Ouch, that hurts!

I have to say I really like the new Kelly Clarkson song (which is probably why it's in heavy rotation ), but soon we will drop it down to a medium rotation of only twice every 24 hours, and shortly after that to an even lower rotation.

There's a real backlash against the Idol folks, but I think in reality some of their stuff is pretty good.  I think nothing ever compares to what we first fell in love with (they say you'll always compare everyone you meet against the first girl you fell for), but if that Clarkson song had been released in 1984 I think it would be respected as any other 80's song.

None the less, I must admit, I get more negative feedback on that one than I get positive.

It's hard though, this station was started as an all-80's station, and I'll tell you, after a year of playing the same 2,000 hits you start yearning for some new pop music to put in the mix

So, what's everyone else's opinion?  Let's hear it?  Love her or hate her? 

I'm sorry about the overplaying of that song.  It's a problem I'm trying to fix with the new software we've installed.

Both KELLY CLARKSONS BREAKAWAY and DURAN DURANS SUNRISE were designated power hits in the software, but for some reason BREAKAWAY was played every four hours and SUNRISE was not played at all other than when we would manually put it in the cue.

This software ensures things like the same artist won't be played twice in X amount of time, and that the same song won't be played in X amount of time.  It's also supposed to regulate the frequency by letting us set a rotation of LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, or POWER, but so far it's not working very well.

We'll get it figured out though!  And when we do the station will have a much better and balanced sound.

Not to mention the fully automated request line, which will REALLY be cool.

My heart wouldn't be broken if I never heard it again

I like this station because I want to hear your 2000 old songs. If I wanted to hear Kelly, I would turn on my local radio station!

 

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Originally posted by: Jeremy Riggs
"Ouch, that hurts! I have to say I really like the new Kelly Clarkson song (which is probably why it's in heavy rotation ), but soon we will drop it down to a medium rotation of only twice every 24 hours, and shortly after that to an even lower rotation. There's a real backlash against the Idol folks, but I think in reality some of their stuff is pretty good.  I think nothing ever compares to what we first fell in love with (they say you'll always compare everyone you meet against the first girl you fell for), but if that Clarkson song had been released in 1984 I think it would be respected as any other 80's song. None the less, I must admit, I get more negative feedback on that one than I get positive. It's hard though, this station was started as an all-80's station, and I'll tell you, after a year of playing the same 2,000 hits you start yearning for some new pop music to put in the mix So, what's everyone else's opinion?  Let's hear it?  Love her or hate her?  "

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well I must admit that the 2nd hour of jazz 101 can sometimes jump genres and get interesting. We'll sometimes bust out The Mothers of Invention, MC5, Neil Young, just to shake things up a bit and dig deep into the relics within our archives! I know RIGGS loves it when I play the 10 minute long AFRICAN LEAF CARRYING SONG!!

jazz 101. hour one is for the newbies, hour 2 is an acquired taste!    

LOL, another listener has spoken and they don't like Kelly

Man, I think I'm truly in the minority on this one

First, WELCOME to the boards!  Thanks for listening & for your post.

Second, we DID drop Kelly from HIGH rotation to LOW rotation and REQUEST, so she's only getting played about once per day now.

Someone just requested Kimberly Locke though, so the American Idol kids are still being represented

The mix is what got me hooked!   I think most of us have a very similar tatse in music, so even if I don't request it, someone else will!  I've had several people walk into my office and ask what I was listening to because they hadn't heard that particular song in "years"

Keep it up!