06-20-2009, 08:55 AM
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#101
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: (780)
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Originally Posted by fredr123
Isn't Amp the format that replaced the FM all-talk station KLSX in LA that had Adam Carolla, Danny Bonaduce, Frosty, Heidi and Frank, Tom Leykis and more?
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Yes, I believe so. It's been in a nose-dive since Stern left. This Amp format seems to have revived it...It should be pointed out that works it Los Angeles doesn't always work in Calgary though.
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06-20-2009, 09:04 AM
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#102
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Deelow
Mornings shows are a wash I suppose. Fearless Fred is an original unique talent in the afternoon. He is gone to Toronto next month though. The Bear has the ability to appeal a little younger. That works for me.
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True dat. I might listen to CJAY a little more often if they didn't play the moldy oldies so often. Or, at the very least, if their "lost classics" weren't the same F'ing songs they play every day. The relative lack of that does give Edmonton's station a slight bump, since they do appeal more to people born after 1970.
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06-20-2009, 12:36 PM
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#103
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
True dat. I might listen to CJAY a little more often if they didn't play the moldy oldies so often. Or, at the very least, if their "lost classics" weren't the same F'ing songs they play every day. The relative lack of that does give Edmonton's station a slight bump, since they do appeal more to people born after 1970.
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That's what gets me about these types of formats. I'll listen and think, "Ohhh, there is a great song I haven't heard in years" then they will proceed to play that song regularly for months. Why? I'm sure there are probably tens of thousands of "great songs I haven't heard for years" yet there seems to be a specific subset that gets regular rotation which changes very slowly.
And it isn't like I listen to the radio all day at work. Generally it is my clock radio, drive to work, lunch, drive home, then if I'm driving anywhere.
There is a lot of great music and more new being made every day. Why does radio sound like somebody's 2GB iPod Nano set to repeat?
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06-20-2009, 06:01 PM
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#104
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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They just changed......
yeah, sounds like a dance club.
buh bye
....click....
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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06-20-2009, 06:03 PM
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#105
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
They just changed......
yeah, sounds like a dance club.
buh bye
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Exactly my thoughts. So, for a former Fuel listener, is X the best option now?
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06-20-2009, 06:11 PM
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#106
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Stern Nation
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Originally Posted by Boblobla
Sirius
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Lithium, Alt nation, 90's on 9. 90's music for everyone on sirius.
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06-20-2009, 06:43 PM
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#107
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Originally Posted by ricoFlame
Lithium, Alt nation, 90's on 9. 90's music for everyone on sirius.
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I dunno, Sat radio may not last. Even post merger they are losing money, losing subscribers, and the complaints about their cost cutting measures are piling up.
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Despite the company’s best efforts to sugar coat it, Sirius XM is in trouble. The company shed just over 404,000 subscribers in the first quarter, as far as we can tell the first ever where the company combined or separate has done so.
Losses also widened to $236.6 million, more than double the $104.1 million loss a year earlier.
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http://technologizer.com/2009/05/07/...eds-customers/
Not sure I want to pony up cash for a seat on a sinking ship.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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06-20-2009, 07:47 PM
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#108
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Not sure I want to pony up cash for a seat on a sinking ship.
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Yeah, but you might get a chance to draw Kate Winslet naked.
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06-20-2009, 07:47 PM
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#109
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by getbak
Exactly my thoughts. So, for a former Fuel listener, is X the best option now?
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Yes. It will be interesting to see how much of a bump X929 (and CJAY) get from that 1.8% share Fuel had, since I'd guess about 0.1% of those listeners will stick around.
And yeah, my car takes six presets on the FM dial. It took all of 5 seconds for 90.3's spot to be replaced by 97.7. For the first time in my life, a station that plays country is now a pre-set favourite. God I must be getting old.
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06-20-2009, 09:35 PM
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#110
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jan 2009
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I could tell by the way the dude on Fuel announced the news: "All the hits, all the time" in one long depressed monotone that it was not going to be a good switch. Sigh...
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06-20-2009, 09:49 PM
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#111
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One of the Nine
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Yes. It will be interesting to see how much of a bump X929 (and CJAY) get from that 1.8% share Fuel had, since I'd guess about 0.1% of those listeners will stick around.
And yeah, my car takes six presets on the FM dial. It took all of 5 seconds for 90.3's spot to be replaced by 97.7. For the first time in my life, a station that plays country is now a pre-set favourite. God I must be getting old.
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Cool! Do they play good country like Brad Paisley, or crappy country like that gay song about being in daddy's hands?
And I just realized that being a radio DJ has to be one of the worst jobs ever. At least bar DJs get hot women coming up all night asking them to play songs for them. A radio DJ has to sit in a studio and yap about crap and listen to the same music over and over and over and over and over and over and over.............Ugh.
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06-20-2009, 10:40 PM
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#112
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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This was the first time I listened to the end of radio station and the beginning of a new one.
At 5:45, Fuel announced that the tank was empty and now they will give what Calgarians "asked for", all hits, etc...sigh. They ended with the Miami Vice themesong and a couple of Greenday songs.
Then 90.3 AMP came on and man, it was terrible, I felt like puking. Just terrible. First sone was Beyonce or somethimg/
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06-20-2009, 11:34 PM
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#113
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Olympic Saddledome
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I dunno if it's going to be a huge huge shift...I turned it on and got Green Day...
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06-20-2009, 11:41 PM
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#114
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary,AB
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I turned it on earlier and they were playing Taylor Swift
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06-20-2009, 11:44 PM
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#115
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Calgary AB
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back to x army I go, I hate top 20/40/60/100 radio.
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06-21-2009, 01:05 AM
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#116
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I would also like to share my disappointment. Generally, I WANT to like radio, but the stations make it so hard. Fuel played good music, unfortunately, the same 100 songs on a loop. I still, begrudgingly, listened, hoping for something different.
I preferred Fuel's morning folk to the ######bags on X92.9. However, I did recently discover a gem on X92.9. Every day at 6:00 PM. It is quite a treat.
I suppose it is back to X92.9 for me. CJAY hasn't been programmed into my dial for a few years now, and I don't suspect it will ever find it's way back.
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06-21-2009, 08:04 AM
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#117
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by 4X4
Cool! Do they play good country like Brad Paisley, or crappy country like that gay song about being in daddy's hands?
And I just realized that being a radio DJ has to be one of the worst jobs ever. At least bar DJs get hot women coming up all night asking them to play songs for them. A radio DJ has to sit in a studio and yap about crap and listen to the same music over and over and over and over and over and over and over.............Ugh.
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Brad Paisley is lame. Evidence... country songs about going online, being a metrosexual etc. That shart isn't music, it's some crappy attempt at comedy.
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06-21-2009, 09:24 AM
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#118
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by 4X4
Cool! Do they play good country like Brad Paisley, or crappy country like that gay song about being in daddy's hands?
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Effectively it's Lite 96 with pop-country thrown in. Basically, it's there for when X929 is playing something awful... then I just rotate through Jack, Cjay, Lite, Energy and 977 looking for something to kill the next three minutes.
Used to be about 40% X, 40% fuel, 15% Jack and 5% everything else (outside of hockey season, of course). Now, probably 70% X, 25% Jack, 0% Amp and 5% everything else.
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06-21-2009, 11:02 AM
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#119
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: (780)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Effectively it's Lite 96 with pop-country thrown in. Basically, it's there for when X929 is playing something awful... then I just rotate through Jack, Cjay, Lite, Energy and 977 looking for something to kill the next three minutes.
Used to be about 40% X, 40% fuel, 15% Jack and 5% everything else (outside of hockey season, of course). Now, probably 70% X, 25% Jack, 0% Amp and 5% everything else.
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Kevin Scott is still on in GP. Maybe you need a road trip/
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06-21-2009, 12:02 PM
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#120
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In the Sin Bin
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On whatever SUN FM turned into?
97.7 on our dial, not Grande Prairies. 
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