Radio Greats Weekend on the Breeze

[wmgcbs]

I just scanned the Breeze website at breezeradio.com and saw that on July 20-22, they will be having a "Radio Greats Weekend." It sounds like an old WCBS-FM Radio Reunion Weekend, and I would guess that a good number of hosts that weekend would be former CBS-FM personalities.

Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend and will not be able to hear most of the weekend :'(. However, it sounds like a successful idea from a successful (and easy to listen to) station.

 

[8638]

I just scanned the Breeze website at breezeradio.com and saw that on July 20-22, they will be having a "Radio Greats Weekend." It sounds like an old WCBS-FM Radio Reunion Weekend, and I would guess that a good number of hosts that weekend would be former CBS-FM personalities.

Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend and will not be able to hear most of the weekend :'(. However, it sounds like a successful idea from a successful (and easy to listen to) station.

"Stodgy" old Press just keeps making this station better and better. Pulls good numbers, too. Hmmm....

 

[wmgcbs]

"Stodgy" old Press just keeps making this station better and better. Pulls good numbers, too. Hmmm....

I agree. The Breeze is a great station. Where I live, I get somewhat decent reception, but 107.1 "The Peak" always interferes when I'm in the car. At home, though, I make sure that when I'm in the mood for real, GOOD AC/Classic Hits radio, The Breeze is always on.

I'm quite impressed with the "No Repeat Work Week" and "No Repeat Weekends." I always get a chuckle when I look at the Breeze playlist on YES.com and see ranking numbers in the thousands!

Great job, Breeze, and Mike Fitzgerald, whose programming skills seem to really be making the Breeze special.

Lastly, a correction. It seems that the Radio Greats weekend will be on July 21-22, not 20-22 as originally stated. The Breeze website changed the banner on the home page.

 

[NJMike]

Speaking of radio greats, I heard Bob Shannon (of the old CBS-FM) on The Breeze this past weekend. This got me thinking...Mike Fitzgerald, Bob Shannon, and a "Radio Greats Weekend" coming up...could The Breeze shift to a full-time oldies format sometime in the near future? They would be filling a huge gap that CBS-FM left. By comparison, WMTR here in northern Jersey has made huge gains since the demise of CBS-FM...I'd expect the same type of listeners in Monmouth Co. as there are here in Morris Co. Furthermore, WJRZ does not reach well enough into Monmouth County with their oldies format...their poor signal leaves them trying to pull off a remote broadcast from Pier Village in Long Branch, but this often leaves people confused when they tune to 100.1 in Long Branch and can't get the station very well! This all leads me to believe that The Breeze could really benefit from a shift to full-time LOCAL oldies. No need to change the handle either..."The best songs of all time are on The Breeze!"

 

[Tim the Impounder]

David Hinckley has a great story in the Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...oldies_radio_reunion_to_breeze_through_j.html

 

[tom]

quoting the article ...

"This approach wouldn't work for every station, but it works for us," says Fitzgerald,
noting the Breeze is No. 1 in the Monmouth-Ocean County market.

quoting Arbitron Fall 2006 Monmouth-Ocean 12+ mon-sun 6a-12m
# 1 - WABC
# 2 - WKXW
# 3 - WWZY

how about 25-54 ...
# 1 - WKXW
# 2 - WAXQ
# 3 - WJLK
# 4 - WWZY

hmmmmm

 

[Cary Pall]

I don't see what's so stodgy about a company that birthed NJ 101.5 and Real Radio 104.1 in Orlando. I'd say they were pretty innovative for a newspaper company. Good work, Mike.

 

[mcmannors]

quoting the article ...

"This approach wouldn't work for every station, but it works for us," says Fitzgerald,
noting the Breeze is No. 1 in the Monmouth-Ocean County market.

quoting Arbitron Fall 2006 Monmouth-Ocean 12+ mon-sun 6a-12m
# 1 - WABC
# 2 - WKXW
# 3 - WWZY

how about 25-54 ...
# 1 - WKXW
# 2 - WAXQ
# 3 - WJLK
# 4 - WWZY

hmmmmm

Maybe what Fitzgerald meant to say was that the Breeze is # 1 in Monmouth-Ocean for not playing the same 200 burnt to a crisp songs over and over again. ;D

 

[JerseyShor]

I just scanned the Breeze website at breezeradio.com and saw that on July 20-22, they will be having a "Radio Greats Weekend." It sounds like an old WCBS-FM Radio Reunion Weekend, and I would guess that a good number of hosts that weekend would be former CBS-FM personalities.

Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend and will not be able to hear most of the weekend :'(. However, it sounds like a successful idea from a successful (and easy to listen to) station.

Too bad that nobody living in the 99.7 coverage area was ever able to receive WCBS-FM...

 

[mcmannors]

I just scanned the Breeze website at breezeradio.com and saw that on July 20-22, they will be having a "Radio Greats Weekend." It sounds like an old WCBS-FM Radio Reunion Weekend, and I would guess that a good number of hosts that weekend would be former CBS-FM personalities.

Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend and will not be able to hear most of the weekend :'(. However, it sounds like a successful idea from a successful (and easy to listen to) station.

Too bad that nobody living in the 99.7 coverage area was ever able to receive WCBS-FM...

Isn't there a large number of people who live in southern Ocean county who used to live in northern New Jersey at one time or another? If so, they would remember CBS-FM, or at the very least, WABC, where many of those jocks worked in the 60's and 70's.

 

[CHJ1950]

At what point does the old WCBS-FM 101.1 lose it's signal to B101 out of Philly, going south on the parkway?

 

[mdamico25]

At what point does the old WCBS-FM 101.1 lose it's signal to B101 out of Philly, going south on the parkway?

From my experience of living in Monmouth County, there is a point in Holmdel (between Exits 117 and 114) where WCBS-FM is lost completely, and B-101 comes in loud and clear. A little further south towards Exit 105 the real battle begins. Generally, I've lost WCBS completely just south of Exit 98, with B-101 as the predominant signal.

A little further inland is where the real battle begins. I've driven through some of the hills in Holmdel and depending on the location, B-101 is totally dominant. A little south of Freehold, 101.1 is a complete mess. The same can be said to a lesser degree of 100.3 in that area. The 100.3 in Philly (actually Media, PA) comes in briefly loud and clear in a section of Holmdel just past the county park. But generally Z-100's signal is better in the area than WCBS'- you don't start to encounter large-scale interference on 100.3 from Philly until you reach well west of Freehold.

-Mike