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question about the rock on 96

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AMCM

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While I was at lunch this afternoon Project 961 began playing The Charlie Daniels Band's Devil Went Down To Georgia. I checked my radio to make sure I hadn't bump it to one of the 48 country stations on the dial.

I know old 96 played garbage like Lynard Skynard, but since when was Charlie Daniels considered (hard) rock? Now that Rock 100 is here is 961 trying to branch out? It made absolutly no sense to me.
 
charlie daniels was known as country rock at that time.to try to appease 96rock fans after destroying the best station in atlanta and turning it to a whinney nonmusic playing station the idiot known as deskins plays some real rock music everynow and then.but it isnt working we all left when the music got incredibly awful.

and as for as your skynyrd remark,they still ell out shows after 30 years something corn wont do.
 
glock509 said:
and as for as your skynyrd remark,they still ell out shows after 30 years something corn wont do.
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What about peas and carrots? Or the band broccoli?

What can I say? I hate Skynard. They've never been my cup of tea and never will be. Glad you like them. I still don't see the point of playing Charlie Daniels. Might as well throw in some Alabama and Kenny Chesney for good measure.
 
deadman said:
Chris Williams crashing the format... sweet.
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Wrong. Marc Chase. You seem to overestimate the power of the modern program director.

...fire on the mountain run boys run!
 
AMCM said:
While I was at lunch this afternoon Project 961 began playing The Charlie Daniels Band's Devil Went Down To Georgia. I checked my radio to make sure I hadn't bump it to one of the 48 country stations on the dial.

I know old 96 played garbage like Lynard Skynard, but since when was Charlie Daniels considered (hard) rock? Now that Rock 100 is here is 961 trying to branch out? It made absolutly no sense to me.
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I have to admit this is even weirder than the few minutes I tried to listen yesterday around lunchtime. Homeless since 99X, I gave them a shot again. seether, tool, so things were cool, I'm thinking maybe projects gotten better. then they played Ac/DC. I am suprised they didn't throw some Beatles and Elvis in there too.
guess to make up for that oversight they had to throw in charlie daniels band today?
 
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" belongs at the Laser Show at Stone Mountain Park not on the Project. The Project has an opportunity with 99X out of the mix and Rock 100.5 mixing it up from old to new. I say nothing played from before 1980 (which does eliminate Led Zeppelin, the Charlie Daniels Band, & even Jerry Reed on Friday afternoons). Stick with the Van Halen, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi type artists if Project's to continue playing an older track every hour. Lay off the Nickelback. Would prefer to hear Creed over Nickelback if I had a choice.

Project also needs to resurrect the old 96 Rock favorite "the Perfect Album Side" (of course, call it something new). Allow listeners to submit their list of 6 songs to be played with a prize to be offered if it is played. 96 Rock ran this promotion for many years and I feel this type of gimmick can work again.
 
The programming geniuses at Project 9-sucks-1 also play American Woman and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here--both of which fit in really well after a song by Tool or Slipknot. [/sarcasm]
 
Y'all are right on target. I'm sorry, but 18-34's do NOT tend to want Led Zep or many of the classic "active" artists. It makes absolutely no sense to play these kinds of artists on a station that features Korn & Seether. There's ZERO compatibility.

18-34 men DO have money to spend, and the spend it on electronics, car gadgets, etc, so it's not that this group is poison to advertisers.

What's poison is adding old artists that simply do not fit.

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Sykotik Monkey said:
AMCM said:
While I was at lunch this afternoon Project 961 began playing The Charlie Daniels Band's Devil Went Down To Georgia. I checked my radio to make sure I hadn't bump it to one of the 48 country stations on the dial.

I know old 96 played garbage like Lynard Skynard, but since when was Charlie Daniels considered (hard) rock? Now that Rock 100 is here is 961 trying to branch out? It made absolutly no sense to me.
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I have to admit this is even weirder than the few minutes I tried to listen yesterday around lunchtime. Homeless since 99X, I gave them a shot again. seether, tool, so things were cool, I'm thinking maybe projects gotten better. then they played Ac/DC. I am suprised they didn't throw some Beatles and Elvis in there too.
guess to make up for that oversight they had to throw in charlie daniels band today?
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I jumped to DAVE-FM... it sounds like souped up Organic X 24/7, but it's way better then Project 9-SUX-1.
 
upstate29651 said:
18-34 men DO have money to spend, and the spend it on electronics, car gadgets, etc, so it's not that this group is poison to advertisers.
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Yes, but a big chunk of this demo (the lower end) doesn't even listen to the radio anymore. So it seems like 9-Sucks-1 is fighting a losing battle right out of the gate.
 
upstate29651 said:
18-34 men ...
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You seem to be assuming that's their target audience, when I'd say the playlist indicates otherwise.

I'd guess it's more like 25-39 or maybe even something like 25-44.

And when my nearly 41 y/o self looks at the music I own plus the music I've bought over the past 2-3 years, I'd say they probably aren't missing one of those targets all that badly (within the rock niche at least). They frequently go too light musically at times for my taste and they seem to be afraid to play some of the stuff that would probably be a better fit with their 80s-90s cuts (Airbourne "Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast for example) but for the first time in years they've managed to get back into my regular listening rotation.

Contrary to what some on this forum seem to think, the only options are not all-classic or all-new. 96 Rock played both in their prime and it seems as though Project tries to do the same (albeit not as successfully blending the different niches as well to this point).
 
Given that playlists, rotations, etc. are completely created by computer now, rather than a person who used to plan what songs to play and when, does anyone at any radio station actually ever look at a computer-generated playlist and say "Comfortably Numb" should never follow Korn and change it? I read these boards all the time, and I think, like with everything in life, stations rely on computers so much that human common-sense goes missing in this area too. Just a thought from a long-time lurker but first-time poster.
 
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