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did cheap channel ruin urban ac radio?
- Thread starter djfrresh
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Good question.
I think 104.9 St. Louis, WYLD New Orleans and WMXD Detroit have definitely declined, mainly due to the letting go of veteran air talent and the replacement of good Quiet Storm shows. WDAS Philadelphia was holding up somewhat better due to the fact that Tony Brown in the evening hadn't been replaced yet though this station also lost some veteran airstaff replaced by syndicated programming in some dayparts.
Until recently anyway, V-103 was probably faring the best of any of these and WDIA-AM Memphis seemed to relatively unchanged from years ago. Clear Channel just fired Troi Tyler and Irene Mojica from V-103.
I think 104.9 St. Louis, WYLD New Orleans and WMXD Detroit have definitely declined, mainly due to the letting go of veteran air talent and the replacement of good Quiet Storm shows. WDAS Philadelphia was holding up somewhat better due to the fact that Tony Brown in the evening hadn't been replaced yet though this station also lost some veteran airstaff replaced by syndicated programming in some dayparts.
Until recently anyway, V-103 was probably faring the best of any of these and WDIA-AM Memphis seemed to relatively unchanged from years ago. Clear Channel just fired Troi Tyler and Irene Mojica from V-103.
Scholarm1111 said:
V-103 just let go of their overnight girl as well. It wasn't V-103's decision to put Steve Harvey on their station, it's just that WGCI wanted to have a local morning show, hence letting WSRB (Soul 106.3) have Joyner.
Think about it....WDIA in Memphis has the rare distinction of being in the top 5 in the market (hell, the top 5 stations in Memphis are Urban (WHRK), UAC (KJMS), Full Service UAC (WDIA-the reason I say Full Service is they do Urban AC during the week, blues all day Saturday and Gospel on Sunday), Gospel (WHAL) (Note: All the stations I mentioned are owned by CC) and Urban Oldies (WRBO, owned by Citadel, has Steve Harvey in the Morning and Michael Baisden in the Afternoon and Brian McKnight at night)). RBO is not giving up Harvey, CC has Tom Joyner and Keith Sweat on KJMS, so that would leave them with getting Doug Banks (a Citadel/ABC show) if they want it.
I have long thought that WDIA was totally awesome and I admire WHAL for being the first successful big market gospel FM station.
I can speak for Chicago, and I would say yes and no. WGCI in my opinion is a shell of what it was in the 80's and 90's, same
with V103. These two stations were great when they were in a real competition.
CC also bought WEJM AM/FM when they purchased V103,The former owner's purchased WJPC AM/FM in the 90's and it was
to compete even more with GCI. WJPC 950 AM was all rap for a few years, and WJPC 106.3 FM was a dusty format. When
the owners of V bought it they killed both formats and turned it into a simulcast as 106 JAMZ! The station was much better
than GCI because they did rap and mixes at 10PM instead of slow jams. They actually did well in the rating's considering
GCI and V were both downtown stations and 106.3 was a 3,000 watt station from the southside(and if you were north of
downtown you had to listen on 950 AM to hear it clearly. These stations eventually had to be sold by CC because owned
too many stations in Chicago, the FM was sold to Crawford and changed to Gospel/paid religious. The AM continued for a few
months as WE JAM 950 AM, until it was sold to Sporting News Radio.
I would say one of the worst part of it was that CC changed one of it's other FM's to THE BEAT, which played dusties and
rythmic oldies aimed at both white and African American women. The result is that they flipped their all dusty station on
1390 AM to Gospel(which was a very unique station that I really liked) and realized they were taking away a good amount
of V 103's female listeners, who preferred the older "Jammin Oldies" format to V103. It was at about that time they flipped
the format from The "Jammin' Oldies format to their KISS FM format, leaving us without an all dusty format.
The reason I said yes and no to your question is, as you can see from my rambling above
, as much as CC has been
ruining the formats, we also have to blame the FCC for allowing the consolidation of radio in the first place. If they had
not, company's like CC and the others, would not have been able to do to radio what they have.
with V103. These two stations were great when they were in a real competition.
CC also bought WEJM AM/FM when they purchased V103,The former owner's purchased WJPC AM/FM in the 90's and it was
to compete even more with GCI. WJPC 950 AM was all rap for a few years, and WJPC 106.3 FM was a dusty format. When
the owners of V bought it they killed both formats and turned it into a simulcast as 106 JAMZ! The station was much better
than GCI because they did rap and mixes at 10PM instead of slow jams. They actually did well in the rating's considering
GCI and V were both downtown stations and 106.3 was a 3,000 watt station from the southside(and if you were north of
downtown you had to listen on 950 AM to hear it clearly. These stations eventually had to be sold by CC because owned
too many stations in Chicago, the FM was sold to Crawford and changed to Gospel/paid religious. The AM continued for a few
months as WE JAM 950 AM, until it was sold to Sporting News Radio.
I would say one of the worst part of it was that CC changed one of it's other FM's to THE BEAT, which played dusties and
rythmic oldies aimed at both white and African American women. The result is that they flipped their all dusty station on
1390 AM to Gospel(which was a very unique station that I really liked) and realized they were taking away a good amount
of V 103's female listeners, who preferred the older "Jammin Oldies" format to V103. It was at about that time they flipped
the format from The "Jammin' Oldies format to their KISS FM format, leaving us without an all dusty format.
The reason I said yes and no to your question is, as you can see from my rambling above
, as much as CC has beenruining the formats, we also have to blame the FCC for allowing the consolidation of radio in the first place. If they had
not, company's like CC and the others, would not have been able to do to radio what they have.
Dusties Radio 1390 was one of my alltime favorite stations, Gospel has been pretty successful on 1390 however.
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