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How far light 106.9 has come over the years from mannilow to nickelback baby!!!

hotpatrick2004

hotpatrick2004

Since they came on the air in 1986 106.9 and for that matter all light rock stations have certainly changed. What use to be light rock and such the carpenters and barry mannilow has been replaced by nickelback and hinder and whitesnake and kelly clarkson since you been gone which i do not think of as a soft rock tune but still a good rockin tune i think. I like my life would suck without you better but whatever.

Off topic a bit i still remember when rock 102 flipped to mix 102 and they started pillow talk(love songs) and the jock at the time put on a barry manillow song and just into it he came on and said i can't do this and played something else it was a great radio moment.

Guys and gals comment on what i have said and just starting conversation.
 
It's called evolution. If your station is going for, let's say, women ages 25-49 or whatever, those ladies back in 1986 are now 45-69 year olds. There's a whole new crop of listeners ages 25-49. They grew up with a different style of music and can handle some of the stuff that may not have been though of as light rock 20 years ago. I was at Hometown Pizza friday night and heard Lite 106.9 playing More Than a Feeling.
 
Hometown Pizza? When there's Wicks, Za's, Bearno's, fat Jimmy's...etc.

pizza is wasted on the locals.
 
What Mid-West Clubber and Craven said here is true. One generation's CHR is the next generation's AC. And one generation's AC is the next generation's easy listening! So whatever you were listening to on CHR when you were growing up, you would hear on AC stations now. And what was played on AC stations back then, you would now need to tune in to easy listening (or adult standards, or whatever) stations to hear now. That is why you don't hear the Captain & Tennille, the Carpenters, Bread, Barry Manilow, or even Air Supply on AC stations anymore. They are actually too soft for AC stations now!

I have noticed that Lite 98.7 in Hopkinsville has an almost completely different playlist from what I hear on Mix 92.9 here in Nashville. And I live just west of Nashville, so I can listen to both Mix 92.9 and Light 98.7. They are both AC stations, and they both carry Delilah at night.

I remember on a recent trip down to west Tennessee that I marveled over what I heard played over WRVR while I was in Memphis. Some of what they were playing, they would not have touched 20+ years ago, back when I lived in west Tennessee and could pick up WRVR's signal.

I have heard Nickelback on Q-108 in the Clarksville-Fort Campbell area, but they are (still) a hot AC station, the best that I can tell.
 
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