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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yeah, I actually understand Temporary User's comments about this station being geared towards woman more now that I've listened a few times. I though it was a weird comment when we thought it was going to be like the Peak in Vancouver.
I'm gonna throw something out there, that wouldn't surprise me if true. They're clearly playing lots of pop, like tons of it. Lots of weak, dancy top forty hits that aren't even close to being rock music. But they went out of their way to call themselves a rock station.
It wouldn't surprise me that in the world of young marketing people being completely entranced in manipulating the online world and making things go viral, if they knew this was just another top 40 station, with a slight, and I mean slight side of rock, and calling themselves a rock station was a way to get people talking about them.
Everyone talks about how they're supposed to be this but they're actually that. More and more people listen to see for themselves or just listen because they hear people talking about the "controversy" of this new station, and they get what they want; listeners that never would have known about them without all the talk.
I'd bet dollars to donuts that this was discussed and implemented on purpose.
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Having worked in marketing for 10 years now I can easily say that you're giving us far too much credit. More than likely it's the result of incompetence than malicious planning.