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WILD NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO CHR PANEL

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atlantaboy

After all these years of asking for a youth-leaning CHR in ATL, it seems we already have one...

I have no clue why Wild is reporting to the Rhythmic panel...
The #1 song on the Rhythmic chart is "Drank In My Cup" - Wild is spinning it 10x a week
The #5 song on the Rhythmic chart is "Leave You Alone" - Wild is spinning it 11x a week
The #7 song on the Rhythmic chart is "Faded" - Wild is not spinning it at all
The #8 song on the Rhythmic chart is "The Motto" - Wild is not spinning it at all
The #10 song on the Rhythmic chart is "Cashin Out" - Wild is not spinning it at all

Wild is also not spinning the #11, #12, and #14 songs on the Rhythmic chart

Meanwhile, Wild is spinning Gotye 109x a week, Fun 53x a week, and Maroon 5 53x a week

Seems like Wild definitely needs to be moved to the CHR panel IMO - and that way, posters would stop complaining about Q100 :-\
 
Spins over 100 times a week, no way! A trip to Florida over the weekend got a chance to listen to POWER 96 Mimai and WILD 98.7 in Tampa. They both make our hometown WILD sound depressed.
 
Moving WiLD to the CHR panel wont make Q100 any better or worse. Therefore, it wont stop people from complaining about Q100.  ;)

I think a more effective complaint ceasing strategy would be to put WiLD on a stronger signal and that would take a lot of the attention given to Q100 and redirect it towards WiLD.

Never noticed the disappearance or lessening of a lot of hip hop songs being played on WiLD. They've surely gone more CHR. I wonder if the recent turn of events with their ratings has something to do with the direction the station has gone lately.

...And isn't WLLD WiLD 98.7 now at 94.1?
 
Wild has definitely lost some of the hip hop songs and has tweaked some and I think I know why.

All stations aim at a certain group of people, rather that be based on sex, age or race. In otherwords, radio CAN discriminate and skew towards a certain group of people. One very large group of people in Atlanta are now getting in on the action; Atlanta's Gay Community.

The HD pride channel has a lot of buzz in the streets of midtown and among many of my gay friends and those same friends are all about WILD. That is why I believe you are hearing much more dance oriented music rather than hip hop. When have plenty of Hot AC/CHR station in the metro so each one will have to create a niche and I think one niche that has been left out of the mix is the gay community which is a very powerful community in both sound and size in the city of Atlanta. With the exception of Key West and some of the California bigger cities, Atlanta has a very active scene and I do believe this is what WILD is skewing towards, especially considering the success of pride radio on HD2.

Just a thought though..... I could be wrong.


Of course, I guess we would know for certain if WILD started broadcasting live from The Jungle or some other gay club on Friday and/or Saturday nights.
 
acheron82 said:
Wild has definitely lost some of the hip hop songs and has tweaked some and I think I know why.

All stations aim at a certain group of people, rather that be based on sex, age or race. In otherwords, radio CAN discriminate and skew towards a certain group of people. One very large group of people in Atlanta are now getting in on the action; Atlanta's Gay Community.

The HD pride channel has a lot of buzz in the streets of midtown and among many of my gay friends and those same friends are all about WILD. That is why I believe you are hearing much more dance oriented music rather than hip hop. When have plenty of Hot AC/CHR station in the metro so each one will have to create a niche and I think one niche that has been left out of the mix is the gay community which is a very powerful community in both sound and size in the city of Atlanta.
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I thought the main complaint about Wild was that it was extremely difficult to pick up in the city (i. e. where 95% of the gay community lives)
 
The signal is not all that great but people still listen. My ex-roommate goes to a tanning bed in midtown and they play WILD on the PA inside the business. This is right off spring street. WILD has an odd signal because I've picked it up in Atlanta crystal clear at times while struggling to hear at other times. I've also got the signal all the way in Heflin Alabama. WILD has a very unusual signal but then again, downtown can prove hostile to any distant signal due to all the other towers located in and around downtown.
 
When I grew up in Vidalia, Ga (look it up), I use to work at a radio station and the urban station out of Savannah (90 miles away) would be number one in the county. The station barely reached Vidalia and was not always clear. However, it was the only urban station at the time and in the late 90s, urban was very popular with young people (black and white). My high school was mostly white but the number one station according to my class was E93 Jamz out of Savannah according to my classic 2000 year book.
 
Anyhow, I think it's pretty much accepted that a city's gay listenership goes mainly to dance-leaning CHR, Alternative, and AAA - that's they way it is in San Francisco anyway, and from my experience, seems to be the case here too

That's another reason I think CBS is gonna stick with Dave FM as AAA (instead of flipping to some 70s ballad format)
 
Nah, Dave is going to flip. Now it may skew more alternative or perhaps even some other format altogether. Dave's ratings are tanking.
 
acheron82 said:
Nah, Dave is going to flip. Now it may skew more alternative or perhaps even some other format altogether. Dave's ratings are tanking.
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That has been the story for what, 6 months now? CBS: Nothing. They've got nothing.
 
Well, according to 106.7, when they were introducing their all news format, they interviewed one of the Cumulus big wigs who said that another media group was looking at all news and cumulus decided to jump on it first. I think that other media group was CBS. You can throw it in my face if I'm wrong but I see something changing on 92.9 before August.
 
Getting back to Wild, I listened in today and realized why they're still on the Rhythmic panel - they play a lot of CHR hits, but they play dance remixes of EVERYTHING - and that includes a dance beat transitioning from one song to the next
 
atlantaboy said:
and that includes a dance beat transitioning from one song to the next
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What exactly do you mean by this? I'm assuming you're not talking about mixshow times, but rather when many songs with identical beat patterns are played immediately back to back with no drop in between.


By they way: WiLD's format is not really as odd as many local ATL. folks may believe. They're pretty much doing what several other chr's across the nation have been doing normally for a while now - following American pop music sound trends. Listen to many chr's and you'll notice that a lot of them are not only playing dance pop, but are playing uptempo songs with very identical beat patterns immediately back to back quite often. I'm not exactly sure how many stations play as many dance remixes as WiLD does, but a lot of chr's do tend to play the uptempo remix versions of select songs these days.
 
They still need to hit the pavement and nightclubs hard!!!! Atlanta is a party city and the "party station" isn't making much noise. I suggest mixshows at 12noon, 5pm and the current 8:30pm-9:30pm show is fine. How about LIVE club brodcast from 10pm-2am Thursdays-Sundays (ex HOT 107.9).
 
KDM 7000 said:
atlantaboy said:
and that includes a dance beat transitioning from one song to the next
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What exactly do you mean by this? I'm assuming you're not talking about mixshow times, but rather when many songs with identical beat patterns are played immediately back to back with no drop in between.


By they way: WiLD's format is not really as odd as many local ATL. folks may believe. They're pretty much doing what several other chr's across the nation have been doing normally for a while now - following American pop music sound trends. Listen to many chr's and you'll notice that a lot of them are not only playing dance pop, but are playing uptempo songs with very identical beat patterns immediately back to back quite often. I'm not exactly sure how many stations play as many dance remixes as WiLD does, but a lot of chr's do tend to play the uptempo remix versions of select songs these days.
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I don't know many CHRs that play dance remixes of every single song, and adjust the beats to blend into each other like one giant mixshow
 
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