Well put together station playing music for mostly baby boomers. While ROR is more classic rock than the old WODS ("the greatest hits") was,
the format change of WODS in '12 had to help. Background music (commute or at work) people are familiar with.
Ratings be damned, I find 'ROR quite unlistenable.
Its best feature was the interplay among Loren, Wally, Tom Doyle, Hank Morse, and Sue Cope. Two-fifths of that team is gone. For all you who didn't give a crap, Tom was a very funny guy. I cracked up several times driving to work listening to this cast of characters.
The playlist is too small and repeats almost every day, and management does not like listener feedback about the content (translation: they can easily justify every move they make by telling me "other listeners" like it).
I used to like Paul Perry when he was the AMD host on the now defunct 103.3 WODS ("That's right, I said it!" They're dead to me.). But when he's on weekends on 'ROR he's into heavy album tracks. As you put it, more classic rock than classic hits. If I want the former, there's 'ZLZ. If I want (the WODS version of) the latter, I'm SOL.
It's getting to the point where iHateRadio.