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WZLX (in relation to BCN shutting down)

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Heard on ZLX on my way to dentist: Journey, AC/DC, Elton John and Queen

Heard on ZLX on my way back to God's Country: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and the Allman Brothers Band

My point: upon BCN's demise, ZLX should be adding (familiar) songs from Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hootie and the Blowfish, Alanis Morissette, early Green Day, Guns'N'Roses, R.E.M., Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, and other 90s bands and play new stuff from classic 90s bands (Green Day comes to mind). That way, the "Beavis and Butt-head" generation (aka the X'ers) have their own music on a good signal, rather than on some station with a weak signal (AAF) or on a "tattooed soccer mom" station (Mix or BOS). (BTW, the ones who like that Jam'n rap crap are mostly those 1983-1999 millennials who are starting to come of age.)
 
No, they should continue with the formula that is being successful. Adding those artists right now would be a train wreck!
 
Retro said:
No, they should continue with the formula that is being successful. Adding those artists right now would be a train wreck!
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I agree. They have excellent 25-54 numbers. They shouldn't change a thing.
 
In contrast, New York's WAXQ occasionally plays Green Day, R.E.M. and Guns N' Roses... but hey, different strokes for different folks...
 
WZLX does play Guns & Roses. Usually late in the afternoon or during the night show with Kenny Young. The seem to daypart lots of their
songs. They will throw in a "gem" now & then. Chuck Nolin played Aldo Nova a few weeks ago. ZLX does open the playlist up on the weekends.
And those listener favorite 10's in the afternoon ain't bad either. Its a PPM world my friends!!
 
TopOfThePops said:
And those listener favorite 10's in the afternoon ain't bad either.
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The listener "Perfect 10's" occasionally pull out some cool stuff that you don't hear very often... But, I wonder how often, when they're lining those up before airing, that they have to tell the listener "Hey, we don't play that one! You'll have to make another choice!".
 
Leave ZLX the way they are, why mess up a good package?
 
ZLX should definitely stick with the classic rock, but man... They certainly do not play much of it. Really small, conservative playlist. Boston deserves better.
 
I do think ZLX will need to change as the years progress. They need to stay with that 25-54 year old window, and as we know each year that changes slightly. Any changes, however, would need to be incremental and thoughtful.
 
scooty430 said:
ZLX should definitely stick with the classic rock, but man... They certainly do not play much of it. Really small, conservative playlist. Boston deserves better.
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Yes it's a good station with good jocks except that it sounds like a 100 CD CD player set on shuffle. Keep the Hootie krap off of it though. Stick with the 70's just GREATLY expand the play list.
 
KB1OKL said:
Yes it's a good station with good jocks except that it sounds like a 100 CD CD player set on shuffle... Stick with the 70's just GREATLY expand the play list.
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We on this board are a minority of radio aficionados who listen to a lot more radio (and therefore music) than the majority of casual listeners, who use radio mainly as just a background for their commute, workday, or weekend cookout. They want to hear the same short list of hit songs that they're familiar with, which are the same ones that we've heard so many times that we're sick to death of them.

If they play songs that the vast majority of casual listeners don't know every lyric or every air guitar lick to, it will send them over to WROR or elsewhere to find more familiar songs, and they make the ratings, we don't.
 
dhoule said:
I do think ZLX will need to change as the years progress. They need to stay with that 25-54 year old window, and as we know each year that changes slightly. Any changes, however, would need to be incremental and thoughtful.
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Within the past year, they have added a lot of early 80's hard rock to the mix, just like WCOZ used to play I think.
 
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