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ZZ Top on WJRR

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DIZ Guy

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I was flippin thru at about 7:45 tonight and heard "Cheap Sunglasses" in all of its glory on JRR...

When it was over.....the jock said "I hope the boss wasn't listening"!!!!

Anybody else catch this???/
 
Greeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, a bad April Fools joke. Of all the songs, don't we hear that lame tune enough? The jock couldn't have messed up and played Robin Trower, April Wine or Pat Travers????

Format change coming?
 
yeah i did hear that. i thought i was listening to htq a sec. but it was jrr and i was surprised. it's time for jrr to put classic rock in the playlist. i would listen more if they did. i hope a formate change will come soon.
 
hmmm... I already think WJRR plays too much stuff that they shouldn't (Gun's & Roses, Collective Soul, Lenny Kravitz, AC/DC) and not enough alternative artists that should get more play. Leave the Lenny and Collective Soul to the middle aged women who listen to MIX.
 
i think wjrr should play clasic rock, new rock and alternative. have a mix of everything that is in the rock genre. that would be cool.
 
Well I think JRR needs to mix the hair bands and NOT play the 90s Alternative music cause thats played in everycity and the ratings for rock are horrible in most citys.

JRR does well but should play more metal. More New Metal like Airbourne, Sebastian Bach ( by your side), DragonForce,In Flames, Lillian Axe, Queensryche, + more.

Kill the smashing punkins!! and the mid-late 90s overplayed geek rock!
 
austingrace said:
i think wjrr should play clasic rock, new rock and alternative. have a mix of everything that is in the rock genre. that would be cool.
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Pirate 95.9 already tried that. You guys didn't tune in, and they gave up, dumped the modern stuff and flipped to all-classic-rock.

Leave the modern stuff on JRR, and leave the classic stuff on HTQ. It's worked fine for... gee, since at least the early 90s, right? That's an eternity in radio.
 
i may be wrong here but jrr played classic rock untill real rock came in 02? i believe i am right here. so now that orock in on hd2 why not just bring back our old jrr but keep the alternative music as well? just an idea. ???
 
What is alternative? I mean that word came from something other than the Pure Rock of the hairbands and metal of the 80s and early 90s.. so Nirvana was alternative and they kept the logo ( all the 90s bands) until Godsmack,Shinedown, Disturbed and many others in the early 2000s made the music scene alittle harder. Is this now the "Alternative"? I guess that word can be used for each new sound that comes out every few years trying to change the scene. It worked making $$$ in the mid 90s but people wanted a change in music on the radio, but to not throw away Metal...but to bring on the new extra scene. People though got tired of that and rock formats droped in the late 90s into today cause the top Corp Exs kept the (alternative) mid 90s in their music playlist... and alot are tired of hearing Pearl Jam, Smashing Punkins, Soundgarden, and a few other mid 90s bands everytime they turn on the radio.

Thats 1 of the problems of music on the radio today. The Corp radio goes by #s.. of what was the best radio in the past. Metal dominated for over a decade from the early 80s into the early 90s so people wanted a change.. so the seattle scene came in with some grundge bands and changed the music scene dramatically and that brought in good #s.. point is.. it really only lasted a few years and by the late 90s.. rock ratings were dropping again below the numbers of the Hair bands of the late 80s and early 90s.

If corp wants good ratings on a pure rock station.. they should play what the people want to hear. Have a station post up a poll and ask their listeners What music do you want to hear? Mostly new rock mixed with grunge? Mostly new rock mixed with hairbands and metal of the 80s early 90s? Or just all things that rock... hairbands,90s, with todays? And see what the results are.
 
JRR should go back to the format that they had in the mid-90's, when they played classic rock and alternative...hell, I remember a time when you used to hear new TOM PETTY on JRR followed by Smashing Pumpkins, Rush, and then Soundgarden...that was a good format...

BTW, you guys want to hear something interesting, go to cflradio.net, old airchecks from DIZ and JRR from the 90's are on there...
 
the key words i see here when making these points is "used to be"...or..."worked for so long"...this is the main problem with ALL of radio...

"used to be" or "worked for so long" mean that NEW ideas and NEW ways to program are NOT being used...Hair Metal DOESN'T belong on Modern Rock stations...this is the same as saying rock formats should be JACK like formats, right? A little of this, a little of that, a little of another? Lets take a look at how successful JACK stations have become...or haven't...whatever...

Reality Check: Classic Hits and Classic Rock are NOW playing 80's tunes...in their respective formats...Classic Hits are playing 80's tunes that have been AC staples for years...Classic Rock is picking up Hair Metal, and such...and THEY SHOULD! THIS MUSIC IS OLD...

what is a nice way of saying old? "Classic", perhaps?

Next Reality Check: I've said this before, i think, but in LESS than 3 years, Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana, along with ALL of the singles from Pearl Jam's TEN cd, will be TWENTY YEARS OLD!!!!!!!...the 90's is next to be "property" of Classic Hits and Classic Rock formats...how about in 5 years when HTQ will start playing Smells Like Teen Spirit next to More Than A Feeling next to Van Halen? What will Modern Rock stations do then?

Well, going by "what has worked", or what "used to work", i guess perhaps modern rock stations will keep playing music that is 20 years old, instead of introducing their audience to NEW rock music...from ALL of the sub-genres...but that will never happen...if programmers now don't have the instinct...nerve...know how...sense...TALENT...or flat out GUTS to make their stations work, on ALL formats, what makes you think they will have the instinct...nerve...know how...sense...TALENT...or flat out GUTS to try something new on their stations to create WINNERS, in years to come!?!?!
 
your all crazy made some real good points. Music directors really on can play what the Corp tells them to play (A music director might be able to correct me if Im wrong) afterall you go to every ClearChannel pure rock station and its almost the same playlist..

Some pure rock stations mix in hair bands some mix in 70s rock, and some mix in 90s grunge, thing is none of them really work. If a station wants to play new pure rock.. they should play 8-10 songs a hour thats NEW.. 1-2 thats semi new ( year old) and 1-2 songs per hour from anything that was a top hit from the past. I dont care if it was Stairway to Heaven, ONE, TalkDirtytoMe, Smellsliketeen spirit.. as long as it was a hit..it should get a play in there...but pure rock needs to stay mostly new by constantly playing as much new music as possible.

Classic rock stations need to break up. have 1 play mostly 70s into the early 80s (which most play)

Another play hair bands and metal from 80s into early 90s

And another play Seattle and 90s bands.
 
DIZ Guy said:
Ahhh...

Just go to kshe95.com

They do it right...
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do what right? where is the new rock? looks like a Jack Rock to me...and for that matter...un-interesting...at least for me...

point being DIZ, JRR for the last several years has been a NEW rock station...its unfair to the listeners who had the chance 8 years ago to listen to ORock OR JRR for new music, and they chose JRR...its unfair for the listeners, and now that I'm one, to hear ZZTop instead of something new and fresh, which is what people have come to JRR for over the last several years...ESPECIALLY now that the option of another new rock station is gone...JRR over the last 10 years has done its fair share of screwing its core over switching from this to that and back again...the only consistency has been the talent...kinda...

i would put money that this "heritage" station began its journey down the tubes when they showed their popularity backbone (aHEM Pat and Taco aHEM) the door...

ya know, this point just crossed my mind...i always fear i will piss off my peers and buddys that still work for JRR...only, i believe they all (mostly, with the exception of a firestarter here or there) deserve a load of credit and praise...they're the ones who have had to cope with the corporate hand for so long, and well, might i add...
 
This station changes their positioning, music, and artwork every few months. Yeah, that's BAD programming. When O-Rock went away, WJRR had the opportunity to really capitalize on being the ONLY station that plays NEW rock 24 hours a day (I realize 104.1 plays some new rock as well.) However, it almost seems as if Clear Channel wants to move JRR older and compete with WHTQ and WMMO. Why? Who knows.... Maybe it has something to do with the fact that WJRR has no one under age 38 programming or directing it. Bottom line... WJRR has lost touch with it's core audience... just like WDIZ did in '94. It's funny how things go in circles. I thought O-Rock would stomp JRR into flipping to classic rock few years ago and WHTQ would be left out looking for something new. Instead, Clear Channel seems to be blowing perfect opportunities one signal and hurting their other properties in the process.
 
JRR is mostly still a "NEW ROCK" station... and the music director has to play the top 20 new music singles..cause thats what his bosses tell him at CORP...but what they mix in is a good question of debate.. Some want to hear 70s..some want hair bands...some want 90s grundge..we will all agrue about what should be played...but mixing them all together really isnt a good thing.. but its what they do..cause they base it on "new music first" then throwing in a song here and there from the past. Thing is when I hear the song from the past I dont like... I change the channel and sometimes dont even bother going back until the next day.. then I do the same thing over and over again.
 
To youreallcrazy....

KSHE 95 St. Louis KICKS ASS!!!!!!!...

Listen to them online man, they are great. The play new rock ( they play Tool) .

In all regards youreallcrazy, the station has been on the air since 1967, and has been the number one rocker in St. Louis ever since...

Hell, they played a whole HOUR of Buckcherry tunes yesterday during their lunch hour the other day!

Check em out on Sunday nights. They play about 4 CD's in their entirety. They usually play a new disc, and then play 3 old ones....that's a hell of a lot cooler than the BORING state of rock radio heard in Orlando on Sunday night...also, they have a pretty cool metal show that airs on Monday nights.....

Good Stuff.....
 
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