97.1?

[Tibbs2]

Jason, Crumulus owns a few other 97.1 frequencies. I am not saying it won't happen. It doesn't
mean it's fact. Just remember, why should they flip it? It sounds fine to them. Seriously, the
Eagle name is already tired sounding and proof that they won't have anything exciting on there.
They just ought to call it Format 28, WRQQ. "Another radio failure, while we wait for #27's website."

[LouP]

I don't see how 971eagle.com could be intended for anything other than WRQQ.  I did a search on 100000watts.com and no other station showed up for Cumulus in a nationwide query for all stations on 97.1.

It could always be a placeholder for future use (with no intention of switching now), a red herring, or a rib by Cumulus on radio insiders (but why go to the trouble?), but it is interesting that it showed up and still directs to Cumulus' corporate site.  The corporate site direction is the exact same thing that the Houston Jack websites did prior to the KIOL flip last week.

Lou Pickney
LouPickney.com

[Tibbs2]

Lou/Jason:

You know, I guess I was dreaming (make that nightmaring) that Crum. has a 97.1 out West. My apologies. What are the
chances of WRQQ-HD's being called the Eagle? Talk about an oxymoron. Speaking of morons, what do I know? Bring
on the Eagle.

[Bob E. Nelson]

I never had to work the [Shulke II WJYN] format...but I was hired for the switch away from
WJYN to "The New 106 FM" which was designed to grab the old SM-95 audience when WSM-FM went country. 

Apropos SM-95, back when I was in the market back then and had access to Arbitron books, WSM-FM was consistently strong (often dominant) in the 25-44 cell with that quasi-AAA/soft-AOR/AC approach. What actually led to the country flip at 95.5? Did the numbers and sales start to taper off on SM-95?

Anecdotally, I used hear SM-95 seemingly everywhere, especially in stores around Green Hills, Brentwood and Belle Meade. I was teaching at MTSU at the time and it seemed to be favorite choice for grad students and some of the younger profs.

[jetfli]

It could always be a placeholder for future use (with no intention of switching now), a red herring, or a rib by Cumulus on radio insiders (but why go to the trouble?)

Maybe they wanted to expose GETALIFELOSERS 

[courier37027]

To address Bob E. Nelson, SM95 lost some of its appeal and ratings late in its existence. Audience aged, tastes changed, whatever reasons led to lower ratings.  Personally I enjoyed SM95 and was saddened by the format change to country. Wikipedia has a very generic and believeable recollection.

I remember the SM95 music list taking a more mainstream approach around 1981 and 1982.  There were fewer Gene Cotton and Dan Fogelberg songs, and more Foreigner, Phil Collins and mainstream artists.

SM95 has a Yahoo Groups web page.  Please take a look.  Brentwood, Belle Meade and Green Hills seemed to be the hot demo areas for SM95.  A few Yahoo groups posters also listened to SM95 in Dickson and other rural areas.  Even if SM95 pulled a 3 share or ratings in their sunset days, it would still be triple what 106.7 The Fan gets today.

[Tibbs2]

Would a jazz and/or lite AC station work on 106.7 since it's signal is strongest in Belle Meade, Green Hills, Hillsboro Village?
Take the aspects of Jazzy, which did decently, without fanfare and SM 95 and update it. They could call it Eagle1067....

[Nock]

 They could call it Eagle1067....
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And when they flip it they can play Steve Miller non stop all weekend.

Nock

[Tibbs2]

Well now, Nock --- funny you should pick that up, as ClassicsHits 97.1
played "Fly Like an Eagle" just this very morning after Bob and Tom at 10.
I thought it could possibly be the end of time for the station. But, no,
now Nock, no...after STB, and as they do every 23 songs, they played
Segar's "Main Street" and continued their stellar performance on the
ratings charts...


I guess the chances of a commerical Jazz station are as good as
Steve Miller releasing a new CD with "Fly Like An Eagle" on it in our
lifetimes.

[courier37027]

I think 101.1 was briefly a jazz station before it became "The Juice" eleven years ago (now The Beat--holla and mad props to that Clear Channel tru playa Chris Romer).  101.1 The Juice was The Tom Joyner Morning Show's first stop in Nashville.