Sample Hours

[beejus]

I'm always one who is looking for ideas and opinions on my station... so I wondered what you guys would think of some sample hours from my station. Feel free to nitpick, tear apart, praise, scratch your head... whatever your reaction to the music selection may be :)

**Middays***

Boys Like Girls- "Hero/Heroine"
Third Eye Blind- "Semi-Charmed Life"
Santana/Chad Kroeger- "Into The Night"
Whirling Dervishes- "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch"
OutKast- "Hey Ya"
Dave Matthews Band- "Stay (Wasting Time)"
Hinder- "Take Me Home Tonight"
Thomas Dolby- "She Blinded Me With Science"
Ingram Hill- "Why Don't You?"
Maroon 5- "Won't Go Home Without You"

**Stopset**

Avril Lavigne- "Don't Tell Me"
Dog's Eye View- "Everything Falls Apart"
Colbie Caillat- "Bubbly"
Van Halen- "Hot For Teacher"

**Stopset**

Goo Goo Dolls- "Let Love In"
Saving Jane- "What I Didn't Say"
Paula Cole- "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?"
Linkin Park- "Shadow of the Day"
Asia- "Heat of the Moment"
Pink- "U + Ur Hand"
OneRepublic/Timbaland- "Apologize"
Carrie Underwood- "Before He Cheats"
Barenaked Ladies- "Elf's Lament"
Deaf Pedestrians- "Hail to the Geek

**Stopset**

Macy Gray- "I Try"
Blue October- "Calling You"
Cake- "Sheep Go To Heaven"
Cheap Trick- "The Flame

**Stopset**
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PM DRIVE:

Plain White T's- "Our Time Now"
Lemonheads- "Mrs. Robinson"
Santana/Chad Kroeger- "Into the Night"
Kelly Clarkson- "My Grown Up Christmas List"
Fixx- "Saved by Zero"
Duncan Sheik- "Barely Breathing"
Keith Urban- "Once in a Lifetime"
The Last Goodnight- "Pictures of You"
Ryan Cabrera- "On the Way Down"
Sick Puppies- "My World"

**Stopset**

Smashing Pumpkins- "Disarm"
Paramore- "Misery Business"
The Fray- "How To Save a Life
Queen/David Bowie- "Under Pressure"

**STOPSET**

Saving Jane- "What I Didn't Say"
Dashboard Confessional- "Screaming Infidelities"
Spill Canvas- "All Over You"
John Mayer- "Waiting on the World to Change"
Michael Penn- "No Myth"
Tonic- "If You Could Only See"
Greenwheel- "Breathe"
Colbie Caillat- "Bubbly"
Michael Buble- "The Christmas Song"
Good Charlotte- "I Don't Want to be in Love"

**STOPSET**

Ace of Base- "Don't Turn Around"
Lifehouse- "Whatever it Takes"
U2- "Desire"
Annie Lennox- "Walking on Broken Glass"

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NIGHTS

OneRepublic/Timbaland- "Apologize"
Foo Fighters- "Best of You"
Ingram Hill- "Why Don't You"
Everclear- "Father of Mine"
Saving Jane- "Happy"
Gatsby's American Dream- "Christmastime is Here"
T.L.C.- "Unpretty"
Jimmy Eat World- "Big Casino"
Yellowcard- "Light up the Sky"
The Crash Motive- "Not Giving Up"

**STOPSET**

Heather Nova- "London Rain"
Linkin Park- "Shadow of the Day"
Billy Idol- "White Wedding"
Eve 6- "Leech"

**STOPSET**

(note... these two hours aren't back to back)

Blue October- "Calling You"
OK Go- "Here it Goes Again"
OneRepublic/Timbaland- "Apologize"
The Verve Pipe- "The Freshman"
Daughtry- "Home"
Relient K- "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been"
Red Hot Chili Peppers- "My Friends"
Saving Jane- "What I Didn't Say"
Bob Rivers- "12 Pains of Christmas"
Madina Lake- "Here I Stand"

**STOPSET**

Blues Traveler- Hook
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- "Your Guardian Angel"
10,000 Maniacs- "What's The Matter Here?"
Pink- "Get the Party Started"


Comments?

[radiobrett]

Definately not the most traditional Hot AC, but for the most part it seems that it would flow fairly well, especially in the right market.

[Chase]

^I wish more Hot ACs had a broad playlist like yours. WNNK here in Harrisburg has a large catalog, but leans more toward its CHR roots than alternative.

[shocker]

beejus said:

I'm always one who is looking for ideas and opinions on my station... so I wondered what you guys would think of some sample hours from my station. Feel free to nitpick, tear apart, praise, scratch your head... whatever your reaction to the music selection may be :)

I seem to recall you mentioning that your market has no alternative stations, but a couple of distant CHRs that can be picked up. Your playlist certainly includes a lot of the alternative-type of songs your market is missing out on, which is a good move.

I'm curious as to how your ratings are in comparison to the other stations. Me personally - if I lived in your town I probably wouldn't be much of a listener to your station because of the music selection. Although a few of the alternative titles would be acceptable later at night, most Hot AC listeners don't tune in to hear Deaf Pedestrians or even Saving Jane.

I don't know - maybe it's because I lack knowledge on what is popular in the smaller markets, but I think your station leans heavily Triple-A, and maybe should even be classified as such. I don't see a whole hell of a lot of standard Hot AC material on your playlists.

Your song selections are very unique, and I have to give you credit for that. If it gets you the ratings, more power to you; but I'd still consider calling your format something else besides Hot AC.