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WDRE IS BACK!

its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).

as long as WMMR never leaves, im ok.

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
 
eyg2181 said:
its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).
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Any rock fan will say Y100 was better than it's current incarnation ;)

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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WDRE was starting to pull respectable numbers when it was sold to Radio One... not bad for the smallest signal in the Philly market. Y100 held it's own for 10+ years, and billed well, but Radio One saw an opprotunity and decided to act on it.

Modern Rock costs a lot to run, and unless you find a company daring enough to give it a shot, Philly will remain Modern Rock-less (minus Skin Radio... i am VERY interested to see if they poke their heads in the ratings... I sincerely hope they do.)
 
eyg2181 said:
its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).

as long as WMMR never leaves, im ok.

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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I think it was the fact that Y-100 already had a set playlist before WDRE went off the air. DRE was playing a lot more obscure music than Y-100, and they didn't really add too much more into the playlist after DRE went off the air.

IMO, Y-100 was playing too many Alt rock standards (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden...), and never had time to add in groups like Belly, Liz Phair, Soul Coughing, Fun Loving Criminals...
 
Captain Obvious said:
eyg2181 said:
its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).

as long as WMMR never leaves, im ok.

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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I think it was the fact that Y-100 already had a set playlist before WDRE went off the air. DRE was playing a lot more obscure music than Y-100, and they didn't really add too much more into the playlist after DRE went off the air.

IMO, Y-100 was playing too many Alt rock standards (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden...), and never had time to add in groups like Belly, Liz Phair, Soul Coughing, Fun Loving Criminals...
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Y100 played it's fair share of Belly, Fun Loving Criminals and Soul Coughing. Liz Phair was missed though.
 
Beejus said:
Captain Obvious said:
eyg2181 said:
its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).

as long as WMMR never leaves, im ok.

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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I think it was the fact that Y-100 already had a set playlist before WDRE went off the air. DRE was playing a lot more obscure music than Y-100, and they didn't really add too much more into the playlist after DRE went off the air.

IMO, Y-100 was playing too many Alt rock standards (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden...), and never had time to add in groups like Belly, Liz Phair, Soul Coughing, Fun Loving Criminals...
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Y100 played it's fair share of Belly, Fun Loving Criminals and Soul Coughing. Liz Phair was missed though.
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You are right. So, let me rephrase my last post...

IMO, Y-100 was playing too many Alt rock standards (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden...), and it swallowed up the more harder to find bands that don't get played too much on the radio (Belly, Fun Loving Criminals and Soul Coughing. Liz Phair)

How's that? ;D
 
Foe Paw said:
eyg2181 said:
i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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Neither did "The Hawk"... ::)
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no, the hawk got taken off b/c GM had an oppurtunity to get their competition off the air...it makes sence if ya think about it, i mean the hawk killed MGK, so when GM had the oppurtunity to get it off, they did it...and now look, we have smooth jazz
 
Beejus said:
eyg2181 said:
its ashame i never got to listen to that station, i did listen to Y-100, but didnt care for it too too much, it was ok (better than it is now).
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Any rock fan will say Y100 was better than it's current incarnation ;)

i guess modern rock dont do too well in philly.
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WDRE was starting to pull respectable numbers when it was sold to Radio One... not bad for the smallest signal in the Philly market. Y100 held it's own for 10+ years, and billed well, but Radio One saw an opprotunity and decided to act on it.

Modern Rock costs a lot to run, and unless you find a company daring enough to give it a shot, Philly will remain Modern Rock-less (minus Skin Radio... i am VERY interested to see if they poke their heads in the ratings... I sincerely hope they do.)
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in wayhs i want philly to remain modern rock-less, MMR and YSP do a lot of modern rock, with the heavier classics....i dont mind all classic or a mix between modern and classic, but all modern would drive me mad, b/c every place you go would have modern rock on instead of MMR or YSP...and most modern rock sucks...i like the modern rock MMR plays, but modern rock stations tend to get weird and play to much screamin shit.

i like modern rock bands like "Tool" and "Godsmack", And "SOAD", but if you put on shit like slipknot, bullet for my valentine, and shit like that...i cant stand it....

however, if a modern rock station would play bands like MMR except without the classics, it would be fine, but modern rock stations tend to add too much other crap it to take the place of where rock stations would put the classics...

NOTE: this all would make sense if i wrote it better. LOL

but im sure you all know what im trying to say
 
eatspaste said:
Atleast for one night:

http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2007/Feb/EEN45d3780fd2863.html
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WDRE was a weird situation. 92.7-WDRE Long Island began a simulcast on 103.9 in Philadelphia, after purchasing the frequency, which I believe was ethnic or gospel prior to the sale. A short time later, in early 1994, they purchased 96.7-Albany, NY and were doing this weird three area simulcast of Long Island/Philadelphia/Albany. The format was pretty good during this period, but in early 1995 they decided to go nationwide with a very heavy
Modern/Active Rock format, known as the "Underground Network". Alot of different stations, in various markets signed on for this new syndicated format, but the ratings on alot of the affiliates absolutely tanked, and the network went under during the summer of 1995. Morey sold the Albany affiliate in early 1996, and it flipped to Jesus...Obviously the Philadelphia affiliate didn't fare much better....
 
WDRE was a great station. I bought several different antennas in an effort to tune it in better in West Chester.
Randy Dascher
WCHE 1520 AM
 
Bands like godsmack and mudvayne and seether and evanesence and buckchery are active rock not modern rock or alternative rock.Active rock has ruined alternative radio!!!Metallica and modest mouse do not i repeat do not belong on the same station!!!
 
Beejus said:
Modern Rock costs a lot to run, and unless you find a company daring enough to give it a shot, Philly will remain Modern Rock-less
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Why should altrock be any more expensive to run than any other music format?
 
Oldbones said:
Beejus said:
Modern Rock costs a lot to run, and unless you find a company daring enough to give it a shot, Philly will remain Modern Rock-less
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Why should altrock be any more expensive to run than any other music format?
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That I meant in an overhead type of way. Compare Y100 to Ben FM. Y100 shelled out for great talent, big promotions, promotional items, promotional staff, put together the Feztival and Feastival each year, and more. Ben FM... is just there. It's the same idea with CHR... to keep the listeners interested and connected with the station, hitting the streets, the bars, the concerts, and handing out T-Shirts and bumperstickers hand over fist is key.

So i didn't mean that Alt Rock music costs more than say... Lite Rock.. i just meant in the way stations are run. Sunny and Ben are run dirt cheap. Y100 and Q102 take extra cash.

If that made any sense.
 
Time Traveler said:
Modern/Active Rock format, known as the "Underground Network". Alot of different stations, in various markets signed on for this new syndicated format, but the ratings on alot of the affiliates absolutely tanked, and the network went under during the summer of 1995. Morey sold the Albany affiliate in early 1996, and it flipped to Jesus...Obviously the Philadelphia affiliate didn't fare much better....
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Anyone else remember listening to the UA, complete with the current temperatures in Little Rock (?) and Albany every morning?

Does anyone know all of the Underground Network affiliates? WIBF/Philly, WLIR&WMRW/Long Island, WUNX&WUNZ/New England, WWCP/Albany, KDRE/Little Rock? Was there a Memphis and/or Nashville station?
 
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