WAVE Goodbye

[Mike Sheridan]

L.A.'s Fresh 94.7.

Because Fresh in NYC is doing so well?  Welcome to bland radio!

[DavidEduardo]

Because Fresh in NYC is doing so well?  Welcome to bland radio!

Fresh is just a name; the actual format, use of jocks, music list and focus, is different in each of the few markets the name is being used in. An LA Fresh might be radically different from the currently existing Easter ones.

In any case, we have to remember that each company has a repertoire of very few names it can use for stations so we will be seeing more and more cases of very different formats with the same name across the country due to service mark limitations caused by the Internet making every station have a presence in every city and state!

[ocer]

Do you think the execs in the Clear Channel building will regret firing the open shot by sending KYSR after KROQ?

KBIG was a disaster in its Rhythmic Gold AC days, and by basically switching KYSR's format to KBIG and creating a new Alternative format on KYSR, saved the CC cluster. How would CC regret that? 

CC doesn't give a s*** about 98.7, it's showing that with CC NOT flipping it, with it being in 21st place...CC literally has no idea what they could put on that frequency. Maybe they should actually create an FM station targeted towards males...Sports Talk, FM Talk, or just even take all those female-friendly artists out of their playlist and attach some balls to it...

KYSR is not designed to be a 1st place station... at least in a market like LA.  It's doing what it was intended to: better ratings than Star and holding down KROQ.  Nothing bad about that.

[Neel Mehta]

CC doesn't give a s*** about 98.7, it's showing that with CC NOT flipping it, with it being in 21st place...CC literally has no idea what they could put on that frequency. Maybe they should actually create an FM station targeted towards males...Sports Talk, FM Talk, or just even take all those female-friendly artists out of their playlist and attach some balls to it...
[/quote]

yea...like an actual Rock/Active Rock station, not a pop sounding Alternative station.

[radioaircheck]

All Access is reporting that "The Wave" is NOT going anywhere despite rumors.

[hdsucks]

bummer, it would have been nice to have had a well programmed AC back in the market.  smooth jazz is a dog with fleas, they should still ditch it and put on something that can make them some money

[Michael Rivers Kramer]

bummer, it would have been nice to have had a well programmed AC back in the market.  smooth jazz is a dog with fleas, they should still ditch it and put on something that can make them some money

The issue here is they are not changing because they are MAKING MONEY.

[Bryan Simmons]

bummer, it would have been nice to have had a well programmed AC back in the market. 

You already have one.

[musicfan101]

All Access is reporting that "The Wave" is NOT going anywhere despite rumors.

Aw man!  I wanted to hear another Think Tank....I hate my life...

[musicfan101]

Do you think the execs in the Clear Channel building will regret firing the open shot by sending KYSR after KROQ?

KBIG was a disaster in its Rhythmic Gold AC days, and by basically switching KYSR's format to KBIG and creating a new Alternative format on KYSR, saved the CC cluster. How would CC regret that? 

CC doesn't give a s*** about 98.7, it's showing that with CC NOT flipping it, with it being in 21st place...CC literally has no idea what they could put on that frequency. Maybe they should actually create an FM station targeted towards males...Sports Talk, FM Talk, or just even take all those female-friendly artists out of their playlist and attach some balls to it...

KYSR is not designed to be a 1st place station... at least in a market like LA.  It's doing what it was intended to: better ratings than Star and holding down KROQ.  Nothing bad about that.

I would think that ALL stations in SoCal would love to be in first place (even KJLH)...the problem is, it's not holding down KROQ. Why would any station who flipped formats just immediately have to have the urge to be in competion with a station that doesn't exist?