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Format Change Coming To 95.5 PGC?

There were hints of that back in the winter. Then they changed thier website and acted as if that was all they meant. I think CBS is in a lot of trouble with ALL thier DC stations and not doing well in Baltimore or Philly either. The only station that hasn't been mentioned at all is WLZL who is now 19th in the market.
 
Perhaps WRNR (yes I know it's owned by a different company) should move accross the bay and take over the 99.1 frequency.
 
CHRles said:
All Access is reporting that 95.5 PGC might go CHR in the coming weeks.
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I'm thinking more CHR/Rhythmic. Some places they are still Tagged as such They may shift to actually match that tag.
name change? 95.5 Now FM?
 
ddsparxx said:
Perhaps WRNR (yes I know it's owned by a different company) should move accross the bay and take over the 99.1 frequency.
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That would be awesome. RNR is more like pre-infinity HFS than anything CBS-HFS has done. 99.1 WRNR Annapolis...The Legacy Returns....
 
To bad CBS can't flip 99.1 to Urban AC. Putting that and WPGC together would be great. But DC already had two Urban ACs. As to how CBS Radio does in Charlotte, NC with Power 98 and V 101.9 both do well. I guess CHR could work or maybe Country.
 
I guess it's obvious that a 'PGC transition to CHR Pop would be aligned with the CBS strategy of challenging Clear Channel's CHR market leaders in LA (KIIS) and NYC (Z100) with AMP and NOW Radios respectively. Hot 99.5's great PPM results make it an attractive target. So far, AMP is a roaring success, while NOW seems slow off the mark in improving on K-ROCK's mediocre post-Stern performance in NYC. I can't find any signs yet that a 955 AMP or NOW internet moniker has been registered however.
 
MarcB said:
If PGC goes that HOT in Hartford will go even tho their ratings usually put them in the top 3, 12+. When HOT in Hartford came on in 01 Infinity said it was cloned from PGC.
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Hot 93.7/Hartford sounds like WPGC/DC. The Dr. Dave Voice Guy,the 18 Jams in the row and the whole nine yards.

The difference is the music. WGPC (2009) is straight up Urban musically. Hot 93.7 is an Urban leaning Rhythmic. Hot has a very tight playlist. Crossover Kerri Hilson,Kayne West and Sean Kingston all day over and over again. Hot sometimes goes out of this format during mixshows and becomes more Urban. Hot is trying to attract white kids out in suburban Avon (CT) and Simsbury(CT) along with black and latin kids in Hartford/Bloomfield/Windsor/East Hartford/New Britain. WPGC plays Kerri and Kayne along with deep soul titles like "Sobeautiful"/Musiq Soulchild and Gospel/R&B "God in me"/Mary Mary.

Also, WPGC has PPM to deal with. Hot 93.7 doesn't.
 
Mix 106.5 is not Hot AC, it sounds like a CHR. The transition is complete. Why would CBS want to compete with itself by flipping 95.5?
 
Nick said:
Mix 106.5 is not Hot AC, it sounds like a CHR. The transition is complete. Why would CBS want to compete with itself by flipping 95.5?
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106.5 is unreceivable in most of DC. 95.5 is weak in Baltimore (usually hovers around 1.5).

Any move CBS makes with 95.5 isn't going to have much of an effect on 106.5 (and vice versa).
 
What about a country music format? They could model it after Entercoms "The Wolf" stations and sound like a top 40 station playing country.
 
I grew up in the DC area in the 70's and listened to then-Top 40 WPGC all the time. Harv Moore & The Redhead, Jim Elliot, etc. I go back there to see my folks and always check-in with 'PGC, mostly out of nostalgia. The music now is definitely Urban, even though they are (incorrectly, IMO) classified as Rhythmic CHR by some trades. It appears that with PPM, large markets can accommodate two mainstream CHR's. CBS has done a great job with AMP Radio in LA, where I live now, so I think they could do it with WPGC, a once-legendary CHR in town. Nothing gets people more interested in radio than a good old fashioned CHR battle.
 
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I grew up in the DC area in the 70's and listened to then-Top 40 WPGC all the time. Harv Moore & The Redhead, Jim Elliot, etc. I go back there to see my folks and always check-in with 'PGC, mostly out of nostalgia. The music now is definitely Urban, even though they are (incorrectly, IMO) classified as Rhythmic CHR by some trades. It appears that with PPM, large markets can accommodate two mainstream CHR's. CBS has done a great job with AMP Radio in LA, where I live now, so I think they could do it with WPGC, a once-legendary CHR in town. Nothing gets people more interested in radio than a good old fashioned CHR battle.
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I can remember when the call letters WPGC came back to 95.5 ( 1986 ? ). As I can remember when that happened a LOT of people expected a CHR format to come back to 95.5 after their stint at being a light rock station ( "Classy 95" ). Some years back someone had sent a message to DCRTV saying that was actually the game plan..CHR on the 'new" 95.5 WPGC. Of course that never happened. My guess is that by 1986 there was simply too many Top 40 stations in the area. The greater DC area alone had Q107, WBMW B-106 ( though they were gone by 1988 ) and of course WAVA. Plus you had the others whose signals were available to many listeners within the DC Metro like Baltimore's B-104 and K-106 and Richmond's Q-94. Even the then-two CHR powerhouses in Hampton Roads (Z104 and WGH-FM 97 Star ) their singal was available to some listeners at the time as far north as Fredericksburg. Of course Frederick still had Z104 at the time and out west Hagerstown ( WQCM ), Chambersburg ( Z-95 ), Cumberland (GO 106 ), Winchester ( 99.3 The Fox ), Martinsburg ( WKMZ) and Harrisonburg ( Q101 ), each of those towns all had their CHR stations on FM as well. I guess with all that competition even with history being on their side, I guess I can see why WPGC didn't do the CHR thing.

There was a lot of Top 40 stations in the region back in those days and sadly with the exception of Richmond's Q94 and somewhat Harrisonburg's Q101 , none of the stations who did CHR back then are doing it now.
 
mleach said:
AM FM listener said:
I grew up in the DC area in the 70's and listened to then-Top 40 WPGC all the time. Harv Moore & The Redhead, Jim Elliot, etc. I go back there to see my folks and always check-in with 'PGC, mostly out of nostalgia. The music now is definitely Urban, even though they are (incorrectly, IMO) classified as Rhythmic CHR by some trades. It appears that with PPM, large markets can accommodate two mainstream CHR's. CBS has done a great job with AMP Radio in LA, where I live now, so I think they could do it with WPGC, a once-legendary CHR in town. Nothing gets people more interested in radio than a good old fashioned CHR battle.
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I can remember when the call letters WPGC came back to 95.5 ( 1986 ? ). As I can remember when that happened a LOT of people expected a CHR format to come back to 95.5 after their stint at being a light rock station ( "Classy 95" ). Some years back someone had sent a message to DCRTV saying that was actually the game plan..CHR on the 'new" 95.5 WPGC. Of course that never happened. My guess is that by 1986 there was simply too many Top 40 stations in the area. The greater DC area alone had Q107, WBMW B-106 ( though they were gone by 1988 ) and of course WAVA. Plus you had the others whose signals were available to many listeners within the DC Metro like Baltimore's B-104 and K-106 and Richmond's Q-94. Even the then-two CHR powerhouses in Hampton Roads (Z104 and WGH-FM 97 Star ) their singal was available to some listeners at the time as far north as Fredericksburg. Of course Frederick still had Z104 at the time and out west Hagerstown ( WQCM ), Chambersburg ( Z-95 ), Cumberland (GO 106 ), Winchester ( 99.3 The Fox ), Martinsburg ( WKMZ) and Harrisonburg ( Q101 ), each of those towns all had their CHR stations on FM as well. I guess with all that competition even with history being on their side, I guess I can see why WPGC didn't do the CHR thing.

There was a lot of Top 40 stations in the region back in those days and sadly with the exception of Richmond's Q94 and somewhat Harrisonburg's Q101 , none of the stations who did CHR back then are doing it now.
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WPGC "returned" to the airwaves around June of 1987 and they immediately shot up to the top ten in the first book. I think they were trying to create a new niche format (consisting of an urban- or dance-leaning top-40) when they returned. Maybe their initial intent was to become Washington's version of Miami's Power 96? As thing go they for all intents and purposes became a mainstream urban as the years went by. Being that I liked to go 'clubbing' in those days, I thought they were pretty cool back then, but lost interest as they went more 'urban'. FTR, B106 dropped top-40 sometime about then when they went to a few short-lived formats before going to a personality/classic-eclectic rock combo.
 
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