Looks like everyone was right. Obviously, The Blitz is back! Mudvayne's Happy kicks it off, following is Disturbed's Down With The Sickness. ALRIGHT!
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CENTRAL OHIO... THE BLITZ IS BACK!
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The playlist since the 6pm announcement looks great for an Active/Modern rock. Plenty of current, recurrent and a couple golds. This mix will work for a large audience as long as they play more than 1 or 2 songs from a given artist. Looks promising so far. What happened with Bob & Tom? I missed that announcement.
Just as I posted, they played Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls.... so close.
xiradiodotcom said:
They're dumping Bob & Tom in a few weeks and they said they are working on replacing them with a local morning show.
I was hoping for some new bands and less played songs to be added in, everything in the playlist is what The Rock played, they just cut down on the '80s.
I don't think anyone expected anything groundbreaking from a Columbus radio station. Especially one that is reverting back to its old brand. After all, I took the "music survey" and didn't hear anything the Rock or Blitz did not play at one time. And here we are already playing Ozzy as a staple in rotation... Why can't Columbus get a decent _current_ rock station?
dawg4life said:
That's just the domain name they kept renewing, like theblitz.com... Unless they paid or convinced the current owner of the calls, it will be something else: http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0&facid=165339
WBZR? WBTX?
gabigley1 said:
imadethisusernamemyslef said:
Dose anyone think they will hire a new high budget morning team? Will they bring in new talent from out of town? Will the new local morning show be music intensive on be personalty driven? One thing for sure is that they aren't going to bring back Grego to town but I personally liked his old show.
xiradiodotcom said:
I looks like a deal may be on the works for the old WBZX call letters. Why else would they use the old wbzx.com domain name? In any case, I think there will be a new set of call letters in place at 99.7 in the near future. The possible WBZR and WBTX call letters just don't seem have the same ring to them as the old WBZX had. Bring back the WBZX call letters!
You know, this is the thing I really don't understand. Everyone complains about certain playlists and all that.... and now we're complaining about Call letters? Why not let NABCO invest some money into its programming and give two $hits less about buying their calls back? Who really cares what the letters are as long as they play good music? I listened all last night and heard STP's song "Between the lines" twice. within about 4 hours. So far that's my only complaint. I think it should be a law that stations can't play a song no closer than 8 hours apart haha. The little micro station I have set up at my house plays for 3 days without repeating. And that's with a 2.75% increase in speed and segues set. One of my pet peeves I guess.
There's nothing inappropriate about speculating on call letters on a board like this, even if it's not the most important thing. Besides, calls can definitely be a big part of a station's equity, more so for some than others. A lot of listeners still refer to stations by their call letters, though that no doubt diminishes in importance with the PPM.
chad43358 said:
If you are going to play new music, you cannot put an 8 hour separation on songs. Between The Lines is a new song. The average listener only listens a couple hours a day. You want that listener to hear the new tunes. If you are playing classic rock or oldies, I would agree with you.
Wonder if they would consider bringing back Suzi Waud?
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I am just amazed watching this station "attempt" to do a format flip (as they called it), and then reverting to the mistake with the mask of the listener input. What a mess - rock radio is shameful in Columbus.Al Timiter said:
I thought about listening to the station for the first time in 2 years. Before I did I looked at what they had played today. 2 Zeppelin songs in a row, Ozzy, Def Leopard, Nickleback, ACDC, Black Sabbath, and Metallica almost hourly. Change, what change? No way am I going to listen. I guess they can pull the wool over the eyes of most their listeners, but not me. They may see a bump in the next ratings, but how will it increase in the long run when there was no real change?
I guess this was all just a PR stunt to get a ratings bump. Maybe Hal actually got threatened to get ratings up or he'd be out.
They have changed everything under the sun at the station except Hal and still no ratings. If anyone had any brains they may put 1+1 together and see Hal is the problem.
Sorry for the rant, but I really wanted to listen, but just can not now after looking at the so called revised playlist.
I guess this was all just a PR stunt to get a ratings bump. Maybe Hal actually got threatened to get ratings up or he'd be out.
They have changed everything under the sun at the station except Hal and still no ratings. If anyone had any brains they may put 1+1 together and see Hal is the problem.
Sorry for the rant, but I really wanted to listen, but just can not now after looking at the so called revised playlist.
Browns17 said:
I'm in the same boat as you. I tuned in over the weekend to hear the ID "New Rock 99.7 the Blitz" followed by a GnR track from 1990. Then it was Zeppelin and Ozzy shortly after. WTF. I'm convinced Hal has his own CD collection on shuffle and it's not a very big collection. QFM has the Zeppelin and Ozzy covered, let's hear something new.
Looking at the last hour or so before I typed this we have Zeppelin, Dio, Ozzy and ACDC. Sad. Sad. Sad.
99.7 had most of the Metallica and ACDC phased out right before the switch in '08, but I guess the dropping ratings must have been because those were missing. hmm... probably not.
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