Q100 Mobile Stunting

[R.D.P.]

Hope Montgomery won't be next for this presentation. 

I don't see it working too well in this area. 

Alex and Q would squash them in the ratings.

Just my two cents on the subject at hand.

R.D.P. <><

 

[Poledo]

Isn't it kind of the same deal with broadcast TV? WEAR focuses almost exclusively on Pensacola, while WPMI, WALA and WKRG are all Mobile-centric. Yet they're all broadcasting from Baldwin County. Heck it may even happen with APT versus WSRE, although I watch WSRE almost exclusively OTA because it's a stronger signal.

That's how it all got screwed up in the first place. When the TV stations built the tall Baldwin county towers the radio stations followed.

Yeah, Mobile is a big city and has 3 TV news stations. It seems strange that Pensacola has only 1 TV news station while Fort Walton has none (hell, they barely get OTA tv in FWB after the digital transition). No one's even tried to compete with WEAR in over a decade. WKRG tried doing Pensacola news on Blab and WBQP-LP last. Much smaller markets like Panama City, Dothan, Tallahassee, Montgomery have 2 news stations... seems like Pensacola and/or Fort Walton could handle another one... or is Sinclair's WEAR just that damn good?

Since Fort Walton wound up in a "white area" for Fox after the DTV transition (Fox from Mobile and Panama City are both on VHF 9) I think it would be smart for someone to buy WFBD and turn it into Fox 48, Destin-Andalusia. WFBD's tower is in a perfect location for a simulcast of WALA with a local newscast.

 

[Kent]

Wasn't "The Dawg" a Clear Channel station? Did Clear Channel not own WKSJ and the Dawg at the same time?

If I remember correctly, Clear Channel first came into the market by taking over the former WKRG AM/FM. I believe they got the Dawg next and picked up WKSJ and 96.1 several years later. I'm thinking they got WKSJ and 96.1 as part of the deal to buy AMFM in '99 as I'm thinking those stations had been owned either by Triathalon or Patterson Broadcasting, both of which got gobbled up by Capstar/AMFM. So, in a nutshell, yes, I believe Clear Channel did own the Dawg and WKSJ at the same time, though they had to swap 104.1 for 104.9 due to either signal overlap or revenue concerns fairly shortly after buying 'KSJ and 96.1. 96.1, by the way, had already become "The Rocket" by the time they got WKSJ. The country format on 96.1 didn't last very long.

And this is just one of those. Cumulus Pensacola's 100.7 is on the same tower and the same height with the same power as Cumulus Mobile's 104.1 Jack FM.

I believe WKSJ is on that tower, too. I suppose there could be several different towers in that area, but I'm thinking WBLX, The Rock and WMEZ are on that tower or in the same tower farm as well.

Putting Cumulus' own variation of Adult Hits on Pensacola's 100.7 and leaving Jack alone doesn't make any sense unless they are trying to take down another station that doesn't exist. This isn't going to hurt WABB... Maybe a minimal hit on 94.1 and 99.9.
Musiconradio pointed out that Jack targets men and Journey will probably target women... but where are they drawing the women from? Jack? Why bother shifting 20% of your audience from one station to another? I just don't get it unless this is a serious swerve or maybe Jack is on the list for a Xmas format spin. The combined Mobile and Pensacola ratings for 100.7 and 104.1 can't go up with these two similar formats.

So very very disappointing.

I'd think they wouldn't be too worried about knocking down Jack in Pensacola, and they're probably well aware that 100.7 won't do much in Mobile, despite their press release asserting the contrary. Of course, I looked at Jack's ratings in Pensacola, and, while not good, it was slightly ahead of WJLQ! So, yeah, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it is Cumulus we're talking about. I worked for that company for a few months, and very little made sense!

 

[TheDingo]

i listened to arrow 100.7 in college ; as well as the 96.1.... i was SHOCKED a market could support two classic rock stations. Wow, i was young. LOL

100.7 has been dead to me ever since they killed arrow, That was the station I grew up with going on vacation to Gulf shores every summer and recording about 10 tapes of it to listen to the rest of the year, I've got about 40 tapes of it from every year it was on except 1994.

 

[Mario500]

I have just heard the switch to the new format under the brand name "Journey 100". I'm not interested.

 

[Nate Wesley]

I have just heard the switch to the new format under the brand name "Journey 100". I'm not interested.

C'mon, Mario. Don't stop believin'!

 

[Poledo]

I have just heard the switch to the new format under the brand name "Journey 100". I'm not interested.

C'mon, Mario. Don't stop believin'!

;D

... and I'm not even interested enough to turn on my radio. One more radio station that will play one good song per hour.

It's kinda interesting that 107.3 tweaked a little today as I don't see Journey's audience overlaping with Urban/CHR.

 

[tomservo]

If anyone is interested, I caught the flip and some of the jingles and posted the mp3 here. This was recorded off the HD feed.

Of note is how lazy Cumulus is; the first several songs played on here were the exact same songs in the exact same order from the Journey flip in Huntsville this morning, which in turn came from the Journey flip in Atlanta a while back. :

 

[whit979]

If anyone is interested, I caught the flip and some of the jingles and posted the mp3 here. This was recorded off the HD feed.

Of note is how lazy Cumulus is; the first several songs played on here were the exact same songs in the exact same order from the Journey flip in Huntsville this morning, which in turn came from the Journey flip in Atlanta a while back. :

Not a whole lot of '90s going on in their first few minutes on the air. Sounds like it was a good 20 minutes before they got to ONE '90s song (Matchbox Twenty - 3 a.m.). I don't know how it'll do long-term, but this sounds like the station I'll hear now when I walk into the Pink Pony Pub.