All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock!

slappy

Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC

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All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 17, 2011 at 04:49 PM UTC #

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cbs-radio-to-start-all-news-station-in-dc-area/2011/11/16/gIQAirnASN_story.html?hpid=z13

Unsanity

Joined: December 03, 2008 at 05:09 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 17, 2011 at 09:50 PM UTC #

Interesting. The plot thickens.

chaz

Joined: December 09, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM UTC #

Wow. I never would have guess WTOP is the most profitable radio station in the country.

Traffic and weather together on the eights.

Ardamus

Joined: February 01, 2009 at 03:39 PM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM UTC #

getting my resume ready. LOL.

azaghal1981

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 02:16 AM UTC #

Hopefully they don't staff their newsroom with right wing hacks like WTOP.

HoyaSaxa03

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 02:57 PM UTC #

I always thought that listening to WTOP for an hour straight offers an unvarnished peak into the id of the DC suburbanite. Adverts for elective surgeries and home window replacement abound.

Sir HC

Joined: August 31, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 03:28 PM UTC #

Best ads are the ones that are so "DC centric", Aircraft promotions (F22 raptors et al), Defense Contractors, and the like.

samsfresh5

Joined: October 01, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 08:55 PM UTC #

Traffic and weather together… on the 8's. …Commercials on the 1's, 4's, 7's and 9's!!

Thousand Made-Up Loves

Joined: September 14, 2008 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 08:58 PM UTC #

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
I always thought that listening to WTOP for an hour straight offers an unvarnished peak into the id of the DC suburbanite.  Adverts for elective surgeries and home window replacement abound.

Except for AM and PM rush, TOP is basically the same shit repeated every hour, except for traffic and weather on the 8s.

Thousand Made-Up Loves

Joined: September 14, 2008 at 05:01 AM UTC

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Re: All News 99.1 ... their festival is gonna rock! November 18, 2011 at 09:01 PM UTC #

chaz wrote:
Wow.  I never would have guess WTOP is the most profitable radio station in the country.

Well, think about it. Who is TOP's biggest competition? I'd say AMU, and AMU is much, much more than the same regurgitated news stories every hour. Plus with such awful traffic here, ~~people~~ drivers are obsessed with traffic coverage.