I do afternoons on a Wyoming station from Alaska after being live/local there for 2 years and they kept me when I took the PD job 2 years ago at KSKO. The station is typically labelled by the industry as "AC" but it's what I call "a locally programmed AC Variety/Jack FM Type of station"... and there really is alot of variety, as evidenced by this talk segue between Warren Zevon and Carrie Underwood.
The station aims for what I think is an overall "upbeat mainstream AC" sound, ans plays everythign from rock to pop to soul to oldies to country from the 60s to today, seemingly focusing on the 80s to now or so. I've had Justin Beiber into Gloria Gaynor or Garth Brooks into some rock tune. You'll hear nothing too hard, slow, sad or soft on the station.
I like to brag on and talk about the stations i work for because to me, they are special, unique and doing radio the right way.. otherwise, I wouldn't be working for them... I work for stations whos owners operate them the way I would if they were mine.
Hits 106 (the station in the picture) has been locally owned for 11 years, moving from rented to owned office space. Owner works 5 to 6 days a week, often harder than us employees. Some radio people see this variety and call it a trainwreck..... yet, our TSL is 2x that of our competitor and 4x that of most of the rest of the market!
The station aims for what I think is an overall "upbeat mainstream AC" sound, ans plays everythign from rock to pop to soul to oldies to country from the 60s to today, seemingly focusing on the 80s to now or so. I've had Justin Beiber into Gloria Gaynor or Garth Brooks into some rock tune. You'll hear nothing too hard, slow, sad or soft on the station.
I like to brag on and talk about the stations i work for because to me, they are special, unique and doing radio the right way.. otherwise, I wouldn't be working for them... I work for stations whos owners operate them the way I would if they were mine.
Hits 106 (the station in the picture) has been locally owned for 11 years, moving from rented to owned office space. Owner works 5 to 6 days a week, often harder than us employees. Some radio people see this variety and call it a trainwreck..... yet, our TSL is 2x that of our competitor and 4x that of most of the rest of the market!