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How would your CHR sound?

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bobdavcav

Here's mine, Weekdays, very similar to KBKS. Local morning show or possibly Elvis Duran if I can't find a local show suitable, Seacrest middays unless a competing station is already carrying him, local afternoon show and a local, high-energy evening show. Not sure about overnights, I'm kind of leaning towards automated overnights on all my stations if I had any. Weekends not sure the full schedule yet, but definately American Top 40 on Saturday mornings and a local count down similar to Bender's Big 20 here on Sunday mornings. I think tracking is ok in all dayparts as long as the listener does not know it. I think letting Doormat go from Kiss was a good move up here, and you wouldn't even guess that his replacement is tracked! He sounds so good! Also, the playlist would have four sections, although it would only be posted as one playlist on the website, but it would have four rotation levels. First, there's the local playlist, which would be the same length as the countdown on Sunday mornings. Then there would be the national American Top 40 playlist, then a ranking of the top 100 of the year, and finally the top 40 of the decade, so you won't here anything from 2003 in 2012, about the oldest you'd hear is 2010 because that's the start of the new decade, unless the decade chart goes into the last part of 2009, in which case you'd hear those songs too. We'd probably have an airplay monitor to know how much airplay certain songs are getting so we can rank them, maybe even putting together our own national chart, but this idea isn't fully developed yet, and wouldn't that be what some of the other charts are based off of as well? We would also most likely keep track of the local hits to use for a year-end countdown.
 
So basically what you're saying is you like the Clear Channel CHR's and you would run your station the same way. Nothing wrong with that, they're successful in a ton of markets, but that's what you're describing.
 
Pretty much, however I would make sure that my listeners know we play only the hits. Also seems like KFFM which, ironically, was owned by CC at one point. However, they've played a couple 90s songs that are what really annoy me about CHR. Why are you playing the occasional 90s song? How would yours sound?
 
I don't mind a gold hit from the early 2000s thrown in every now and then for balance. My average hourly playlist would be about 14 songs with about 9 currents, 4 recurrents, and 1 gold.
 
It seems like it’s a given that in order for a CHR to be successful it has to have Seacrest.

Isn’t 5 days a week plus the AT40 show enough already?
 
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