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mike7586
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Hey everyone, I'm new! So I just moved to Atlanta a few months ago (from Charlotte) and the state of Top 40/CHR radio here is pathetic. To begin, if you're not into Top 40 radio, please don't respond to this thread about how crappy Top 40 radio is in general.
So let's start with Q100. What is up with this station? First, my biggest pet peeve of all with Q100 - what is up with that guy's voice in the "jingle"? It sounds terrible! The girl's voice sounds fine, when they sing "Q100 Atlanta" it sounds fine, but when they use that guys terrible voice, it hurts your ears! It does not sound professional at all and you think they would be able to get another guys voice to use instead. Am I the only one who notices how bad it sounds? I have emailed Q100 numerous times about this but I never get a response from any of them. Q100, if you're reading, CHANGE IT IT SOUNDS LIKE CRAP!
Second, the station lacks energy, the DJ's personalities are boring (probably because of Cumulus requires them to be that way), and the play list is full of recurrent songs (for example, how can you rotate Jason Mraz - I'm Yours, Owl City - Fireflies, Theory of a Deadman - Not Meant To Be, and Pink songs MORE than new music? Not to mention, why are those songs still getting airtime on this station?). Then out of the blue, they start playing songs like Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (umm?), Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want (uhh?), Crazy Town - Butterfly (really?), Sick Puppies - Maybe (really?!).
What are they doing?! They play these songs, meanwhile they never even touch songs like David Guetta - Gettin' Over You, David Guetta - Memories, Akon - Angel, Auburn - La La La, Kevin Rudolf - I Made It, Selena Gomez songs, Cascada - Evacuate The Dance Floor, Sean Kingston songs, Pitbull songs, and I could go on and on. And I HATE when they only play certain songs at night, for example Far East Movement - Like A G6. Play it during the day! I can't believe Charlotte, NC has better Top 40/CHR stations than Atlanta (actually Charlotte has 2 now, Kiss 95.1 and 96.1 The Beat which just recently went mainstream). Clear Channel and CBS have a much better grasp on Top 40/CHR than Cumulus. I wish Clear Channel would just buy Q100 from Cumulus and make it like Z100 in NY or Y100 in Miami or KIIS in Dallas/Los Angeles, or even like 96.1 The Beat in Charlotte.
Which now brings me to The Groove. I was super excited this was a Clear Channel station and at first, it seemed like the station was going in the KTU (in NY) direction. Then, it ended up leaning more towards Top 40/CHR (especially after 95.5 The Beat went away) which made me more excited because I thought this might finally mean Atlanta will get a true, full blown CHR station but no, what do they do? They basically copied 95.5 The Beat with a different name. Now I don't know what The Beat used to be like back in the day, but recently before it went away, it sucked. Just like The Groove is now, it was super repetitive, very narrow play list (The Groove now has 88 songs on their play list which is ridiculous compared to most stations which have 150-200 plus songs), and slow with adding new music (no Kevin Rudolf, no Auburn, no new David Guetta, no mix of Pitbull or Sean Paul songs, etc etc). For now, at least the DJ's at The Groove are better than The Beat, but I noticed they are starting to add The Beat DJ's back. What the hell is going on!? I even called The Groove to complain about the repetitiveness and ask what happened, and this is what they told me:
"The Beat had good ratings and unfortunately our listeners don't keep the channel on long, so to be honest with you, we are going to be playing a lot of the same songs over and over."
Wow, way to sell out Groove! And the sad part is, I think The Groove is more repetitive than The Beat. I mean, even in their Mix at 6, they play the same 5-10 songs... they don't even mix that it up with different stuff!
So now what do we have left? Confused and boring Q100, repetitive and limited Groove, and poor Star 94 (what a confused and boring mess that is). Star 94 needs to go the PLJ (in NY) route - PLJ is Hot AC and you could listen for a long period of time because they do a good job mixing it up.
I don't know why Q100 is going after Star 94 and even 99x with some of their music! They should be going after The Groove, but they really don't have any competition. If they went full blown CHR, they would do well because it doesn't exist in Atlanta. Somebody somewhere has to see this huge gaping hole in Atlanta radio and want to take advantage of it. Now I don't mind Dave FM, but the signal is strong and if it is true the station is losing popularity, I wonder if CBS would considering switching it to CHR?
So let's start with Q100. What is up with this station? First, my biggest pet peeve of all with Q100 - what is up with that guy's voice in the "jingle"? It sounds terrible! The girl's voice sounds fine, when they sing "Q100 Atlanta" it sounds fine, but when they use that guys terrible voice, it hurts your ears! It does not sound professional at all and you think they would be able to get another guys voice to use instead. Am I the only one who notices how bad it sounds? I have emailed Q100 numerous times about this but I never get a response from any of them. Q100, if you're reading, CHANGE IT IT SOUNDS LIKE CRAP!
Second, the station lacks energy, the DJ's personalities are boring (probably because of Cumulus requires them to be that way), and the play list is full of recurrent songs (for example, how can you rotate Jason Mraz - I'm Yours, Owl City - Fireflies, Theory of a Deadman - Not Meant To Be, and Pink songs MORE than new music? Not to mention, why are those songs still getting airtime on this station?). Then out of the blue, they start playing songs like Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (umm?), Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want (uhh?), Crazy Town - Butterfly (really?), Sick Puppies - Maybe (really?!).
What are they doing?! They play these songs, meanwhile they never even touch songs like David Guetta - Gettin' Over You, David Guetta - Memories, Akon - Angel, Auburn - La La La, Kevin Rudolf - I Made It, Selena Gomez songs, Cascada - Evacuate The Dance Floor, Sean Kingston songs, Pitbull songs, and I could go on and on. And I HATE when they only play certain songs at night, for example Far East Movement - Like A G6. Play it during the day! I can't believe Charlotte, NC has better Top 40/CHR stations than Atlanta (actually Charlotte has 2 now, Kiss 95.1 and 96.1 The Beat which just recently went mainstream). Clear Channel and CBS have a much better grasp on Top 40/CHR than Cumulus. I wish Clear Channel would just buy Q100 from Cumulus and make it like Z100 in NY or Y100 in Miami or KIIS in Dallas/Los Angeles, or even like 96.1 The Beat in Charlotte.
Which now brings me to The Groove. I was super excited this was a Clear Channel station and at first, it seemed like the station was going in the KTU (in NY) direction. Then, it ended up leaning more towards Top 40/CHR (especially after 95.5 The Beat went away) which made me more excited because I thought this might finally mean Atlanta will get a true, full blown CHR station but no, what do they do? They basically copied 95.5 The Beat with a different name. Now I don't know what The Beat used to be like back in the day, but recently before it went away, it sucked. Just like The Groove is now, it was super repetitive, very narrow play list (The Groove now has 88 songs on their play list which is ridiculous compared to most stations which have 150-200 plus songs), and slow with adding new music (no Kevin Rudolf, no Auburn, no new David Guetta, no mix of Pitbull or Sean Paul songs, etc etc). For now, at least the DJ's at The Groove are better than The Beat, but I noticed they are starting to add The Beat DJ's back. What the hell is going on!? I even called The Groove to complain about the repetitiveness and ask what happened, and this is what they told me:
"The Beat had good ratings and unfortunately our listeners don't keep the channel on long, so to be honest with you, we are going to be playing a lot of the same songs over and over."
Wow, way to sell out Groove! And the sad part is, I think The Groove is more repetitive than The Beat. I mean, even in their Mix at 6, they play the same 5-10 songs... they don't even mix that it up with different stuff!
So now what do we have left? Confused and boring Q100, repetitive and limited Groove, and poor Star 94 (what a confused and boring mess that is). Star 94 needs to go the PLJ (in NY) route - PLJ is Hot AC and you could listen for a long period of time because they do a good job mixing it up.
I don't know why Q100 is going after Star 94 and even 99x with some of their music! They should be going after The Groove, but they really don't have any competition. If they went full blown CHR, they would do well because it doesn't exist in Atlanta. Somebody somewhere has to see this huge gaping hole in Atlanta radio and want to take advantage of it. Now I don't mind Dave FM, but the signal is strong and if it is true the station is losing popularity, I wonder if CBS would considering switching it to CHR?