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Radio trends that are causing the recent upheaval

Good story as usual, Rodney. The format changes underway in the Atlanta
radio market are a result of managers and owners running around in a room
without windows or doors and there is no way out. They are facing competition
from places unknown just a few years ago: Internet radio, Pandora, Sirius-XM,
and iHeart Radio. There is just no way the owners of these radio stations can
compete with these new services. A recent example of throwing in
the towel came from CNN, which shut down their excellent radio news service
earlier this year. Affiliates were more than likely dropping off so quickly that
the writing was on the wall. The bottom line is profit. And profits are shrinking
daily for these broadcast radio companies. The AM dial is dead. The FM dial
is in a state of confusion. The only thing that makes sense to many listeners
is to move away from all of this, and seek out the internet for their radio
enjoyment.
 
DiamondDave said:
The only thing that makes sense to many listeners
is to move away from all of this, and seek out the internet for their radio
enjoyment.
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You're giving average radio listeners WAY too much credit.

Most offices block internet streaming services, so no Pandora at work for many. For most, it's just listening to whatever's on in the car, then tuning in at work.

Radio's not dead. It's been over-analyzed to death.

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Interesting to read that more people are listening to WSB on 95.5 instead of 750 now.

In other news, Cox ended the AM/FM simulcast of WDBO in Mousetown, leaving the heritage news/talk on FM and putting ESPN on the AM. Could this be in the offing for ATL?
 
For the last few years, rarely have I listened to 'radio'. The only two I tuned into was GST for Limbaugh and WSB for a dose of Boortz.

Now my choices are down to one with the demise of GST, and Limbaugh over at WSB.

Other than that, I have been an avid listener of XM from inception. In fact, was one of the first 10,000 subscribers to sign up, I now have a long-term low payment of $7 a month...have XM in the house and all 3 vehicles..Could not live without it. ;)
 
Has anyone else noted the way WSB now identifies itself? They now promote the FM before the AM in their on-air slogan. The recorded promos are still the same but when live they now say 95.5 FM and 750 AM.
 
Interesting article, but I question new rock's death that was alluded to. Perhaps it's because Top 40 stations tag along with the "big" new alternative bands, but I find it strange that acts like Fun., Gotye, Grouplove, Imagine Dragons, Foster the People and Alex Clare actually seemed to have given new rock a big push back into the mainstream. Yet, it's the new rock stations that failed? (at least in Atlanta). There was reference to Mumford and Sons as well as Adele in the article, but there's more than that going on.

I'm in Greenville, SC, and rather surprisingly, we got a new Alternative rock station around the same time all of this mess happened in Atlanta. AND we also got Chuck (a variety station ala Dave, although with a bit older focus) as well as a Hot AC that serves up a fair amount of new rock hits.

I went from absolutely hating the GSP market and desparately wishing I was still in Atlanta (at least for radio) to actually liking our market in a matter of a year's time and being glad I'm not in Atlanta.

Guess maybe overall as far as Top 40 vs. New Rock is concerned, the vast majority of people must like an alternative sprinkle in their mix and not the whole deal. We'll see what happens in GSP (unfortunately both our X98.5 and Chuck are on translators so huge ratings probably won't be in the picture regardless).
 
awp69 said:
we also got Chuck (a variety station ala Dave, although with a bit older focus)
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We have a Chuck, WXKT 103.7, a 4100W class C3. It's out of Maysville (Gainesville), but you can get it ok in the NE quadrant of the metro, at least down to the perimeter. It is more Jack-like than Dave-like--heavy 80s pop.

Although they did go deep tonight and played the Chris Hughes-produced version of Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes" that was played on MTV (back when MTV was, well, music television) but was never released in the USA. The Chris Hughes production has a Spectoresque "wall of sound" with lots of overdubbing on the drums.
 
awp69 said:
Guess maybe overall as far as Top 40 vs. New Rock is concerned, the vast majority of people must like an alternative sprinkle in their mix and not the whole deal.
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I guess we could say the same about dance because the electronic sound became HUGE, yet there are still far less dance stations than there are rock and alternative.
 
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