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Format Change Happening at 93.3 on Friday at Noon

I guess I don't hear the rhythmic...It sounds like dance music to me.
 
So far sounds like most CHRs. A rather straight up the middle safe approach with no records in the first hour that are older than a year.

In the first hour, with the exception of Nickelback "If Today Was Your Last Day", all the other records you can hear regularly on 106.1 Kiss FM.
 
wxman76 said:
So far sounds like most CHRs. A rather straight up the middle safe approach with no records in the first hour that are older than a year.
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You spoke too soon lol. but at least i haven't heard a repeat yet, that's good.
 
wxman76 said:
In the first hour, with the exception of Nickelback "If Today Was Your Last Day", all the other records you can hear regularly on 106.1 Kiss FM.
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Would that be the Kiss that's like #2 in the market? #2 with no direct top 40 competitor?

If you're going to go after someone, it makes sense to go after someone with ratings than someone without.

Heck, they could have gone progreessive talk, but why split 1360's .1 when you can try to take some of Kiss's 5 share...
 
I've got your format change and stunt audio here: http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=152234.0

It seems Cumulus has a thing for this "i" branding for its new CHR stations. The past few format changes I've recorded were flips from something else to an "i"-formatted CHR fomat. I've also noticed that the "i"s always seem to be designed to go after the major CHR station in whatever market they're in.
 
I haven't programmed CHR in decades, so my observations are likely out of touch.

After listening for nearly two hours, and in MY opinion ONLY, the music sounds too white bread. I think it lacks appeal to the growing Hispanic and African-American young adult market. In short, it's too ``pop'' and not rhythmic enough for the region served best by the signal.

So far I-93's music seems better suited for the demographics of Seattle, Portland or Salt Lake City and not for D/FW's 40+% Hispanic and African-American population. This may work in Collin County but deploying this variant of the CHR format with merely 50,000 watts at only 120 meters from Singleton appears ill-fated.
 
Bob E. Nelson said:
I haven't programmed CHR in decades, so my observations are likely out of touch.

After listening for nearly two hours, and in MY opinion ONLY, the music sounds too white bread. I think it lacks appeal to the growing Hispanic and African-American young adult market. In short, it's too ``pop'' and not rhythmic enough for the region served best by the signal.

So far I-93's music seems better suited for the demographics of Seattle, Portland or Salt Lake City and not for D/FW's 40+% Hispanic and African-American population. This may work in Collin County but deploying this variant of the CHR format with merely 50,000 watts at only 120 meters from Singleton appears ill-fated.
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Maybe they are trying to get the white folks. I have to admit I don't know much about todays music. If they don't play it on KKDA then I don't know it.
 
Bob E. Nelson said:
I haven't programmed CHR in decades, so my observations are likely out of touch.

After listening for nearly two hours, and in MY opinion ONLY, the music sounds too white bread. I think it lacks appeal to the growing Hispanic and African-American young adult market. In short, it's too ``pop'' and not rhythmic enough for the region served best by the signal.

So far I-93's music seems better suited for the demographics of Seattle, Portland or Salt Lake City and not for D/FW's 40+% Hispanic and African-American population. This may work in Collin County but deploying this variant of the CHR format with merely 50,000 watts at only 120 meters from Singleton appears ill-fated.
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
To be fair, I-93 is much more Rhythmic/Pop friendly than many of Cumulus' other CHR/Pop stations.

As for the other great cities you'd listed, all three of them have a Rhythmic CHR in their market. In fact, Salt Lake City currently has THREE CHR/Pop stations (97.1 ZHT, Movin 100.7, and 107.9 The Mix recently went CHR/Pop as well) as well as U-92 for Rhythmic. Seattle has Kube 93 for Rhythmic, Kiss 106.1 for CHR/Pop, C-89.5 for Dance, and there's another CHR/Pop from Tacoma in I-91. Part of the market can also pick up Mercer Island's Hot Jamz 88.9 & 94.5 (Rhythmic leaning CHR).
Lastly, Portland has Z-100 for CHR/Pop and Jammin 107.5 for Rhythmic CHR.
 
So will they pipe The Burt Show in from ATL like they were doing with The Regular Guys? If anything just taking a share and a half from Kiss will certainly help The Ticket and Kplx.
 
MikeStandardsFromIndiana said:
im surprise they are only doing 93 hours of commercial free music. The previous 2 cumulus CHR Flips have consisted of 940 songs in a row for indy and 1060 songs for nashville.
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93 hours should be in excess of 1000 songs. And it brands the frequency better.
 
Either Nashville or Indy is jockless... I vote for that option. Sort of dancing JACK. Actually, this is kinda like if KDL and Mix had a love child... LOL!
 
salemjedi54 said:
Maybe they [I-93] are trying to get the white folks. I have to admit I don't know much about todays music. If they don't play it on KKDA then I don't know it.
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s/white folks/non-Hispanic white folks/
Hispanics come in all colors. :)

As for KKDA, presuming you mean Soul 73, if Arbitron ever assigns us PPM units, look for a *big* wobble in that book. The same old talking point repetition on WBAP is sending me down the dial a few kilocycles.
 
jeffdfw said:
Either Nashville or Indy is jockless... I vote for that option. Sort of dancing JACK. Actually, this is kinda like if KDL and Mix had a love child... LOL!
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I-106 Nashville has a live jock in afternoons. I-94 in Indi has two jocks thus far if I'm not mistaken. Hang on I'll check:
http://www.i94hits.com/

Yup.
 
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