G101-3 Richmond

[lovejamminoldies]

I actually like this Adult CHR. I can pick it up decent in Dayton, OH... does anybody ever check it out? Their imaging is good, good music selection, and they're quite interactive. I wonder how they're doing numbers-wise.

 

[NoWayNoCC]

Back in the late '80s, WFMG had to have been one of the weirdest stations of all-time. Back then, it was Magic 101 and was pretty much an AC/top 40 hybrid. They billed themselves as "lite rock" yet they played Tone Loc and Guns 'n' Roses. But they'd also throw in mid-charting oldies from the '70s or '80s that you hadn't heard in years.

In other words, it was CHR currents mixed with enough CHR oldies that it was borderline AC.

Somehow I used to be able to pick up this station in northern Kentucky.

I haven't heard WFMG in years though, so I don't know what it's like now.

 

[lovejamminoldies]

More Adult CHR now... 12am Wednesday:

Maroon 5 - Misery
Pink - Sober
3 Doors Down - Let Me Go
Weezer - Beverly Hills
Train - Marry Me
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Rob Thomas - Lonely No More
Sara Bareilles - King of Anything
Chris Brown - Run It!
Coldplay - Talk
Katy Perry - Firework
John Mayer - Heartbreak Warfare
Trapt - Headstrong
Natasha Bedingfield/Sean Kingston - Love Like This

 

[BobOnTheJob]

I haven't heard WFMG in years though, so I don't know what it's like now.

They reduced power a few years ago to facilitate the move of the 100.9 station in Cincy to 101.1.

 

[Apollo7979]

WFMG has always been a station that has been ahead of its time, especially during the 80s and early 90s. Magic 101 for a short time was mainstream AC after switching from WRIA back in '86, but the station gradually became musically hotter. By the late 80s, I would consider the station as Hot AC by 2010 standards... upbeat AC/pop alternative hits from the past 2 decades with a dash of rhythmic.

Even when they flipped to oldies in 1992, the station refrained from playing 50s and early 60s doo-wop, which was all over oldies radio at the time. Instead, they opted to play post-Beatles 60s and 70s hits...like the oldies stations of today. The format failed, and they gradually (and I mean over the course of several months) segued back to a standard run-of-the-mill hot AC format by 1994.

I think the new Adult CHR sound is partially due to Z-93's demise. Even though Z wasn't quite the Top 40 powerhouse it once was when it went away a few years ago, it was Richmond's only CHR by default. I'm sure G 101.3 saw an advantage to this and tweaked to attract old Z listeners while not going too rhythmic in order to retain their existing hot AC audience.

CC--You probably already know the back story, but WFMG was a 50,000 watt station up until a few years ago when Rodgers Broadcasting sold WFMG's Connersville sister station, WIFE-FM, to Radio One. Before WFMG downgraded, they seemed to travel pretty well down the Whitewater Valley toward Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, though not quite as great as the other (and now only) 50,000 watt station licensed to Richmond, WQLK. When WIFE-FM was reallocated to Norwood, part of the deal was to downgrade WFMG to 25,000 watts and move WIZF up from 100.9 to 101.1. WFMG, in theory, should still get out decently, but even a few miles from the transmitter in Wayne County, I can get The Wiz with very little interference from WFMG and 101.5 WKKG out of Columbus, IN makes it past the county line.

Jammin--Enjoy the station while you can in Dayton. Once Mainline moves WKSW to 101.5, WFMG will be toast in Montgomery County.

 

[lovejamminoldies]

Yeah, good thing they stream. I'm waiting for a CHR to come back to Dayton! Enjoying WXIL here in Athens... makes me miss Z93. :'(