Project 9-6-1 becomes Power 96.1, a top 40 station
[UPDATE: August 31, 2012: Cumulus is shifting its 98.9 signal to a Project-like sound starting at noon on Saturday, Sept. 1. It has been 99X at 98.9, an alternative rock station. The signal is relatively weak but at least it can fulfill the desires of active rock fans inside the Perimeter.]
With pop music having a powerful year, Clear Channel Atlanta has dropped active rock station Project 9-6-1 for a top 40 format it’s dubbing Power 96.1.
The change happened just after 7 p.m. The final song that Mediabase 24/7 reported as a Project song was at 7:02 p.m.: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” That’s when the station began playing a bunch of top 40 hits before making an official announcement at 8:05 p.m. and launching with LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem.” It promised 9,600 songs in a row, which equals about four weeks of commercial-free music.
Dunwoody High School graduate and media mogul Ryan Seacrest made a surprise appearance at the Jennifer Lopez concert Wednesday night at Philips Arena to make the announcement, noting that his mom will be able to hear him regularly again in Atlanta. (He started his career at Star 94 and has been on that station in syndication in recent years.)
Clear Channel nationwide has some seriously powerful top 40 stations, including Kiss in Los Angeles, where Seacrest airs his morning show and syndicated show, and Z100 in New York, where Wild 105.7 syndicated morning host Elvis Duran is based.
Starting Sept. 4, Power is bringing Duran from its existing rhythmic top 40 station at 105.7/96.7 called Wild, followed by Seacrest in syndication mid-days.
Now we know why Clear Channel got rid of its Wild program director a couple weeks ago. Wild is likely going to go away or shift its format so not to directly compete with Power. I hear Mami Chula, the key local personality on Wild, is staying put for now.
Could they bring a modified version of Project 9-6-1 on another signal? (Clear Channel owns 105.3 and 105.7, too.)
Program director Chris Williams, in a text this morning, said no. It’s over. On Facebook, someone posted this:
96.1 has been Atlanta’s rock destination since 1974. The Project Family is so proud to have carved out our own chapter in the rich legacy of WKLS. The radio dial will sound much different after today. We can never thank you enough for all your support and passion for Project 9-6-1 over the past 6 years and for 96rock the years before us. We consider ourselves among the luckiest each and every day we were allowed to enter this studio and create a radio station that made us proud. Thank you for inviting The Project into your cars, jobs and homes. Thank you for Living Loud and Playing Hard, please don’t stop. Most of all, thank you for being Part of the Project!
Project had a good run. It came to be courtesy of Williams, who first launched Buzz 105.3,a younger-leaning rock station. In late 2006, long-standing classic rock station 96rock became Project, an odd name that suggested an ephemeral existence. But Williams brought the spirit of the Buzz over to Project, which lasted more than five years, becoming a formidable player among younger listeners who liked the mix of older and current harder-edged rock by acts such as Guns ‘N Roses, Metallica, Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch. It regularly finished in the top 5 among 18 to 34 year olds.
Some local radio folks who know Williams think he is pulling a deliberate “New Coke” move here. There will be such an uprising by Project fans via social media that Clear Channel will be “forced” to bring Project back on a different signal. If that’s the case, Project fans, get the petitions out! Here’s one page already out there. As of Labor Day, there are 3,600 names. Another one has more than 5,000 names. And a petition also has more than 5,000 names.
In the evening, it had a cool Jelli “Remote Control Radio” concept, where viewers could vote for what song to play next. And Aly was a stalwart presence in mid days. Project had trouble finding a solid morning show in its early years, Kidd Chris was starting to make inroads among younger men listeners after debuting last year.
Lately, top 40 and similar formats have been on a roll locally and nationwide. Q100 and Star 94 are both experiencing strong ratings. So was Wild. And B98.5 has freshened its sound to be closer to the other stations. All four are doing well.
Rock on the other hand has been in a death spiral nationwide. Atlanta has managed to air five rock stations, which combined, were barely pulling in an audience bigger than R&B/hip hop V-103. But Dave FM last month announced it was going sports talk this fall.
The gallery image on Project's Facebook page
And now Project is gone, leaving Rock 100.5, 97.1/The River and 99X at 98.9.
Project’s departure could really benefit all three of those remaining stations, especially Rock 100.5, which has underperformed when the Regular Guys were not on. And even the Regular Guys’ numbers have dropped off the past two years. There is limited up side for 99X given its weak signal but Dave’s departure could help it. And the River will likely pick up listeners from both Project and Dave.
The last time the name Power was used in Atlanta was Power 99 in the late 1980s and early 1990s, also a top 40 station. It became alternative rock station 99X October 26, 1992.
So far, Power 96.1 sounds very much like Wild 105.7/96.7, which was edging more towards straight top 40 in recent months after focusing more on hip hop in its earlier days. (Earlier days being late 2010 and 2011.)
TV and billboard ads are scheduled to start next month promoting Power.
UPDATE Thursday, August 30, 8:26 a.m.: This morning, Wild is now playing more hip hop though it’s not quite Hot 107.9. No more Carly Rae Jepsen and Gotye. Will Clear Channel keep Wild? Hard to say.
A sampling of 10 songs new Power 96.1 from 9:30 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, August 29, 2012
David Guetta “Titanium”
Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”
Chris Brown “Don’t Wake Me Up”
Kesha “We R Who We R”
Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
LMFAO “Sexy and I Know It”
Pink “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”
Bruno Mars “Grenade”
Rihanna “Where Have You Been”
Maroon 5 “Payphone”
The last ten songs on Wild 105.7 from that same time period.
Gotye “Somebody That I Used to Know”:
David Guetta “Titanium”
Ellie Goulding “Lights”
Havana Brown “We Run the Night”
Justin Bieber “As Long As You Love Me”
Calvin Harris “Let’s Go”
Katy Perry “Wide Awake”
Rihanna “Where Have You Been”
Usher “Scream”
Flo Rida “Whistle”
Q100 had a more pop feel with the songs it played during that time:
Train “Drive By”
Carly Rae Jepsen “Call me Maybe”
B.o.B. “Nothing On You”
Neon Trees “Everybody Talks”
Britney Spears “Til the World Ends”
Fun. “We are Young”
All-American Rejects “Gives You Hell”
Rihanna “Where Have You Been”
Mike Posner “Cooler Than Me”
Flo Rida “Wild Ones”
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437 comments Add your comment
The OC
August 29th, 2012
8:37 pm
Sad day… How many Pop stations do we need? Oh, screw u Seacrest!
Andre
August 29th, 2012
8:40 pm
Clear Channel Worldwide has done it again.
They took a good radio station (96 Rock), ran it into the ground, then abandoned it’s long-time format.
Atlanta now has more of what it does not need; more pop music. And that is only so due to Clear Channel’s continued mismanagement of broadcast radio across the nation.
chrono
August 29th, 2012
8:48 pm
Wow, the 99X folks must be happy as can be. With Dave going sports and 96.1 going crap they have no stations competing with them at all.
What is this DERP
August 29th, 2012
8:52 pm
Ummmmm……what?
Peteetong!
August 29th, 2012
8:53 pm
Yeah C’mon!
The Regular Guys own the Kidd Chris Show!
kenhotlanta
August 29th, 2012
8:53 pm
Please bring back the old 96 Rock and leave us alone.
Lawrence
August 29th, 2012
9:13 pm
I understand everyones frustration with the whole situation but Clear Channel is not letting the format go. They’ve registered website names in place of where Project may end up. It looks like as of now its going to go to Project 105.3 from different website speculation or Wild could just go defunct and move down the dial and Project would get 105.7 and 96.7 you just dont know but dont count clear channel out just yet… They still suck but they not going to get rid of the format like that YET!
fes
August 29th, 2012
9:18 pm
and just what are the rockers supposed to listen to??? the 99x signal is too weak to be the only option.
@eidsonb
August 29th, 2012
9:22 pm
And with the change at 92.9 Dave coing…this stinks
GT Alum
August 29th, 2012
9:25 pm
This is what happens when local radio is primarily owned by 2 huge conglomerates. And it’s why people broadcast radio had long been losing listeners to satellite radio, internet radio and people’s own playlists.
Radio Boy
August 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
HIRE ME HIRE ME!
leonard
August 29th, 2012
9:43 pm
who cares you cna only hear the same led zepplin songs so many times and they acted like the 80’s didnt ever happen no wonder they are going away
leonard
August 29th, 2012
9:45 pm
well when you act like 80’s rock never exsisted what can you expect
ddd
August 29th, 2012
9:52 pm
Race to the bottom.
slider
August 29th, 2012
10:04 pm
Just heard that Clear Channel fired all if the DJ’s from a clear channel employee. RIP project
Rhubarb
August 29th, 2012
10:04 pm
Does anyone know if they are planning a new morning show yet? I’m rested and ready to go again.
mike
August 29th, 2012
10:04 pm
clearchannel sucks and i hope lawrence is correct on it moving elsewhere on the dial
SOUTHSIDE STEVE FAN
August 29th, 2012
10:08 pm
HOLY SMOKES HAVE YOU SEEN THAT LYNDSEY MARIE CHICK ON ROCK 100.5??? MAN SHE GETS ME GOING. WHAT ABOUT YOU RODNEY?
nCNhonky tonk man
August 29th, 2012
10:19 pm
First of all Houchbag Seacrest is souch a jerk in person,guess stardom got to him.We all are the same just because i fart and you fart seacrest ,yours is not going smell any better. 96 rock pkayed Classic pire rock n roll,these houch bags brought back 99x,hello people your 15 minutes is up,Alternative music died when Cobain dearly bless his heart passed. Same format at 99x is Beastie boys,garbage, RH chilipeppers,and a little Dave, and again Beastie boys……terrible please get rid of he left over xgen alternative station. 96 rock lives,im protest till isee see a change bring back the license plates.
Stephanie
August 29th, 2012
10:32 pm
If any of these stations would just play some variety and not the same 20 songs on repeat, they would get more listeners and for a longer time
Riverdog1
August 29th, 2012
10:35 pm
I travel the southeast for my job and Atlanta has the worst radio stations hands down. Just how many urban and pop stations do we need.
James
August 29th, 2012
10:35 pm
Spotify subscription – here I come…
Willie Buck
August 29th, 2012
10:38 pm
This is very frustrating. As a middle aged man who enjoys many genres of music, the rock options are going away and leaving us with mindless pop drivel. This is an opportunity for 100.5 to step up and be the flagship station. First, realize that the River owns classic rock, let them! Sprinkle classic rock into a more modern format. Realize that modern rock goes beyond the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers single. Second, drop the braves. We love the braves, but that is what AM radio is for. Third, allow TRG to get edgier again. Five days a week of “Hollywood Squares and Mic’d up” is a little boring. Fourth, Give Rude an afternoon show and let him program it!
Project4life
August 29th, 2012
10:42 pm
I go in to take a final and come out to find that The Project is no more? I have to listen to this generic pop junk? No thanks. I’m going to be listening to podcast and not terrible music.
Belynda Bridges
August 29th, 2012
10:43 pm
You people are absolutely RETARDED if you think this is what Atlanta radio needs. PowerAtlanta is NOT WELCOME!!! WE WANT PROJECT 9-6-1!!!
RIP project
August 29th, 2012
10:47 pm
uhh…top 40s music sucks anyways?
Steve McCoy
August 29th, 2012
10:51 pm
I’ve got 2 years of prank calls saved up and ready to go for a show. Call me Clear Channel, maybe.
Wink
August 29th, 2012
10:53 pm
I want a soft rock station. Oh my…it’s almost 11pm…I should be in bed.
James
August 29th, 2012
10:57 pm
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-project-961/signatures/page/16. save the project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its the only station i listen to
Susan
August 29th, 2012
10:59 pm
This sucks! Where do we go to hear the songs that 96 Rock played? Sad day for Atlanta!
the masked tweeter
August 29th, 2012
11:07 pm
thank you clear channel. Chris Williams..beaten battered and fired…again
Science Gun
August 29th, 2012
11:20 pm
this is bullcrap, rock is losing its place on popular radio, to trashier and trashier top 100 lists. It’s really disgusting that they can just dump a full station of decent workers like that.
dylan
August 29th, 2012
11:25 pm
Why were they shut down? Was it because of how they were on the morning shows or what I would really like to know
Wayne stuck in AL
August 29th, 2012
11:27 pm
Top 40: a format geared to stupid little girls between the ages of 14-24 and get their news from E! News Daily…
jim beam
August 29th, 2012
11:28 pm
Sucks to be the Bert Show. Now they have to compete with mr seacrest
wikileaks(WKLS)
August 29th, 2012
11:34 pm
please check history on wiki. no reason to change formats, dj’s, or anything. it was perfect.
John
August 29th, 2012
11:39 pm
Terrific…they take away thee ONLY ROCK station in the ATL and turn it into a hip/hop top 40…why???
TURBOURBO
August 29th, 2012
11:40 pm
You know… Screw this. We don’t need another Top 40 Bee Bob BS station in this town. I was not a fan of how the 96 rock was handled… and definitely not a fan of how this all came to be for the Project Family. I loved the Buzz… and Love Project 961. As far as I am concerned.. Rock is dead in this town. You mentioned other rock stations… but I like Old and New rock. After today… The thought of having Linkin Park, ShineDown, Sound Garden, etc, etc, etc. ever come to this town again is pretty much null and void. Take your freikin Bee Bop BS Music and SHOVE IT Clear! Rock 100.5… if you aren’t paying attention… Balls in your court. If you want me… play it.. I will definitely start listening!
Randy & Spiff
August 29th, 2012
11:45 pm
We need another oldies station, not another top 40 station.
Rae
August 29th, 2012
11:48 pm
That’s such crap! We have enough lame pop stations that play and replay the same annoying and boring songs. If I wanted pop I would turn it to one of those stupid stations. Instead, take the only rock station. No wonder people are sick of the radio. Screw that
Pamela Carter
August 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
Sad day in Atlanta! Seacrest Sucks!!!! Can’t adults have a station that
plays current Rock Music and not just classic stuff we’ve listened to
for years? Please let me know where I can find Rock in the ATL?
Otherwise I’ll just listen to the iPod and skip the damn commercials!!!
jordan dubrof
August 29th, 2012
11:54 pm
will Joe breezy mami chula checka cee dj thomas prolifik dyron ducati and prolifk go to power 96.1?
BehindEnemyLines
August 29th, 2012
11:59 pm
From a business perspective, the move makes sense. Demographic changes in Atlanta mean the CHR/Churban piece of the pie is bigger – even split three ways – than the rock pie split two ways.
With the stronger signal, look for Power to be locked in a brutal three-way battle with Star & Q for a while as each tweaks their playlist to maximize audience. My bet is that Star ends up shifting lighter & lighter, eventually ending up with the old CHR audience (and maybe even stealing a few listeners from B98 eventually).
From a listening perspective, it’s a tragic day. Project was never what 96 Rock was, but at least it was somewhere in the ballpark. I’ll shed no tears over the demise of the double-digit IQ morning show but Aly, O.C. and Jordan were all good in their roles and generally likable personalities. I wish them well in their future endeavors, and will miss them.
And a special note about the demise of the Project Cinco Party. A couple of the most enjoyable concerts I’ve attended, which is saying something at the ripe old age of 45.
Dee Cee
August 30th, 2012
12:05 am
WTF?? Time to find another channel to listen to. Damn a bunch of top 40 BS.
BehindEnemyLines
August 30th, 2012
12:08 am
@Pamela Carter — sadly, for actual new ROCK, there’s really nothing left here. Maybe 1 decent song out of 20 on 99X but that’s about it.
The most obvious thing would be for 100.5 to at least start playing the fairly large amount of new music out there by artists they already play — Aerosmith, Kiss, Motley Crue, Soundgarden, ZZ Top all have new current hits that get very little if any airplay in Atlanta — and if they were REALLY smart they’d try to add music that was very compatible with their core sound (much like what 96 Rock did toward the end of their run).
But for today’s actual hard rock acts — Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Adelita’s Way, Seether, Halestorm, etc, etc — there’s nothing out there & really no existing station that it would make sense for. After all, we’ve just watched the demise of the only station playing them & it had nearly 40 years of heritage behind it and a strong signal behind it. If they couldn’t make it work then I’m not sure anyone would be crazy enough to try again for a long time.
Project Family Member
August 30th, 2012
12:09 am
The family is calling for a meeting. This is atrocious, and our voices shall be heard. The family is over 100k strong, and we all know what has happened when social media is used as a voice. We are the PROJECT FAMILY, We LIVE LOUD and PLAY HARD ! WE WILL BE HEARD !
sarah
August 30th, 2012
12:10 am
Another Mainstream music station that plays the same songs on a loop… like we need another one!
rockerboy
August 30th, 2012
12:16 am
OMFG. ARE YOU GUYS NUTS PROJECT 96.1 WAS THE BEST. WE DONT WANT POP OR RAP. WE WANT OUR ROCK BACK. YOU CAN MESS WITH OUR MUSIC LIKE THAT. JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE BLACK PEOPLE THAN THERE ARE WHITE DONT MEAN YOU GUYS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE OUR MUSIC AWAY. WE HAVE AS MUCH RIGHT TO LISTEN TO OUR ROCK AS THE DO T THERE RAP AND HIPHOP. BRING THE PROJECT BACK TO US. WE WANT OUR MUSIC. NOT THERES. POWER 96.1 SUCKS BAD. IM A MUSIC FREAK AND YALL MESSED WITH MY MUSIC. BRING BACK THE ROCK.
c-bear
August 30th, 2012
12:29 am
Atlanta radio sucks, for a long time now. The Midwest stations know how to program a rock station. Atlanta take lessons from Cincinnati, Fort Wayne, Dayton even Lexington !!! Morons! You deserve the boot!
BehindEnemyLines
August 30th, 2012
12:34 am
Just another sign of the times I suppose. Of the top 10 radio markets, it appears that only Dallas & Boston still have stations playing new rock. “c-bear” is spot on, rock is still alive in the heartlands, quite a few very well done stations in a lot of those markets.
noaaisaiah
August 30th, 2012
12:34 am
Can we have a fking metal station already!!??!!?!!??!
FatKidthatrocks!!!
August 30th, 2012
12:45 am
Really Clear Channel? You guys really SUCK!!! You took one of the BEST rock stations off the air and fired all of them. “The OC”and “The Kidd Chris show” were the BEST thing that your station has seen in since the “96 Rock days”. Oh, and that’s all we need her in Atlanta is another gay ass Pop station that Ryan Seacrest is apart of. Don’t you think he makes plenty of money already? Project Family, don’t let your hopes down. Stand up and lets make sure Clear Channel hers us!!!
The FatkidthatROCKS!
Ronnie
August 30th, 2012
1:16 am
Power 96.1 BLOWS we need to riot the streets bring back our rock music we arenot going to stand for this we have to do something LETS START A RIOT!! A RIOT!!!
Mike
August 30th, 2012
1:22 am
Lets protest
Mike S
August 30th, 2012
1:39 am
This effing sucks. God I hate pop music these days, and now it’s going to be all you can hear on the radio. Those two lists of last ten songs played were just atrocious. I can’t believe these horrible pop stations are doing so well. Just a sad, sad state of American society in regards to the materialistic, unoriginal blather we’re such slaves to.
What’s really sad is that there is so much great music out there being made these days, but none of it is on the radio!!!
sirius internet dave
August 30th, 2012
1:44 am
Ho Hum!
eric
August 30th, 2012
1:49 am
Rodney,
could you provide a listing on radio stations in the Metro Area by frequency & format in the near future, once the dust settles from this latest round of fruit-basket-turnover?
I remember being able to find this listing in the AJC (yes, I’m getting old), but even a web search found listings that were at least 2 yrs out of date (for instance, 95.5 The Beat shows).
This change on 96.1 caught me off guard. Thought they were doing better among the rock stations. Oh well . . .
Matthew Adkins
August 30th, 2012
2:03 am
Shame on you Clear Channel!! I have been ardent supporter of 96.1 before it became the Project 96.1 not only did you take away the only real metal/rock station in Atlanta, you were very sneaky about it and put some no talent a$$clown on, replaced excellently diverse rock music with crap that people can hear on at least six other stations here in Atlanta but you screwed the people of Atlanta and those tbat worked hard for you all so you could make a couple of more dollars. SICK!!! You should be ashamed, very ashamed.
Kady
August 30th, 2012
2:33 am
Screw you guys! We don’t need a top 40’s station we need the Project!
James
August 30th, 2012
2:34 am
bring the project back to atlanta!
Live loud, play hard! Because if you’re not part of the Project, you’re part of the problem!
austin
August 30th, 2012
2:40 am
we need rock like project 96.1 not pop
Kevin
August 30th, 2012
2:42 am
Maybe the AJC will publish just how displeased the Atlanta radio listeners are over this take over. We want our Project 9-6-1 back in place. Let this new pop station go suck on the AM bandwidth. We don’t need another Taylor Swift or Katy Perry pop station on the air. I hope the project family protests loud enough that Clear Channel hears us. Take this new crap and put it on 105.3
BehindEnemyLines
August 30th, 2012
2:52 am
In my haste earlier, I somehow overlooked what might be the most listened to station still rocking: WMMR in Philadelphia. Not that it helps us much here, but I felt guilty slighting them in my earlier comment.
jordan dubrof
August 30th, 2012
2:55 am
will mami chula Joe Breezy DJ thomas Checka Cee Proflik and Danie b And nessa all go to power 96.1 or will they stay on wild 105.7 and 96.7? or will power 96.1
berigan2electricboogaloo
August 30th, 2012
3:04 am
I guess clear channel wants FM to die…Sirius here I come!
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[...] Or for a moment, it could have been the “American Idol” Reunion Tour, since Dunwoody native Ryan Seacrest bopped out onstage at the start of the evening to announce a new radio station in the market (my colleague Rodney Ho has the scoop here). [...]
Laura D
August 30th, 2012
3:19 am
I agree it is a sad day! How can they kick us to the curb like that? Is there anyway we can boycott the company??? Any petitions that need signing??? Where am I gonna go to get my metal/alternative fix at??? Can someone help?
David
August 30th, 2012
4:02 am
Echoing most of the other comments on here, it’s true; it’s a sad, sad day for this city. Shutting down a legacy rock destination for yet ANOTHER Pop/R&B/Hip-Hop/top 40 piece of garbage station like this is sickening. Like a wise man once said, “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore”.
E Floyd
August 30th, 2012
4:47 am
“Power 96.1, Atlanta’s new (S)……..hit “music” station!”
But really, was there a decent rock station in Atlanta? I haven’t noticed.
Professor Bullwinkle J.Moose
August 30th, 2012
4:55 am
WGST at 640AM and NOW 105.7 & 96.7FM? Something else that makes Bullwinkle go Hmmmm….
Harold Haggis
August 30th, 2012
6:33 am
Dang- now where can I go to hear
Welcome to the Jungle 10 times a day
finally
August 30th, 2012
6:54 am
While I do NOT like this at all, l can totally see why they are trying to put a money making station on the biggest signal, it is all about the $$$$ not what the former listeners really want. I for one like to laugh in the morning on the way to my crappy 8 hours, we don’t get to listen to the radio at work and it makes the day very long and boring. Kidd Chris and the crew were FUNNY and I really like Ally, OC and Jordin. I hope they find a great place to be heard. I was a bit over the 5 finger death punch every hour on 961 and the “canned” weekend shows. I think Clear Channel needs to put 961’s format on a smaller signal to keep some of the former listeners who can get the signal happy. There was no need to just flush the whole format. I really do not like the Elvis Duran show at all, or any other syndicated morning show. I want a real personality that I can call, not some random intern picking up the phone when they have a contest. I really wish Dave would reconfigure and not go to sports since this has happened, we do NOT need another talk station whether it is sports or dog walking/ scrapbooking tips Come on CBS sieze this opportunity PLEEEEEAASSSEEEE.
Richard
August 30th, 2012
7:00 am
This is BS. How many krap autotuned radio stations can you have in one city! I’m mad as hell with Clear Channel. Its CLEAR they have no idea what they are doing! No one wants to hear that little krap seacrest. No one that is cool wants to listen to J-Lo or JayZ or anyone else with a stupid name! We want to hear KORN, FIVE FINGER and the likes blowing out our ears and our speakers. This is a slap in the face to all the rockers in Atlanta and everyone taking the early morning drive to work to have to endure the screeching atuotuned bull chiz they are playing on what was once a GREAT RADIO STATION. I have been with 96.1 Ever since the 96ROCK days!
You idiots bring back my station, bring back Kriss, bring back Under the Covers and bring back the cool 96.1!
Steve
August 30th, 2012
7:01 am
Wow!! Got in my car this morning and thought it was a joke. Not much left for a male 25 to 54 to listen to anymore. Time to breakdown and get XM. Someone please put on a solid active rock station, not everyone wants to listen to the same 20 songs.
APissedOffGuy
August 30th, 2012
7:21 am
WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY!
Chris
August 30th, 2012
7:27 am
Great now we have more freaken Morans on the radio, that’s stupid bring the project back!!!! Yall have ruined the radio
Misty
August 30th, 2012
7:34 am
This sucks!!! We need a rock station don’t you think there is enough pop and hip hop stations BRING PROJECT BACK I will never turn that station on. Maybe if you have no one listing to you we will get project back
yooooooooooooooooooooo!
August 30th, 2012
7:36 am
Do we need the same moring show on two stations in atlanta now? Really? Atlanta radio offically sucks!
Annoyed
August 30th, 2012
7:42 am
When I got in my car this morning I also thought the Kidd Chris Show was pulling a prank, then a second song started…. I guess all my listening time will be going to my CDs and MP3 player now with some 97.1. 96.1 and 99.7 are the only radio stations that I could pick up at work with my MP3 player.
The Regular Guys morning show is really boring and 100.5 just talks about Braves games in the afternoon. If I wanted sports updates I listen to AM radio…. Now we don’t have any stations that will play harder rock (FFDP, Disturbed, Chevelle, Halestorm, etc.). And the Project Cinco parties…. No more $9.61 rock concert tickets….
zakk love
August 30th, 2012
7:47 am
Ummm…….. Gay. We already have STAR 94 and 98.5 that play that stupid stuff already. Why do we need another station that does? And why the hell take away real music, like Project 961???? I guess no more Alice in Chains, or Five Finger, or Pantera, or Beastie Boys. Now it’s just gay hip hop!!!!!!!!!!
Michelle
August 30th, 2012
7:54 am
SOOOOO upset. Turned on the radio this morning and heard “party rockers in the house tonight”. What the $#@*! Stupid, stupid songs that can be heard on any other station. Unlike Project 961 which I can’t find anything else like.
metalstaind
August 30th, 2012
7:56 am
Same here i got in my car this morning to take my daughter to school, and lisent to this cheesy pop songskind of like Dysney channel, i was like what is wrong here is this a joke for frrom the morning guys, i never really liked that show anyways but i did like the music, as far as this area it was the most decent Rock station and now its gone what a shame.
david
August 30th, 2012
7:57 am
why why why another pop station where is the rock and its not wild just rock could care less who the guy or girl talking on the radio is just want the music rock music
Call It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
8:01 am
It’s real easy people. Make change with your money. Don’t listen to the new station, turn to the River. Patronize their advertisers; send e-mails on how you enjoy the format. That station will grow and grow, and then clear channel will see what idiots they are. And for the River, mix it up. Don’t play the same songs hour after hour. Actually let a human control the music versus a computer. You have a great chance here to really capitalize on this and garner some rock fans for life.
Sad Panda
August 30th, 2012
8:03 am
It was very depressing getting into my car for work this morning and hearing pop on my Programmed Station #1. I can’t believe they dropped the only current rock hits stations for yet another pop/top-40 station. I never got into Kidd Chris’ show, but Ally was great and Remote Controlled Radio was awesome. Now I literally have 0 radio stations in Duluth that I want to listen to regularly. I guess it’s time to get a Bluetooth system in my car and just use Pandora from my phone.
Kyle
August 30th, 2012
8:06 am
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of Atlanta does not need more pop. Wtf
Amelie
August 30th, 2012
8:10 am
WHAT THE H**L!!!!!!! How are you going to cut the only good radio station?!?! I”m so furious right now! Is there a petition I can sign, you a**holes!
Allison Wonderland
August 30th, 2012
8:11 am
Sirius XM is the place to be people!! Worth the $10 a month! Atlanta radio is just bad!!!
techgirl
August 30th, 2012
8:20 am
Seacrest sucks. Clear Channel sucks. Lame top 40 music sucks. Bring back the project!
brian
August 30th, 2012
8:20 am
Atlanta radio sucks!! Always has, always will!!
AcidBath
August 30th, 2012
8:22 am
Screw you guys, the last thing we needed was another hood rat station in this city.
stan
August 30th, 2012
8:24 am
I cant live without rock
Rickster
August 30th, 2012
8:26 am
As long as the Regular Guys are off the air, I’d be glad if they turned it into a rap/hip-hop station.
falcons190
August 30th, 2012
8:28 am
I live too far out of Atlanta to get 99x or Rock 100.5, so my best option now is light rock? FM Radio executives complain about MP3s and Sirius radio reducing the listeners, but since the options are so limited/awful, the execs have no one to blame but themselves for reduced FM radio listeners. I guess I will be going by Best Buy ASAP to look into some MP3 device for my car.
DST
August 30th, 2012
8:29 am
Just another example of a CORPORATION screwing the people over. They don’t care and all of our bitching isn’t going to help Just makes us feel better. As an older person, I listened to the Project and Dave and they are both history. Loved the Cinco parties. For Atlanta to be so supposedly progressive, they sure are behind.
John
August 30th, 2012
8:29 am
I WANNA ROCK! Bring it back.
stevie
August 30th, 2012
8:31 am
Well sombeach. I didn’t know what happened to my radio station this morning. Good luck with that I’m gone.
Chloe
August 30th, 2012
8:36 am
THIS IS STUPUD!!!!! Why do people insist on ruining music and radio?? Project 96.1 actually played good ROCK music (old/new)… and don’t we have enough POP stations?! It’s a little pathetic… And to top it all off, Dave FM is leaving too? This is crap…
David Caldwell
August 30th, 2012
8:37 am
Gone are the days of album rock, back in the days of eight track tape recording devices,hard metal rock has a place in Atlanta, dont forget, when all other free media is gone,you will loose the advertising revenue when everyone must purchase there play list on i-phone. your radio stations will become oselete.
Rock Fan
August 30th, 2012
8:38 am
It was Kidd Chris’s fault. He got the whole dang radio station kicked off the air this time!!
B-Chat
August 30th, 2012
8:40 am
This is crazy! How can you just take our rock music away like that! The PROJECT was the best station ever in Atlanta. I listened to this station everytime i was in my car and at work!. Screw POP music and screw you Ryan Seacrest you a@#!!!!!
No longer a radio listener....
August 30th, 2012
8:41 am
I used to listen to the radio in the car occasionally. It was faster to hop in the car and pick a station than it was to unlock my phone, plug it in, choose a station, then listen. No longer. The extra few steps and the nominal fee I pay for Pandora and Spotify is totally worth it. Zero commercials and variety trumps 20 minutes of commercials an hour and the same 30 songs played across every station on the dial.
What’s more is now I plan to urge my kids to listen this way too…hopefully I can keep Clear Channel’s talons out of them.
Andyboy33
August 30th, 2012
8:43 am
Atlanta’s music scene and radio stations are wholly pathetic. With Kidd Chris and crew gone we have lost the only hosts willing to truthfully speak their minds on any topic and who would not bow down to the hegemonic religious right. I think Clearchannel’s decision can better be attributed to a fear of the “stick-up-its-ass” mafia that goes after free speech with a puritanical rage. Atlanta- you are a backward-ass backwater- living in fear of anything and everything, toting guns, praying and eating your Branch Davidian Chick fil a.
Aiste pasekovskyte
August 30th, 2012
8:47 am
This is BS! How many pop stations do we need? Project 961 was awsome and now this new radio station is CRAP! We are sick and tired of kesha and all the other junk! Bring the the project back and leave us the hell alone!
Jeff Tyner
August 30th, 2012
8:51 am
Its BS!!!! Like others have said how many F…kin pop and hip hop stations do we need in this area!!! Bring back the project!! or at least give us a stronger signal for 100.5!
MrBrutus
August 30th, 2012
9:00 am
No one needs another pop station, terrible move.
Spanky125
August 30th, 2012
9:04 am
I am so tired of listening to all that rap/top 40 crap you call music. When I can get it, I listen to an oldies station from Griffin. We need to bring back Randy & Spiff, & in a hurry. Country is getting old too.
mandi
August 30th, 2012
9:05 am
This is so stupid how many stations are really needed where they play bad music, wait im sorry pretend music. You just lost a lot of listeners. Seacrest is gay play real music challenge your self going to the satellite radio screw these bitches
you suck ass
Scrap311
August 30th, 2012
9:08 am
Years ago, I felt like part of me was gone when 99x went away, but I had the Buzz and then Project to turn to. Project brought us so many great concerts, and I can’t count the laughs I had with the Kidd Chris show. Aly has always been an awesome DJ, and was a true music lover. Atlanta radio is complete garbage. I’ve been using IHeart for a while to hear WJRR out of Orlando(an even more awesome Clear Channel station) , but I think now I will completely distance myself from anything involving Clear Channel.
Houseparty
August 30th, 2012
9:09 am
This sucks! How many frickin pop stations do you need to play the same 30 songs all day?
PT
August 30th, 2012
9:11 am
That’s hilarious, my wife and I were driving back from the airport last night making fun on 96 Rock. Who in the hell thinks this is ROCK, it was horrible. Death of an ERA, Death of Rock, I think it’s a mistake. I hope somebody fills the void being created by this mismanagement. Emails are flying along with losing many listeners and longtime followers of a great station.
Mr_T
August 30th, 2012
9:11 am
Use their website against them… I am currently listening to Rise Against – RE Education Through Labor. Steal their bandwidth and flood it with traffic of the music you want to hear.
Traffic Headache
August 30th, 2012
9:12 am
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
josh
August 30th, 2012
9:14 am
umm, inacurate post there.
the project had 111,755 likes on facebook
star 94 has 29,758
the project had listeners across the US from Georgia to Alaska and everywhere inbetween…
Crow
August 30th, 2012
9:15 am
Thank you for ruining my morning. All I wanted was some rock to start my day, instead I hear Justin Timberlake saying the same thing over and over and over and over again…Go ahead be gone with it… YEAH! Go ahead be gone with it… YEAH – TAKE IT TO THE CLUB!!! I almost ran into my mail box. Thank you clear channel for making Hotlanta a little more unbearable.
Neva
August 30th, 2012
9:18 am
I am so angry. Now I have absolutely nothing to listen to on the radio. Power 96.1 is just the “same old same” and I don’t want to listen to it. I will NOT listen to it AT ALL!!!! BRING BACK PROJECT 96.1!!!!! Until you do, I will be listening to my ipod so I can hear some good rock. It’s a sad day when every radio station sounds the same and plays the same crappy stuff.
Austin
August 30th, 2012
9:19 am
Why would they shut down the only good station left? The “Project Family” is highly upset. #BringProject961Back!
beachmom
August 30th, 2012
9:21 am
Why doesn’t Atlanta have a separate public radio station that plays alternative like, say The Current out of Minneapolis? Numbers don’t lie: rock music is clearly becoming a more niche genre, so ratings driven for-profit entities cannot be counted on to deliver new good rock music. I really wish WABE could acquire another number “left of the dial” and play alternative music 24/7. I’m fine with them having a classical station but we also now need a station that won’t disappear which serves rock fans who want to hear rock music that has been made more recently than 1985. As it is, I think, Rodney, you should be reporting on how this affects artists. How are new artists like the Lumineers going to break through when all avenues for exposure are disappearing? This is not just an Atlanta problem — similar trends are happening in other big cities like Chicago.
RockRules
August 30th, 2012
9:21 am
This really pisses me off. We don’t need another damn hip-hop station!!!
mad as He**
August 30th, 2012
9:24 am
CC did the same thig whre I moved from, except turned it to Latin music
royalair
August 30th, 2012
9:28 am
Project was the only station in Atlanta worth listening to when 99x was axed. Now that 99x returned, the two stations had a different enough appeal that they didn’t really compete too hard, but I’m really going to miss the Project. We don’t need any more damn pop music. Four stations is BEYOND enough.
matt
August 30th, 2012
9:29 am
Can none of you afford an iPod? I haven’t listened to the radio in 10 years.
Tattooed
August 30th, 2012
9:29 am
All I got to say is F-U clear channel. 96.1 has been the best station in atl for 38 years.
We don’t need any more stations playing hip hop B/S
Dan D
August 30th, 2012
9:32 am
I just hope they don’t change Wild 105.7 too much, the dance/urban mix is just about right and they are the only station doing that…..with live DJ mixes etc.
If there ratings had been good on not great frequencies they would be stupid to change it up too much right?
Patrick
August 30th, 2012
9:33 am
I could care less if Atlanta radio went away all together. I have my mp3 player. It’s loaded with literally everything from Abba to ZZ Top. One moment it’ll play Pink Floyd’s “Money”; the next it’ll play “We’re In The Money” from the soundtrack for “42nd Street”. After that it might play Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony”, and then after that, perhaps “Lucky Man” by Emerson, Lake & Palmer or something by Led Zeppelin.
It’s worth waiting a few minutes for my media player (does video, has Android, can surf Internet, also has GPS) to fully scan all media (music is on micro-SD card), but once it’s done, I plug it into the FM modulator in my car, turn on the radio, tune to 88.3, and go.
jack
August 30th, 2012
9:37 am
What person would like to listen to this crap? I hope all you greedy idoits run this staion in the ground. 96.1 Rock should be still on here. All you that had a part of this changing this I hope you all go bankrupt. Everyone should boycott power 96.1
Calling It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
9:37 am
All I can say is WTF? So Atlanta, a top 10 market, has how many Top 40 stations? How many Country, how many talk stations? How Many R&B? Now we are down to Rock 100.5 and The River for Rock? Seriously? And the majority of their playlist is Classic. PPM can’t be that wrong, or can they? Rock as a format is not dead, but the media companies are pushing it that way. Where are true Rock listeners going to get their new music?
c-bear is right about the midwest. I’m from the Cincinnati area and they have WEBN, a true “AOR” station which has been around since 1967, and more or less, has kept the same format for all of those 45 years. They have won “Rock Station of the Year” numerous times. Plus they pick up the stations out of Dayton.That sure beats the h**l out of the crap that I’ve heard in this “top 10″ market in the last 22 years I’ve been in this market. That should tell you something. Look at Atlanta’s demographics and no, we are not all 20-50 year old females that listen to the same 10 songs over and over. I’m hoping that someone is going to take their head out of their a*s and put up a true “AOR” station. As much as I cannot stand the “go to satellite” response everyone throws out here all the time, the stations’ management is forcing people to. I will never go that route because I refuse to pay for radio. Once Dave switches, there is not going anything but classic rock, which is a dying format. Sure there is a need for that, but not 2 stations. Someone is going to get a clue, bring back AOR and make a killing. Don’t focus on the alt-rock or even just the current single. There is so much more good music than what is played on the radio from a CD. Broaden the spectrum and open some ears to more than what they normally here. Royalties would still be the same, if not better.
Atlanta is going to end up being known for Top 40, Country and Talk. That’s it. Do you think any current bands will stop in Atlanta if no station is playing their music?
Wake up Cumulus, CBS, and Clear Channel. You are destroying a Top Ten market. It won’t be in the Top much longer.
If I had the money and resources, I would start a station myself and program it the way it should be.
Atlantarockmom
August 30th, 2012
9:38 am
Seacrest, you narcissistic idiot. Project 9-6-1 was a staple in Atlanta and a haven for those took pleasure in the more creative individualistic genre of music instead of that bull$*!$ pop.
Gotye
August 30th, 2012
9:38 am
You didn’t have to cut me off.
jack
August 30th, 2012
9:41 am
Everything about power 96.1 SUCKS
annoyed too
August 30th, 2012
9:42 am
man i was bummed when i got in my car this morning and didnt hear the kiddchris show. thought it was a joke until the lame top 40 songs continued to play. WHERE AM I GOING TO GET MY DAILY GRAFFITI NOW?!
Matt
August 30th, 2012
9:42 am
Top 40??? Another one???? This sucks. Where do I turn for Rock now? 99x and 100.5 signals are horrible.
Ruben
August 30th, 2012
9:42 am
I don’t even live in atlanta but I have the Project playing all the time. It was the only station I used to listen too. This sucks!
Wooli
August 30th, 2012
9:45 am
Glad we do not have to hear all of the hate any longer. Constantly making fun of “retarded” people was a huge fail. Along with many other things spoke of. One step closer to making this world absent of ignorance.
BehindEnemyLines
August 30th, 2012
9:51 am
@”Calling It…” — You seem to understand the business better than the average bear, so you know that this is just Atlanta trying to be like nearly all of the other top 10 markets. Very large markets that have a rock station playing currents at all, much less one “making a killing” are few & far between.
While I’m commenting anyway, might as well note CC-Atlanta getting a new market manager yesterday … former Kicks/Eagle sales guy Matt Scarano. He’ll get to preside over the steaming pile that is CC-Atlanta.http://www.radioworld.com/article/scarano-takes-over-cc-atlanta/215182
David
August 30th, 2012
9:51 am
I have no use at all for a Top 40 station, but the kind of “rock” heard on Project 96 was the absolute lowest of the low. Good riddance.
Brett
August 30th, 2012
9:52 am
This has to be a joke! Radio in Atlanta has sucked for years and now it only gets worse. Power 99 sucked and became 99X. 99X eventually sucked and went underground. The Buzz surfaces from the underground and was absolutely awesome. Clear Channel then takes The Buzz mainstream and you see where we are now. Clear Channel obviously has a thing against rock/metal. Thanks a lot, jerks!
As for morning shows, there is nothing anyone can say to convince me that there is a single show better than Neal Boortz (Herman Cain come January). Since he doesn’t air until 8:30, I will listen to real world news, traffic or nothing at all before I tune in to any other show. One exception…Lex & Terry. But again, thanks to all the Atlanta stations for not wanting to carry quality programming.
Nick45
August 30th, 2012
9:53 am
I guess we have to go back to PANDORA. We will miss the KIDDCHRIS SHOW.
Leigha
August 30th, 2012
9:54 am
BRING BACK ROCK! ATL has enough pop/hip hop. 96.1 has been my morning ride to work station and going home station for YEARS. This is HORRIBLE. Screw you, Seacrest.
Wutehvah
August 30th, 2012
9:56 am
Glad I made the move to satellite radio last year
Lauren
August 30th, 2012
9:56 am
Project 9-6-1 was the best and only decent rock station that we had. It was replaced by music that I can find on multiple stations, already. This is a very biased move, and I am extremely disappointed. This was one of the worst decisions I feel that radio has made in a long time. Why not add a Jersey Shore power-hour? You’ve already got the theme music. Horrible choice!!! I will never listen to my 96.1 preset again!
OLD TIMER
August 30th, 2012
9:57 am
This is ALL OBAMAS FAULT!!!!
dragonangel1369
August 30th, 2012
9:59 am
this is SUCH bullshizzy!! BRING BACK OUR PROJECT!!! if we wanted to listen to R&B hiphop top 40 CRAP we would have ALREADY been listening to a different crappy station!!! Rock is NOT dead! it will NEVER die!! f*** you Clear Channel AND the horse you rode in on!!! I have deleted my iheartradio app from my phone and my radio will NEVER play another ClearChannel station EVER again unless you bring back OUR PROJECT 9-6-1!!!!!!! time to break out my MP3 player and CD’s I guess. I am *SO* pissed off!!
Pablo
August 30th, 2012
10:00 am
Macon and Columbus have better radio stations than Atlanta. Columbus’ rock station ROCKS, and they have John Boy and Billy in the mornings. Pee-you-pants funny. But, since I only drive to Columbus or Macon every so often, I guess I will listen to CDs or look seriously into satellite radio… Once again it has been demostrated that ATLANTA RADIO SUCKS!!!
Lauren
August 30th, 2012
10:01 am
Thank GOD for classic rock on 97.1. If that goes away, there’s no hope for the human race!!!! THIS SUCKS!
Clancy Jones
August 30th, 2012
10:03 am
THIS IS A MUSICAL OUTRAGE!!!! MUSICAL DISCRIMINATION!!! WE DONT NEED ANOTHER TOP 40 STATION. WE WANT OUR FREAKING PROJECT BACK!!!! ps black people listen to rock too!!
tom
August 30th, 2012
10:06 am
haven’t listed on fm dial in about 7 years since getting satellite radio. Problem with fm radio is that it is a business like any other that is out to make money. with all the other ways of listening to music through other mediums, i.e. smartphone, computers etc, you will find your station out there. Top 40 isn’t what it used to be anyway, it all sounds the same now where as 30 + years ago was much different. Just a sign of the times, things are changing but count me out.
Butch
August 30th, 2012
10:07 am
Well, time to give up FM radio. More of the same boring crap that I could find on 3 other stations that I didn’t really care about now on 96.1. I like a VARIETY of music. Pop stuff all sounds the same and Wild plays the same stuff over and over and over. It’s so boring. With Project 96.1 and Dave FM going by the wayside, there’s no reason to listen anymore. I like 99X but the signal is horrible. The River is good for classic rock and 100.5 is okay but they don’t have a clear direction for songs and will probably be gone soon enough like the rest. Atlanta really is the worst for music on the radio. Pretty sad for a town this large that there is little diversity in music.
Part of the Project
August 30th, 2012
10:08 am
This is BS. I can’t believe they ditched the Project for this crap. If we wanted to hear this kind of music we’d turn it to Q100 or 105.7 or V103 or Star94. Driving my point home – we already have several stations that play the same genre of music. Atlanta doesn’t need yet another. The drive to work was so depressing. No more Under the Covers with Aly?! UGH! She definitely made my work day suck less. I really hope those f*&k$ at Clear bring the Project back with the same jocks and format. That DB Ryan can $uck it. Why does he have to put his big toe in EVERYTHING?
Lou
August 30th, 2012
10:13 am
98.9 isn’t the same as project but it is not a clear channel station and that makes it a little better since they changed their format on the project faithfuls
narcysus
August 30th, 2012
10:16 am
Hey all you folks out there who think that only white people listen to the Project. YOU’RE WRONG! I am black and almost 50 yrs old and I’ve listened to rock music my whole life. I am PISSED they took off this station and will never patronize another CLEAR CHANNEL station again in life. Clear Channel sucks, they’re money grubbers and they only care about the dollar, like much of the rest of the country. Screw you clear channel. And Project Family, DON’T COUNT OUT THE BLACK PEOPLE! We don’t all listen to hip hop!
kirby
August 30th, 2012
10:17 am
You want rock n roll move to Pittsburgh, PA. I’ll go with you. They have great rock stations and better sports teams. Yea Comon!
fes
August 30th, 2012
10:19 am
It’s sad that Charlotte has better radio than Atlanta now.
Jarred
August 30th, 2012
10:19 am
Reminds me of Power 99 back in the day, when it played all Top 40 pop from the 80s. Admittedly, that was a better station (so was the music in the 80s though). Bottom line, Atlanta radio continues the long trend of being uninspired, corporate, and chasing the bottom of the bottom. The only stations in town getting it slightly correct are Ga State U’s, NPR (of course), and 103.7 Chuck (which can do a helluva lot better if it’s willing to dig deeper than the Top 40 from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s).
billy
August 30th, 2012
10:19 am
I gave up on rock making a comeback since crapp rapp killed it. Now i listen to Katy Perry and have no worries.
Harry Callahan
August 30th, 2012
10:26 am
Atlanta is a total loser in so many areas, radio included.
Craig
August 30th, 2012
10:26 am
basically this means that men don’t spend as much as women. the music is just there to hook the target market the advertisers are looking for — women. women 30 and under make more money, on average, than their male counterparts in all but three of the largest cities in the U.S. 23% of women currently outearn their husbands.
hence the chick stations….
What Data?
August 30th, 2012
10:28 am
I want to know where the data comes from that supports these formats! Over at the project’s old facebook site, over 20,000 people are ‘talking about this,’ whatever that means. If that many people are hitting the old site to see what happened, that must mean that the data is skewed somewhere. Adding a pop format to this town is like buying milk with an earlier expiration date than what you already had in the fridge. I think they had a solid niche market, and now we’re back to the Atlanta radio of the late 90’s where hard rock fans had to flip the channel between a couple of stations hoping to hear something worth upping the volume.
Terri K.
August 30th, 2012
10:31 am
so sad. Rock is not dead!
Chris
August 30th, 2012
10:37 am
Wow. So much for radio in Atlanta anymore. The stuff 100.5 and 98.9 plays can be okay at times, then they mix in the worst junk and their signals are horrible.
Glad I kept my unlimited data. It’s streaming from here on out.
JohnnyRayGun
August 30th, 2012
10:38 am
Clear Channel has killed radio. Atlanta needs a great rock station. I listened to Project 9-6-1 although I got tired of them playing some songs to death. At least we had them! Now what are we supposed to do? I sure won’t bow to some corporate suit’s will and listen to pop crap so he can earn a few more dollars. Until we get something to fill the void of rock/metal (Wreckage, anyone?), I will rely solely on my CDs. Thanks, Clear Channel. You suck and I hope you eventually go bankrupt!
Bryan Bailey
August 30th, 2012
10:39 am
Man what do we listen to now?
Cammi317
August 30th, 2012
10:39 am
Wow, it seems that all I am left with at this point is Journey 97.9. If they take away my 80s/90s station, I will be left with nothing. One by one, my other favorites have already or are about to drop like flies….
Mike
August 30th, 2012
10:44 am
Thank you Clear Channel, i can be done with radio now. I will just listen to the ipod now instead of turning it off for the project. FU Clear Channel.
Jessica
August 30th, 2012
10:47 am
Wonder what this will do to our concert seasons? Without much promotion ticket sales won’t do well and that will discourage people from coming to ATL. Bummer.
WTF...SEMENCREST IS A ______!!
August 30th, 2012
10:47 am
screw you clear channel…I will be using my ipod for my listening enjoyment from now on, all the music today is sung by a bunch of biotches and they all suck! such garbage!!
Erock
August 30th, 2012
10:48 am
This sucks. Clear channel is the devil.
whofan
August 30th, 2012
10:50 am
Tom Petty said it best in “The Last DJ”, Make em pay for what they used to get for free. Sirius/xm here they come.
Youre listening to wmp3
August 30th, 2012
10:51 am
Hmmm. Haven’t listened to radio for years. Blissfully been listening to my favorite radio station Wmp3 for years now
Bill
August 30th, 2012
10:51 am
Apparently Clear Channel thinks that Atlanta market is all 14 year old girls. No longer are we supposed to listen to music that the artist can actually play with an instrument and sing live without a play track and lip-synching.
I love it when management from another city makes a decision based on numbers alone.
Jennifer Martin
August 30th, 2012
10:58 am
I’m so pissed I removed all of Clear’s stations off my presets in my car. Project 96.1 was our only decent rock station in Atlanta. Not only will I not listen to Power96.1, I refuse to listen to any of your other stations. If you force me to say goodbye to the project, then goodbye to Elvis Durhan also. Screw you! We have too many top 40 stations. We need variety. I hope you crash and burn!
PTC DAWG
August 30th, 2012
10:59 am
Bring back 96Rocks my face.
gttim
August 30th, 2012
11:01 am
I have satellite radio, but rarely even listen to that anymore. Mostly I listen to a thumb drive loaded with mp3 albums that plugs into my car stereo, iPod through my car stereo, or Pandora from my phone to my car stereo. To many choice for good music to put up with crappy music, chattering DJs and tons of commercials- although Pandora has a few commercials.
But man, what a sad end to 96.1. WKLS 96 Rock was an Atlanta institution for so long. Can’t anybody do this right?
Warren
August 30th, 2012
11:02 am
I haven’t listen to FM radio on a regular basis for well over 10-years… in fact the only time I listen to FM is when my smartphone is broke and I’m parked somewhere that the XM signal is blocked. Radio is dead.
Kellen
August 30th, 2012
11:02 am
There has never been a time where Project was committed to finding and playing new rock music. New rock songs are released everyday, but instead of playing them, they play oldies music like 104.1. I hate pop music, but pop stations stay up to date on their music. Rock stations are all this way, and that’s why they are all failing. They earned this, so screw them. I switched to my iPod years ago when I realized they weren’t going to change.
Clear Channel Rep
August 30th, 2012
11:03 am
While I am not shocked at the backlash and the use of such powerful words as “SUCKS, f’ing,and crap”, I am surprised to see that a vocal part of Project 96.1’s listening audience can use a computer.
BRING BACK PROJECT 961
August 30th, 2012
11:03 am
Why take out a good rock station now I got nothing to hear on the radio you suck Seacreast!!. We don’t need more stupid pop station
moonbat betty
August 30th, 2012
11:03 am
Just a sign of the times.
More music for the fake, materialistic, obama wannabes.
Ronald Carlson
August 30th, 2012
11:05 am
Time to get satellite radio for the car, Atlanta radio became officially bland. How many flavors of vanilla ice cream do you need? Wow, another station that plays Katy Perry, Pink, Usher, LMFAO – really, that’s what ATL needed? Doing my best to never listen to a clearchannel station again.
sports man
August 30th, 2012
11:07 am
IT SEEMS THERE ARE NO EASY LISTENING STATIONS FOR THE OLDER GENERATION. NO SINATRA, BUBLE, D. WASHINGTON, S. TYRELL, D. KRALL. AM I RIGHT? OR FOR THAT MATTER, BEATLES,J. WILSON, V, DAMONE, LES PAUL ETC. WHAT GIVES? IT SSEEMS EVERY STATION IS GOING TO TALK RADIO!!!
Margo
August 30th, 2012
11:13 am
I think I’m going to stab my ear drums! With the exception of 3 artists on those lists, that would be played on a rock station, the rest are over played an can be heard on THE OTHER POP stations. Why more? Atlanta is losing the 2 best programmed stations. Sad of us!! 99x has no signal strength so unless you’re in town they are out. Sirius here we come.
Wildman
August 30th, 2012
11:18 am
https://www.facebook.com/Project961Undead
xoGuitarox
August 30th, 2012
11:19 am
There is already to many Pop stations!!.. I want my rock back…. they can mix it up a little with new an old, but I atleast would like to have choice to listen to rock or pop… wtf?
TJ
August 30th, 2012
11:22 am
Sad day for Atlanta’s radio biz. Yet another top 40 station. Really?! 96 Rock was the station we listened to in protest of top 40 (Z93). Remember when every stoner kid had a 96 Rock t-shirt? I owned two! Wish I still had them.
joshua
August 30th, 2012
11:25 am
the project was a horrible station anyway. with crap like five finger death punch and nickleback who gives a crap? i say good riddance
Stuart
August 30th, 2012
11:25 am
The morning and midday shows will not come from Atlanta so it isnt really local. I didn’t listen to the Project but it seemed to have a nice following and didn’t need to be fixed. Unfortunately the media suit decided to mess with the radio stations while screwing up newspapers, magazines websites …..
Jen @ KSU
August 30th, 2012
11:26 am
It is a sad day for music in Atlanta!! We were being bombarded with pop trash anyway; why did Clear Channel decide that the ONLY rock station in town had to go?!! (Sorry, 100.5, but you dropped the ball a long time ago.) Ryan Seacrest needs to be kept in check! Why is some guy from Dunwoody a celebrity anyway? What the hell has he ever done that was worth watching? I hope the Project Fans continue to protest the horrible treatment of the employees and the assumption on Clear Channel’s part that we, the listeners of Atlanta, will listen to whatever juvenile Top-40 junk they throw at us. I, for one, will give 100.5 a chance, but if they don’t take advantage of the opportunity soon I, along with most of the rock and roll fans in the city, will turn to satellite radio, and then the rock scene in Atlanta will be truly dead….One more thought–will any real rock acts play in Atlanta if they can’t get air time? By next year, I bet we won’t be able to get the headline acts that we barely get now! Bring back Project 96.1!!!!
PROJECT FAN
August 30th, 2012
11:27 am
This really is a sad day. I’m sorry OC and the rest of the great Project Family! I have been a member since the Buzz days. There is no other radio station that I want to listen to. 96 has been rock my whole life. We’ve got plenty of Top 40. We need new rock in Atlanta. I mean c’mon, we’re the home of Music Midtown and the biggest city in the South! We can’t just support crap! We need all genres. Guess I’ll be buying a subscription to Spotify
Steve
August 30th, 2012
11:28 am
Well, since 96Rock changed to Project 9-6-1 it was on it’s way out. No more Rock in Atlanta. I guess someone should tell the rock stations in other cities that they can’t last. Atlanta needed another crappy top 40/hip-hop channel right? Wrong. Not eveyone in Atlanta listens to that crap. And now we don’t listen to 96.1 either. Nice job Clear channel. Time to buy another XM radio.
Upset
August 30th, 2012
11:34 am
Really??? This station sucks now!!! I have been listening to wkls FM (and when there was an AM station) 96.1 since I was in elementary school. Now a crapy poop station? Clear Chanel you suck for this! I, along with a number of Georgians, will not listen to this crap! There are now 5 stations in Atlanta playing this junk, it sucks! PLAY SOME REAL MUSIC, Jerks!!!
BRETT
August 30th, 2012
11:43 am
Bring the Project crew back!!
mike
August 30th, 2012
11:46 am
i will never listen to this crap. clear channel should have never made a move like this. i hope the ratings go down the toilet. clear channel sucks!!!
Calling It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
11:49 am
@Behind – In L.A(#2) – KROQ, which lists itself as alternative, but it is one of the first stations you think of when you think of the L.A., market. Let’s see what happens when the fall numbers come out and see if Atlanta holds on to #9. As cyclical and and as quick as things change, it’s only going to be a matter of time before Atlanta has a decent station again. It won’t be Z-93. It won’t be 96 Rock. Those days are gone and most of those jocks have moved on. Rock genre is very cloudy right now, with no distinct lines between Alternative and Rock. A new station needs to come on line with a good signal and start from the ground up and either re-create the true “Rock” genre or completely refine it to set the standard.
The “Translator” stations are not the answer either. They just plain don’t have the signal strength. Sure 99x is back on the air, but it’s almost irrelevant in today’s spectrum.
joshua
August 30th, 2012
11:50 am
havent any of you ever heard of IPODS? problem solved…because news flash people..THE RADIO HAS SUCKED FOR A LOOOOOOOOOONG TIME!!! although alot of you are redneck idiots and probably cant afford an ipod. how about you go a week without spending money on meth and beer so you can get one. they run about 125 dollars…god forbid you go a week without substance to take care at least one problem in your pathetic lives….
Rusty Shackleford
August 30th, 2012
11:54 am
And just like that, I have no reason to listen to the radio anymore.
Dave
August 30th, 2012
11:54 am
Clear Channel is determined to screw over anything it touches. It can’t be content to leave well enough alone. We need to drive Clear Channel out of the Atlanta market.
Tim Rhodes
August 30th, 2012
11:59 am
I’m available
Shantiqua Moniqua D'Eshia Jones Johnson
August 30th, 2012
12:01 pm
HIRE THE 2 LIVE STEWS
april spearman
August 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
Please bring back 96.1 project, we need our rock!!
Calling It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
12:06 pm
@joshua – Seriously? You are generalizing people who would rather listen to radio than an mp3 player as redneck idiots and meth heads? Yes, I do have one, but does your iPod play new music unless you load it? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Unless you have a monstrous collection, you will hear the same songs over and over, which will put your iPod in the same programming class as Top 40…the same songs…over and over.
Tancred62
August 30th, 2012
12:08 pm
Regardless of format, I can’t understand how ANYBODY can listen to commercial radio of any kind. You know why? Because of the COMMERCIALS!!! For goodness sake, you can listen to WREK (GT) or WRAS (GSU), or stream any number of other college stations over the Intar-Webs. I haven’t listened to commercial radio for years.
Eric Godfrey
August 30th, 2012
12:09 pm
This sux!! Regular Guys are horrible, and The River is a wash. Bring back Project 961 and @KiddChris .
AGirl
August 30th, 2012
12:10 pm
Bring back our music Now!!!! We have a billion pop station we only had one Project 96.1 ;”((((( Its my favorite preset :”((
annette
August 30th, 2012
12:11 pm
What happened to the Regular guys ????
joshua
August 30th, 2012
12:18 pm
im a DJ so i do in fact have a monstrous collection of music. and i use torrent soundcloud and beatport and money to buy the actual physical albums…so all the new music thats worth a damn (because there isnt much) i wont need the radio to listen to it. If your music collection is weak its your own damn fault. and most of the people that enjoyed the crap coming out of project 96.1 are redneck idiots that drink too much and smoke meth…
ylojkt
August 30th, 2012
12:19 pm
Tuning in this morning, I thought they were playing a joke with the crap they were playing on air, turns out the joke was on me. What a sad day for Atlanta, not one single good rock station anymore. 100.5 is ok, but they don’t play the newer bands that we want to hear. Guess it’s back to the ipod and cd’s while driving. Very depressing that clearchannel would do this to their listeners, there’s way more than enough of the crap they’re currently playing all over the dial in Atlanta, why’d the project have to go?
Ken
August 30th, 2012
12:24 pm
Wow, this sucks…this is going to piss a lot of people off. Top 40, what kinda crap is that!
jess
August 30th, 2012
12:26 pm
Considering the JACKASS GUFFAWS associated with the JACKASS DJs and the silly ad lib self promotion by those DJs, it’s a wonder 96 Rock remained on air as long as it did. Good riddance to the daytime DJs.
Diane
August 30th, 2012
12:37 pm
I turned to 96.1 this morning and almost puked! I thought my programed channels were off or something because I was hit with a wave of nasty pop music. So…we now have lost them and DAVE-FM…so what the heck are people over the age of teenagers suposed to listen to? Does the ATL really need another sports channel and ANOTHER pop station? REALLY! I guess my XM radio will become my best friend (it used to be the fall back radio for me). I’m absoutley sick…
Jenna J.
August 30th, 2012
12:39 pm
Yep, Atlanta radio really does suck. XM radio people! You will never go back!
Rusty
August 30th, 2012
12:40 pm
This is what happens when you invest emotional energy in to a corporate product essentially run by a bunch of bean counters in suits. They don’t care. Time for Satellite radio or a bigger iPod I guess. I’m done chasing radio stations up and down the dial. Peace and good luck to the DJs put out of a job.
BehindEnemyLines
August 30th, 2012
12:46 pm
@Calling It … umm, you do realize that market ranks are based solely on population, right? Those are tweaked quarterly and updated in full once a year (sometime in September IIRC), based on updated info from the Census bureau. Atlanta might rise or fall, but that will have nothing at all to do with the radio stations or their formats.
rnplumber
August 30th, 2012
12:52 pm
I love rock as well but i soppose the moneys in top 40….What would you do in that situation if you were boss and had to make that descision..its a no brainer…everyone should know y now its all about the money…so quit your bitchin and put a cd in
alan
August 30th, 2012
12:58 pm
Time to reprogram my stations and get this garbage out of my cars.
bulldogbubba
August 30th, 2012
1:02 pm
Does this mean no more Barry Manilow or Elton John?
Lyndsey Marie... 3 thumbs up
August 30th, 2012
1:03 pm
Who gives a hoot about Project 961.. they should have never fired TRG and killed 96 Rock. Karma is something else.. ain’t it Chris Williams!
irnerdette
August 30th, 2012
1:07 pm
Very disappointed and saddened by this. I really liked Project 9-6-1
ylojkt
August 30th, 2012
1:10 pm
Apparently, so many people have called to complain about this that they now have an automated answering machine to take your complaints. Please call and voice your displeasure at 210-822-2828
Calling It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
1:13 pm
@Behind….yes I do. But my point was that if you look at the larger markets…wait…this thread is taking me away from work….and I don’t remember what the point is…point being that despite being #9, there are larger markets where rock is a viable format. From a business standpoint, the population would affect the formats based on PPM, if used. And what CC is doing is opening a big hole for another competitor to swoop in and dominate and fill the void. And I think everyone is in agreement, 2 stations that rock-oriented leave creates a HUGE void. I just hope someone with a brain comes in and does it right.
Judi
August 30th, 2012
1:16 pm
I can’t convey what a huge mistake this is…I have lived in Atlanta 24 years and have loved this station ever since I got here. It’s always been one of the best. I am so disappointed to say the least that this has happened. Doesn’t Atlanta have enough pop stations? We need three of them?? Really??? I will do my part to help drive this one into the ground and get our boys back.
Dev
August 30th, 2012
1:20 pm
This SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Butch
August 30th, 2012
1:29 pm
@ClearChannelRep Not all of us are unintelligent and don’t have money. We do have computers and we can show our displeasure just like anyone else. I guess 100,000 likes on a Facebook page is pretty insignificant for you all. Well, please feel free to see your ratings go down by 100,000 people now who don’t put up with garbage top 40 music. Ryan Seacrest can take his mommy and move her ass somewhere else where she can listen to him syndicated on some other radio station. This is his home town and he couldn’t get a station to put him on? Maybe that meant that he sucks and we don’t want him on the air!
ATLRadioIsJoke
August 30th, 2012
1:30 pm
They need to bring back 99 X to 99.7, 96 Rock, Z93 and Fox 97. Those were the good days. We should be embarrassed as a city to have this happen. Disgusting.
vanessa
August 30th, 2012
1:31 pm
I WANT THE PROJECT BACK NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we have enough pop stations playing the same stuff. at least with the project i had some balance with my music. now who is going to be at the up roar tour? miss u kid cris and ally : … (
Row 3
August 30th, 2012
1:38 pm
Sell your advertising to the 18-24 year old female market. There’s alot of buying power there.
Tammy
August 30th, 2012
1:40 pm
This is crap!!! We do not have a ROCK station that plays actual rock!! Bring back 96.1 and leave it the heck alone!!
FinHead
August 30th, 2012
1:45 pm
“Rock on the other hand has been in a death spiral nationwide.”
WHAT???
Rock has seen a great rebirth the last couple of years as the hipster rock has started to fade… maybe if 96 rock wasn’t stuck playing 10 year old music and invested time in all the new rock bands on the scene.
CF
August 30th, 2012
1:47 pm
This is insulting and tragic. Time to start figuring out how to boycott Clear Channel altogether.
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August 30th, 2012
1:50 pm
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taylor
August 30th, 2012
1:50 pm
If you’re not part of the Project, you’re part of the problem. http://www.facebook.com/BringProject961Back
Caro
August 30th, 2012
1:51 pm
Screw Power96.1!! Long live the Project!!! Bring back The OC, Aly, Kidd Chris, and Jordin. It’s a sad day in Atlanta.
Fan since 1974
August 30th, 2012
1:57 pm
Aly is on 100.3 The Buzz, Greensboro NC. Listening right now. I feel like someone died. 96 Rock and then The Project have been a part of me since I was a kid. This sucks!
admiral
August 30th, 2012
1:58 pm
99X would be really pumped right – if listeners could actually pick up their signal.
Mike
August 30th, 2012
1:59 pm
this sucks bring back the project..aly and the oc kicks ass…bring them back
admiral
August 30th, 2012
2:00 pm
* right now
Mike
August 30th, 2012
2:04 pm
Boycott I say!
thomas smith
August 30th, 2012
2:06 pm
your station sucks now no more rock
Al Yankovic
August 30th, 2012
2:12 pm
They’re just stunting. The new name is POWER POLKA 96.1!
TheLazyComic
August 30th, 2012
2:13 pm
I don’t know which one makes me want to hurl more. Cheap Channel… or Ryan Seacrust. Barf on both.
Banana Brian
August 30th, 2012
2:14 pm
Long Live Banana Brian Shotgun Shaffee!
54 degrees Atlanta!
One Big Dummy
August 30th, 2012
2:23 pm
Quit listening to the radio and buy a subscription to Sirius XM! Octane and the other rock stations on Sirius XM is way better than Project 96.1 or any other station on the radio nowadays! That goes for the rest of the country as much as Atlanta! Radio sucks… Down with radio and down with Ryan Seacreast!
One Big Dummy
August 30th, 2012
2:24 pm
And down with Clear Channel, too!
fes
August 30th, 2012
2:34 pm
Time to buy a new head unit so that I can plug my smartphone in and use it. Uninstalling iHeartRadio now because there is no way in hell that I will support ClearChannel. Thanks for further ruining Atlanta radio you dolts.
Shannon
August 30th, 2012
2:35 pm
BRING PROJECT 96.1 BACK THE HELL WITH POP
Daniel Velez
August 30th, 2012
2:38 pm
I am all for different genre’s, BUT I PREFER ROCK N ROLL. What type of power do we really need in Georgia? ROCK POWER!!!!!! Please for the sake of all the Project Family – BRING BACK the Project
Sean
August 30th, 2012
2:38 pm
Atl radio has sucked for years. Get Sirius/XM they have over 20 great rock channels.
You will never listen to AM/FM again.
kelly
August 30th, 2012
2:47 pm
I can’t belive this!! How many pop stations do we really need?? Project 9-6-1 was my favorite radio station! Thanks alot idiots!
Eric
August 30th, 2012
2:54 pm
I’m guessing that the Atlanta radio stations and their parent companies don’t get it.
94.9 used to be good when it was Peach and Lite FM… Clear Channel ruined that frequency with country music station The Bull.
96.1 used to be good when it was 96-Rock… then it got changed to Project-9-6-1… and Clear Channel ruins another frequency with Top 40 station Power 96.1. Either bring back 96-Rock, or bring back Peach. I’m guessing Clear Channel can also be called Cheap Channel.
CBS has ruined 92.9, which used to be good as Z-93 and Dave FM, in order to accomodate Sports Talk.
97.1 used to be good as Fox-97, before the short-lived 97.1 Jamz… and Cox gave us 97.1 The River, which is good… even though its not Fox.
106.7 used to be good as country music stations Y and Eagle… and was good as True Oldies… and the All-News took over.
98.5 used to be good… and it seems that the former soft rock station is on its way toward becoming another Star-94, Q-100, and Power 96.1. I don’t think 98 is airing Delilah anymore. 9 plays the same Chris Daughtry, Kelly Clarkson, and Matchbox 20 songs to death, among others. I can see why Kelly McCoy got out when he did.
Eric
August 30th, 2012
2:56 pm
I meant to say 98… sorry about the typo in that previous post.
pat
August 30th, 2012
3:02 pm
This sucks. Now we have only two horrbile rockstations… Not everybody likes pop. Some of us like music with soul and people who play instruments and don’t need to be auto-tuned because the suck so bad.
ddt
August 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
GGreat more freaking fairy music from the wonderful clear channel AtL needs the project not power fairies
SoCoEnvy
August 30th, 2012
3:33 pm
While Project 961 wasn’t always the best station (couldn’t stand the morning crew) and constantly played RHCP, I too am a fan of Aly, the OC, and Jordan. I can’t stand this top 40 crap, and that’s mostly because of the constant repetition and the fact that even if you change the station there’s a high probability the same song is playing on the other station.
Without these stations announcing when concerts are and hosting them I won’t know. I had a great time at this year’s Project Cinco Party. We need more rock stations; I can’t get a great signal from 99x here at the house like I could 96.1.
Christy
August 30th, 2012
3:56 pm
96.1 was the only decent radio station left after Athens lost 103.7. I will now listen to Sirius radio only. Just what Atl needed yet ANOTHER top 40 station to go along with the 15 or 20 it already has. Someone should be shot.
Christopher Rude
August 30th, 2012
4:00 pm
something smells???
Christopher Rude
August 30th, 2012
4:02 pm
something smells stunty
Angie Lafferty
August 30th, 2012
4:03 pm
really how much garbage can you pump out into one market… bring back the ROCK!!!
Jeff
August 30th, 2012
4:07 pm
In a month’s time Atlanta has lost its only two rock stations that have an audible signal outside the perimeter. As if we needed another top 40 station and another sports talk station (soon to be 92.9FM). 100.5 is classic rock and 97.1 is even more classic so that leaves exactly zero rock stations with a signal. Finally time to get a price on SiriusXM.
Calling It Like It Is
August 30th, 2012
4:15 pm
Best case scenario, they are stunting…worse case, more repetition of the same 10 songs on what now, 5 stations?
the_undead_freak
August 30th, 2012
4:19 pm
this is bull,i lost all faith in the radio;( pop sucks
MikeHunt
August 30th, 2012
4:19 pm
I think Kidd Kriss’s laugh single handedly brought down the Project.
CC
August 30th, 2012
4:24 pm
This is an outrage! THIS IS PROFILING AND THAT’S JUST WRONG!!!!
EdvClearChannel
August 30th, 2012
4:36 pm
Just e-mailed a link to this article to Clear Channel’s PR department. Probably won’t help, but it felt good.
jaob west
August 30th, 2012
4:38 pm
what the hell man i want my rock back
projectfam
August 30th, 2012
4:39 pm
Keep Project 9-6-1Bring Project 96.1 BACK
JOIN the PROTEST, FOX 5 Atlanta has agreed to cover!!!
http://www.facebook.com/events/501027386592970/
Clear Channel’s Atlanta Office Protest – Keep Project 9-6-1
Saturday at 2:00pm at Clear Channel Media + Entertainment Creative Services Group
Join
gatlin
August 30th, 2012
4:42 pm
BRING BACK THE PROJECT WE DONT WANT ANOTHER CRAP HIPHOP/RAP STATION WE HAVE ENOUGH PROJECT 9-6-1 WAS OUR ONLY GOOD ROCK STATION LISTENING TO KIDDCHRIS IN THE MORNING WAS THE BEST NOTHING BETTER AND WE WANT THAT BACK WE HAVE LIKE 30 POP STATIONS ALREADY WHY HAVE ANOTHER SO THEY CAN JUST ALL PLAY THE SAME SONGS AND EVERYONE QUTS LISTENING TO THE RADIO OVERALL?BRING BACK THE PROJECT WE NEED DIFFRENT GENRES OF THE RADIO NOT JUST POP/HIP HOP/RAP!!!!!!!!!!
danny shaw
August 30th, 2012
4:43 pm
you bunch of dumb asses i’m 50 years old 96 rock was the only station left that played old rock and roll we need that station back put your sissy music on another station.
CASHMAN
August 30th, 2012
4:49 pm
Another overplayed pop station in atlanta. Makes the satellite radio subscription worth every penny. Atlanta radio is sucks.
Scoobie
August 30th, 2012
4:55 pm
Dropping the project was the dumbest thing ya’ll could have ever done…that was the only station i cared to listen to. It sucks that its gone and ya’ll suck for taking it away
corey painter
August 30th, 2012
4:58 pm
This is the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. How you going to try to fix something that ain’t broken. I could understand if the project never got any listeners or attention from bands at the project get togethers but dern. Power 96.1 can kiss it…
david
August 30th, 2012
4:59 pm
I was a high school freshman when 96 rock hit the air waves and it was the staple of rock radio for decades. I’m really glad my new truck came with xm radio, as a couple of stations remind me of 96 rock back in the day.
Shauna
August 30th, 2012
5:07 pm
Please help Atlanta save our ONLY rock station!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/501027386592970/permalink/501049396590769/?comment_id=501052393257136&ref=notif¬if_t=like
daemonova
August 30th, 2012
5:15 pm
no offense, yall, but it was better as the buzz
Digger42
August 30th, 2012
5:16 pm
Enter your comments here
Ronald McVodka
August 30th, 2012
5:17 pm
WTF!!! I have listened to 96.1 for 20 years… Project has taken it to the level that it it needs to be at. Where in ATL,shawty( LMAO) can you hear Korn, Slipknot, Metallica, Seether, Stained…etc. Come on….Too many teeny bobber, wanna be rap, pop kiddie stations on the radio already. Clear channel… Ya’ll sent me to Vegas back in the day (96 Rock..remember)…… I appreciated it.. But i don’t appreciate this. Enjoy your fan base. You had other stations that you could have created. instead of taking the BEST rock in Atlanta. Hope this comes back on you….RIP PROJECT 96.1!!!!!!!
Digger42
August 30th, 2012
5:17 pm
get the hell out of atlanta. We want our Project back!!!!! Project family will be heard…Loud and Hard
Colleen
August 30th, 2012
5:21 pm
I’ve been a member of the project family for two years. I’m so bummed and mad that I turned my radio on this morning and heard the same songs that are on 5 other stations!!!!!! Are you kidding me? What a crock! Where do I tune in to hear Shinedown, Five Finger, Guns-N-Roses,Volbeat, Sick Puppies, Stone Sour… and oh so many more? Oh another station with a weak signal?…. thanks. I don’t have a smart phone, so I can’t get the I Heart Radio app. Project was the only place I could hear the best music. Seriously disappointed and let down.
Joe Iglinski
August 30th, 2012
5:26 pm
You changed from Rock to Top 40…… Let’s Disco….WTF???? You SUCK!
Amy
August 30th, 2012
5:28 pm
I’m totally disgusted. We have enough pop stations. I like them but there are days when I need my fix of some Alternative Rock music. Now I can’t find any Alternative station with a good signal to listen to. This just sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring back the Project !!!!!!!!!!
OTP
August 30th, 2012
5:29 pm
I still listen to my CD’s in the car. Long live 96ROCK.
Amy
August 30th, 2012
5:34 pm
Ok everyone. You need to sign the petition to bring back the Project. Don’t know if it will help, but sure couldn’t hurt. Make your voices heard!!!
Clear Chanel SUCKS
August 30th, 2012
5:35 pm
Clear channel SUCKS!! I hope there stock crashes and they all lose their jobs…
Sheila Harris
August 30th, 2012
5:48 pm
I’ll always think of out as 96 rock and I have been a faithful listener since the beginning. I’m going to miss it even though I wasn’t thrilled with kidd chris the music was great! They will never be another station like it, its went through 3 generations of my family. R.I.P 96.1 …if there is anther station like it coming out in atlanta please let us know.
V. H. Enigma
August 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
Riddle me THIS, Batman: Why did these DILLHOLES have to cancel OUR station when they could have just as easily cancelled one of their other crappy stations to make way for more crap? After all, why kill ONE pop station AND a ROCK station for another CRAPPY POP STATION? Where’s the logic in that, mongos?
Curtis Heydon
August 30th, 2012
6:04 pm
I am Beyond Pissed. Clear Channel .. you Suck! Your ownership of 96 rock has been a disaster from the get-go. AS a lifelong Atlanta rock fan , I have had to listen to the slow death spiral of the once ass- kicking 96 ROCK of old. 96.1 used to own all rockers attention and had the absolute best promotions and band info. Since your ownership we had to witness your letting go of Chris Rude, the censorship of The original Reg. Guys and then your progressive take on playing “new rock” in a constant 20 song rotation with no true DJ influence. Still, I was willing to keep tuning to 96.1, just to keep hearing the best, bang your head ROCK. Atlanta now only has weak choices for the rock genre and we as rock fans can only hope someone with brains can hear our cries. Your station number has been erased from my car, my once proud license plate will be retired and I’ll end my sadness with a WHO reference; In 1974 , Babba ORiely (teenage wasteland) cracked the airways as your first song, I can only hope the anthem of ” Long Live Rock” sees your top 40 format and your jobs are like Kansas’s “Dust in the Wind” and quickly go away like Ryan Seacrest fame. SAD ,SAD day for rock and roll in Atlanta.
Nick Kittle
August 30th, 2012
6:29 pm
Make sure you spell my name right seacrest. You are so typical of the bland social media that surrounds the genre of pop. Spoiled. Ignorant. Self absorbed. Did i mention ignorant? Clear Channel and seacrest’s mom have a rude awakening coming. Saturday all hell will break loose in downtown.
Time to move.
August 30th, 2012
6:37 pm
just another reason to leave atlanta….the music scene is dead, crime is rampant,high unemployment,there are no rock radio stations anymore….the list goes on and on.
josh
August 30th, 2012
6:39 pm
you can tell where this nation is going…we have what two rock stations left 971 and 99x? this is a crock of crap. project 961 was the best radio station out there and they had to swap it out for justin beiber wannbe’s.
HAAHAA!
August 30th, 2012
6:39 pm
I think it’s freakin’ hilarious that the project is gone. If you all call that a family then stay under the circus tent with the other jugalos!
jonathan
August 30th, 2012
6:57 pm
you can;t just take away a station like that the project was the only thing i wanted to get up in the morning and go to work with now i can’t and life sucks again .
bring back the project
Kerry
August 30th, 2012
7:01 pm
I feel bad for my husband. He is 35 and loves rock, only rock. How many more pop and rap stations does Atlanta really need? Guess I’ll be purchasing xm radio for him. Rip 96 rock.
peaches
August 30th, 2012
7:02 pm
Guess the monkeys of atlanta will have their music. Jeegros be taken over everything and the white man can’t even have a rock station.
James W
August 30th, 2012
7:02 pm
Leave to the idiots at Clear Channel to,again, change one of the most popular Radio stations in Atlanta to a format in a Genre of music that already has enough stations to more than cover the Atlanta area in which Atlanta needs like it needs more Traffic!!!!!
Oh my ears!
August 30th, 2012
7:08 pm
I wanna stick ice picks into my ears! WTF is that annoying sound…..Sad day for ATL. I will not support Clear Channel or any of its sponsors until I can listen to new rock.
RIP “The Project”, you will left a huge hole in Atlanta airwaves
pissed dude
August 30th, 2012
7:10 pm
Well that calls it. The Usa has had some bad times but this does it. All the rock has died. Sorry ac-dc it “did die”. Will it come back know one will know.
James W
August 30th, 2012
7:10 pm
Project 9-6-1 was the “only” station that played the more current Rock music which in my opinion has been on an upswing for a better quality of music. Seriously, how can you get better than the likes of Disturbed, Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Hellyeah, Five Finger Death Punch, Theory of Deadman, Tool, Bush Seether, Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Avenge Sevenfold, Shinedown, and let’s not forget Rage; just to name a few.
pissed dude
August 30th, 2012
7:11 pm
Try to save it
http://www.change.org/petitions/atlanta-radio-station-bring-back-96-1-bring-back-project-961
peaches
August 30th, 2012
7:24 pm
Typical, the white man can’t have anything in Atlanta.
BaniBoo
August 30th, 2012
7:31 pm
WTH? I’m so pissed. Project was one of the ONLY radio stations I enjoyed & now it’s been replaced with this crap. How many pop stations do we need for kids? Can’t we keep one adult station going? I mean DANG!!!!!
rock chick
August 30th, 2012
7:32 pm
This is complete BS! I love that station, the others are alternative and with dave going to it’s a shame. This is the day the music died. Power and the big wigs at radio can shove it. Guess I’m going to my play list. I’ll die before I listen to another top 40 station.
99plummer
August 30th, 2012
7:41 pm
ATL is truly one of the Crappest city’s in the world now… Screw Clear Channel.. I will never support any thing they are involved with..
Whitney
August 30th, 2012
7:45 pm
I listened to the project while going to sleep .-. now i just barly sleep
T Brand
August 30th, 2012
7:48 pm
ARE YOU KIDDING??? A GIANT METROPOLIS AND THERE IS NOOOOO ROCK STATION!!!! HOW EMBARASSING!!! BRING IT BACK!!!
New Pop Music Video » Blog Archive » Project 9-6-1 becomes Power 96.1, a top 40 station – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
August 30th, 2012
8:03 pm
[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]
Cole
August 30th, 2012
8:05 pm
Another station that will be identical to all the other pop stations and will not seperate itself from those pop stations in any way. Just what I want, even more unoriginal auto tuned garbage.
C
August 30th, 2012
8:06 pm
I hopped in my van today, got out of the driveway and turned on the radio to find this crap on 96.1 !!!!!!!!!!!! Screw U Clear Channel. Guess I have to buy an ipod to hear my rock now. Thanks for making my day a little bit worse.
Matt
August 30th, 2012
8:12 pm
Why change the format of the only station in Atlanta that plays different music than the teeny bop crap. Where are we suppose to go to listen to good music not this hip hop poopoo that every other station plays. I’m done with the radio. Think I’ll just turn on my iPod and never turn on the radio again. Clear sucks and I hope they go under.
Aaron
August 30th, 2012
8:13 pm
There is really no other hard-rock station in Atlanta (others are soft rock, mix, etc.). Whenever I’m feeling down I can turn this channel on and turn my day around, or turn it on when I’m happy to celebrate. This channel even offers the ability for the audience to be the DJ!! I have never heard of another station to offer this level of freedom. I can’t believe they shut down such a successful station, and if you disagree that it was successful then here we are to prove otherwise. Look at the thousands of people showing up at concerts advertized through this station. Know that the fans who stand up and sign this and other letters is only a fraction of the real horde. I suspect this channel was removed because of people in power who had negative and stereotypical opinions of the station. If so, who are they to take away the sanctuary of hundreds of thousands of people!! (I do mean that number too). You are messing with the wrong people. The hard-rock station is the best place to get angry people, unfortunatly for the record…and you. If anyone thinks that this is a place where people get angry or …I hate to say it…demon worshipers, then they are wrong [mostly]. Actually country music has more of those people. There are more depressed and suicides that regularly listen to country music than rock music. Demon worshippers, and I mean the real ones, are no more likely to listen to this station than your average youth. I know specific people than can attest to this. Oh, and many, if not most listeners are Christian.
Please do NOT bring ANOTHER station. I have listened to other rock stations regularly, and it’s just a place to get music. Poject9-6-1 is much more than that. We all feel connected and apart of P961. There’s a reason it is called “the Project Family”. We comfort each other through tough times, share experiences, likes and dislikes, and we will stand as a family to protect one of our own. And the Project is absolutely one of our own. If Project 9-6-1 goes away, the family is lost in the wilderness, and it is the first priority to get back together before we move on.
Please get the Project back on 96.1 too!! Do you have any idea how hard it would be to change the channel on it? That sounds like a lot of money. It will be far easier to move the new channel. Besides, don’t we already have enoughmany pop stations?
Who’s dumb*** idea was this anyway? (actually I know, just the way I phrased the sentence shows by tone.)
I will talk to my friends about this. Tomorrow I will bring in at least 50 people, and they will bring more. For a station that has over 100,000 likes on facebook, I wouldn’t be suprised if we had that many sign that petition.
Thank you for reading my responce.
The includeded-mail is my spam account. Since you show real interest you can have my main account address
” jas1110@bellsouth.net ”
With hope,
Aaron Shader
P.S. …WTF REALLY?!?!?!?!?!
Travis
August 30th, 2012
8:23 pm
I was so confused when I turned on the radio this morning. I immediately deleted this horrible station from my tuner and will go out of my way to avoid anything Clear Channel owns and anyone who advertises on this awful station.
Zach
August 30th, 2012
8:24 pm
This is going to not be good many ppl is shocked and will not listen to your station sorry hopefully sum new rock station will come about
jessie
August 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Do we really need yet another pop station….. i want my alternative back!!!
Cole
August 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
I’d, honestly, rather them just go off the air instead if going pop.
Steve
August 30th, 2012
8:41 pm
Super Lame! Project 961 was fantastic! I streamed it while working in Afghanistan and all my coworkers were amazed at the playlist. I listened to the project at home in Georgia. What a huge loss! Like anyone needs another lame top 40 station. Way to let down your loyal listeners Clear Channel!
Dan
August 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
People in Athens who like rock music are getting screwed worst of all. From my house, I can hear five different Top 40 stations: Star 94, Q100, Power 100.1 (Athens station), Wild 105.7, and now this Power 96.1. On the other hand, I cannot hear a single station that plays current rock music anymore, and none of the solutions will help me either. Rock 100.5 can’t be heard past Winder, and 99X can’t even make it past Lawrenceville. And the 105.3 transmitter is located near Newnan, which leaves Athens out in the cold even with a 100,000-watt transmitter. I’ve begun streaming 98.9 The Rock in Kansas City for my hard rock fix.
So if you’re a female between the ages of 15 and 34, congratulations: you own terrestrial radio. No other demographic even matters, which is why I now have five radio stations playing contemporary pop music, and zero stations playing contemporary rock music.
gtv8m
August 30th, 2012
8:57 pm
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gtv8m
August 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
Why they turn 96 rock into gay radio station power 96 sucks
hi
August 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
hey guys, i found a radio station that shows hard rock in ga, it’s 106.3 FM
tracey
August 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
This is total bs!!!!!! Bring back 96 rock! Screw pop music.
RogueBarroness
August 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
THIS IS BULL$#!#!!!!! Bring back the Kid Kris Show and the Real Rock! Take your pop an shove it where it don’t shine, LONG LIVE THE PROJECT!!!
treyb 81 sad
August 30th, 2012
9:08 pm
why did they leave us.rock.fans are disappointent and shocked we now.have no real new hard rock.venting. i guess radio is dead.hello slacker and xm..i will pay them before i stoop low enough to.liaten to a top 40 station hell i will liaten to countru before that stuff. bring back.the.project!!
hi
August 30th, 2012
9:13 pm
bring back 961 you pop addicts
Sluggathor
August 30th, 2012
9:16 pm
Power 96.1 doesn’t even have the courage to put contact info on their main page……..
Tracy
August 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
The way Clear Channel works is that they change a station under the radar…remember Peach changed mid Christmas music to The Bull without notice? Same with Project 9-6-1, we had no idea they were going to change
sam
August 30th, 2012
9:23 pm
they wouldn’t post my first post…. because I call it like I see it! And the purity of the language upset their little minds….sissy music is all over the air waves already and so is that rap crap …get real quit being stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You had a good listener base why skrew it up!!!
Ross Moores
August 30th, 2012
9:39 pm
ok no other station in metro Atlanta plays hard rock, metal, or even industrial for that matter – at least not consistently (college stations have those genres but only in hour or 2 slots). Those genres have masses multi millions of fans and followers INTERNATIONALLY!!! Shouldnt that call for at least 1 station catering to them in each major city? TO HELL WITH MORE POP STATIONS!!! NAIL THE CORPORATE PUPPET SHOW TO A TREE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!
Carri LUVS Seether!!
August 30th, 2012
9:39 pm
The best rock station here in Atlanta is GONE!!! I am SOOOOO upset!!!
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Yeah, well…..that’s what happens when the owner is BAIN CAPITAL….they like firing people!!!
Stand for the fallen
August 30th, 2012
9:44 pm
i only listened to project 96.1 now its all pop,rap,and cristian stations
aubrnhrdgrl
August 30th, 2012
9:53 pm
I’M A HARD ROCKIN NATIVE ATLANTAN, AND I DON’T NEED ANYBODY FROM ANYWHERE ELSE DECIDING THAT MY RADIO CHOICES NEED CHANGING!!! CLEAR CHANNEL, IN ANY FORMAT, IS NOT ON MY DEVICES, IN ANY WAY, AT ANY TIME, IN ANY PLACE, FROM NOW ON!!! YOU JUST F’D UP BIG TIME IN YOUR ATLANTA MARKET, CLEAR CHANNEL!!!!
Ethan Henry
August 30th, 2012
9:54 pm
This is horrible.
Project 9-6-1 was literally the only radio station worth listening to here in North Georgia.
I turned on the radio the other day and nearly found myself with my skull fragments and brain matter deposited upon a tree. Oh sad day…
Lurch313
August 30th, 2012
9:58 pm
Bring back under the covers with Aly. Bring back Project 96.1.
Leigh
August 30th, 2012
10:00 pm
I am mad. I have listened to 96.1 since 1974. You guys lost me once a few years ago when you change your disc jockeys to so lame ass guys who only lasted a few months. After i found they were gone u got me back. Well i am gone forever. I grew up on rock. You had the most decent variety of rock music that I so enjoyed. Your crazy antics in the morning I looked forward to. It made my day to start off my morning with project 961. Honestly I thought my radio was going bad when i couldnt find my guys to listen to. I really wanted to cry. My days are full of stress from the job I do, but project 96.1 made it better. I will miss you guys. Not sure what i will do now for music.
Ethan Henry
August 30th, 2012
10:03 pm
http://www.facebook.com/KeepProject961
Heather
August 30th, 2012
10:04 pm
I WANT PROJECT 961 BACK!!!!!!! There r still plenty that want to hear rock!!!!
Jason
August 30th, 2012
10:10 pm
This really sucks. There is no need for top 40 craps to take over the project. Good luck loosing all the listeners
Roger
August 30th, 2012
10:26 pm
WTF?!! I was pissed when they got rid of 97.1 Jams for the River in 2006 cause that was closest to rap music I listened to in New York but I also enjoy my rock especially when Project 96.1 was the only one I can get up where I live and that’s gone too. Hell keep this up and it will be another reason to leave this pathetic state. Screw Top 40 and Atlanta!!
Andy
August 30th, 2012
10:28 pm
After Project 9-6-1 becoming yet another top 40 station and Dave FM eventually going away, getting subscription to Sirius XM is starting to look like a great idea. Apparently, the people controlling Atlanta radio stations think the rock audience doesn’t have any money so they don’t cather to them.
GeorgiaBoz67
August 30th, 2012
10:37 pm
OMG…..Please tell me that there’s a diff.place that we all can & will listen to the BESTTTTTTTTT radio morning show? KiddChriss will raise again,Hopefully,PLEASE.. .. .. .. d{-_-}b
BUDRYS
August 30th, 2012
10:40 pm
My family lives out of our Ford Sport Trac.School,soccer,docters,work,travel& yard work,the station has ALWAYS been on 96.1! We are a PROJECT FAMILY & DAMNED PROUD OF IT!!!!! The best station has died. I still have an old 96rock tag from the `80’s that now hangs on my son wall.
Nina Reihnhart
August 30th, 2012
11:30 pm
What a bunch of crap.
Thtnigafrnk
August 30th, 2012
11:34 pm
Its all about white girls ages 13 to 28 they control the world if they want more pop they get it because they spend the most money and control all social media and most advertisement is aimed to them, radio is a business…… It sucks but pretty damn factual
db
August 31st, 2012
12:21 am
It’s sad because Atlanta dropped a hip hop station last year in place of talk radio yes 95.5 the beat, guess what it’s back on 96.1. ouldn’t Ryan Seacrest buuy his own radio station in Atlanta so his mom could hear him again oh wait here’s an idea get her xm , call her, write , email let her liten online…….. dang dude you suck. The only good rock station in this hole is gone now thank you clear channel. One of the only monopolies left aloud to opperate. From the 1920’s -1950’s america tried getting rid companies that would buy up all of that product say like the railroads. One person owned them so he could charge whatever he wanted, same is in this case Clear channel owns every freaking radio station in alanta so we have to listen to whatever they want us to or just listen to nothing. I drive for 1 hour both directions to and from work, My drive is alot quieter now, I work listening to the PRoject not anymore. http://WWW.KIDDCHRIS.COM. Clear channel; sucks we cannot boycot them because they don’t listen nor do they care.
The project had 111000 likes on Facebook….. really that says something. over 2000 people commented last nighton the new Power 961 FB cite, what’s funny is the owners of the cite deleted every hate message and when I checked it this morning all comments were gone, so I reposted Now the FB page is gone. NOONE WANTS YOU HERE YOU SUCK!!! USA USA USA USA USA KIDD CHRIS SHOW. This is still America so much for freedom of speech Hip hop crap sucks and there is enough of that junk here like others said star 94, Q100, 99.7.
CLEAR CHANNEL SUCKS I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE WANT THE PROJECT LISTEN TO US.Every other rock station may be gettign bad ratings but I can say that the ratings for The Project were good and people talked about them. Was it the joke about Obama last week??? It was a joke Obama laugh at it, stiff willed Democrats laugh at it don’t get rid of the station because of it it was a joke get over it. lastly.
YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE YOU NOW I LISTEN TO TALK RADIO BECAUSE IT ISN’T OWNED BY YOU. GTH CLEARCHANNEL.
Echo_Underground
August 31st, 2012
12:37 am
I f***ing hate this! This was the only good rock station on the air! and now they play s****y POP MUSIC! And I’m not the only member of the PROJECT FAMILY that is outraged by this stupid f***ing decision to turn and amazing rock station with kidd chris and Jordan silver (as my two personal fav hosts) into a stupid lame dumb a** HIT POP station! WHO THE F*** DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE TAKING SOMETHING THE PEOPLE OF THE PROJECT FAMILY KNOW AND LOVE AWAY FROM US! Answer me this: ” When the F*** are you going to re-air Project 96.1 to it’s rightful place. No “power 961″ is going to keep the attention of hundreds to thousands of rock loving listeners, they’ll just turn off their radios! Like me, as soon as I found out… OOOOooooo, You best bet your a**es I don’t come down there and force you to change it back, because I, and thousands of others, are very VERY PISSED AT EVERYONE IN POWER!
Kyle
August 31st, 2012
1:10 am
Nothing like waking up and getting in your car then going what is this crap. While 9-6-1 was starting to get old with constant five finger death punch and korn at least they played current and decent rock. Half the time I go anywhere 99x doesn’t have signal and 97.1 has gotten old. Keep your pop no one wants another pop station.
metalstaind
August 31st, 2012
1:59 am
theres a good App for android called Radio X with only 3 Channels but its only Metal, Rock and something more comercial i been using it since windows vista as gadget too and i love it, if you have a good signal on your cell try it if you a real Metalhead you”ll love it, any questions ask me on facebook metalstaind@hotmail.com
Liberty
August 31st, 2012
4:48 am
53yrs old, and so thankful for XM !! Got tired of Atlanta music radio and endless commercials decades ago! BRING BACK THE KIMMER!!!!!!!!
AwayBBL
August 31st, 2012
6:45 am
Liberty, I’m with you. SiriusXM has some great channels for rock… old and new, as well as Howard Stern.
The few times I listen to ATL radio, it’s usually Bert show in the morning (mindless chatter), and Mara Davis on Dave-FM mid-days.
Aaron
August 31st, 2012
7:06 am
this was more than a radio station. We all feel and felt a strong connection to to p961. There’s a reason it is called “the project familiy”. Actually it is part of Atlanta CULTURE. Atlanta has been stripped of part of its culture like if the appalacians lost it’s cultural banjo or fiddle.
Did “95.5 the Beat” go down because of Clear Channel too? I didn’t care much about it but if Clear is going to ruin one channel after another than they need to be stopped.
Kid Kris
August 31st, 2012
7:32 am
Cant believe we have another pop station. Why cant we have all diversity of music rather than 50 pop stations. I can promise you that I am going to change my radio settings in my vehicle to get that CRAP off of my system
Joseph sobota
August 31st, 2012
8:15 am
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Joseph sobota
August 31st, 2012
8:16 am
Give back project96.1. Now!!
pjlmarietta
August 31st, 2012
8:18 am
I myself travel through the southeast and this is a very sad but continues to happen city to city, town to town and we have no one to blame but our government for allowing Media Consolidation and making it nearly impossible for individuals to create their own radio broadcast stations and almost as hard to create online radio stations guaranteeing a monopoly shared by only a few corporations. Over the last few years music stations playing Gen X, Soft Rock, Jack Variety, Alternative, and Dance have fallen nationwide to cookie cutter Top 40, Hip Hop, Sports Talk or News Talk stations. The radio now sounds the same all across the south. These stations are cheaper to program and operate. Royalties to artists are not as expensive or nonexistent at all. 96.5-the Mountain in Chattanooga was my favorite playing a great mix of old and new rock, but about a year ago this station fell to “Hits 96” this same Top-40 that everyone is referring to. Dothan, Alabama is served by six Top-40 stations from local areas. It is Top-40, Country, Religious or Talk, no variety. Consolidation is going to kill the radio star. Just like in TV it is time to subscribe to Satellite Radio. Who really loses are the bands who want to get started and the listeners.
aubrnhrdgrl
August 31st, 2012
8:24 am
AS SOON AS I COULD LOAD THE BULLETS INTO MY COLT MUSTANG 45, I SHOT MY RADIO TODAY!
Calling It Like It Is
August 31st, 2012
8:45 am
As much as everyone is complaining, you don’t realize that the petitions, hate mail, Facebook posts, etc. don’t mean squat to Clear Channel. They are a “media and entertainment” company whose job it is to buy up frequencies in markets and hire Program Directors to program the stations. The true management could care less about everyone’s hate mail. The fact that they have gotten you fired up…they have accomplished what they have set out to do. They think they can grab a piece of the pie, because they don’t have a Top 40 presence in Atlanta. And being one of the top station owners in the country, they have to take a shot at the hottest demographic. Unfortunately, for everyone else, they flip formats. Same thing Dave is doing. The listeners are the ones who lose out.
Being as big as they are, they can throw alot of money at promoting or building the brand of the station.
Instead of focusing on the negativity, everyone should focus on either Clear Channel or their competitors (CBS, Lincoln Financial Media, or Cumulus) into creating a strong signaled Rock Station. Create the petition to bring a Rock Station back to Atlanta, instead of bring Project back. The ideal scenario is to bring something new and build that station from the ground up. Don’t reference 96 Rock, Project, Dave, Z93, or any of the old brands. Create a new brand. As far as they are concerned, those old stations are just that…old. They are looking for something that will make them money and presenting them with the 1,000’s of signatures or likes (if it’s a Facebook page), they may be more apt to listen. We need something completely different that 100.5, River, and 99x. I can hear new taglines already “Atlanta’s New Home for Rock”, “Atlanta’s Real Rock Station”. Keep the format different from Rock 100.5, River, and 99x. There can be some overlap, but there needs to be some differentiation, otherwise you are creating a competitor.
Rock is in a cloudy state these days. The lines between Rock, Alternative, and Metal are blurred and need to be clarified. A Rock station needs to be that…Rock.
ExWKLS Employee
August 31st, 2012
9:23 am
If you are looking for rock, here is what SiriusXM offers. I started listening to satellite three years ago, and have never looked back.
Channel 21
Underground Garage
Little Steven’s Garage Rock
23
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead 24/7
24
Radio Margaritaville
Escape to Margaritaville
25
Classic Rewind
’70s & ’80s Classic Rock
26
Classic Vinyl
’60s & ’70s Classic Rock
27
Deep Tracks
Deep Classic Rock
28
The Spectrum
Adult Album Rock
29
Jam_ON
Jam Bands
30
The Loft
Comfortably Eclectic
33
1st Wave
Classic ’80s Alternative
34
Lithium
’90s Alternative/Grunge
35
SIRIUS XM U
Indie Rock
36
Alt Nation
New Alternative Rock
37
Octane
New Hard Rock
38
Boneyard
Classic Hard Rock
40
Liquid Metal
Heavy Metal
41
Faction
Action Sports/Punk/Ska
Engineer
August 31st, 2012
9:47 am
What a shame, I always enjoyed listening to 96.1 as driving in the Atlanta area. Unfortunately, Clear Channel has been doing this region-wide; I don’t think they like anything rock related. Pretty much all the Rock stations in south Georgia are gone (other than a couple classic rock stations and there is rock 103 in Columbus)
Nick
August 31st, 2012
9:55 am
Kidd Chris was a little annoying a lot of the time, but he was at least better than those d-bags on Rock 100.5 in the mornings. I always listened to the Project in the afternoon’s though, even though I would prefer to listen to 99x. Just can’t get 99x unless your right next to the antenna I guess though. Seriously, get a new antenna.
Brent
August 31st, 2012
10:06 am
I want an oldies station at least one that plays the incredible songs from the 70’s . The River is a complete joke as well. CC, Cox, and Cumulus are all disasters that have ruined radio.
MegaMan3938
August 31st, 2012
10:15 am
Another weak Pop station for little teeny boppers to listen to. Screw Seacrest. Time for the Wolf Pack to exact some revenge, hint, hint
Atlanta loses a good rock radio station- Project 9-6-1 - Stormfront
August 31st, 2012
10:41 am
[...] this change but the odds of the station coming back are practically nil. Read some of the comments. Project 9-6-1 becomes Power 96.1, a top 40 station | Radio & TV Talk __________________ One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only [...]
L
August 31st, 2012
10:43 am
This is crazy. So, for alternative music we only have one station – 99x – which is a great station but ever since they booted them off of 99.7 frequency, the signal is so weak you never know when you’ll be able to pick it up! And Dave FM is going to be sports talk???? …. great. I am going to have to do a lot of reprogramming of my presets. Yeah, it’s nice being able to hear the Falcons games on Sundays if I am not able to watch, but beyond that I do not want to hear a bunch of people dissecting sports 24/7/365. If I wanted that I would get ESPN radio. What the heck is going on with radio in Atlanta?!
JK in Acworth
August 31st, 2012
11:00 am
I got a feeling the management group at CBS radio is scrambling to change their mind about this sports talk stuff, or kicking themselves for going that route now that the project is dead. This would have been a perfect oppourtunity for them to revamp their playlist and see a jump in their listenership. Luckily I live far enough northwest to pick up a good southern rock station out of Rome called “The Rebel” on 104.9!!!
bob
August 31st, 2012
12:07 pm
There is a reason more and more people are going over their bandwidth limits on their data plans, Pandora and slacker FTW!!!! Quit cramming music on the public that only kids and blonde bimbos find entertaining, there is a reason new music sales suck, hint: its not because of downloads.
Laura
August 31st, 2012
1:32 pm
Ok.. No one gang up on me.. I think the only “improvement” the Project needed was the absence of KiddChris. Or atleast someone to watch his “tantrums” and disparaging remarks about things happening around town.. or away for that matter. My family fell victim to some of his commentaries and jokes. We were going through a horrible time and this man jokes about it.. I was crushed. Being a member of the underground and an avid fan for YEARS (since the time when it was only nighttime album rock) I felt betrayed. I called the station to talk to the OC.. Chris Williams.. I got a voice mail.. I left the message, in tears, mind you.. and never heard back.. I wont comment on his jokes about what he has said about other tragic events.. HE NEEDED TO GO.. Now all of em are gone…
MadKemist
August 31st, 2012
1:34 pm
Who the heck is 99X?? OH…that’s right. I didn’t listen to them because Project 9-6-1 was better. Good thing I have Pandora. That’ll be all I listen to now…so much for local advertising. I wonder what that will do to Clear’s bottom line once Clear’s fan base plummets and it shows in the polling process?
blochead
August 31st, 2012
2:05 pm
I am 49 years old ,and I listen to 96.1 rock from1974 and did till thay took it off the air .I will not listen to this to the new 96.1 evey again.thank you for you for your time
Dward
August 31st, 2012
2:42 pm
This is a crying shame. That generic garbage from the so called “top 40″ on yet another station. The people responsible are garbage
lurch313
August 31st, 2012
2:46 pm
It’s hard to live loud and play hard when there is nothing to listen.
Nani, Mark & Cameron
August 31st, 2012
3:05 pm
The Project Family wants our station back, hell any frequency will do…..we just want our music & our Family Hosts back.
hannah ochoa
August 31st, 2012
4:34 pm
i want project 961
kenny riffle
August 31st, 2012
4:42 pm
We don’t need another top 40 station. Clear water sucks! Bring back 96.1
Brandi Bernard
August 31st, 2012
4:46 pm
Today’s the day I threw my radio away….screw you Clear Channel Worldwide.
Sam
August 31st, 2012
5:57 pm
Clear Channel can go to hell! Please tell my why adding yet another pop station makes the radio better????? There are already like 3 or 4 stations playing the same crappy music. 96.1 was basically the only one playing rock, and a great one too! They’ve been my favorite station for at least 10 years when I got into rock music. Clear Channel needs to stop appealing to the teeny bopping sluts.
Adriana
August 31st, 2012
6:00 pm
Tired of all this pop crap, I just want my rock music back.
WHITE GUY
August 31st, 2012
6:15 pm
Are you kidding me, I got in my car this morning and i heard some Bubble gum/Pole smoker music.
This is unexceptable to the Rock and Roll Fans whom are not part of the Dirty ATL.
Night at the Roxbury Music….BS
Sjay
August 31st, 2012
7:19 pm
ANOTHER pop station – oh joy. How sad and disappointing
Trudy
August 31st, 2012
7:19 pm
the fight is on
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Project-961/341832772578393
Sebastian
August 31st, 2012
7:33 pm
THE PROJECT WILL NOT DIE! WE WILL FORCE CLEAR CHANNEL BRING IT BACK, AND ON IT’S PROPER BAND 96.1! WE ALREADY HAVE WAY TOO MUCH OF THIS POP CRAP TO STAND FOR THIS, 96.1 HAS BEEN THE PLACE TO GO FOR ROCK FOR 38 YEARS, WE WILL NOT LET THIS “power” SURVIVE!
Sebastian
August 31st, 2012
7:49 pm
this site sucks by the way, my second comment was deleted because I wrote F ) U( C* ki / n /g and instead of telling me to censor it, my message was deleted. It was long as H e ll and I don’t remember half of what I wrote. F KC U you access atlanta!
projct1&only
August 31st, 2012
9:38 pm
BRING THE ROCK BACK!!! I LOVE PROJECT 96.1 !!!!
Live Hard Play Loud
August 31st, 2012
10:09 pm
Hey rockerboy I’m part Nigerian (who’s blacker than Africans), and I can’t stand these stupid, modern raps (except white raps like Limp Bizkit) ; I love bands like Papa Roach, Chevelle, Linkin Park,Sound Garden to name a few. We have TOO many pop stations in Georgia. Now that 96.1 I have no more UNDER THE COVER WITH ALY:( I’ve got two Radio stations left: Dave FM (92.9) and 99x- barely hangin’ on to 99x. I don’t mind a few pop songs but a normal human can’t just listen to that and be happy.
Live Hard Play Loud
August 31st, 2012
10:14 pm
keep living hard and playing loud
Scott M
August 31st, 2012
10:16 pm
Who made that call.PLZ we want our station back …….your staff at project is the best in the buissiness as far as i see.You don’t know or realize what you have done to the ppl in this town.that station is our release for stress.All for your rateing”that aren’t bad”.guess we all should listen to rap or pop rt.that would not be who we are.We are the project w/ the staff.that awsome staff both chri’s ally thomas,dubbs.you are killing a generatio, not at frequency.
James W
August 31st, 2012
10:30 pm
It is obvious the “idiots” at Clear Channel don’t care about these post or what we of the Atlanta area think. If they did they would did a “study” or performed a survey to see if this was a wise move, however, they didn’t. So it is obvious to me and a lot of other people that they don’t really care. Believe me, having dealt with people at CC myself through the company I work for in recent years, I can say “firsthand” that they are truly IDIOTS!!!
Denise
August 31st, 2012
11:20 pm
Atlanta sux i am just going to satellite for the metal I desire. Project 961 was the only station I listened to locally so I am off to satellite. No fun for talk and opinions though…This is the worst decision ever!
tammy
August 31st, 2012
11:55 pm
This sucks…. this was the only good rock station up here and poof it’s gone… just what we need more pop music…. thanks a lot for taking the only good rock station away… you have lost me as a listener
gsutommy
September 1st, 2012
12:19 am
First let me say… Clear channel Sucks!!!!!!! This is the last straw. My radio listening days are finally over!!! Even if they bring back the format to another station, dont they realize that 96.1 has been a rock station since 1974? Ever seen the movie Airheads? The people of clear channel remind me of that total a$$ clown in that movie. Clear channel cannot look past its corporate strategies to see what the people really want. They have ran 96 rock into the ground. I will never listen to radio again!!!
HAAHAA!
September 1st, 2012
12:25 am
Still dont get it eh? Here’s what you do….watch the movie “Equilibrium” like 4 or 5 times, let it really sink in and just except that you all are not going to have what you want. O.K. so then, read about 500 books, or how ever much you can read before you die, Then except the fact that your bodies are going to be absorbed back into the enviroment someday real soon, dont ever vote again, and watch the truth unfold…YOU CAN’T WIN BACK SOMETHING YOU NEVER HAD, PROJECT 961 WAS JUST A PROJECT AND IT DIDN’T WORK. MOVE ON !!! START ANOTHER PROJECT!!!
Cp3
September 1st, 2012
12:36 am
I hope the power 96.1 fails because it sucks a duck. Bring back 96 Rock or project 96.1. I hope the power fails there. I finally had to change the channel the other day when that crap was playing.
Will Worthan
September 1st, 2012
12:46 am
The people that made this change should kick rocks bare footed! We won’t the project back
Will Worthan
September 1st, 2012
12:47 am
I’ve heard nothing but rock on 96.1 for almost 28 years you people suck for stealing that from me
nCNhonky tonk man
September 1st, 2012
4:31 am
Rocker boys dont be ignoramuss puss ,Its certainly not racial. I am a man of color crying about us black against white,stupid. I m pushing for 96rock to return.
Rock Rochester
September 1st, 2012
7:06 am
You sorry SOB’S !!!!! What a sad day for Atlanta. I grew up in Riverdale in the 60’s,70’s and 80’s and I remember the day 96 Rock took the air. What more do you wigger’s want to take from white Atlanta ?
tom hawkins
September 1st, 2012
9:16 am
TO NATHEN DEAL
I’m 44 and Moved here in 1986 after I graduated high school. I have raised a family in the state of Georgia and have five teenagers. Since I have lived here, Atlanta has always had a Rock station to listen too. 96 rock was first, and 99x then it changed to project 96.1 The Family. Clear Channel killed the radio station at 8:00pm Thursday 29th 2012.I listen to all types of music, however I prefer rock. Power 96 with Ryan Seacrest replaced it. MORE POP MUSIC, WOW….Stations we have are already Great.
Please consider bringing in a rock station to Atlanta of some sort,If anything gets passed by you or your staff.
For now I will steam music in Augusta and Columbus Georgia, and wait for the long time Atlanta Dj’s to do something with 99x on line. You had some of the best DJ’s in the business. You would make the community happy, easy feather in your cap . clear channel wasn’t considering city of Atlanta at all with this poor decision.
DeathB4Dishonor
September 1st, 2012
9:54 am
As a long time listener, I am not pleased! And what’s worse, they did it with no warning- I will not be listening to pop, sorry, I like music that requires a little talent, but most of the pop I’ve seen is garbage! See Ya!
Mitt Romney
September 1st, 2012
10:36 am
More proof that I know longer have any say so in the day to day operations at Bain Capital. There’s no way Mitt Romney would have retained that idiot John Hogan as CEO once the sale to Bain went through. John Hogan might have fooled the moronic Mays brothers but he would have been fired quicker than a dying cancer patient by Mitt Romney. I’m sure Power 96.1 will be as successful as all the other losers launched by John Hogan in Atlanta, right up there with MIX, MAX and Lite FM.
J
September 1st, 2012
11:08 am
This is terrible news!
Proud of Project
September 1st, 2012
11:49 am
Kinda makes you wonder who has stake in XM or Sirius radio as I know of a lot of rock fans that will now be converting over… With the death of metal being played on the radio in Atlanta now, how will this affect the FEW metal concerts that still come here?? Sad day indeed.
~Live loud, play hard!!
JASon
September 1st, 2012
11:55 am
“Rock on the other hand has been in a death spiral nationwide.”
This is true only because rock stations have been playing the same 30 songs for twenty years. There is a world of beautiful rock music out there, and the radio has done nothing to introduce us to it.
Lindsay
September 1st, 2012
12:06 pm
My radio permanently turned off when 92.9 played Kid Rock a few weeks ago. MP3s and Spotify for me. WTG corporate radio! It’s too bad, I love listening Mara, Sully and Steve, and they love Atlanta.
no need
September 1st, 2012
12:32 pm
I am very sad of this. Im 49 years old and have thoroughly enjoyed this station. not fair. didnt say it wasnt the right move….but was it? I will so miss the music in this area. this station was the best. right next to pop music. rock will never die. its a part of our everyday history. god bless us all! you will be missed
Jake
September 1st, 2012
1:42 pm
This is terrible! I was a big fan of Project 9-6-1. The new station is godawful. And now 92.9 Dave
FM is going to be gone. There are already 2 sports talk radio stations here. Why do we need another
on FM? Rock 100.5 is pretty lame. They play the same tired classic rock songs into the ground.
carma
September 1st, 2012
2:48 pm
Okay 1) 80’s rock was not rock it was more metal, and they did play 80’s rock just not what you wanted to hear. It’s called call in and request or give them suggestions don’t just write them off. 2) this whole thing is a load of crap. I work everyday where popular music is all we can listen too because of profanity and what have you. If I have to hear Carly Jepson’s “Call me Maybe” on one more station I just might kill myself. This power 96.1 is plastic and fake as can be and I can’t stand it. 3) Your only options are opera, hip-hop, country or pop. I can only take so much of that before I freak out because it just all so generic and repetitive. You know who likes repetition? Infants and small children. We aren’t children we need something less formula based then pop music.
oleblazer
September 1st, 2012
3:59 pm
the hell with all of them. wheres the kimmer when you need him. a good charleton heston impersonation would fix me.but what do you expect from the morons that fired trg.
CRS
September 1st, 2012
4:43 pm
Because 2 crappy pop stations in Atlanta weren’t enough. I hope this station fails miserably. Oh, and Dave going to sports talk is a dick move too. So glad I have my iPod, it’s the only place I can hear creative, talented, original artists.
Brenda Ridley
September 1st, 2012
5:39 pm
Bring Back The Project !!!!!!! Clear Channel You Can’t Stop Us From Loving and Wanting The Project Back !!!!!!!
Dave
September 1st, 2012
5:39 pm
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Dave
September 1st, 2012
5:44 pm
Sorry, clicked the wrong button.
As to the post, I know not of what you speak. Radio is WABE, recently 106.7 (though I don’t like the happy talk between what appears to be the obligatory male and female news readers or the Hollywood/trendy news) and a bit of 680 (having been replaced by 106.7 for the most part).
Music comes from my computers and phone.
MrPyle
September 1st, 2012
7:10 pm
Sad day … Atlanta doesn’t need another hip hop top 40 station. And anyone who thinks we do is obviously an idiot. I for one hope they fail miserably. Too much of one thing, is not a good thing.
Glad I have iHeartRadio to listen too. May even move to satelite radio now. With todays tech, you easily have other options!
Mike Honcho
September 1st, 2012
7:23 pm
With IHeart you can choose WSKZ out of Chattanooga. This station reminds me of the old 96Rock.
Todayswimpymusic
September 1st, 2012
7:29 pm
I remember when my parents would get mad because my music (Led Zep, The Clash, ac/dc) was too loud. Now I hate my kids music is too wimpy. My how times have changed.
Joey
September 1st, 2012
9:57 pm
Neon Trees are the only real artist on that whole list
Shin- shin
September 1st, 2012
10:37 pm
Man, if I wanted to listen to pop I’ll turn to 98.5 for example , when Kidd Chris and his friend talk about BS I don’t care for 6 a.m in the morning when I really just want to hear music(annoys the ass out of me 1 musics like every 2 hours err). Really, there are so much radio channel like Power , why do we need more? err project 9-6-1 is the only reason use my radio in my car and house … I feel depress. I’m listen to the blitz 99.7 on the internet right now but I really don’t want go on the internet every i want to get my music fix.
by the way, rockerboy, wtf you mean by this “JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE BLACK PEOPLE THAN THERE ARE WHITE DONT MEAN YOU GUYS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE OUR MUSIC AWAY.” I’m black and I can’t even stand rap , every time I listen I feel whatever little understanding of the English language I have go down the drain.
Steven
September 2nd, 2012
12:12 am
Very disappointing. I’m not completely anti-Top 40 but we have enough of these stations on the radio. I wasn’t a huge fan of 9-6-1 because Nirvana has been dead for 20 years and there are so many times you can listen to Teen Spirit…but it was nice to have something besides Redneck Rock on 100.5 and the other garbage on the other 3 Top 40’s. 99x was the best but I live 2 miles outside the perimeter and couldn’t pick it up. Atlanta radio sucks.
James
September 2nd, 2012
2:18 am
Project 961 was an amazing rock station, granted their sense of humor was pretty immature, it still played some of the best rock music. And you replace them with POP MUSIC!? Expect this to be my first and last post on this blog because I just lost faith in mankind and I am probably going to kill myself.
Lurch313
September 2nd, 2012
1:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38d99OWMYvw
Lauren
September 2nd, 2012
3:46 pm
Yeah, because we don’t have enough pop stations. For the first time I’m beyond ashamed to live anywhere near Atlanta. Family is still Family though. Live loud, Play hard.
ChrisWilliamsTheStationKiller
September 2nd, 2012
10:12 pm
Beware if Chris Williams becomes the PD for your favorite station. He will surely see it’s demise. He has now successfully killed three radio stations (99X, The Buzz and Project 961). Between him and the Dickey brothers, Atlanta radio doesn’t stand a chance.
Good-bye Clear Channel!
September 3rd, 2012
12:57 am
I would like to thank Clear Channel for killing the last decent radio station in Atlanta (Project 96.1), one that didn’t play the same 15 mind-numbing “pop” songs an hour!
SiriusXM Radio Receiver $79.00, Monthly Subscription $14.49, Preventing my ears from bleeding while simultaneously putting Clear Channel out of business…Priceless!!
Yanet
September 3rd, 2012
10:20 am
Not happppppppyyyyyy:( the project is.. well was my favorite station, pretty much the only one I kept everywhere, I love the music that they played, now what??????????
Bull Donkey
September 3rd, 2012
12:03 pm
This is that BS, I want my rock back.
john
September 3rd, 2012
1:26 pm
Screw all of them. The advertisers have all of the control. I listen to talk radio like, Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity. You’d be surprised what you could learn about our nation from talk radio. If I want to hear music, I pop in a CD.
Project Fan
September 3rd, 2012
4:48 pm
http://www.facebook.com/SaveOurProject
tom
September 3rd, 2012
11:07 pm
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tom
September 3rd, 2012
11:14 pm
This is stupid we don’t need more guys singing that sound like girls we don’t need need more Katy Perry crap or lady gaga we need disturbed metallica five fringed death punch!!!!!!
TheRule
September 4th, 2012
1:02 am
I’d like to add …. BLANK YOU YOU BLANKETY BLANK BLANK BLANKERS!!!
Satellite radio, here I come!
Jonathan
September 4th, 2012
3:26 pm
Great just what we need another F*CKING pop station. Clear Channel you suck. Bring back Project 9.6.1
Former CC Employee
September 4th, 2012
4:25 pm
This is just another cost cutting measure by the heads of Clear Channel. Being $billions in debt, Clear Channel cuts where ever they can. It’s cheaper bringing in a syndicated show such as Ryan Seacrest rather then hiring local talent.
dan deacon
September 4th, 2012
8:46 pm
I’ve been listening to Georgia music artists on The Georgia Music Channel @ http://georgiamusicchannel.com
Sherry
September 4th, 2012
9:52 pm
My listeners increasingly state that they are so tired of the dull-programming of Clear Channel and other big conglomerates. This is why our audience is constantly growing…people want to discover new music, new bands as well as enjoy the best of the major labels stuff – but not a steady diet of any one thing…..variety. Our answer has been to syndicate online shows dedicated to the best independent rock from soft to hard…and let the listeners decide what they like and want more of.
http://www.facebook.com/NewDrivenRadio
Tia Chandler
September 4th, 2012
10:43 pm
Yal messin with the wrong people!!!
You do not mess with a rock n rollers rock n’ roll!!!!! Especially in the south!!! Southeners believe in what they believe in very strongly no matter what it is, and we fight to keep what we want and deserve. We will we will Rock you!!!! We wont stop fightin til we get our Project 9-6-1 back!!!! LIVE LOUD PLAY HARD!!!!!
Chiperroooo
September 5th, 2012
12:45 am
We need more variety in the ATL not less;
Screw the ratings stupid Clear Channel!!!!!!
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Clay
September 5th, 2012
10:44 am
U have to b the stupidest people i know for taking the only REAL rock station in ATL.i will never listen to anouther station of yours
Jay
September 5th, 2012
11:15 am
I remember the old power 99 in the late 80s. Yes it was a top 40 station, but then top 40 was mostly rock. It was like having two rock stations and 99x came along making it better. It was great having alternative on 99x, rock on 96 rock and classic rock on z93! I am going back to satellite radio and pandora.
Donna R
September 5th, 2012
3:24 pm
This Power station is crap. I may be almost 60 yrs old but I want my Project back!!! I wanna rock til I drop…please somebody do something
Joel Norman
September 5th, 2012
5:39 pm
Iiiii hate pop I mean like there r a lot of pop stations and we don’t need more of them we need less
And more rock
I am p#%$%% that y’all arnt on FM radio get back on now
shirley
September 5th, 2012
6:16 pm
that sucks . i love project 96.1 …. who plays music like them now…. this is sad
Old School
September 5th, 2012
9:52 pm
Come get me mother…….