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Could/would Gen X Radio work in Dayton?

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alans613

I was thinking about this the other day. There is a lack of a 90s leaning station in the market(Mix and Fly sneak in a 90s tune here and there, but still...)so this would definitely fill a void in the market. My guesses for best frequency for this format:
92.1
94.5
95.3
106.5
Just think, if 94.5 would flip from Top 40 to Gen X Radio it would leave another void in the market...and then what would happen? Hot 102.9 goes CHR? The return of Z-93? If Columbus can get back The Blitz, then we can still dream in Dayton can't we?
 
Fly certainly does more than just "sneak in" a 90's tune, and Mix plays a fair share as well. A strictly 90's format has not exhibited any real ratings success anywhere, and Dayton's too small a market to support such a niched station. Oh, and Z-93's never coming back. People need to get beyond that.
 
Alan makes a very good point, I wasn't sure I'd ever see The Blitz come back. If Fly got the swatter, Z-93 could come back, but not how it was before.

As for GenX...

92.1: Won't happen... they're doing great in the ratings.
94.5: They'll do better in the ratings as CHR than GenX. Even though more CHR listeners listen to 1029.
95.3: I wish someone would do something with this station. It's obviously not working.
106.5: Possible.... they flip often but I think they're really pushing for BIG to work.
 
It would seem to me that WXEG would be the logical station since it was playing grunge music in the 90s as "The Edge."
 
kirkiefan said:
It would seem to me that WXEG would be the logical station since it was playing grunge music in the 90s as "The Edge."
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When 103.9 was "The Edge", it was an AWESOME station! I even liked their first two years at "The X @ 103.9" before they went in the "Active Alternative" direction in late 2000/early 2001(Right around the time Allen Rantz exited as PD). Since then I have barely if ever listened. If I recall, the reason they dropped the name "The Edge" was because their consultant at the time owned the name and wanted the station to pay extra to call themselves "The Edge", so they changed their name to "The X" on January 1, 1998. Problem solved.
 
alans613 said:
When 103.9 was "The Edge", it was an AWESOME station! I even liked their first two years at "The X @ 103.9" before they went in the "Active Alternative" direction in late 2000/early 2001(Right around the time Allen Rantz exited as PD). Since then I have barely if ever listened. If I recall, the reason they dropped the name "The Edge" was because their consultant at the time owned the name and wanted the station to pay extra to call themselves "The Edge", so they changed their name to "The X" on January 1, 1998. Problem solved.
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I thought the problem was that Pizza Hut owned the name for their "The Edge" pizza that had no crust on it.
 
callletters said:
Apple needs to get into radio so we can have the iTunes top 40 format.
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Actually that wouldn't be such a bad idea for a radio station to try. But, then again, you have to realize that the occasional smash twangy hit country record would get played in heavy rotation, not just the "pop" stuff (since a lot of country hits make the i-Tunes Top Ten as well as rock songs that don't exactly "fit" the sound of a CHR, (which leans toward 18-34 females) and the Radio Disney stuff that hits the week of release in there. And...oh yeah, along would come a new hip hop tune followed by Michael Buble', to be followed..say, by a smash metal song.

It has and could happen. One could argue, such would take CHR back to the original idea of Top 40 which meant to play a little bit of everything. But, that might also be such a format's death...as there'd probably be so many "train wreck" segues between disparate types of sounds that the time spent listening would be around
00:15.

Still...not a bad idea.
 
callletters said:
Apple needs to get into radio so we can have the iTunes top 40 format.
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There is actually an iTunes Countdown that airs in syndication. The closest station that offers it is WNCI in Columbus.
 
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