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Protest to bring back K-Rock this Saturday

SoulCrusher said:
I hate to break it to Press, but I think the people they are so desperate to reach now are going to stick with their beloved Z-100, WKTU or 92.3 Now - they all come in crystal clear at most Shore points.
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The only reason KTU is even mentioned in the Jersey Shore is because Pulse 87 goes as far as Keansburg, Sandy Hook, and the rest of the Northern Monmouth coast and 96.7 Party is an internet only station. I was lucky a couple weeks ago to pick up Pulse in Asbury, since Philly's WPVI audio usually is crystal clear.
 
MarcR said:
K-Rock, unlike G-Rock and Y-100, wasn't even an Alt-Rock station, so I still don't see the point of your protest. It might make more sense to protest outside of 'RXP since they don't seem to care that most of their listeners, if message boards are a reliable indicator, want them to drop the boomer dinosaur rock that comprises way too much of their sound.
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True story: I actually attended an RXP listener panel. I was (at age 25) the YOUNGEST person in the room. It was mainly a parade of old-time rockers wishing that the station employed a free-form Dj-brings-their-vinyl-collection and sets up shop to spin the deep cuts. However, the only thing we all agreed on was that they should focus on new music and dump the dinasour rock. I happen to think they should dump ALL classic rock (maybe with the exception of The Clash, Replacements, The Cure and other alternative artists that led the way for the 90's alt-rock boom) but I guess who's ever calling the shots over there just won't be able to sleep comfortably at night unless they know the Boston, Aerosmith and Zeppelin fans have a place to go when Q plays commercials.
 
MarcR said:
I think it was David Eduardo that said that both Jack and CBS-FM have the same rating in the coveted under 45 demographic, so I'm not so sure that the revival of CBS-FM has been such a resounding success.
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Who is David Eduardo??
 
I disagree with that statement. Beggars Banquet era Rolling Stones, Revolver-era Beatles, the Who Sell Out era Who, the Bowie Berlin Trilogy, the Pretenders first album, Roxy Music's Country Life and For Your Pleasure, Born-to-Run Bruce Springsteen, Cream, the Greatful Dead -all the way to Shakedown Street all all examples of Classic Rock that has a place on WRXP. Other artists who definitely deserve a spot at the table include Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Elton John, ELO, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, if managed correctly. The problem is that a real modern station would focus on the artists below:


Artists in the Vault:
The Cure
The Clash / BAD
The Smiths
New Order
Talking Heads
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Tom Petty (avoid the hits)
The Police
The (English) Beat / General Public
The The
Echo and the Bunnymen
ABC
Haircut 100
Depeche Mode
Flock of Seagulls
REM
Smithereens
The Stone Roses
U2 (avoid the hits)
The Psychadelic Furs
Gin Blossoms
Nirvana (avoid Nevermind (save Come as You Are, which has been conspicuously neglected by classic rock radio considering ti was the bands first real hit to get played on CHR)
Alice in Chains (Dirt ( middays - avoid the singles, I'd love to hear Rain When I Die on the radio) and Jar of Flies)
Pearl Jam - (Versus only, don't play Daughter or Elderly Woman)
STP - Tiny Music
(do Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine belong on alternative radio?)
(Are RHCP and Foo Fighter to overplayed?)
Weezer
Blur
Soul Asylum
Radiohead (avoid Karma Police, go heavy on the Bends)
Janes Addicition (More Classic Girl, less Been Caught Stealing/Jane Says)
Porno For Pyros
The Cranberries
Screaming Trees
Supergrass
Sublime (Don't Play What I Got)
No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom focus)
Blink 182
The Strokes
The Hives
Death Cab for Cutie
Hot Hot Heat
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Franz Ferdinand
Modest Mouse
Spoon
Arctic Monkeys
Kaiser Chiefs
Kings of Leon
Klaxons
MGMT
Vampire Weekend
 
And there are so many I've missed. Scores really, two that come to mind: Green day and tears for fear for instance.

I think that's the problem facing RXP: ther eis just too much out there to have any meaningful focus.
 
Brooklyndon said:
The problem is that a real modern station would focus on the artists below:
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And maybe there's a problem compounding that problem: to me, a list like that is splitting hairs. It's born of an excessively stratified, nitpicking approach to programming that took root in the musical and music-radio cultural wars of the late 70s and 80s. At best, it may work within the more calculated gradations of satellite--but the travails of XM/Sirius show how even that has its limits, these days.

Unfortunately, as RXP demonstrates and Jack-FM in its way demonstrated as well, at least when it comes to commercial radio, you can't put a looser, more open-ended genie back into the bottle without sounding even more awkward these days. That is, if the kind of hyperspecific artist focus that Brooklyndon delineates seems an artifact of the 80s, it's part of how *all* commercial music radio pigeonhole formattics seem an artifact of the 80s--and especially when it comes to the realm of rock, whose higher-functioning fanbase (i.e. that which an RXP supposedly gestures toward) was among the earliest adaptors to a "post-terrestrial" existence. You're not going to repatriate that bunch; if anything, the momentum's gone the other way, i.e. their post-terrestrial sensibility trickling down to the more general populace.

You might as well be hearkening back to the days of using gobs of Liquid Paper in typewritten term papers...
 
Is anyone aware K-Rock is still around on Hd? Why not just buy an HD radio and have all the K-Rock till you can't stand it no more and be done with it??????
 
timbolv said:
Is anyone aware K-Rock is still around on Hd? Why not just buy an HD radio and have all the K-Rock till you can't stand it no more and be done with it??????
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It's really the continuation of K-Rock 2...the music is nothing like what the "real" K-Rock would air. It is heavily based on new rock with some recurrents, but nothing too old. In my opinion it sounds much better than the "real" K-Rock ever did, but the powers that be never gave the format a shot on conventional radio.
 
K-Rock went away once.... It came back

K-Rock went away again.... It's gone forever

if for Any reason CBS-FM goes away again it will to be gone forever.

Stations rarely get a 2nd Chance. 3rd chance? fuggedaboudit


Time to move on.
 
htowler said:
K-Rock went away once.... It came back

K-Rock went away again.... It's gone forever

if for Any reason CBS-FM goes away again it will to be gone forever.

Stations rarely get a 2nd Chance. 3rd chance? fuggedaboudit


Time to move on.
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I can think of at least one station that got four chances...the old 'LIR...switched over from WDRE in the 90s, then brought back on 107.1 replacing The Box, then brought back to 107.1 again replacing NeoBreeze. Of course, the last two reincarnations were on a frequency barely anyone can hear, so almost no one noticed! Wonder if they'll bring it back a fifth time in case something goes wrong with the LMA deal they have with ESPN. ;D
 
this may a bit off topic, but I think that a BCN type of rocker in NY would have worked. A rock station with an alternative lean. How come CBS couldn't have taken the cheap way out and make a similar BCN carbon copy playlist in NY?
 
Hardrocker9 said:
this may a bit off topic, but I think that a BCN type of rocker in NY would have worked. A rock station with an alternative lean. How come CBS couldn't have taken the cheap way out and make a similar BCN carbon copy playlist in NY?
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Isn't that what K-rock was in the late 90's. It basically was between Active Rock and Alternative meaning they'd play Sugar Ray yet play Limp Bizkit (Sugar Ray was still getting airplay on alternative stations in the late 90's).
 
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