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New 92 leaving us?

Whatever format it is, it will be well executed and heavily promoted with TV and print, with live personalities during the daytime hours.

::)
 
From what I heard this morning, it sounded like the same old song from them. They need to be refreshed somehow, definitely not Charlie James in the morning.
 
I hadn't listened very long this morning. Audio processor is cranked to 11. If I knew country music, I might be able to figure out if the music mix is different, but I don't... for better or worse.
 
I hope that's not true about Charlie. He's a great guy. This could be a sign of things to come as stations get tuned for the fall, though. Word out of the Kirkman camp is that the Moms are on deathwatch.
 
In some ways I see no real difference in the music mix with New 92 and WCOS. I just find Charlie boring or monotonous at times and think he is trying to hard and let's face it the entire thing with radio is chaning because mostly I listen to ineternet radio and am sure i am not the only one because radio here in Columbia as a rule stinks, where it sounds much better in other cities.
 
Lhsh said:
In some ways I see no real difference in the music mix with New 92 and WCOS. I just find Charlie boring or monotonous at times and think he is trying to hard and let's face it the entire thing with radio is chaning because mostly I listen to ineternet radio and am sure i am not the only one because radio here in Columbia as a rule stinks, where it sounds much better in other cities.
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Amen, Columbia radio needs a wake up call. By the way, New 92 is still on the air as country.
 
Not only is New 92 still country, the audio processor is cranked to 11+. I guess there's a requirement that you have to balance things out in a cluster, because 94.3 sounds like mud after about 2 months of sounding pretty decent. Must be the "big changes" Tim Miller spoke of.
 
This used to be a pretty decent market back int he day, but now it is corporate run stuff that has been so dumbed down that it is pathetic and that includes the heritege stations of WCOS-FM and WNOK.
 
Just talked with someone who claims to be in the know that New 92 is flipping very soon. Looks as if they are targeting 40-plus with both stations.
 
Bugz said:
Just talked with someone who claims to be in the know that New 92 is flipping very soon. Looks as if they are targeting 40-plus with both stations.
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Hmm, interesting. Hot AC maybe? Or does that skew too young these days?
 
Hot AC is 25-54 and probably leaning younger than that.

If they are going some form of AC, they'd go from being the 2nd Country station to being the 3-4th AC. Just as WWNQ is the 2nd Classic Rock and 4th gold-based station in the market (behind WTCB, WOMG, and WLTY, all of which are heavily gold-based).

If it were me, a flanker CHR is the ticket. As I have said before, glad it's not my money.
 
Why not go Hot AC? The only thing close to it is XRY, and with that hairdryer of a stick, it would never be competition to even WWNQ's 3K signal!
 
Funny Pete.

The numbers don't work with a Hot AC. First, you have TCB, which can and will shift warmer. You have WLTY, which has a format which will allow them to shift warmer. And they will. Then you have WNOK, which is the sole CHR. Particularly since CHR is adopting a lot of the AAA/Hot AC stuff, it will also shift. Thus any straight-ahead Hot AC will be in a three-way squeeze and the numbers for WWNQ will remain exactly they where they are. I've seen a 3-way AC battle in this town before. 1990-1992, and that's how it played out between TCB/SCQ/AAS. TCB was the front runner. SCQ was the mid-pack. And AAS, well, September 1992 is changed to rock.

Thinking solely in transmitter power (which matters less than you think these days):

WTCB - 100k Class C
WNOK - 100k Class C (Effectively, its a DA with less than that)
WLTY - 25k Class C
WWNQ - 2750w Class A
WWNU - 25k Class C (directional, with the antenna mounted incorrectly - or at least it was)
 
The Rock Spectrum is covered. Urban is covered. AC is covered. Sports is covered. The only void I can see is FM Talk. Charlotte, Greenville, Myrtle Beach all have it. Maybe some other markets I'm missing. what do you guys think?
 
According to All Access,

92.1 shifts to Carolina 92.1, soft AC with Tim Miller on mornings. Charlie James is out the door.

94.3 remaining as Classic Hits but coming off the bird and rebranding as 94.3 the River. Resembling Cox's River Atlanta? Who knows?

Soft AC is a good flanker move. A real slow build, however. Of course, it depends on how Soft they are. WCEZ 93.5 with Format 41 did exceptionally well back in the day with a disgustingly saccharine soft AC. If they are too uptempo and current, there's WTCB.

Supposedly all live and local airstaffs.
 
I remember Star 93.5 and when I came into town was all I listened to because it was AC enough but prefer the softer side of AC and if we could get a River format much like in Atlanta would be nice too.
 
DudeFan said:
According to All Access,

92.1 shifts to Carolina 92.1, soft AC with Tim Miller on mornings. Charlie James is out the door.

94.3 remaining as Classic Hits but coming off the bird and rebranding as 94.3 the River. Resembling Cox's River Atlanta? Who knows?

Soft AC is a good flanker move. A real slow build, however. Of course, it depends on how Soft they are. WCEZ 93.5 with Format 41 did exceptionally well back in the day with a disgustingly saccharine soft AC. If they are too uptempo and current, there's WTCB.

Supposedly all live and local airstaffs.
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Isn't this what Lite 96.7 was?? Columbia could use a real AC, though. WTCB is strange.
 
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