Re: WBOS

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:12:21 -0500, Mike Thomas <nostatic@earthlink.net> said:

> AAA is a wide ranging format which covers a lot of musical genres,
> and unlike other mainstream formats, no two AAA's are the same.

You betcha.  Even among the commercial ones, compare KPIG, KFOG, KMTT,
KBCO, WDST, WRSI, WMVY, and WXRV.  All are distinct in style and
presentation, at a minimum, and a few of those have fairly unique
playlists.  (Amazingly enough, two of those stations are owned by huge
corporate broadcasting conglomerates: KMTT (by Entercom) and KBCO (by
Clear Channel).  Three are owned by smaller groups: WRSI (by Vox,
ex-Jeff Shapiro), WXRV (by Northeast/Silberberg), and KFOG (by
Susquehanna).  WDST and WMVY are stand-alone, and I don't know who
owns KPIG.)

IIRC from Dale Gleitz' DecalcoMania music poll last year, half of the
top 20 on the R&R AAA year-end chart (for 1998) were not found on any
of the other charts included in the survey.  The stations I mentioned
are a good fraction of the reporters for this chart!  Fun challenge
for chart-hounds: take the 1999 music poll ballot from
<http://www.startext.net/homes/gleitz/1999ballot.html>, and for each
song, figure out which chart(s) it came from.  (No peeking!)

-GAWollman

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