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The end of Rock 101

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While the boards were down, one of the most legendary names still in the Greenville-Spartanburg market, Rock 101 WROQ, ceased to exist. Rock 101 is now Classic Rock 101.1.

Still the same old stale music and crappy JB&B, though. Those are bigger issues than the name was IMO.
 
Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking with the name change. It doesn't help the station with anything that needs fixing other than losing it's brand.

I do wonder if there will be any changes at The Planet that is setting this up. WTPT just started playing, AGAIN, some older tracks from bands like Aerosmith and AC/DC -- a joke as a New Rock station. And they still play the same head-banging bands the other 90% of the time. But maybe playing a few older tracks and calling 101.1 "Classic Rock", perhaps they will try to make The Planet just a mainstream rock station playing a little of everything. Anything would be an improvement over their current playlist. If they keep it the same, then those older tracks that had been removed is a step backwards and a strange move. It's far from being "New Rock" anyway. A friend of mine did a crosscheck with Media Base and found The Planet only was playing 14 tracks from the last 10 years. That's abysmal. Either change to New Rock completely and actuallly play more new things (and be more inclusive of all new rock, not just the hard stuff) or turn it into a pure rock station. There's nowhere to go but up.

Anyway, sorry to derail the thread into The Planet talk, but it may be pertinent given what's going on with 101.1.
 
If they're going to take The Planet in that direction, then I don't see the reason not to merge Rock 101 and The Planet to create one of those "younger" classic rock formats that focuses on the late 70s through the early 90s. It's the future of the format, anyway. It's funny The Planet is playing so much older stuff since they removed everything pre-90s last year.
 
classic rock is a perception it depends on the demo 101.1 wants. to a 35 year old, classic rock is from 1994. the people who make the decisions are much older so they are unwilling to move the timeline
 
I consider the dividing line to be 1990. A classic rocker can play post-1990 Journey, Eagles, Van Halen, Aerosmith, etc.

Some do play Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, and even Nickelback but it just sounds strange to me.

Trying to mix the decades just sounds weird as far as I'm concerned.
 
Glad this forum is back. So did Rock 101 drop the WROQ call letters? That is great branding they adopted from 95.1 in Charlotte.
 
Well,...no one knows more about WROQ than me! With that understood, I can easily say that it is a mere pale shadow of what it was,...and could still be. If there is a light here it is the reputation of their new/latest/current GM, who's last name I could not correctly spell, if my life depended on it. Before leaving Cox, he allegedly solved all the problems there. We trust that he will continue his Thunder, but as scan-listeners, we ask....
Why The Wait!
 
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