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Energy Flipping to Top 40

Wow! What a loss and what a mistake!

Not enough of a signal to compete with Movin or Wild and alienating a core, dedicated, long-time, largely gay, money spending audience??

Movin and Wild have a supreme opportunity here....if they can think outside the box??
 
will this be a rhythmic leaning chr like movin & wild or a normal one. anyone know?
 
CHRles said:
New Jersey is not a market it is as you pointed out a state. You can't pick up Z-100 New York or 92.3 Now in southern Jersey, or in the western parts of the state. You can't pick up Q-102 Philadelphia in northern Jersey, or in most of the Jersey shore for that matter.
You can't pick up Monmouth and Ocean County's Hits 106.3 in Newark nor in the suburbs of Philly.
You can't pick up Atlantic city's 95.1 WAYV in northern New Jersey. You also can't pick up 98.5 KRZ Wilkes Barre in most of the heavily populated regions of Jersey.
Really, all you're doing is counting all the CHRs one can pick up throughout the state. If you're going to do that one call also bring up how if you drive to every single point in Connecticut you can pick up just as many stations - Z-100, 92.3 Now, 106.1 BLI, Beach 101.7, KC 101, Kiss 95.7, Q-105 ,98 Q , I-98, K-104, and 92 Pro.

Perhaps you're not aware of this but San Francisco has been DEPRIVED of a CHR/Pop station for a long time. Only recently has Movin 99.7 evolved from Rhythmic AC to a Rhythmic leaning CHR/Pop station. And the last time San Francisco had two CHR/Pop stations going head to head was in 1987 with 106 KMEL, which was starting to lean Dance, and Live 105, which was evolving into a Modern Rock outlet.
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Perhaps I explained it wrong but you get my idea. Granted, you can't pick up Hit in Newark or Philly, but you can sure pick up Z and Now where Hit 106.3 is covering, and can pick up Kiss-FM, WAYV, SoJo, Q, and Wired where Hit 106.5 is covering. KRZ has a simulcast which is WKRF, which happens to also bleed over the coverage of WAEB which both is heard in West Jersey. But anyway, point is, why so many frequencies playing the same format, especially if a market has more than one CHR format? It's the same issue with different formats in other markets. This is something I really don't understand. Why couldn't radio be like it was back in the day, where if you wanted to hear freestyle, it would be that one station where those songs would be known to play. Now I'm not hating on the format, it's just why all of a sudden this format is starting to take over every frequency that's possibly available? And if San Fran needed a CHR format, why 92.7, when it has a smaller coverage than the other signals in San Fran/San Jose? Why couldn't they flip ONE out of the five or six "spanish" formats in that market?
 
Wow...sad...this a major market station? The stream is their Vegas sister station, their website is populated with content from Vegas, including
weather? Why not just wait unitl you've got it right? Sadly, this will be a disaster as most of this owner's operations have been. With this signal, there
is virtually no chance as success. At least with dance, it targeted a very focused audience, that the signal covered. WILD and now with MOViN's shift to somewhere
between rhythmic and mainstream CHR have the format covered off.
 
To d21ofnj,
First of all, you gotta keep in mind that Spanish language stations are very successful in Cali. A huge percentage of the population in the state is Hispanic.. In the Bay area they make up about 20 percent of the population. It's twice as high in Southern California, or in some of the Valley and inland markets. People from places like Philly or Detroit couldn't fathom so many Spanish language stations on the dial b/c in their markets the Hispanic population just isn't big enough to support too many such stations. In Cali it works, and it works well.
You know what also seems to be working well these days? Top 40 radio.
It's nice that you mentioned CHRs from stations in New York, Philly, or Atlantic City, but none of those CHRs target Monmouth and Ocean County. And yet Monmouth and Ocean are an Arbitron rated market, a high one at that with over a million people. Local advertisers want to reach out to them, and for that they need to do so on local stations that are successful in the local ratings. A radio station in Monmouth-Ocean was having trouble acehving the kind of ratings it desired, and problems selling the Modern Rock format to advertisers. The solution? Find a format with a big enough audience, and that advertisers will support. Hence the flip to CHR/Pop. Will it work? Only time will tell.
BTW, Sojo 104.9 is a Hot AC, and Kiss FM Atlantic City is a Rhythmic CHR.
Q-102 Philly and Wired 96.5 do not by any stretch of the imagination cover Monmouth and Ocean County well, not even close. They only acheive a 0.4 share in the ratings there.
 
This is worse than your make-up being discontinued!! (girls can relate). Are they keeping Fernando and Greg?? If not....just Kill Me Now!!!
 
Sounding great so far. Top 40 for the win!

Songs played so far:
Kelly Clarkson "Walk Away"
Pink "Get The Party Started"
Livvi Franc "Now I'm That Bitch"
Flo-Rida "Be On You"
Linkin Park "New Divide"
Kerri Hilson "Knock You Down"
Michael Franti & Spearhead "Say Hey"
Crazy Town "Butterfly"
 
Funny - I only found Energy 92.7 because the Top 40 station I listened to flipped formats several years ago. I didn't know what I had been missing - the music Energy played was awesome and unique. Hopefully another local station will pick up the format...there's definitely an audience for it!
 
d21ofnj said:
And if San Fran needed a CHR format, why 92.7, when it has a smaller coverage than the other signals in San Fran/San Jose? Why couldn't they flip ONE out of the five or six "spanish" formats in that market?
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Spanish is not a format, it is a language. The Spanish language stations have a variety of formats, ranging from Hot AC to Mexican country to oldies. And the market is 20% Hispanic, with about 75% of that figure being Spanish dominant or bilingual, and users of Spanish langauge radio.
 
I am a dedicated, straight listener who's been employed with the same company for over 30 years - and I spend money! I'm sure I'm not the only listener with this demographic. I will sincerely miss LOL at the morning show which made my commute almost tolerable.
 
Energy 92.7 was a good terrestrial Dance station. Their audience composition was about half straight half gay (or even 60 percent gay), and were bigger with males than females.
I'm a huge fan of House and Trance music, as well as a lot of mainstream Dance, and kind of saw the writing on the wall awhile back. I hope some of the big Dance hits get added to Wild 94.9 or Movin 99.7 (would be awesome if they sounded like Z-103.5 Toronto).
If you need some recommendations as far as Dance stations to listen to online from around the world just let me know and I'll hook you up.
 
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