We have room for two rock stations, just not two doing the same thing...

[p_herring]

Ever since RXP came on the air K-rock has made an OBVIOUS attempt to combat this by tweaking their format. In our new space, we now have two stations playing one random song after another which, on paper, looks pretty cool, but as a listener, doesn't leave much room for development. Sure, playing all the hits (and so many of them) is fun and adds variety but that begs the question: how do NEW songs rise up to become hits if the airtime is being clogged up by all the other old hits?

My proposal: 1 station does this "JACK Rock" format. The other goes Alternative/Active, playing 25-30 currents a week. It's what we need. Let RXP serve the "cool" people here in Manhattan by playing their "eclectic" mix (you know, 3 Doors Down into The Stooges into Nickelback into Tom Petty, etc.) and let K-Rock play the currents. That way we can have somewhere to go on the dial for new rock and somewhere to go for the shuffle format. Make sense?

 

[Ozman]

I am suprised that bashing is not going on between the two station on the air itself... be fun and attract listeners Like WAAF VS. WBCN does in boston when their bashing each other. Call in the Old Radio Dj's!!! Ben Harvey, Cabbie, Will Pendarvis, Sloggo, Julie Slater, ETC be interesting if old time DJ's were still running the stations. Thank god Danni is still here

Ever since RXP came on the air K-rock has made an OBVIOUS attempt to combat this by tweaking their format. In our new space, we now have two stations playing one random song after another which, on paper, looks pretty cool, but as a listener, doesn't leave much room for development. Sure, playing all the hits (and so many of them) is fun and adds variety but that begs the question: how do NEW songs rise up to become hits if the airtime is being clogged up by all the other old hits?

My proposal: 1 station does this "JACK Rock" format. The other goes Alternative/Active, playing 25-30 currents a week. It's what we need. Let RXP serve the "cool" people here in Manhattan by playing their "eclectic" mix (you know, 3 Doors Down into The Stooges into Nickelback into Tom Petty, etc.) and let K-Rock play the currents. That way we can have somewhere to go on the dial for new rock and somewhere to go for the shuffle format. Make sense?

 

[kevinsealy]

With three rock formatted stations serving the NYC Metro area with WRXP leaning slightly more towards WAXQ-1043, the landscape is going to be stretched thin with Q-1043 losing more of their share of listeners than WXRK-Rock.

But even with a slight dip for K-Rock hurts them more than Q-1043. And this may force CBS Radio to consider a format change.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy