Lexington Station flips formats... kind of.

[jb_ky]

B92 is now Classic Rock 921.

Sounds the same so far...

From their facebook page:
Welcome to Lexington's NEW home for CLASSIC ROCK! Classic Rock 921! We have heard you, and we are gonna:

1) Get back to the music faster with the 3 minute promise, this means we'll never play more than 3 minutes of commercials, to get you back to the music faster!

2) Go DEEP! We'll play some cuts you haven't heard in a while.

3) We've selected the music YOU asked us to play, programmed right here in Lexington, not by some corporate suits in some big city!

We wanna be YOUR hometown Classic Rock radio station. Our name, here on facebook will change in the next few days. Also, don't worry, you're gonna be able to stream us and download our new app, very soon!

Take the ride with us, and we thank you for checkin' us out!

 

[sdskees]

The "classic hits" and "classic rock" formats are mostly redundant anyway as far as I can tell. Conceptually they should be different, but classic "rock" stations tend to give airplay to things that are maybe marginally rock while classic "hits" stations focus on these same songs. I'd say that well over 75% of what each format plays is exactly the same... and that is a very conservative estimate (it's probably nearly 100% in a lot of cases). I don't know why stations bother with the format change from one to the other.

 

[jb_ky]

I noticed 96.9 has dropped the point out of their name with new ID's and jingles. I didn't realize that they dumped John Tesh. I wanted to call them 96.9 Tesh FM.