Maybe "the New 97-1 the Tower" will have to change to

[NashRadio]

"the New 97-1 the Half-Tower" based on today's Tennessean front-page story

 

[SwissVol]

Fine, gonna make me go look it up in the paper huh?

 

[Tibbs4]

By the time The Signature Tower gets built in 2009-10, 97.1 will have gone through 70 failed formats, one for each floor.
The building will rise, unlike this cursed frequency until Crumulus is exorcised from this market. If the FAA screws this
building up, I hope this town demands they move the airport far away from Davidson County. Just another reason why
government agencies with three letters should be banned.... Unlike 97.1 The Tower, I hope the people of Nashville
will be heard and the REAL Tower rises.

 

[Evangelist]

Nashville International Airport should remain in Nashville. Were it to move outside the city limits, whatever municipality that got it would be begging for a name change. We don't want or need that.

The people who put 97.1 on the air knew what they were getting into when they applied for the frequency, etc. The airport was there first.

Nashville International did something good by its expansion. Drivers on Donelson Pike along that stretch are more likely to attain minimum speed these days. Before the expansion, they were driving far too slowly.

If the powers that be at Cumulus would pick a format and stick with it, whatever is on 97.1 might have a shot. Even during the "Star" years, they constantly tinkered with it so that it was pretty much a new format every six months.

 

[SwissVol]

Nashville International Airport should remain in Nashville. Were it to move outside the city limits, whatever municipality that got it would be begging for a name change. We don't want or need that.

The people who put 97.1 on the air knew what they were getting into when they applied for the frequency, etc. The airport was there first.

Nashville International did something good by its expansion. Drivers on Donelson Pike along that stretch are more likely to attain minimum speed these days. Before the expansion, they were driving far too slowly.

If the powers that be at Cumulus would pick a format and stick with it, whatever is on 97.1 might have a shot. Even during the "Star" years, they constantly tinkered with it so that it was pretty much a new format every six months.

Well, I remember when 97.1 had the Friday night eighties for those who remember stuff like Pretty in Pink with Molly Ringwold. That show (hokey as it was) seemed to do well with certain types. Then they offered an eighties format for a time or something similar to the eighties format. Does anyone remember when they would feature a new song and then call that new eighties music? I thought that was just so bogus! Anyone remember that? I'd hear them say: And now for some new eighties music. Either a song was eighties music (recorded and played back in the eighties) ot it wasn't. Am I the only one who remembers that?

 

[firepoint525]

Nashville International Airport should remain in Nashville. Were it to move outside the city limits, whatever municipality that got it would be begging for a name change. We don't want or need that.

That wasn't the case with the zoo when it was out at Pleasant View! (Although I think Clarksville should have bought the Pleasant View location and turned it into the Clarksville Zoo! ;D)

The people who put 97.1 on the air knew what they were getting into when they applied for the frequency, etc. The airport was there first.

I believe that article refers to the Signature Tower, not the radio station. I wish V-102.5 would buy it, and put their signal on it (once their damage is repaired, of course!)

Nashville International did something good by its expansion. Drivers on Donelson Pike along that stretch are more likely to attain minimum speed these days. Before the expansion, they were driving far too slowly.

Would like to see that Harding Place to Murfreesboro Road extension finished sometime during my lifetime! That would take most of the traffic (except airport traffic) off Donelson Pike. That road is too narrow for the volume of traffic it handles. Yet they built Dell out there! ??? Oh, well, I live in Cheatham County now, so it doesn't really apply to me anymore)

If the powers that be at Cumulus would pick a format and stick with it, whatever is on 97.1 might have a shot. Even during the "Star" years, they constantly tinkered with it so that it was pretty much a new format every six months.

This is true. But I think the "Tower" will fall, no matter what. And calling it "the NEW tower" is an insult to my intelligence!

 

[firepoint525]

Nashville International Airport should remain in Nashville. Were it to move outside the city limits, whatever municipality that got it would be begging for a name change. We don't want or need that.

The people who put 97.1 on the air knew what they were getting into when they applied for the frequency, etc. The airport was there first.

Nashville International did something good by its expansion. Drivers on Donelson Pike along that stretch are more likely to attain minimum speed these days. Before the expansion, they were driving far too slowly.

If the powers that be at Cumulus would pick a format and stick with it, whatever is on 97.1 might have a shot. Even during the "Star" years, they constantly tinkered with it so that it was pretty much a new format every six months.

Well, I remember when 97.1 had the Friday night eighties for those who remember stuff like Pretty in Pink with Molly Ringwold. That show (hokey as it was) seemed to do well with certain types. Then they offered an eighties format for a time or something similar to the eighties format. Does anyone remember when they would feature a new song and then call that new eighties music? I thought that was just so bogus! Anyone remember that? I'd hear them say: And now for some new eighties music. Either a song was eighties music (recorded and played back in the eighties) ot it wasn't. Am I the only one who remembers that?

Two problems with their "eighties" format: they would play stuff from as far back as 1975, or as recently as 1993, and call it "eighties" music. The other is that they extended Friday Night Eighties to all weekend, and then all week. Not that it was too much of a good thing, but if you are going to play more than five hours of '80s a week, then you MUST go beyond the usual "Come on Eileen" and go into deeper tracks. (This is a common complaint of 97.1 on ANY format, is it not?) The usual big '80s hits work just fine when played only one evening a week, but I wanted to hear some Julian Lennon, for example, and they never played him!

I liked their Saturday evening '80s "supermix" as they called it. They went a little deeper into their playlist, and played extended dance mixes of even some minor hits from the '80s. And it was jockless there for a while! So if they had been able to continue that WITHOUT dropping liners over the intros of every song, it would have been cool. Amazingly, they didn't promote "supermix" very much! And since they only went into commercial breaks about every 20 minutes or so, it seems to me like they could have let these dance mixes play UNinterrupted!

Instead of going deeper into the '80s, STAR 97 just "borrowed" heavily from the late '70s and early '90s. They just went wider, not deeper! "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "Pop Muzik" are from 1979, NOT the '80s! I was in high school! I remember! (Okay, I'll get off the soapbox now!)

 

[BIGSTICK]

SIG tower is DEAD.

 

[Tibbs4]

Why? The faa can't force it to not be built at 1057'. they can screw with tony and the gang a bit and cost them time and money.
Why are planes allowed to fly anywhere near downtown anyway? there are several other prominent examples of cities with
skyscrapers as close to their airports. Most of those buildings are under 850'. Don't count it out just yet.

 

[Nock]

Not to keep this off topic but ----- If we got a plane clipping the top of the proposed Signature Tower, I think we have a bigger problem up stream of where this plane is heading.

You can see the NYC skyline from all of the NYC Airports?

Nock

 

[NashRadio]

To: SwissVol: You're absolutely right, I should have included the link

Mea Robert Culpa

 

[firepoint525]

Has anyone heard this (syndicated, apparently) program that 97.1 carries on Saturday evenings, beginning at 10:00 (I think)? They play some music there that you just won't hear on 97.1 at any other time. Their Beatle Brunch program on Sunday mornings is also quite good. (It's a carryover from their Oldies 97.1 days.) I just wish we could have such innovative programming from them a little more often, and a lot less "Bob & Tom" this, and "Bob & Tom" that! :

 

[jetfli]

I just wish we could have such innovative programming from them a little more often, and a lot less "Bob & Tom" this, and "Bob & Tom" that! :

The way they present it, you'd think airing Bob & Tom was a benefit.

 

[scottwmro]

No offense to anybody, and I not here to make anybody mad, upset, feelings hurt, etc., BUT CAN WE FIND SOMETHING BETTER TO DISCUSS BESIDES WRQQ, "THE TOWER", or whatever they call themselves these days. The discussions about this station are getting old.....very old folks!

I enjoyed SwissVol's discussion of ROCK 106........R.I.P. Rock 106! The best rock station Nashville ever had, and it was short lived!

 

[firepoint525]

Give us a break, Scott! Some of us weren't living here back then.

I remember a former coworker pulling up to the station where I used to work, driving a Chevy pickup truck with one of those "Rock 106 Crank it up" plates on the front of it. I asked where "Rock 106" was, thinking it was an out of town station. He then gave me the same history that several on here have told us. He told me about hearing "Do You Hear What I Hear?" on Christmas Day, and wondering if there was not a hidden message associated with it, given that it was on a station that was about to change formats. (His truck was about a late '70s/early '80s model, so that plate had probably been on the front of it since Rock 106 was on the air. Turns out I had correctly assumed that "Rock 106" was an older station, given that it was not a "digital" frequency.)

Scott, if you can persuade Cumulus to make 97.1 the new "Rock 106," (as long as they don't wear out that "new" adjective again--hey, wait, they already are!), you can "kill two birds with one stone."

 

[firepoint525]

By the way, I just want to say to any programmers reading this, that using the Christmas holidays as an excuse to change formats (you know, go "all Christmas, all the time," and then "forget" to go back to whatever you were doing before the holiday season) is one of the most sneaky, underhanded things you can do to your listeners! The Christmas holiday is not for you to "pull a fast one" on your listeners!

Although if 97.1 does it, I would welcome it! Take that, Scott! ;D

 

[SwissVol]

Isn't 92.0 that does the all Christmas music deal?

Anyway, must we. MUST WE have to endure A "Tender Tennessee Christmas" again?

 

[SwissVol]

Oh golly gee. We get to hear Burl Ives song Holy Jolly Christmas for the next 6 weeks.

 

[Tibbs4]

Swiss

Fortune for me, I don't get 92.0 on my radio. You probably don't listen to Mix 92.9 much anyway, huh? lol

 

[SwissVol]

Yeah good ole 92.0. They play the music that matters without all of the fluff.

Well, I listen to those John Tesh tips for a happier life.