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Has the Peak, Peaked?

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Ready for air

I kept hearing of all the changes for WKOS the Peak and either it's all hype or all they did was change the slogan. Are they going to be a threat anytime soon? Are they hung up on too many bosses in the building?
Should WTFM be worried? Should anybody? Is Citadel commited to this station? Last trend was down.
 
John Bolus (J.B. Stone) is now the new PD at the Peak and I have heard some changes musically. In talking with him, I know he wants to make even more changes. When that happens will be hard to tell, but there have been a few changes. I wish him well.
 
John is a good guy and after getting the heads-up that he was driving the bus there, we gave it a long listen. My opinion? Very good music...and a decent listen even at this early stage. It will do fine.

CJ
 
Still sounds like crap. When will corporate radio learn that we don't want to hear the same songs over and over? Why don't you all expand the playlist to more then just a few 100 songs...
 
I had heard the new PD had started months ago and with nothing seeming to happen wondered who was slowing stuff down. Either there is a game plan or not. "
But you don't take forever to change a station and expect to get noticed. Either there is doubt the revised format is anygood or there is a GM, consultant or ops guy or all 3 contradicting each other and slowing things down. This should have been a noticeable relaunch and should have been rolling full blast by Thanksgiving. Something happened.
 
I am a listener to 1049 the Peak and have a sharp improvement in the musical sound as of late. I have heard more dance music and R&B music from the 80s and 90s that was not played until the last couple months. I recently was joking yet at the same time serious that i noticed the big change when I heard playing C&C Music Factory's Gonna Make You Sweat... That is not by any means an AC song ... I think there is a switch under way but perhaps it is coming gradually... I hear similar songs as before but many new songs i would never thought would be played six months ago.. I am definitely liking the change.. I say keep adding more of the 80s and 90s top 40 dance and R&B... I am loving i!!!
 
The ratings have gone up, but it's a garbage format and they have gone from poor to average at best.

Here's what I would suggest-

A- With the sports contracts they have, why not simply kill music altogether and move WXSM to FM and restore classic country on 640?

Classic County on 640 got better ratings than WKOS ever did. The demographic was older- but the fact of the matter is this is the Tri-Cities, Tenn.-VA and we have more Hank Williams Jr. fans than we do the C & C Music Factory.

Move UT to 104.9 and go with ETSU. When conflicts arise with UT basketball you can send them to another station or simply carry the game on delay. Take high school basketball and football games off 910 and put them on this FM.

104.9 would be the highest rated talk station and sports audiences are the most educated- hence the sales power is there. Conflicts with the other talk shows wouldn't arise. Turn 1320 into news or business or comedy or whatever.

B- If you have to keep WKOS music and you have to keep this format because Citadel tells you so or you have no vision, then let me make a suggestion.

You're playing 1980s pop music, correct?

Back in the 1980s WQUT was a pop station- and it was one of the highest rated stations in the country. It got the ratings WXBQ does today- if not higher. It was THE station.

But WQUT was not playing much dance or R & B music. Oh, it was there, they wouldn't ignore something that was prominent in the Top 40. You'd hear Tone Loc or Paula Abdul or something like that.

What they featured and backed the playlist with were the rock ballads of the day. There were lots of GNR, lots of Bon Jovi, lots of Cinderella, Great White, that sort of stuff.

Now, if we're trying to get the audience on WKOS in 2008 that WAS the audience on WQUT in 1988, then doesn't it make sense to look up the PLAYLIST of WQUT in 1988 and try to duplicate it?
 
Apparently Not!

Look @ the fall book (out 1/25/08) but look deep enough to see The Peak's strength and weakness. 1st off don't look @ the metro or the whole tomato look @ Sullivan County. Thats the only place they've got a "great" signal. Then check the "coveted" 25-54 females and you'll see that The Peak is all over "TFM I say give them more "refine time" then watch out!
 
I know this is a late post guys,but haven't been here in a while. I was told by a little birdy myself that Johnny Bolus is now the boss on the Peak. I too have heard some different tunes lately. I heard last night Chillawhack from 1981 that I don't think has ever been played anywhere since. Wasn't a great song in 81' but I do remember it. It was played on 'QUT back then during their top 40 days....The story continues...
 
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