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WCRB to flip to rock

Neanderpaul said:
A few more that cause eyebrows to raise would be:

Drive by the Cars
Sledgehammer by Gabriel
Bang A Gong - by TRex

There are the occasional "cume songs" that just (again just my opinion) fail to serve the brand. They're not cool. They're not Alternative. They're confusing. To me, as confusing as KISS 108 playing Metallica.
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Hate to say this, but the latter HAS been done, thanks to Kiss' rockhead PD John Madison and Zoo 94's rock/40 PD (who then switched to Kiss) Steve Rivers. I know this because my rockhead brother (who hated the Sunny Joe White-era Kiss) started listening to Kiss as soon as Sunny was sh**canned. Madison, who heard that two rock/40 programmers (Greg Strassell and Steve Perun) were headed to Boston, dumped the disco, never figuring out that Perun was at Zoo 94 for a six month vacation (Sunny was running the show all along at Zoo) or that Strassell was ordered to flip WROR to disco instead of rock (Strassell eventually did flip Mix to rock in 1996 and had to wait about two years longer than anticipated for Mix's ratings to improve). Metallica's "Enter Sandman" was well on its way to #1 at Kiss when owner Richie Balsbaugh saw the crap overall and demo ratings, benched Madison and Rivers, flipped the station back to disco/40, and single-handedly got back to #1 by the spring of '92. Now, sadly, we have 10 all-rock-all-the-time stations: River, 'BOS, Mike, Mix, 'ZLX, 'FNX, 'BCN, 'ROR, 'AAF and Kiss, the latter which can't play much rap or rhythmic music lest they confuse Kiss for Jam'n. (That did happen - I got my oldest niece grounded for six months for listening to some gangbanger crap on Jam'n, only it was on Kiss! Her punishment was lifted, and I was threatened with soap being pushed into my mouth - didn't happen!) :D
 
I never heard Metallica on Kiss. They went more of a mainstream pop direction under River's, then straight ahead balanced Rock/Rythmic in '95.

Mix was never Disco, but R&B leaning Hot AC instead.
 
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