Sounds somewhat like what we already have on the #1 all-ages rated Boston station WROR. Mostly '80s and some '70s hits with a big signal.
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Just a very dumb question - format holes
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Using today's hit music or the music of the '80s? With today's music, a bright, personality-heavy approach is going to seem excessively talky to its target audience, which by and large wants the DJ to shut up. If you're talking about a full-blown recreation of Zoo or Hot Hits -- "Easy Lover" into "We Built This City" into "Rhythm of the Night" with jingles and shouts and fast talking DJs, remember that most of the songs you're going to be playing will be at least 35 years old, which means your average listener is going to be 50+. Heck, I'm 65 and I'd listen to that format! The clock is ticking on an '80s format even as a quick fix.
Which brings me back to the idea of either 90s based and/or Millennial type format too. Remember, I am a creative and new format suggestions type of guy. Right now the whole idea is trying to find something, anything that csn add to iHeartRadio's profit specific build.
My bad, erroneously had thought they had the Top 2 stations based on what I thought was legitimate news reporting from one of the daily feeds. It appears that it was only advertising instead!
Entercom did poorly at trying to promote and execute a format from a rim shooter at best. If they were not so hell bent on being "a Boston station", they could have served the greater Central, MA area quite effectively!
Thinking of South of Boston particularly, along with a couple of stations that can be picked up, this format could do quite well if both marketed and executed well!. Love them or hate them, by in large iHeartRadio knows how to program their stations, that is once they have something that they know can work!
It's really not a format. It's just a bunch of songs. It's iPod on shuffle. That's not a radio format.
A badly performing Boston station can bill much more than a well performing Worcester market one.
Boston bills $240 million. Worcester bills $7 million for the whole market.
If it gets on the radio, but especially with radio announcers around the songs, then its a format, no matter what your "opinion" of a format actually is. Side note, heck WERS even has a format although Nielson simply calls it variety. I call it something to listen to when not listening to my P1's.
My bad, David, thank you for the heads up! BTW, what are the odds of Worcester being annexed into the Boston market? True, only like 3 stations get into Boston proper, but just wondering is all.
And BTW, not everyone had ipods. A real lot of people have advanced into the 21st century and use their phones instead. Just saying...
If WHAT gets on the radio? There are radio stations in Boston that appeal to Millennials right now.
Just confirms when I say it's not a radio format. It's a personal playlist.
"iPods on shuffle" is an idiomatic expression. Like "album" although music has not been delivered on albums for more than six decades!
Nielsen has criteria for market resizing or consolidation. Apparently Worcester meets none of them. Remember, the county where the city of Worcester is located is actually split, with part being in Boston's MSA and the rest a separate Worcester market.
While I do enjoy my repertoire of music that I have built up over the last couple of years, random playlist shuffles are not nearly as random as the manufacturers make them out to be. There are almost predictive shuffles, which leads a real lot to be desired.
Don't you mean WAAF?
WVBF?Maybe he meant to say WBZU instead?
Look it up!
Yea just go back in time in this forum and look at the threads..It was 3.3,3.4
better than any rhythmic in Boston in like 4+ years
Yea...you are speaking like someone who does understand hip hop very well.
One other part of this is that they get most of their money outside of selling music. So in between other business pursuits, touring (huge lot necessary) and other hip hop/rap world beefs/feuds that make collaboration difficult no one making high level content releases more than once every 2 years. By nature Hip Hop isn’t punctual or business like so dealing with other people in hip hop is a huge barrier. Lawsuit and prison sentences are major issues.
It’s always been this way in rap, even 20 years ago only hungry upcoming (signed) artists released more than once every 18 months. Albums can sell well in rap and be made in a few weeks (see: Master P’s No limit record in the late 1990s) but they’re not lyrical rap, theyre club bangers.
I’m sorry I can’t take any take anyone calling Jay Z or Hip Hop and how they release music “a failure” serious. Everything else aside, just from a profit/charting standpoint. That’s just silly.
song today aren't part fo collections-outside of hip hop. People in hip hop have moved away from the term album or EP altogether and started releasing “catalogs” “playlists” and “collections”
But you’re a corporate radio guy-not a music or culture guy.
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