Does Heritage Count For Anything???

[Power91]

I hope and pray that WODS, as the #4 FM station in Boston, should be ok in terms of trying to be immune to getting "jacked"...however, as Infinity has shown today...nothing is sacred in radio...

Heritage stations often go by the wayside when their ratings just can't carry anymore. Everyone remembers what happened to many of the country's CHR stations in the early 90s when Grunge decided to persuade programmers that pop music was dead. Now infinity has obviously shown that the history and decent ratings of WCBS and WJMK really don't mean anything to the suits in the board room.

The fact that neither CBS-FM or WJMK were near the bottom of the ratings is perhaps what's most scary. If station's were less than a 2, this wouldn't be as much a shock, but neither was in trouble. While I think the Oldies 103.3 is safe, Infinity has proven to listeners, that absolutely nothing can be certain in terms of a station they may like.

~RM

A side note: I feel credit should be given to Clear Channel. The much maligned radio beheamoth has been very, very slow at flipping stations to these format-less formats. While Inifinty, and to some extent Entercom, have launched them with reckless abandon, CC has generally stuck to acutal formated radio. Amen.

 

[JustinT]

> A side note: I feel credit should be given to Clear Channel.
> The much maligned radio beheamoth has been very, very slow
> at flipping stations to these format-less formats. While
> Inifinty, and to some extent Entercom, have launched them
> with reckless abandon, CC has generally stuck to acutal
> formated radio. Amen.

Although it was one of Clear Channel's predecessors, the short lived AMFM, that pretty much created and distributed the Jammin' Oldies format, under many different names (Jammin' on WTJM/New York, The Beat on WUBT/Chicago, Power on WOCL/Orlando, Mega on WMGE/Miami, etc.)

Cox seems to have been the driving force for the 80's format. The current Hurban format seems to be driven mainly by Clear Channel, along with the phase of bringing Spanish to full market signals.

 

[Power91]

I agree with you on the fact that certain owners can bring formats about. At dancing oldies, 80s, or Hurban are "formats"....I question whether the same can really be said for Jack-FM

 

[OldiesCat]

clarification on CC

CC has flipped many stations to Hispanic, as others have to JACK. Same modus, just a different format.


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> A side note: I feel credit should be given to Clear Channel.
> The much maligned radio beheamoth has been very, very slow
> at flipping stations to these format-less formats. While
> Inifinty, and to some extent Entercom, have launched them
> with reckless abandon, CC has generally stuck to acutal
> formated radio. Amen.
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[maximumradio]

> I agree with you on the fact that certain owners can bring
> formats about. At dancing oldies, 80s, or Hurban are
> "formats"....I question whether the same can really be said
> for Jack-FM

I would not be surprised at hearing a Spanish or Hurban format on 103.3. Then again, I was speaking to someone who was speculating that Infinity might also morph the station to the "Dance Classics" format airing on WNEW-FM..It would serve as a revival of Star without losing all of the Oldies fans.
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