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Yet *ANOTHER* terrible move by the Eagle

Rudy Fitzneris said:
93.3 should be ROCK RIGHT NOW. This SECOND they should be switched to ROCK 93.3 - and they should be making fun of the Eagle once every 1/4 hour.

It's breath takingly painful.
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I have no idea what the Dallas market is like so I can't speak to that. As for your love of Rock, I couldn't agree more!! I hope everything works out in your market, Rudy!
 
macattack said:
I am also a subscriber to Lance and all I’ll say is that the rebrand is probably going to bomb. But I won’t say anything more specific out of respect. The details will come out soon enough and we can vent our true feelings then.
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I mentioned this on the NYC board, but in the TV biz we had a term: "anticipointment", that is, anticipation followed by disappointment.

I suspect we are about to have a lot of anticipointment on this board regarding KEGL.
 
No one listens to KNON, and they sure aren't going to listen to it for a short period of time for the music they want. They will just go find it themselves before doing that.

And what's the format rumor - or CHANGE rumor?
 
Rudy Fitzneris said:
No one listens to KNON, and they sure aren't going to listen to it for a short period of time for the music they want. They will just go find it themselves before doing that.
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KNON is, for example, 10th in 35-44 men in the market and cumes slightly under 200,000 persons weekly. That is hardly "no one".

Yes, overall it is around 25th int he market. But one of the purposes of non-commercial stations is to serve audiences that commercial radio can't make a profit programming to.
 
93.3 should be ROCK RIGHT NOW. This SECOND they should be switched to ROCK 93.3 - and they should be making fun of the Eagle once every 1/4 hour.
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In theory, I have little issue with this proposal (although four promos poking fund at the Eagle hourly is far too much; two an hour would be plenty).

In practice, I would not at all trust Cumulus to pull off such a move successfully. Their rock station in Atlanta is a complete dumpster fire.

At least right now, I'm not quite as pessimistic regarding KEGL's future as some here. I think there is a chance that iHM will right the ship. I'd say it's a coin toss.

By the way, Rock 95.5 in Chicago takes the cake for trainwreck playlists. Surprisingly to me, that station (ratings wise) has been performing decently - for the most part - in the demos that count. Chicago area rock listeners have weird tastes, evidently.
 
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MarkW said:
By the way, Rock 95.5 in Chicago takes the cake for trainwreck playlists. Surprisingly to me, that station (ratings wise) has been performing decently - for the most part - in the demos that count. Chicago area rock listeners have weird tastes, evidently.
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I have lived in Chicago my whole life. We rock listeners do have a peculiar taste. We were an alternative metal and hardcore-punk hotbed back in the day, and even our indie rock bands like Beach Bunny have a bit of punk in them.

93XRT has a bizarre playlist by commercial Triple A standards that would not work in many other cities. We also have a unique sound in our hip-hop that I would describe as “skateboarder-friendly” for the lack of a better descriptor. We still churn out new hip-hop with that kind of sound.

Basically Chicago is fond of aggressive alternative of all kinds; which is why Q101 has a history of playing both hip-hop and metal. It only makes sense that 95.5 would honor that tradition by mixing Metallica with the likes of Gin Blossoms.
 
macattack said:
I have lived in Chicago my whole life. We rock listeners do have a peculiar taste. We were an alternative metal and hardcore-punk hotbed back in the day, and even our indie rock bands like Beach Bunny have a bit of punk in them.

93XRT has a bizarre playlist by commercial Triple A standards that would not work in many other cities. We also have a unique sound in our hip-hop that I would describe as “skateboarder-friendly” for the lack of a better descriptor. We still churn out new hip-hop with that kind of sound.

Basically Chicago is fond of aggressive alternative of all kinds; which is why Q101 has a history of playing both hip-hop and metal. It only makes sense that 95.5 would honor that tradition by mixing Metallica with the likes of Gin Blossoms.
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Gin Blossoms are considered "aggressive alternative?"
 
I see the on-air schedule is back on the website. Maybe they changed their mind and decided to stay the course with what they are currently doing.
 
macattack said:
I have lived in Chicago my whole life. We rock listeners do have a peculiar taste. We were an alternative metal and hardcore-punk hotbed back in the day, and even our indie rock bands like Beach Bunny have a bit of punk in them.

93XRT has a bizarre playlist by commercial Triple A standards that would not work in many other cities. We also have a unique sound in our hip-hop that I would describe as “skateboarder-friendly” for the lack of a better descriptor. We still churn out new hip-hop with that kind of sound.

Basically Chicago is fond of aggressive alternative of all kinds; which is why Q101 has a history of playing both hip-hop and metal. It only makes sense that 95.5 would honor that tradition by mixing Metallica with the likes of Gin Blossoms.
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That’s why I was beyond stunned with q101 flipped. What made Merlin/Cumulus return to the format?
 
macattack said:
We rock listeners do have a peculiar taste. We were an alternative metal and hardcore-punk hotbed back in the day, and even our indie rock bands like Beach Bunny have a bit of punk in them.
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This is an example of what I've been talking about with the lack of consensus in rock. Everybody has a list of bands they like. That's not how radio works. In the prime of the rock format, people were fans of the genre. If the radio station played it, they liked it, regardless of the name of the band or the sub-genre. If they didn't like a song, they'd wait for the next one. Today that's hard to do. Everyone is ready to hit the "next" button.
 
TheBigA said:
This is an example of what I've been talking about with the lack of consensus in rock. Everybody has a list of bands they like. That's not how radio works. In the prime of the rock format, people were fans of the genre. If the radio station played it, they liked it, regardless of the name of the band or the sub-genre. If they didn't like a song, they'd wait for the next one. Today that's hard to do. Everyone is ready to hit the "next" button.
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It's something that people who weren't around in the days of '70s progressive/AOR radio just can't grasp -- how we were, by and large, just fine with REO Speedwagon, Yes, Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and the Marshall Tucker Band in the same music sweep. We all weren't as big fans of some artists as we were of others, but we stayed tuned anyway, just happy to have "our music" on the radio. Of course, the only alternatives we had at that time were records and tapes.
 
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