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oldies & classic rock
- Thread starter BigJimmy
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Except for a few oddities like ultra-fringe-metro WLNG and KWRP in Pueblo, there are essentially no oldies stations left in rated markets.
I think Classic Rock will add alternative tracks and after the 70s are gone, eventually become Classic Alternative.
I beg to differ!!!!!
Are you both discounting Scott Shannon's TRUE OLDIES CHANNEL? It's survived a +1 year absence in the Atlanta market and is seemingly coming back as strong as ever. Perhaps as a curiosity, its playlist will survive for decades to come. Look at "Music of Your Life," still going strong both OTA and on-line. Why would Sirius/XM have a "Sinatra Only" channel? Don't write off that genre simply because there are no new performers of it. Re-think your seemingly concrete positions. Am interested in continuing this dialogue.
Are you both discounting Scott Shannon's TRUE OLDIES CHANNEL? It's survived a +1 year absence in the Atlanta market and is seemingly coming back as strong as ever. Perhaps as a curiosity, its playlist will survive for decades to come. Look at "Music of Your Life," still going strong both OTA and on-line. Why would Sirius/XM have a "Sinatra Only" channel? Don't write off that genre simply because there are no new performers of it. Re-think your seemingly concrete positions. Am interested in continuing this dialogue.
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Define "oldies". Would Scott Shannon or Westwoods Americas Best Music qualify?
…because he seems to have a much deeper playlist, "one-hit wonders," and second and third hits from performers that get overlooked. Plus he formats the channel like a Top 40 station of the mid-60's.
What station is it on "the second time around"? On what do you base "coming back as strong as ever?
If you are talking about Cox' The River, that is hardly an oldies format. It is classic hits, and a fairly aggressive one.
No, not so. Every year about 5% of the library will disappear, and a new set of songs, mostly newer, will be added to keep the demo target constant. In 10 or 15 years, none of today0s songs will be played.
Going strong? No it's not. Most of the potential listeners are in assisted living facilities or dead.
Because they have enough channels to do these very niche programs and formats The satellite model is based on subscribers, so they can do many things that commercial radio can not do.
50's and 60s songs are not the base for commercial radio in all but tiny market any more. There is no revenue for those stations.
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One more time - definition of "oldies". This definition is different to each person, mainly due to age. An all 50s and 60s format?
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