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WZRR is now "new" and calling themselves Alabama's Best Rock. I don't hear anything new about it, same classic rock as before. I thougt they may throw in some Alt. rock, since Live 100.5 is dead.
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ALRocker said:
Citadel previously announced they were going to take WZRR in more of an alternative direction, following their decision to pull the plug on "Live".
Whatever adjustments WZRR makes, they've probably lost those Live listeners forever to mobile internet streaming (via smartphone), MP3 players, and satellite radio.
Even if Citadel is going to take the station into more of an alternative direction, I just don't see them abandoning classic rock entirely. My prediction is that WZRR ends up being active rock. Alternative rock or rather modern rock as a full format on 99.5 or any other freq. in the market is highly unlikely in my opinion.
Agreed. From my experience, I tried to move on and listened to Huntsville's Rocket 95.1 for a while after X went away from that market. Eventually, I got too restless and went to 'net streaming and mp3s instead.
Nate Wesley said:
Agreed. From my experience, I tried to move on and listened to Huntsville's Rocket 95.1 for a while after X went away from that market. Eventually, I got too restless and went to 'net streaming and mp3s instead.
i will always have a soft spot for classic rock diddy-dine ( tony kurre ) i worked there from december 90-august 92-- fun times--
i glanced at the playlist....
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i saw two hours where there was **ONE** song that might match the "new" format.
i saw three hours with no change what so ever.
i grew up with rock 99. oh sorry, rock 995. um. er. classic rock 99?
i'd rather slit my wrists than listen to that again. there is no more new rock to be made from these guys - and i'm a radio listener pretty much 24/7. can you say burnout ?
this station is no longer for me. hasn't been since i left Cullman in 1997 [i came back in 2000....it still wasn't for me anymore]
looked at about 5 hours - -
i saw two hours where there was **ONE** song that might match the "new" format.
i saw three hours with no change what so ever.
i grew up with rock 99. oh sorry, rock 995. um. er. classic rock 99?
i'd rather slit my wrists than listen to that again. there is no more new rock to be made from these guys - and i'm a radio listener pretty much 24/7. can you say burnout ?
this station is no longer for me. hasn't been since i left Cullman in 1997 [i came back in 2000....it still wasn't for me anymore]
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They did play Life During Wartime by the Talking Heads at 7 AM today, even though it's an old song, it's got to be the first time I've heard it on the radio since K-99 went off in '82. Which really was the day the music died in the "Ham. It's too bad that young people today didn't have the chance to hear what real radio was.
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ALRocker said:
So why weren't you listening to WJSR out of Jeff State? Oh, wait, they only had a 10w transmitter in those days.
But if you were in Centerpoint or towards Candy Mountain apartments you were rocking to the AOR!
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I'm in Cullman, a bit out of their range. I use to have to go to the Woodlawn area quite a bit and I'd tune in then, when WVSU would not interfere.
I'm ashamed to admit this, but my only actual on-air experience was at WJSR. One song, three PSAs. One song, three PSAs. Four colored buttons for four different reel-to-reel machines, no requests unless the song you want is already on the playlist. This was in '95 or '96, when computers had pretty much taken over. It was kind of pathetic.
Better not play songs out of order or you'd get a call! I got a call for talking too much and playing more than one song in a row. Something tells me that was the only part of the experience that reflected actual radio of the time.
Better not play songs out of order or you'd get a call! I got a call for talking too much and playing more than one song in a row. Something tells me that was the only part of the experience that reflected actual radio of the time.
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Zach said:I'm ashamed to admit this, but my only actual on-air experience was at WJSR. One song, three PSAs. One song, three PSAs. Four colored buttons for four different reel-to-reel machines, no requests unless the song you want is already on the playlist. This was in '95 or '96, when computers had pretty much taken over. It was kind of pathetic.
Better not play songs out of order or you'd get a call! I got a call for talking too much and playing more than one song in a row. Something tells me that was the only part of the experience that reflected actual radio of the time.
Oh, for the Glory Days of JSR in the mid-80's.....
The cart machines, making our own promos (including scratching the bejebus out of a Michael Jackson single and declaring that we didn't play that kind of music), the fabulous 'slip' segues.... As long as you followed the clock, what you played when was your choice. Spoiled me rotten it did. I can't listen to much 'music' radio anymore, because I've done better in the past. I listen to Talk radio; if I want music, I've got iPods and a CD player in the car. 8)
I have a feeling that "The New" part is a stab at 106.9 the eagle, that still calls themselves new after 4 or 5 years on the air. Hearing an ID while i was listening to WZRR through the iPhone to see if anything was different, calling The eagle, an endangered species, this pretty much confirmed they're going after WBPT directly IMO.
Now that they're "new" I wonder if they're gonna fix the poor quality audio format their music is stored in, that they inherited from Dick Broadcasting?
When WBPT first veered off into classic hits, their sound quality was phenomenal, it sounded like they stored all their music and liners in straight PCM with no compression at all and barely used any tweaking on the audio chain. It was right up there with Kiss FM and Jamz for cleanliness. It was a breath of fresh air from the "Real Audio stream from the 90's" sound that WZRR has.
When WBPT first veered off into classic hits, their sound quality was phenomenal, it sounded like they stored all their music and liners in straight PCM with no compression at all and barely used any tweaking on the audio chain. It was right up there with Kiss FM and Jamz for cleanliness. It was a breath of fresh air from the "Real Audio stream from the 90's" sound that WZRR has.
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