{"id":121,"date":"2001-04-18T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2001-04-18T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=121"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:24:43","slug":"by-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/18\/by-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"By the way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;when did &#8220;Arrow&#8221; 102.1 switch over to 102.1 &#8220;The Buzz&#8221;? I just noticed this while riding around with Erica the other night in her new car, and was really surprised. Hadn&#8217;t tuned into 102.1 for ages &#8212; it, along with 100.5 the Fox, was one of the two bastions of old buttrock in Alaska &#8212; so I&#8217;m pretty clueless as to when the did the switchover.<\/p>\n<p>What I really don&#8217;t get about it is why they did what they did, format wise. They went from being one of two &#8220;classic rock&#8221; (old buttrock) stations in town (Arrow 102.1 and 100.5 the Fox) to being one of <em>three<\/em> &#8220;modern rock&#8221; (new buttrock) stations in town (87.7 the End, 102.1 the Buzz, and 106.5 K-Whale) &#8212; basically traded in their old library of tunes that have been overplayed for 30 years for a new library of tunes that are just starting to get overplayed, and from competing with one other station to competing with two. I don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>But then, this is Alaska, and the music scene up here is really easy to compartmentalize. For grins and giggles, I&#8217;ll do just that &#8212; the following does not take into account people (like myself) who constantly bounce from station to station, and therefore don&#8217;t fit a definite demographic. Nor does it take into account the two underground scenes in Anchorage at the moment &#8212; the punk and the rave crowds &#8212; neither of which have a station focused on them, and have to grab the occasional show on 88.1 KRUA or pirate station to hear what they want on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Just hazarding a rough guess, I&#8217;d put Alaska&#8217;s listeners between 20 and 40 years old (at least in the roughly Anchorage\/Valley area) at about 45% buttrock (87.7, 100.5, 102.1, 106.5), 30% country (104.1, 107.5), and the last 25% a blend of what&#8217;s left (87.7, 92.9, 96.3, 101.3, 103.1).<\/p>\n<p>Under 20, things shift a bit&#8230;I&#8217;d put it at around 60% hip-hop\/pop (92.9, 101.3), 20% new-buttrock (87.7, 102.1), with the remaining 20% everything else (87.7, 96.3, 100.5, 103.1, 104.1, 107.5).<\/p>\n<p>Them&#8217;s my guesses, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But then, this is Alaska, and the music scene up here is really easy to compartmentalize. For grins and giggles, I&#8217;ll do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[186,188,13,80],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-alaska","tag-anchorage","tag-life","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}