WHTT's special announcement?

[swhunte]

Apparently at 9am Saturday morning.
Anyone have any hints (i.e. Jim)? New direction for the station? Or is it meant to stay under wraps until then?

 

[Yeziknoradio]

Apparently at 9am Saturday morning.
Anyone have any hints (i.e. Jim)? New direction for the station? Or is it meant to stay under wraps until then?

Saturday? Why Saturday? This makes me think there's some special thing hapening every Saturday morning from now on perhaps...?

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

Apparently at 9am Saturday morning. Anyone have any hints (i.e. Jim)? New direction for the station? Or is it meant to stay under wraps until then?

Thanks for your interest. Hope you'll enjoy listening all weekend as WHTT presents a Free Preview Weekend. It's a commercial-free sample of Buffalo's Best Mix of Music. Non stop hits all day Saturday (9 a.m. to midnight) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.) with Tom Schuh, Tony Venturoli, Brian J. Walker and "Mikey" Mike Jacobs.

And "thanks for being part of the show."

-Jim

 

[BUFFALOFLYGUY]

Oh god, I am now a bit worried. Somehow, and I may be off base here that WHTT is planning to become more like Star 102.5. I have this deep sinking feeling that they may decide to abandon most of there 70's playlist and concentrate on the 25 - 40 year old demographics.

If that happens, after Christmas we will end up with 3 Buffalo F.Ms playing the same adult ac.

And if that happens, we can all go back to listen to HUM DRUM unexiting Buffalo radio.

Please, God, let me be wrong!

 

[SirRoxalot]

Star ****?

Completely abandon th '70s? Heck, I'll be pissed if they completely abandon the '60s. I'm not advocating a return to "Oldies", but there's some darn good music that works across generations coming out of the '60s. You hear it on commercials all the time.

I can see them concentrating on 35-54 year olds, but not 25-34s. That would be way too much of a change unless they're going to completely abandon the audience that they've built over the last few years.

 

[KenCasey]

Apparently at 9am Saturday morning. Anyone have any hints (i.e. Jim)? New direction for the station? Or is it meant to stay under wraps until then?

Thanks for your interest. Hope you'll enjoy listening all weekend as WHTT presents a Free Preview Weekend. It's a commercial-free sample of Buffalo's Best Mix of Music. Non stop hits all day Saturday (9 a.m. to midnight) and Sunday (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.) with Tom Schuh, Tony Venturoli, Brian J. Walker and "Mikey" Mike Jacobs.

And "thanks for being part of the show."

-Jim

I was hoping that it would be the return of "Pastrick" giving the woofers a work-out.
Ken

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

I was hoping that it would be the return of "Pastrick" giving the woofers a work-out. -Ken

;D Ken Casey, Author of one of the best practical jokes ever played on an unsuspecting "talk show host" when he programmed KB and I had the office across the hall at WGR in the Delaware Avenue barn. When I think of that phone ringing, repeatedly and the talk show host dashing from her desk... Priceless! Good to see you contribute. -Jim

 

[Element9]

Re: Star ****?

Completely abandon th '70s? Heck, I'll be pissed if they completely abandon the '60s. I'm not advocating a return to "Oldies", but there's some darn good music that works across generations coming out of the '60s. You hear it on commercials all the time.

I can see them concentrating on 35-54 year olds, but not 25-34s. That would be way too much of a change unless they're going to completely abandon the audience that they've built over the last few years.

They're talking about a "commercial free weekend" rather than a "new format." Even if they play one or two 60's songs an hour, it would would work for me. There's some great 60's music (almost all Motown and Aretha, Beatles & Stones, for example) that would work with the 70's, 80's and 90's. It sounds like this is just what WHTT is doing, at least as I've heard it the last week. Cheryl Crow + Marvin Gaye; Huey Lewis + Four Tops; Tina Turner + Temptations... it works. WHTT appears to be positioning their revamped format to potential WJYE and Star listeners who aren't ready for Christmas music the week before Thanksgiving. Give them credit for a slick promotion and taking advantage of the other station's soft spots. Wonder how they get away with no commercials on a weekend in the last quarter of the year?

-9-

 

[SirRoxalot]

Re: Star ****?

Wonder how they get away with no commercials on a weekend in the last quarter of the year?

Let's see if we pay for the "commercial free weekend" this coming week...

I hope they don't change too much. I like a lot of what I'm hearing. There are some disco tunes that have me reaching for the button, but I find myself on WHTT more than any other station these days. Then again, I'm not too sure that I'm in the demo that they're looking for.

 

[KenCasey]

I was hoping that it would be the return of "Pastrick" giving the woofers a work-out. -Ken

;D Ken Casey, Author of one of the best practical jokes ever played on an unsuspecting "talk show host" when he programmed KB and I had the office across the hall at WGR in the Delaware Avenue barn. When I think of that phone ringing, repeatedly and the talk show host dashing from her desk... Priceless! Good to see you contribute. -Jim

It's been a long time since I thought about that, still brings a tear to my eye when I think about it! We need to get together for lunch sometime and catch up. Hope all is well for you.