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105.7 The Groove gets Bigger, Better & Louder Labor Day Weekend

Are they going to trash the 90s and other fluffy pop titles once the weekend's over? I tend to think that if they were going to head towards straight-ahead rhythmic, they would have done so concurrently with the simulcast beginning. If the only change CC intends to make is adding the weak 96.7 signal, I don't see the Groove gaining anything more than they already will by default as Beat listeners are displaced to the station anyway.
 
967thegroove.com still tells me "This site is under development". Are you see CC actually made that site?

What a waste of time... I was really hoping they would change the name to Now and change up the playlist. :mad:

About The Legend, aren't the jocks voicetracked? Those same jocks are also on our nearby classic country station, KTDD 1350 in the IE.
 
musicman3355 said:
967thegroove.com still tells me "This site is under development". Are you see CC actually made that site?

What a waste of time... I was really hoping they would change the name to Now and change up the playlist. :mad:

About The Legend, aren't the jocks voicetracked? Those same jocks are also on our nearby classic country station, KTDD 1350 in the IE.
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I'm not getting 967thegroove.com either. If all the jocks are voiced tracked, that answers my earlier question of whether the DJ at the time on 96.7 knew the flip was coming. My goodness, where do these jocks originate from?!
 
Along with my passport today, an opportunity arose. Just found out I may be moving out of Arizona. I'm not going to London either. I think without me saying much more, you can guess where I'm probably headed! Oh well, goodbye traditional top 40 and rhythmic sound :mad: It's deja vu all over again for me. Only exception though; This time I'm no longer a child, so I understand why things are the way they are and also know I'm old enough to do something about it if I'm not happy with the way things are. I'm no longer a powerless kid who'll sit there and wonder "why is Star 94 is "different".

Since I'm the one who talks the most about the Bermuda Triangle, then I should be the one to attempt to do something about it. We need change! KDM Care may be on the way...
 
*yawn*
 
By the way, deep in the back of my mind, I had a strong feeling I'd log in and this would be the result! It's kind of like when you're flying in a plane and you don't want to admit it, but you know exactly what you're thinking subconsciously. The only difference is this time there's no surprise that what happened, happened. I still can't help but to believe, however, that this is not all there is to everything. I feel like while they added another signal, they probably don't want to "get straight to the point" right away, and maybe will continue to ease their way towards the sound they've been allegedly drifting towards. I don't know exactly how strong or weak the signal is... yet.... but, for some reason, I can't help but to believe there is more hope.

Anyway, looks like Fayetteville will once again be my home!
 
105.7 THE GROOVE isn't playing a lot of songs that 95.5 THE BEAT played. It seems that GROOVE is staying away from the hip-hop songs, but IMO thats what put 95.5 THE BEAT on the map. HOT 107.9 may gain more than GROOVE.
 
Looking back at this thread, isn't the 90s weekend still going on? Maybe we'll see the playlist change tomorrow?
 
ShawtyBlack_ATL said:
105.7 THE GROOVE isn't playing a lot of songs that 95.5 THE BEAT played.  It seems that GROOVE is staying away from the hip-hop songs, but IMO thats what put 95.5 THE BEAT on the map.  HOT 107.9 may gain more than GROOVE.
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Probably so, especially if The Groove doesn't act quick enough. I know sometimes change can be gradual, but... I don't see this as really being any time to be "safe". If they are going to go full rhythm chr, then I'd say just do it now and let the staff on-airs and other things be gradual, but not the music change.
 
musicman3355 said:
Looking back at this thread, isn't the 90s weekend still going on? Maybe we'll see the playlist change tomorrow?
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My first thought when I came here, but at the same time, didn't want to get my, or anyone elses hopes up by implanting this idea in people's minds.

I'm not sure who is considering it a weekend and who is not because our KZON did their normal 12:20 party mix today, and of course KZZP had Johnjay & Rich on in the morning. What makes "weekends" more confusing are that some stations treat Saturday like a weekdeay and do a 5 oclock traffic mix and everything. So in the end, I guess "it's not over until it's over".
 
Once again, Atlanta radio shows increasing signs that they suck!

Simply, they do. It was smart to move WSB on 95.5 and now they simulcast the Groove to 96.7?? What are they thinking??? That was the lamest thing that Clear Channel can ever do to a huge radio market! What an UPSETTING DAY!

AND their signals both are weak.

P.S. How will this affect Q100?....
 
Maybe Clear Channel is looking for a small 20,000 watt FM near Conyers to fill in the gap????

Whis is also a question I asked on the other thread.... Have you ever heard of a station TRI-CASTING on 3 FMs at once? I'm sure CC would be willing to give it a try.
 
macab4490 said:
Once again, Atlanta radio shows increasing signs that they suck!

Simply, they do. It was smart to move WSB on 95.5 and now they simulcast the Groove to 96.7?? What are they thinking??? That was the lamest thing that Clear Channel can ever do to a huge radio market! What an UPSETTING DAY!

AND their signals both are weak.

P.S. How will this affect Q100?....
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An upsetting day? I can think of a million other thing that would be mor eupsetting than this.
 
"Bigger, Better, & Louder".

So far, you could say the "Bigger" and "Louder" part came true. In order to be better, something has to change from what has normally been going on. I wouldn't use three words to describe an additional signal. "Louder" pretty much covers the more signal aspect. SO, I'm surely hoping there's more to this - ESPECIALLY IF I'm supposed to be relocating back to Atlanta anytime soon. At first, I didn't think much of 95.5 The Beat going away since they weren't really doing much anymore to begin with, but now that plans are I'm back to Atlanta and not London, I'm beginning to have some regrets. Even plain and mundane, a 95.5 The Beat type format is better than no 95.5 The Beat format. It will be a challenge coping to Atlanta ways of non urban radio since I am a rhythmic radio freak. It's not like I could even say I'll just listen to the light rock station if I have to. I am no longer a big fan of Urban like I used to be 10 years ago.

Looks like I'll have to settle for a rhythmic channel playing a bunch of 90's material and missing a few currents, OR start getting myself mentally prepared for a large large dose of pop rock and get over the lack of a Party Station type feel. Everything was so perfect in early 2000's. Now, what happened? And isn't it ironic that I find out my news about taking the house in Fayetteville ON MONDAY, AROUND NOON? Well, I've got to be thankful for 105.7 or whatever signal picks up in Fayetteville because as far as I've heard, there is some dance on The Groove, and I guess Nessa will kind of make me feel "at home" a little.

I'm just not sure what it's going to take for a large, international connection city like Atl to get something proper that's not Urban. Maybe one of the urbans should attempt to be rhythmic or something and "do it right". Atlanta pretty much had it made back in the early 2000's. I also don't understand all these predictions about LESS being on Atl airwaves when many other lacking cities are FILLING IN MORE to make up for what's missing! Look at Detroit even! They already had a good hit music station BEFORE getting another one. I wont even mention California, where the "C" in CHR should stand for California... SOMETHING needs to change. There's no reason for me to still desire ALL Phoenix rhythmics and top 40's over Atlanta ones, 19 years later -and have people AGREE with my frame of mind! This is absurd. I thought it was just me until I discovered these boards and saw an incredible amount of people IN VARIOUS SECTIONS sharing identical thoughts, yet nothing really seems to be happening. Forget illegal immigration and breast feeding. There should be protests and marches down the streets for a real top 40 and rhythmic in Atlanta! This is one of those times where I wish I didn't care about radio as much as I do..
 
KDM 7000 said:
I'm just not sure what it's going to take for a large, international connection city like Atl to get something proper that's not Urban. Maybe one of the urbans should attempt to be rhythmic or something and "do it right". Atlanta pretty much had it made back in the early 2000's. I also don't understand all these predictions about LESS being on Atl airwaves when many other lacking cities are FILLING IN MORE to make up for what's missing! Look at Detroit even! They already had a good hit music station BEFORE getting another one. I wont even mention California, where the "C" in CHR should stand for California... SOMETHING needs to change. There's no reason for me to still desire ALL Phoenix rhythmics and top 40's over Atlanta ones, 19 years later -and have people AGREE with my frame of mind! This is absurd. I thought it was just me until I discovered these boards and saw an incredible amount of people IN VARIOUS SECTIONS sharing identical thoughts, yet nothing really seems to be happening. Forget illegal immigration and breast feeding. There should be protests and marches down the streets for a real top 40 and rhythmic in Atlanta!
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You know, I'm reminded of the Popeye Cartoon where they read a newspaper that says "Vaudeville is coming back". It's pretty obvious that you like Contemporary Hits Radio. There's nothing wrong with that. But the driving force behind the creation of top-40 radio was the 45 rpm single record. There was an entire music industry built around butting together the best songwriters, the best session musicians, and some reasonably presentable front people who could lip-sink on Hullabaloo or American Bandstand.

Contemporary Hits Radio is going away because the contemporary artists are releasing hit singles. Sure, there are single songs downloaded from iTune and Amazon, and bands promote themselves on MySpace and other on-line sources. There is quite possibly more contemporary songs out there than ever before. But the old concept of "Hits" is something from yesteryear. It's not dead yet, but it's close to it. For a station to create a Contemporary Hits Radio package, it's going to take more than cutting and pasting numbers 1 through 40 off of the Billboard charts.

And that's why CHR is disappearing.
 
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that CHR is disappearing. If you look at the format's ratings in markets around the country, you'll see it's doing great.
 
RoddyFreeman said:
I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that CHR is disappearing. If you look at the format's ratings in markets around the country, you'll see it's doing great.
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Contemporary Hits Radio, as a pre-packaged, preservative filled, flavor-enhanced canned product to be slopped onto the airwaves is still chugging along. But the key component of "Contemporary Hits Radio" is the "Contemporary Hits". And those are an endangered species. The days when in any given week there were 40 "hits" that were popular across the nation with most demographics enjoying them are fast drawing to a close.

Check iPod download stats sometime. Back in the olden days when the suits at the record company would pick a song to push as a single off of an album, that song was the one that had a shot at becoming a hit. Now, people can sample snippets of all the songs off an album and decide for themselves which ones they'll buy. How do you determine the "hit" if most of the songs off of a new album have a similar number of downloads.

What about the song from the top local band that has been downloaded from MySpace a few thousand times? Is any local radio station suit going to pay any attention to that?

Finally, remember that "doing great" in the ratings doesn't mean that you're good. It only means that the other stations on the air are even worse.
 
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