Name a station that went from best to worst

[jchap1976]

We been talking a lot about the best and worst stations in the country.Which station went from the best to the worst,one of mine is WZHT HOT 1057 out of montgomery,this station had good jocks,played a good mix of music,and now this.No local morning show,middays uptown angela 11-2,t-roy 6-10 and chris michaels all voicetracked.I think this is sad to a station that was one of the best

 

[bucwhyl]

The one we've been talking about. 97.9 The Box. When Clear Channel owned them, and Robert Scorpio was PD, they had mix weekends every holiday, focused on local artists, and even the voice guy they had was off the chain. Now, none of that.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

FOXIE 103 JAMZ WFXA-FM/Augusta,GA
Perry Broadcasting ruined this heritage Urban station. DJ Sly Tay is a great DJ, but the entire on-air staff is all male and the music is all over the place. I would love to see what there ratings are.

 

[bringbackradio]

KBMB "103.5 The Bomb" in Sacramento (1996-2009). It was the only urban contemporary station in Sacramento and did well for itself under Paula Nelson's ownership. Plus it was one of few urbans in California to support syndicated programming for the longest as they had Doug Banks (they also had Tom Joyner live in the wee hours). But Entravision succeeded at buying it in 2004 (Nelson turned them down but sadly caved in to pressure) and ruined that station piece by piece. They dropped Doug Banks because Entravision did not like him, fired most African American DJs for more Latino and white DJs (they did keep Tommie Goss' Gospel Express though) and played more rhythmic stuff to take on KSFM and KDND (both top 40 pop) to further alienate much of the original audience. The final nail in the coffin for The Bomb was when Big Boy flopped in syndication and the station flipped to top 40 pop as KHHM.

Thankfully Sacramento has another urban outlet through adult leaning KDEE.

 

[only1moore]

WKKV/Milwaukee. They were great at first, but somehow lost their way, and it shows in the ratings.

 

[urban]

KMJM St. Louis (formerly Majic 108)... They used to be an outstanding station that was on a blowtorch of a frequency (107.7), great DJs and they would break new music. Now they're on a weak signal, music is cookie-cutter, DJs are voice-tracked... just terrible!

 

[1L6E6VHF]

Can't say it went from THE best to THE worst, but WKSG 102.7 "Solid Gold Kiss FM" Mt Clemens MI (a Detroit rim-shotter - today WPZR) comes to mind. They had put together a pretty good Oldies format with live DJs, blowing 500w AM daytimer WHND out of the water, and were fun to listen to (they had neat features like Kiss Comparison - songs by two different artists. The playlist was rich, novelty songs were not off limits).

Come late December, they became "Oldies 102.7", with taped announcements, and a much narrower playlist. Now they sounded just like WOMC 104.3, which just two weeks earlier, had become "Oldies 104.3", with the same playlist, and the same announcement tapes!

WKSG had a TL in the NE corner of the metro area with 50 kW and a DA nulling the southwest.
WOMC had a TL in the middle of the metro area with 190 kW omnidirectional.
One guess who won this ratings war.

 

[Scholarm1111]

That one is easy, WPGC over the past 5 years or so. Now a cookie-cutter CHR/rhythmic identical to what could be heard in many markets, it is no longer a station I pay attention to.

 

[kilamanjero]

That one is easy, WPGC over the past 5 years or so. Now a cookie-cutter CHR/rhythmic identical to what could be heard in many markets, it is no longer a station I pay attention to.

We can blame CBS and their lack of ability to chose a great successor to Jay Stevens for that. Jason Kidd has shown he has no clue how to run this station (considering he is a native of the area), and it shows in ratings and many others comments about the present state of the station.