Hot 101, Hot AC?

[radiogeek07]

So, it was 5:00 the other day and I heard a J Giles Band song on Hot 101. Why!?

 

[radiomayor2]

"listener forgive them....for they continually know not what they do"

 

[radiogeek07]

It seemed like for every current I heard, I heard a song or 2 from at least 2 years ago. More like 5.

 

[collegeDJ86]

I heard "Oh, What a Night" by the Four Seasons one day and thought I was listening to Star 100.7 from Pittsburgh until I heard a Hot 101 sweeper. Granted, the song was "remixed" in 1994 according to Wikipedia (remix involved changing the percussive beat and slight vocal fx). However, it certainly wasn't something I'd expect to hear from a "CHR" station.

I suppose there might be a gap for a "90s and now" type station in the Youngstown market. Mix 98.9 seems very 80s intensive when I listen to it, and 95.9 Kiss FM is pretty true to top-40, so there might be some differentiation (and sales revenue) to be had by pulling in some 90s tunes, especially given how pop/rock is making its way back into the pop mainstream as it was in the mid-90s. Maybe that's where Hot wants to go.

 

[OhReally?]

Centerfold WAS #1 at one time, and it's perfectly OK for a CHR to play it (more appropriate on a retro show).

I spent the last several minutes laughing at this before I was able to post because this foolish logic is just that. Foolish. (too bad there isn't a 'banging head' emoticon on this board).

"Up Where We Belong" went #1. So did several tracks from the 'Dirty Dancing' soundtrack. So did Air Supply. As did a ton of tracks from Chicago. So, I guess those are all legit to spin on a CHR -- and in 2000-freaking 8 -- according to your logic. :

WRONG!! Only a very select few of 80's cuts fit on a CHR. Very few! CHR has a demo. And most 80's tracks didn't appeal to that demo looooong ago. Unfortunately, too many so-called CHR PD's don't seem to realize that. Heck, even many 80's tracks don't fit HAC's in 2008.

 

[OhReally?]

Centerfold WAS #1 at one time, and it's perfectly OK for a CHR to play it (more appropriate on a retro show).

I spent the last several minutes laughing at this before I was able to post because this foolish logic is just that. Foolish. (too bad there isn't a 'banging head' emoticon on this board).

"Up Where We Belong" went #1. So did several tracks from the 'Dirty Dancing' soundtrack. So did Air Supply. As did a ton of tracks from Chicago. So, I guess those are all legit to spin on a CHR -- and in 2000-freaking 8 -- according to your logic. :

WRONG!! Only a very select few of 80's cuts fit on a CHR. Very few! CHR has a demo. And most 80's tracks didn't appeal to that demo looooong ago. Unfortunately, too many so-called CHR PD's don't seem to realize that. Heck, even many 80's tracks don't fit HAC's in 2008.

Hot 101 hasn't been CHR for years. They may report CHR but they aren't.

 

[The Truthsayer]

Doctor: OhReally is correct. a CHR shouldn't even play any golds whatsoever, just currents and recurrents.

 

[OhReally?]

So by your logic I should have Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon in power gold since that didn't chart in the 80's....

Don't play the "Turn the Tables" game with me because I called YOU out on the "it was #1 at one time" statement. Ain't gonna work.

Well I'm an APD/MD of a CHR and fortunately for you we don't play any 80's tracks outside of the noon hour (Flashback Lunch, along with 70's, 90's and early 2000's) and specialty holiday weekends (Old School Weekends which are similar to Q92's). And yeah we've played all the tracks you listed above during that hour.

And which is why I've wiped the floors with "APD/MD's" such as yourself. Your 'title' means squat -- and further proof there are too many people programming who have no right to be, as they can't even program their own demo properly (and using Q92 is a bad example given how many years it finally took them to figure their demo out...not to mention their "old school weekends" is not original, in a sense, for their market).

I don't see anything wrong with an occasional 80's track if the demo in your market recognizes the song.

(sigh) : And that's what I said. But not any 80's track. Unless you're literally the only station in town. You can cease backpeddling anytime now.

BTW...was this you???:
http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,94248.0.html

 

[OhReally?]

Doctor: OhReally is correct. a CHR shouldn't even play any golds whatsoever, just currents and recurrents.

I disagree with that ("no golds whatsoever"). There is a laundry list of golds (90's and early 2k) that fit perfectly on a CHR. Sprinkled in, of course.

 

[soda_pop_pop]

Starting after the noon legal Sat 3/8

Creed - One Last Breath
Sara Bareilles - Love Song
Matchbox 20 - 3 AM
Daughtry - It's Not Over
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Natasha Bedingfield/ft Sean Kingston - Love Like This
Usher/Lil John/Ludacris - Yeah!
Jordin Sparks - Tattoo
Shaggy/ft Janet Jackson - Luv Me Luv Me
Onerepublic - Stop and Stare
Taylor Swift - Teardrops On My Guitar
Panic At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tradgedies
Rhianna - Don't Stop The Music
Kid Rock- Only God Knows Why
Alicia Keys- No One
No Doubt - It's My Life

Toto...I don't think we're a CHR anymore! Where's my boys T-Pain, Timbaland, and Flo-Rida?!

 

[radiomayor2]

soounds like if you don't like what they're playing now....come back in a few days and they will be something else....

CC probably has a KISS station in the market......listen to it....