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Kix 102.9

Yeah. Go back to something like Kool or Oldies. Clear Channel just jettisoned all of their oldies stations around the country for about a three or four year period. Memphis was probably the first one to go.

For example, 102.5 in Charleston was one of the best oldies stations in the South for most of a decade. They had a great morning show (Leo Windham was on it for a while), personalities all day and great specialty shows on weekends, people who knew the music, including Kain Cameron and Bill Shannon (both of high-market quality), and very good jingles (used all the JAM packages).

They also were top 5 in ratings in town for most of this time, even approaching #1 a couple times.

Then around 2005, after they went Christmas in '04, they blew it up, and started the transition to what it is now, an AC that is exactly like what WMYI was before they switched formats.
 
charlestondxman said:
Yeah. Go back to something like Kool or Oldies. Clear Channel just jettisoned all of their oldies stations around the country for about a three or four year period. Memphis was probably the first one to go.

For example, 102.5 in Charleston was one of the best oldies stations in the South for most of a decade. They had a great morning show (Leo Windham was on it for a while), personalities all day and great specialty shows on weekends, people who knew the music, including Kain Cameron and Bill Shannon (both of high-market quality), and very good jingles (used all the JAM packages).

They also were top 5 in ratings in town for most of this time, even approaching #1 a couple times.

Then around 2005, after they went Christmas in '04, they blew it up, and started the transition to what it is now, an AC that is exactly like what WMYI was before they switched formats.
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WXLY was probably my favorite oldies station in the southeast. The talent was outstanding and the presentation was fantastic. They sounded big market, IMO. Great talent, music, and imaging, as Oldies 102.5 then in to Y-102.5. It really went downhill in 2006 or so when they started transitioning in to AC. After 96.9 went country, they flipped the switch to full AC. It does sound a lot like the old My 102.5. I miss a good oldies station when I go to the beach.

Yeah, Memphis was probably one of the first - they were WOTO as Oldies 95.7 until 2003. The format is now doing well on Entercom's WKQK.
 
My friend Bill Shannon programmer WXLY. He VT'ked WTRG from Charleston all of 2004. Kain Cameron tracked AM drive after JB&B were taken off Aug 04. Bill now works for Tom Kent's network as a programming consultant and does an AM show on one of TK's channels. Bill is top notch. Does it all from his home in Charleston.


CC has many varieties of classic hits stations. WMJI/Cleveland the biggest one as far as
ratings/revenue. www.WMJI.com

As for D.C. WBIG was never flipped. It's morphed but never flipped. Loved "Goldy"
On there years ago.

The Memphis station was programmer by Steve Cannon who then became WTRGs PD. He's been PD of WJJK/Indy since 2004. Added country WFMS about a year ago. Class act and great programmer.
 
One of the problems that oldies stations have is in my opinion in the last few years is they almost seem embarrased to be oldies..The Raleigh market is still a very fertile market for oldies....The imaging needs to scream we are proud to be oldies..Maybe we are your father's radio station!!!! and of course the same 200 songs over and over ain't helping matters much but that's a different topic alltogether
 
I don't like 100.7's constant promos of "the music you grew up with", "your generation's music", etc. - very odd for a pop classic hits station. I'd rather them go with something like "The Triangle's Greatest Hits"
 
I last listened to the River extinsevely after Christmas (online), and they kept pushing "the music you grew up with" and sounded like a boring album rock station. Perhaps those liners were old and still just airing on the online stream (hopefully). They lack the energy that CC's other classic hits stations have.
 
The imaging and music changed when they came out of Christmas music.

I don't like it. Sounds awkward and low budget.

Also, noticed today they have cranked the processor to 11. Not so bad on music, but the jock voices are getting eaten alive when they're running dry.
 
I agree about the awkward imaging. WJGH/Jacksonville, WRIT/Milwaukee, and WODC/Columbus are all CC classic hits stations, and in similarly sized markets - those stations have a lot more personality to their imaging, IMO.

Oh, am I the only one that thinks that "Sunday Brunch" is a bit out of place on a classic hits station? "Jazz, blues, and everything eclectic" just seems odd...
 
100.7, The River reminds me of a little deja vu.

Remember back in the day, there was WZZU? Then they changed formats to something else. A little while later a station appeared (I think on 93.9) called "The New ZZU" (circa 1995). I remembr this because when I went to Florida in October of 1997, and returned to "Sunny 93.9", with Bob & Jolene in the morning.

WRVA. "The River" reminds me or WZZU part 2 (or part 3)
 
In the latest PPM's 6+, 102.9 got a 2 share (up) and 100.7 got a 3.6 - down from the Christmas bump, I guess. Pulse gets an impressive share given their signals.
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
100.7, The River reminds me of a little deja vu.

Remember back in the day, there was WZZU? Then they changed formats to something else. A little while later a station appeared (I think on 93.9) called "The New ZZU" (circa 1995). I remembr this because when I went to Florida in October of 1997, and returned to "Sunny 93.9", with Bob & Jolene in the morning.

WRVA. "The River" reminds me or WZZU part 2 (or part 3)
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The "New 'ZZU" was briefly on 103.9 from fall 1996 to fall 1997, between their smooth jazz format (WTCD "CD 103.9" and before that, WNND "103.9 The Wind") and the current black gospel "The Light". At that time, 103.9 was a Clear Channel station which snapped up the jettisoned call letters, though not the hoped-for listenership from the old 93.9, which had become soft AC WRSN "Sunny 93.9" was- I think-owned by Prism or Capstar at that time, which had just purchased then-oldies WTRG 100.7 and then-rock WRDU 106.1 and didn't want two rock formats going head-to-head. The "New 'ZZU" didn't offer much in the way of a deep playlist and leaned more classic hits than its classic rock predecessor on 93.9.

Clear Channel Raleigh, which at that time was comprised of 103.9 and hip hop WQOK "K97.5", would buy urban AC simulcast WFXC/WFXK "Foxy 107/104" and r&b oldies WDUR 1490 the next year, and start the "Light" format on the latter before simulcasting on 103.9. When Capstar's four Raleigh stations (WRSN, WTRG, WRDU and WDCG) ended up co-owned with the five Clear Channel properties, Clear Channel spun off their four FMs to Radio One. WDUR was sold off in 2004 or 2005.
 
From the Where Are They Now file:

Former WRSN OM/PD/Morning talent Bob Bronson has been doing AM drive at Lite FM/NYC for about three years now. Great guy.
 
Bob Edwards was PD of WZZU then later WRDU. Bob left RDU March 2003 for heritage rock KQRC/Kansas City. Been there since. Became OM of the cluster not long after after arriving. Excellent programmer and tactician.
 
viper452 said:
WZZU is where I first hear John Boy and Billy back around 1993
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I remember John Boy when he was on WBCY, which was somewhere between AC and top 40, in Charlotte in 1980. He and Billy left WBCY because John Boy, being a Christian, didn't feel comfortable with some of the songs he was expected to play. Then WRFX, which had just switched to rock, hired them. I almost said classic rock, but they mixed in new stuff at the time.
 
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