What does Raleigh Need?

[yankees]

I say a BOB-FM or JACK-FM like 93.7 BOB-FM in VA. BEACH that station is pretty good. But where would it go?

 

[TheBigWhiteWolf]

Another country station!

 

[yankees]

2 words 'HELL' and 'NO!'

 

[EncSpy]

something to compete against those poor excuses for urbans and urban AC's... (wqok and wfxc/wfxk)

 

[allenv]

I think Foxy is great. Very professional. I do wish they would go back to a live local afternoon show.....

 

[berlin201]

I say a BOB-FM or JACK-FM like 93.7 BOB-FM in VA. BEACH that station is pretty good. But where would it go?

There's a BOB-FM on 93.3 that reaches the eastern end of Raleigh, but come closer to Durham and Bob gets "drowned out" by G-boro's Wolf (93.1). As for the "Jack" format, which station would it replace?

 

[berlin201]

Another country station!

That is one thing we already have way too many of... Let's see now, there's

94.7 QDR,
99.9,
106.1 The Rooster,
that country station on 102.5 that CMG is talking about moving to Hillsborough,
and another country station on 103.3 that reaches down here from Danville, VA.

Not to mention those other stations out of Rocky Mount and points east that fade in and out...

 

[BS1012]

And while not from Raleigh, 95.1 comes in decent in parts of Raleigh.

 

[berlin201]

And while not from Raleigh, 95.1 comes in decent in parts of Raleigh.

Oops... forgot about WRNS... I wonder if they're still swapping RDS data with WRDU like they did before the flip to The Rooster... ???

 

[w00t]

And while not from Raleigh, 95.1 comes in decent in parts of Raleigh.

Oops... forgot about WRNS... I wonder if they're still swapping RDS data with WRDU like they did before the flip to The Rooster... ???

Doooooooo whaaaaaat? Swapping RDS data?

 

[berlin201]

What happened was that, prior to WRDU's flip to The Rooster, for some odd reason, instead of flashing "Your Country! WRNS" on the RDS display, it flashed "106.1RDU" on the display on WRNS 95.1. The COLs of WRNS and WRDU are fairly close to each other, and people thought that was what may have caused the confusion.

 

[w00t]

My radio does this a lot anyway. It's usually on co-owned stations, (I guess somehow it knows what kind of RDS generator is being used?) for instance 99X will often say WSFL until it pulls the correct data. I've had Party 101.1 also say WRNS many times if it couldn't pull the data (weak signal).

Maybe same thing happened to you? What kind of radio is it?

 

[carlosswicegood]

getting back on track...


a modern or alt. rocker might work here.

-someone else choose which station should flip. (somewhere in the 100.5-100.9 range would be great )

 

[naytchrboy]

I'm just a radio listener and wanted the opinion of you professionals. Do the economics prevent an "all-news" format from being heard in the Triangle? I find myself listening to these types of stations in the larger cities when I travel and wish I had something like it here.

And I personally would love to see a "nostalgia-esque" format here, but again, that seems to be something you only find in really large markets or really small towns. Alas! to be trapped in a mid-sized area.

 

[dittohead1]

Do the economics prevent an "all-news" format from being heard in the Triangle?

YES

It is very expensive and very labor-intensive and that's why you only hear it in HUGE markets (NY, DC, Chicago, for example). Even Atlanta and Miami, which have a TON of listeners don't have all-news stations.

 

[larsonthebeat]

I'm again of the belief of Raleigh would thrive on a Alternative/Active Rock station. Here is what I would suggest and it's all in CC's hands.

Fix 100.7 to the way it should be and make it a REAL classic rock station. The way RDU used to be

Then, flip RDU to an Alternative/Active format, and basically give it another breath of rock life. A new generation of rock on RDU...

Either that, or 96rock pulls it's head out of it's butt and REALLY play "everything that rocks"...