99.9 WQRC and Ocean 104

[RadioJay]

What's the point of having two stations owned by the same company that sound almost the same? With the exception of the Broadway Show Tunes on Saturday night on Ocean 104 and the Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch on WQRC, both stations don't sound much different. Ocean 104 is sounding too much like WQRC musically. Ocean should just stick to playing soft AC and standards. <P ID="signature">______________
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[JustinT]

> What's the point of having two stations owned by the same
> company that sound almost the same? With the exception of
> the Broadway Show Tunes on Saturday night on Ocean 104 and
> the Sunday Morning Jazz Brunch on WQRC, both stations don't
> sound much different. Ocean 104 is sounding too much like
> WQRC musically. Ocean should just stick to playing soft AC
> and standards.
>

I'd definately agree. Up where I am, you can get 99.9 on occasion (would come in all the time if not for WHHB 99.9) but 103.9 comes in almost never. When I heard 103.9 a few weeks ago on DX, I was stunned at the similarity of the two stations.

If 103.9 wasn't doing as well as it is, I'd say to keep the AC on the big 99.9 signal and put a smooth jazz format on the weaker 103.9 seeing the success of the Smooth Jazz Brunch and of the also-instrumental WFCC 107.5. But with 103.9's ratings, I don't see an changes.

Maybe Nassau will pick up on the success of the Smooth Jazz Brunch; they also had a jazz format at 104.9 in Atlantic City.