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Nashville's Rock and Roll Hits of the 60's and 70's the NEW WRQQ 97.1
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Really? Where else could they get the numbers from? This is one case where we can look at Jack's ability to get away from
CR and go more 80's-current and break away, while NRQ has to take the hit and be pulled down from Top 3 25+ (no choice
or chance to fight.) Kudos to MIX, QQK and Jack --- if Jack does it right. If not Jack will fall another notch. Who do you all think will suffer? Is this station going to even matter?
CR and go more 80's-current and break away, while NRQ has to take the hit and be pulled down from Top 3 25+ (no choice
or chance to fight.) Kudos to MIX, QQK and Jack --- if Jack does it right. If not Jack will fall another notch. Who do you all think will suffer? Is this station going to even matter?
This is really the old WGFX format back when it was called ARROW 104.5. All white classic hits. It is ok but what is wrong with some R&B hits mixed in? That is how we heard these songs when they were 1st hits.
It is interesting to see them use the call letters. They have never used them except for the hourly ID since this station came on air.
There is not much left for people over 50 in Nashville. WSM-AM and its classic country and WAMB's standards. WAMB really is after the over 70 group so that leaves WSM 650 if you are 50 to 70.
WRQQ may pull some people away from WNRQ's classic rock and WJXA's classic hits and country mix crowd.
The morning team will stay on, I wonder if any other staff will be kept?
It is interesting to see them use the call letters. They have never used them except for the hourly ID since this station came on air.
There is not much left for people over 50 in Nashville. WSM-AM and its classic country and WAMB's standards. WAMB really is after the over 70 group so that leaves WSM 650 if you are 50 to 70.
WRQQ may pull some people away from WNRQ's classic rock and WJXA's classic hits and country mix crowd.
The morning team will stay on, I wonder if any other staff will be kept?
radiodx said:
I heard R-E-S-P-E-C-T early on. So I assume you'll hear a few things like that.
radiodx said:
I would say if you are over 50 to 70 and like country music you might listen to WSM-AM. One over 50 friend is mourning the loss of what you're not hearing now on WRQQ, but most also want to hear what's coming up on this new version. Most also listen to Jack, the Rock, or the Zone, as well. Don't put all people over 50 into one box musically, especially in this town.
radiodx said:
Give the man a cigar!!! Yes, Cumulus did change 97.1's format in order to try to pull in a younger audience to sell advertising to. HOWEVER, Look at it this way... Cumulus is a big operator that hasn't recently had a top 5 station in the overall ratings for this market, until the Wolf recently broke in. Now, you know they're not going to do it with a '60s and '70s station, but two of the stations standing in their way you've just named. So, if they can do just well enough to lower the ratings of those two stations, then Wolfie bubbles closer to the top.
radiodx said:
From what I've been told, they're all staying.
I'm convinced with this move that this is the end of the oldies format in Nashville.
Just like when WCBS switch formats in NYC last year, this move signals
the revolution to take oldies out of FM in America.
I listened to it myself. It sounded a lot better, but if it doesen't get them into the
top 5, next year they might try polka for all i know. ;D
Just like when WCBS switch formats in NYC last year, this move signals
the revolution to take oldies out of FM in America.
I listened to it myself. It sounded a lot better, but if it doesen't get them into the
top 5, next year they might try polka for all i know. ;D
oldvnewschool said:
Well, in Nashville proper, yes. But if you live or are visiting anywhere between southernmost Davidson County and the Alabama line, you can pick up WKOM 101.7 out of Columbia. They carry ABC's excellent Oldies network, although it was much better when Jim Zippo anchored their mornings, it's still very well done. Just ignore the local news and swap 'n' shop shows.
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C'mon on Romer, I'm expecting big things out of WAMB! Now that WRQQ has moved from '50s, '60s, and '70s to '60s, '70s, and '80s, I'm expecting WAMB to move from '20s, '30s, and '40s to '30s, '40s, and '50s! Can't wait to hear All Shook Up on 1240, er, 1160, er, 1200, er, 900, wherever the heck they are these days!
I am just waiting for RomerRadio to hit the air with 75 multi-channel capacity and play nothing
but songs from a specific year. He can VT most of them and be live on about 12 when he's not
sleeping and they all will sound better than WRQQ. Interesting how everyone now knows 10 year
old calls by heart. Geez.
but songs from a specific year. He can VT most of them and be live on about 12 when he's not
sleeping and they all will sound better than WRQQ. Interesting how everyone now knows 10 year
old calls by heart. Geez.
Has anyone heard who might be flipping to OLDIES on Monday? Who should??
I'm guessing no one will flip to Oldies. After all, "Hits of the '60s and '70s" are still oldies. Jack is full of oldies. The Rock plays rock oldies.RadioWarrior said:
Do you mean '50s & '60s type oldies? WKOM 101.7 plays those oldies, if you can pick up that station. How about real old oldies. That's WAMB. So there's a lot of oldies out there. (I'd also like to get in a jab at Lightning and say it's only for old hippies, but it doesn't seem to work in this context...).
Plus, the folks most people around here identify most with Oldies are still at WRQQ. No, I'm guessing no one flips to Oldies as we've known it, unless one of the local fringe signals now playing country wants to switch now.
Who should flip to Oldies? 106.7, but then that puts two variations on oldies stations in the Cumulus stable, so don't count on that. 102.5, but I would think selling Oldies and Buzz together would be too much of a stretch. I wish 105.1 could go back to oldies, but it won't under Salem ownership.
I'd only expect to hear Oldies again when an HD2 channel cranks it up...
How about Oldies on WGFX? Looks like everything on 97.1 is mid 70s-early 80s.
I have heard some earlier hits - "Help Me Rhonda," "A Hard Day's Night," some old Motown. WAY too much Rolling Stones!
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From reading what they said on their web site:
http://www.rockinhits971.com and listening to the music I'm beginning to think that this may be less of a change but rather putting a new paint job on the old car.I heard some stuff like queen's boheamian rapserty which is something they were not playing before. What surprised me was hearing the song which I'm not sure of the name but one line in the song says "Who put the ram in the ramalama dingdong." I haven't heard any Beach Boys yet.
I guess time will tell and we'll hear what regular programming sounds like on Tuesday. Maybe they have a local show in the evenings again.
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From reading what they said on their web site:
http://www.rockinhits971.com and listening to the music I'm beginning to think that this may be less of a change but rather putting a new paint job on the old car.I heard some stuff like queen's boheamian rapserty which is something they were not playing before. What surprised me was hearing the song which I'm not sure of the name but one line in the song says "Who put the ram in the ramalama dingdong." I haven't heard any Beach Boys yet.
I guess time will tell and we'll hear what regular programming sounds like on Tuesday. Maybe they have a local show in the evenings again.
Has anyone heard who might be flipping to OLDIES on Monday? Who should??
Two questions...one answer: NO ONE.
Two questions...one answer: NO ONE.
PaulO said:
THat was "Who Put The Bomp" by Barry Mann. .. while I like that song, it goes too far back for the demo they're trying to capture. It shouldn't br played on that station -- ever! And I mean that right from the bottom of my boogedy-boogedy shoop.
I agree about the Rolling Stones!
A little stones in fine but I hear them every time I turn it on. I hear THREE Stones cuts in the first three hours of the flip. Steve Dickert, are you reading this?
A little stones in fine but I hear them every time I turn it on. I hear THREE Stones cuts in the first three hours of the flip. Steve Dickert, are you reading this?
As a card-carrying member of the over-50 set I can say that I truly hate the new WRQQ format. Musicians wisely worked really hard in the 50's and 60's to produce enough good music so that we wouldn't have to listen to the 70's crap. (If you ever wondered why your algebra teacher spent so much effort in teaching you about negative numbers, it was so you could have a way to measure the interest I have in '70's and '80's music.)
I know it's supposed to be a hard-headed business decision on the part of the radio station so they can cater to a younger demographic. What amuses me about that is that the decision was probably made by a twenty-something radio ad exec who doesn't know any over-fifty people, so they must be dead already.
What they haven't considered (apparently) is that we are the "paid-off" generation. Our houses are paid off, our cars are paid off, our kids are paid off, and we have all the disposable income that a radio advertiser might want.
So what do they do - cater to a group a half-generation younger than us who still have a mortgage (or two), car payments, and kids in college - and are in debt up to their eyes. Let the radio advertisers scramble for their (limited) funds, I won't listen to their station. I can't prove it, but I think I speak for a lot of people in my generation (the early baby-boomers).
Also, in addition to having lots of money, we are the most populous. Soooo, the radio station deliberately discards the most people with the most money. (That's one business plan I'd like to see!)
If someone wakes up and (re)starts a real Oldies Station, I'll gladly listen, otherwise I won't.
I know it's supposed to be a hard-headed business decision on the part of the radio station so they can cater to a younger demographic. What amuses me about that is that the decision was probably made by a twenty-something radio ad exec who doesn't know any over-fifty people, so they must be dead already.
What they haven't considered (apparently) is that we are the "paid-off" generation. Our houses are paid off, our cars are paid off, our kids are paid off, and we have all the disposable income that a radio advertiser might want.
So what do they do - cater to a group a half-generation younger than us who still have a mortgage (or two), car payments, and kids in college - and are in debt up to their eyes. Let the radio advertisers scramble for their (limited) funds, I won't listen to their station. I can't prove it, but I think I speak for a lot of people in my generation (the early baby-boomers).
Also, in addition to having lots of money, we are the most populous. Soooo, the radio station deliberately discards the most people with the most money. (That's one business plan I'd like to see!)
If someone wakes up and (re)starts a real Oldies Station, I'll gladly listen, otherwise I won't.
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