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ALT 98.7 reaches new low in June...1.6 Share

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non-anon bob
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Debbie Kenyon and Tim Roberts need to impress on CEO David Field that ALT 98.7 has NO chance of becoming popular nor profitable in Detroit...Only a "live and local" format change can turn this sinking ship around! https://radioinsight.com/ratings/detroit/
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I was in Novi for a wedding last night, so I decided to give them a listen while driving around. Lazlo’s show was on and he was talking about forced confessions with what I’m assuming is a guest or the co-host. Can you imagine if this is the first thing a listener hears when they hear about a new Alternative station? Thankfully, 107.1 came in pretty well, so that babbling only lasted a couple minutes for me.

I decided to give them another chance when driving back to the hotel. Heard a couple good gold tracks and then that god-awful “Mood” song followed by a Kid Cudi song. Needless to say, I listened to 107.1 until I got back into Ohio.

They deserve the 1.6 they have.
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The fuckin answers are right there in their faces. They keep thinking that whatever "VP and Director in charge of getting the coffee orders right between 8 and 9am" plugging these shitty ass rap songs and Billie Eilish every hour is gonna make shit better. I'm pretty fuckin clueless, too. Give me a job, Audacy.
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Turned it on for a sec yesterday. Two commercials playing over top of each other was the first thing I heard. Tremendous.
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Mega Hertz wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 11:09 pm The fuckin answers are right there in their faces. They keep thinking that whatever "VP and Director in charge of getting the coffee orders right between 8 and 9am" plugging these shitty ass rap songs and Billie Eilish every hour is gonna make shit better. I'm pretty fuckin clueless, too. Give me a job, Audacy.
Recently, I've caught the forgotten tune "Meant to Live" by Switchfoot, and "Drive" by Incubus on ALT 98.7. Not sure what this adds to the conversation, other than it clashes badly with the other crapola they are playing.

By the way, Mega, according to Afentra's lawsuit against Entercom, Lazlo's salary is 185K a year. And to think of all the real talent out there that's been shit canned, all because "they make too much money" :x
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I listened to "the Wave" for a while and ist went downhill.
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Colonel Flagg wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:26 pm
Mega Hertz wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 11:09 pm The fuckin answers are right there in their faces. They keep thinking that whatever "VP and Director in charge of getting the coffee orders right between 8 and 9am" plugging these shitty ass rap songs and Billie Eilish every hour is gonna make shit better. I'm pretty fuckin clueless, too. Give me a job, Audacy.
Recently, I've caught the forgotten tune "Meant to Live" by Switchfoot, and "Drive" by Incubus on ALT 98.7. Not sure what this adds to the conversation, other than it clashes badly with the other crapola they are playing.

By the way, Mega, according to Afentra's lawsuit against Entercom, Lazlo's salary is 185K a year. And to think of all the real talent out there that's been shit canned, all because "they make too much money" :x
Yeah, all those actual REAL talents sitting on the beach. They should have at least one local jock in the studio, a name jock might help (someone known in the format). The gold cuts need to happen way more often. I would bet my next month's salary that if they brought in a local jock, upped the gold, stopped this 2 minute promise shit, got rid of LoseLo, and quit with the soundcloud/tik toc shit, they could easily pull mid 2's, maybe better. Those of us who grew up on that music are in the sweet spot. Maybe pull a few Riff P1s who don't wanna sit through Ratt and Def Leppard just to hear Royal Blood or whatever their name is. That may have helped 89x years ago, too. This gives a better chance to weed out and play the better actual alternative stuff serviced to radio. It's never gonna be an 8 share station or anything like that, but with a strategy like this, it's almost like you WANT to lose.
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You know what? Let me retract my earlier statement a bit. Walk it back some.

I think there was always some misnomers about what was alternative, alternative rock, modern rock and new rock. 89x might have played something Riff wouldn't, Riff might play something the Planet wouldn't, Wheels might have played something 89x wouldn't, etc. I think a playlist with some mainstream stuff wouldn't hurt, either. Mash up the playlist with the heavy hitters of the 90s. Some 00s stuff has to be in there, too. It seems unless you are Linkin Park or Staind or Limp Bizkit, you get bumped off entirely.

Now pardon me while we play "Mood" or "I'm Pink Therefore I'm Spam" again.
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Mega Hertz wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:48 pm You know what? Let me retract my earlier statement a bit. Walk it back some.

I think there was always some misnomers about what was alternative, alternative rock, modern rock and new rock. 89x might have played something Riff wouldn't, Riff might play something the Planet wouldn't, Wheels might have played something 89x wouldn't, etc. I think a playlist with some mainstream stuff wouldn't hurt, either. Mash up the playlist with the heavy hitters of the 90s. Some 00s stuff has to be in there, too. It seems unless you are Linkin Park or Staind or Limp Bizkit, you get bumped off entirely.

Now pardon me while we play "Mood" or "I'm Pink Therefore I'm Spam" again.
I’ll summarize that very simply:

Turn Alt 98.7 into an exact clone of SiriusXM’s Lithium. Ratings would shoot up instantaneously
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Realist wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:53 pm
Mega Hertz wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:48 pm You know what? Let me retract my earlier statement a bit. Walk it back some.

I think there was always some misnomers about what was alternative, alternative rock, modern rock and new rock. 89x might have played something Riff wouldn't, Riff might play something the Planet wouldn't, Wheels might have played something 89x wouldn't, etc. I think a playlist with some mainstream stuff wouldn't hurt, either. Mash up the playlist with the heavy hitters of the 90s. Some 00s stuff has to be in there, too. It seems unless you are Linkin Park or Staind or Limp Bizkit, you get bumped off entirely.

Now pardon me while we play "Mood" or "I'm Pink Therefore I'm Spam" again.
I’ll summarize that very simply:

Turn Alt 98.7 into an exact clone of SiriusXM’s Lithium. Ratings would shoot up instantaneously
Brevity was never my strong suit.

Maybe throw in some Turbo and we have a winner.
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Mega Hertz wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:10 pm
Realist wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:53 pm
Mega Hertz wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:48 pm You know what? Let me retract my earlier statement a bit. Walk it back some.

I think there was always some misnomers about what was alternative, alternative rock, modern rock and new rock. 89x might have played something Riff wouldn't, Riff might play something the Planet wouldn't, Wheels might have played something 89x wouldn't, etc. I think a playlist with some mainstream stuff wouldn't hurt, either. Mash up the playlist with the heavy hitters of the 90s. Some 00s stuff has to be in there, too. It seems unless you are Linkin Park or Staind or Limp Bizkit, you get bumped off entirely.

Now pardon me while we play "Mood" or "I'm Pink Therefore I'm Spam" again.
I’ll summarize that very simply:

Turn Alt 98.7 into an exact clone of SiriusXM’s Lithium. Ratings would shoot up instantaneously
Brevity was never my strong suit.

Maybe throw in some Turbo and we have a winner.
A Turbo clone needs to be 106.7
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A "First Wave"/"Time Warp" type show would get me listening. River had Classic Alternative during the noon lunch hours and on Saturday nights, just like the old Planet 96.3. Thankfully 107.1 has some of that stuff on its regular playlist and the syndicated New Wave Nation on Saturdays.
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ChrisWL1980 wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:44 pm A "First Wave"/"Time Warp" type show would get me listening. River had Classic Alternative during the noon lunch hours and on Saturday nights, just like the old Planet 96.3. Thankfully 107.1 has some of that stuff on its regular playlist and the syndicated New Wave Nation on Saturdays.
Drag your ass outta bed bright and early on Sunday mornings to (maybe) hear some of that stuff. Starts right after the public affairs programming.
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ChrisWL1980 wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:44 pm A "First Wave"/"Time Warp" type show would get me listening. River had Classic Alternative during the noon lunch hours and on Saturday nights, just like the old Planet 96.3. Thankfully 107.1 has some of that stuff on its regular playlist and the syndicated New Wave Nation on Saturdays.
I miss both the Retro Lunch and Time Warp. They played deep cuts quite a bit, some music you don't typically hear on radio.
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