musicman3355 said:
They mentioned that on their first morning show.
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They mentioned that on their first morning show.
avtosalon said:
WCFS is really taken away for the simulcast of WBBM-AM back in August 1, 2011.
Since this thread reappeared, what do you think of K-Hits.
I really find this station to be very repetative. The playlist is so tight I often here the same songs in the times I listen.
I will listen to The Drive, or WLS over them hands down.
While I like the personalities, that only goes so far. The music they are playing is heard on many other stations with much more variety.
Hearing E and J play Aretha or the Stones just doesn't compute in my mind. It just seems out of place.
I think this station was put on when it was because of the Cumulus situation. I think CBS, like most of us suspect now that WLS is in Dickey's hands cheapness will run the day.
I hope this is not the case as I think WLS sounds great now since K-Hits came on. The management had the station sounding great.
To have to hear the top of the hour ID already announcing " A Cumulus Station" makes me cringe a bit.
The overall numbers for K have not moved much since the change from Jack. I know some important demos have improved, but, does it justify the expense of all the saleries? Jack had to pay for their name, no personalities.
I really thought this station was going to go after B listeners of The 80's and 90's which could have gotten quite a following, especially with women.
They probably would have taken quite a chunk from Rewind, more so than they have done already.
Rewind seems to be a much friendlier music wise to the soccer mom crowd than K Hits.
Now with Murphy back and new imaging, 100.3 in my opinion is much better than K Hits, with a lot "newer" music.
When I ask anyone about K Hits the response is it's OK, I like E and J, but why are they playing oldies? I thought they would be playing music I used to like on B 96/Z 95.
If Cumulus leaves WLS as is, will K-Hits stay with their very small repetitive playlist, or stray in a different ditection?
At this point, I liked Jack much more than K-Hits. That became especially true when The Loop went all classic rock and Q 101 went all high school ;D
Jack played a good amount of 80's and 90's bands that are not heard anywhere now.
After the way they dropped oldies for Jack, I never thought I'd say this, I wouldn't mind having Jack back.
I really find this station to be very repetative. The playlist is so tight I often here the same songs in the times I listen.
I will listen to The Drive, or WLS over them hands down.
While I like the personalities, that only goes so far. The music they are playing is heard on many other stations with much more variety.
Hearing E and J play Aretha or the Stones just doesn't compute in my mind. It just seems out of place.
I think this station was put on when it was because of the Cumulus situation. I think CBS, like most of us suspect now that WLS is in Dickey's hands cheapness will run the day.
I hope this is not the case as I think WLS sounds great now since K-Hits came on. The management had the station sounding great.
To have to hear the top of the hour ID already announcing " A Cumulus Station" makes me cringe a bit.
The overall numbers for K have not moved much since the change from Jack. I know some important demos have improved, but, does it justify the expense of all the saleries? Jack had to pay for their name, no personalities.
I really thought this station was going to go after B listeners of The 80's and 90's which could have gotten quite a following, especially with women.
They probably would have taken quite a chunk from Rewind, more so than they have done already.
Rewind seems to be a much friendlier music wise to the soccer mom crowd than K Hits.
Now with Murphy back and new imaging, 100.3 in my opinion is much better than K Hits, with a lot "newer" music.
When I ask anyone about K Hits the response is it's OK, I like E and J, but why are they playing oldies? I thought they would be playing music I used to like on B 96/Z 95.
If Cumulus leaves WLS as is, will K-Hits stay with their very small repetitive playlist, or stray in a different ditection?
At this point, I liked Jack much more than K-Hits. That became especially true when The Loop went all classic rock and Q 101 went all high school ;D
Jack played a good amount of 80's and 90's bands that are not heard anywhere now.
After the way they dropped oldies for Jack, I never thought I'd say this, I wouldn't mind having Jack back.
K-Hits is still not doing very well. It's still choking hard in the low numbers at the 22nd place of the market with a 1.9 market share as of January 2012 ratings.
Since Cumulus left WLS-FM as it is, K-Hits presented CBS failure in the Classic Hits format for the #3 market.
Since Cumulus left WLS-FM as it is, K-Hits presented CBS failure in the Classic Hits format for the #3 market.
K-Hits and Rewind are siphoning one another's listeners.
Both stations have lousy ratings, but Rewind is a valuable player in terms of Hubbard's overall programming strategy. CBS cannot say the same for K-Hits. Eddie & Jobo seem to have brought next-to-nothing to the table as far as audience growth is concerned.
Formatically, the station is more-or-less landlocked. The classic hits / rock pool is very crowded. I suppose they could try a gold-based AdCon station, but I don't see that doing much better than the current format.
Only other options: go Smooth AC (it would be interesting to see how it would do on 104.3's blowtorch signal), some form of Urban AC / Urban Oldies format (probably not many $$$ to be had here), or mainstream/active rock (a format that CBS is notoriously poor at executing).
Both stations have lousy ratings, but Rewind is a valuable player in terms of Hubbard's overall programming strategy. CBS cannot say the same for K-Hits. Eddie & Jobo seem to have brought next-to-nothing to the table as far as audience growth is concerned.
Formatically, the station is more-or-less landlocked. The classic hits / rock pool is very crowded. I suppose they could try a gold-based AdCon station, but I don't see that doing much better than the current format.
Only other options: go Smooth AC (it would be interesting to see how it would do on 104.3's blowtorch signal), some form of Urban AC / Urban Oldies format (probably not many $$$ to be had here), or mainstream/active rock (a format that CBS is notoriously poor at executing).
MarkW said:
The only other option is to simulcast The Score on 670 AM and 104.3 FM.
MarkW said:
Not true. Eddie & Jobo's audience has roughly doubled over the course of a year. As I said in another thread, if you can do that, you were probably pretty close to the bottom. So, that doesn't mean they're doing well. I believe that huge increased only moved them up from the mid-20's in the rankings to the low 20's or upper teens.
They can call it Oldies 104.3 again as well. That's not gonna to scare the people in their 20s and 30s off. A station can legally call themselves Oldies even if they play 70s and 80s only, no 60s. Oldies generally meant music older than 20 years old, not music from the 50s and 60s forever.
Oldies should never suffer aging demographics if they stay consistent with their audience. An Oldies format should be successful in 2030 by playing Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, and Taio Cruz. Their music would all be oldies by 2030.
Oldies should never suffer aging demographics if they stay consistent with their audience. An Oldies format should be successful in 2030 by playing Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, and Taio Cruz. Their music would all be oldies by 2030.
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