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Last Song for WRXP

mike1985 said:
CTListener said:
mike1985 said:
It was announced Q 101 in Chicago will stay on 101.1 through Monday than programming will shift to 97.9 HD2. I think it's probably safe to assume 101.9 here in NYC will stay Rock through the weekend as well and start their stunting Monday as well.
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HD receivers have nearly disappeared from shelves as manufacturers stop producing them. Why would Q101 even bother putting the old format on an HD2 when any listeners who might want to follow it there will have a hard time even finding a radio?
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I think it's their lame attempt at being able to say "Well Q101 still exists in some form." Q101 will also be streaming online along with 101.9 WRXP. But both will just be an automated Juke box with no personality. Might as well just throw your Ipod on shuffle in my opinion.
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Major Correction: Q101 is NOT continuing on 97.9-HD2.

Emmis sold off WKQX's "Q101" brand, their intellectual property, their history and their website - due to Merlin not wishing to retain any of it - all off to Broadcast Barter Radio Networks a few days ago. "Q101" will be revived as a commercial-free internet station in the coming weeks.

As of early this morning www.q101.com was telling listeners that the station will live on at 97.9 HD-2. Not sure how that will work because according to the "Save The Loopers" Q101 will only be an Internet station. According to Emmis, they paid a fee and now own the "Q" brand. Perhaps the music will live on but the station will have to be called something else.
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Therefore, 97.9-HD2 is not an actual continuation of "Q101." Sure, it may copy the format, but it will likely be a side branding from WLUP itself, and will have no local hosts or musical input. I'd presume that the online "Q101" would eventually have both when they get up on their feet (Emmis rocker KROX/Austin will feed their playlist onto the former WKQX stream starting on Monday).

So buying an HD Radio receiver is pretty much unnecessary, especially because both services will stream online.
 
erwin33 said:
mike1985 said:
Sam Lit said:
erwin33 said:
mike1985 said:
It was announced Q 101 in Chicago will stay on 101.1 through Monday than programming will shift to 97.9 HD2. I think it's probably safe to assume 101.9 here in NYC will stay Rock through the weekend as well and start their stunting Monday as well.
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Totally useless to wait until monday for the stunt. Why wait so long?!
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It takes time to cart up the new format.
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I think it makes sense to keep feeding Q101 and RXP's music for the weekend rather than going into a stunting format for the entire weekend. Plus it makes all the pissed off people over the flip a little happier to keep their station for the weekend. Keeping the Rock on both stations for the weekend will keep a bigger audience through the weekend in my opinion. No need to rush anything especially if the permanent format is weeks away. Either way changes should come sometime Monday to both stations.
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I hope the permanent format change is not weeks away, that is totally pointless.
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There is no use in starting a talk format on a Friday evening, when nobody is listening, its best to start on a weekday where more people are listening
 
So it looks like the last song played before the stunting started at 5 p.m. today was Long Live Rock by the Who according to the lead story on the home page of Radio-info. Did anyone that posted guess the last Song?
 
Re: "Roxk 101.9 WRXP" Ends... And "101.9 FM New" Begins

A lot of people are speculating that this station will bring the WYNY calls back to NYC. But if the "New" branding sticks, maybe they will bring back another familiar set of call letters instead. Of course, they might not be able to pry those away from CBS so easily.
 
Going back through the thread, poster "Danfm" was the closest with his guess: "The Song Is Over" by The Who (from the album "Who's Next", 1971).

I correctly guessed that the last song played during a live jock's show (Drelio's on Thursday evening just before 10pm) would be "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve. Too bad and too late for me - the prize closet had already been ransacked and re-padlocked. ;) :'(
 
Re: "Roxk 101.9 WRXP" Ends... And "101.9 FM New" Begins

I just heard Spin Doctors "Two Princes" at the speed that Now-FM plays songs. It sounded awful, maybe I would have thought it was cool when I was 10 years old, but I've grown up. There better not be music on this new format because PLJ and Fresh have that covered and they don't speed up their songs ;).
 
Seems there is a smallest library fo f for this stunt.
Even Adult CHR/Rock AC/Hot AC doesn't play Jessie's Girl or How You Remind Me this many times in one night, do they?
They aren't that big on the gold recurrences.
 
This is really sad for Rock radio in general...I can not believe that the NYC market can't support even two Rock stations in this day and age. The times that I heard WRXP...I found it to be kind of a refreshing throw back to an earlier era of FM rock...where they attempted to program multiple genres of Rock music together. It kind of reminded me of WCOZ-Boston in the late 1970's In fact...WCOZ's Program Director from that era went on to program 101.9...WPIX... in those days when it was an AOR. In any case...WRXP now joins another great and under rated forgotten New York rocker...104.3-WQIV....along with WPIX...and WNEW-FM....
 
Honestly, this format might be worse than RXP, because of the fact that nearly all the music on the new format can be heard on PLJ, Fresh, Lite, CBS, or a number of suburban stations and these stations don't play it at ridiculous chipmunk speed. I can't wait till this blows up- country, dance, a more focused rock station, ESPN, talk, anything else.
 
I can downpitch it, and have been known to do that for station that pitch things up.
only downpitch the music (which is the thing that is pitched up.)
 
This stunting period reminds me of the transitional period on 102.7, post-FM-talk and pre-Blink - the same 20 songs played to death, hour in and hour out (think the old Musicradio 77 WABC, but even more annoying)...
 
Who else has noticed?
Stereo songs that were on the stunt, some are in mono now.
They've I think been tweaking the processing, unless its IBOC interpherence from my end as This is way a DX target for me.
 
How many stunts have DJ's?
Guessin that started at 6 AM? I wasn't awake for it but have been tapeing.
Jeff McKay. I know he's been on New Jersey 101.5. Was he lored away?
Dont know who the male DJ is.
 
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