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COULD WE SEE A TREND HERE?

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In two months, Cumulus brought the 80's & 90's "Journey" format to Cincinatti and just recently as of Noon EST in Atlanta....
Do you think i100 will be gone and the Journey will replace it?! It's just silly to have 3 CHR's in the area (97.5, 107.3 and this one @ 100.7)! If I was Cumulus, I would do it in a heartbeat. And it's summertime, what a great radio station to play 80's and 90's for the summertime!

Just throwing that out there...

Journey979.com - Listen Live! Check it out. It sounds great for Atlanta. Too bad they're signal is not that strong but well worth it!

Is Pensacola on the radar? Let's hope so..
 
Already started a thread but I agree.. we could lose 1 or 2 stations playing the same old crap.. journey FM sounds like something I'd listen to
 
I have not listened to the new Journey FM, so I cannot give an opinion to its viability and likelihood of any potential success. However, as with any radio format, if there is a market void for Journey FM in Pensacola, I'm sure it will appear in the market, somewhere, in due time. The key to any format success is its marketability and profit potential.
 
I don't see it happening. Going the Journey route would just be like going to one of the 3,657 variations Q100 was. Plus, it's too close to Jack-FM which Cumulus owns. Also, there's too many 25-54 stations out there. That's why you have 3 CHRs at the moment. IF something were to happen, it won't be until after the merger with Citadel is complete. Of course, it is Cumulus we're talking about so common sense really doesn't apply.
 
Weird how I remember an I format in Atlanta then it hitting down here.. I guess we need to stay tuned...
 
Rob-42 said:
Weird how I remember an I format in Atlanta then it hitting down here.. I guess we need to stay tuned...
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You're thinking of I-92(.3), the Cumulus owned country powerhouse in Montgomery. 

In the case of WLWI, Montgomery, "I" doesn't stand for I-pod, I-tunes, I-nternet or whatever Cumulus thinks "I" stands for in WJLQ's "I-100" monicker.  WLWI is a heritage station, so "I" probably alludes to "IROC-Z", a popular automobile down here back in the late '70's or early '80's (heck, they're still cool today!) when I-92 became a monster country station that probably helped set national trends.
 
Dr voicetrack said:
Never been an I format in ATL, Rob.
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Yeah, but Cumulus does own a "Q-100" in Atlanta. Maybe they should try that down in Pensacola on 100.7? They could just copy and paste most everything from Atlanta's "Q-100" and insert a quick local TOH ID and hopefully a few local commercials... sounds pretty cheap and should draw a few listeners from WABB. It would also fill the void between BLX and Jack. Seems like a win-win... we would get the "big market sound" on a station in Mobile/Pensacola and Cumulus saves some cash in the process. I don't see any way Pensacola's 100.7 looses listeners in this theoretical scenario.

Is it just me or would y'all expect to hear a stale rock song by a band like Journey on Journey 97.9 in Atlanta or Journey 94.1 in Cincinnati? In my minds-eye the only way I see the name "Journey" working for a radio station would be a "deep track" classic rock/hits station that tokes you on a Rock-n-Roll Journey... or in the case of a 250w translator, a travelers information station.
 
The "Journey" thing appears to be an attempt to tap into a resurgence of 80s-90s pop music revolving around Glee and its huge audience of women 25-54. Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" seems to be the defacto theme song. I haven't checked but I'm guessing that the remnants of the band featuring the latest Steve Perry soundalike has made a small fortune on the county fair circut these past few years. Anyway, it's an AC thing.

An 80s-90s AC thing. So kind of a subset of what now is considered Mainstream AC--maybe leaning slightly toward the Hot AC side. But essentially the same basic kind of music heard on 94.1 and 99.9.

So the question becomes, "How many of these stations does one market need, no matter what you call it?"

My guess is that the answer is, "Not another one."
 
W-hell, I guess Crockulass also could just transmit the Nashville version of i onto the beach, since we get the ATL-based Bert Show. In Nashville, it's on WNFN (format #2,395) and like WJLQ, there is no "i" in the damn call letters, which in my old opinion is indeed proof that no one cares to take care of the details. Note = A real company with a real engineer would never allow a station to have such crap call letter lethargy.

As for the Journey thing - we have a similar (new) 80's-90's fomat here called 102.5 The Party (with some currents) and I dunno, it's okay, but Frankie needs to ST0P going to Hollywood. Lots of that music has a high burnout rate, so they need to watch the reps. I would expect the Journey may arrive in Nash this fall when Crapucant takes on a few more signals to ruin even better.

It's very close, RNR/CCENG/Nock?Poledo/Rob-42, I guess I am just way tooo old, but the dial in Nashville (Let alone PCB-Pcola) is now so lame and horrific, that the damn commercials are a step up. And trust me - 25 FM signals and 90% are running commercials or talking at any given time. It is nearly time to put a fork in it...what a waste. We used to have a rockin FM radio scene. Almost a year of gin-free living hath finally made me an angry radio bitch.
 
Tibbs, I don't know what I just read. ... and here I thought most of my posts were rambling on and on. ::)

I'm gonna go take a xanax and see what type of journey it takes me on... ahhh, codeine dreams ahead. I'll have it all figured out by morning. ;D
 
poledo said:
Tibbs, I don't know what I just read. ... and here I thought most of my posts were rambling on and on. ::)

I'm gonna go take a xanax and see what type of journey it takes me on... ahhh, codeine dreams ahead. I'll have it all figured out by morning. ;D
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Maybe that Xanax will give you a few innovative radio format ideas during your dream cycle. it certainly can't hurt.
 
Tibbs2 said:
Sorry wrote that with Rob radio logic in mind and no sleep for last four days...my strobey was burnt out.
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Hey, Tibbs, I understood every damn word--and the whole thing made sense to me. Then again, nobody outside of radio has ever understood a word I've ever said...

PS: I shifted from gin to rum & Diet Coke a few years ago, with positive results. Though I suppose another shift to straight Diet Coke might make it easier to get up in the morning. Ya think?
 
redneckriviera said:
Hey, Tibbs, I understood every damn word--and the whole thing made sense to me. Then again, nobody outside of radio has ever understood a word I've ever said...
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