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Hot 99.1 !

Enough is enough, where is the Sunny oldies format already?
 
The people at townsquare media are jerks in my opinion. They announced since Feb that sunny was coming, then a few days ago we find out that a soft oldies station called sunny 99.1 was coming today at midnight. Now its a rap station. Can someone please have the guts to stand up to wtry already and not chicken out at the last minute.
 
Oldiesmike said:
Enough is enough, where is the Sunny oldies format already?
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Hmmf... Easy come...Easy go :-\
 
Good for Albany!! Face it people, hip hop will never die, so go get on your nearest elevator to listen to your "Sunny" music!
 
bucwhyl said:
Good for Albany!! Face it people, hip hop will never die, so go get on your nearest elevator to listen to your "Sunny" music!
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Hip Hop will never die? Compared to many other genres....country especially..it has never arrived...LOL
 
My suggestion for 104.9 The Cat since it looks like it'll stick around for a while longer, is to tweak their playlist, and become more 80s/90s focused (less Taylor Swift, more Shania Twain for example... and bring on some Dolly Parton while we're at it)... drop the Cat moniker and WZMR calls... maybe NASCAR or football for weekends? Oh, and a better morning show :) (I'd also recommend simulcasting on 107.1 in Glens Falls too, but that failed like five or so years ago...)

Still, I'm a bit baffled as to why they didn't put Hot on 105.7 and Crush on 99.1... that signal would definitely hurt Jamz 96.3 :)
 
The Townsquare people are not only jerks but despicable, lying business people . They put out a poster on a phony web site "Sunny99.1" and get the hopes up of listeners who may enjoy this genre and then pull out the rug. I don't care what format they went to. It stinks. Well, the joke's on them. On Thursday this week I printed out this poster in color and put it up on a bulletin board in the heaviest traveled corner in my state building. So there's quite a few people out there who are ticked off by this deception. I, for one, will never waste another preset in my car on any of their stations. Like the 3 Stooges would recommend, I like to hire a cheap lawyer and sue the bums. And I have loads more to spend on advertised goods then the target audiences the knuckle-headed consultants pander to.

Moving on, I see where Crawford is taking a heritage 50,00 watt station and taking it silent while they figure out what to do with it. If this Mickey Mouse company can't afford to run 1540 the right way they should sell it. They had a great thing going with 96.7 Legends which was making inroads against "play the same damn songs over and over again" WTRY. But CB could not afford to hire more than one local person using staff from the much more successful Legends outlet in Rochester to voice track much of the day. The Crawford Chickens should stay out of Albany if they can't do it a non religious format right.
 
The only people they pissed off were a few radio geeks. No offense, we are all geeks on here. I think they did it perfectly. They misled the competition. They DID debut the advertised format on 99.1 on the date and time promised. It just didn't last long. It was a big middle finger to Albany Broadcasting and CC who probably wasted a few of hours this week discussing how to handle the new Sunny station being launched. Brilliant.

The only press release they sent was about Hot 99.1 yesterday. Everything else was pure speculation from a Facebook page or what the trades wrote about the Facebook page. I'm sure you weren't alone in passing the word along to friends that a better station is coming.

It's getting harder and harder to make a format change the right way these days. The last thing you want is your competing clusters to get wind of things and beat you to the punch. Plus, you've got a website out there that has nothing better to do than to scan domain registrations every day trying to ruin the surprise. Yes, the information is public and can be found by anyone, but get a life!

In the format changes I've been involved in, the new website was kept on a laptop until the very last minute and the only people that knew about the format change besides headquarters were key personnel (GM, Sales Manager, PD, Ops Manager, Engineer, IT director, and any talent that will remain). Most of those key people were only told about the change two or three days ahead of time.

Luckily you can activate a domain and have it visible within 2 hours these days which eliminates the need to reserve it weeks ahead of time.
 
Yes, most people don't care. I understand but it's still disappointing. Oldies/Standards fans have suffered the loss of "Legends 96.7" in the last year and the only good FM signal for oldies in this market is a Clear Channel shell of an once great station now reduced to a playlist for dummies who can hear the same damn songs over and over. Of course I refer to WTRY. And "Magic 590"'s AM signal makes the music sound underwater on most car radios.
I realize competition is involved but this station idea was like holding a juicy steak in front of a starving oldies fan. It's a business. Back to the MP3's.
 
I agree with ChuckRoast on both Tsm and Crawford. What a waste of time and energy to promote 99.1 and then change it, also how do they explain spend $245,000 on the translator and more money on domains, music library, streaming, equipment and a PD on a 250 watt translator station that can't run advertising (HD2) just to try to shave some points off of 96.3 to save 105.7. In this day in age of radio you need to really work hard at getting noticed there are way to many other choices to go too. And the occupy, Sunny thing was only notice by us radio geeks, no one else even know or cares about it. Also how long will they keep paying the very expensive morning show on Wgna, the days of high price morning shows are over. It's know wonder over half the staff has left Townsquare sense the managment has taken over. As far as Crawford, they might as well sell it now, they had a buyer at one time for both but thy wanted to much money and they won't split the Fm off. If they could they would sell the land and put up a development as has many am owners have done. Problem is it is all wet land.
 
Albany listeners are very lucky to have such a wide variety of formats from what I can see anyway. Streaming Hot 991 from Ohio... imaging is EXCELLENT. Tons of variety in the music. It was planned well.
 
bucwhyl said:
Good for Albany!! Face it people, hip hop will never die, so go get on your nearest elevator to listen to your "Sunny" music!
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How about this...WAJZ (Jamz 96.3) get ready for competition.

It would be really good for Albany to also put an Urban/AC station.
 
Albany area's only 8.8% Black, would it be enough though? Maybe for an HD2, AM or translator...

Edit: All the Urbans/Rhythmics I know of in Albany:
96.3 WAJZ - Urban-leaning Rhythmic
102.3 WKKF-FM/HD1 - Rhythmic CHR
WKKF-HD2 - Rhythmic Adult Hits, last I remember?
99.1 W256BU/105.7 WQSH-HD2 - Urban Mainstream

And, of course, don't forget the soul songs you might hear on WROW 590 or 98.3 WTRY :)
 
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