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953 OLZ - Fort Myers

J

justincredible

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I saw something about a discussion on the name change but from I can tell they have also changed the music?

I would have never given that station a shot a year ago, I flipped it on today and they were playing alot of stuff from the 80s such as dexys midnight run and kokomo.

Anyone else in Fort Myers notice this? It's like an adult/80s CHR oldies station. Still definitely not programmed for extended TSL from a 25 year old but its switch-worthy to me.

Maybe they are leaving 1063 and 1011 to the grandmas and grandpas and trying to squeeze in on the younger demos?
 
> I saw something about a discussion on the name change but
> from I can tell they have also changed the music?

Sounds like they're going the route of WOLL/West Palm Beach, and KFRC-FM San Francisco, pushing the envelope forward into 80s.....WOLL went as far as playing (Man) I Feel Like A Woman the other day, for a station that had actually jumped into "70s Mode" as early as 96-ish, retreated into traditional 50s-60s, then did a turnaround to this.

J: Whaddup with your Saturday show on 96.9?? Used to rawk and provide the soundtrack to my Saturday nights when I was on Sanibel...Miami freestyle "deep cuts" on there they weren't even playing on Miami radio anymore. I would DX the station wherever I could get it..Last 2 times I was up that way, no dice, just "Borderline" remix from the Immaculate Collection (and similar overplayed Iowa Pop culprits)??!!!! I know you and Rooney are much better than that!!

Anthony
(ex-Zeta/Miami)
 
Boss - things were so good - and then so bad leaving a taste in my mouth so sour it was time to move on to a CAREER where you are rewarded for success not punished.

Pretty much we were told to only play "hits" not dance hits on a show called the Saturday Night Retro DANCE Party. Management came down when we played stuff they did not recognize.

We could not play ANY freestyle and only pop dance remixes. No stevie B, no Johnny O, no Cynthia, no De La Soul, no old school. The song had to be a legitimate BILLBOARD TOP40 hit for it to be played on a DANCE show.

The other thing that could have led to the noose around the neck was this little dinky dance party which began with retro and freestyle from 7p-10p and slammed trance,house and breaks after getting calls from WPYM 93.1 and 933FLZ listeners rountinely was one of the highest rated dayparts on the entire station crushing the morning show. Kinda ironic when music that doesnt fit your format gets double digit numbers.

It hard to figure out what happened. The environment was fertile or we did so well one book that 1055, 1039, 1047 and 1001 all started having saturday night mix shows which was phenomenal! Props to Nando, Andy, Hill and whoever else gave these newly-weds and newly-deads soemthing different! Those were awesome times before hiphop began to saturate the market.

Anyways corporate conservatism and alienating dedicated niche listeners destroyed my passion for radio and its a damn shame too.

Art is still runnin with it and the FRESH BEATS sound killer! ...1055 has a lunch feature which plays some good freestyle

As for the rest of the week, I am getting into talk radio with Boortz and Beck and the Liz Wilde show.

Justin

> > I saw something about a discussion on the name change but
> > from I can tell they have also changed the music?
>
> Sounds like they're going the route of WOLL/West Palm Beach,
> and KFRC-FM San Francisco, pushing the envelope forward into
> 80s.....WOLL went as far as playing (Man) I Feel Like A
> Woman the other day, for a station that had actually jumped
> into "70s Mode" as early as 96-ish, retreated into
> traditional 50s-60s, then did a turnaround to this.
>
> J: Whaddup with your Saturday show on 96.9?? Used to rawk
> and provide the soundtrack to my Saturday nights when I was
> on Sanibel...Miami freestyle "deep cuts" on there they
> weren't even playing on Miami radio anymore. I would DX the
> station wherever I could get it..Last 2 times I was up that
> way, no dice, just "Borderline" remix from the Immaculate
> Collection (and similar overplayed Iowa Pop culprits)??!!!!
> I know you and Rooney are much better than that!!
>
> Anthony
> (ex-Zeta/Miami)
>
 
> Boss - things were so good -

Indeed...It was fun while it lasted....

But what do you expect from a company that, in the 80s, re-edited George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" when it was a hit, (back then the station was "Hitradio 97, WINK-FM"), and played it, and actually back/front announced it as "I Want Your LOVE"....If you're gonna go that far, just don't play the song and avoid the blatant embarrasment.
 
> But what do you expect from a company that, in the 80s,
> re-edited George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" when it was a
> hit, (back then the station was "Hitradio 97, WINK-FM"), and
> played it, and actually back/front announced it as "I Want
> Your LOVE"....If you're gonna go that far, just don't play
> the song and avoid the blatant embarrasment.
>
Lots of stations did that including Q105. In fact it was a bit embarassing to hear Q105 play the edited version while Sarasota's Z106 played the real one. Q105 DID eventually play the real version but it was in the early '90s, long after Mason Dixon was gone.
 
"The NEW Q105!!!!"

> Q105 DID eventually
> play the real version but it was in the early '90s, long
> after Mason Dixon was gone.

Ah, yes...The "New Q-105"....Michael Horne's brainchild.....Fall 90 I think it was where the practically did a housecleaning and went jockless for quite a bit...The Geo. Michael was probably a part of the 80s tunes they sprinkled into the mix for "effect", because I remember them throwing in Information Society, and also getting them on 1380 when I visited Sarasota, they were playing the System's 88 track "Don't Disturb This Groove" over Labor Day 90.

That permutation of the "Q" actually beat FLZ 12+...One book....

But for as much as they claim to have 'revived' Q-105, I don't think anyone will admit to that point in time ever even having existed ; - ) Not with Mason in the bldg. again.
 
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