I guess I'll have to be the first one to bring this up. I'm sure some of you have heard that this Sunday, Amp Radio is having a free concert at City Hall Plaza featuring Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, among other artists played on Amp. I brought this up with some people, and they just said "There is no more 103.3, didn't it change?" Come to think of it, I actually can't find a single person who LIKES the new Amp radio. I guess "Oldies 103.3" is still stuck in a lot of people's minds, even after a whole year.
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103.3 Amp Radio Birthday Bash
- Thread starter ssetta
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Wouldn't mind seeing Selena the rest I could do without.
Technically the call letters are still WODS so they can technically say its the 26th annual summer concert series only they're doing them all in one day.
The concept of AMP is still a good idea,though i wished they didn't blow up Classic hits. Perhaps either merging Classic hits with WZLX or blowing up Mix
Technically the call letters are still WODS so they can technically say its the 26th annual summer concert series only they're doing them all in one day.
The concept of AMP is still a good idea,though i wished they didn't blow up Classic hits. Perhaps either merging Classic hits with WZLX or blowing up Mix
ssetta said:
Well, so much for name recognition. I still think CBS made a big mistake in blowing up WODS. Frankly, I don't give a rats a** about "target demographics" and whatnot. Yes, WODS needed a major shot in the arm to make it fresh. Sister station WCBS-FM (New York) still has the best sounding Classic Hits format around. WODS should have follow their lead updated the format a bit a-la 'CBS-FM. But, they didn't. So, I now listen to out-of-market 'CBS-FM, K-Earth 101 and K-Earth Classics (K-Earth's HD2) and the on-line "95PEN" Tribute Station.
I with you @(Peter Q George) regarding the target demographics. Radio Program Management has to think of the listener. The real listener. Go out and meet with them, and ask them what they like and don't like, and then have a meeting and come up with something.
They sounded better to my 42-year-old male ear last year when they were playing more EDM and turbo pop. More recently, it seems they've been playing a little more hip hop and slower stuff and I flip the station immediately.
I think in general, CHR has lost the intensity it had over the last few years; I expect its popularity to decrease based on the music mix I've been hearing over the last couple of months. Anyone agree?
I think in general, CHR has lost the intensity it had over the last few years; I expect its popularity to decrease based on the music mix I've been hearing over the last couple of months. Anyone agree?
promixcuous said:
Yea I'd agree someone made this point to me earlier when I was talking about JAMN 945 playlist tweaks. It seems people have gotten bored with EDM and turbo pop and that it was just a phase. A newer type of laid-back smoothed out RnB Hip Hop seems to be the most popular form of CHR in 2013 and moving into the mid 2010s as the quality and meaningfulness of a lot of hip hop has gone up in the past few years..EDM will probably be looked at as a early 2010s fad... when all is said and done...
WODS 103.3: I'm dead to them. They're dead to me. I guess there's some sort of symmetry in that.
In reality I had given up listening to their don't-say-the-"O"-word, classic hits incarnation long before they flipped to Amp-mutation radio. It had become a directionless, ad-infested shadow of its former self. I know all the cliches about demos ("follow the money!!!") but it seemed as though the young, faceless, overpaid, craphead suits were itching for any reason to kill the format, so they did. Had they followed the lead of their sister station in NYC they could have been a contender, at least for a while longer. If CBS-FM's format can make it there, it can make it in Boston.
Ah, but that's life (that's what all the people say). I'm just thankful for my MP3 player.
In reality I had given up listening to their don't-say-the-"O"-word, classic hits incarnation long before they flipped to Amp-mutation radio. It had become a directionless, ad-infested shadow of its former self. I know all the cliches about demos ("follow the money!!!") but it seemed as though the young, faceless, overpaid, craphead suits were itching for any reason to kill the format, so they did. Had they followed the lead of their sister station in NYC they could have been a contender, at least for a while longer. If CBS-FM's format can make it there, it can make it in Boston.
Ah, but that's life (that's what all the people say). I'm just thankful for my MP3 player.
DavidZ said:
Yes. Clear Channel, moved in reaction not action IMO. As a college student, I simply think that was a fad that was popular with a certain cohort of college students. That station is posting horribly low ratings and I believe that I the station has about one year left before the whole genre quickly fades to black
UrbanTeenager said:
I doubt Evolution is going anywhere. Clear Channel is marketing this nationally, and Boston is the prime place to have a terrestrial station to do this. I am a bit past their demo, BUT, I have friends on Facebook who have listened to 94.5 all their life and just now are discovering the station and posting about it on FB/Twitter.
EDM has been popular in Europe for 15 years and is not going away anytime there. Thanks to the Internet, it finally made it to the States.
What else could they put on 101.7 besides this? The signal is too low.
dhoule said:
Agreed. It's quite often very interesting radio mainly because its music mix is so unique, particularly with Amp not playing as much EDM. I'm finding AMP quite unlistenable this year, a major change from last year when I had it on regularly (at least Kiss has good imaging).
EDM will continue because people will continue to make electronic music.
SixtiesGuy said:
CBS-FM didn't have WROR to compete with (and I say that as someone who LOVED Oldies 103.3 - hell, I'm listening to Bertha Tillman's "Oh My Angel" as I type this), as well as a sister classic rocker to deal with. Plus, I'm sure corporate bought the argument that it would be an easier sell.
Lucky for me, I have the jingles and the library- so Oldies 103.3 lives on at my house Part 15 station. Wonder how much JJ would charge to track it lol...
Turnpike Tuner said:
Yes, they did/would have WROR to compete with, but weren't they doing better in the ratings (yes, including the ones that count) than WROR? There's no reason to think they wouldn't have stayed ahead, or even increased their lead, had they gone this route. Instead, they just threw their audience away. It doesn't appear their former listeners went to any other single station - I don't think WROR saw a bump when Oldies 103 disappeared. Oh well, it's all academic now, isn't it? Although on some rare occasions I will listen to WZLX and WROR, which I did anyway when Oldies 103 was still in full swing, neither are viable substitutes. I only wish North Shore 104's signal made it further west than it does.
Well, I just got back from the concert and I have to say that I felt very weird and out of place. I mean I think they had good music, but I really did not enjoy being surrounded by all those teenagers. It basically just made me feel old and I miss being young, as I never went to any free concerts like that when I was younger, and I wish I had (although I don't even remember there being any). Heck, I even saw a bunch of teens trying to climb over the big gate in the back of City Hall Plaza, and a few people did make it over, but then a cop came, yelled at them, and made them go back over the gate, and he was being very rude. There was a girl who hadn't even made it all the way over the fence, and it was only gonna be harder for her to get back. He didn't help her or anything, he just yelled. Another girl stuck up for the girl by speaking to the cop and apologizing for trying to cross that gate. Do you think this is something any of you would do?
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