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What is with all the new CHRs coming out?

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icycool7227

I tell ya the number of CHRs appearing both as changed formats and added streams is tremendous. I'm having trouble keeping track of them all! Why has there been so much rebranding these days? Is CHR a really good money maker in most markets?
 
CHR is going through a boom period right now. When a format is hot stations flip to it. I can still think of markets with only one CHR (or only one on a decent signal) that could use some competition.
 
Jay F said:
I can still think of markets with only one CHR (or only one on a decent signal) that could use some competition.
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Boston's Kiss 108 surely needs competition (Jam'n 94.5 doesn't count since they're sister stations)... a 9.6 this month and still growing.

Atlanta needs a CHR. Q100 can't seem to find its format (they recently played a Smashing Pumpkins song).
 
musicman3355 said:
Jay F said:
I can still think of markets with only one CHR (or only one on a decent signal) that could use some competition.
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Boston's Kiss 108 surely needs competition (Jam'n 94.5 doesn't count since they're sister stations)... a 9.6 this month and still growing.

Atlanta needs a CHR. Q100 can't seem to find its format (they recently played a Smashing Pumpkins song).
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If the tables were turned in Boston and a different company had a CHR monopoly getting huge ratings I have no doubt that CC would put on a competitor.

I also agree about ATL. Both Q100 and STAR seem too Hot AC to me. There is especially a hole for a rhythmic leaning mainstream now that the BEAT no longer exists.
 
musicman3355 said:
Atlanta needs a CHR. Q100 can't seem to find its format (they recently played a Smashing Pumpkins song).
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Q flirted with some 90s titles earlier this week, and not just from the Rock camp. With 105.7/96.7 The Groove ditching most of their older titles Q may end up tossing out the few 90s records they'd added.
 
The format is indeed booming; in addition to those mid-eighties ratings for WXKS, KIIS's current 6.7 is their best rating since 20-year old Taylor Swift was in diapers, and ditto for WHTZ.

The combined 10.5 ratings in LA for KIIS & KAMP, as well as the out-of-the-box success which KAMP has enjoyed has certainly gotten the attention of tons of radio owners out there.

KIIS hit a 10.0 in the fall of 1984 when the format was truly a mass-appeal one, but a 6.7 will get everybody's attention, as Sean Ross points out in both of his newsletters on this website--RossOnRadio and the newly-launched 25-Plus.
 
this was happening back 10 years ago when clear channel was launching a kiss-fm anywhere they could
remember that ?
 
yeah i miss those days. how many of them are there still in existance? or have some of them flipped? I know 92.7 Kiss FM in IL flipped and so did 93.7 Kiss FM in VA.
 
Some Kiss stations are urban or urban AC, and I know of one in N.C thats 93.9 Kiss FM in Raleigh, and its a rhythmic ac.. then we have CHRs that arent even owned by CC using the KISS name,,,, AKA Kiss 95.2 Charllotte.
 
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