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criminallawbaer

Does anyone think the wpb market will
Ever get a rock station again? Big 105.9 has shifted their music to make it more mainstream but the gater has not. I am hoping wzzr 92.1 will flip as their talk format seems flat. Any thoughts?
 
criminallawbaer said:
Does anyone think the wpb market will Ever get a rock station again? Big 105.9 has shifted their music to make it more mainstream but the gater has not. I am hoping wzzr 92.1 will flip as their talk format seems flat. Any thoughts?
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Though it's been gone for more than a decade, I still miss 93 Rock. It's what I listened to in the car most evenings and weekends (I'd listen to NPR during commutes) back before I had options like XM/Sirius and in-car WiFi. The constant repetition and "listener fatigue" from their seemingly limited playlist is possibly what killed them (I heard/read a lot of complaints about that from others who otherwise liked the station). For instance, "Love in and Elevator" by Aerosmith seemed to be in somewhat heavy rotation though they weren't a 'classic rock' station and so much great music was missing from their library. In November 2010 they started playing Christmas music, and in January '11, they came back as Easy 93.1...Which is when I removed them from my presets.

I know the discussion about a proper rock station in the Miami/Lauderdale/Palm Beach markets was brought up in the past and a few including @DavidEduardo explained why the demographics might make it difficult.
 
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Back when 93Rock was around, a 2 share was seen as unacceptably poor performance for an FM station in Miami-Dade with a flamethrower signal. The station also billed poorly.

The station never offered its audience compelling stationality; most of the air talent was incredibly milquetoast. Was never a true replacement for 94-9 Zeta.
 
Mikey Radio said:
Though it's been gone for more than a decade, I still miss 93 Rock. It's what I listened to in the car most evenings and weekends (I'd listen to NPR during commutes) back before I had options like XM/Sirius and in-car WiFi. The constant repetition and "listener fatigue" from their seemingly limited playlist is possibly what killed them (I heard/read a lot of complaints about that from others who otherwise liked the station). For instance, "Love in and Elevator" by Aerosmith seemed to be in somewhat heavy rotation though they weren't a 'classic rock' station and so much great music was missing from their library. In November 2010 they started playing Christmas music, and in January '11, they came back as Easy 93.1...Which is when I removed them from my presets.

I know the discussion about a proper rock station in the Miami/Lauderdale/Palm Beach markets was brought up in the past and a few including @DavidEduardo explained why the demographics might make it difficult.
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I think 93 Rock was playing Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' more often than the classic rock station was. I don't exactly remember if they had always mixed in classic rock with the newer stuff they played but there was certainly a fair amount of it towards the end.
 
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