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Z100 Leaves Satellites As Dave Matthews Band Radio Becomes Permanent On SiriusXM

MarkW said:
Is there so much music repetition during weekdays when people are listening at work?
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I don't recall Z100 ever marketing itself as an "at work station." That's WLTW. The OTHER iHeart station in NY.

One of the hallmarks of the CHR format is repetition. Take a small playlist and play the currents every two or three hours. That's how hits are made. If a song can't hold up to that kind of airplay, it's not a hit. It worked for WABC in the 60s and it still works now. You call it "sanitized," but the radio word for is it "curated." When most people make their own streaming playlists, they look exactly like the Z-100 playlists: A small group of songs played over and over.
 
MarkW said:
Z100 is programmed perfectly for NYC and surrounding regions, but listening to it on SXM has never had any appeal to me. Lame music.

For a number of years, the audio fidelity on channel 12 has been poorer than most of the other SXM music stations.

Years ago, when XM was an autonomous service, I remember the WHTZ, WLTW and KIIS channels having impressive audio fidelity, especially compared to all the other music channels on the service. They clearly were allocated extra bandwidth.

With the exception of The Blend, I am not at all a fan of how Sirius XM's pop music channels sound. The Pulse is unbearably boring, Hits 1 needs to dump Spyder Harrison (who belongs on the 70's or 80's channel), Pop2K hasn't sounded good in at least five years, and the fact the service lacks a Variety Hits channel on the birds is pitiful. Come to think of it, the service doesn't even offer an honest Adult CHR / Hot AC channel! The Pulse can at best be labeled Modern AC.
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So is there anything you like about sirius?
 
MarkW said:
I prefer CHRs that include more rhythm crossover hits and feature a wider playlist overall. At least 85 percent of Z100's spins seem to come from about 15 songs, at least during the weekend. Is there so much music repetition during weekdays when people are listening at work?

Most of the music Z100 plays is so sanitized; reminds me of Radio Disney!
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Radio disney is another channel that doesn’t need to be on siriusxm I don’t understand why it is there.
 
I think SiriusXM should add KYLD(WiLD 94-9) from San Francisco. They have a wonderful morning show hosted by JV(yes the JV who was the leader of The Doghouse Morning show back in the day) and they play a variety of hit music! :)
 
charlestondxman said:
2006 till 2009. The only reason why WLW was on was because a XM programming executive said WLW was his favorite station.
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Source for this? I always thought XM didn't want the Clear Channel stations hogging bandwidth, and that Clear Channel decided what would air on its XM channels. Why would some programming executive at XM have been part of the process at all?
 
HenryOchs said:
I think SiriusXM should add KYLD(WiLD 94-9) from San Francisco. They have a wonderful morning show hosted by JV(yes the JV who was the leader of The Doghouse Morning show back in the day) and they play a variety of hit music! :)
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Who?

In any case, there's a reason why people pay for satellite radio. I don't think "JV" is one of them. Plus there's the free iHeart app if you want to hear that sort of thing.
 
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