Denver-Boulder Gets CHR-Pop Back

[EvanJ]

100000watts reports that KSYY 107.1 Bennett, CO (east of Denver) has changed to "Top 40." www.radioandrecords.com/RRWebSite/ says the station went Rhythmic. I looked at www.yes.com/#KSYY?log and the songs KSYY is playing appear to be CHR-Pop, with several that a Rhythmic station wouldn't play. KSYY played "This Is It" by Kirk Franklin this morning. Kirk Franklin makes Gospel music and I wouldn't expect a Pop or Rhythmic station to play him. Denver-Boulder lost CHR-Pop KFMD (owned by Clear Channel) on April 27, 2005.

[threedollafoaholla]

Looking at the coverage map (http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KSYY&service=FM&status=L&hours=U), I'm not sure how much of an impact this station will have in the Denver market. Yes, it has a good local signal over the eastern part of the market, but look at the western part... typically when you see that kind of fringe coverage, you'll only be able to pick it up - static free - on a car radio.

[EvanJ]

I know about the signal, but it's better than nothing. If a quarter of the people in the Denver-Boulder market can hear it then that's more people than in radio markets 80 and below.

[atlantaboy]

Wow Denver is a weird market...two Hot ACs and two Triple A's but no CHR lol

[avaholic26]

Funny thing is I never notied Denver did not have a CHR/Top 40 station. 107.1 still hasn't caught on big here at all. I thhought KALC was the CHR station for a long time but its ovbiously the HOT AC station. Its format is so much different from KIMN's HOT AC I would have never guessed they were the same format. Is this how is usually is, to have variance between formats in the same market? And is it strange that a fairly decent size market like Denver went so long without a CHR station? I'm just beginning to learn about the radio biz and how it all works so any insights you all can give on the Denver market would be greatly appreciated!

[atlantaboy]

^Kinda guessing here but I think Denver has had a huge influx of wealthy suburbanites over the past 20 years or so, and huge % college-educated (b/c of the kinds of businesses that have relocated there), and those factors I think tend to get higher ratings for Hot AC than CHR in general...San Francisco also has high % college educated and has two HACs and no CHR, and Raleigh NC was in a similar situation in the 90s (it had a CHR which played exclusively Hot AC/Triple A music during the "height" of the influx from about 1997-1999)

I think most of the "working class" population of Denver tends to listen to Country and Classic Rock (thinkin it's just the culture of the city), leavin the college-educated suburbanites listenin to Hot AC, Triple A, and Alternative...Denver's Triple A station has a rating of 4.3, which has to be one of the highest in the nation (that might be another factor cause the Hot AC's have to compete with the gigantic Triple A station, and turnin CHR might make that too difficult)

[Minor Scratch]

Does Denver even have a Rhythmic? I know Colorado Springs does.

[EvanJ]

In the Denver-Boulder ratings, Rhythmic KQKS is 3rd, Rhythmic AC KPTT is 13th, and Rhythmic AC KONN is 22nd. The three stations have 9.4 shares combined. The two Hot AC and three Triple A stations combined have 11.6 shares (in addition to the popular KBCO, Triple A stations KCUV and KTNI also appear in the ratings).

[shadster]

Wash. DC didn't have a CHR from Feb. 1992 until July 1996. And Baltimore STILL has no CHR. B-more had 1 CHR from 1997 till somewhere around 2003; and prior to that, the last CHR died in 1991. So 11 out of the last 17 years, no CHR in the Charm City.

[aTunes]

The station is great, I don't know what I did without it forever. I still can't believe the Denver area went so long without a CHR.

[620 Soul Train]

I just viewed the playlist for KONN and I am appalled at that playlist. Some of the records on that playlist are getting way too much airplay.

[johnnywest]

If you happened to be in Denver during the first week of 1997, then you probably witnessed a horrific change. KS-104 (a Rhythmic Top 40, which did air "Casey's Top 40" on Sundays) moved up the dial, dropped their syndicated programming and became KS-107. At the same time, the only Mainstream Top 40 in Denver, Mix 107 (which carried "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40") ceased to exist. I believe KOSI 101 continued to air "Casey's Countdown," but that was all you got for syndication.

[avaholic26]

Thank you all so much for the comments. Where do you find the radio station ratings?

I do remember when KS 104 became a spanish station one day, which now oddly enough is now a FM sports talk radio station. I remember 102.1 was an all dance channel and it changed to spanish one day out of the blue as well, I'm still traumatized.

For anyone that remembers, was Y108 a Top 40 station back in the day?

One more question, with KBCO's AAA being so highly rated, is it odd that there is no mainstream rock station? KBPI's Active station is fairly popualr as well but thats about it for the rock format since the Alternative and other stations are not. I get burned out a lot on KBPI's format and KBCO can be very random so I really do miss out on a more of a mainstream rock format.

[EvanJ]

www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/

[B-Boy]

I'm assuming KPTT switched formats (from Rhythmic AC to Pop). They have been playing Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson and Cobra Starship and some other currents.

Speaking of KQKS (KS-104), didn't they lean pop at one point? I remember they played some poppy cuts back in the early 90's like Boy Krazy's "That's What Love Can Do" and I think Ace Of Base's "The Sign". Most of the time played mainstream R&B cuts.

[tico]

Looks like KPTT has a rhythmic-leaning CHR format, as I see no rock songs on their playlist.

[EvanJ]

Oct 26, 2009 15:04:15 GMT -5 B-Boy said:

I'm assuming KPTT switched formats (from Rhythmic AC to Pop). They have been playing Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson and Cobra Starship and some other currents.

100000watts still calls the station Rhythmic AC, but the Arbitron ratings on All Access call them Top 40/M (Mainstream).

[KeepDeanWeird]

It definitely leans Rhythmic, but will add it Top 10 pop hits. (So does the "Party" -- which is way Rhythmic, but plays lots of recurrents -- so it's weird to hear YBTM -- after What's Your Fantasy. Point has forced them to go more current in past couple of months.