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[dhoule]

I think Hot 96.9 would be smart to lean more to rhythmic songs from the 90s and 2000s. They seem to do a lot of "now" with some 80s. There is a gap with few 90s or 2K songs.

 

[Lightning]

Yes,

It is very odd to hear Alex Clare and then have it followed by a Michael Jackson song, right after which it is Jay-Z and Run This Town followed by Alicia Keys and Girl On Fire

 

[Jimc]

Somebody ought to do The Bone...flamethrower ROCK (Classic Rock with newer Classic Rock)and stick it to those fairies at ZLX!

Rock that Rocks...minimal talk...all attitude and in your face.

 

[Mattcatlover456]

The new station is no different from any other station in Boston playing the same crap over and over on six stations, the throwbacks are awesome but the rest is no different and they don't even play the real version of As Long As You Love Me how lame is that. not a good format just same old same old .

 

[UrbanTeenager]

I think Hot 96.9 would be smart to lean more to rhythmic songs from the 90s and 2000s. They seem to do a lot of "now" with some 80s. There is a gap with few 90s or 2K songs.

Literally Just adopt Jam'n's Rnb Songs from the early 2000s. They've done some good Ja Rule and Ashanti type stuff, they've played a little old school Sean Paul, I heard some Return of the Mack and East Coast Swing, Let Me Love You by Mario, TLC...just stick with that angle. And sure add in a few more "rhythmic" and less urban songs whatever. The current stuff they play is garbage, if you're gonna go current restrict it to Adele, Alicia Keys, Common, Ryan Leslie maybe even go as far as some of Kendrick's More melodic, lyrical stuff??(that might be too young and urban) but still. The Beiber and Flo Rida needs to go. I would say ax the Diamonds but that's just a run away train at this point.

 

[UrbanTeenager]

when I say "Kendrick" i mean Kendrick Lamar of course. ;D

 

[fybush]

Do you ever read the trades, or stream stations from other markets?
WBZ is no more powerful than WBBM, and KCBS.
Both simulcast, on full powered FM 's.

WBZ's directionality and the salt water path from Hull to Boston give it significantly higher field strength in the core of its market than either KCBS (25 miles north of San Francisco with a mostly-land path to the city) or WBBM (15 miles or so outside Chicago, non-DA).

More to the point, the CBS clusters in both markets included FMs that were struggling to find a viable format. In San Francisco, 106.9 was the former Family Radio signal that hadn't caught fire either as hot talk (KIFR) or classic hits (KFRC). In Chicago, 105.9 went from hot talk (WCKG) to hot AC (WCFS) but wasn't making much of a dent against competition from CC and Bonneville.

In Boston (as in New York and LA, among other markets), all of the CBS FMs are generating far more revenue for their clusters than could possibly be gained from whatever incremental increase WBZ (or WCBS/WINS or KNX) would pick up with an FM simulcast.

 

[beantownradio25]

It's good to see JAM'N with this much competition. A tweak to go more urban almost seems inevitable, they can no longer be the KISS alternative with 103.3 and 96.9.

 

[DToTheJ]

I think Hot 96.9 would be smart to lean more to rhythmic songs from the 90s and 2000s. They seem to do a lot of "now" with some 80s...

GM is promoting it as a station geared toward those who graduated high school but want to hear the hits from that era and today. So with "I Will Survive" in the rotation, their audience consists of people who've been held back?

 

[pariho2013]

I think Hot 96.9 would be smart to lean more to rhythmic songs from the 90s and 2000s. They seem to do a lot of "now" with some 80s...

GM is promoting it as a station geared toward those who graduated high school but want to hear the hits from that era and today. So with "I Will Survive" in the rotation, their audience consists of people who've been held back?

HEY! I graduated HS before "I will Survive" came out......but then I'm in the "We don't give a....." Demo