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Another twist for 107.3 HMN/Pensacola

amfmxm said:
Tibbs & Poledo, y'all are the wrong demo to understand 107.3, Elvis Duran, or the CHR format. When we were kids, CHR was a true mass-appeal format, but today it's a chick thang. Not to mention an 18-24 thang--as it always was. So when we hit 25 were were Too Old!!! Uh, how many years ago was that, now...
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Is that why most all top 40 radio stations have sucked since 1980?


As for the Blaze 103.1... Are radio-locator's CP listings for the moves of 103.1 and 102.1 down in FWB correct or even possible? I thought both of those frequencies were already short spaced (103.1 to the 103.1 CP in Ocean Springs and 102.1 to both 102.1 in Citronelle and 102.3 in Opp). How is Apex getting around those issues?
 
amfmxm said:
Tibbs & Poledo, y'all are the wrong demo to understand 107.3, Elvis Duran, or the CHR format. When we were kids, CHR was a true mass-appeal format, but today it's a chick thang. Not to mention an 18-24 thang--as it always was. So when we hit 25 were were Too Old!!! Uh, how many years ago was that, now...

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Well I'm a 40 yr old man and I listen to Q92 everyday. Maybe I didn't get the memo. ;)
 
.. and when I was 18-24 there were no Oldies, Classic Rock or Talk stations! (Well, very few "talk" stations--and nothing like today's)!

A friend of mine--a slightly older friend--tells the story of his days as an AE in Cleveland--then, as now, a Major Market. He says that when he started his sales career, there were five (5) radio stations in the market. How many today? Fifty?

A different world.
 
When you were 18-24 there were no standards/big band/opera stations? Or were those formats covered in "block programming"? Those formats would have been the oldies of those days. Now-a-days the classic rocker is playing a lot of 1990s music. There's a whole missing format of 1960-1980 rock that doesn't have a name or home anymore... I know most of us are glad there aren't any stations playing 1970s and 1980s Pop music (I think the all '80s top 40 format has died nationwide?) but they made some damn good rock and roll back then.

I still want to know why no one plays the Grateful Dead besides the few AAA and Americana stations still left out there. The Dead deserve to be in a 4 to 6 song a day rotation on all Classic Rockers and at least once a day on full service rockers (WKSM 99 Rock in FWB is the only full service rocker I know of existing in a 250 mile radius) and Adult Hits/Jack stations should play the Dead every day and several times every night.
 
I don't like the Dead, myself, but their absence from classic rock radio is just one of many issues I have with today's version of the format.

I definitely wish there was a market for classic rock from 1965-1979 or thereabouts, without the need to interject more 80s oriented stuff like Scorpions and Guns N Roses in every few breaks. I swear every time I turn on The Rocket, it's friggin' November Rain or Sweet Child O' Mine. Fine play-worthy songs, these, but not after Buffalo Springfield or Cream, PLEASE. Ugh. (Also, I have a personal and undying hatred of GNR, but please don't hate me for that. I know I'm a minority of one on that issue.)

Dunno about online specifically, but at least Sirius has retained Classic Vinyl, leaving newer classic rock from the late 70s to early 90s for its own station. I really think the two eras of rock need to be segregated. The old farts like my dad bristle at the 80s arena rock mixed in with classics, and no doubt the younger hard rock types go bananas when they hear The Allman Brothers after Def Leppard.

To almost sorta return to HMN, I tried listening to their HD feed as I drove from P'cola today to Mobile via Foley, and even out there in rural Baldwin County it was impossible. You'd think it would at least be reasonably stable from Lillian to Elberta, where one can more or less 'see' the tower itself, but nope. Choppy as bay water on a stormy day. TK 101 wasn't much better. I like the alt. rock feed on HD-2 but it's sub-AM quality, while the main channel's HD has the treble turned to 11. I wish I knew why these station's HD broadcasts performed so poorly, while KSJ and BLX are rock solid everywhere, with Rocket not far behind… Now if CC would put the WNTM-AM feed on 99.9-2 and put REAL classic rock on 96.1-2, I'd be a real happy camper. ;)
 
poledo said:
When you were 18-24 there were no standards/big band/opera stations?
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Late sixties in my hometown? We had two AM sticks and no FM. Both stations ran MOR. One was a Cubs affiliate and the other ran the Cardinals. No Country, no Rock, no Soul/Urban, no Oldies, no Opera--unless it was on the university's "educational" station... but no self-respecting 18-24 ever bothered to tune it in--even when we went to school there. Some things never change!
 
You know the old joke about what the Deadhead said after he ran out of weed, "Man, this music sucks."

I would imagine that is the reason you don't hear the Dead on classic rock radio much. Probably tests very poorly.

I might would play Truckin and Casey Jones but nothing else.
 
I wish Pensacola had an FM stick that could re create the old TK-101 sound from the early 70's playing "classic rock" and late night, doing the old AM stuff
that made Little Rock's , KAAY' s "Bleaker Street" a must for listeners from TX,
LA, MS, AL and FL listen every night. But that my friends, "were the good ole days!!"
 
stonecold49 said:
I wish Pensacola had an FM stick that could re create the old TK-101 sound from the early 70's playing "classic rock" and late night, doing the old AM stuff
that made Little Rock's , KAAY' s "Bleaker Street" a must for listeners from TX,
LA, MS, AL and FL listen every night. But that my friends, "were the good ole days!!"
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Gotta jump in here at the mention of "the old AM stuff" and "the good ole days" in P-cola. I have very fond memories of 1450 WBSR rockin' and rollin' the AM band in the late 60's, PAMs jingles, great local talent, Bill Burkett was the PD, and oh yeah, a Navy guy from Corry Field doing weekends ;). Ah yes..........and now you know why my screen name is NOSTALGIA!
 
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