Licensed to Taunton and serving Prov and a good chunk of Boston area, Coast 93.3 has become Now with slogan Best Variety of 2k Through Today
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Licensed to Taunton and serving Prov and a good chunk of Boston area, Coast 93.3 has become Now with slogan Best Variety of 2k Through Today
Kinda surprising that WSNE is remaging and branding themelves. I remember from a very long time ago, they were carrying about half of thare that they have now. Back then, they were branding themselves as "mix 93.3, WSNE."
BTW, didn't Kristen Lassard work at one Boston's lackluster Station's at some point?
I remember Davey Morrris being on the air at "92 Pro FM" also. I did not realize that Cumulas was having the same PD for both Pro FM and Hot 106 also.
The last I knew, WWKX had hired a new PD who rebranded the station even a week or two before he had officially landed in Providence, go figure!
In any case, long gone are the days when Paul Cannon was at the PD helm of 92 Pro FM. I miss both "The Rocky Allen Showgram", and "Mike Butts In The Morning." too.That was a real long ago, it is all just nostalgia now.
BTW, didn't Kristen Lassard work at one Boston's lackluster Station's at some point?
I remember Davey Morrris being on the air at "92 Pro FM" also. I did not realize that Cumulas was having the same PD for both Pro FM and Hot 106 also.
The last I knew, WWKX had hired a new PD who rebranded the station even a week or two before he had officially landed in Providence, go figure!
In any case, long gone are the days when Paul Cannon was at the PD helm of 92 Pro FM. I miss both "The Rocky Allen Showgram", and "Mike Butts In The Morning." too.That was a real long ago, it is all just nostalgia now.
I can imagine most ACs going this route in the next few years. 2000-present is a whole lot more contemporary than the MTV-years-to-today mix I hear on ACs locally and in my travels. Goodbye, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," at last?
Licensed to Taunton and serving Prov and a good chunk of Boston area, Coast 93.3 has become Now with slogan Best Variety of 2k Through Today
And yet Magic 106.7 is embracing the 80's genre. What is Lite 105 playing these days?
Probably sounds a lot like WEZN (Star 99.9), which I was listening to a few hours ago and heard a song set including "I Will Wait" -- Mumford & Sons, All I Know So Far -- Pink, and Yeah -- Usher. Certainly a lot more "contemporary" than the ACs that are still playing MTV-era nuggets like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," for sure.
Licensed to Taunton and serving Prov and a good chunk of Boston area, Coast 93.3 has become Now with slogan Best Variety of 2k Through Today
Sorry about the nearly redundant posts just now. I didn't think I'd sent the first one. And like so many others, I have run into one of this site's few shortcomings: no easy way to delete or even overwrite slip-ups like this.
Same old, same old. Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul ...
I do not know, the last couple of times that I have overheard them, such as at a restaurant or something. They seemed to be playing some actually fresh 80s music instead. I mean of course standards such as "Manic Monday" still lose their flavor after awhile, however, nonetheless!
And on a side note, I have to keep reminding myself that Magic 106.7 and WROR are not under the ownership anymore.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same station. I misread your original post as being about WRCH, Lite 100.5, assuming you were asking about what I was listening to here in Connecticut. But I see now that you wrote "Lite 105." What station is that?
Lite 105 is WWLI, out of Providence, RI. They are an AC station, and has been the perennial leader of the format in the Providence market for decades.
I think they went to the Coast name because for
some reason they couldn't use Sunny.
WROR is proudly 80s And More but they're classic hits.
So from 2k to today, with elimination of 80s...
I graduated college in 84, 36 years ago, so 80s tunes could be called really old hat.
It's like the day in 12 when 103.3 dropped oldies.
I had said "I heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand on their last day.If you were 12 when that first came out, you are now 60"--that is, in 2012 you were 60...and they were dropping oldies/"Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, and now the 80s"
Time marches on.
some reason they couldn't use Sunny.
WROR is proudly 80s And More but they're classic hits.
So from 2k to today, with elimination of 80s...
I graduated college in 84, 36 years ago, so 80s tunes could be called really old hat.
It's like the day in 12 when 103.3 dropped oldies.
I had said "I heard I Wanna Hold Your Hand on their last day.If you were 12 when that first came out, you are now 60"--that is, in 2012 you were 60...and they were dropping oldies/"Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s, and now the 80s"
Time marches on.
FWIW, and I keep on cintemplating starting a new thread on it, however in my mind WROR is still the same station as they was before. They are simply just pkaying more 80's music now. Other than that, *yawn!*
Magic 94.9 in Tampa Bay is also mostly 2000-now, with [late] 90s songs once or twice an hour. So I can also definitely see ACs courting the millennial audience, as well. Either a newer playlist and/or an expanded playlist that includes a select number of classic hip-hop tracks (similar to Magic 107.7 in Orlando).
If ROR is getting good ratings and/or billing with a narrow, stale playlist, they must be fine with it
and listeners who want familiar tunes while driving or working.
and listeners who want familiar tunes while driving or working.
As I mentioned in the other response I posted in error, WEZN Bridgeport is playing both "I Will Wait" and "Yeah." I doubt any ACs that jumped on the Mumford & Sons track in 2012 were already playing the 2004 Usher hit as gold at the time! It sounded very weird to hear them both on WEZN today, with only the current Pink hit as a buffer. But then, I don't spend much time with AC, just a few hours every month to see if anything musically interesting (to me, anyway) might be going on.
Yes, while I do not deny their success for one single minute, it still very much surprises me that a station, which sounds very generic, is the #1 signal in the city! It kinda signifies the entire state of the broadcasting industry in general these days.
No, it signifies the mindset of most non-chart geek, non-radio geek listeners. WROR is giving Boston's listeners who still want to hear 30+-year-old songs in 2021 the songs they love.
BTW, I am duly waiting for a Boston signal to adapt the format that WSNE is now doing. It actually occurred to me only a month ago, that this could fill a hole, and be a viable format here.
The big question almost always remains, who would do it?
I am still not certain of WJMN's future, much less of WBOS's either. Of course, either WWBX could tweak their format, or Audacy could say adios to WBGB instead. Then again, probably not, as long as they still have WMJX on their roster, but as almost always, you never know.
The big question almost always remains, who would do it?
I am still not certain of WJMN's future, much less of WBOS's either. Of course, either WWBX could tweak their format, or Audacy could say adios to WBGB instead. Then again, probably not, as long as they still have WMJX on their roster, but as almost always, you never know.
OK, I will give you that, however it is kind of baffling that almost no other station has attempted to go head strong against them yet. Then again, maybe other stations are, however I barely listen to Boston radio as of late.
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