BYE BYE I100 WJLQ..

[RonM]

Zach, sorry, guess I missed the message of your last post....the FORMAT will overlap! Yes, you are totally correct.

 

[Poledo]

Journey seems so close to Jack that maybe 100.7 and 104.1 both show up with new formats tomorrow? Or even better... a simulcast! ???

I heard a clip on 100.7 this morning recorded from the City Of Gulf Breeze part 15 FM (89.7). It's the segment with "...Blue Angles Weekend... 3 mile bridge traffic...". I also noticed that everything seemed to be local to Pensacola with no mention of Mobile at all.

 

[Dr voicetrack]

IF JLQ is going Journey, sure there will be a few titles that overlap. But so what? There's overlap in every direction across the dial. No big deal. Jack & Journey are different enough where they won't cannibalize each other. Jack is more of a rock-pop/classic rock base covering 40 years, where Journey is more pop/chr based focusing on 80s/90s...and some currents depending on which version of Journey they go with IF that's what it is.

 

[TheMusicMan]

I can't believe they're throwing away the CHR format to go with an unproven, niche, all-over-the-place 80s/90s format on a 100kw flamethrower that blazes into three states. Did they ever stop to think that maybe the execution of the CHR format was the problem? This is an absolutely moronic move.

 

[jmtillery]

I won't speculate as to what I believe should be done with WJLQ; However, I will say that at some point in the every near future WCOA should begin simulcasting on a full market FM signal. It's only a matter of time before the AM demo will erode to the point that it will be imperative to move news-talk programming to the FM band to lower the target demo and to make the format more desirable to local, regional and national agency advertisers.

 

[Hotseat]

"Journey" format as Q-100 "The Boss of the Beach" ;D

 

[Nate Wesley]

I can't believe they're throwing away the CHR format to go with an unproven, niche, all-over-the-place 80s/90s format on a 100kw flamethrower that blazes into three states. Did they ever stop to think that maybe the execution of the CHR format was the problem? This is an absolutely moronic move.

Here's my confusion, TMM--I think 100.7 has already tried the "80s/90s/today" approach before, if not necessarily saying so outright. 'Q100' saw tweaks from CHR to Hot AC and back into CHR, with their a semi-successful stint as classic rock 'Arrow' somewhere in between.

 

[Poledo]

Here's my confusion, TMM--I think 100.7 has already tried the "80s/90s/today" approach before, if not necessarily saying so outright. 'Q100' saw tweaks from CHR to Hot AC and back into CHR, with their a semi-successful stint as classic rock 'Arrow' somewhere in between.

Not to mention that 104.1 did the same thing as Star 104 just a few years back. Same tower, same height, same power. These two stations have wasted 10 years morphing the same formats trying to hit WABB and it is not working. I think it will take a serious format change to get people back to these two stations. I expect Journey's ratings will actually go down from Q-100's anemic numbers.

That stint as Arrow 100 was far more successful and lasted quite a bit longer than their year or so as Urban AC Magic 100. Considering all the morphing of Q-100 (CHR, Top40, AC... it all sounds the same to me), Arrow might have lasted longer than any other format on 100.7. That's why we all have fond memories of Arrow..

Did you know that REM is Classic Rock now? My "Athens, GA Inside/Out" LP doesn't seem very old.

...I will say that at some point in the every near future WCOA should begin simulcasting on a full market FM signal.

Problem is that Pensacola only has ONE full market signal, WRRX 106.1. What's strange is that I understood Cumulus Pensacola purchased 106.1 with the intent of putting WCOA on it... which would have made it one of the first FM talk stations in this part of the country. They wound up sticking with music on FM and went with Rock and Lex and Terry on 106.1 and beat up on TK101 for awhile.

It appears the only chance Pensacola will have for FM talk would be a translator or someone moving in an existing small town FM from somewhere in South Alabama.

How else could it be done. How will Pensacola, FWB, and Mobile get their primary AM talk stations on FM? Overlapping signals owned by Cumulus and Clear Channel carrying the same programming isn't going to happen.

 

[Groove1670]

Actually Jack FM is more rock leaning and targets men. Journey (if that happens) will have more of a pop lean and will be more female demo friendly.

 

[tomservo]

Did you know that REM is Classic Rock now? My "Athens, GA Inside/Out" LP doesn't seem very old.

This is what's driven me and some people of my parent's generation away from terrestrial radio. (I grew up on their music, not my own generation's.) As the population's aged, the oldies & classic rock definitions began to fit a new era of music.

When I was a kid in the mid to late late 80s, oldies was 1962-1977 for the most part; classic rock was 1968-1982 or thereabouts. Fast forward 20 years and oldies formats are a mile wide and an inch deep, from '67-'85 or later. And classic rock is now squarely into hair metal, running roughly '74-'92 on some stations.

Of course as a little kid I never thought songs like Under The Boardwalk or Woman From Tokyo would be cast aside in their respective formats, but they're falling out of rotation quickly.

As I am fond of saying, "I didn't leave radio, radio left me." Having three or four grossly overlapping mid-level 80s-00s type formats leaning a little rock or pop but basically being the same narrow playlists really rubs salt in the wound. The aging demographics who still love that music are no longer sought after for ad dollars, and so the number of formats hasn't diversified. Sirius XM, who has broken out the oldies into "decades", has diversified them into playable nuggets. The classic rock has also splintered between 80s heavy hair rock and older 70s artists. It's a shame there's not enough money for this to happen on terrestrial radio, or even an HD subchannel apparently. It's not like Crumulus has three HD transmitters in the area with none of them airing any subchannel at all!

Oh well, this is really OT. Sorry.

 

[Poledo]

I just don't get it. REM is classic rock now... I guess Pearl Jam will be next. I can't remember the last time I heard a Grateful Dead song on the radio... the true definition of Classic Rock...

I wonder how well a Classic Rock station would do if they copied an old 1970's AOR/Progressive Rock format?

 

[trock]

*sigh* It seems like the speculation is true. The new Journey 100 first song Journey "Don't stop believing" go figure. Like we don't have enough boring ac stations. : I guess it's up to the Groove to tame the almighty wabb.

 

[Rob]

I feel insulted! They deleted my post because I suggested them to have a 70s and 80s disco party on Saturday.. MY did that and I listened.. Sorry.. but some of the tracks played were late 70s... if they want to keep the pop format like this..

Was the guys name DISCO STU? I liked him a lot he did bring local flavour to the PCOLA area.

-Rob

 

[Wildstyle K]

Is this a Cumulus station? How far does the signal reach? It's got to be better than the Atlanta Journey's 10 mile radius translator that's operating as a regular radio station.

I think HD radio should just broadcast on regular signals anyway. I'm sure those 10 radius miles of Journey frequency in Atlanta get more listeners than the station would get on HD radio does itself.

 

[Dr voicetrack]

Rob....no offense, but I'd delete it too! It's a new station branding itself as a 80s and 90s station. You go into their yard saying they should play 70s/disco/etc. They're trying to get the message out that they're a 80s and 90s stations. Disco and 70s only would cloud the issue. If it were me, I wouldn't want it on my page either! The FB pages are marketing tools. Not boards like this. Don't take it so seriously.

 

[Dr voicetrack]

KDM...WJLQ is 100k at like 1300 feet or something like that. You can hear it 120 miles in any direction, I think.

 

[Poledo]

KDM...WJLQ is 100k at like 1300 feet or something like that. You can hear it 120 miles in any direction, I think.

This is true. I guess that makes Pensacola's Journey the biggest one in the world! Full, city grade, coverage of two DMA's and grade B coverage of two more DMAs. A little over a million people under the signal... and a whole lotta fish.

Who gives a flip?

 

[tomservo]

Rob....no offense, but I'd delete it too! It's a new station branding itself as a 80s and 90s station. You go into their yard saying they should play 70s/disco/etc. They're trying to get the message out that they're a 80s and 90s stations. Disco and 70s only would cloud the issue. If it were me, I wouldn't want it on my page either! The FB pages are marketing tools. Not boards like this. Don't take it so seriously.

Everyone should take a gander at that page before they delete it. It's full of negativity! Rob's disco plea was hardly any worse than this:

• [Facebook User] are you guys idiots i mean god whos f**king idea was this
  about an hour ago
  
• [i100GulfCoast] idiots..no why, are you??
  39 minutes ago

What a way to attract new listeners. :

https://www.facebook.com/i100hits?sk=wall

Not only did they delete my post dissing the Journey format and the one asking them to fix the HD, they "unliked" me from the page so I can't comment anymore.

 

[Dr voicetrack]

Zach...I like the pages and have been following. The people being negative on the i100 page are kids! Of course they're gonna cry and moan! So what?

I saw your post. You call out the new format before it debuts ON THEIR PAGE and really don't understand why they'd remove the posts and/or you?

Get over yourselves. Geez. Bunch of babies need to grasp reality.

 

[Rob]

I understand that.. but, there's several AC stations that had a saturday disco show and did very well! I wasn't trying to be dis respectful, just would like to see STU on again.

-Rob