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Will the plug be pulled on STAR 100.7?

pman44 said:
Knisha1 said:
CBS had the NASCAR rights when 93.7 was talk, and moved them to Y108 to finish the season when the B came back. They could fill that void in Pittsburgh. I know WEGW can be heard for those south of the city, but I don't know about the rest of the area. Plus they could do tie-ins with Y108.
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I cannot think of a worse listening experience than NASCAR on radio. Was on vacation down south and couldn't get away from it. I kept hoping it would turn into the old Spike Jones song and that Beetlebaum would win, but now it just kept roaring on and on...
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All a matter of taste. I became a NASCAR fan through being the board op for the races at WKEG in the 80's. Really well produced, you always know what's going on, and the broadcasts carry the same sound today. In fact, the pacing of Fox's TV broadcasts is very similar to the radio play-by-play.
 
OR . . . all of this talk of format flipping could have been fabricated out of sheer boredom since none of it makes any sense.
 
Dave said:
It looks like B94 is leaving us once again. :'( I hope they still keep the name "B94" even though it may be changing to the awful HOT AC format. Do we really need two HOT AC stations right next to each other on the FM dial (93.7 and 92.9)?

I hope they market the new station as "Classic B94". I'm sorry but the STAR name has to go. . . I think it could be very successful, although I hate the idea of anything other than CHR being on 93.7. If this change must happen, then please put Bubba, Shelley, and Melanie in the mornings please!

I won't be listening to the new B94 (or whatever it becomes), but I wish them continued success. It's back to KISS for me. . .
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96.1 Kiss sounds like a joke to me... it looks like its ran by drunk teens, worst CC CHR I ever heard...
 
Sorry Parttimer, good guess but it's WAY off! I don't listen to B-94, nor do I care to hear more radio sports. Didn't they flip B-94 a few years ago to K-Rock (which actually sounded great, so of course they nuked it), then that hideous man station which was so forgettable, I can't for the life of me recall the name? What a disaster. Had it not been for Scott Paulsen, they'd have been off the air in 6 minutes, not 6 months, and it's a shame CBS even wasted Scott's time, associating him with that station in the first place. So, that failed, and they went back to B-94 ( Why'd they dump it in the first place?) and now they're going to dump it AGAIN? Has it occurred to anyone at CBS that there are human beings involved here and you can't shuffle them around like cattle? WTF?

What we need is a good ROCK station. One that actually plays rock, not oldies or classic rock, not a rock song once every 6 hours, buried amongst acres of the same old crap, and not one with jocks that are full of themselves. If they don't or can't effectively do a good rock format, what about Urban? There's a giant, gaping hole where WAMO used to live. Fill that before you worry about adding another sports station.

We have a great city, but I swear, listening to radio in this town is like reading the same boring, small town newspaper every day for 20 years. No surprises, and nothing new. My favorite station is iPod.
 
musicman3355 said:
Dave said:
It looks like B94 is leaving us once again. :'( I hope they still keep the name "B94" even though it may be changing to the awful HOT AC format. Do we really need two HOT AC stations right next to each other on the FM dial (93.7 and 92.9)?

I hope they market the new station as "Classic B94". I'm sorry but the STAR name has to go. . . I think it could be very successful, although I hate the idea of anything other than CHR being on 93.7. If this change must happen, then please put Bubba, Shelley, and Melanie in the mornings please!

I won't be listening to the new B94 (or whatever it becomes), but I wish them continued success. It's back to KISS for me. . .
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96.1 Kiss sounds like a joke to me... it looks like its ran by drunk teens, worst CC CHR I ever heard...
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I definitely prefer B94 over KISS, but I'm a CHR fan and if KISS is the only CHR left in town then I'll be listening to them over STAR or anything else on the FM dial...

Someone mentioned that 100.7 may become an AMP station. What's the difference between CHR B94 and the CHR AMP stations around the country? And why would they move it to 100.7? If CBS is planning on keeping CHR in Pittsburgh, then they should leave B94 on 93.7 and flip 100.7 to Sports Talk. Why in the world would you want to intentionally confuse and alienate listeners for the sake of giving the sports talk station a better signal on 93.7?
 
Budda-Bing said:
Has it occurred to anyone at CBS that there are human beings involved here and you can't shuffle them around like cattle? WTF?
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I don't think any major company gets that anymore.....

Budda-Bing said:
What we need is a good ROCK station. One that actually plays rock, not oldies or classic rock, not a rock song once every 6 hours, buried amongst acres of the same old crap, and not one with jocks that are full of themselves. If they don't or can't effectively do a good rock format, what about Urban? There's a giant, gaping hole where WAMO used to live. Fill that before you worry about adding another sports station.
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There's definitely a hole for a new rock station. and if someone did that it would force the X's hand to pick a direction and not be a sorta-modern-rock-station-that-has-a-lot-of-sports-talk-and-the-Pens-games station.....

WAMO went out of business, you can't sell Urban in this market.
 
Dave said:
musicman3355 said:
Dave said:
It looks like B94 is leaving us once again. :'( I hope they still keep the name "B94" even though it may be changing to the awful HOT AC format. Do we really need two HOT AC stations right next to each other on the FM dial (93.7 and 92.9)?

I hope they market the new station as "Classic B94". I'm sorry but the STAR name has to go. . . I think it could be very successful, although I hate the idea of anything other than CHR being on 93.7. If this change must happen, then please put Bubba, Shelley, and Melanie in the mornings please!

I won't be listening to the new B94 (or whatever it becomes), but I wish them continued success. It's back to KISS for me. . .
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96.1 Kiss sounds like a joke to me... it looks like its ran by drunk teens, worst CC CHR I ever heard...
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Someone mentioned that 100.7 may become an AMP station. What's the difference between CHR B94 and the CHR AMP stations around the country? And why would they move it to 100.7? If CBS is planning on keeping CHR in Pittsburgh, then they should leave B94 on 93.7 and flip 100.7 to Sports Talk. Why in the world would you want to intentionally confuse and alienate listeners for the sake of giving the sports talk station a better signal on 93.7?
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If you want to image a new CHR as a new station, putting it on the frequency where the old one was makes that harder.

The bigger consideration is that the sports station, if it wants to compete for the play-by-play contracts when they come up for bids, will need to be on the better signal. None of the pro teams would choose 100.7 over being on any of CC's FMs (3WS, DVE, 104.7, 105.9....). Unless it gets to the point where the Pirates have nowhere else to go.
 
>>>(Ratings and revenue were terrible.)<<<

So why'd they go back to it?
 
>>>I cannot think of a worse listening experience than NASCAR on radio<<<

Couldn't agree more. What a waste of air time. Not only is it a colossal bore WATCHING cars driving around in circles, listening to someone TALK about cars driving in circles is about as much fun as shaving your head . . . with a cheese grater.
 
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There's definitely a hole for a new rock station. and if someone did that it would force the X's hand to pick a direction and not be a sorta-modern-rock-station-that-has-a-lot-of-sports-talk-and-the-Pens-games station.....

WAMO went out of business, you can't sell Urban in this market.
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No one seems to want to commit wholeheartedly to anything. They want to be a little of everything and as a result, they suck.

Point well taken on the urban thought. I get that, but you wonder how WAMO survived all those years if you can't sell the format.

Either way, sports isn't the way to go with this thing. Who the hell approves these half thought out changes in the first place? I think the strategy is nothing more than "eenie, meenie, miney, moe"!
 
Looks like I may have been wrong about STAR. More and more outlets are saying it is B that is going to change, and there is even some info about the internet domains being registered in this story;

http://www.radio-info.com/the-fan-blowing-into-pittsburgh/

P.S. Who wants to bet that if it happens, they get the Steelers broadcasting contract?
 
Budda-Bing said:
>>>(Ratings and revenue were terrible.)<<<

So why'd they go back to it?
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It was cheap and convenient and they didn't have a better idea after the Man station folded as quickly as it did.
 
OK, out-of-towner here, so help me out. Why isn't the 100.7 signal on-par with others, like 93.7, 94.5, 105.9??
From a Radio-Locator coverage map, it appears to cover the city just as well as the others. Not the case?

As for the thought that CHR would go to 100.7:
Take 100.7 to the AMP Radio brand that CBS uses in LA and Detroit. It's decidedly more Rhythmic-intensive. Perhaps trying to wedge between 96.1 and the former Urban?
Buckhead just bolted for Detroit. Sadly, I think B94 might be a goner. I never saw a posting to fill the vacant morning slot.
 
Although I'd miss B94, I'd be very interested in hearing a similar CHR/Pop format as AMP 100.7. But CBS Pittsburgh is never going to let go of their precious STAR. We'll all be dead and gone and that stale old format will still be on the air!
 
rubberchicken said:
OK, out-of-towner here, so help me out. Why isn't the 100.7 signal on-par with others, like 93.7, 94.5, 105.9??
From a Radio-Locator coverage map, it appears to cover the city just as well as the others. Not the case?
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100.7 is 14,500 watts, B94 is 41,000. The metro is five counties and while Star is OK in town it lacks coverage in parts of the rated areas.

Again, if they want to do games they would have to be on 93.7.
 
Dave said:
Although I'd miss B94, I'd be very interested in hearing a similar CHR/Pop format as AMP 100.7. But CBS Pittsburgh is never going to let go of their precious STAR. We'll all be dead and gone and that stale old format will still be on the air!
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And billing and billing and billing.... that's what people some never get...Star makes money. Urban did not make money. B94 is not making money.
 
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