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100.5 Louie FM Format Switch?

One word:

Fail.

Waste of a frequency but I'm not surprised by CC stupidity.
 
Yep...Maybe by the time Mom's old and gray and I feel compelled to move back, there will be something for me. Or maybe I will have moved on by then. CBC is a good place to be. Growing up on WLOU and WHAS and WLRS and WQMF, setting a goal of being on the radio in my hometown by the time I was 30...that was all washed away by de-reg, consolidation, etc. If our VP hadn't grown up across the street from my Grandmother, I may have never heard of Commonwealth, and who knows where I'd be today. On top of all this, Diamond John is dead.

Meanwhile, I begin my 15th year in the biz as of October. Zanesville OH, Bardstown, Shelbyville, E-town, and now BG. So much for childhood dreams.

Another sad, sad day for my hometown of which I am otherwise so proud. Welp, Titans host Packers...I gotta go board-op, got bumped off my ususal 7-11 on PTQ...hope Brohm does well, for his sake. And VY, for that matter.

p.s. My PD down here speculates this is an experiment for CC...they doing this flavor of jockless mish-mash junk anywhere else?
 
They just dead-segged from No Doubt to Coolio.....this seems more Gen-Y to me. Louie website still the same, but now streaming this lol!!!

UPDATE...non-edit Coolio....I just heard n-word several times lol!!!!!!!!!

What Supreme ******bags they are. And now EMF...Good Christ!!!!!
 
Listen Ma! SHE93.1 / SHE 98.9 has returned! No it's just the 2009 crappy version of SHE. BLAH! Thanks a lot Clear Channel.
 
The station sounds GREAT so far! It's a true 90s CHR. Playing a lot of the songs heard either on MTV or 99.7 DJX during the 90s is what you're going to get. So far so good :)
 
"Good Vibrations" was a number one hit, hahahahahahahaha."

Great...but they're marketing this thing to appeal to a specific age group with a specific heritage.....not just charts. Its called/aimed at Gen-X, who are typically more associated with the Nirvana and Sublime and DMB than the Marky Mark and Coolio. Or ...wait..what is this...Culture Beat!?!?!?

Mr. Vain!?!??!

How'd this turd chart, Kasey?
 
Culture Beat was huge on CHR radio in 1993. The song went to number one all over Europe, and was a Top 10 hit on CHR/Pop here in America, and Top 20 on Billboard's Hot 100. The guy behind Culture Beat, Torsten Fenslau, was one of Germany's first superstar DJs, and hailed from the same city as Sven Vath - Frankfurt. They helped pioneer the Progressive House and Trance scenes, both music highly associated with the 90s. Tragically Torsten Fenslau died shortly after Culture Beat's success.
"Mr. Vein" was definitely a hit in Louisville on its CHR. Chris Shebel was programming WDJX at the time.
This is the second all 90s FM radio station in the country following similarly-formatted 106.5 The Buzz out of Sacramento.
http://90sbuzz.com/

Since WLGX 100.5 Gen X Radio is owned by Clear Channel you can expect this format to start rolling out nationwide.
 
So what Gen-X are they targeting? Gen-Xers who grew up in Louisville, or a super-broad chart/panel based anonymous Gen-Xer who grew up everywhere and nowhere? The latter, apparently. This thing hurts my ears.

"Witness the violence inherent to the system!!! Witness the violence inherent to the system!!!"
 
If the music doesn't appeal to you than it clearly isn't targetted at you, simple as that. If you grew up in the 90s and listened to CHR radio or watched MTV than this format will appeal to you.
CHR radio is about playing the hits, not just playing one style of music. So basically what you've got here is a 90s based CHR station though I'm also hearing a bit of late 80s (Aerosmith "Dude Looks Like A Lady" and Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step") so there might also be a bit of music from the Y2K mixed in.
 
The other 90s station is Entercom's 106.5 The Buzz in Sacramento.

Gen X Radio has a few 80s and early 2000s titles in it, but is mostly a 90s station.
 
I'm really diggin' this station so far, and am surprised how refreshingly different it sounds from other "90's" shows i've heard. a lot of "Oh Wow" factors.. haven't heard "Tubthumpin'" in many years, and no other format really plays it that i know of. Now Duran Duran .. this harkens back to the days of CHR radio before it got hijacked by hip hop - more melodic.
 
MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:
Gen-X said they would play anything from Hair Bands, Grunge, Boy Bands, Rap, urban, Pop

Thus i would expect to see a lot of late 80's and early 2000's
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And only minutes after I read your post, they play Lifehouse's "Hanging By A Moment" (released in 2000, although a bigger hit in 2001).
 
Research_Weenie said:
I'm really diggin' this station so far, and am surprised how refreshingly different it sounds from other "90's" shows i've heard. a lot of "Oh Wow" factors.. haven't heard "Tubthumpin'" in many years, and no other format really plays it that i know of. Now Duran Duran .. this harkens back to the days of CHR radio before it got hijacked by hip hop - more melodic.
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CHR radio and the Billboard hot 100 started to change by the latter half of the 80s, going more youth leaning due to a number of factors. The charts became more Hard rock and Dance friendly, followed by an exlosion of huge Hip Hop and Rhythmic hits. This can all be traced back to a couple of events that happened in the latter half of the 80s:
1) The debut of VH-1 gave sister station MTV the opportunity to lean younger. Thus the network started playing a lot more Hard Rock, and also opened up its playlist a lot more to Rhythmic stuff. By the early 90s the network reinved itself by ditching Hard Rock in favor of Modern Rock and Hip Hop.
2) The debut and huge success of Top 40/Dance Power 106 in Los Angeles. It quickly knocked rival CHR/Pop station 102.7 KIIS-FM off the number one spot in the Southern California ratings. The station had a HUGE impact on every radio station in California. 106 KMEL San Francisco moved towards the crossover sound, Q-106 debuted in San Diego, FM 102 Sacramento evolved into a crossover station, etc. Dance/Rhythmic leaning stations popped up in large and major market cities around the country.

You can see some of these changes unfold by looking up old issues of Billboard magazine. A lot of issues can now be found online via Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fwgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=billboard
 
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