"Your life...your music...Star 94"

[MsMusicRadio]

1) Isn't it time B got some competition?

2) Scott Lindemann did a great job in Richmond and he should do that at Star.

 

[InSearchOfGear]

Anyway, it looks like they're playing about one 90s/2000s gold track per hour - most of them are still extremely "safe" songs like 3am, Here Without You, and This Love, but they're starting to play tracks like Dare You To Move and Are You Gonna Be My Girl, which IMO is a huge step in the right direction ;D

Lindy is a smart dude. He has a plan for Star, rest assured.

 

[mike7586]

I kind of like the "current" Hot AC format they are going for. I think the station flows much better but I'd still like to hear a bit more variety. Hopefully they will keep adding more songs. There's still many Hot AC "staples" they don't play like Jason Mraz - The Remedy, Rob Thomas - Someday, Matt Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose, Daniel Powter - Bad Day, Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway and Give A Little Bit, Lifehouse - You and Me and Broken, Five For Fighting songs, etc.

 

[InSearchOfGear]

I kind of like the "current" Hot AC format they are going for. I think the station flows much better but I'd still like to hear a bit more variety. Hopefully they will keep adding more songs. There's still many Hot AC "staples" they don't play like Jason Mraz - The Remedy, Rob Thomas - Someday, Matt Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose, Daniel Powter - Bad Day, Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway and Give A Little Bit, Lifehouse - You and Me and Broken, Five For Fighting songs, etc.

That might be because those "staples" are burnt to a crisp. The adult appeal music from the 90s thru present is an enourmous universe of hit music. Unfortunately, many of today's AC programmers are also yesterday's AC programmers and don't get the psychographics of TODAY'S 25-44 year old female, which is literally 180 degrees opposite of what it was (perceived to be by AC programmers) in the past. Expect Hot AC to get much hotter and a lot more fun to lisrten to. Soon....

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I'll take this opportunity to mention my blog, which this week is about Star 94. Link is: http://www.atlairwaves.blogspot.com.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Scott Lindy turned WTVR-FM from an also ran struggling to find an image into the first real AC station in Richmond history and actually took the place of WRVA-AM as Richmond's adult music leader. AC in Richmond had been all over the place with RVA going talk and the trainwrecks of EZ-104 ( self-destructed), B-103.7, WCDX -FM, WRNL-AM, and WQSF-FM. He added Billl Bevins to AM drive who is really the "Boomers' own Alden Aaroe who was a legend at WRVA. Never saw a station get turned around that fast since KQV in Pittsburgh went Top 40 in 58 I think or KHJ in 1965 almost immediately beating KFWB and KRLA in BossAngeles.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

Scott Lindy turned WTVR-FM from an also ran struggling to find an image into the first real AC station in Richmond history and actually took the place of WRVA-AM as Richmond's adult music leader. AC in Richmond had been all over the place with RVA going talk and the trainwrecks of EZ-104 ( self-destructed), B-103.7, WCDX -FM, WRNL-AM, and WQSF-FM. He added Billl Bevins to AM drive who is really the "Boomers' own Alden Aaroe who was a legend at WRVA. Never saw a station get turned around that fast since KQV in Pittsburgh went Top 40 in 58 I think or KHJ in 1965 almost immediately beating KFWB and KRLA in BossAngeles.

When was that, Ms. Radio? (I assume it's your husband whose first name is Music.) WTVR-FM has been dominant for at least 10 years. Bill Cahill, who came there from Atlanta, kept it on top.

 

[stereolane]

I kind of like the "current" Hot AC format they are going for. I think the station flows much better but I'd still like to hear a bit more variety. Hopefully they will keep adding more songs. There's still many Hot AC "staples" they don't play like Jason Mraz - The Remedy, Rob Thomas - Someday, Matt Kearney - Nothing Left To Lose, Daniel Powter - Bad Day, Goo Goo Dolls - Broadway and Give A Little Bit, Lifehouse - You and Me and Broken, Five For Fighting songs, etc.

Please don't quit your day job.

As a veteran AC PD, I cannot imagine how adding any of the aforementioned artists would help. In a more updated way, I equate the likes of Jason Mraz with many of the dreaded 70's artists that never see the light of day anymore. Jason Mraz and craptastic songs like "I'm Yours" are what finally killed the Smooth Jazz format... Daniel Powter? 1 hit wonder, but maybe I can accept that. Rob Thomas? C'mon, I guarantee they are already playing plenty... Lifehouse and Five For Fighting? Sad songs, by sad dudes, perfect for the chronically depressed and borderline suicidal. Add to that list anything by Creed, and to some extent 3 Doors Down.

You may as well drag out Bread and Air Supply...

As for playing G'NR or Def Leppard on an AC, that's also part of the problem, and not the solution. Some jackass created an "80's weekend" somewhere, and that's how that started. Sorry, that doesn't make it right.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

1. Scott came to Richmond in the mid-Nineties if I remember right. Roy H.Park owned them in the early part of the decade and was doing B/EZ with a few soft AC cuts . They sort of eased into a format change by adding more and more vocals. I'm sure I am fuzzy on dates, but they were sold to I think whomever was bought by CC. They added jocks around the clock as stations did then. At some point Scott Lindy took over as PD and also PM drive guy. He put a very professional staff on the air including an live evening call-in show called "Richmond After Dark". Reggie Jordan was ,I believe, station manager. I may be fuzzy on details, but I loved the sound and really did listen to nothing else at work.

2. I am divorced, Mr. Freeman. I got divorced after the format flip discussed above. My Ex wanted to listen to K95 and the fighting never ended. I picked Ms.MusicRadio cause of 77WABC. Why not? Ron Lundy? Dan Ingram? Love at first ear.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Scott became PD and PM drive jock in the mid-nineties. It is a monument to his success (and Reggie Jordan) that nobody has been able to screw it up.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Scott Lindy turned WTVR-FM from an also ran struggling to find an image into the first real AC station in Richmond history and actually took the place of WRVA-AM as Richmond's adult music leader. AC in Richmond had been all over the place with RVA going talk and the trainwrecks of EZ-104 ( self-destructed), B-103.7, WCDX -FM, WRNL-AM, and WQSF-FM. He added Billl Bevins to AM drive who is really the "Boomers' own Alden Aaroe who was a legend at WRVA. Never saw a station get turned around that fast since KQV in Pittsburgh went Top 40 in 58 I think or KHJ in 1965 almost immediately beating KFWB and KRLA in BossAngeles.

When was that, Ms. Radio? (I assume it's your husband whose first name is Music.) WTVR-FM has been dominant for at least 10 years. Bill Cahill, who came there from Atlanta, kept it on top.

I like smarmy tag lines as well as the next, but I really don't get the husband bit

 

[atlantaboy]

The new PD either needs to start adding new music again or broaden the recurrent playlist - Dave-FM has pulled ahead of Star in their target age bracket, which is a clear sign IMO that people want a broader playlist - I'm just not sure why he's freezing adds and playing the same 30-40 songs over and over all day - the DJs/Jingles/On-Air Presentation/New Tag Line sound great IMO, but I don't know how many more times I can listen to the same songs over and over (currents and recurrents)

 

[mike7586]

The new PD either needs to start adding new music again or broaden the recurrent playlist - Dave-FM has pulled ahead of Star in their target age bracket, which is a clear sign IMO that people want a broader playlist - I'm just not sure why he's freezing adds and playing the same 30-40 songs over and over all day - the DJs/Jingles/On-Air Presentation/New Tag Line sound great IMO, but I don't know how many more times I can listen to the same songs over and over (currents and recurrents)

Agreed. What happened? It seemed like they were adding more recurrents over the holiday but now I rarely hear any of those songs anymore. It seems like it went back to the old Star94 playlist (same songs over and over, both currents and recurrents). ???

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Does Star not stream online?

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I like smarmy tag lines as well as the next, but I really don't get the husband bit

Just being silly. No harm intended.

 

[rho01]

Star over the past week played 18 songs from the 1990s 59 total times or eight to nine times per day. It played 29 different songs a week earlier, 52 times. Several songs were not played: Cranberries' "Dreams," Matchbox 20's "Real World" and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge." Two new songs in: Blink 182 "All the Small Things" and Green Day's "Good Riddance."

 

[InSearchOfGear]

Star over the past week played 18 songs from the 1990s 59 total times or eight to nine times per day. It played 29 different songs a week earlier, 52 times. Several songs were not played: Cranberries' "Dreams," Matchbox 20's "Real World" and Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge." Two new songs in: Blink 182 "All the Small Things" and Green Day's "Good Riddance."

One great thing about PPM is how quickly you have access to the data. It sounds to me like there's some experimentation going on the guage reaction to certain titles from their existing cume.

 

[atlantaboy]

All I know is I literally can't listen to their core songs anymore - it's just TOO MUCH - According To You for the 200the time, Say Hey (I Love You) for the 300th time, Rockstar, Addicted, I Gotta Feeling, Secrets, If It's Love, California Gurls, Gives You Hell, Use Somebody... - it's just the same stuff over and over, and the new PD's added nothing in the past three weeks except for Firework - I just get frustrated, cause I've listened to Star for years (even used to listen to it exclusively), and now I just can't anymore - there are literally hundreds of huge pop/alternative songs from the 90s and 2000s they could be playing, but they're just going through the same large handful - I really hope they figure out what they're gonna do soon, cause right now I just don't understand the appeal

 

[mike7586]

All I know is I literally can't listen to their core songs anymore - it's just TOO MUCH - According To You for the 200the time, Say Hey (I Love You) for the 300th time, Rockstar, Addicted, I Gotta Feeling, Secrets, If It's Love, California Gurls, Gives You Hell, Use Somebody... - it's just the same stuff over and over, and the new PD's added nothing in the past three weeks except for Firework - I just get frustrated, cause I've listened to Star for years (even used to listen to it exclusively), and now I just can't anymore - there are literally hundreds of huge pop/alternative songs from the 90s and 2000s they could be playing, but they're just going through the same large handful - I really hope they figure out what they're gonna do soon, cause right now I just don't understand the appeal

Agreed (and look... I'm not the only one nit-picking songs!). I want to listen to Star94, but I'm tired of hearing the same stuff. Hot AC's need variety, and there are a ton of songs out there that would fit their format. I had hope over the Thanksgiving holiday that they were changing, but maybe they were just doing a test run?

Also, I'm not sure why they aren't adding more new stuff like The Script - For The First Time, Colbie Caillat - I Never Told You, Maroon 5 - Give A Little More, Sick Puppies - Maybe, Ryan Star - Start A Fire...

And Hot AC stations are even playing songs like Taio Cruz - Dynamite, Usher - DJ Got Us Falling In Love (without Pitbull), Rihanna - Only Girl, Lady Gaga - Alejandro and Telephone, Beyonce - Sweet Dreams and Crazy In Love, La Roux - Bulletproof, Jay Sean - Down, Kevin Rudolf - Let It Rock so Star needs to start getting competitive with Q100 since Q100 is so bent on going after their audience.

They have everything else in place to be successful... a strong signal, great jingles and promos, a good new tagline, the on-air personalities actually have personality... all they need to do is expand their playlist.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Amber - This is your night
Everything but the girl - Missing
Real McCoy - Another night
Bizzare Inc - I'm gonna get ya
Alice DeeJay - Better off alone
Sonique - It feels so good
Usher - Yeah
Next - Too close
Mary J Blidge - Family Affair
Jason Derulo - In my head
Seal - Come undone
Jennifer Paige - Crush
Outkast - Hey ya!
No Doubt - It's my life
Filter - take a picture
Natalie Merchant - Carnival
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Could some of these songs work, or is this doing way too much?