RoddyFreeman said:
I love their 5,000 song rotation.
All I can say is.... well, somehow this doesn't look right. I know it hasn't changed much since I left Atlanta in 2001, except to start sounding more like Star*94, by the looks of things on yes.com...
or maybe Star*94 ch... no - Q is more like Star. They are both playing an incredible amount of alternative now. What happened to the way Q was when they first came out, or around the times of 2002-2003?
Saturday nights have definitely changed..... and have become watered down. I have no idea what's going on at noon these days on that station either, but that seems to have changed too.
If B98.5 starts playing Kelly my life would suck..., I'll be very surprised because a lot of stations in Atlanta, especially B98.5, lack a few things or get them very late, and I notice nothing has changed since I left there.
I wouldn't say that the stations out there are horrible, but if I had to choose, I'd rather listen to the stations I have in Phoenix. We do lack a Q100 type station, but since we have two rhythmics and you guys have two top 40's, we could probably trade.
Well.... lets see.. out of our stations here in Phoenix:
101.5 JamZ - KZON - rhythmic - The Valley's #1 Hit Music Station
(this is the REAL rhythmic station, not a former "where hip hop lives" who switched up because they felt threatened by another rhythmic who popped up)
Power 98.3 - KKFR - rhythmic - The Valley's #1 Hit Music Station
(leans hip hop, but really wants KZON to go away so they went more rhythmic..)
104.7 KissFM - KZZP - All The Hits
(rhythmic leaning top 40 (a lot of r&b, hip hop, pop and a few alternative hits and finally got the sense to play dance again. THEY play Craig David, too)
Mega 104.3 - KAJM - Rhythmic Oldies - The Old School Station
(old school, and the closest to an r&b oldies station you could get here)
92.7/99.3 - KNRJ (the old energy dance radio call letters) - Old School hip hop (they flipped form all dance to old school hip hop, 1985 -2004, cutting off right before hiphop hits started getting dumb..)
Movin 97.5 - KMVA - rhyhmic AC (rhytmic hits from the 80's, 90's and today, but LIMITED DANCE and mix shows that aren't their best)
Club 95 Latino Vibe - KVIB - Latin Rhythm (latin hip hop, reggateon, y spanish pop urbano with some r&b and hip hop)
Well.... if it were up to me, I'd give you guys Power 98.3, but why do that when you have 95.5 The Beat as a rhythmic format?? I also do have to agree Q100 is better than Star. When I used to live in Atlanta, way before I knew anything at all about the REAL reasons why radio is the way it is, I used to think "why is Star*94 like this?" and always compared it to other stations when I left town. Now I grew older only to realize "yep, it wasn't just me - they certainly are one of a kind". ...but they aren't all that bad. After all, I grew up a lot on it, so a lot of my childhood music experience was fed to me through Star*94. Good stuff, but the stuff I really really liked was all fed to me through Power 106 in LA and a lot of the old days of Power 98.3 here in Phoenix. We didn't have the mass amount of booty bass, but we had other things that were up-tempo in the mix shows which I think I liked more than just plain booty bass or hip hop all the time. Miami also knew what was up too, when it came to latin house, freestyle, breakbeats, latin booty bass... etc. and not just always playing one type of music on the non - top 40 stations.
But yes - Q100 and 95.5 The Beat are good from Atlanta. There was a huge void before, although some things still somehow manage to miss the Atlanta radio charts.
