Personally I prefer the XM brand but the gym I go to has Sirius Hits1 playing on the speakers. This week I started paying more attention to some things. Wow. Just wow. Whoever's doing the music logs on Hits siriusly needs to be reminded that you don't just hit F10 and hope for the best. On Friday I heard almost the same exact set as I did in the same hour on Thursday. Did the MD take the hour rotation rule out? Do they just not care? Of course, most people probably don't even notice things like that but I sure did. Of course, the fact that I used to be in radio and an MD might have to do with it... but still, the music scheduling on that channel is crap. Get a clue or get out. No use dragging down the channel because you don't know what you're doing.
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Hits1 Music Scheduling
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It is horrible, isn't it!? It sounds like a trainwreck. A lot of their "new music" are songs already in top 30, top 20 sometimes! The ones that are actually new are FLOPS. 20 on 20 doesn't do this. HITS 1 IS A LAME EXAMPLE OF A MAINSTREAM CHR. 20 on 20 should become the CHR for both networks. Add some golds to 20 on 20 and you have a hit.
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Sirius Hits 1 has a lot of silly and endearing air talent, even though I would agree that the music is off.
lovejamminoldies said:It is horrible, isn't it!? It sounds like a trainwreck. A lot of their "new music" are songs already in top 30, top 20 sometimes! The ones that are actually new are FLOPS. 20 on 20 doesn't do this. HITS 1 IS A LAME EXAMPLE OF A MAINSTREAM CHR. 20 on 20 should become the CHR for both networks. Add some golds to 20 on 20 and you have a hit.
Not everything in the top 50 spins is a bound for the Top 5, and if you add recurrents/golds to 20 on 20 you get Pop2k.
POP2K is programmed pretty good. Better than Hits 1
I like Sirius Hits 1 as it sounds like someone is not just following the charts but actually making an effort to give the station an identity. I believe its programmed by Kid Kelly of Z-100 and Backtraxx USA fame.
At the same time I agree that Sirius should carry both 20 On 20 and Sirius Hits 1, or at least Kiss XM alongside Sirius Hits 1.
At the same time I agree that Sirius should carry both 20 On 20 and Sirius Hits 1, or at least Kiss XM alongside Sirius Hits 1.
Hits 1 is kind of fun to listen to because they do follow their own path, per se. They always have at least 4 or 5 currents that most CHR's aren't playing or that peaked in the lower rung of the charts. Sometimes some of these tracks are pretty cool though and deserve to be heard.
I've always kind of had a theory as to why they program this way. Hits 1 tends to lean to the rock side and adult side IMO. Also, most of the "stiffs" that they play that other CHR's don't are also rock leaning most of the time. My guess has always been that satellite radio is most popular and most heavily used in the rural/heartland type areas of the country where people are underserved, and where they often have long commutes to work. And those areas have always been the most rock friendly. I think Sirius realizes this and therefore they program Hits 1 as if it was targeted to a heartland market in the midwest or non-coastal south. I think that's why you hear lower charting, rock leaning tracks getting much more emphasis (Things like "Bartender Song" by Rehab, "100 in a 55" by Pop Evil, "Careless Whisper" by Seether, etc.) All of these kind of stiffed at most large market CHR's, but they were played extensively on Hits 1. They even add some oddball country crossovers at times too, like Darius Rucker's "Allright", which is in their top 30 tracks right now.
While this may sound like a mess to most listeners in large metro areas, it actually connects with Joe Blow in Toadstool, Kansas, etc. And this was actually quite common back in the 80's, before radio was gobbled up by the large corporations and all the playlists became more "cookie cutter" and "one size fits all". There are still a few stations that play tracks like this that appeal to their specific markets. (WAEZ "Electric 94.9" Tri Cities, TN/VA comes to mind. Pop Evil's "100 in a 55" and Seether's "Careless Whisper" were both top 5 there recently, just as they were on Hits 1, even though most major market CHR's considered them stiffs).
Anyway, that's just my take on what's going on at Hits 1, and where some of their programming ideas may be coming from. I kind of agree, though that they really should add either "20 on 20" or "Kiss" to Sirius though for a more balanced selection. That way , you could have Hits 1 focused on the heartland, and 20 on 20 or Kiss aimed more at a large market, mainstream sound.
I've always kind of had a theory as to why they program this way. Hits 1 tends to lean to the rock side and adult side IMO. Also, most of the "stiffs" that they play that other CHR's don't are also rock leaning most of the time. My guess has always been that satellite radio is most popular and most heavily used in the rural/heartland type areas of the country where people are underserved, and where they often have long commutes to work. And those areas have always been the most rock friendly. I think Sirius realizes this and therefore they program Hits 1 as if it was targeted to a heartland market in the midwest or non-coastal south. I think that's why you hear lower charting, rock leaning tracks getting much more emphasis (Things like "Bartender Song" by Rehab, "100 in a 55" by Pop Evil, "Careless Whisper" by Seether, etc.) All of these kind of stiffed at most large market CHR's, but they were played extensively on Hits 1. They even add some oddball country crossovers at times too, like Darius Rucker's "Allright", which is in their top 30 tracks right now.
While this may sound like a mess to most listeners in large metro areas, it actually connects with Joe Blow in Toadstool, Kansas, etc. And this was actually quite common back in the 80's, before radio was gobbled up by the large corporations and all the playlists became more "cookie cutter" and "one size fits all". There are still a few stations that play tracks like this that appeal to their specific markets. (WAEZ "Electric 94.9" Tri Cities, TN/VA comes to mind. Pop Evil's "100 in a 55" and Seether's "Careless Whisper" were both top 5 there recently, just as they were on Hits 1, even though most major market CHR's considered them stiffs).
Anyway, that's just my take on what's going on at Hits 1, and where some of their programming ideas may be coming from. I kind of agree, though that they really should add either "20 on 20" or "Kiss" to Sirius though for a more balanced selection. That way , you could have Hits 1 focused on the heartland, and 20 on 20 or Kiss aimed more at a large market, mainstream sound.
Pop 2K is a pop recurrents station. I remember it being added to Sirius for a few weeks and I was excited to listen but it was a very bland ehh... pop recurrents format. Sirius Hits 1 is amazing compared to other Top 40 stations although I don't see the point in the Morning Mashup. I'd rather hear Banana Hammock or Kid Kelly in that spot...
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