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fish xm goes CHR ?

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i have been listning for the past few days and all i can come up with as we have had an unanounced format change. right now they are playing t-bone. before that was out of eden .soldiers for the last hour i have heard no sappy ac at all. but did here barry mcquire? :) anyone seen any info on a change at the fish xm? new pd? i will email them and see.<P ID="signature">______________
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> i have been listning for the past few days and all i can
> come up with as we have had an unanounced format change.
> right now they are playing t-bone. before that was out of
> eden .soldiers for the last hour i have heard no sappy ac
> at all. but did here barry mcquire? :) anyone seen any info
> on a change at the fish xm? new pd? i will email them and
> see.
>

I have known that station to go all over the spectrum musically so I find a real change hard to pinpoint. I do remember them playing off the wall stuff in the beginning and they have pulled things towards a realistic playlist. They are probably doing things the way they initially planned to do with the broadcast Fish's before making them striaght ahead ACs. It was a AC/Hot AC/CHR approach that was used in Orange County and Atlanta when they launched. I just heard FFH and a classic from Michael W Smith which sounds straight ahead AC to me. Maybe they daypart, I will listen more to see.
 
Before we stray drastically, let's remember the post specifies the Fish on XM only. One of the things I've admired about the non-satellite Fish stations is that the programming I've heard varies from market to market. Throughout my travels, I've enjoyed listening to the vastly different music programmed on the Fish stations in the Portland market, versus those in Hawaii & Northern California. Which is how good radio SHOULD operate IMO... not just country-wide, over-consulted, cookie-cutter playlists, but driven to the listeners of a specific market.

I'd think that programming for such a broad, diverse audience as a global satellite provides must be a different game in itself. But those who'd pay for radio via satellite probably would expect to hear programming that can't get on free radio, otherwise they'd have little reason to subscribe.
 
What are the musical differences? Which Fish station is the "hottest" AC?
 
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