OK I take back what I said. LOL they're playing "Last Christmas" from Jimmy Eat World.
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WISX to Flip Again?
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OK I take back what I said. LOL they're playing "Last Christmas" from Jimmy Eat World.
It's surprisingly popular, year after year. It used to bug me but I'm OK with it now.
Looks like iHeart just launched a "Breeze" in Sacramento. Bet that's about what the new 106.1 logo will look like in a few weeks.
https://fmqb.name/iheartmedia-sacramento-set-to-debut-soft-ac-92-5-the-breeze/
https://fmqb.name/iheartmedia-sacramento-set-to-debut-soft-ac-92-5-the-breeze/
It definitely is a wild Christmas playlist. Either they put a ton of thought into this or no thought at all. LOL
It certainly doesn't seem to be iHeart's cookie cutter Christmas (Christmas cookie cutter?) format. I mean, what is a Gary Hoey? LOL. I actually looked him up. He's just some who-shot-John guitarist who met Ozzy once. The song that played is 20 years old!
Hello Everyone.
Interesting update on Wikipedia.
"The Breeze
On November 8, 2018, iHeartMedia, the owner of WISX registered multiple domains pointing to REAL 106.1 flipping formats from Classic Hip Hop to a Soft Adult Contemporary format like its sister station, KISQ on 98.1 FM in San Francisco and its sister station, KBEB on 92.5 FM in Sacramento which will be launching the same brand and format on November 12. This will possibly be the first time in years that the Soft Adult Contemporary as had a home in the Philadelphia radio market.”
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISX#The_Breeze
-Greg
Interesting update on Wikipedia.
"The Breeze
On November 8, 2018, iHeartMedia, the owner of WISX registered multiple domains pointing to REAL 106.1 flipping formats from Classic Hip Hop to a Soft Adult Contemporary format like its sister station, KISQ on 98.1 FM in San Francisco and its sister station, KBEB on 92.5 FM in Sacramento which will be launching the same brand and format on November 12. This will possibly be the first time in years that the Soft Adult Contemporary as had a home in the Philadelphia radio market.”
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISX#The_Breeze
-Greg
Maybe they're recycling the Sunny 104.5 library. That would be great.
And they're calling it Philadelphia's 106.1. Haven't we had a Philly's 106.1 before and it failed.
106.1 is trying to lose their classic hip hop audience by playing older Christmas music. Their goal is to get their listeners to tell their parents about 106.1
Except that iHeart registered the domains in October.
I edited that in the wiki page this morning. Check the change logs.
I think this is until December 26th. Some of their liners hint that they're working on a new radio station; and for now they're playing Christmas music.
I cant see why anyone would challenge B for xmas, has to be a stunt to get people talking
Clear Channel was the first in the market to go all Christmas in 2002 with Sunny 104.5. B101 ran with it since 2003.
There's really no reason to think this is going to end before December 26. And if they're going to be doing any form of AC in this market, you can be sure they're going to do Christmas every year. There's just no reason to leave all that money on the table for Entercom to scoop up.
I can $urely $ee why $omeone would $et their $ight$ on B101'$ Chri$tma$ format...
Well, if you go to it right now, you won't get it.
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