They did tweak the music today, breaking from the Rock 101 Vancouver playlist they'd been running, adding some older 'alternative' tracks from Killers, Blink 182, Green Day, etc. 

The Alan Cross stuff sounds great, but they're mostly running really short, heavily filtered versions - and I'd wonder if the average listener would even notice it's him. He works best when he's explaining stuff. 

Storm wrote:

They are now positioning themselves as "Toronto's Rock Station"

That's similar to what they tried about four years ago, although not with great success. Probably because their playlist became 90's intensive practically overnight. This time around it sounds like they've got the mix down better. Hopefully it works. It's good to hear Q107 rocking again.

PJ  


 

I really like Q107 and sometimes choose it over Boom.  I dont know why people have so much hate over the Q playlist.  The Edge on the other hand is nothing but commercials and their paltry playlist of 2013 and 90s

There is an interesting article written by Brian Cook on the Puget Sound Radio board regarding Corus and recent and future changes in on air staff.

https://www.pugetsoundradio.com/2018/09/23/my-take-on-the-changes-at-corus/

Storm wrote:

There is an interesting article written by Brian Cook on the Puget Sound Radio board regarding Corus and recent and future changes in on air staff.

https://www.pugetsoundradio.com/2018/09/23/my-take-on-the-changes-at-corus/

 
I don't really think he is wrong. Looking at other posts he has made it seems he has a fairly good track record with things. Based on the latest trends Corus is making I think he could be on to something in terms of the rock stations Corus owns but it makes me wonder why no mention of The Wolf in Peterborough. I know they are pretty damn good so maybe he felt he didn't need to include them in his post.

Aside from the "voice", Q in some ways seems to have pushed reset back about four years. At that time the playlist balance was a very healthy dose of classic rock with 90's and a sprinkling of tunes from the first decade of this century, much like it is now. At that time the slogan was also "Toronto's Rock Station" which soon after was shortened to "Toronto's Rock", followed by "Great hits and real classics" and finally the most meaningless identifier of them all - "The best music on earth". Talk about an image crisis - four sell lines in as many years. 
It seems now the the go head-to-head with BOOM experiment from the past two plus years is over and hopefully spells the end of hearing tracks such as "Jessie's Girl" which at one time would have been unthinkable to play on Q. Still, as Alan Cross outlines, with EDGE in the same stable, they will continue to avoid treading too far into the 2000's to minimize overlap.    
It's somewhat interesting they're adopting this slogan while 94.9 in Oshawa has been calling itself the "GTA's Rock Station" for some time in their continual quest to gain a foothold in the big smoke. 

kman wrote:

They seem to be moving Edge music over to Q, I noticed Q now plays The Black Keys, Coldplay, Jet, Sam Roberts, The Killers, The Arkells, The Trews, Radiohead, The Headstones, Sloan, The Black Keys, Green Day, etc. Might a format flip be coming to The Edge?, maybe the big idea is to move Edge listeners over to Q after all Fred and Alan are definitive Edge personalities, so with them transitioning to Q and modern rock moving to Q it might just be in the works.

You may have a point in terms of the personality moves but I have checked their playlist a few times since your post and maybe not so much in that respect. They have tweaked their playlist a bit but have a look at part of the playlist from today:

• THE TRAGICALLY HIPWHEAT KINGSGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:50PMAEROSMITHCRAZYGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:44PMHEARTCRAZY ON YOUGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:34PMALANIS MORISSETTEIRONICGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:27PMT. REXBANG A GONG (GET IT ON)GET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:22PMINXSDEVIL INSIDEGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:16PMGREEN DAYBOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMSGET IT ON ITUNES
• 05:05PMCROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNGAMERICAN DREAM COME TOGETHERGET IT ON ITUNES06:26PMFOREIGNERFEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME [LIVE]GET IT ON ITUNES06:22PMTHE GUESS WHOSHARE THE LANDGET IT ON ITUNES06:17PMU2SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAYGET IT ON ITUNES06:06PMNICK GILDERHOT CHILD IN THE CITYGET IT ON ITUNES05:59PMOZZY OSBOURNECRAZY TRAIN