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MARKETS STILL LACKING A CHR

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CHRles

No, I'm not talking about markets like Detroit where the CHR/Pop station leans heavily on Rhythmic. I'm talking about markets that have NO CHR/Pop stations at all. With Norfolk finally getting Top 40 back on the airwaves let's take a look at which markets still lack it:

Mcallen-Brownsville
Fresno-Visalia
Bakersfield
El Paso (though 93.1 Kiss FM is pretty much an Adult CHR - plays lots of currents, isn’t afraid of Rhythmic titles)
Monterey-Salinas
Spokane (although 92.9 ZZU is more of a CHR than a Modern AC at night)
Oxnard-Ventura
Victor Valley, Ca
Asheville (Greenville’s B-93.7 doesn’t reach the entire market properly, Star 104.3 is still a Hot AC, and the Tri Cities Electric 94.9 still hasn’t got the go-ahead to increase its power, which will enable it to also reach Asheville)
Fredericksburg, Va
Hagerstown-Chambersburg
Topeka
Chico, Ca
Laredo
Santa Maria-Lompoc
Santa Barbara
Muncie-Marion
Kalispell-Flathead Valley, Mt
Lawton, Ok
Jackson, TN
Brunswick, Ga
 
Topeka has Power hits 97.5,, 100KW,, just over at Junction city, and Mix 93.3 in KC comes in good there....

B-93.7 is still in the city grade for asheville, the tower is just between Greenville and Asheville about 30 miles south,, its just the mountain multipath.. Electric gets hammered on by Kiss 95.1 just south of Asheville,,, Electric is directional to protect KISS, and Star Country 94.9.. WAEZ contour looks like a human head....
 
Have you guys been to Brunswick or Asheville? I've got a really good radio tuner yet have trouble in some spots with B-93.7's signal in downtown Asheville (meaning its not a city grade signal).
WAPE is somewhat audible in Brunswick, but if the signals of WAPE or 97.3 Kiss FM were really good their ratings would fair much better in the Brunswick ratings.
 
I havent been to Brunswick, but I used to live right between Knoxville and Asheville, and enjoyed I-100 WOKI Knoxville and the old WKSF 99.9.... Asheville sits on an uneven plateau and is surrounded by mountains, so the signal for WFHB is there, but yes, its spotty and noisy, but Ive heard B-93.7 clear up to Newport Tenn on a Generic No Name Walmart Cd player, and heard it up to the I 85 split on a JVC tuner... Signal is noisy and has alot of picket fencing, but so does every station in that area,, the old Power 93.3 WBBO Dance-CHR was the same way. Asheville needs to bring bck that flame thrower 99.9 KISS FM WKSF,, such a good station in the 80s and early 90s,,, so was WOKI Knoxville, but WOKI didnt make it to Asheville, though Star 102.1 just might be audible in some parts of Asheville.
 
WDLD "Wild 96.7" in Hagerstown, MD, while not being a full mainstream CHR, has moved toward mainstream from rhythmic earlier this year. I got to hear them on the way through the area a couple of months ago and they are sounding really good. They also now use the moniker "The 4 States #1 Hit Music Station" instead of "blazin 18 jams in a row". They still lean rhythmic, but the presentation is much more like a mainstream CHR now (kind of similar to stations like Now FM in NYC and Amp in LA musically; mainstream with a rhythmic emphasis).
 
Hillsville and galax market in Virginia,,, yes it would have to be adult friendly, but the Roanoke stations K-92 and Hot 100, and Winston Salems 107.5 doesnt come in that good... Im not sure a big stick would work well and be worth the electricity, but if it where Community involved, family friendly,, had a Rock Lean, it could work on a little 1kw FM.... They would have to be very community involved, like Z-Rock 107.5 in Virgie Kentucky,, and be live and local like Channel X 94 in Vernal Utah,, also a tiny tiny market.... This area of VA doesnt have even a fringe Modern Rock station, so a Rock Leaned CHR would work there.
 
I was also thinking the Stockton-Modesto Markets... KWIN is a Rhythmic with a CHR imaging and feel, but its still plays no Rock, POP, or Dance,,, maybe some of the Rhythmic Dancable hip hop, but still no where to hear pure balanced CHR.
 
Clubber, have you completely forgotten about one of the best CHRs out West, that just so happens to serve the Modesto-Merced, and Stockton markets?
http://www.khop.com/

And XCountry, San Francisco does have a CHR/Pop station...Movin 99.7. They play All American Rejects, 3 Oh!3, the latest by Kelly Clarkson, as well as Pink, and older titles by No Doubt, though it mainly focuses on Rhythmic/Pop.
I like how Movin 99.7 even plays the right older titles from the 90s, like "I Got 5 On It" by the Luniz. In the mid 90s, the Bay Area Rhythmics (KMEL, Wild, and Hot 97.7) helped break the song nationally.
 
As far as the markets with no mainstream CHR; McCallen-Brownsville, TX kind of has one. Clear Channel's KHKZ "Hot Kiss 106.3" (www.hotkiss1063.com) straddles the line between being a Hot AC and an Adult CHR. Granted, there is a hole since KBFM went rhythmic as "Wild 104" several years back, but "Hot Kiss 106.3" is kind of filling that niche. Also, that is such a heavily ethnic/Hispanic market that I'm not sure we will ever see a true mainstream CHR again. (Although, just up the road in Corpus they have mainstream CHR with KKPN "Planet 102.3" and even Hot AC KLTG "the Beach 96.5" has recently shifted from Modern AC to Adult CHR and added stuff like Flo Rida, Akon, and M.I.A.). So who knows, maybe the RGV will get a true mainstream CHR again someday too.
 
The Beach 96.5 is also giving some pretty heavy spins to Soulja Boy. I added them to the CHR webcasters list a few weeks ago.
I'm happy to report that list keeps growing by the day :)
 
CHRles said:
The Beach 96.5 is also giving some pretty heavy spins to Soulja Boy. I added them to the CHR webcasters list a few weeks ago.
I'm happy to report that list keeps growing by the day :)
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Yeah, "The Beach 96.5" is sounding really good. I just listened to them for the first time in awhile the other day and hadn't realized they had shifted more towards CHR. (I usually visit Corpus every year on vacation and I've always liked them, but now they sound great and are basically going head to head with "Planet 102.3".) And btw, many thanks for those great CHR and Dance webcasters lists over on the other site. I record radio streams every day to listen to later on my ipod at work and your list of links is my top bookmark for streams. Always a great job. :)
 
CC tried to launch a top 40 station in Bakersfield a few years ago; after obtaining the rights to the 'Kiss-FM' trademark, they sued the local CHR/Rhythmic powerhouse (KISV) which had to change its handle yet remains at the top of the ratings. Another spectacular failure for CC--and the posterior-kicking that AMP 97.1 has given to KIIS/LA after barely three months on the air makes me very happy!!!!
 
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