EvanJ
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Post by EvanJ on Feb 27, 2009 13:09:02 GMT -5
According to www.yes.com, Amp is still mostly rhythmic.
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Post by atlantaboy on Feb 28, 2009 17:23:25 GMT -5
What I meant about opening it up even wider was the variety of the kind of music they play. As you know, for a long time, Star was very conservative about what they played. Over the last few years, they had gradually starting playing more rhythmic and light urban music. Kanye West is on their playlist and just a few years ago, that wouldn't have happened. Oh only lived here a year and a half so didn't know that...anyhow yeah major change in topic of thread (prob. my fault lol)
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Post by Houster on Mar 2, 2009 5:16:46 GMT -5
Scott Shannon isn't doing to shabbily at WPLJ in New York for some time now.
K-Rock is essentially a Gen-X classic rock station, doesn't play all that much new music. They even stole WNEW-FM's old monker, "where rock lives." That doesn't mean K-Rock is bad, but it is what it is. WRXP probably isn't doing much ratings wise, but at least they are trying something a little different. There are a bunch of bands they don't play that K-Rock does, but I like the station.
I think there is room for two CHR's in New York. Maybe if CBS focuses on the music rather than pandering to flyboys and tween girls, like Z-100 does, they could make a go of it.
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Post by John77 on Mar 2, 2009 19:28:30 GMT -5
According to www.yes.com, Amp is still mostly rhythmic. It's exactly the same station as it was 10 days ago. It needs to wise up if it wants one of those 12 presets in my car.
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Post by tico on Mar 2, 2009 21:53:52 GMT -5
Where are the rock songs on this station, besides All American Rejects? I can tell this might be a station with a high repetition rate. I see "Dead And Gone" three times in less than three hours. I guess that's typical for CHR these days.
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Post by John77 on Mar 3, 2009 0:30:03 GMT -5
Hopefully they are still "stunting"... the need to something to differentiate themselves from WIMP... I mean KIIS FM...
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Post by atlantaboy on Mar 4, 2009 16:06:55 GMT -5
Actually, KKHH/Houston did the same thing when it was launched as a competitor to that behemoth known as KRBE last year, except that KKHH played a mountain of rhythmic/hip-hop stuff to differentiate themselves from KRBE, which had been known as the most female-friendly CHR/Pop station in existence. I suspect that AMP 97.1 will play all of the CHR/Pop hits of recent vintage a lot while building cume, and for that reason it will unbdoubtedly sound quite a bit like KIIS for the time being, but continue to add songs (currents, recurrents & gold tunes) that KIIS has ignored for years. Record label reps have been really ticked off that KIIS plays very little rock music from enormously popular hitmaking bands such as Hinder, Nickelback and Coldplay, so this station is certainly something that they have to be really excited about. If it forces KIIS to widen their library, so much the better. Yep KKHH did do that i remeber they were on the rhythmic panel at first, and KRBE WAS a behemoth but not anymore every since they were bought by Cumulous in 2005 they've slowly but surely they have been turned into a boring, late adding songs, HAC-leaning mess! Only thing about KRBE is just checked Arbitron ratings and they're up 0.9 points while KKHH is down 0.9 points so the HAC-leaning mess must be workin...
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Post by tico on Mar 7, 2009 17:03:24 GMT -5
There are rumors that CBS may "Amp" other markets (but not use the Amp name), like New York (which has already been mentioned and is most likely to happen soon), Orlando and Sacramento. As long as they don't all sound the same like the Clear Channel Kiss clones, that would be great.
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Post by atlantaboy on Mar 7, 2009 18:55:18 GMT -5
There are rumors that CBS may "Amp" other markets (but not use the Amp name), like New York (which has already been mentioned and is most likely to happen soon), Orlando and Sacramento. As long as they don't all sound the same like the Clear Channel Kiss clones, that would be great. If they start up lots of other near-rhythmic CHRs (like Clear Channel did in the early 00s), there goes the mainstream CHR chart though...it'll be like 2001-2003 all over again with a ridiculously rhythmic-skewed CHR chart
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Post by Rurry on Mar 8, 2009 2:02:31 GMT -5
^ That would be seriously unbearable. Let's hope the other stations are better than AMP which has proven to be pretty much trash so far...
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Post by John77 on Mar 8, 2009 2:05:25 GMT -5
^ That would be seriously unbearable. Let's hope the other stations are better than AMP which has proven to be pretty much trash so far... 1/2 month in and so far it's much ado about nothing. Their mix hasn't changed an iota since day 1... so still no preset in my car.
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Post by Minor Scratch on Mar 8, 2009 11:24:06 GMT -5
I don't see those stations lasting too long though. And as long as CHR still goes by position and not audience, smaller market CHRs will be less skewed, so it should still work out. There are a lot more stations on the panel that are not Rhythmic-skewed than there were in the early 00s.
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