Oldies 106.9 is now urban AC Magic 106.9, "Classic Soul and Today's R & B." Haven't heard any jocks. They are running Steve Harvey in the AM and The Keith Sweat Hotel from 7p - midnight. I don't think they are simulcasting on 102.3, WFNC-FM anymore. I wonder what 102.3 is doing? Any other thoughts?
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The new Magic 106.9 in Fayetteville
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102.3 was still doing Oldies today, called itself 106.9/102.3 a couple times, and Oldies 106.9 a few times.
Never heard a commercial scanning back and forth over about an hour today, except on 106.9 there was a Steve Harvey-cut liner.
Never heard a commercial scanning back and forth over about an hour today, except on 106.9 there was a Steve Harvey-cut liner.
This is ridiculous. How many black stations do there need to be?
By the way, the information had been updated in Wikipedia, but some changes still needed to be made to the article.
And whoever made the changes already done neglected to move the WFNC-FM information to its own article.
I have done all of this.
By the way, the information had been updated in Wikipedia, but some changes still needed to be made to the article.
And whoever made the changes already done neglected to move the WFNC-FM information to its own article.
I have done all of this.
How many black stations would you limit them to, vchimp? :
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They don't have a power increase. They have a new transmitter site about 12 miles closer to Fayetteville which should finally give 106.9 a competitive signal over the city limits of Fayetteville. Of all the Fayetteville move-ins this was the crappiest while the tower was still in Southern Pines. Lots of spins of the format wheel for this station since Cumulus paid $6.15 million for it six or seven years ago, but at least this time they may have decent reception.
If two are hip-hop and two are adult and at least one leans oldies, the situation would probably be fine.quadraphonic said:How many black stations would you limit them to, vchimp? :
Except they ought to have more GOOD music before they duplicate anything that isn't "worthy". I used to listen to this station on the way to Myrtle Beach. Even the station that replaced it, which is on AM with a lousy signal, doesn't sound as good as it did only a couple of years ago.
But I'm thinking three adult stations, with no real distinction between them, means someone has to go.
vchimpanzee said:If two are hip-hop and two are adult and at least one leans oldies, the situation would probably be fine.quadraphonic said:How many black stations would you limit them to, vchimp? :
Except they ought to have more GOOD music before they duplicate anything that isn't "worthy". I used to listen to this station on the way to Myrtle Beach. Even the station that replaced it, which is on AM with a lousy signal, doesn't sound as good as it did only a couple of years ago.
But I'm thinking three adult stations, with no real distinction between them, means someone has to go.
So they can have five black stations, just not three playing the same thing? Sounds kind of picky.
"More GOOD music"
You might wanna fire off some acceptable songs to some stations, see if they listen/obey/respond/care/consult with you/whatever.
What do you mean by "the station that replaced it?" They just changed formats the other week. Nobody else has changed to oldies, have they?
Do you mean on your presets? 'Cause we ain't all privy to that specific information.
There's lots of options, you just got to find one you like, or, lacking that, create your own. Like I'm sure ya noticed, you get what you pay for....
I used to listen to the station way back in the dark ages. When I say the station that replaced it, I refer to one that started out on FM and is now AM.quadraphonic said:
I thought of something else one of these black stations could do. The country station I listen to gets messed up by a gospel station as I drive south. Amazingly, no one has tried gospel on FM in that area. I can do without the yowling, but every once in a while the country comes back. But I have no other options.
Amazingly, I was on Foxy 99 back when they started. In the western part of the state I was hearing their signal as I kept having to adjust my station as I went up and down hills. This was before the kind of receiver where you "lock in" a specific frequency. The DJ wanted to put me on the air because I was hearing the station so far away. He said, "So you're saying 'I've switched mine to Foxy 99'"? I decided to say yes. The truth is, the music wasn't so bad. The DJ, by the way, sounded white.
If WAZZ hasn't changed, they sound like a station near where I live that is close to perfection. And yet WIOZ does the same thing (when I can hear through the static), but it's not the WIOZ it was two years ago, which is a shame. I guess I've always had music which is "more perfect" when going to the beach. Even when I'm there, there's this cable channel, but they don't do music all the time. And it's only with real estate and car ads, so there's always someone talking, and the music gets interrupted by introductions.quadraphonic said:
You mean WIOZ, from the historical archives days back when easy listening was on FM and FM stations weren't all rimshots to larger markets?? Those were olden times man. It only makes you feel sad to look back that far to something that didn't work out and hope to return to it.vchimpanzee said:
103.9 The Light does pretty good in the 'Ville.
Gospel is on AM on 1160, 1400, 1450, and half-days on 1340, 1460, and 1600 around here.
Dang, I thought "on Foxy 99" meant you were a DJ.
When they first started, I think most of the DJ's were white. One went to my high school.
Ahhhhhh memories. Or something like that.vchimpanzee said:
its not the issue of fayetteville having too many black stations..its just all of them have little or no direction,....Foxy 99 is leaps and bounds better than that raleigh station..programming wise they sound pretty good for an urban and have a nice coverage area to match it...but they have real audio processing issues...I was in the statesville area about 6 months ago and heard hip hop on 99.1..it sounded so bad that I thought it was a pirate station until they ID'd....when I was in fayetteville last week I had to force my HD radio into analog mode because the HD had an annoying high pitched tone around 16khz that was overriding the programming.
I still havent figured out what soul 104.5's format is...they will go from playing a luther vandross song to three 6 mafia on a regular basis..spanish on sundays. and I thought WRSV was notorious for changing genres during the day.
hopefully 106.9 will find its 'nitch' in fayetteville.
I still havent figured out what soul 104.5's format is...they will go from playing a luther vandross song to three 6 mafia on a regular basis..spanish on sundays. and I thought WRSV was notorious for changing genres during the day.
hopefully 106.9 will find its 'nitch' in fayetteville.
True dat on 104.5. I have heard Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" a couple of times on there the past couple months. Then I saw where some other R&B stations were playing it, so it was apparent they were copying the "trend" but it still didn't make no sense....but then again, they have "Hot 104.5" on some of their logos [company cars, offices]and "Soul 104.5" on others, so maybe they are still catching up to what they are doing too....
I haven't picked up Magic since the change. All I ever pick up is 106.9 the Light in the mountains, which is even worse. Fayetteville has a similar station at 107.3.
vchimpanzee said:
Forgive my ignorance but what's a "black" station? I'm not familiar with the format. Maybe you mean Urban? My wife loves Urban & Urban AC and she's pretty pale. I left Memphis recently and we had at least eight Urban formatted stations (ranging from Talk to Urban to Gospel) and they ALL ranked in the top ten, I think.
As for 106.9, I'm curious as to how many formats they have tried since I left Fayetteville about ten years ago?
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The weird thing, well not really surprising, I guess, is that all the identifiers on 102.3 still call it "Oldies 106.9" at least as of Friday.
They've never clarified what is a 'black station' and what isn't yet, but if they do, I'll be sure to let yall know what vchimp meant.
They've never clarified what is a 'black station' and what isn't yet, but if they do, I'll be sure to let yall know what vchimp meant.
The term "black station" was commonly used before "urban contemporary". It means any station whose target audience is African-American, and especially a station with African-American personalities.
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