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RQQ sounding a bit wimpy?

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Tibbs4

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Maybe it was just an odd hour, but I caught 97.1 RQQ yesterday afternoon in the car, and it sounded lighter than it had been in recent weeks. Has JJ come in and asserted control over
Mac? I guess I could check check the playlist on yes, but why waste the time? I guess this makes sense. Ruin everything in advance of running everything into the ground. Prep work is always a sign of organization and focus.

And, yes, I would flip WKDF to rock about 6 AM Monday. :)
 
Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with WKDF becoming a Rock Station again? They have been country for the past 12 years and it's been 25 years or more that WKDF has been the type of Rock Station that everyone remembers so fondly. Get over it.
 
RQQ has received more than its share of criticism from this board. I think the recent format is the best of last 3 or so years. RQQ sounds like they are adding more Motown and Beach Boys music. Thank goodness they are staying away from heavy Seger, Jefferson Starship, Jackson Browne rotation of "Tower" days.

Mac, please consider "Disco Inferno" weekend, including heavy with 70's funk/R&B. Three days' weekend awaits.

I cut my KDF rock card decades ago. Blasphemy, I know. The next time I need a waterbed at half price is when regret will strike.
 
jwk1979 said:
Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with WKDF becoming a Rock Station again? They have been country for the past 12 years and it's been 25 years or more that WKDF has been the type of Rock Station that everyone remembers so fondly. Get over it.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. 'KDF is never, never, never, never, NEVER going back to being a "rock" station ever again! And playing Cheryl Crow does NOT a "rock" station make.

'KDF was never a "rock" station from the time I moved here (in 1992). Time to burn all those bumblebee stickers, guys. It's over. It AIN'T comin' back! ::)
 
Attn: KDF HEYTERS:
Yew fellers just aint rednecks lyke me and my pick up that lyked ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hatchett every 15 mins. Hell Yeah. I was just responding to other comments :) --- in jest. It was a pathetic excuse of a radio station even when it was good.. hehe.

I will also selfishly champion my surrender to trashing RQQ way back when they let Mac start messin with it and it got better. As long as they play the 7-minute version of "Groove Line" , I'm happy. But, the block that I heard yesterday left off Barry White, Donna Summer and all the great Motown hits...so I was worried. I like James Taylor and and may be able to tolerate Linda Ronstadt, but not back2back. Freak 0ut.

Bumblebee stickers? Yew ferrin' to them Kay Cue Beah stikkerz?

It's sad to see Jack Shell heading up Norf to the rust belt after winning #1 Air Talent in The Tennessean
stole the Scene's Idea Reader's Poll... good decision, Jack. You broke out while the breaking was good, but we will miss you. If you had only stayed around fir the flip back....
 
Tibbs2 said:
Attn: KDF HEYTERS:
Yew fellers just aint rednecks lyke me and my pick up that lyked ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Hatchett every 15 mins. Hell Yeah. I was just responding to other comments :) --- in jest. It was a pathetic excuse of a radio station even when it was good.. hehe.

Bumblebee stickers? Yew ferrin' to them Kay Cue Beah stikkerz?
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The 'KDF of 1973 might have played those, but the 1998 version played Sheryl Crow and Phil Collins! Gag a maggot!

And the bumblebee referred to the colors of the 'KDF stickers. We even saw those in west Tennessee! Never mind that the Rock 103 (of Memphis) of the late '70s and early '80s could have kicked 'KDF's wimp-rock butt!
 

'KDF was never a "rock" station from the time I moved here (in 1992). Time to burn all those bumblebee stickers, guys. It's over. It AIN'T comin' back! ::)
[/quote]I moved here in 1986 and even then, KDF was playing a lot Top 40 stuff (Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, Bryan Adams, etc.) mixed in with a lot classic cuts from the late '60s and '70s. I had heard a lot about the legendary 103 KDF when I was living in Knoxville but, Boy, was I ever disappointed when I moved here and heard KDF for myself. At least, they weren't playing Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Kool and the Gang, Billy Ocean and "Freeway of Love" by Aretha Franklin like the so-called ROCK station in Knoxville was at the time.
 
Wait one minute, Firepoint. I attended many concerts where the band played Knoxville or Memphis a night or two before hitting Nashville. The performers themselves said, "People in Memphis (or Knoxville) said Nashville ain't a rockin' town. I know y'all can rock witht he best. Wdaddaya say?" (Cue thunderous roar from crowd). If them Memphis so-called rockers wanna bring their smack to Nashville, we will kick their butts back to Memphis. Brang it awn.
 
Dammit all, this board's full of tourists and move-ins./ Courier -- the PBR meeting is on!!! You other guys didn't know KDF when it was KDF. (0k, I admit it only off the record - it was always cursed after about 1978.) :)


There was only one "real" bumblebee sticker ... WKQB. CR, If Scott was here, he'd be fighting to bring THAT back.
 
courier37027 said:
Wait one minute, Firepoint. I attended many concerts where the band played Knoxville or Memphis a night or two before hitting Nashville. The performers themselves said, "People in Memphis (or Knoxville) said Nashville ain't a rockin' town. I know y'all can rock witht he best. Wdaddaya say?" (Cue thunderous roar from crowd). If them Memphis so-called rockers wanna bring their smack to Nashville, we will kick their butts back to Memphis. Brang it awn.
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And then the next night, they would play Memphis, and say "the folks in Nashville say Memphis ain't a rockin' town." I've heard it all before.
 
Tibbs2 said:
Dammit all, this board's full of tourists and move-ins./ Courier -- the PBR meeting is on!!! You other guys didn't know KDF when it was KDF. (0k, I admit it only off the record - it was always cursed after about 1978.) :)
There was only one "real" bumblebee sticker ... WKQB. CR, If Scott was here, he'd be fighting to bring THAT back.
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Yeah, even I know about Rock 106. If y'all had kept that, you wouldn't have been stuck with 'KDF pretending to "rock" for all those years.

They should have adopted new call letters when they went country.
 
firepoint525 said:
courier37027 said:
Wait one minute, Firepoint. I attended many concerts where the band played Knoxville or Memphis a night or two before hitting Nashville. The performers themselves said, "People in Memphis (or Knoxville) said Nashville ain't a rockin' town. I know y'all can rock witht he best. Wdaddaya say?" (Cue thunderous roar from crowd). If them Memphis so-called rockers wanna bring their smack to Nashville, we will kick their butts back to Memphis. Brang it awn.
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And then the next night, they would play Memphis, and say "the folks in Nashville say Memphis ain't a rockin' town." I've heard it all before.
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Or you would hear the bands on the radio promoting the upcoming concerts and they would say that they were playing in Nashville the night before and it was three or four songs into their sets before the Nashville audience got into the show where as they know that the Knoxville audience will be into the show as soon as they hit the stage. Yet, the city they play the next night, it will be the Knoxville audience was waited until the forth song before they got into it.
 
I'll join in the KDF rock discussion. I listened to KDF during my teenage years. Approximately 1984-1989 and have nothing but great memories of the station. It was always friendly to the Top 40 songs that were "rockish". Those artists that were listed earlier all had top 5 hits on the Mainstream Rock chart. Charts were easy to manipulate then, but could the whole damn panel have been reporting "fabricated" information? KDF won't return to rock/AOR EVER and shouldn't really. With that being said, there's a legacy that could be acknowledged by 105-9 or a new classic rock/hits station. Play some KDF "hits" in the mix. Do some features or promotions they did. Sounds crazy, but sometimes crazy works!
 
jamiestarr said:
I'll join in the KDF rock discussion. I listened to KDF during my teenage years. Approximately 1984-1989 and have nothing but great memories of the station. It was always friendly to the Top 40 songs that were "rockish". Those artists that were listed earlier all had top 5 hits on the Mainstream Rock chart. Charts were easy to manipulate then, but could the whole damn panel have been reporting "fabricated" information? KDF won't return to rock/AOR EVER and shouldn't really. With that being said, there's a legacy that could be acknowledged by 105-9 or a new classic rock/hits station. Play some KDF "hits" in the mix. Do some features or promotions they did. Sounds crazy, but sometimes crazy works!
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Yes, that is true that Huey Lewis, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, et al all had Top Hits in the Mainstream Rock charts, but there quite a few REAL rock artists that had songs on the Mainstream Rock charts that were KDF NEVER PLAYED during those days. "Little Miss Danderous" by Ted Nugent was a TOP HIT on the Rock Charts, never heard it on KDF. "Tuff Enuff" by the Fabulous Thunderbirds was also a TOP HIT on the Mainstream Rock tracks chart, but KDF didn't start playing it until it got into Top 20 of the Billboard charts. Y-107 was playing it a month or so before KDF starting playing it. "Ruthless People" by Mick Jagger was also one of the Top Rock tracks of 1986, but I can't recall ever hearing it on KDF. KDF also aired a show on Sunday evenings called "Rock Trax" a countdown of the Top 20/30 Rock tracks of the week and usually, the only time you ever heard about half the songs on the weekly countdown on KDF was during this syndicated show from Westwood One, I believe.
 
jwk1979 said:
Why is everyone SO OBSESSED with WKDF becoming a Rock Station again? They have been country for the past 12 years and it's been 25 years or more that WKDF has been the type of Rock Station that everyone remembers so fondly. Get over it.
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For the same reason people complain about the shut down of Opryland, and wish every day that Gaylord would re-open it.
 
RQQ sounds better than previous endeavors....the RQQ bits seems kinda lame to me...i think more in terms of Q97...and if I'm gonna VT the middays can it not be a bit more exciting and seemingly more alive ?? and less repititious?? every other word is 971 RQQ..ok we get it..we got it the first 100,00 times...get original,over there...you have potential in nashville start using it..ok..now back to Rawhide on the web.......
 
97.1 should have a lot of potential with the PPM ratings system. But for some reason, the format just doesn't seem like it is put together very well.

If they sounded more like KQK in Memphis, they could double the ratings. KQK has a live morning show with market legend Steve Conley, Tom Kent at night and theme weekends usually related to the music of the 1970s.

KQK has ratings in the 6s and 5s. RQQ could be in the same range if the format was better executed. Nashville's demographics are much friendlier for this type of station because in Memphis you are competing with two very oldies oriented Urban ACs.

So if a well programmed classic hits station can get a 6 share in Memphis, think about what it could do in Nashville.
 
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