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94.5 FM Format Flip in Birmingham!

Unbelievable. This is coming supposedly after a major shakeup by Citadel head honcho Farid Suleman himself. Perhaps more to come as well.
 
alabamamic said:
Well, looks like we've gone country!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......SAY IT ISN'T SO! There can't (and never, ever should be) FOUR country stations in Birmingham. Must be a stunt for something else on the horizon.


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Did this happen after the fireworks music ended or something?
I think Citadel screwed up the music. One of the stations was not on a delay and everyone around me had two soundtracks to the show, one 6 seconds behind another. It was so annoying we shut off the radios in disgust; I missed part of the show trying to sync with everyone else's radios.
 
Citadel likes picking American holidays to do their flipping (they flipped it to Hot AC on Memorial Day weekend in '06). At least they're patriotic! :p
 
I was incorrect in my above post...they flipped it on Memorial Day weekend in 2007, not 2006.
 
damn ya'll are fast i just got home (cullman) from bham and was gonna break the news... LOL

QUICK! someone go update wikipedia...
 
What are they calling it?

So have a COX/CLEARCHANNEL/CITADEL country battle in Birmingham....Somebody is going down and its not 104.7 or 102.5 fm.
 
Rick Rose 2.0 said:
What are they calling it?

So have a COX/CLEARCHANNEL/CITADEL country battle in Birmingham....Somebody is going down and its not 104.7 or 102.5 fm.
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Now that three of the four major groups in Birmingham (Cox, CC, and Citadel) have at least one country station each in the market, Crawford needs to have one, too. WYDE should now change its format to country to "complete the set". :D Maybe with 94.5 coming on the scene at least "New Country 97.3" will finally leave the stage sometime in the future.

I like country music myself and listen to it sometimes on the radio...but FOUR stations offering it? That's just a bit too much, country or otherwise. Satellite radio is beginning to look better and better every day. :)


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Has anyone heard any station ID's yet on 94.5, or are they just running country with no ID's?
 
But apparently the station has no name that has been heard on the air yet? I wonder if they're just stunting this weekend...
 
Didn't Birmingham (or maybe Huntsville) get another new radio station (either Top 40 or Hot AC) last summer?

I recalled hearing a station referring to itself as 'The NEW ------' when I drove through Birmingham (and Huntsville) while en route from Atlanta to Nashville.
 
Marv-L.A. said:
Didn't Birmingham (or maybe Huntsville) get another new radio station (either Top 40 or Hot AC) last summer?

I recalled hearing a station referring to itself as 'The NEW ------' when I drove through Birmingham (and Huntsville) while en route from Atlanta to Nashville.
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Birmingham did with 94.5 and it appears now that they bit the dust.
 
Marv-L.A. said:
Didn't Birmingham (or maybe Huntsville) get another new radio station (either Top 40 or Hot AC) last summer?

I recalled hearing a station referring to itself as 'The NEW ------' when I drove through Birmingham (and Huntsville) while en route from Atlanta to Nashville.
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WYSF officially changed to hot AC as the "New 94.5" around Memorial Day of last year. A short-lived format, that's for sure. Somebody on the board thought I was totally out of my mind a few months ago to even suggest that WYSF might possibly abandon the hot AC format after just a year's time. But...here we are, slightly more than 13 months later with another format possibly on the horizon. Of course, if this is all some sort of stunt and WYSF winds up returning to hot AC, I'll have to eat my words, lol. ;)


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sure looks like i already ate my words... LOL - i just went back and read the old thread, complete with my shock to your reaction they might change formats. i just didn't think stations changed THAT quickly...but you're right, they've had a year. I, personally, liked the station. But i'm 30 years old. And yes, i did get tired of some of the same music playing OVER and OVER and OVER again, but i'm burnt out completely on classic rock. I'm still trying to accept that mobile's 92zew is playing some AAA and even more classic rock - and they're calling it 5 decades of rock. I don't like it. I find myself gravatating more towards nashville's lightning 100. I even dated a girl out of Gadsden for a while and she introduced me to their Mix 102.9....which i've actually got as my first preset now. Wow...times are changing.
 
passtheword said:
Now that three of the four major groups in Birmingham (Cox, CC, and Citadel) have at least one country station each in the market, Crawford needs to have one, too. WYDE should now change its format to country to "complete the set". :D
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If they switched they'd have to call it "Country 102" or "101.1 The Bull" to keep up with their recent trend of taking already-used names. :p
 
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