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Best and Worse Format Flips/Segues

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Retro

Can you think of any good format flips? How about bad ones?

Whether you were happy or not with the actual changes, here are mine:

The good:

1)1989, when WBOS flipped from Country to the Wave Format (Triple A), the whole speal with talking about flipping to Punk Country was classic!

2) 1984, WEGQ to WQSX, playing 1999 for something like 16 hours and then having me at the edge of my seat at 3PM with a 60 second time clock was great, followed immediately by "You Dropped A Bomb On Me!"

3) 1992, when WVBF flipped to WCLB, and had the retrospective of the stations history. That was good!

The bad

1) 1986, WHTT's flip to WMRQ. The ending was very abrupt and unexpected! While it was nice that they thanked a few people, it took very many people by surprise!
 
That was unplanned,the person at the controls at the time had added that in because according to AMR at the time, the person who did that was being let go.
 
Good.. The frequency switch between WKLB going to 102.5 from 99.5 and WCRB in reverse.. Happened to be in Boston that day and caught that..
 
Retro said:
2) 1984, WEGQ to WQSX, playing 1999 for something like 16 hours and then having me at the edge of my seat at 3PM with a 60 second time clock was great, followed immediately by "You Dropped A Bomb On Me!"
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Actually I think Star 93.7 came about April 1st 1999 (Not 1984) - that is why they kept playing 1999 over and over again (began as an April Fool's Joke/Stunt)
 
ON AIR said:
Retro said:
2) 1984, WEGQ to WQSX, playing 1999 for something like 16 hours and then having me at the edge of my seat at 3PM with a 60 second time clock was great, followed immediately by "You Dropped A Bomb On Me!"
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Actually I think Star 93.7 came about April 1st 1999 (Not 1984) - that is why they kept playing 1999 over and over again (began as an April Fool's Joke/Stunt)
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Yeah, it was 1999 when that happened. I do not know what I was thinking when I typed that. ???
 
While this wasn't Boston, you did say Segues...

"Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" (Sophie B. Hawkins) was played one Sunday morning, about a year ago, cold....into a CHURCH SERVICE! ("Damn!")
 
Bad:

- Stunting on the formerly-brokered ethnic WKOX and adult standards WXKS before the launch of "Boston's Progressive Talk, AM 1200 and 1430". The mix of Al Franken soundbites and Green Day tunes was great - but the fact that the weekend stunting included COMMERCIALS was a first. Also interesting in the stunting: audio goofs sent the left channel out over 1200 and the right channel out over 1430, if I recall correctly.

- WQSX to Mike - though I didn't hear that myself, the reports were that Fast Freddy came on at the end of Donna Summer's "Last Dance" and gave a very out-of-breath and ad-libbed description of the new format before launching into the Dropkick Murphys "Tessie". Perhaps that one should be excused, though... Boston was less than 24 hours from receiving "103.3 Jack FM".

Good:

- WCRB/WKLB was classy on both sides during that flip

- Given that they had only several hours notice, 97.7 WILD-FM did a nice job taking requests and explaining the situation.
 
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