It appears as though 'corporate/overresearched/overconsulted radio' in your fine city is as dreadful as it is here.
Let's see---JACK-FM soars to #1 in adults 25-54 almost immediately after it launches here, and two years later, it's STILL tops in that demo.
KBBT decapitates KTFM?
Sounds exactly like what happened here in 1986 when Emmis launched KPWR as a flame-throwing hip-hop rhythmic station & kneecapped KIIS-FM ratings wise in LESS than a year!!!!!
The trouble is that the vast majority of CHR/Pop powerhouses of the eighties from coast to coast which copied KIIS's overreaction to Power 106 blew off most of their adult listeners just as quickly as KIIS did, so that by the early nineties, CHR/Pop's days as a mass-appeal station/format (at least as designed by Bill Drake when 93/KHJ LA was launched in May of 1965 and blew everybody off the dial) were history.
Many of those one-time CHR/Pop powerhouses back then either flipped formats or continue to this day as mere anemic shells of what they used to be.
Finally I agree with you 100%; it's all about the revenue and pleasing Wall Street as opposed to your listeners.
Corporate radio is DULL radio, and voice-tracking is the latest dumbass idea from those beancounters at CC, Emmis, CBS and everybody else.
I certainly remember KTFM as a killer top 40 powerhouse, and the PD (don't remember his name) was the subject of some very flattering profiles in R&R.
Quick question--did KTFM overreact to KBBT by copying KIIS's disastrous strategy of loading up on the same rhythmic stuff that KPWR was slamming to blow them out of the water, or did the KKBT honchos do something else to trounce KTFM?
This is a great discussion about what appears to be the same situation in market after market; beancounters rule, PDs are emasculated and smothered in micromanagement, and advertising budgets get gutted.
