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KODA-FM Sunny 99.1 playing Bruno Mars!? :o

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TXCalradio

I almost crashed into the wall of the freeway today when I put my radio on 99.1. Sunny was playing "Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars ! I recall in a not so distant past when this station played artists such as: Ambrosia, Celine Dion, England Dan and Jon Ford Coley. Now they are sounding more and more like 95.7 and 104.1. along with their unpleasant, dreadful jingles by RW aka ScreemWorld, which they are using now. I'm sorry, but Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Justin Beiber, Lil Wayne - to name a few, don't do it for me. I know I have other options such as my iPod and Satellite radio, which I have as well but I'm a big fan of terrestrial radio. Radio introduced me to new music when I was a kid. Today, it's getting to the point that I should just leave the radio off. There are so many other artists/tracks that these stations could be playing besides the garbage we hear lately. Don't tell me that I have another choice on the radio dial in Houston by switching over to 106.9 or 107.5 and listen to Houston's Eagle. No thanks, I removed them off my presets a few weeks back! Hearing that station play the over-played-worn-out-tired song - "Jack and Diane" by John Mellencamp every time I turn my radio on when driving home, makes me wanna toss myself off of a canyon! Don't tell me to listen to 93.7 The Arrow, the OTHER classic rock station. It's just as bad , if not worse. Do you like listening to voice tracked traffic reports getting interrupted by a commercial before the traffic report is done? YES, it happened on numerous occasions on Clear Channel radio stations here in Houston, especially KODA and KKRW. Will the time ever come when Corporate radio will not exist in Houston? uhmm.. Don't hold your breath! At least let the DJ or on-air talent select their own playlist besides some out of town corporate executive that knows zilch about radio or music. Someone needs to close that corporate umbrella that we are under here and stick it up their ....... !
Ok, I'm done venting. Have a good Sunday everyone!
 
Have you tried KACC (89.7)? It's rather weak but it's actually a good rock station in my opinion, and it's non-commercial (run by Alvin Community College).
 
Sunny is simply dumping the older end of its demos and bringing in younger listeners, keeping it on target for audiences that advertisers want.

I will agree that musically Houston FM's have a lot of overlap, but those stations seem to be staying above the format flip Mendoza line for the time being. I'm not really sure of any likely flip candidates unless Radio One gives up on its all-news effort, or Liberman's money troubles force the sale of its stations.
 
About three weeks ago during the evening shift on KILT the DJ's mic was so low you could barely make out what he was saying over the music. How does this stuff happen in big city radio?
 
TXCalradio said:
QUESTION: Which radio station in Houston plays Depeche Mode?
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In olden times, it would have been 93Q.....

I've heard "Walking in my Shoes", "Blasphemous Rumours", and "Policy of Truth" within the last year over the Houston airwaves. All three of them were on KYND-1520 when the "Music Safari" aired there in the afternoons. I haven't heard the show in awhile, and I believe its been removed from the station's line-up. bturner would be the one to inquire as to where that program went.
 
Stick around Sunny long enough and you'll probably hear DM. They seem to have jettisoned their brief affair with disco for all things 80's. The last time I was in a Subway I heard them playing Yaz, so Personal Jesus can't be far behind. Of course, you have to sit through the 8952nd spin of Alicia Keys or Daughtry to get to it.

Hearing the songs I listened to in high school as AC gold and classic rock proves only one thing: I am getting old.
 
In response to purpledevil, Music Safari ended when the host left and was replaced by a guy from New Mexico who lasted about a year and has since been replaced by "The Shuffle" with Steph, a young lady that plays almost anything. Fridays and Saturdays are generally oldies and classic rock while the remaining days average 50% recent and current, 50% older songs. There's plenty of obscure material or seldom heard tracks but not so much that its too much. The program airs 3 to 4pm 7 days a week and is always commercial free. When was the last time you heard Rush or New Order on AM radio?
 
@ bturner: I'm going to have to check that program out! Thanks for the heads up.

@johndavis: Yaz.....ah, the high school memories. Thanks for that! Now if they'd just spin some Information Society.... :D
 
....and this is why my iPhone is a permanent fixture in my car. Plenty of music plus access to Pandora, Spotify, LasfFM, TuneIn radio and many other platforms. Houston radio just plain sucks.
 
Every generation has its own definition of what AC music is. Sinatra and Elvis gave way to Carpenters and Roberta Flack who gave way to Anne Murray and Barry Manilow who gave way to Celine Dion and Gloria Estefan.

I'm not sure why this generation seems to run away from all soft music. At least in past generations, the Top 40 stations would play some ballads and soft songs, from which an AC station could choose. Today, Top 40 stations don't play anything soft. Today's AC stations have no soft music to keep one foot in "Contemporary" while keeping the other foot in "Adult."

They've got to fill up the playlist with SOMETHING current. So that leaves Bruno Mars, Pink, Beyonce, Daughtry and Nickelback. They're not soft but they're more adult than the rest of the Top 40.

I think the bigger question is "Why doesn't this generation like any soft or instrumental music?" As I said above, past generations included some soft music in their listening, be it on Rock stations (Cat Stevens, Carole King), Country stations (Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray) or Urban stations (Roberta Flack, Lionel Richie). The top artists of past years always included some soft music among their hits... Michael Jackson (I Just Can't Stop Loving You, She's Out of My Life), Madonna (Cherish, La Isla Bonita), Whitney Houston (Saving All My Love for You, You Give Good Love), Springsteen (I'm on Fire, Streets of Philadelphia). And there was an entire radio format based mostly on instrumental music called "Smooth Jazz." But that died a few years ago. No other instrumental format has taken its place. That's because today's generation wants no soft or instrumental music in their listening.

Today's big artists produce no soft hits for AC stations to play. That's because if Rhianna or Justin Timberlake put out a slow ballad, no Top 40 station would play it. Why is that true? That's the real question.
 
Gregg said:
Today's big artists produce no soft hits for AC stations to play. That's because if Rhianna or Justin Timberlake put out a slow ballad, no Top 40 station would play it. Why is that true? That's the real question.
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Rhianna has--it's called "Stay" and it's in the Billboard Top 10 this week (number 10 after peaking at number 3), so some CHRs must be playing it.
 
Oops. I shouldn't have used Rhianna as an example.

But I'm sure if you look at that Top 40 list, the number of ballads or slow songs would only be a few.
 
Sean Ross has been writing about this topic for awhile. I think you're seeing the "soft" in some of the indie product and some of the country crossovers as opposed to the obligatory ballad on a pop record. I wouldn't say that this generation dislikes soft music, but they turn to other genres to get that fix. Sometimes those songs cross over to pop. (Lumineers anyone? Fun? And let's not get started with chants in current hits...)

That KODA aircheck might have been what an AC station sounded like in 1992, but it's not 1992 anymore. Stations that don't evolve die.
 
johndavis said:
Sean Ross has been writing about this topic for awhile. I think you're seeing the "soft" in some of the indie product and some of the country crossovers as opposed to the obligatory ballad on a pop record. I wouldn't say that this generation dislikes soft music, but they turn to other genres to get that fix. Sometimes those songs cross over to pop. (Lumineers anyone? Fun? And let's not get started with chants in current hits...)

That KODA aircheck might have been what an AC station sounded like in 1992, but it's not 1992 anymore. Stations that don't evolve die.
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Thanks to corporate radio. They are not brain-washing me with their pre-selected playlists. I could think of lots of music that don't get airplay that they could be playing. I'm done here. Thanks for the feedback guys!
 
Ah yes, it's all part of the great evil corporate plan that adult females started liking the pop songs their daughters listen to instead of 20 year old light rock that their mothers listened to. I forgot, that's on page 255 of the corporate radio takeover manual.
 
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