The Sound and their Wiki: Top 100 Artists!

[goodhelp]

100.3FM has frozen their message board and their wiki. But before they did, I got this into the wiki:

http://www.thesoundla.com/wiki/index.php/Top_100_artists

It's a recipe for controlling the high rotation classic gold and image artists to prevent too much perceived "repetition." Since I've given you this info, just watch how quickly Beasing and company erase it! :-\

 

[ChannelFlipper]

You have Amy Winehouse but not the Beatles? You do know they went all classic rock several months back? And I love the Waterboys (can I get a huzzah for KMPC-FM?), but they have two hits not five. Perhaps if you included former bandmates World Party you might get to five.

I know where you are going with this and your goal is laudable, but they have to pretty much stick to the hits (even minor ones are ok) in the gold catalogue or they will lose in a PPM world. I'm all for expanding the core artists so I don't have to hear Supertramp every morning, but you have to keep in mind radio realities as well. If you want more variety than they can give (perfectly reasonable; so do I) you gotta go online. These guys are barely making it work by playing the hits, going deep will only sink them.

 

[SuperRadioFan]

Huzzah Huzzah!!

Yes I agree with you Flipper, goodhelp had e-mailed me that "recipe" way wayyyyyy back in the Stone Ages of The Sound's life (I just checked it was late August ) . I think goodhelp realizes that today's playlist of The Sound is much different from back a year ago.

While the premise of the "recipe" is good for geeks and radiofiles, it would tax the patience of the typical (?) listener out there to row through it all.

Yep online is my only salvation as I have long long long ago given up on The Sound as a viable listening experience for me. If I were forced to have just two choices of radio stations to listen to, and those choices were KLOS and KSWD, I think I'd have to pick The Sound because they at least are more diverse than what I believe KLOS offers (having Jim Ladd does make the choice harder but I did factor that in). Having said that, I find some decent out of market over the air REAL radio stations that thankfully stream at a decent fidelity that fulfill much of my AAA listening needs. Not to mention Internet-only stations like Legato Cafe.net, Radio Paradise, and sometimes WOXY.com (which BTW is moving their operations from Cincinnati to Austin, TX).

 

[OC Radio Geek]

Huzzah Huzzah!!

Yes I agree with you Flipper, goodhelp had e-mailed me that "recipe" way wayyyyyy back in the Stone Ages of The Sound's life (I just checked it was late August ) . I think goodhelp realizes that today's playlist of The Sound is much different from back a year ago.

While the premise of the "recipe" is good for geeks and radiofiles, it would tax the patience of the typical (?) listener out there to row through it all.

Yep online is my only salvation as I have long long long ago given up on The Sound as a viable listening experience for me. If I were forced to have just two choices of radio stations to listen to, and those choices were KLOS and KSWD, I think I'd have to pick The Sound because they at least are more diverse than what I believe KLOS offers (having Jim Ladd does make the choice harder but I did factor that in). Having said that, I find some decent out of market over the air REAL radio stations that thankfully stream at a decent fidelity that fulfill much of my AAA listening needs. Not to mention Internet-only stations like Legato Cafe.net, Radio Paradise, and sometimes WOXY.com (which BTW is moving their operations from Cincinnati to Austin, TX).

Oh yes, we have long ago given up on The Sound! As I have told SRF several months ago, I started listening to KSWD this past Thanksgiving weekend and I loved it!! And then over the next few months, they began to slowly change and tweak their playlist until it become what it is today, classic stinking rock! I do agree with SRF, if I had only 2 stations to listen to, KLOS or KSWD, I would definitely choose KSWD. We should make a POLL out of this!! It would be rather interesting to see what our fellow board mates would choose. I'm so glad that SRF mentioned Legato Cafe because it is a damn good station!

 

[goodhelp]

Yes, my friends, welcome to the show that never ends...the wiki posting was meant to display how E-Z it is to have a decent gold rotation. About four days would pass before hearing the same song by the same artist.

Now that would take lots of pressure off the overplayed "hit" tracks.

This was at a time when we people who care, asked if it could be done. Proper inventory rotation. Certainly it can be done, but Bonneville didn't/doesn't want to do it.

Here we are...where the choices are 1) too many overplayed hits, or, 2) not enough "hits" to make a station successful. Personally, choice #2 is why the Internet streams are out there in the first place: they are more "about the music."

Most of us know it takes more than a stack of top ten tunes to make a successful station that's a "hit" with its audience.

 

[oaktree]

I love The Dandy Warhols (but then, I like Lompoc, as well) ... and the Doors, too! No wonder Amie Winehouse is getting divorced.

She's making room in "Rehab."

This plan would cost Bonneville a bundle more to implement and to survive.

Long live "The Sound" ... Bonneville and all. "The Sound" has its fans, just not enough of them. And at that price, call on "The Dandy Warhols" to save the day ... every fourth one, at that.

No Beatles. No Stones. No Zep. But Steely Dan? No ... oh, never mind.

Have you applied for a gig with Bonneville lately, Goodhelp? Curious to see how it turns out.

 

[goodhelp]

Hey Joe! No I haven't applied for a job with Bonneville--I'm allergic to mediocrity! But seriously...

The rotation plan and list of artists is a jumping-off point for discussion. So go ahead and add the Beatles, Stones, etc. The goal of a gold artist (same song) four-day rotation is easily doable. You've done it yourself with stations you've programmed.

It takes as much time and setup to rotate your inventory to "burn" your gold too soon, as to do it much better.

Yes, The Sound has continued to "evolve" its playlist and music texture. I about choked last week when I saw a Triumph tune. Cred where it's due--SRF saw the non-AAA signs before most, including the reduced number of hourly currents. (Guess I hoped it wasn't true, at first.)

For those who like today's old school r&b, Amy Winehouse may hit the bullseye. Progressive popsters Dandy Warhols are rockers with a solid place in the music fan world. Surrounded by lots more AAA artists, you'd actually have a station that's fun to listen to, assuming the dj's also had air personalities with something to say.

May this prompt more "AAA format" artist/song suggestions. R&B, Progressive, Rock, Blues, Folk and Pop all have their contemporary artists coming to the fore in the last twenty years. Name some more!