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94.7 Hits FM: "Montreal"

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WhoDoYouThink

Got a chance to hear 94.7 Hits FM station out of Malone/Chateguay on-line.
Wow...

If this station wants to truly compete against Mix 96 (CanCon limitations or not), they really should think about dropping some unnecessary titles.

"Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows?
"Outrageous" by Britney Spears??
"Stuck" by Stacie Orrico???

Who's in charge of the music? Also...no morning show?? The jock I heard (Jeremy Zafran) was mediocre, at best. I listened last night at midnight and heard an hour 's worth of gold and recurrents! What the hell?

What a waste of a signal.
 
I'm sick of 94-7 Hits FM...Basically, I like Z103dot5 outta Toronto better than that station. I also like Kiss 98.5 & Wild 101 outta Buffalo.
 
> I'm sick of 94-7 Hits FM...Basically, I like Z103dot5 outta
> Toronto better than that station. I also like Kiss 98.5 &
> Wild 101 outta Buffalo.

94.7 Hits FM isn't even in the same league as Kiss, Wild or Z. It's a joke...

Bad jocks, bad imaging, bad jingles and a stiff laden playlist.

Some other bad calls I heard:
"What It's Like" by Everlast
"Hard To Handle" by the Black Crowes (on a CHR??)
"Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park

Horrible station from front to back. They really should take a cue from 95 Triple X in Burlington--another small market mom&pop, only WXXX gets "it".
 
25 pecent owned by Mix 96=94.7 Hits FM= not competing with Mix 96.<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> 25 pecent owned by Mix 96=94.7 Hits FM= not competing with
> Mix 96.

Fact is...if they want their "West Island" ratings to be bigger than they are, they'd drop the stiffs, hire a PD that gets it and put on a morning show.
Are you implying Standard is MAKING 94.7 play Black Crowes, Everlast and "Outrageous" in order to NOT take a bite out of Mix 96?

Or...are you saying that they arent true competition since they own a piece of the pie? If THAT'S the case, then you'd think Standard would want a PD intact at Hits with a little more CHR experience under his/her belt, in order to maximize their holdings.

Who's the PD at Hits? It's obvious they have little or no CHR expertise.
 
> 25 pecent owned by Mix 96=94.7 Hits FM= not competing with
> Mix 96.

Mix 96 is hot AC that leans CHR, not CHR-pop.
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> Are you implying Standard is MAKING 94.7 play Black Crowes,
> Everlast and "Outrageous" in order to NOT take a bite out of
> Mix 96?
>
> Or...are you saying that they arent true competition since
> they own a piece of the pie? If THAT'S the case, then you'd
> think Standard would want a PD intact at Hits with a little
> more CHR experience under his/her belt, in order to maximize
> their holdings.
>
> Who's the PD at Hits? It's obvious they have little or no
> CHR expertise.
>
The PD at 94.7 Hits Fm is a Gentleman by the name of Drew Scott, who may also be busy programming sister stations WVRV and WRCD.

The problem may be someone higher up telling him that he is only allowed to to 75-80 percent of what he would like to do. This happend to Mix 99.9 in Toronto a while back to a pd there who was eithor fired, or quit...not sure which.

Don't forget who owns the remaining 75 percent...it's the SAME company that launched a "Bye Bye Chez" website, had no success with Ottawa, and wasted time going after listeners that could hardly pick up 101.5 "the FOX" (WRCD)

Cornwall is much closer. Attacking Rock 101.9 would have been alot smarter.
If they havn't fired the crew that chose to attack Ottawa, that may be the same crowd "messing up" 94.7, and the problem may or may not be the pd there.<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
> "Hard To Handle" by the Black Crowes (on a CHR??)

Z-100 New York was probably the first CHR in the country to first play "Hard To Handle", even while "She Talks To Angels" was charting. They first played it on Friday nights during the 5 PM hour when many CHR stations threw in a lot of feelgood records like Eddie Money "Take Me Home Tonight", or Loverboy "Everybody's Working for The Weekend". Anyways, Z experienced a lot of success with "Hard To Handle", added it to their playlist fulltime, as did many other CHRs across the country.
So yes, Black Crowes on CHR makes more sense then you think.

Hits is for the most part a Small-market station, and they play a lot of forgotten 90s hits. I like that, and I think that's what helps seperates them from Montreal's Mix 96, Energy, and C-Koi. Mix doesn't have the kind of signal nor budget, that these three stations have, but Mix does have its own unique Top 40 sound.
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> Z-100 New York was probably the first CHR in the country to
> first play "Hard To Handle", even while "She Talks To
> Angels" was charting. They first played it on Friday nights
> during the 5 PM hour when many CHR stations threw in a lot
> of feelgood records like Eddie Money "Take Me Home Tonight",
> or Loverboy "Everybody's Working for The Weekend". Anyways,
> Z experienced a lot of success with "Hard To Handle", added
> it to their playlist fulltime, as did many other CHRs across
> the country.
> So yes, Black Crowes on CHR makes more sense then you think.

Yes...I realize "Hard To Handle" was a CHR hit...14 years ago. I don't think it fits the CHR format in 2005. If they were an adult CHR, maybe. How come they don't play "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff? That was a bigger hit during the summer of '91 and is 10x more relevant for the format today.

Plus...Z100 CAN play songs that were hits "back in the day". It's part of their rich heritage. Titles like that are part of the fabric of their existence. When heard on a straight, young "CHR" like Hits...it just sounds out of place.

94.7 can already effectively compete with Mix, just for the sheer fact they don't have to abide by the CanCon laws. They should be BEATING Mix on the West Island...and they're not. The West Island audience is more sophisticated than you think. They can hear Black Crowes on CHOM and CKMF. 94.7 should focus on CHR hits and CHR hits only. Hearing an HOUR's worth of non-stop gold and recurrents (out of sweepers like "Montreal's HIT music station") is just bad programming.
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

How long has Standard owned a piece? The website for 94.7 used to be www.nixthemix.com



> > Are you implying Standard is MAKING 94.7 play Black
> Crowes,
> > Everlast and "Outrageous" in order to NOT take a bite out
> of
> > Mix 96?
> >
> > Or...are you saying that they arent true competition since
>
> > they own a piece of the pie? If THAT'S the case, then
> you'd
> > think Standard would want a PD intact at Hits with a
> little
> > more CHR experience under his/her belt, in order to
> maximize
> > their holdings.
> >
> > Who's the PD at Hits? It's obvious they have little or no
> > CHR expertise.
> >
> The PD at 94.7 Hits Fm is a Gentleman by the name of Drew
> Scott, who may also be busy programming sister stations WVRV
> and WRCD.
>
> The problem may be someone higher up telling him that he is
> only allowed to to 75-80 percent of what he would like to
> do. This happend to Mix 99.9 in Toronto a while back to a pd
> there who was eithor fired, or quit...not sure which.
>
> Don't forget who owns the remaining 75 percent...it's the
> SAME company that launched a "Bye Bye Chez" website, had no
> success with Ottawa, and wasted time going after listeners
> that could hardly pick up 101.5 "the FOX" (WRCD)
>
> Cornwall is much closer. Attacking Rock 101.9 would have
> been alot smarter.
> If they havn't fired the crew that chose to attack Ottawa,
> that may be the same crowd "messing up" 94.7, and the
> problem may or may not be the pd there.
>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> How long has Standard owned a piece? The website for 94.7
> used to be www.nixthemix.com

I wish my memory could recall the exact date better. I believe it was around the same time 101.5 discontinued the Rock101.5 name, replacing it with Fox, but I may be wrong.
I believe the investment Standard made in Martz Communications was intended to be for the purpose of discontinuing the attacks on Mix, and, like a handshake, killing two birds with one stone, securing a promise that the purpose of Fox's existance would never be to attack Ottawa's bear.
<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> 94.7 can already effectively compete with Mix, just for the
> sheer fact they don't have to abide by the CanCon laws. They
> should be BEATING Mix on the West Island...and they're not.
> The West Island audience is more sophisticated than you
> think. They can hear Black Crowes on CHOM and CKMF. 94.7
> should focus on CHR hits and CHR hits only. Hearing an
> HOUR's worth of non-stop gold and recurrents (out of
> sweepers like "Montreal's HIT music station") is just bad
> programming.

As strictly a guess, is 94.7 perhaps on the right track?...based on a Mother/Daugher idea that gets them both to agree on a CHR-style station that makes them both happy just long enough to leave the dial in one place?

BUT instead of the mother saying "When you get your own car/radio/etc you can listen to the station you want!" the mother feels that, even though the child/children are listening to THEIR station, the dial is still left there because there's some music being played that she also likes...and/or is better willing to tolerate?


<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> As strictly a guess, is 94.7 perhaps on the right
> track?...based on a Mother/Daugher idea that gets them both
> to agree on a CHR-style station that makes them both happy
> just long enough to leave the dial in one place?

But there are other ways to accomplish this. Rather than play golds and recurrents that simply don't fit the format (and, thus result in tune-outs on BOTH sides of the border), they can focus on non-polarizing HITS, rather than STIFFS.

Rather than play "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico, why not play Natasha Bedingfield or DHT? Two songs I hardly EVER hear on 94.7.
 
What’s all this kerfuffle about Hits FM?

I think it’s a fine station and hope they never change a thing.

By my ear its radio perfection at its absolute best. A nirvana if you prefer with a fine and perfectly balanced rotation of currents and recurrents.

Their signal is second to no one in Montreal and it enjoys a strong following.

As a matter of fact some research that I have seen shows that it could well rival the collective audiences of CKMF, CKOI and each and every other station in the French market for that matter.

On the English side of the dial it is a true force to be reckoned with. A juggernaught by any measure!

As they are always quick to point out, they always surpass the audience of the All News operation in Montreal and that is indeed a major accomplishment. Some might call that comparing apples to oranges, but don’t let logic and common sense fool you!

As I understand it, Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel has Hits FM piped into his office and regularly skims the station and personally parcels out the airchecks to each likeformated station in the Clear Channel group telling each PD & or GM “Stop whatever you are doing as you are wasting your time. This is what we should be doing.”

Certainly every PD in Montreal has the station tuned in and hangs on each nuance and is quick to copy the style and get it onto the air as quickly as possible claiming it their own.

But make no mistake, Hits FM is it!
 
Gotta love that Canadian humor!

Brilliant.

> What’s all this kerfuffle about Hits FM?
>
> I think it’s a fine station and hope they never change a
> thing.
>
> By my ear its radio perfection at its absolute best. A
> nirvana if you prefer with a fine and perfectly balanced
> rotation of currents and recurrents.
>
> Their signal is second to no one in Montreal and it enjoys a
> strong following.
>
> As a matter of fact some research that I have seen shows
> that it could well rival the collective audiences of CKMF,
> CKOI and each and every other station in the French market
> for that matter.
>
> On the English side of the dial it is a true force to be
> reckoned with. A juggernaught by any measure!
>
> As they are always quick to point out, they always surpass
> the audience of the All News operation in Montreal and that
> is indeed a major accomplishment. Some might call that
> comparing apples to oranges, but don’t let logic and common
> sense fool you!
>
> As I understand it, Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel has
> Hits FM piped into his office and regularly skims the
> station and personally parcels out the airchecks to each
> likeformated station in the Clear Channel group telling each
> PD & or GM “Stop whatever you are doing as you are wasting
> your time. This is what we should be doing.”
>
> Certainly every PD in Montreal has the station tuned in and
> hangs on each nuance and is quick to copy the style and get
> it onto the air as quickly as possible claiming it their
> own.
>
> But make no mistake, Hits FM is it!
>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

>
> Rather than play "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico, why not play
> Natasha Bedingfield or DHT? Two songs I hardly EVER hear on
> 94.7.
>
You'd think they'd at least have "light rotation" for those tunes. This is sounding more like an MD issue more than a PD issue.<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> >
> > Rather than play "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico, why not play
> > Natasha Bedingfield or DHT? Two songs I hardly EVER hear
> on
> > 94.7.
> >
> You'd think they'd at least have "light rotation" for those
> tunes. This is sounding more like an MD issue more than a PD
> issue.
>

Probably the same person.
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

> This is sounding more like an MD issue more than a
> PD issue.
> Probably the same person.

I think you're right. No credit for MD on their website (in the "contact us" area), so, with no assumption indended, I'll just conclude that it sure looks that way...and I don't doubt it.
<P ID="signature">______________
"If you never say NO, How much is your YES worth?"
</P>
 
Re: 94.7 Hits FM:

The 94-7 Hits FM imaging guy also imaged one of Z103dot5's commercials.
 
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