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Scott Shannon's True Oldies Comes to WPLJ FM ?

Ken said:
WPLJ just go CHR or Country. As I said before on their website, when you look at the title bar of Internet Explore the last thing it says on the PLJ website is "Hit Music" so why not go up aganist Clear Channel's Z100. Not sure about still calling it 95.5 PLJ. Just call it 95lj "New York's Hit Music Channel" and call it a day. This just as Citadel has a CHR in Charleston, SC market called 95sx. If not call it that how about B 95 or Mix 95.5. And have Kidd Kraddick in the morning, would be the first time he be heard in NYC and it would be cheap for Citadel with their money problems.

As for country thats a maybe and sure I said they should go country if not CHR. 95.5 The Ranger or 95.5 The Wolf. I got the idea to call it The Ranger as one of NY's hockey teams are call New York Rangers. So it goes together.
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Going up against Z100 as a true CHR would be a huge mistake. One that they tried 9 years ago and lost. Their image is of an older leaning station as is their morning show. Z100 is the definitive place to hear CHR and they are completely in touch with their demo. PLJ should try and figure out THEIR demo and do a better job of serving it.
 
Radaioman said:
Ken said:
WPLJ just go CHR or Country. As I said before on their website, when you look at the title bar of Internet Explore the last thing it says on the PLJ website is "Hit Music" so why not go up aganist Clear Channel's Z100. Not sure about still calling it 95.5 PLJ. Just call it 95lj "New York's Hit Music Channel" and call it a day. This just as Citadel has a CHR in Charleston, SC market called 95sx. If not call it that how about B 95 or Mix 95.5. And have Kidd Kraddick in the morning, would be the first time he be heard in NYC and it would be cheap for Citadel with their money problems.

As for country thats a maybe and sure I said they should go country if not CHR. 95.5 The Ranger or 95.5 The Wolf. I got the idea to call it The Ranger as one of NY's hockey teams are call New York Rangers. So it goes together.
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Going up against Z100 as a true CHR would be a huge mistake. One that they tried 9 years ago and lost. Their image is of an older leaning station as is their morning show. Z100 is the definitive place to hear CHR and they are completely in touch with their demo. PLJ should try and figure out THEIR demo and do a better job of serving it.
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Fresh 102.7 is taking away from PLJ also I would say WRXP is going to also. Not sure how PLJ does with demos. But you don't think they should go CHR. Today they have a different owner Citadel not ABC Radio. You don't think Citadel will take the CHR and do it better then the PLJ of 9 years ago tried to. It would be nice to know why PLJ has the words "Hit Music" on their homepage header.
 
Want to try it? Ask Tom Cuddy

VP/programming of 95.5 PLJ. Scott Shannon may be PD of PLJ but he reports to Tom Cuddy.

In other words, your much-beloved PD is outranked by a company VP.
 
I think they should go back to Power 95 with a CHR format, why not. And Why not put Dance on 95.5..... KTU isnt doing it anymore, and Pulse 87 although a great station doesnt have a competative signal or frequency to compete with the big boys up on Empire State. As much as Id love for Pulse to clean KTUs clock, it probably wont happen unless they upgrade their signal, and move farther up the dial.

If CBS and PLJ were both Oldies than they would both Dillute each other in the books, therefore both stations would probably flip.
 
Ken - you must not be from the area. 95LJ? WTF? Never mind throwing away a known - even if not presently used - brand ('PLJ is QUITE well known).

They tried tossing out the brand with the Power 95 and Mojo Radio attempts.
 
pbf1 said:
Ken - you must not be from the area. 95LJ? WTF? Never mind throwing away a known - even if not presently used - brand ('PLJ is QUITE well known).

They tried tossing out the brand with the Power 95 and Mojo Radio attempts.
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No im not from this area but I did grow up in the state over in Connecticut. And sure I don't know much about WPLJ. As for PLJ being well know sure it is in NYC just as the WNEW calls were which got out of NYC last year on 102.7 and moved to Florida. All I am say is try on making something good out of 95.5 WPLJ format wise. Even if they have to change the calls.
 
PLJ's attempts to throw out their brand with Mojo and Power 95 were half-assed, however. They always leaned more adult than Z100 and Hot 103/97 and that's why they didn't cut it.

If they put together a first-rate CHR station, going after the *same* demos as Z100 instead of playing Bon Jovi all the time, with good jocks and a great presentation, they could do some damage to Z100. There's no reason why there can't be two CHR's....Hot 97 was untouchable for a while, and Power 105 came in and split the audience. Kiss and BLS are duking it out. So are Lite and Fresh. Why not two CHR's?

95.5 would just have to rebrand completely....not call itself PLJ (even if they keep the call letters....just bury them in a stop set once an hour)...and completely shed their soccer mom image. If a frequency's previous format prevented format changes from succeeding...well, then Power 105 wouldn't have been a success because of its reputation as Mix 105/Big 105/The Buzz. KTU would not have been a success because 103.5 was the country music frequency. Z100 wouldn't have gone from worst to first in 1983 because 100.3 was the beautiful music station with the weak signal from NJ. Saying that 95.5's past would prevent future success with a different format is absurd.

What I feel would stop Citadel from going with CHR on 95.5 is that CHR is an expensive format. You need jocks, you need heavy promotions, giveaways, contests, the whole deal. Citadel isn't looking to spend right now, however, and probably won't be for a long time. It's not a pretty picture when you're $850 million in the red. That's why Citadel...if they decide to change formats....will probably decide to go with something as low-maintenance as possible, *even* if it won't be a big ratings grabber. They'll want to drive costs down as much as possible and try to run a profit, even if the station overall ends up rating and billing less.

However, it is also quite possible that they'll keep the format, but just water down the station some more....firing more people (as they did with Rocky), cutting corners left and right, and so forth. That is probably the most plausible scenario in the short term, with changes coming only if PLJ completely tanks (as a very result of those moves in large part).
 
Be a CHR like I said with Kidd Kraddick in the morning drive and the hit music all day all. Brand it as "Hit Music Without Talk - ALL DAY LONG" Has a Jack-FM type CHR been tired before? If not it would mark a first.

And CBS Radio wouldn't do CHR if they wanted to put that on 92.3 as it would hurt Fresh 102.7
 
Ken said:
WPLJ just go CHR or Country. As I said before on their website, when you look at the title bar of Internet Explore the last thing it says on the PLJ website is "Hit Music" so why not go up aganist Clear Channel's Z100. Not sure about still calling it 95.5 PLJ. Just call it 95lj "New York's Hit Music Channel" and call it a day.
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Yes, make program decisions based on the title bar of Internet Explorer, why hasnt anyone thought of that??
95LJ...nice. I think everyone can agree that the "P" was is ratings issue.
Also, WCBS may want to think of leaving the last "S" off for "savings".
 
Ken said:
Be a CHR like I said with Kidd Kraddick in the morning drive and the hit music all day all. Brand it as "Hit Music Without Talk - ALL DAY LONG" Has a Jack-FM type CHR been tired before? If not it would mark a first.

And CBS Radio wouldn't do CHR if they wanted to put that on 92.3 as it would hurt Fresh 102.7
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Clear Channel owns Lite and Z100 and they don't seem to be hurting each other.
 
BACKnUSSR said:
Ken said:
WPLJ just go CHR or Country. As I said before on their website, when you look at the title bar of Internet Explore the last thing it says on the PLJ website is "Hit Music" so why not go up aganist Clear Channel's Z100. Not sure about still calling it 95.5 PLJ. Just call it 95lj "New York's Hit Music Channel" and call it a day.
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Yes, make program decisions based on the title bar of Internet Explorer, why hasnt anyone thought of that??
95LJ...nice. I think everyone can agree that the "P" was is ratings issue.
Also, WCBS may want to think of leaving the last "S" off for "savings".
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I was just thinking of a name. Anyways


As for CBS Radio doing CHR and it hurting Fresh 102.7. I just thought it would somewhat as Fresh 102.7 plays current soft songs that would be considered good for AC. And yes Lite plays them too. But you are prolly right as they would be playing popular hip hop songs and some harder rock songs along with the teen songs.
 
I doubt CBS Radio would do a CHR format anytime soon on 92.3 K-Rock. They will prolly give K-Rock sometime as Emmis just fliped their jazz station to a rock format. But it wouldn't be a bad idea at all if CBS Radio did. They would be going head to head with Z100 just like they are going head to head with Lite by having Fresh 102.7

Now does New York want 2 CHRs and a CHR war?
 
This is what I don't get. They flipped back to K-Rock why would they flip again? It does not make sense. Did they flip back cuz they thought it would work this time? If not, why then go to the trouble to manage it? Why not create something new?
 
icycool7227 said:
This is what I don't get. They flipped back to K-Rock why would they flip again? It does not make sense. Did they flip back cuz they thought it would work this time? If not, why then go to the trouble to manage it? Why not create something new?
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They did flip it back because they thought it would do better this time with O&A in mornings. There has been no substantial difference in ratings or billing. The "Free FM" experiment also has fizzled nationally. When it proved to be
a bust, they thought they could revive the K-Rock brand, just as they revived the CBS-FM brand after "Jack".
 
CBS Radio should of done what they did in Pitt on 93.7. Back in the early 2000's CBS flipped B 94 to 93.7 KROCK then after Stern left they flipped it to talk as "The Men Station" was something like that. Then as The Men Station wasn't doing good they flipped it back to what it once was CHR B 94 Pittsburgh. Maybe CBS Radio should of done that here in New York City. Said after K-Rock flipped to FREE-FM and as FREE-FM wasn't doing good they shouldn't of went back to K-Rock. Gone a whole new direction and made it B 92 CHR. And sure CBS did bring back WYSP back as rock after FREE-FM, but they are doing fairly well. But K-ROCK now has to compete with Emmis new rock station WRXP.
 
Ken said:
CBS Radio should of done what they did in Pitt on 93.7. Back in the early 2000's CBS flipped B 94 to 93.7 KROCK then after Stern left they flipped it to talk as "The Men Station" was something like that. Then as The Men Station wasn't doing good they flipped it back to what it once was CHR B 94 Pittsburgh. Maybe CBS Radio should of done that here in New York City. Said after K-Rock flipped to FREE-FM and as FREE-FM wasn't doing good they shouldn't of went back to K-Rock. Gone a whole new direction and made it B 92 CHR. And sure CBS did bring back WYSP back as rock after FREE-FM, but they are doing fairly well. But K-ROCK now has to compete with Emmis new rock station WRXP.
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Seems as though they did do that. It was never B 92 in NY, so that wasnt an option "to go back to".
And somebody else is already KTU.....so there you go.
And K-Rock was struggling before RXP was a factor.

Besides if competing with WRXP is an issue, do you really think going CHR and competing with Z-100 wouldn't be?
 
I believe New York City can handle two CHR's and CBS Radio has MTV to back them up to help build a CHR. You can use some of the on air people from MTV to work on the station too. It would be a win for CBS Radio I think. B 92 in NY would be good something to compete with Z100.
 
Scratching my head trying to figure out what CBS would have to do with 'PLJ.

'PLJ could go True Oldies-it is an OLDER DEMO than what CBS-FM(Classic Hits) is aiming for & might possibly cause 101.1 to give up all 60's & a lot of 70's IF 'PLJ did go TRUE OLDIES.
 
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