ATLANTA RADIO IS EMBARASSING

[bnaivar]

Sirius used to have a great 50's/60's Oldies channel, but when they merged with XM they kept XM's 50's and 60' separate channels. Now Sirius/XM 50's is mostly Rock-a-billy, and their 60's channel plays mostly non-hits.

 

[awp69]

Reading this, the flip thread and the Bone thread, I'm just stunned and head spinning. I last lived in Atlanta in the early 2000s when 99X was still on it's original signal and Dave, I believe, had just started. Although 99X was not what it once was back in the '90s, the combination of 99X and Dave was at least somewhat satisfying.

I moved to Greenville, SC in 2005 (having lived there for a few years in the '90s) and was amazed at how much worse the market had gotten (not that it was great the years I lived there in the '90s). In the past year, Greenville's market has made a fairly decent transformation -- from one where there wasn't a single station that I thought was worthy of listening to...to having multiple stations that are "listenable".

We've had two horrible rock stations (WROQ, a classic rocker that has stayed in the same rut for years, and WTPT, an active rocker that thought the only music that existed was made to blow your eardrums off). Now, we've got a Hot AC (which, believe it or not, was the only station playing things like Fun. and Gotye six months ago), an variety hits station (Chuck, similar to Dave, but a bit older leaning) and a quickly blossoming alternative rock station.

Especially with the addition of our alternative X98.5, I've gone from being miserable and longing for a market like Atlanta to being pretty happy with the once dismal GSP market.

Now, I can't believe that it sounds as if Atlanta's really gone down the crapper. I never, ever thought I'd see the day when I thought the GSP market had a better selection on the radio dial than Atlanta. Feel sorry for the folks in Atlanta (particularly those wanting a decent rock or alternative station with the demise of 99X and, soon, Dave).

Hope the flips continue so that something decent comes back to the area. Having lived through the 90+ minute commutes during rush hour in the ATL, I'd be signing up for satellite or living off my iPod.

 

[BIGSTICK]

Reading this, the flip thread and the Bone thread, I'm just stunned and head spinning. I last lived in Atlanta in the early 2000s when 99X was still on it's original signal and Dave, I believe, had just started. Although 99X was not what it once was back in the '90s, the combination of 99X and Dave was at least somewhat satisfying.

I moved to Greenville, SC in 2005 (having lived there for a few years in the '90s) and was amazed at how much worse the market had gotten (not that it was great the years I lived there in the '90s). In the past year, Greenville's market has made a fairly decent transformation -- from one where there wasn't a single station that I thought was worthy of listening to...to having multiple stations that are "listenable".

We've had two horrible rock stations (WROQ, a classic rocker that has stayed in the same rut for years, and WTPT, an active rocker that thought the only music that existed was made to blow your eardrums off). Now, we've got a Hot AC (which, believe it or not, was the only station playing things like Fun. and Gotye six months ago), an variety hits station (Chuck, similar to Dave, but a bit older leaning) and a quickly blossoming alternative rock station.

Especially with the addition of our alternative X98.5, I've gone from being miserable and longing for a market like Atlanta to being pretty happy with the once dismal GSP market.

Now, I can't believe that it sounds as if Atlanta's really gone down the crapper. I never, ever thought I'd see the day when I thought the GSP market had a better selection on the radio dial than Atlanta. Feel sorry for the folks in Atlanta (particularly those wanting a decent rock or alternative station with the demise of 99X and, soon, Dave).

Hope the flips continue so that something decent comes back to the area. Having lived through the 90+ minute commutes during rush hour in the ATL, I'd be signing up for satellite or living off my iPod.

That is what most people I know are doing. Why even care anymore, the idiots at these companies do not care about us whatsoever.

 

[agentUrge]

That is what most people I know are doing. Why even care anymore, the idiots at these companies do not care about us whatsoever.

For many of us not in the industry, radio is something we grew up on so I think for some to see their favorite genres, niche or not, take a back seat to mainstream radio, it's a little disheartening. Don't get me wrong, I love my satellite radio and my 3G connection in the car, but something you loose, even with listening to local stations on the office wi-fi, is that local connection. You don't hear local ads often...even on 99x.com I would have to hear the same ad for "_________" at least twice before getting back to music or whatever.

 

[MRFLASHPORT]

so true, even on the terrestrial stations with a web presence, the feeds are often edited and local content deleted.
but for those of us who enjoyed radio and TV when it was all done locally, we will always remember how it used to be.
it sure wasn't "video" that killed the radio star, it was corporate congolmeration and homogenization that did it.