Here's mine to start off, KMHS/Koos Bay, OR. I found this on Friday and I'm always proud to support high school stations. They actually lean adult similar to the Cumulus stations, although the currents may be even less on this station. I also heard a couple of country titles on the station, wow! No, this was not cross-over stuff. Yours?
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Musically, what is the most interesting CHR you have ever heard?
- Thread starter bobdavcav
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OK, this one wasn't technically CHR. It was more rhythmic than anything else, but I remember many years ago a station in Chattanooga called Hot Jammin' Kicks FM. I think it was on 97.3 and 99.3. I've never lived there so I don't know if it was ever popular in Chattanooga, and eventually it changed formats to full CHR I think, but it sure was popular here. People would fight the static and get up on their roofs with damn coat hangers in Huntsville to try to pick it up LOL. You could get it on a good DX all the time when the weather was right. They were very unique with their playlist from what I remember. Rhythmic, pop, dance and urban mixed in all together. They would play songs no one else would dare touch. I remember hearing High Town DJs "Ding A Ling" on that station all the time and I would die laughing when I heard it because I couldn't believe it was actually being played on the radio. No one here would play it of course. I called up ZYP one day and requested it just to hear what kind or reaction I would get and the jock laughed and said he'd never heard of it before. That was pre-cumulus days, but they were still adult leaning.
We also had a rhythmic station in Huntsville for a while back close to the same time frame on 94.1 and 92.5 called WXQ, the rhythm of Huntsville. The calls were WWXQ on 92.5 and WXQW on 94.1. Rhythmic, but it played a good mix too like Kicks FM in Chattanooga did and great throw backs you heard nowhere else like Tone Loc "Wild Thing". It was privately owned I believe but eventually sold out to Clear Channel and they flipped it Oldies. We didn't have a real CHR or a real urban here at that time so all the young audiences loved it and were heartbroken when it flipped LOL.
We also had a rhythmic station in Huntsville for a while back close to the same time frame on 94.1 and 92.5 called WXQ, the rhythm of Huntsville. The calls were WWXQ on 92.5 and WXQW on 94.1. Rhythmic, but it played a good mix too like Kicks FM in Chattanooga did and great throw backs you heard nowhere else like Tone Loc "Wild Thing". It was privately owned I believe but eventually sold out to Clear Channel and they flipped it Oldies. We didn't have a real CHR or a real urban here at that time so all the young audiences loved it and were heartbroken when it flipped LOL.
What I think is the most interesting musically is Exitos 93.9 KXOS/Los Angeles. They play today's hits in English, y en Espanol. I also heard Bob Marley's Could You Be Loved on there one time. The DJs, presentation and commercials are bilingual as is the music. Overall, very interesting.
WIOG/Saginaw was great in the Citadel days. They not only played the hits, but they also added rhythmic and rock titles that weren't on the charts. I remember how they introduced me to pop-punk band Sugarcult during a vacation to the area in 2002. Now it's a Cumulus station.
I loved KKWD/Oklahoma City in the Citadel days. They were always very cutting edge, playing songs many CHRs wouldn't touch. Today, they are a Cumulus clone, playing mostly dated hip-hop from the early 2000s along with late 00s electropop. Very little current music comes on the station unless its during the Friday Night mix show.
Some of my favorites from the past, since I can't seem to find anything that is outstanding these days.
G105/WDCG Raleigh-Durham, NC (during the Prism-SFX Broadcasting years 0f 1994-1998). They managed to come up with a playlist that mixed CHR with Alternative Hits, along with a good dose of 80s hits and became dominant in the market. They also gave plenty of exposure to local and regional acts like Athenaeum, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Ben Folds Five. During this time, G105 ignored the "pop boom" of of the mid-90s so Rhythmic, R&B, and Dance tunes were noticeably absent during that time. It wasn't until Madonna's "Ray of Light" was released when G105 started to play some Rhythmic-type dance music again. The next year was when music from Britney Spears and NSync was released was when G105 headed back to Mainstream CHR, although they did hang on to their Alternative lean for a few years afterwards.
95.1 The Edge/WEDJ Charlotte, NC. During the first 18 months from 1994 to the first half of 1995, The Edge was a bright spot in a bleak CHR world when it seamed like no one wanted to touch the format. Unfortunately, the ratings never were up to par and the format was tweaked from Mainstream to Alternative-Lite (similar to Z100/NY at the time). This didn't work and the format was adjusted back to Mainstream CHR by early 1996.
96.3/103.7 The Hot FM/WRHT Morehead City, NC-WCBZ Williamston, NC (1993-1999). A CHR that covered a good chunk of Eastern North Carolina using 2 100kW signals. Had a very Mainstream playlist. Today they do not exist as the format was changed in the mid 2000s.
Robyn
G105/WDCG Raleigh-Durham, NC (during the Prism-SFX Broadcasting years 0f 1994-1998). They managed to come up with a playlist that mixed CHR with Alternative Hits, along with a good dose of 80s hits and became dominant in the market. They also gave plenty of exposure to local and regional acts like Athenaeum, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Ben Folds Five. During this time, G105 ignored the "pop boom" of of the mid-90s so Rhythmic, R&B, and Dance tunes were noticeably absent during that time. It wasn't until Madonna's "Ray of Light" was released when G105 started to play some Rhythmic-type dance music again. The next year was when music from Britney Spears and NSync was released was when G105 headed back to Mainstream CHR, although they did hang on to their Alternative lean for a few years afterwards.
95.1 The Edge/WEDJ Charlotte, NC. During the first 18 months from 1994 to the first half of 1995, The Edge was a bright spot in a bleak CHR world when it seamed like no one wanted to touch the format. Unfortunately, the ratings never were up to par and the format was tweaked from Mainstream to Alternative-Lite (similar to Z100/NY at the time). This didn't work and the format was adjusted back to Mainstream CHR by early 1996.
96.3/103.7 The Hot FM/WRHT Morehead City, NC-WCBZ Williamston, NC (1993-1999). A CHR that covered a good chunk of Eastern North Carolina using 2 100kW signals. Had a very Mainstream playlist. Today they do not exist as the format was changed in the mid 2000s.
Robyn
Some of my favorites from the past, since I can't seem to find anything that is outstanding these days.
G105/WDCG Raleigh-Durham, NC (during the Prism-SFX Broadcasting years 0f 1994-1998). They managed to come up with a playlist that mixed CHR with Alternative Hits, along with a good dose of 80s hits and became dominant in the market. They also gave plenty of exposure to local and regional acts like Athenaeum, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Ben Folds Five. During this time, G105 ignored the "pop boom" of of the mid-90s so Rhythmic, R&B, and Dance tunes were noticeably absent during that time. It wasn't until Madonna's "Ray of Light" was released when G105 started to play some Rhythmic-type dance music again. The next year was when music from Britney Spears and NSync was released was when G105 headed back to Mainstream CHR, although they did hang on to their Alternative lean for a few years afterwards.
95.1 The Edge/WEDJ Charlotte, NC. During the first 18 months from 1994 to the first half of 1995, The Edge was a bright spot in a bleak CHR world when it seamed like no one wanted to touch the format. Unfortunately, the ratings never were up to par and the format was tweaked from Mainstream to Alternative-Lite (similar to Z100/NY at the time). This didn't work and the format was adjusted back to Mainstream CHR by early 1996.
96.3/103.7 The Hot FM/WRHT Morehead City, NC-WCBZ Williamston, NC (1993-1999). A CHR that covered a good chunk of Eastern North Carolina using 2 100kW signals. Had a very Mainstream playlist. Today they do not exist as the format was changed in the mid 2000s.
Robyn
G105/WDCG Raleigh-Durham, NC (during the Prism-SFX Broadcasting years 0f 1994-1998). They managed to come up with a playlist that mixed CHR with Alternative Hits, along with a good dose of 80s hits and became dominant in the market. They also gave plenty of exposure to local and regional acts like Athenaeum, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Ben Folds Five. During this time, G105 ignored the "pop boom" of of the mid-90s so Rhythmic, R&B, and Dance tunes were noticeably absent during that time. It wasn't until Madonna's "Ray of Light" was released when G105 started to play some Rhythmic-type dance music again. The next year was when music from Britney Spears and NSync was released was when G105 headed back to Mainstream CHR, although they did hang on to their Alternative lean for a few years afterwards.
95.1 The Edge/WEDJ Charlotte, NC. During the first 18 months from 1994 to the first half of 1995, The Edge was a bright spot in a bleak CHR world when it seamed like no one wanted to touch the format. Unfortunately, the ratings never were up to par and the format was tweaked from Mainstream to Alternative-Lite (similar to Z100/NY at the time). This didn't work and the format was adjusted back to Mainstream CHR by early 1996.
96.3/103.7 The Hot FM/WRHT Morehead City, NC-WCBZ Williamston, NC (1993-1999). A CHR that covered a good chunk of Eastern North Carolina using 2 100kW signals. Had a very Mainstream playlist. Today they do not exist as the format was changed in the mid 2000s.
Robyn
I should probably throw out another one I just found a couple months ago, KKKJ in Klamath Falls, Oregon. I listen to CHR a lot, but every time I turn on that station, I'm within half an hour of something I've either never heard before or heard only on that station. They'll play just about anything from Psy's Gentleman to Carlie Ray Jebson - Tonight I'm Getting Over You to Awallnation - This Kid's Not Allright, and they throw out some pretty interesting golds that don't get played on the radio hardly at all anymore. I'm still a little confused as to whether they carry Open House Party or not, they seem to have dropped it and gone completely jockless, even though it's still listed on the OHP website.
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