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DJJM3.COM
09-27-2003, 10:28 AM
From Robert Feder's article from Fridays paper:


If all goes as planned, Crawford Broadcasting will kick off a 37-hour radio stunt at 1 a.m. Monday that will set the stage for the debut of its new adult urban-contemporary station on WYCA-FM (106.3).


Taft Harris, general manager of Crawford's Chicago operations, said the stunt -- one song that will be played over and over again -- "will tell the world perfectly who we are and who we're going after."

While the audience target of the station will be African-American adults between the ages of 25 and 54, the competitive target will be Clear Channel Communications' adult urban WVAZ-FM (102.7) and "smooth jazz" WNUA-FM (95.5), Harris said.

One change since Crawford first disclosed plans for the station is that its slogan will be "Soul 106.3" rather than "The Groove."

After launching at 2 p.m. Tuesday, the station will air commercial-free and announcer-free for at least 45 days.

Crawford also owns WPWX-FM (92.3), urban-contemporary competitor to Clear Channel's WGCI-FM (107.5).
They have a STRONG signal- from Kankakee(south) to Rockford(northwest) including Downtown Chicago)
The Radio war starts THIS WEEK!!!!!!!

[ September 30, 2003, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: DJJM3 ]

DJJM3.COM
09-28-2003, 08:05 AM
bump

Erob the One
09-28-2003, 09:34 AM
Nice to see someone challenging Clear Chanel's monopoly of the black urban market. I will support.

Erob

DJJM3.COM
09-29-2003, 02:13 AM
The song played?.............................. Aint No Stopping Us Now-Disco Record, African American based.....Sounds like to me this radio war is gonna be good.............

VEESTER
09-29-2003, 08:42 AM
Looking forward to this alternative.

DISKOQUEEN99
09-29-2003, 08:58 AM
I was wondering why I left the house at 7:20 this morning, the song was on and as I occasionally channel-surfed, the damn song was still playing. Amazing.

DJJM3.COM
09-30-2003, 07:04 AM
Originally posted by DISKOQUEEN99:
I was wondering why I left the house at 7:20 this morning, the song was on and as I occasionally channel-surfed, the damn song was still playing. Amazing. Yeah, i'm at the point I hate the song now....But I will check them out at 2pm to see how they gonna play.

DISKOQUEEN99
09-30-2003, 08:31 AM
The damn song is still playing. What are they hoping to accomplish by this?

Jamie 3:26
09-30-2003, 08:43 AM
Remember they did the same thing with The Fresh Prince's Summertime when they changed to 106 jams back in the day.

DJJM3.COM
09-30-2003, 09:00 AM
Originally posted by DISKOQUEEN99:
The damn song is still playing. What are they hoping to accomplish by this? In the past it was used to do sound checks and to buy time when they move the record libraries....In this day and age of computers this way is outdated......

DISKOQUEEN99
09-30-2003, 09:04 AM
I understand their logic in using that song, the title itself, but I wish they'd have used something else. I don't want to hear it after this and Jamie I wouldn't care how you beat it.