BYE BYE I100 WJLQ..

[Dr voicetrack]

Did you think that maybe they're trying NOT to be a typical AC station? I've given them a good listen. Nothing typical AC about it.

My thinking is it's a case of wrong post, wrong place, wrong time, and nothing personal. Like I said earlier. If you posted what you said you posted, I understand why they took it down. Don't take it as an insult.

 

[tomservo]

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?

That's the beauty of corporate radio, Doc. I already knew what it'd be like because I'd heard it before. No sense in pretending they'd do otherwise. It's the same thing on the Atlanta translator and the same thing on 94.1 in Cincinnati. Heck, the first several songs here were the exact same ones in the same order they used on WWFF in Huntsville earlier Friday morning, and on the Atlanta translator a while back. I think I have a right to let them know how uninteresting their new format is to me, an actual area listener. I was just hoping for something I could enjoy more than the old CHR; few of the lower power Mobile or Pensacola stations make it clearly here to "the middle" so my choice is actually somewhat limited compared to people in either city. So yeah I think I have the right to fuss about a station that sounds very much like Jack and Mix and also skirts some music played on NOW and WABB… and ZEW.

On a more personal level I don't like 80s and 90s together because they're such vastly different decades for music, just like I hate hearing 80s and 70s music slammed together on Jack. But that's just me, I like my music a little more segmented that commercial radio can afford to be.

Oh well, we may have to agree to disagree. The Journey100 FB page is full of positive posts, so that's a good sign for them.

 

[Wildstyle K]

I guess I could understand the frustration here, because the new Journey station did actually replace another station in this case. In Atlanta, they just started translating on a translator frequency (and moved the alternative station that was there to, yet again, another signal).

I have to admit that I'm happy for Atlanta because not only do they finally have a decent rhythmic top 40 station, but now another AC station!


..And people said top 40 could never work in Atlanta! : ???

 

[Poledo]

I don't do the Facebook thing but I did follow Zach's link. The first post:

"i100GulfCoast
This page is going bye bye very soon. If you like the new Journey100 please LIKE our new page. If not, Happy Channel Surfing and thanks for the memories. "

Is it just me or does this just sound like another way to say "F' off, we don't care what the listeners think."?

Nice job... Potential advertisers might be reading. I hope someone named Dickey from Cumulus Atlanta is reading... good reflection on your company.

 

[amfmxm]

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.

You're not off-topic, at all. But there's more to the story. As the 25-54 demo of 1996 is now the 40-69 demo, and the "Baby Bust" generation doesn't have the sheer number of bodies to replace them, both radio and the ad industry are scrambling. Radio has responded by cramming too many stations into too few formats (welcome, "Journey 100"). Meanwhile, the 18-34 demo doesn't know--or doesn't remember--how to work an FM dial. As a result, music on FM is dying. Rock and AC stations are dropping right & left. CC and Cumulus haven't quite figured out how to convert 600+ FM sticks to spoken-word formats (news, talk or sports or varieties thereof) without killing their AMs. And networks like ESPN & Premiere haven't figured out how to kiss their outdated AM affiliates goodbye and grab new FM affiliates. It's a clusterf**k.

So, yeah, "Journey 100" enters the fight over the fairly small chunk of listeners now being fought over by Jack, Mix & MEZ--essentially the Caucasian chicks between 40 and 70 who don't like Country or Urban. Here's $10 on another 18-month run before the next WJLQ format switch.