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Coast is starting to sound like FUN 107

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wpjb

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okay, I've heard Alice DJ "better off alone" and IIO "Rapture"....Coast seems to be taking a dance lean, this could work in Rhode Island...this music is nowhere to be founf anymore, and women in there 30's grew up with this music on KIX 106...nice to hear it back on the air
 
I think putting Ryan Seacrest on the station was step one in WSNE's goal to skew to a younger demo. But they also added Tesh which seems to go in the opposite direction. So it looks like they are testing the waters to see what works best.
 
wpjb said:
okay, I've heard Alice DJ "better off alone" and IIO "Rapture"....Coast seems to be taking a dance lean, this could work in Rhode Island...this music is nowhere to be founf anymore, and women in there 30's grew up with this music on KIX 106...nice to hear it back on the air
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I once listened to KIX 106 back in the day. I remember DJs like the Real Deal Mike Neal, and also the Jammer. I also like dance music, and to hear more of it would be a refreshing change from all the rock on Providence radio. I also listen to Fun 107 sometimes because they do play some good dance music. So not just women grew up with this music. 8) I also used to listen to Star 93.7 in Boston, when I was driving in areas where I could get it.
 
I don't know if Coast is leaning towards dance. It may be the way you're hitting it when you tune in. They may be adding more dance or disco songs but they always played a good amount of disco. When I tune in I think they sound almost raucus at times but again it may be the way I'm hitting it.

And the people at Fun 107 might take the comparison as an insult. Like'em or not, Fun knows where they're going musically and always has.
 
They seem to be all over the place. A few weeks ago, they seemed to be leaning Modern Adult Contemporary. I still hear that influence more than Dance. But as another poster mentioned, they seem to be pulling themselves in opposite directions. Seacrest and Tesh are a great example of a station with serious cognitive dissonance. Another station in the region that features such confusion is the Cape's WQRC.
 
RadioNut said:
coast is sounding like fun 107??....they finally got some local personalities on all day??
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And personal appearances at events actually done by the air personalities rather than a street team?
 
Scott nailed it. When your syndicated (canned) shows have a different playlist from your normal rotation, it just doesn't sound right with the rest of the dayparts.
Let me agree too that Fun 107 is a music station that does it right. It sounds like their billing must make up the cost of having live jocks.
 
I feel bad for Tad, he must be lonely. But it's better him alone than before. Will they give him an entertaining co-host? I feel he has "Matty" potential but is wasting his time there. Can they get Tad a Billy Costa?

What's even more insulting to the listeners is that he even does the imaging now for Coast and B101, such penny pinchers!

Kristin does Coast and B, Oxford St. is such an embarassment to radio. They all share the sports guy, the news is read from a script and is the same word for word as Cool 102's news script.

Shameful! Tad go to Boston, get out of this dump!
 
Coast should just become Kiss 933. They can just pretty much Simicast Kiss 108.It would be Dirt cheap and Kiss 108 has tons of brand reconition in RI already. That is why when Joe Dawson took over as PD at Kix 106 in '95 He had us Jox spell out K I X Kix 106. He thought (and was to an extent) That We were losing rating share to Kiss 'cause people thought We were Kiss 106. It really didn't help when Joe Brought in the Failed Nation edition of Matty in the Moring. And if that fails 93.3 and 920 WHJJ.
 
Jay...when a former colleague of yours told me that story about Joe and The K_I_X, I didnt' believe him. Now Johnny Thunder at least has his props for being right....(I knew that was a bad hire back when they made it!). At least he wasn't the one who saddled Johnny with the stupid Johnny Thunder name....almost was Vinny Cologne (i $hit you not!)
 
diamondj said:
Scott nailed it. When your syndicated (canned) shows have a different playlist from your normal rotation, it just doesn't sound right with the rest of the dayparts.
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Nice try. Seacrest and Tesh are delivered without music...the music is programmed locally..unlike, say, Delialah (and just looking at any given day on Mediabase, you can see it's consistant from daypart to daypart, without even listening). Seacrest and Tesh are different in content, but both appeal to the Hot AC demo. Ryan - entertainment and gossip. Tesh - lifestyle issues.
 
Whenever I drive around in Rhode Island (specifically Providence and Newport) blasting current dance music, it does get attention. People do ask about a particular song and I tell them.

Admittedly in New York, where we have a rhythmic station out of Pulse 87 (WNYZ), there are too many different segmentations going on (the world/Manhattan scene - the underground, the "outer borough" (basically the Alice DJ's, older stuff, freestyle), soccer mom (still on disco), and the GLBT (gay,lesbian,bi,transgender) audience) with Pulse mainly staying on "outer borough". I really think a CURRENT dance music station could work in Rhode Island/So. Mass. Whereas we are big on Italians and Puerto Ricans...your region has the Italians and Latinos BUT ALSO the French and Portugese (mainly Cape Verdeans) that are huge on dance music as well.....plus a huge young crowd out of those going to Brown University, URI, UMass and Salve Regina.

You had Kix 106 in the past so if there was an audience that liked current dance back then, it could work now! Trick is, keep it mainly current. Yeah, you play some recurrents but don't play it to the point it feels like 1993 today.

I do go to Rhode Island often enough so it's not as if I only went there once and want this to happen. If I didn't really think something like this could work, I wouldn't talk or post about it. But yeah...I'd want to see something like this happen for Rhode Island/SE Mass/SW Conn - if you can get a strong enough signal.
 
Tony Santiago said:
Whenever I drive around in Rhode Island (specifically Providence and Newport) blasting current dance music, it does get attention. People do ask about a particular song and I tell them.
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So THIS is your market conceptual? How many more people think to themselves "look at the (fill in the blank) with the music blasting"? I am sure it out-numbers those who ask about particular songs.
 
Heck...I get that down here in NYC too! ;D Only difference...in NYC, nobody asks.

But let's get back to this....dance music. I've heard Fun 107 as well; to me, that has to be the most dance friendly CHR out there in the country (for a station that is MAINLY top 40). I think the region could support a more dance music intensive station. And before we get into research, market studies, demos, etc....I've heard all of that MANY MANY times before. And look where terrestrial radio is now.

Honestly, streams are the future and perhaps music on terrestrial radio may be irrelevant come 10 years down the line since no one under 30 will use terrestrial as their main source. I just think the Providence/New Bedford market could prove something with a current dance format on terrestrial.
 
Tony Santiago said:
Heck...I get that down here in NYC too! ;D Only difference...in NYC, nobody asks.

But let's get back to this....dance music. I've heard Fun 107 as well; to me, that has to be the most dance friendly CHR out there in the country (for a station that is MAINLY top 40). I think the region could support a more dance music intensive station. And before we get into research, market studies, demos, etc....I've heard all of that MANY MANY times before. And look where terrestrial radio is now.

Honestly, streams are the future and perhaps music on terrestrial radio may be irrelevant come 10 years down the line since no one under 30 will use terrestrial as their main source. I just think the Providence/New Bedford market could prove something with a current dance format on terrestrial.
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So, you are saying terrestrial radio my be irrelevant in 10 years...but a terrestrial Dance station could prove something in Providence...so are you saying that the Dance Format is going to save terrestrial radio?? If so, that has to be one of the funniest things I have ever heard!!
 
Tony Santiago said:
Heck...I get that down here in NYC too! ;D Only difference...in NYC, nobody asks.

But let's get back to this....dance music. I've heard Fun 107 as well; to me, that has to be the most dance friendly CHR out there in the country (for a station that is MAINLY top 40). I think the region could support a more dance music intensive station. And before we get into research, market studies, demos, etc....I've heard all of that MANY MANY times before. And look where terrestrial radio is now.

Honestly, streams are the future and perhaps music on terrestrial radio may be irrelevant come 10 years down the line since no one under 30 will use terrestrial as their main source. I just think the Providence/New Bedford market could prove something with a current dance format on terrestrial.
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Tony,
Most times that there is a dance show that is booked locally that has the usual lineup (Stevie B, Covergirls, whoever the current dance song phenom is at the moment, etc) is booked and promoted, it usually fizzles to either be cancelled/refunded before the show happens or has 1500 people max (and 600-900 of those in house are comp tix). Been that way since the 80's, you might get the shows where it is just Stevie B or just The Covergirls that do respectable; but even at the colleges, these shows don't fare well....
 
So, you are saying terrestrial radio my be irrelevant in 10 years...but a terrestrial Dance station could prove something in Providence...so are you saying that the Dance Format is going to save terrestrial radio?? If so, that has to be one of the funniest things I have ever heard!!
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I'm just saying....you want to bring people back to FM? Give them something different. And I'm used to the laughter...and getting the last laugh at those that laugh on me ;)
 
wknd92 said:
Tony,
Most times that there is a dance show that is booked locally that has the usual lineup (Stevie B, Covergirls, whoever the current dance song phenom is at the moment, etc) is booked and promoted, it usually fizzles to either be cancelled/refunded before the show happens or has 1500 people max (and 600-900 of those in house are comp tix). Been that way since the 80's, you might get the shows where it is just Stevie B or just The Covergirls that do respectable; but even at the colleges, these shows don't fare well....
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I hear ya. And I'll be the first to admit, changes have to happen within the dance music industry for better ways to "brand" the product to get the crowds interested in attending such shows.

People are still stuck with the old mentality, but at one point, Stevie B and the Covergirls were once new acts. And that's what I want to try to push forward...NEW. It has to get out to the people somehow. And yes, bring it on terrestrial while there is still some relevancy left. And if acts such as Phonjaxx, David Guetta, Sia, Ercola, etc. can generate some sort of noise, along with a radio station that spins it...then it's a good thing for the music all around and potentially profitable for the station.
 
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