Fly 92.9 playing Christmas music

[alans613]

Over the past 12 or so hours i've heard lots of holiday songs on Fly 92.9. Probably doing some kind of "Christmas In July"-type deal. I guess the term "We play ANYTHING" fits well here...and I thought they were pushing the envelope by playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit"!

 

[MikeStandardsFromIndiana]

then i must have not been tripping when i head on the Fly 92.9 Stream yesterday when i heard the Bruce Springsteen "Santa Claus is coming to town" being played

 

[alans613]

Yep, they're doing "Christmas In July" on Fly this weekend...just heard them say it. Playing right now(10:51 AM) is John Mellencamp's "I Saw Momma Kissin' Santa Claus". I was wondering what in the hell was going on last night when I jumped in the car and heard "The 12 Days Of Christmas" by Bob and Doug McKenzie. Also in the 10 AM hour they played Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer".

 

[gr8oldies]

Yeah, heard "Grandma..", which I guess does count as "anything". Well it's cooler than usual this July, so why not early Christmas, I guess.

 

[alans613]

Yeah, heard "Grandma..", which I guess does count as "anything". Well it's cooler than usual this July, so why not early Christmas, I guess.

Good point gr8! Although all this Christmas music is not making my inner-Grinch very happy...

 

[guitarguy]

I love this station, but I can't get behind this concept! I have no problem with Christmas music, except that about 90% of it is crappy music hiding behind the holiday! When I listen to this station, I want to hear good, solid, classic rock tunes, not "Jingle Bell Rock". I'll go back to my iPod 'til they're done...

 

[88.9 Miracle]

Wow. I am speechless at all of the Wonderful creativity that this Corporate Radio town has. Christmas in July. Wow suck a wonderful idea. Will it ever end? (sarcasm, in case you didn't catch it.)

 

[uncamark]

Wow. I am speechless at all of the Wonderful creativity that this Corporate Radio town has. Christmas in July. Wow suck a wonderful idea. Will it ever end? (sarcasm, in case you didn't catch it.)

Nine-out-of-ten Ma-and-Pa businesses are corporations.

I presume you prefer Communism instead?

 

[ChoiceFM]

I would think you can't get more closer to communisn than to have 1 or 2 large corporate groups own all the stations in town.
When their directors can't come up with a better idea, put something that sucks on the air rather then let a local group use the frenquency.

 

[gr8oldies]

Not counting LPFMs there are at least 7 entities that own radio stations in Dayton (yes I'm counting religious and public, but not high school.).

 

[88.9 Miracle]

C'mon, you know what I mean by Corporate radio. Corporate radio is cookie cutter radio. Corporate radio is a mentality. I don't care who's name is on the license or who is on the board. Go to any town and hear the same garbage. It's all about the sponsors, money, greed and paying those loans on those inflated station purchase prices. The audience gets left out and that's why audience is shrinking. In fact, the corporate owners are the very ones that have put the grave stone on terrestrial radio. They are too afraid to think out of the box and that box keeps getting smaller and so does the audience. Listeners are forced to go somewhere else to find something appealing to them (iPod, XM, Sirius, Internet Radio, etc.).

Hang the consultants and try some NEW ideas, new formats besides Freekin' Christmas in (yawn) July. Good Lord.

The listeners will embrace new ideas and formats, if you give it to them. But they can't embrace what they can't hear. We know. We're a non-comm. Over 3.7 million hits so far in July on our website. This as a result of thinking out of the box on our air signal and website stream. We're growing as a result.

 

[gr8oldies]

Some of those "out of the box" things are happening on stations like WDAO, WBZI, and WCSU. The audience cerftainly could go there if they want to hear "non-corporate" radio. Most don't. (By the way I missed WDAO so that's 8. And my point was there are more than 2 owners in town).

 

[alans613]

Folks, if you think radio is bad in Dayton, look no further than our state capital for bad radio in a big city. Columbus radio is in the worst shape it's been in the two decades i've been listening to it. Three rock stations, four country signals, a waste-of-20,000-watts Sports format...need I go on? Fly sounds better than most if not all of these crap stations combined. They do have an excellent Hot AC in Mix 107.9, but the signal is limited.

 

[ChoiceFM]

You can split hairs all day long. When the real truth is told: CC, Cox and Mainline are the only real owners most of the Dayton listeners know about. They for the most part rebroadcast satellite broadcasts you'll hear in other cities, hardly any origination.

People aren't refusing to try out the smaller stations because CC, Cox and Mainline programming is so wonderful.

The other owners are daytime coffee pots or stations too far away to cover all of the area. These other owners combined may represent 2% of the Dayton listening audience. Even WBZI with 3 stations doesn't cover all the area.

 

[ChoiceFM]

I would think you can't get more closer to communisn than to have 1 or 2 large corporate groups own all the stations in town.
When their directors can't come up with a better idea, put something that sucks on the air rather then let a local group use the frenquency.

I will change my original post to say: 1 or 2 large groups own most of the stations in town.

 

[gr8oldies]

You can get WYSO all over the metro, as you can WCSU. Obviously the religious stations aren't many people's cup of tea, though K-Love has a loyal audience. The problem with "out of the box" is you still have to have enough listeners to stay with you long enough. People are very fickle, and I don't buy the idea that everyone would listen to a bunch of songs they don't like without pushing that button. I'm aware you have a nice niche with Choice, but could a commercial station monetize it?