New FM Station for Johnston County?

89.6 - My Ipod, its hard to beat for me.

 

What was that other station that didnt make it...or is it still around? Sunny 93?

We need a metal station!

 

no, not easy listening. contemporary jazz. not noodly wynton marsalis or miles davis jazz. william orbit and sade and fattburger and david sanborn upscale "smooth jazz"....

 

sunny is gone. it's now "kiss fm" an urban adult contemporary. my mother-in-law is still in mourning...she loved sunny, since she listened to the same format and name in florida, and she likes celene dion and clay aiken

 

Jean-Luc Ponty used to be the violinist for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention had a big hit about 30 years ago called New Country, have a few of his albums as a solo artist.

 

Thanks, I will have to try it again when I get home, but I think I live in a bit of a dead zone, I often times have trouble getting even the 91.5 signal.

 

The last thing we need is another country station, It's already been proven that oldies (while popular to start with) fails. We have enough of pop/hip-hop stations in the area. What I would personally like to see is a station more along the lines of what WKNC used to be....Metal/fusion/techno/jazz/alternative melded into one.



Craig

 

It's 89.7.

 

that'd be a tough one to sell....

 

I wouldnt mind another WKNC....just not quite as eclectic.

 

Well that settles it! They are not allowed to build the damn thing!

 

Oldies might could work,if the station doesn't fall into the typical corporate radio playlist of the same tunes over and over. Plus an oldies station that was actually programmed by human being might go over well.

Classic country is one of the fastest growing commercial radio setups at this point in time. I would think that would have a bigger chance in Johnston County,if they move the 102.3 studios from Goldsboro.

 

The latest yearly study that Arbritron has, it seems, is 2007 but this is kind of an interesting read.

Format Winners and Losers Remained Even

Of the 50 formats tracked for ratings (see page 99 for the complete list), there was a uniform split of improving/debuting, unchanged and declining formats between Spring 2005 and Spring 2006: 17 were up or debuting, 17 were unchanged and 16 were down.

Formats up were Adult Hits, All Sports, Classic Hits, Contemporary Christian, Contemporary Inspirational, Country, Mexican Regional, Modern AC, Spanish News/Talk, Spanish Religious, Talk/Personality and Urban AC.

Five formats scored ratings in 2006 that had not appeared in 2005. The new entries included Children’s Radio, Educational, Ethnic, New Country and Spanish Adult Hits.

Those unchanged: Adult Contemporary, Album Oriented Rock, Classical, Easy Listening, Jazz, New AC/Smooth Jazz, News/Talk/Information, Nostalgia, Pop CHR, Religious, Rhythmic Oldies, Southern Gospel, Spanish Contemporary, Spanish Oldies, Tejano, Urban Oldies, and Variety.

Formats down: Active Rock, Adult Album Alternative, Adult Standards, All News, Alternative, Classic Country, Classic Rock, ’80s Hits, Gospel, Hot AC, Oldies, Rhythmic CHR, Soft AC, Spanish Tropical, Spanish Variety and Urban Contemporary.

http://www.arbitron.com/downloads/radiotoday07.pdf

So you can clearly see, we need an All 80's Metal All The Time! station.

 

This is probably the easiest ratings to understand.

http://www.radioandrecords.com/rrra...HPER=8.3&OPER=&NSD=6/11/2008 12:00:00 AM&CE=0

 

that's 12+, 12 years old and up. in other words everybody. most stations don't target everybody. for example, la ley. they target spanish people. of the spanish stations, they are number 1. or foxy. they target black adults 25 to 54. in that demo, they are number 1. just saying that overall ratings are cool, and they will tell you what shares of the entire audience a station gets, but not necessarily how they are doing with their target audience. a station that's number 8, but kills in its target (especially on the sales side) is still considered a success....

oh, and i don't think it's fair that foxy gets to combine their ratings on two different signals just because they are simulcast. they can sell it that way, but it shouldn't show up in the ratings that way. jmho, of course...

 

My biggest problem with either of the Raleigh stations is that they play the same stuff all day long. I work out of a van all day and the radio is about the best friend I have out there. Both 94.7 and 106.1 tend to be very repetitive. I've had the chance to listen to 95.7 out of Fayetteville and they blow either Raleigh station out of the water. Add to that the fact that both are shoving that junk pop country (Taylor Swift and Jewel just to name 2) down my gullet and I'm very thankful that I just got an mp3 player.

 

i want to hear a good rock station... Some metal, some current, some classic... everything thats "Good". and 96 rock doesn't count. if you play finger eleven more than 2 times a day, you're doing it wrong, and if you play ANYTHING kid rock has released in the past year, you're more than wrong you're ****ing stupid.

Edited to add a bit:
With the internet so very well established, why is it that we have yet to really see radio/internet integration? I mean... we see internet radio stations based around your own tastes popping up left and right (Pandora, Last.fm, Jango, many many others). I think it could work the other way. Users propose the songs, users upvote/downvote the song currently playing via text messaging short code or web vote to determine airtime, with constant live request decided by the userbase, not the DJ's. Obviously some sort of service-side intervention would need to be there, to prevent us from spending the day listening to the wonders of Mr. Rick Astley's love balad... but does this idea have any teeth? or is it already implemented in some market somewhere?

 

Think that might be where a Classic Country would come in and do good in the area. 98.9 toward Rocky Mount seems to have hit on a winning formula up that way.

 

They're another good station. 106 did a great job when they first aired as did 99.9. 106 started out playing a good mix of old and new country, but that changed. Now I hear the same junk all day long. 94.7 does the same thing, they play the same stuff all day. 94.7 does tend to play new country first, but they're still too repetitive for my taste. Unfortunately, I can't usually pick up 98.9 or 95.7 while out on the road.

 

Not so much yet. In a few places it has happened but these are mostly big commercial stations that also stream on the net but i do not know of one that goes the other way. I have been DJ'ing on an internet station since 2001 and we have talked about it at length for a long time. Its a huge undertaking and very expensive. Alot of these net stations are like small companies...might even be 1 person doing the whole thing but the biggest problem or thing that has to be dealt with is the RIAA and royalties that have to be paid.

Net stations pay royalties based on the number of listeners they have, not on the number of songs they play. Because of this they pay a blanket type license fee per month/year. In the case of the station i work with, 1 person runs it out of his house and we work with it through various software programs.

Once the station goes over the public airways, so to speak (which it would have to be since none of them that i know of could afford to do like Sirius does) then they can not pay a blanket license fee but it goes to a 'per song' basis and that cost is a whole different ballpark. (as far as i know) I once heard a figure that a commercial radio station pays $.03 in royalties per song played but that was a long time ago that i heard it.

Our station is free to listen to (as most are) but offer a subscriber rate of i think $10 per month which gives you a few extra things as well as a 128k cd quality stream. Some stations offer that for free...some dont go past 64k.

Then of course you gota get a license from the FCC...transmitters etc....