Posted on 06/08/2005 6:49:08 AM PDT by Mike Bates
All we have here is damned oldies stations. That or country < shudder >.
Rouse & Co were due to be booted years ago.
Oldies Bump
"When big corporations have bad news to announce, they often hold off until as late as possible on a Friday afternoon."
Guess we know this idology. Releasing bad news late at night or even surpressing bad news is all the government does.
Businesses are required to report good or bad news at specific dates and times - that, btw is why the stock market goes up and down.
My earliest musical memories are of listening to Ron Riley and Art Roberts (RIP) - often late into the night with a transistor radio under my pillow.
However, I've never fallen into the rut of listening to the oldies stations with their constant rehashing of the same old warhorses. It's been an ongoing mission of mine since the '70's to find good new music on non radio sources, and believe me, I've found plenty.
Even worse. WXKS "Music of your Life" which played Big Band Era music became Air America.
Even worse. WXKS "Music of your Life" which played Big Band Era music became Air America.
There seemed to be a lot of promise, but ultimately, like all radio, they failed to deliver. My musical tastes span all genres from bluegrass to classical, to modern metal. I wish I could find a radio station similarly broad. I don't even mind so much listening to music I don't particularly care for if I know that I'll most likely have some affinity for the next tune if I hang in there.
Methinks there is a marketing opportunity out there.
To those lamenting the conversion to JackFM of the stations mentioned, be glad you didn't have to endure the conversion of 101 KLOL in Houston from one of the best hard rock stations in the nation to a mexican/salsa station this year.
Methinks infinity made a bad call on this one.
"new coke"
You have nailed it right there. Ratings are not as important as demographics.
While it seems unfair, I have to think that the advertisers know what they want an they are the customers when it comes to radio.
I'm 42 years old and I love the new Jack station. Finally, I have a station that actually plays music I like during the AM and PM commutes. No stupid DJs and their idiotic banter, no useless traffic reports.
Sorry to all you fans of "really" oldies radio (lke I said, I'm 42 and CBS played music that was too old even for me).
I'm 42 years old and I love the new Jack station. Finally, I have a station that actually plays music I like during the AM and PM commutes. No stupid DJs and their idiotic banter, no useless traffic reports.
Sorry to all you fans of "really" oldies radio (lke I said, I'm 42 and CBS played music that was too old even for me).
It is a shame. The era of "top 40" style 60's and 70's radio indeed seems over.
If CBS FM gets higher advertising rates, then good for them. I won't be listening. It seems to have switched to a format already done better by other stations.
I'd tell the locals to listen to New Jersey 101.5 on weekends for a similar sound.
Also entertaining is http://musicradio.computer.net/ , a site which recalls the glory days when WABC 77 was the number one top 40 station, before it whitched and became the number one talk station.
Oh well.
I won't mourn. If it was that dear to me, I would put together a business plan to start my own oldies station.
The first step would be to buy up all of the oldies infinity is no longer using.
The biggest complaint I have about these oldies stations is that they have these top 500 polls and they always seem to be the same 500 songs they have been rotating ad infinitum.
Wish I could tune him in; I listened to Dick Biondi, Wolfman, Emperor Hudson and others in the 60s on KRLA in Los Angeles and still have great memories of late-night tunes on a tube radio as a kid.
With the demise of WCBS-FM in NY, I have no reason to leave the all-news AM stations....
Better still - get an iPod or other MP3 device and listen to what you want, when you want.
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