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MY MIX 1079

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lovejamminoldies

This station really sounds good and I think Saga puts a lot more time into it than Mix 971 did. They program to Columbus. They power songs not based on the charts but how it's doing with Columbus listeners. The imaging is great and they update it constantly. The jocks are fun and interactive. I think they could do better if the signal is better, but I was visiting Columbus yesterday and did not experience signal problems. I was in Easton, near downtown on Neil Ave, the northside near Cleveland ave - CLEAR

Last night on my way back home, I got it past London almost to Springfield and it was going in and out (due to 1077)

Good station we got here! What do you guys thnk?
 
Well, I like them a lot and I haven't heard them stop music programming yet to play OSU games in the evenings or weekends, so that is a plus as well. That always raised my blood pressure when 97.1 would do that. I can hear them clearly all the way out to Reynoldsburg.
 
There's no need for them to stop for sports... thats a bonus of 1460 and 971.

What's the highest they will go rating-wise? Because the signal is not THAT bad.
 
lovejamminoldies said:
There's no need for them to stop for sports... thats a bonus of 1460 and 971.

What's the highest they will go rating-wise? Because the signal is not THAT bad.
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If they do it well I could say upper 2's... Yes the signal will always be an issue but if they can program it and make it worth listening to despite the signal issues then it will be a winner. Yes signal is always a handicap but providing a product folks want will help go a long way.
 
The "Stereo" light on my car occasionally flickers when I am on the south part of I-270. It is the same way when I was outside of the outerbelt in Hilliard.

The signal sucks downtown too, but many other stations have the same issue downtown (106.7, 93.3, etc.).
 
I've have no problem picking up 107.9. I think you need to get a new radio than using a cheap Coby radio tape to your dash.
 
I know when the signal was Star 107.9 one of the first books they had was around a 3.2 or 3.3 so I would think if the New Mix does things right they could hold onto a solid low three with no problem
 
I think 107.9 is doing a better job with the Hot AC format than 97.1 did. Music mix, pun intended, is better. I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening. Imaging is fresh and Tricia Moore sounds great in the afternoon, even if it is tracked...maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not sure. I guess basically they sound like they care where I thought 97.1 was just coasting along hoping people would listen.
 
rubberchicken said:
I think 107.9 is doing a better job with the Hot AC format than 97.1 did. Music mix, pun intended, is better. I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening. Imaging is fresh and Tricia Moore sounds great in the afternoon, even if it is tracked...maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not sure. I guess basically they sound like they care where I thought 97.1 was just coasting along hoping people would listen.
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Sound quality on 97.1 really sucks and especially on the AM. Take a guy with a great voice and put him on that station and he'll sound like crap, let alone someone like Speilman with a mediocre voice. 610 and 1230 sound way better than 1460, there's a certain zip to the announcers, sound wise. 1460 is just flat.
 
inquisitor said:
rubberchicken said:
I think 107.9 is doing a better job with the Hot AC format than 97.1 did. Music mix, pun intended, is better. I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening. Imaging is fresh and Tricia Moore sounds great in the afternoon, even if it is tracked...maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not sure. I guess basically they sound like they care where I thought 97.1 was just coasting along hoping people would listen.
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Sound quality on 97.1 really sucks and especially on the AM. Take a guy with a great voice and put him on that station and he'll sound like crap, let alone someone like Speilman with a mediocre voice. 610 and 1230 sound way better than 1460, there's a certain zip to the announcers, sound wise. 1460 is just flat.
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97.1 sounded flat when they were Hot AC. It always baffled me how nice their newly built studios were but how crappily flat the station sounded.
 
rubberchicken said:
I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening.
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I hope so! I think if they took more of a Columbus's Hit Music sound like Q102 in Cincinnati - they could hurt WNCI with the promotion, despite the signal.
 
I know the signal can't compete with 'NCI but if it was up to me I would blow the station up and go Top 40 and borrow an old name from Cleveland and call it "1079 The End".

Then I would make all the liners and jingles to say something like this:

"The end of boring repetitive radio"
"The end of the same songs over and over again"
"The end of corporate cookie cutter radio"

Actually it doesn't even have to be Top 40, with those liners it could be just about any format.
 
from inquisitor: 97.1 sounded flat when they were Hot AC. It always baffled me how nice their newly built studios were but how crappily flat the station sounded.

from rubberchicken:Sound quality on 97.1 really sucks and especially on the AM. Take a guy with a great voice and put him on that station and he'll sound like crap

I'm not an engineer but for years and years they have taken great pride on having their entire audio chain have "beautiful" specs all down the line "see? what do you mean it doesn't sound good? it's perfectly flat!" Their mics especially sound "dead." And they are, or used to have, awesome mics, Neumann's!

It's interesting that their TV station always looked good. But even at TV , the audio for the longest time was pretty lousy if it was recorded in house.
 
Al Timiter said:
from inquisitor: 97.1 sounded flat when they were Hot AC. It always baffled me how nice their newly built studios were but how crappily flat the station sounded.

from rubberchicken:Sound quality on 97.1 really sucks and especially on the AM. Take a guy with a great voice and put him on that station and he'll sound like crap

I'm not an engineer but for years and years they have taken great pride on having their entire audio chain have "beautiful" specs all down the line "see? what do you mean it doesn't sound good? it's perfectly flat!" Their mics especially sound "dead." And they are, or used to have, awesome mics, Neumann's!

It's interesting that their TV station always looked good. But even at TV , the audio for the longest time was pretty lousy if it was recorded in house.
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A long time ago somebody commented that this was part of their ratings problems. I think there might be something to that. Except for Paul Keels, who sounds great everywhere, their stations are just plain dull to listen to and it isn't really the programming.
 
rubberchicken said:
I think 107.9 is doing a better job with the Hot AC format than 97.1 did. Music mix, pun intended, is better. I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening. Imaging is fresh and Tricia Moore sounds great in the afternoon, even if it is tracked...maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not sure. I guess basically they sound like they care where I thought 97.1 was just coasting along hoping people would listen.
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I've been pondering what they would call the 2000-2009 decade when the "NOW" decade becomes 2010 and beyond. They might just start saying its 3 decades of mixes. As for them dropping the 80s format, they could do like WPGB in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and move the 80s format over to their HD2 channel, after all that was an 80s station from 1998 to 2001. I do agree that 107.9 seems to be doing a better job with the mix format that 97.1 did. It might be my imagination, but it seems to sound better as well.
 
V.Riley said:
rubberchicken said:
I think 107.9 is doing a better job with the Hot AC format than 97.1 did. Music mix, pun intended, is better. I'd honestly like to see the 80's disappear. We're probably not too far from that happening. Imaging is fresh and Tricia Moore sounds great in the afternoon, even if it is tracked...maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not sure. I guess basically they sound like they care where I thought 97.1 was just coasting along hoping people would listen.
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I've been pondering what they would call the 2000-2009 decade when the "NOW" decade becomes 2010 and beyond. They might just start saying its 3 decades of mixes. As for them dropping the 80s format, they could do like WPGB in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and move the 80s format over to their HD2 channel, after all that was an 80s station from 1998 to 2001. I do agree that 107.9 seems to be doing a better job with the mix format that 97.1 did. It might be my imagination, but it seems to sound better as well.
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I thought 97.1 FINALLY was doing the format right when they flipped. In their last month I don't remember 97.1 playing any 80s outside of their noon hour "Lunch Blox" show.
 
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