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96.9 The Beat Domain name registrations...

How about the original Softrock.... "The Eagles. Without the turkeys." Updated from what was WEEI/FM 103.3. Chachachachanges! Hey, any well done talk format or great music station as long as it's well put together, sells and connects for "Boston. Without the out of town PDs."

Gone from the charts but not from our hearts.
 
Lightning said:
If Jam'n who has been around since the 90s can't make bucks being a full fledged Urban why would a new station even bother? Hip Hop is dead...

Perhaps an EDM station here in Boston? The Beat, or Pulse sounds pretty good for an EDM station. The format is very popular among college students especially in such a progressive city as Boston.
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An EDM station would be too good to be true. Since when does the industry really care about the music people my age actually listen to? I mean I tune in to Jam'n, Amp, and Kiss in the car, but I usually get sick of the stations after a few songs and change to my iPod.

Maybe in the next few years we will see more EDM stations once college students like me get to age 25, and into the 25-54 demo. Radio just takes a long time to change.

I actually think GM is going to go Urban or Urban AC. There is a hole for urban especially, which attracts a majority black audience but definitely more whites than urban AC. Jam'n has really thrown out urban completely.
 
Just because Greater Media currently doesn't have a "youth-oriented" station (although one can argue Radio 92.9 has a sizable 24 an under audience) doesn't mean that they're not going to give an urban format a try. A well-programmed, relatively sophisticated urban format may actually perform pretty well in Boston, and there's a chance--given the domain names registered and formats typically associated with those monikers--that an urban format may actually happen. It is an opening, and Jam'n 94.5 isn't necessarily filling that hole right now.

I'd place my bets on either urban or rhythmic AC (80s-90s based dance with some currents thrown in).

Jacko
 
Lightning said:
Perhaps an EDM station here in Boston? The Beat, or Pulse sounds pretty good for an EDM station. The format is very popular among college students especially in such a progressive city as Boston.
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Er, what do you think Amp-103 is?
 
I'm guessing EDM means electronic dance music...and whether it's the same as what Amp's playing I don't know. There are things the younger folks have done like trance, techno, trip-hop etc.
and I don't quite know what's what. We have people who do their own creative mixes (like one
at WMWM)....maybe Amp is playing a certain type of EDM/CHR and what the college kids like
is a more alternative type of it, who knows.
 
i love how on there webpage there has been no response as comments flood there fb page. i hope its a urban star 93.7, wktu feel!!! picture this 96.9 the beat of Boston!!
 
Folks on boston-radio-interest pointed out that WXKS (AM) has gone from a 1.4 to a 0.6 as comedy... but of course they shed salary so fewer expenses.

Check out some of those domain names: Jack, Now, ClassicRockThatReallyRocks, News, Oldies,
Sports...
 
Imagine: NECN Radio 96.9...

NECN (which like WTKK employs Jim Braude) aired a report about the possible 96.9 format change. As it is now, the radio outlet simulcasts NECN in the wee hours. A couple of the domain name possibilities (the latest decoys) mention news or "now".

The News You Need is On Right Now: NECN Radio 96.9...a 24/7 simulcast of the cable channel.
Low cost to Greater...perhaps with one or two talk shows unique to the radio part. Naaah,
probably not, but you wonder...
 
Re: Imagine: NECN Radio 96.9...

Speaking of news and 96.9, at one point part of their ownership was the Globe

"WJIB is owned and operated by Kaiser Broadcasting Company and the Boston Globe who also
operate WKBG-TV 56 and WCAS radio in Cambridge."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umf186Eds6Y

Ding ding! Ding ding! Ding!
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The current WTKK studios are at 55 Morrissey Blvd down the street from the Globe (135).
Ch 56 was next to the Globe. Years ago Ch 5's studios were at 50 Morrissey.
 
WTKK memory: An angry Don Imus lays into Jay Severin at the Kiss Me I'm Imus event

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/more_names/blog/imus jay.jpg

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/more_names/blog/2009/03/imus_throws_down_the_sequel.html

>>“He looked right at me and said…get the (expletive) off the stage or I will shoot you,” said Severin, who said he went on stage during an early commercial break to greet his former colleagues from the show. He greeted Imus first, and proceeded to say some hellos, he said. Then Imus’ producer beckoned him over to the host, and Severin crouched down to hear him better. That’s when Imus ordered him from the stage. “I knew myself to not be recently in his good graces,” Severin said. “I was really taken aback.” He left after Imus repeated the threat, but remained backstage, where he heard Imus disparage him on the air.
 
Re: Imagine: NECN Radio 96.9...

raccoonradio said:
NECN (which like WTKK employs Jim Braude) aired a report about the possible 96.9 format change. As it is now, the radio outlet simulcasts NECN in the wee hours. A couple of the domain name possibilities (the latest decoys) mention news or "now".

The News You Need is On Right Now: NECN Radio 96.9...a 24/7 simulcast of the cable channel.
Low cost to Greater...perhaps with one or two talk shows unique to the radio part. Naaah,
probably not, but you wonder...
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Television news on radio is unlistenable. Way too much that has to be seen, including the identification of people speaking in the live shots. What a waste of a good Boston FM signal if that's what becomes of 96.9. Might as well go brokered ethnic and carry overmodulated Haitian preaching 24/7.
 
Seems to me that over the years, 96.9 had any number of chances to deal 680 a knock-out blow....but was somehow never quite able to do it.

680 may indeed have a glass jaw....but 96.9 was never quite able to reach it.

My hunch is that Greater Media makes a run at the music niche that WPLM 99.1 has had pretty much to itself.

Anything more daring than that would surprise me.
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
Seems to me that over the years, 96.9 had any number of chances to deal 680 a knock-out blow....but was somehow never quite able to do it.

680 may indeed have a glass jaw....but 96.9 was never quite able to reach it.

My hunch is that Greater Media makes a run at the music niche that WPLM 99.1 has had pretty much to itself.

Anything more daring than that would surprise me.
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GM does have a reputation for playing it safe, but what you suggest would compete with their own WMJX.


I think a '70s -'00s variety format with an accent on soul would work, but please have real variety more than 250 songs. How about 2500 songs.
 
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