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No more Star 94.......Welcome to the new Star 94.1

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Rick Rose 2.0

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The website and social media presence has already been updated, yet on the air I am hearing Star 94 still as always since November 16th 1989. Its been one of my stations since the 80s even as 94Q. Anyway since Jeff & Jenn do not debut until 7am, I would assume the new updated name will also start at that time on the air. I'm going to have to listen online since I'm on vacation.

When Star 94 debuted most stations had not started using the complete frequency. No other station was using a 94 but now The Bull and Streetz use a 94 in their branding. Star can now be found at star941atlanta.com
 
Rick Rose 2.0 said:
The website and social media presence has already been updated, yet on the air I am hearing Star 94 still as always since November 16th 1989. Its been one of my stations since the 80s even as 94Q. Anyway since Jeff & Jenn do not debut until 7am, I would assume the new updated name will also start at that time on the air. I'm going to have to listen online since I'm on vacation.

When Star 94 debuted most stations had not started using the complete frequency. No other station was using a 94 but now The Bull and Streetz use a 94 in their branding. Star can now be found at star941atlanta.com
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Who cares.....................
 
Morning show has a definite "Bob and Sheri"-type feel; making me wonder if Star has moved fully in the direction of a WLNK in Charlotte-type station. Heavy talk mornings and afternoons has largely been put to bed in the PPM era, so I'll be interested in the potential success of this strategy.
 
It's weird that i was not able to stream the station from the web site and still cant. I downloaded the station app on my phone and it works.
 
Rick Rose 2.0 said:
When Star 94 debuted most stations had not started using the complete frequency. No other station was using a 94 but now The Bull and Streetz use a 94 in their branding. Star can now be found at star941atlanta.com
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Yeah, you had Z93 (not 92.9 The Game), Peach 95 FM (not Peach 94.9/94.9 The Bull), 96 Rock (not Project/Power 96.1), Fox 97 (not the NEW 97.1 The River), and Y106 and Wide 107 before that (not Y/Eagle/AGH/All News/NewsRadio 106.7)

The two exceptions seem to be V-103 (the oldest moniker on the ATL FM dial, dating back to 1977) and Q100 (which had to drop the '.5' when they moved from 100.5 to 99.7). And of course we know about B98.5 (circa 1985) and Cox v. Susquehanna.
 
atlradio16 said:
Morning show has a definite "Bob and Sheri"-type feel; making me wonder if Star has moved fully in the direction of a WLNK in Charlotte-type station. Heavy talk mornings and afternoons has largely been put to bed in the PPM era, so I'll be interested in the potential success of this strategy.
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I'd thought that might be the case, but I can see it's not.

Entercom's Hot AC in Portland, OR has Daria & Mitch, and it gives that station a morning show in afternoon drive. However, Drex, Cassiday & Tingle in afternoons is a lot different than in mornings. Star is trying to have it both ways, letting them do some bits but keeping it a music-intensive show. And Star is promoting "Jeff & Jenn in the morning and then 10 songs in a row all day," making me wonder whether Drex, Cassiday & Tingle will still be with the stations when their current (and probably pretty substantial) contracts expire.
 
Apparently from what I am seeing people are happy to have two familiar faces back on Atlanta radio. I really hope Star 94's #s go up, and up! I hope it's Power 96.1 vs. Star 94 when it's all said and done. I just really don't find anything special about Q100...I mean Cumulus. They are a company that puts things to a shame. Maybe its me but I feel like the small market stations like in Mobile, Huntsville do well with Cumulus.

Any thoughts on Power 96.1 and what they are going to do? Something to compete head on with the new Star morning show? If so, smart move in iHeart to take note.
 
The Cloud Company did well in small markets with a business plan of run it as cheaply as possible and pull the dollars out - it's the only game in town. In those places where it isn't the only game in town, they've had their collective ass handed to them. The Bert Show is the Q100 franchise, the rest isn't competitive. And, he knows it. Common comment around the hallways, "Bert's crazy. But he ain't stupid." It will be interesting to see how the changes play out.
 
Star 94.1 said that they changed practically everything... tell me about it. ;)

They even changed the pitch of their music, which is a bad thing to me. I liked the pitch the way it was. STAR 94.1, at least keep some things the same, like the pitch of your music! For now, the only Atlanta station I like is WWPW-FM (96.1), even though they change the pitch of their music on iHeart from time to time. I wonder what their actual broadcast (HD Radio/Analog FM) in Atlanta sounds like, aside the local Atlanta area commercials instead of the nationwide commercials used on all stations they own?
 
I think the first two days of the show were rough to put it kindly. You want to give a new show the benefit of the doubt, but boy oh boy did they spend a lot of time talking about how great they were going to be and how funny the show will be instead of just being great and being funny from the start. Imagine if CBS teased a new sitcom coming on in the fall and the first two episodes the cast just sat around and talked about how great the sitcom would be, you'd never watch again. I think this week was an opportunity squandered by not hitting the ground running Thursday morning at 5:30. I'm not sure who coached them to do it this way - or if they even take coaching from the program director. I think the GM pulled most of the strings on putting this one together.

I don't have anything against Jeff or Jen Hobby - I don't know either of them. I do know that it ain't easy to lead a compelling topical morning show every single day. Lots of people think they can do it, but there are only a dozen shows in the nation that are truly great. Just being on the Bert Show for over a decade doesn't automatically make your show a good one. It takes prep, effort, strategy, planning etc.. The names will generate interest for a few weeks, but if there's nothing there to hold their attention, once the novelty has worn off the listeners will go back to where they came from. It's going to take a lot more than winging it to get them to #1. (or even to 10th)

I wish them all the luck in the world. Hopefully they can turn it around.
 
DoctorRadio997 said:
I think the first two days of the show were rough to put it kindly. You want to give a new show the benefit of the doubt, but boy oh boy did they spend a lot of time talking about how great they were going to be and how funny the show will be instead of just being great and being funny from the start. Imagine if CBS teased a new sitcom coming on in the fall and the first two episodes the cast just sat around and talked about how great the sitcom would be, you'd never watch again. I think this week was an opportunity squandered by not hitting the ground running Thursday morning at 5:30. I'm not sure who coached them to do it this way - or if they even take coaching from the program director. I think the GM pulled most of the strings on putting this one together.

I don't have anything against Jeff or Jen Hobby - I don't know either of them. I do know that it ain't easy to lead a compelling topical morning show every single day. Lots of people think they can do it, but there are only a dozen shows in the nation that are truly great. Just being on the Bert Show for over a decade doesn't automatically make your show a good one. It takes prep, effort, strategy, planning etc.. The names will generate interest for a few weeks, but if there's nothing there to hold their attention, once the novelty has worn off the listeners will go back to where they came from. It's going to take a lot more than winging it to get them to #1. (or even to 10th)

I wish them all the luck in the world. Hopefully they can turn it around.
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Lets just cut to the chase. TERRESTRIAL RADIO IS DEAD...........
 
max100 said:
Lets just cut to the chase. TERRESTRIAL RADIO IS DEAD...........
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Oh trust me, its far from dead. There is no good alternative, internet is losing now thanks to the hiked up rates and XM continues to be a joke. You can't beat free and reliable.
 
I agree with LibertyNT. Radio is hardly dead and it's going to be around for quite a while longer. I do believe it will morph into something different but it is still a good way to get content from provider to user, albeit in only one direction. I have heard engineering types talk about the "connected" radio, where the programming listeners receive is digital RF and the internet is used for gathering metadata for the content providers. Radio receivers could become very efficient for advertisers and profitable for broadcasters with such a setup.
BigA, and others have said it before - radio is giving the majority of people what they want. Market forces will see to that. Your problem is actually the American public's taste for all things trumpist!
 
Is it just me or is Star 94 sounding more CHR'ish? Little in the way of pre 2010 music (if any) and excluding hip hop, it seems to be playing everything Q100 and Power is playing. Granted, I'm not a Top 40 person but every time it seems I flip over to Star 94, they are playing the same thing as Q100.
 
acheron82 said:
Is it just me or is Star 94 sounding more CHR'ish? Little in the way of pre 2010 music (if any) and excluding hip hop, it seems to be playing everything Q100 and Power is playing. Granted, I'm not a Top 40 person but every time it seems I flip over to Star 94, they are playing the same thing as Q100.
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You are right. I wouldn't say Star plays everything that Q and Power play, but they've put some distance between their current playlist and their old slogan, "Today's hits without the rap."
 
Jonathan7157 said:
Star 94.1 said that they changed practically everything... tell me about it. ;)

They even changed the pitch of their music, which is a bad thing to me. I liked the pitch the way it was. STAR 94.1, at least keep some things the same, like the pitch of your music! For now, the only Atlanta station I like is WWPW-FM (96.1), even though they change the pitch of their music on iHeart from time to time. I wonder what their actual broadcast (HD Radio/Analog FM) in Atlanta sounds like, aside the local Atlanta area commercials instead of the nationwide commercials used on all stations they own?
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I'm listening to Star right now, but it sounds like a normal pitch to me.
 
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