Both of those stations have been trending up but have not seen the kind of sudden dramatic increase that WABE has.
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
PPM’s 10/4
- Thread starter 101tm
- Start date
Keep in mind The Fan is the only station carrying the Braves games this year. No more WNNX to split the audience.
Cumulus tried All News, News Talk, and ALL Talk (with mostly conservative hosts) on 106.7. They failed. The cloud company sold 106.7 (and several other stations) to K Love right after getting out of bankruptcy. I doubt anybody will try a new news / talk station with a good signal for a long time in Atlanta. The Rock 100.5 saga of mismanagement continues.
Are you serious?
Bon Jovi into Five Finger Death Punch? Queen (a band I dislike for Active Rock radio) into Falling in Reverse (a new band who isn't very good)? Playing stiffs from Godsmack's album of two or three years go over - and over - and over? Ignoring tons of great songs from the 90's and 00's yet playing the same handful of tired artists & songs from the 80s over and over alongside obscure newer stuff from bands that will go nowhere?
Why does the station play "Fear Inoculum" by Tool once or twice a day for weeks and weeks on end but NONE of the band's classics? They should be playing Prison Sex, Sober, Stinkfist, Aenema, H. or Schism.
The playlist construction is lousy.
I will say the station in recent weeks seems more willing to play a greater helping of the "heavy" stuff, which I appreciate, but overall, the playlist leaves something to be desired.
I did note the amount of music played during the afternoon show recently was increased in a significant way. Interesting. Instead of 4 songs an hour, about 7 - 8 songs an hour are now being played.
Last edited:
I can't speak to the song scheduling and placement, but most of the song titles suit me just fine. Full disclosure: I lean much more toward Classic Rock and Classic Alt, but I'm trying to keep up with as much new music as I can stomach as a future geezer.
I always found it unusual when they played currents or more pop-leaning alt into classic rock. I guess the research shows the core is probably in classic rock, but playing two songs that are more on the edge in terms of sound/genre into each other consistently seems a bit risky for PPM because it’s less likely that someone likes both of those types songs.
The rotation of currents is much better than it used to be, but it’s still a bit uneven in terms of plays and exposure from looking at the mediabase spin grid. That’s my take on the music scheduling side from the outside looking in, but I can’t say more because I can’t see the research/M-score.
The rotation of currents is much better than it used to be, but it’s still a bit uneven in terms of plays and exposure from looking at the mediabase spin grid. That’s my take on the music scheduling side from the outside looking in, but I can’t say more because I can’t see the research/M-score.
I like the 90s at noon. Need to just keep this in rotation all day. Sounds like TOSOTR during the noon hour. I think a classic alternative format would do well here. TOSOTR is a great station but is on a weak translator up in Chateau Elan.
I point to KPNT 105.7 The Point. Great mix of alternative and active rock. No classic rock. Oh and did I mention one of the top, if not the top rated modern rock stations in the country.
I’m not sure if any of you listen to or ever travel to Greenville/Spartanburg, but I think something similar to X98.5 in Greenville would work in Atlanta. It’s an alt with pretty dang good variety and they go as far back as the early 90s on occasion. It’s on a translator but does quite well. Way better than 99X at 98.9 or Radio/Alt 105.7 ever sounded.
KPNT and KSHE both do it right. Gosh I miss living near the Lou.
You could always listen to their streams....or move back?
This all day long!
I have noticed that 97.1 HD2 (TOSOTR) isn't showing up either, as a translator, the HD subchannel or stream. This surprises me. Is Cox putting too much energy into classic alt? I enjoy it, but is there a palpable ROI?
You hit that on the head. Zero happening. And it goes for Cox's other translator at 93.5 and Chuck too for that matter. Does anyone work there? What a waste of spectrum. If there was ever an argument for going back to a station limit per ownership, it's what Cox has done with those three signals.
Well, it's kind of hard to show up in the Atlanta ratings when your signal can't be heard in Atlanta.
I suppose the stream or HD2 could show up, but you're referencing spectrum space.
I've thought for a while that Star HD2 could get some ratings if it were on a fairly small FM signal, e.g. 102.5. (I'm not suggesting that 102.5 change, just using its signal as an example.) It could be run on the cheap, possibly with a morning host there only for the time and temperature.
I find the format interesting because it's much more pop than the direction in which Classic Hits stations such as WLS-FM and WCBS-FM are going. Most of them play rock-leaning hits with the exception of Michael Jackson and a few others. FOX-FM, the translator at 102.1, has a playlist analogous to what most Classic Hits (former Oldies stations) are doing.
The B98.5 HD2 subchannel has migrated from soft AC to something similar to Star HD2.
The WRAS 88.5 HD3 subchannel (the HD2 subchannel is Album 88) has a 70s AM gold format similar to the old Lake 102 before they flipped to La Raza Regional Mexican.
WBCX, the Brenau class A college radio station in Gainesville at 89.1, plays 80s pop on automation when there isn't any featured programming.
"Good time oldies" is as dead as a terrestrial format in ATL as nostalgia (MOYL, etc.) is.
- Status