Change of Star99.9

[SoNo]

Anyone else notice a lot of different song selections on Star99.9? This week I heard The Killers and Kings of Leon Sex on Fire! Also a bunch of new songs. Are they an all out hot ac station now? When did that happen?

 

[princessk]

I personally haven't listened much in the past couple of weeks, but I do recall them playing a song and I was like what is this they are playing its awful okay I really said something else but I am trying to keep it clean, I don't really care for the new guy in the afternoon, he seems too low key for afternoons, then again I set my standards high because I loved to listen to Chris Eagan

 

[DToTheJ]

Re: Change of Star 99.9

Are they an all out hot ac station now?

http://www.star999.com/lsp/

Maroon 5, Carly Rae Jepsen, Demi Lovato, one Pink song per hour... yeah, I'd say so.

 

[CTNYRADIO]

what a bunch of clowns-tossing in some new songs and then playing them to death like the others...good lord-will they ever get it? The Fox 95.9 did the same thing-played Cyndi Lauper's Girls just want to have fun the other day...big LOL at them too.

 

[CTyankeefan]

I just noticed that on the websit Tommy Edison is no longer listed as being on the morning show.
I though he was there so long he would never get fired

 

[reelyreal]

what a bunch of clowns-tossing in some new songs and then playing them to death like the others...good lord-will they ever get it? The Fox 95.9 did the same thing-played Cyndi Lauper's Girls just want to have fun the other day...big LOL at them too.

I know, right?! When will contemporary radio stations stop following the model that the most financially successful radio stations have employed since, I dunno, the 60's?

When will they get it, you shouldn't employ proven formats, you should do whatever you want!!

/sarcasm

 

[CTNYRADIO]

what a bunch of clowns-tossing in some new songs and then playing them to death like the others...good lord-will they ever get it? The Fox 95.9 did the same thing-played Cyndi Lauper's Girls just want to have fun the other day...big LOL at them too.

I know, right?! When will contemporary radio stations stop following the model that the most financially successful radio stations have employed since, I dunno, the 60's?

When will they get it, you shouldn't employ proven formats, you should do whatever you want!!

/sarcasm

We are in different times--the advent of many other venues to listen to music has made this tried and true model from the 60's a dinosaur. Playing the same ol 250 stale and safe songs isnt really going to do it anymore--thus revenues and market share continue to decline because the product is stale and old...Radio has not evolved over the past 10-15 yrs.

 

[RadioMan203]

I just noticed that on the websit Tommy Edison is no longer listed as being on the morning show.
I though he was there so long he would never get fired

I heard Tommy doing the Retro Saturday Night show but I don't know if it was live or voice tracked.

 

[reelyreal]

We are in different times--the advent of many other venues to listen to music has made this tried and true model from the 60's a dinosaur. Playing the same ol 250 stale and safe songs isnt really going to do it anymore--thus revenues and market share continue to decline because the product is stale and old...Radio has not evolved over the past 10-15 yrs.

Can you show me those numbers?

There are more media options. Nothing radio can do would ever KILL the ipod, the smartphone, the internet. Those are new realities. No single eccentric broadcast station could possibly appeal to enough people to draw enough advertising to make the station financially viable. Why try to do something that can't be done in broadcast? Leave individual playlists to Pandora.

Broadcasting is mass appeal. Focused playlists and local information and flavor are what's important. If you're focusing on the playlist, you're focusing on the wrong issue. If you think that radio today is the same as radio in 1996, you're not paying attention.