduardo]

Y's first callout started in 1978, it was hand tabbed and was based on a plan designed for WMYQ/Chicago, Bob Pittman helped create it! Now we're talkin' back in de day...

Y-100 had a bunch of phone both size call cabins where part-tome kids would be given some pages out of the telephone book and told "call every 7th listing"" or something similar. The "hooks" were played off a cassette, and tabulated by hand.

After several west-coast PDs (KRIZ and KCBQ) started doing call-out, a bunch of statations "copied" the technique of playing hooks on the phone. I had a similar system at 11-Q and Z-93 in San Juan in that era. What was interesting was to see Coleman implement a computer system around mid-1980.

 

[adambaer2879]

I remember being in high school from 1992-1996 and until around late 1995 or early 1996 , y-100 was very ACish. It transformed to a full CHR in the middle of 1996. I was always dumbfounded how the metro area down here did not have a true chr. I remember traveling to Naples and hearing B103.9, which was a true CHR and being amazed at the difference in playlists.

 

[XCountry285]

I remember being in high school from 1992-1996 and until around late 1995 or early 1996 , y-100 was very ACish. It transformed to a full CHR in the middle of 1996. I was always dumbfounded how the metro area down here did not have a true chr. I remember traveling to Naples and hearing B103.9, which was a true CHR and being amazed at the difference in playlists.

I hope Y100 stays CHR. CHR needs core artists and get the youth back into listening. They don't really have anthems for the youth. We need to go back to playing artists that get limited exposure. Include K Pop.

 

[MiguelSanchez]

I hope Y100 stays CHR. CHR needs core artists and get the youth back into listening. They don't really have anthems for the youth. We need to go back to playing artists that get limited exposure. Include K Pop.

I agree with you. WHYI-FM, Y100.7 is the longest running Top-40 radio station in the U.S. and it has been around for more than 50 years.

 

[davideduardo]

I hope Y100 stays CHR. CHR needs core artists and get the youth back into listening. They don't really have anthems for the youth. We need to go back to playing artists that get limited exposure. Include K Pop.

"Youth" is not the target of CHR. Women 25-44 is the target. There is no revenue, and has not been, for 12-24 audiences for the last 50 years, which is why most CHRs are closer to Hot AC than the old "Top 40" format was.

And "youth" left for streaming a decade or more ago. They are not coming back.

 

[XCountry285]

I agree with you. WHYI-FM, Y100.7 is the longest running Top-40 radio station in the U.S. and it has been around for more than 50 years.

Which is the longest running?