Honolulu Gets A CHR-Pop Station

[EvanJ]

All Access Net News reports that Visionary changed 80s KQMQ "to Top 40/Mainstream as 93.1 The Zone."

[allow that]

Long overdue. I hope it's a success.

[tico]

I wonder what reception thinks about it.

[reception]

I've always wondered will this be a Hot AC station? They had been leaning that way since last year while retaining the 80's hits.

Now the 80's hits are all gone, but they still sound very Hot AC leaning. No Destiny's Child, Ying Yang Twins, Missy Elliott, Nivea, 50 Cent, Pussycat Dolls, Trick Daddy, etc. I did hear Baby Bash, Frankie J. and Natalie. I'm guessing if you want to hear Rhythmic, listen to sister station KDDB. "The Zone" are playing the same songs over and over. But hopefully over time their library will grow.

If I recall then owner New Wave flipped KQMQ from CHR-Pop to 80's Hits in November 2000. New Wave then flipped country KKHN to KKBM as a Rhythmic, now KDDB. When KQMQ was a CHR back in its heyday in the 1980's, they were sort of Rhythmic leaning, not playing much rock songs.

Recently Maui based Visionary flipped KQNG Lihue from CHR to Hot AC because they dropped the Rick Dees CHR Top 40 instead airing his Hot AC Top 40 show. I'm hoping KQMQ will become a Rick Dees affiliate once again as they were an affiliate once upon a time.

[reception]

KQMQ has picked up Rick Dees (CHR countdown) as an affiliate.

[reception]

KQMQ still has Rick Dees' CHR show Sundays at 7 AM. I just learned they carry American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest (Hot AC version) Saturday at 8 AM. KQMQ is still Hot AC leaning. They do play Ne-Yo, Beyonce, Chris Brown and Mary J. Blige, but won't play rap songs: Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Kanye West, Bow Wow, Juelz Santana, Dem Franchize Boyz, Bubba Sparxxx, Daddy Yankee, Eminem, Nelly.

www.931thezone.net

[Diablo Cody™]

Just be glad they are Hot AC leaning and not overplaying Hip Hop.

Haha my second CHR pop station Hot 97.5, well when it first started, they played the same songs over and over. I believe they first started when Eamon, Frankee, and Britney's TOXIC were hits because I remember them playing those alot. Well yeah they only had like 10-20 songs it seemed when they started, now they have alotof variety. But yeah this new station caused the old chr/pop station Y93 to turn hot ac, i think? They play mostly 80's, 90's, and some new songs but no hip hop. So I wish I had a hot ac leaning chr pop station around here.

[Marv]

Reception--Wasn't KQMQ a mass appeal CHR/Pop station during the eighties instead of a rhythmic leaning one?

The CHR/Pop format was stilla mass-appeal formats for most of the eighties; not until KIIS-FM was whacked by KPWRs skyrocketing to #1 in the spring of 1987 did KIIS start loading up on rap/rhythmic material, which only accelerated their slide ratings-wise, and the simultaneously plunge in national prestige?

[reception]

Reception--Wasn't KQMQ a mass appeal CHR/Pop station during the eighties instead of a rhythmic leaning one?

They may have tweaked the format at times but I certainly don't remember hearing John Mellencamp or Van Halen on KQMQ in the 1980s.

[reception]

computerfreak said:

Just be glad they are Hot AC leaning and not overplaying Hip Hop.

KQMQ still has the Hot AC version of AT40 and a few months ago KQMQ dropped Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 CHR show so they could carry his Hot AC Top 40 instead.

I don't know why they are still on the Mediabase Pop panel, it should be moved to Hot AC.

7 Day
Station Playlist
Visionary Related Entertainment
PD:Sean Lynch
MD:

KQMQ-FM
Honolulu - 93.1 FM (Top 40)
by This Week Spins

LW: Nov 16 - Nov 22
TW: Nov 23 - Nov 29
Updated: Thu Nov 30 3:57 AM PST

2 1 JOHN MAYER Waiting On The World To Change 93 94 -1 0.286
4 2 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE My Love (f/T.I.) 92 90 2 0.2872
7 3 SNOW PATROL Chasing Cars 91 87 4 0.2824
5 4 EVANESCENCE Call Me When You're Sober 90 88 2 0.2861
1 5 FRAY How To Save A Life 90 94 -4 0.2814
3 6 HINDER Lips Of An Angel 89 91 -2 0.2724
6 7 NICKELBACK Far Away 88 88 0 0.2697
9 8 NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Unwritten 41 38 3 0.1196
11 9 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Sexyback 40 38 2 0.1176
15 10 CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt 38 35 3 0.1077
8 11 ELAN ATIAS All Nighter (f/ Gwen Stefani) 37 39 -2 0.1041
17 12 FERGIE Fergalicious 37 35 2 0.1023
10 13 FERGIE London Bridge (Oh Snap) 37 38 -1 0.1045
20 14 FRAY Over My Head (Cable Car) 37 33 4 0.108
16 15 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS It Ends Tonight 36 35 1 0.1023
19 16 PAULA DEANDA Walk Away (Remember Me) f/Dey 36 33 3 0.1049
13 17 JOJO Too Little Too Late 36 36 0 0.1086
41 18 BEYONCE Irreplaceable 35 13 22 0.0944
12 19 JACK JOHNSON Upside Down 35 37 -2 0.1032
18 20 MARIO VAZQUEZ Gallery 34 35 -1 0.0996
14 21 GWEN STEFANI Wind It Up 32 36 -4 0.0889
22 22 PINK U + Ur Hand 28 28 0 0.0693
70 23 FALL OUT BOY This Ain't A Scene, It's An... 26 8 18 0.0668
23 24 NELLY FURTADO Say It Right 26 26 0 0.0637
26 25 STONE SOUR Through Glass 26 22 4 0.0684
71 26 VANESSA HUDGENS Come Back To Me 25 8 17 0.0654
27 27 JOJO How To Touch A Girl 24 21 3 0.0646
30 28 AVRIL LAVIGNE Keep Holding On 24 17 7 0.0571
32 29 CARTEL Honestly 23 16 7 0.0506
25 30 DRAKE BELL I Know 20 24 -4 0.0436
28 31 K.T. TUNSTALL Suddenly I See 20 21 -1 0.0459
54 32 JESSE MCCARTNEY Beautiful Soul 16 12 4 0.0459
33 33 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Welcome To The Black Parade 16 15 1 0.0212
21 34 PANIC! AT THE DISCO I Write Sins Not Tragedies 16 33 -17 0.0503
35 35 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Move Along 15 14 1 0.0497
36 36 CASCADA Everytime We Touch 15 14 1 0.0419
51 37 BLUE OCTOBER Into The Ocean 13 12 1 0.014
43 38 FALL OUT BOY Dance, Dance 13 13 0 0.0388
34 39 DANIEL POWTER Bad Day 13 15 -2 0.0386
60 40 WEEZER Beverly Hills 13 11 2 0.0361
49 41 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Dirty Little Secret 12 12 0 0.0373
42 42 KELLY CLARKSON Since U Been Gone 12 13 -1 0.0358
62 43 D.H.T. Listen To Your Heart 12 10 2 0.0289
53 44 NELLY FURTADO Promiscuous 12 12 0 0.0331
45 45 GORILLAZ Feel Good Inc 12 13 -1 0.0332
57 46 MADONNA Hung Up 12 11 1 0.0272
50 47 BACKSTREET BOYS Incomplete 11 12 -1 0.0306
24 48 JAMES BLUNT You're Beautiful 11 25 -14 0.036
37 49 HILARY DUFF Come Clean 11 14 -3 0.0291
52 50 FORT MINOR F/HOLLY BROOK Where'd You Go 11 12 -1 0.0308

[oscillations.]

That's what a CHR/Pop list should look like.
I approve.

[EvanJ]

It plays less rhythmic music than most CHR-Pop stations, but if KQMQ is trying to be Hot AC they shouldn't play their top song 93 times. The most spins on any for Hot AC station for any of the Top 10 songs currenly on the Mediabase Hot AC chart is 77.

[reception]

It's a CHR that's very Hot AC leaning. I guess they switched Rick Dees' shows because they didn't want rap songs during the show. KQMQ probably doesn't want to sound like a true Mainstream CHR station with rap and rhythmic songs because they don't want to sound like their sister station, Rhythmic CHR KDDB 102.7 Da Bomb. And since there is no Hot AC in this market, that's an excuse to sound this way.