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Q94 is runing a promo about saving what you love about it. What I loved is totally gone. Local personalities, the jingle package ,and a true "Richmond" feel. You don't know what that is unless you lived there.

WMXB is totally cookie cutter Cox with 50 minute music hours on the perpetually NEW Mix103.7 . Again, no longer any local feel at all.

And Steve Leonard has been exiled to WFLO



Thoughts?
 
They still call it Q94 huh? Wasn't that big a deal back in the 70's when I lived there. WLEE was a much better music station despite being a static-filled AM.

But just what is that "Richmond" feel? Richmond was labeled the largest truck stop on I-95. ;D
 
Richmond was a small market that developed a litany of local characters on stations that compared to similiar stations in major markets. WRVA to WSB or KDKA. WLEE to WMCA or KQV. Local people like Alden Aaroe, Bill Bevins, Garret Chester, Steve Leonard, Paige Wilson, Betty Bodine, Jess Duboy, Kirby Carmichael, Chocolate Chip, Jeff and Jeff, and on. A musician like Steve Bassett could write a song about coffee and make it on multiple stations across formats. If you heard the Lou Dean Show overnights on RVA, you got it. But it's all gone.
 
Re: They really suck (Q-94)

I thought the listeners were complaining about the "hits" they were now playing on the weekends, which were a lil more Rhythmic then they used to be???? I don't hear much myself on Q94 that I want to keep/save. They dumped Rick Dees which really turned me off. They still have AT40, I guess thats something.....

Are they talking as if the station is about to go bellie up?? Or are they trying to get listener input to better the station? It would really suck if the station morphed into another format. Its the strongest station in the nation, in a format thats #1 IMO, an have been a CHR for almost 40 years. Thats an amazing feat. I'd hate to see all that end. I know its on life sopport now but I still hold out hope that the economy will turn around, crap channel will get back into the 'black' an eventually throw some $ Q94s way an restore it to glory. Wishfull thinking I know. Q94 is like an old hat......you never want to get rid of it an ya dig wearing it once in a while. I know the station is a shell of its former self but I think thats more of a reflection of the industry. The medium as a whole is diminishing an station owners must cut costs to keep the stations on the air. In todays Ipod lifestyle, FM is dieing a slow death. Once the ipod generation reaches my age, there may not even be a market for advertisers. No advertisers, no $; No $, no stations.
 
First of all, Richmond was never "the biggest truck stop on 1-95," for all of it's faults it is not a bad city. Yes, if you just accept what you see on I-95, it looks much like New Jersey, but NJ also has many nice areas and RIC is the same. Also, Q-94 most certainly was a big deal in the 70s. I spent my teen years in the 60s listening to WLEE, WEET, WGOE, and WENZ (not to mention WABC, WKBW, WLS, WGH, and WPGC). I also grew up hating WRVA and WRNL which my parents listened to. In the later 60s I really got into WANT and the new WENZ. You don't need to tell me there wasn't some great radio going on there--the competition among all those top 40 stations insured that! But when Q94 came on, all bets were off. Not only did they have a spectacular signal (in Quadrafonic yet) they rocked--easily comparable to WPGC and other big market stations (I would have never considered Richmond a small market). Clear Channel got their hooks in WRVQ early, and they've been going down ever since. It hasn't just happened in the last few years. A real shame...
 
Anybody who visited the "Fan District" of georgian homes, Monument Ave., Churchill (the restoration points),Shokoe Bottom and Slip, and all the modern malls ( got Nordstrom's before Pittsburgh) knows Richmond is a lovely city. Anybody who has seen the skyline lit up at night knows it is a major city. They employed me for 30 years even with my weird sense of humor
 
That "large truck stop" you're referring to is called Fredricksburg. Anyone who has spent 8 minutes in RVA can tell you there's more too it that that. As for Richmond radio, hasn't been good since the early 90's.
 
The final nail in the "real" Richmond radio coffin was in 2000, when Clear Channel gutted Church Hill and the "real" WRVA began its death watch.

There used to be so many incredible personalities, not just individuals, but whole stations! When I grew up, in junior high and high school, you were either a "Q94" kid or an "XL102" kid (I proudly had my "XL-102 Rocks With The Boss" bumper sticker on the back of my clipboard!!). You think that happens today?

There is no compelling local content on Richmond radio right now. Period. I've lived here all my life (over 40 years) and it's never been the wasteland it is today. Sigh. :(
 
If this "large truck stop" was the one in Fredericksburg, just off on Rt 17, it was replaced by a shopping center with a big Target store.
 
What is a trucker to do? No big super mega truckstops and no overnight trucker shows. CB radios are gone too. Jerry Reid died. A whole culture has disappeared . Do they Twitter when they drive?
 
Re: They really suck (Q-94)

shadough said:
They dumped Rick Dees which really turned me off.
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And now we know where the last Rick Dees fan is! (He could really have used your help, whem $4M in marketing him on KMVN had all it could do to break a one share...)
 
MsMusicRadio said:
What is a trucker to do? No big super mega truckstops and no overnight trucker shows. CB radios are gone too. Jerry Reid died. A whole culture has disappeared . Do they Twitter when they drive?
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Maybe many of them very well do the "twitter" thing. Interesting I know quite a few truckers..and none of them are into country music at all..actually heavy metal and classic rock from what they have told me tends to be pretty much the "trucker's choice" nowadays.

I agree with "Fortmill"..I would hardly consider Richmond a "small market" either. But with that being said I have to wonder what would Richmond be like had their airport ended up being a "hub" some years back when American Airlines ( or was it Northwest? ) expressed serious interest in doing just that.

Also what would Richmond be like ( and the other cities in the commonwealth ) if they scrapped that so-called "independent city" rule by allowing the cities to become a part of the surrounding counties therefor have the freedom to annex and/or merge? Can't say if Richmond would be any different ( I doubt it would be the case with Hampton Roads ) but some of the other Virginia cities sure would be a lot "bigger" than they are right now such as Charlottesville, Winchester and Harrisonburg. All three of those places could very easily become big cities passing that 100,000 mark while it would be possible for Roanoke to be a city of around 200,000. But of course this doesn't mean much as far as radio/TV markets are concerned even if Virginia would drop "independent cities"..which I doubt they would ever do anyway.
 
1) Even if they like Classic Rock and guys like BTLS, nobody does this overnights with a trucker show. I presume that they either listen to the jockless FM's overnight or bring their own CD's. I guess they might have laptops in the cab and GPS , so radio updates on roads and weather is obsolete like "breaker,breaker" and Camaro seat covers. A station like WHPT in Tampa that has a massive signal and " real guy" rocker DJ's like BTLS and "Cowhead" Calta is still robojocked overnights like most all of them.

2) I think it was American Airlines and they chose Raleigh/Durham instead.

3) I guess Country Music is really for soccer moms now!
 
Raleigh/Durham (American) and Charlotte's (US Airways) gain is, as usual, Richmond's loss.

RIC can't even keep all of its direct flights to LaGuardia, for heaven's sake!
 
I was "living" in Richmond (actually way out in Hanover County) in the mid 70's when a highjacked flight from Bermuda ended up landing in RIC. Some bone-headed politician actually tried renaming Byrd Field to international airport status as a result of that flight.

That was the mentality of Richmond.
 
I was living in Richmond in the mid-seventies and working for the Dept. of Social Services. I once met Juan Conde , Phil Daniels, and Mickie Spencer. ( all on business). I don't remember seeing a landtuna, but I did see Bill Parcells on TV a lot.
 
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