99.9 WQRC, Ocean 104, and 94.3

[RadioJay]

I have noticed lately that WQRC and Ocean 104 have been sounding almost the same musically. QRC has always been the AC station, but Ocean 104, which used to play mainly soft AC and standards is now sounding more current and upbeat with only a few standards from time to time. On Ocean I heard Dancing Queen by Abba and What A Fool Believes by the Doobies. Recently it sounds like Ocean 104 is overlapping WQRC's music. Maybe Ocean is now targeting the younger 25-54 demo. A few years ago it was very easy to tell these stations apart. Now they sound almost the same. I used to like the mostly nostalgic music that Ocean 104 used to play.

Aslo, has anyone noticed the new station on 94.3? It sounded like a Public Radio station and was in mono. This I also don't get because the Cape already has so many Public Radio stations. Couldn't they have done something better with this frequency? Any ideas? <P ID="signature">______________
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[raccoonradio]

> I have noticed lately that WQRC and Ocean 104 have been
> sounding almost the same musically.

I noticed that too when I visited my Dad on the Cape recently.

> Aslo, has anyone noticed the new station on 94.3? It
> sounded like a Public Radio station and was in mono.

The calls are WZAI and it's run by WGBH...apparently was put on
because their various signals (WGBH, WCAI, WNAN) don't do well in that
particular area.

372ft 5kw A from Brewster.

 

[mistercrabs2]

i dont think they know what the hell they're doing with those stations. I've met the people who run the show and listened to their thoughts about the direction to take each station and then I listen to the stations and think, "they really have no clue how to program them musically". An AC station playing the Cars "Good Times Roll?"? C'mon.......And let's not even get into the plethora of bad 80's songs that linger and rotate several times a aweek in their selector as well....

As for the Ocean, they ruined themselves a few years back when they decided to pull away from the focus on standards. Which is ironic, because that was the reason we listened to them to begin with. they were a GREAT station, full of knowledge and expertise of an era few of us know anything about. now its just a really bad soft ac with a really bad selection of songs and jocks who dont know anything about the music they are playing. and it shows. and it sucks listening to them.

I suppose they're both going thru some growing pains, and both are trying to target a younger demo to increase the sales revenue, but this is a very painful way to do it. Sure hope they have a lot of patience.


> > I have noticed lately that WQRC and Ocean 104 have been
> > sounding almost the same musically.
>
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[radiogeek07]

May be a better way to go would be to put a smooth jazz station on 103.9 and call it the new Ocean 104. QRC could then get into a more bright AC kind of sound especially since WCOD is moving more in an adult CHR direction. At least that's what I noticed around Christmas time when I was visiting up in that area last.

 

[wxctintern]

The reason Public Radio is on 94.3 is because those (BLEEP) at WGBH won the bid for the allotment when the FCC allotted that frequency. Frankly those (BLEEP) at the FCC should never have allowed WGBH to bid in the first place.<P ID="signature">______________
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[mistercrabs2]

WAY TO GO, RADIO GEEK!!

that's the best freaking money making suggestion I've ever read in this dang board!

you're absolutely right. smooth jazz would be a huge success on the Ocean (especially since they have the library from QRC's sunday jazz brunch to do it full-time) and then they could bring back the standards as featured or specialty programming.

brilliant. you get an A for the day.


> May be a better way to go would be to put a smooth jazz
> station on 103.9 and call it the new Ocean 104. QRC could
> then get into a more bright AC kind of sound especially
> since WCOD is moving more in an adult CHR direction. At
> least that's what I noticed around Christmas time when I was
> visiting up in that area last.
>
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[Joseph_Gallant]

Puzzling

Many years ago, WQRC-99.9 was beautiful-music.

I think they've been AC for the last 10 to 15 years.

But I find it puzzling that WOCN-103.9 and WQRC now have so much of an overlap in music, given they're under the same ownership.

 

[kzrockwell]

Here is some relief?

If you have a hankerin' for adult standards , give my show on www.959watd.com a listen on Sundays 11-4 I mix them in pretty darn well with other oldies, if I do say so myself.1950 - 1969