what the hell is 92.3?????????

[RFLA]

Something no one ever said, but can WDVW and KYRK compete with the same format from the same tower? is there an agreement to not cross each others formats on the tower?

Pretty much right now it's 80s- today's AOR/classics that CKW played style around 1994 with pop songs and a few recurrants but most older songs are apparently classic hit/classic rock songs. But sounds like other Hot A/Cs I've seen in other markets but it will be interesting if KYRK does any changing if Ginty will go full on rock if allowed by management.

But no , listen occasionally to KRDJ out of Lafayette and notice he's a big late 80s -2002 fan by the playlist
If he could translate that with a new rock additions to 92.3 it would be interesting as he was doing a pretty good job with RNO a few years ago....

 

[JasonReed]

I like it. Repetition is not a problem on this station, just the narrow selection of 80's music. But I will say Ginty is doing a fine job so far.

One opinion is they need to play a bigger variety of the 80's music they rotate. I don't understand, but for some reason whenever stations play 80's music, they always seem to choose the same 20 songs from that era and play just those. Early 80's like Pat Benatar, Blondie, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett, etc. Stop forgetting about the mid and late 80's.

Jeremy

 

[Phyllis]

Remember the old saying "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you CAN'T please all of the people all of the time." I've seen it attempted time and time again. bad move

 

[quitnow]

One opinion is they need to play a bigger variety of the 80's music they rotate. I don't understand, but for some reason whenever stations play 80's music, they always seem to choose the same 20 songs from that era and play just those. Early 80's like Pat Benatar, Blondie, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett, etc. Stop forgetting about the mid and late 80's.

Jeremy,

You forget that music testing is about what songs are most familiar to an audience. When those are the songs that are placed in a test, and they do well, they are what's picked. Clocks are built these days on a 20 minute listening span since the average listener listens to the radio between 10 and 20 minutes. Mix that with test after test that says listeners will stop to hear a song they know rather than one they don't, and you have most radio of today.

Music tests should always be random (eras and, in this case genres mixed) and based on "would you listen to the whole song" rather than the "do you like it." Also, a lot of radio guys don't have an ear for their listeners, but for themselves and end up choosing bad songs.