Some Thoughts on WODS/AmpRadio

[James Duffy]

"The disco station". :)  For me, Kiss was that odd ball station that
played strange versians of familiar songs and other stuff that 'HTT,
'Zou and 'ProFM out of Providence did not.  How I wish now that Sunny
Joe White were still in charge and the station was owned locally.
As far as the future of 'Amp or its possible success is concerned;
I worry that CBS has misjudged The Boston Audience in thinking they
would be successful at beating or significantly chalenging 'Kiss
simply because they've have success putting the 'amp concept up
against 'kiss in LA.  I do not think the "now" 92.3 experiment has
presented the chalenge to z-100 in New York that CBS was hoping to
make.  The other thing I do not think they are considering at all is
that they program a "Modern AC" station right next door on the dial
that sounds more like a Contemporary hit station than anything.  I'
have to wonder if CBS will be faced with another tuff choice down the
rode.  I think the two wil canabalize each other, where one or the
other might be a significant chalenge to 'Kiss.
I still feel like WODS had one more evolution to make and was
naturally going to segway into an 80's or 90's focused station.
Honestly, I was looking forward to that with the likes of Karen Blake,
J. J. Right and Joe Cortez.  It looks like we will not experience a
station like that just yet.

On 6/28/12, Mike G <mike_ed@msn.com> wrote:
>
> i read your e-mail with interest because, like you, WHTT was one of the
> first stations that I too became a fan of.  I can remember going out to
> dinner at a 99 restaurant with my family and they had it blaring over the
> loudspeakers.  I was only 12 or 13 at the time and I was hooked from there
> on out.  Between me and my sister, we never even considered KISS because as
> far as we were concerned, it was still the " disco station ".  I've followed
> the progression of 103.3 and in a sense for me it came full circle as far as
> the songs they played new on WHTT were now the oldies on WODS.  I haven't
> listened to this AMP103.3 yet, but I can't possibly see how they can
> differentiate themselves from KISS or 94.5 with such a tight playlist radio
> now uses for their programming.  I mean all day today, I've been asking
> myself what constitutes top-40 radio anymore.  Does Boston really need
> another station playing Justin Bieber ??  Maybe, I'll be wrong, but I
> honestly can't see this lasting more than 2-3 years max.