Based upon their first hour, WRXP is NOT AAA!

[LA_Guy]

The music they played their first hour is NOT AAA!
Here's what their first hour should have been (in no particular order):

Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes
Train - Meet Virginia
Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Gone Gone Gone
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
Bruce Springsteen - Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Semisonic - Closing Time

THESE songs DEFINE the AAA format-not the stuff they played!

If you want to hear AAA done right, here's some links:

www.mvyradio.com
www.wxrv.com
www.kfog.com
www.wxrt.com
www.kbco.com
www.lightning100.com
www.929themountain.com
www.kgsr.com

 

[lalumia]

ugh,,,,thanks, but no thanks

 

[cartman1964]

33.3% Q-104
33.3% K-Rock
33.4%-Nickelback

That's how I'd describe 101.9 WRXP

 

[leethalweapon]

33.3% Q-104
33.3% K-Rock
33.4%-Nickelback

That's how I'd describe 101.9 WRXP

;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[lalumia]

the fan base has already departed-it was a very short honey moon-cbs fm is rockin

 

[raydofan]

If you want to hear AAA done right

That is an illogical phrase. AAA is never right to do in the first place. People who program it should be put on the rack.

 

[mjb1124]

This station is obviously more mainstream-minded and less soft than most AAA's, but it still veers more closely towards that classification than anything else. Seems that lately there has been a trend of rock-based formats that defy the typical labels: RXP, Radio 104.5 and its clones, and heck, even K-Rock.

 

[neo11]

If you want to hear AAA done right

That is an illogical phrase. AAA is never right to do in the first place. People who program it should be put on the rack.

Tell that to the folks at 107.1 The Peak and 92.9 'EHM.

It's one thing to feel that a format won't do well and to back that up with some reasoning, but the hate that people spew left and right based solely on their own personal tastes really lowers the quality of the discussion.

 

[aka. the steve]

In my opinion, the station sounds like a research project gone horribly wrong. Just because you can play Hendrix, Foreigner and Jack Johnson on the same station doesn't make it a good idea.

Real AAA stations have a soul and RXP has none. Maybe they'll be able to develop one if given the time.

 

[neo11]

There's an idea...maybe people should give it a little time. After all, it seems so many posters here and the "dentist" board were willing to give a station like Free FM, all the time in the world.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

The Triple-A stations with the most "soul" tend to be the ones that evolved from AOR (KFOG, KBCO) or that draw on the heritage of the market (The Peak does that, especially during their "10 at 10" feature). 'RXP has to walk that fine line of evoking the spirit of the 'NEW/'PLJ glory days without turning off the younger demos who, let's face it, don't give a rat's ass about that stuff. This has always been the Triple-A conundrum: how long can you segue from Hendrix or Blondie to [insert flavor-of-the-month artist here], before it starts to seem silly. It probably seems sillier to a twentysomething who's never heard a triple-A station before than it does to someone who's been listening to, say, KFOG for 15 or 20 years.

 

[fang39]

I've tuned in several times over the first few days and have the following to offer:

• Overplaying "core artists" like REM and Elvis Costello.
• I concur with previous posts....waaaaaay too much Nickelback

Other than that, I'm enjoying RXP. While it's not a true AAA, it does have some elements of the format. Looking forward to the addition of an airstaff, then we'll really be able to judge what this station is all about. ;D

 

[Brooklyndon]

i like the format for the most part, i just wish the station wouldn't rely on singles remixes, and instead play the album version.

 

[lalumia]

I was hoping for doses of the NY Rock Scene sound,as was first hinted at(Iggy,Mott, Lou Reed,Ramones)but it'n now all Stones and Tom Petty with interminable sound a like 90s grunge bands shoved in between; no wonder hip hop won and is still winning, in the clubs and at CHR

 

[neo11]

Hip-Hop really isn't winning anymore. And don't you have anything else to add other than the New York Dolls stuff every other post? One would think you're their agent or something.