CHR IN DETROIT

[Johnnie_Radio]

WKQI....needs some serious competition....there is room for a more upbeat old school top 40 station that would play more 80's 90's stuff....IE the old WHYT days....thoughts??


I was however impressed with 95-5's Memorial weekend Mixing though....

 

[CHRles]

If it'll play 80s and 90s then it won't be considered a Top 40.
I think Detroit is a market though where the mostly failing Rhythmic AC format might work, if executed properly, ie with songs that aired on the old DRQ and HYT and not just the overly researched songs playing on Movin in Seattle.

 

[Marv-L.A.]

No CHR/Pop station today is going to touch anything from the eighties or most of the nineties; their target audience (18-34) won't know the music, and the VERY tiny libraries of today's CHR/Pop stations won't allow it either.

But an AC or Hot AC station can certainly play TONS of eighties and nineties music.

Hot AC has essentially become the 'mass-appeal' format that CHR/Pop used to be until the early-to-mid nineties, by which time it had succeeded in blowing off the vast majority of their 'soccer moms' and other adults by the millions.

 

[jcolletta275]

No CHR/Pop station today is going to touch anything from the eighties or most of the nineties; their target audience (18-34) won't know the music, and the VERY tiny libraries of today's CHR/Pop stations won't allow it either.

Tell that to WKFR over in K-zoo.

 

[indebiz]

No CHR/Pop station today is going to touch anything from the eighties or most of the nineties; their target audience (18-34) won't know the music, and the VERY tiny libraries of today's CHR/Pop stations won't allow it either.

Tell that to WKFR over in K-zoo.

NEWSFLASH: Kalamazoo is not Detroit. Two completely different markets.

 

[jcolletta275]

Two different markets, yes. But even a CHR in Kalamazoo shouldn't be touching the 80's and most of the 90's.

 

[ScottRockCity]

Kalamazoo IS stuck in the 80's!!!! haha

 

[Human Numan]

WKQI....needs some serious competition....there is room for a more upbeat old school top 40 station that would play more 80's 90's stuff....IE the old WHYT days....thoughts??


I was however impressed with 95-5's Memorial weekend Mixing though....

I agree Channel 955 needs compitition. Channel 955 does not need to be on easy street with getting ratings. I used to like Channel 955 until they went to the heavy hip-hop and r&b heavy lean CHR format.

 

[Human Numan]

WKQI....needs some serious competition....there is room for a more upbeat old school top 40 station that would play more 80's 90's stuff....IE the old WHYT days....thoughts??


I was however impressed with 95-5's Memorial weekend Mixing though....

I agree Channel 955 needs compitition. Channel 955 does not need to be on easy street with getting ratings. I used to like Channel 955 until they went to the heavy hip-hop and r&b heavy lean CHR format.

I have to listen to XM's Channel 20 AKA XM Top 20 on 20, XM Channel 30 Pop2k and SIRIUS Channel 1 AKA SIRIUS HITS 1 for my CHR radio, because Channel 955 play to much rap.

WJLB FM 98 at 97.9 FM and HOT 102.7 are the only stations in Detroit that should be playing rap and R&B heavily.

HOT 102.7 and WJLB 97.9 is suppose to play a lot of rap because they are both Urban Contemporary Radio Stations.

Channel 955 is really a rhythemic CHR station and not a CHR as Clearchannel calls it.

CHR stands for Contemporary Hits Radio, also known as Top 40.

Channel 955 sucks!

Clearchannel Communications sucks!

I dont like Clearchannel or their radio stations.

 

[SallysPizza]

CHR is a copyrighted term of Radio and Records, which is why they were the only trade able to use it. It became the new name for Top 40 back in the 80's. You'll find that the term is seldom used and Top 40 is the term used mostly now. With radio fragmented like it is, no Top 40 SHOULD be playing anything from the 80's or 90's. To their listeners, 90's is Old School. This doesn't mean some stations aren't going to try to attract 25-54's with 80's or 90's. Now, having said that, WIOG does play some of this stuff on their lunch hour. Late 80's and 90's music. At least they used to...haven't listened online in awhile. You cannot play "Come On Eileen" on a Top 40 anymore, etc. If that's what WKFR is playing, great for them getting any ratings with it, but let a strong competitor come in...they'll eat them alive.

 

[Mid West Clubber]

KFR is a Cumulous station,,, therefore very conservative,,, They dont even play much Rhythmic Fair until after 7 pm and are ignoring alot of the big hits right now... The Cumulous CHR stations are more like Adult Top 40....