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If 101.7 becomes Talk 1200 I will think Boston is the largest city in the country with the most boring radio station's this will make it's fourth talk station there's already 93.7, 96.9 and 98.5 I will think it's pathetic if Talk 1200 goes on 101.7 I hope it becomes either a Mainstream Urban, Urban AC, or Hot AC, I remembered an awesome Hip Hop station in Boston called Hot 97.7 which had a Mainstream Urban from winter 1999 the format lasted up until October of 2005 then it became a good R&B station WILD 97.7 then after that in August of 2006 it became a simulcast of WAAF 107.3 in Worcester making Boston the largest market in the country without any urban based radio station but I thought Jam'n 94.5 was a lot better back then. Jam'n was good up until 2009 then it started playing pop music I'm like that type of music should only be played on Kiss 108 or Mix 104.1 except if it's like Pitbull, LMFAO, or Flo-Rida which these artist are played on most Rhythmic stations. These days I think Jam'n 94.5 is a good Hip Hop station once again it was worse a couple years ago I got so sick of listening too Lady Gaga's Bad Romance over and over that I just started listening to out of market's Providence Hot 106 online which never plays songs like that even till this day most of the radio station's from Providence do come in where I live, Hot 106 just has a weak class A 1150 Watts that I get interference with 106.3 Frank FM in Nashua. Jam'n did get better last year but from 2009 to 2010 I thought Jam'n was a boring Hip Hop station before 2009 I thought it was an great Hip Hop station. The Concert's are still fun though. Jam'n 94.5 and Kiss 108 are the other FM station's owned by Clear Channel so I don't know if 101.7 would be a Mainstream Urban or the other formats I just said on top and that's Clear Channel's decision what the new format will be on July 23 not yours so don't say it won't be an urban because it might be one of the format's that I said on top. I would rather the station being any music format than Talk 1200.
93.7 and 98.5 are sports talk, 96.9 is politics and lifestyle talk and 101.7 could be the same--not the same thing as sports.. The first two are cash cows. 96.9 may be doing ok for Greater for all these yrs (since 99) and who knows, they could get Howie and CC would be attempting to make some money with a simulcast or move of 1200...as said before an urban 101.7 might be CC cannibalizing its own audience. Maybe Greater could take 96.9 and make it urban if they think it would do better.
Boring to some may mean money-making to others, or else these big companies would have made one of their FMs into that urban format years ago...and who knows, they still may. Add to these stations the NPR/public radio news and talk of WBUR and WGBH--and those stations run what they run for a reason, too. As much as jazz fans will mourn the cuts 'GBH is making, they--despite the label of "non-commercial"--forsee a cash cow, in donations (corporate, private. etc) Maybe CC will try Urban if as you say Jam'n strayed from its original sound to play "pop music" in which case it maybe wouldn't take away from the 94.5 audience they have. It comes down to CC maximizing what they paid for 101.7--a huge amount, and they'd want to make it pay off for them. So far no word on format has leaked out; we may finally find out in just over a month
Boring to some may mean money-making to others, or else these big companies would have made one of their FMs into that urban format years ago...and who knows, they still may. Add to these stations the NPR/public radio news and talk of WBUR and WGBH--and those stations run what they run for a reason, too. As much as jazz fans will mourn the cuts 'GBH is making, they--despite the label of "non-commercial"--forsee a cash cow, in donations (corporate, private. etc) Maybe CC will try Urban if as you say Jam'n strayed from its original sound to play "pop music" in which case it maybe wouldn't take away from the 94.5 audience they have. It comes down to CC maximizing what they paid for 101.7--a huge amount, and they'd want to make it pay off for them. So far no word on format has leaked out; we may finally find out in just over a month
I STILL can't help but wonder if Clear Channel is going to put the Jammin' format on 101.7 (good urban signal) and use the powerful 94.5 as their FM talk outlet.
Seems music is being de-emphasized in many cases these days and talk/sports/news is the real moneymaker and is less subject to impact from streaming music services (which are often more attuned to their target audiences than terrestrial music radio these days).
Seems music is being de-emphasized in many cases these days and talk/sports/news is the real moneymaker and is less subject to impact from streaming music services (which are often more attuned to their target audiences than terrestrial music radio these days).
They have enough talk station's on strong Class B station's they have 93.7, 96.9, and 98.5. Jam'n is staying right where it is to be honest with you Jam'n 94.5 is one of the top 5 radio station's and my favorite in Boston Jam'n is Rhythmic CHR not urban and I don't listen to Talk radio at all and I really only listen to music on the radio and If Jam'n went on 101.7 then I can't here it in New Hampshire. You could listen to Talk 1200 over the Worldwide web or on the WXKS HD2 signal. I would just rather the 101.7 signal to be anything rather than Jam'n 94.5, Kiss 108, Talk 1200 or Classic Hits because Boston already has two Classic Hits stations. If 101.7 could be any format I would like it to be a format such as Urban AC, Mainstream Urban, Smooth Jazz, Hot AC which would compete with strong signal Mix 104.1, Country which would compete with strong signal Country 102.5 or just any type of music format except for Rhythmic CHR, or Top 40.HHH said:
Mark of brw pointed out to me http://www.radio1017.com has Mia logo on it and said it could be someone running interference...I don't know if cc would tip their hand at this point. A WHOIS search turned up no info--private registration. (WHOIS is when you go to a domain name registry and enter in dom. name to see who owns it. For an extra fee, this info could be made private.)
of course anyone could reg a domain name to throw people off track; jeffkatz1017.com, country1017boston.com etc
of course anyone could reg a domain name to throw people off track; jeffkatz1017.com, country1017boston.com etc
raccoonradio said:
Isn't the (famous--or should that be infamous?) Joseph Gallant the guy who has been the most vocal here about CCU putting Mia on 101.7? I do not know Gallant personally at all--have never even seen his cable TV show (not sure if it's still running), but somebody who knows him might like to venture an opinion on whether registering a bogus domain name is the sort of thing he would be likely to do. Given that Gallant's postings always seem to contain outrageous predictions even though he never seems to be joking (serious tone), I have to wonder about whether he could be behind such a prank.
To respond to Dan Strassberg:
I did not register the http://www.radio1017.com domain.
It was probably registered by someone (likely not by anyone who is a regular visitor to these messageboards) who was hoping to see users of this (and other) messageboards start threads and make comments.
If Clear Channel were to simulcast WKOX-1430 on 101.7 (which I personally think is what they'll do once they acquire the 101.7 signal), I don't think they would put up a "Radio 101.7 com" site "this early in the game".
Besides, it's still a month (July 22nd) until CC takes over the signal.
I don't think we'll know for sure what they will do with it until just a few days before they take the signal over.
By mid-July, we may see clues as to what Clear Channel might do.
I did not register the http://www.radio1017.com domain.
It was probably registered by someone (likely not by anyone who is a regular visitor to these messageboards) who was hoping to see users of this (and other) messageboards start threads and make comments.
If Clear Channel were to simulcast WKOX-1430 on 101.7 (which I personally think is what they'll do once they acquire the 101.7 signal), I don't think they would put up a "Radio 101.7 com" site "this early in the game".
Besides, it's still a month (July 22nd) until CC takes over the signal.
I don't think we'll know for sure what they will do with it until just a few days before they take the signal over.
By mid-July, we may see clues as to what Clear Channel might do.
Tried it on my portable, 'tis true. But maybe they're just saving some electricity. Don't know if the move will happen or not. Maybe more people are listening to 1200 on I Heart Radio than on HD
93.7 HD 2 funkytown or whatever it's called is still on etc.
93.7 HD 2 funkytown or whatever it's called is still on etc.
Well, with the recent news about WODS, we may as well see Oldies on 101.7.
RBRadioWaves said:
WODS hasn't been an Oldies station for four years. All use of the word Oldies was dropped in 2008, '50s/early '60s music was dropped a decade ago. It became a Classic Hits station.
raccoonradio said:
I never noticed the IBOC to be off to begin with, but since yesterday morning, their 107.6-ish IBOC sideband has been on, real strong——at first I thought it might be a close dead carrier, like maybe a new, local pirate testing, but when I checked on my car radio (with good, DSP selectivity), only 'XKS popping in and out as splatter is noted.
Perhaps they upped it to the enhanced level, like 'KLB’s 102.5? :-\
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