Another Sports Talk Bites the Dust in Bangor

[JoePoRadio]

"Fox Sports Maine - 104.7fm" flipped today to "The All New B104 FM" and they are playing 10,000 in a row of "Your Favorites from the 60s, 70s, and 80s"
Fox Sports AM910 is still there.

[Maine-i-ac]

Without hearing the station yet, heck I hadn't even heard a rumbling of a move, I'm going to put down my 3 biggest wishes as a listener.

1) Hopefully in stereo. (Should I even have to write that in this day?)

2) 60's, 70's 80's? Please let the playlist be bigger than 900 songs. Please let there be a remix thrown in. Please dig deep for a track now and then.

3) Don't let it be like an MP3 player with liners thrown in. (I have an MP3 player minus liners plus wishes 1 and 2 already.)

Hopefully Blueberry has learned a lesson from when CC and them took Mark Osborne's always top performing KISS 94.5 and turned it into "the best of the 70's, 80's 90's and today!" and crashed and burned it. It's never recovered in the ratings.

Am I being a bit cynical and negative lately? Maybe I'm just turning into and old fart. I wish them the best of luck. Now to go listen and be surprised how great it's going to be.

[ebol]

they have a website?

[popman]

Won't miss much but will miss Dan Patrick from 9-12

[Mainedude2007]

I suspect a 104 WABK clone coming (maybe even a simulcast)

[Maine-i-ac]

I suspect a 104 WABK clone coming (maybe even a simulcast)

Mainedude, I think you hit the nail on the head. After listening to an hour, the playlist could be straight from WABK. I see two scenarios coming out of this. First they are positioning themselves as Big 104 FM. And of course WABK is 104.3. I would much rather see them simulcasting WABK with the personalities, but could they do the opposite and screw up WABK and simulcast this jukebox? I hope not.

Maybe, it's because of their stunting, but during this 8 a.m. sample hour there was nothing live, not even a weather report, just liners and music. Here are the tunes for the hour:

You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart
Small Town - John Mellencamp
Everlasting Love - Carl Carlton
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
Used Ta Be My Girl - The O'Jays
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Your Song - Elton John
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford/Townsend Band
Shake, Shake, Shake Your Booty - KC and The Sunshine Band
Drive - The Cars
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

So for me there's nothing special here. I can see it on as background music in some businesses (employees over age 40), but I don't know if it will appeal at all to the coveted 18 - 35 group. But then again, what do I know?

[Maine-i-ac]

I suspect a 104 WABK clone coming (maybe even a simulcast)

Mainedude, I think you hit the nail on the head. After listening to an hour, the playlist could be straight from WABK. I see two scenarios coming out of this. First they are positioning themselves as Big 104 FM. And of course WABK is 104.3. I would much rather see them simulcasting WABK with the personalities, but could they do the opposite and screw up WABK and simulcast this jukebox? I hope not. Oh and the calls have been changed to WBAK.

Maybe, it's because of their stunting, but during this 8 a.m. sample hour there was nothing live, not even a weather report, just liners and music. Here are the tunes for the hour:

You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart
Small Town - John Mellencamp
Everlasting Love - Carl Carlton
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
Used Ta Be My Girl - The O'Jays
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Your Song - Elton John
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford/Townsend Band
Shake, Shake, Shake Your Booty - KC and The Sunshine Band
Drive - The Cars
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

So for me there's nothing special here. I can see it on as background music in some businesses (employees over age 40), but I don't know if it will appeal at all to the coveted 18 - 35 group. But then again, what do I know?

[Maine-i-ac]

Sorry about the double post! I'm past the editing time where I can get rid of it. I was originally going to edit my post to add that the call letters of 104.7 have changed to WBAK, another hint of a simulcast. If the moderator is reading this, please delete my second repeating post. Thank you.

[Mainedude2007]

And of course WABK is 104.3. I would much rather see them simulcasting WABK with the personalities, but could they do the opposite and screw up WABK and simulcast this jukebox? I hope not.

Given the nose dive ABK took in the ratings, don't give them any ideas.

So for me there's nothing special here. I can see it on as background music in some businesses (employees over age 40), but I don't know if it will appeal at all to the coveted 18 - 35 group. But then again, what do I know?

Don't need the 18-35 age group, they have Kiss and TOS for that. I guess they figure they can make a little more money with classic hits rather than the sports talk, which in Bangor is no great loss, they still have it on AM and never carried live game broadcasts, dumping those to Kiss or the AM side of things, being on FM was just added value.

[True Grit]

I suspect a 104 WABK clone coming (maybe even a simulcast)

Mainedude, I think you hit the nail on the head. After listening to an hour, the playlist could be straight from WABK. I see two scenarios coming out of this. First they are positioning themselves as Big 104 FM. And of course WABK is 104.3. I would much rather see them simulcasting WABK with the personalities, but could they do the opposite and screw up WABK and simulcast this jukebox? I hope not.

Maybe, it's because of their stunting, but during this 8 a.m. sample hour there was nothing live, not even a weather report, just liners and music. Here are the tunes for the hour:

You Wear It Well - Rod Stewart
Small Town - John Mellencamp
Everlasting Love - Carl Carlton
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
Used Ta Be My Girl - The O'Jays
Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Your Song - Elton John
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
Soul Man - Sam & Dave
Smoke From A Distant Fire - Sanford/Townsend Band
Shake, Shake, Shake Your Booty - KC and The Sunshine Band
Drive - The Cars
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Looks a bit like the Mix 97.1 of the late 90's that replaced 97X. It was a fun format to work; I just wish we could've had a little more time to make it successful. One difference---instead of stuff like The O'Jays, Carl Carlton, or KC/Sunshine Band, we mixed in a little modern country.

104.7 was my go-to station for the morning commute. Despite the outcome of the Super Bowl  I was looking forward to commentary on the Dan Patrick show. Imagine my surprise. Good to know I can still catch it on AM 910.