Posted on 06/04/2005 2:42:15 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Rock shock: Nation's No. 1 oldies station changes formats
NEW YORK It's the day the music died.
W-C-B-S F-M in New York, the top oldies station in the nation for more than three decades, stunned its legion of listeners by abruptly switching formats this weekend.
Goodbye, Buddy Holly and the Beach Boys.
Hello, Duran Duran and Jet.
The station had switched to an oldies format in 1972, initially as a bastion for the doo-wop sounds of the '50s. Although the playlist changed over the years, W-C-B-S F-M always remained the outpost for classic Top 40 radio in the nation's largest radio market.
The station's new format is called "Jack," an eclectic mix of hit music from the '70s through the present. The station's owner, Infinity Broadcasting, made the same format shift Friday at its Chicago oldies station, W-J-M-K F-M, where classic Top 40 had aired for the past 21 years.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press.
LOL! Man, you want the Democratic Party to attempt to fix commercial radio?
We pay big bucks...6 figures worth....for the testing. It pays off sorta. Our demo is a professional 25-54 year old woman. Proabbly divorced, possibly on her second marriage. Coupla kidz and at least one pet. Drives Hondas, Toyotas and other toaster cars but would really like a bimmer.
Our cash cow station is WSHH-FM. (we have 3 stations in Pittsburgh, 30+ across the county) WSHH broadcasts to wimmin and we spend tons of cash to figure out what they want.
Right now i'st Eagles , Eagles , Eagles....sigh.
We're always running around 5 in share. Usually around 5th in ranking... sometimes up to 4th... sometimes down as low as 8th. In the long run we prove we can >reliably< deliver the pantyhose demo and buyers shell out for that.
But DANG...Do I MISS the OLD DAYS and REAL RADIO!!
BTW since I'm old and like 50's music I can really get into DooWop, Beach and early R&R. Right now I'm on a Tiki Lounge kick to the EXTREME of remodeling my attic into a bachelor pad/tiki lounge setting complete with thatched roof and bamboo/rattan furniture. Only gals like Sandy Warner in a sarong or bikini will be allowed and the musical wallpaper will be all be Martin Denny Exotica or Space Age Pop stuff. Check out the Retro Cocktail Hour on KANU Kansas Public radio and the net - netcasting. You'll have to Google, I'm too tired to find the link.
prisoner6
Disco is good? No wonder the country is so screwed up right now.
Oh, by the way, terrestial radio is dead, long live satellite and Howard Stern rules.
"I like Jet. Buddy Holly-no way."
Go for Buddy. Jet sucks garbage juice.
Your turn.
...the musical wallpaper will be all be Martin Denny Exotica or Space Age Pop stuff
Very nice!!!
I think "Rock Around the Clock" by Hal Singer (1950) is a great tune.
My favorite radio station for rock and roll music is XESUR, a border blaster out of Rosarita Beach, BCN, at 540 kilocycles on the AM dial. This station has a rich repertoire of music that includes not only hits, but obscurities as "Wicked Ruby," by Tony Zella (1958), an up-tempo rocker by an obscure Detroit artist that I had never heard before. Its signal can be heard throughout much of Southern California.
If you want to hear some real radio, surf over to http://www.reelradio.com.
An even more bizarre format change was for the Bethesda, MD WHFS going from Alternative/Album Rock for 35 years to a Spanish only station without any previous announcement. People turned on their radios and thought the tuner was broken.
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NO, disco is bad.
I listened to "Jack 101" for a while this morning. Not as bad as I thought, but I'd rather hace the old format.
Here's a good web site for finding radio stations in your area. You can listen to many of them on line.
http://www.radio-locator.com/
Most people in their 50's that I know of; the women and some men listen to a format called "Adult Alternative" which spans 4 decades, and men usually listen to music they grew up with in high school. My father, in his 50's, listens to just about anything except heavy metal, rap, and some of the alternative rock. The older they get, the audience tends to listen to a combination of talk radio, big band, and classic country.
You're almost dead, right?
:-)
It was inevitable. There is a "Jack FM" in just about every market in the Top 10 markets of the country.
"You're almost dead"
I will be if I have to listen to crappy music.
Just be lucky you don't have to sit and listen to weather reports every 20 minutes an hour, and livestock reports 2 times an hour, and hay bailin' country music in the interim. Not me, I listen to talk radio via the internet, and when I'm not in the mood for talk radio, I listen to my voluminous music library on my computer network.
HAHAHAHAHAA...IM COMIN OVER TO HANG! HAHAHA
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