• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Journey 94-1

S

stereolane

Has anyone else noticed that the audio chain on this turkey sounds like s**t? Levels are terrible as well. When you tune from any other station over to 94.1, the volume needs to be turned up. Who in the hell ordered the god-awful jingles on this station? They sound like they were recorded in a studio with old mattresses for acoustics, on what we used to call "SBS Tape" (shiny brown s***) you know, the cheap stuff that didn't have the black backing on it. ::)

"Journey" in Pensacola sounds totally different. The audio chain is bright, and the station is positioned as a "classic CHR"... very uptempo, with decent jingles and positioning liners.

There is no excitement whatsoever to "Journey" in Cincinnati, and the ratings reflect it. "Rewind" has an excellent opportunity to ramp things up, and wipe Journey off the map. It would help if Rewind stopped playing "Brown Eyed Girl" (and many other, tired, played out songs) twice a day.
 
94.1 has always been a turkey of a frequency. Cumulus needs to sell it if they aren't interested in putting something on it that can attract an audience. I agree with you on the audio processing, I hope they are not using an improperly adjusted Omnia 11.
 
microbob said:
94.1 has always been a turkey of a frequency. Cumulus needs to sell it if they aren't interested in putting something on it that can attract an audience. I agree with you on the audio processing, I hope they are not using an improperly adjusted Omnia 11.
Click to expand...

Omnia? Hell's bells...I have a small market FM with an Optimod 8000 and a Monkey Ward equilizer that sounds better than "Journey"...
 
Granted, their audio stinks on ice and the station has all the excitement of a Cumulus sales meeting. But don't say that 94.1 was always a turkey frequency. It only became that way after Jacor/CC put the "Vomix" format on it. Back in the day, WSAI-FM's alum rock format of the late 70s-early 80s gave EBN fits. And, as Wink, it did very well as a Hot AC in the 80s and into the 90s. But, since it became WVMX, it's been a whirlwind of poorly executed formats. Now it has poorly executed audio to match.

stereolane: a few years ago we signed on a new classic rock FM...it came with a beat-up old Optimod 8100 with XT chassis. We had Orban rebuild the box top to bottom. Sounds awesome and is consistently 1 or 2 in its market's ratings. Digital audio can go back to cyberspace...makes you station sound like HAL (the HAL from the movie 2001).
 
Maybe they ought to put 96 rock on 94.1 and put the journey on 96.5. I doubt they would try a Cincinnati version of I94 since Q102 and KISS 107.1 will kill it in ratings. The way 96Rock is doing against WEBN I think it would give em bigger fits on a stronger signal.
 
It would make since for Cumulus to put 96Rock on 94.1. I wonder how much longer 92.5 The Fox is going to be around? Outside of Bob and Tom they don't do well. Maybe a Gen X format type format would bring in better ratings.
 
That'd be cool to have.

microbob said:
It would make since for Cumulus to put 96Rock on 94.1. I wonder how much longer 92.5 The Fox is going to be around? Outside of Bob and Tom they don't do well. Maybe a Gen X format type format would bring in better ratings.
Click to expand...
 
the marv said:
Maybe they ought to put 96 rock on 94.1 and put the journey on 96.5. I doubt they would try a Cincinnati version of I94 since Q102 and KISS 107.1 will kill it in ratings. The way 96Rock is doing against WEBN I think it would give em bigger fits on a stronger signal.
Click to expand...

Good lord...

96Rock is just fine where it is. It's the ONLY smart decision that Cumulus has made thus far. "Journey" is an epic fail, and the "I" format is even more laughable, constantly being tweaked by the ego-centric Jan Jeffries.
 
the marv said:
Then WEBN can have Bob and Tom back.
Click to expand...

Unless I have been out of the loop, I don't ever recall Bob and Tom airing on WEBN... ??? As far as I know- Bob and Tom have ALWAYS been on 92.5 here in Cincinnati.
 
microbob said:
It would make since for Cumulus to put 96Rock on 94.1. I wonder how much longer 92.5 The Fox is going to be around? Outside of Bob and Tom they don't do well. Maybe a Gen X format type format would bring in better ratings.
Click to expand...

Gen-X formats are generally not doing well these days...
 
What about putting a Smooth AC format on 94.1 similar to what they are doing in Chicago on WLFM, which is leaning Urban AC for the most part with 1/2 Smooth Jazz instrumentals an hour (of course I'd like more but I'm a Smooth Jazz fan). Here's WLFM's playlist link: http://tunein.com/radio/Smooth-877-s100380/#tab3-tab
Would Smooth AC work in Cinci? I know I'd certainly be listening here in Dayton, it's not Smooth Jazz all the way but I would take it.
 
I think that would work great. You can lean even more smooth Jazz at night (especially weekends).

I would listen!!


Donald_WBWH said:
What about putting a Smooth AC format on 94.1 similar to what they are doing in Chicago on WLFM, which is leaning Urban AC for the most part with 1/2 Smooth Jazz instrumentals an hour (of course I'd like more but I'm a Smooth Jazz fan). Here's WLFM's playlist link: http://tunein.com/radio/Smooth-877-s100380/#tab3-tab
Would Smooth AC work in Cinci? I know I'd certainly be listening here in Dayton, it's not Smooth Jazz all the way but I would take it.
Click to expand...
 
lovejamminoldies said:
Jason Roberts said:
Gen-X formats are generally not doing well these days...
Click to expand...

Gen X stations don't do well because they're programmed like crap.
Click to expand...

No, Jammin...the music does not test well at all. Only about 100 songs from the entire decade do. Among some broadcasters there's growing concern that the 90's music may be "a lost decade" because so few of the songs from it are still well liked by people. Just because you like it and think you're a programming genius does not necessarily make it so.
 
Jason Roberts said:
lovejamminoldies said:
Jason Roberts said:
Gen-X formats are generally not doing well these days...
Click to expand...

Gen X stations don't do well because they're programmed like crap.
Click to expand...

No, Jammin...the music does not test well at all. Only about 100 songs from the entire decade do. Among some broadcasters there's growing concern that the 90's music may be "a lost decade" because so few of the songs from it are still well liked by people. Just because you like it and think you're a programming genius does not necessarily make it so.
Click to expand...


This doesn't surprise me. As far as I am concerned, music died around 1992
 
Well, FRR part of it stems from the fact that many of the artists of the 1990's were considered to be "disposable"...here today, gone tomorrow types of artists (with a few exceptions, of course) who never had any real longevity to gain passion among the audience. That's one of the reasons country became so big in the 90's. The fact is, the 1990's was a bad decade for CHR music as the musical genres were extreme (hard grunge like Nirvana to some of the early hip hop...face it Kris Kross didn't last that long, did they?) And most of the Beastie Boys songs narrow to about 3 or 4 total. Now, lots of people like to hear those songs at parties...but the songs played at parties don't always necessarily translate to a great radio format.

Before you can have any type of "classic" format, you have to have a period during which CHR music is hot, or rock becomes mass appeal. That was the case in the mid-50's (Elvis), again from about 1964 to 1972 (Beatles forward) your album music was big from about 1971 to 1978, then CHR returned to prominence from about 1983-1988. Rock also had a big influence during this time as well. No such period existed in the 90's until (gad!) The Backstreet Boys and N'Sync hit.

Just saying...
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom