It was one year ago today that WBPM flipped from oldies "Cool 92.9" to "Classic Hits 92.9" as of 1:00 PM that afternoon on February 1st, 2007. Clear Channel was sold to Pamal and went on to an okay start.
Since day one, the station does okay playing a number of songs from the 60's through the 80's on the pop side, Jack Hammer was doing mornings since it first began and then the Ran-Man Randy Turner from WCZX was in afternoons as well.
After a few months on the format, the station is targeting a more rock leaning approach and go after WPDH which is a station that plays classic rock. I usually listened to this, but now this station does not do really well in the first ratings in the Spring and then the Fall Arbitron, the station does poorly.
Since it demise, many of the former "Cool 92.9" listeners might end up listening to WCZR's "Cruisin' 93.5" which it doesn't come out in the Poughkeepsie area and WGNY-AM 1220 which is down in Newburgh.
Right now, HV has no oldies station, except WKNY has oldies on Saturday afternoons with Warren Lawrence for about 6 hours and WABC's "Saturday Night Oldies Show" with Mark Simone for 4 hours except just a half hour or 15 minutes prior to Rangers Hockey and Army Football.
When I was listening to "Classic Hits 92.9", the station was playing songs that are not hits, but some songs that do fit the format and a lot of them that don't fit the station as well. Look at CBS-FM for example, they got a good format going, but as for WBPM, the station is going nowhere, because it's hurting WPDH, but it does sounded a lot like the former WRKW which was probably from the "Quality Rock" era since it was first launched in 1999 that Strauss owned at the time prior to CC took over from 92.9 WRKW to "92.9 Rock" back in 2003.
Anyone noticed about the one-year anniversary of WBPM's "Classic Hits 92.9"?
I don't like the station so much, too many voiceovers doing liners which it sounded a lot like the former WCZX's "Oldies 97.7" and WBPM's former "Cool 94.3" when it was oldies from many years ago prior to a country station. I wish they should fix the music at anytime, just play only the hits, not just the rock hits, but it sounded a lot like "Jack" where CBS-FM did that since 2005. Make it a mainstream hits station, don't play the extremes for example "Radar Love" by Golden Earring. This station has no Motown songs to play, I mean come on! This is the one-year anniversary of the station.
Plus, the station had some audio dropouts, but it didn't do well, but some listeners tuned to WPDH to find a classic rock station out there, but the audio sounds fine.
By the way, I don't listen to WBPM 24/7, it stinks! Give it a thumbs down, to a one-year anniversary of the station.
Since day one, the station does okay playing a number of songs from the 60's through the 80's on the pop side, Jack Hammer was doing mornings since it first began and then the Ran-Man Randy Turner from WCZX was in afternoons as well.
After a few months on the format, the station is targeting a more rock leaning approach and go after WPDH which is a station that plays classic rock. I usually listened to this, but now this station does not do really well in the first ratings in the Spring and then the Fall Arbitron, the station does poorly.
Since it demise, many of the former "Cool 92.9" listeners might end up listening to WCZR's "Cruisin' 93.5" which it doesn't come out in the Poughkeepsie area and WGNY-AM 1220 which is down in Newburgh.
Right now, HV has no oldies station, except WKNY has oldies on Saturday afternoons with Warren Lawrence for about 6 hours and WABC's "Saturday Night Oldies Show" with Mark Simone for 4 hours except just a half hour or 15 minutes prior to Rangers Hockey and Army Football.
When I was listening to "Classic Hits 92.9", the station was playing songs that are not hits, but some songs that do fit the format and a lot of them that don't fit the station as well. Look at CBS-FM for example, they got a good format going, but as for WBPM, the station is going nowhere, because it's hurting WPDH, but it does sounded a lot like the former WRKW which was probably from the "Quality Rock" era since it was first launched in 1999 that Strauss owned at the time prior to CC took over from 92.9 WRKW to "92.9 Rock" back in 2003.
Anyone noticed about the one-year anniversary of WBPM's "Classic Hits 92.9"?
I don't like the station so much, too many voiceovers doing liners which it sounded a lot like the former WCZX's "Oldies 97.7" and WBPM's former "Cool 94.3" when it was oldies from many years ago prior to a country station. I wish they should fix the music at anytime, just play only the hits, not just the rock hits, but it sounded a lot like "Jack" where CBS-FM did that since 2005. Make it a mainstream hits station, don't play the extremes for example "Radar Love" by Golden Earring. This station has no Motown songs to play, I mean come on! This is the one-year anniversary of the station.
Plus, the station had some audio dropouts, but it didn't do well, but some listeners tuned to WPDH to find a classic rock station out there, but the audio sounds fine.
By the way, I don't listen to WBPM 24/7, it stinks! Give it a thumbs down, to a one-year anniversary of the station.
WOW! I have never been hit with an edit for being inflammatory before.I didn’t think what I said was that bad, nor did I intend to be mean, but the powers that be saw it differently. I try not to be personal, as we are all are entitled to our opinions. My comment that was deleted referred to Disney's post. So, now having been chastened by admin I will rephrase. I think the gentleman frequently misspeaks. How's that?