Oldies 107.9 FM

[radioho]

We don't have enough stations to do all the formats, when you have more than 1 classic rock station, country station, and religious stations. So the market needs more stations if your going to have 2 - 3 stations playing the same stuff over and over.

If only one station per format it would be very dull. Competition makes for better formatting. The lame country stations in Indy play such a huge variety that no way either can interest all day. While driving, my guess is most people that listen to country flip back and forth, same with classic rock, etc.

 

[radioho]

Gee! just what everyone wants. 3 Country stations. All the stations should just start duplicating
each other. Brilliant corporates. Instead of The Wolf, call it Radio India-no-place!

I pods are on sale at Kmart.

Anyone who really knows anything about the business of radio would know, according to the Nielson Company's latest survey -

- 77% of Americans listen to radio EVERY DAY!
- CD listeners ONLY at 35%
- satellite radio is at 15%
- following WAY behind is portable music devices (your KMart iPod) at only 12%

Just because no one wanted to listen to a poorly formated 'classic' rock station does NOT mean it ran everyone off the radio dial.

 

[Radio Dav]

If 107.9 does indeed go country it will be in retaliation for the good folks on Shadeland going CHR on 93.9 to try to take a piece of the ZPL ratings along with some from Radio Now. So Why not try to take some from the piece of the pie from WFMS and Hank FM. they could drag them down, instead of trying to find ad buys as an oldies Station

If 107.9 goes country hopefully 97.1 will focus on 1 side of WFMS, so 107.9 can focus on the other side, if 97.1 does more classic country, 107.9 should do hot country, both stations can put a good squeeze on the WFMS from both ends, a result of damage could happen to WFMS.

I always thought 99.5 would been a better freq. for country because people may get 95.5 and 99.5 confused. With call letters on 99.5 as WMFS or WSMS sounds kinda a like but won't be able to do this with the rating equipment coming soon.

 

[gr8oldies]

As far as Country, what if we did the math? Would Hank grabbing the upper demos, 107.9 taking the young ed, where does that leave WFMS, and would that improve WZPL's position?

 

[Tom Berg]

I interviewed the Bellamy Brothers at the Little Nashville Opry many years ago.

They suggested then that instead of all these splinter country formats (Hot Country, Classic Country and so on) there should be only one format and call it Good Country!

;D

 

[bhorner]

I interviewed the Bellamy Brothers at the Little Nashville Opry many years ago.

They suggested then that instead of all these splinter country formats (Hot Country, Classic Country and so on) there should be only one format and call it Good Country!

;D

Or maybe Big Country! (no, wait a minute.....they're classic rock....)

 

[cspotrun]

I think if I ran a oldies station, would try to find some good local bands to imitate the original artist, sprinkle the local bands into the rotation on a oldies station, so it could try to push the numbers up on the local station playing oldies.

gee, The Beatles OR a "garage band" from Carmel doing covers? tough choice.