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Changes at WW1 Adult Standards

Here in Ocala, FL Gold99 FM is still using the bridges as well. I emailed the station and the person who replied asked that I should be patient and that they would be going live and local. I wonder how many other ABM affliates are looking at alternatives. I am sure that an automated jukebox is not what the affliates had in mind.

Obviously, I don't know the details of the severance package but the former ABM DJ's could probably make a mint voice tracking for afflicates.
 
I haven't asked my affiliate but the one thing I hope they don't do is hire people who have been doing on-air shifts, mostly the morning show but sometimes before sports events too. If you want to know what they play, go to the thread "Musical selections that seem out of character" and see if you'd want to hear what they play.

And if any of you experience something similar when your station goes local, be sure and post on that thread.

So far, at least the music sounds great and there are lots of standards.
 
JeffM said:
The automation at the local "America's Best Music" affiliate is still using bridges with the former DJS asking you to stay tuned.
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You're lucky. Most of my station IDs go back to ABC Unforgettable Favorites. The guy is almost like an old friend now.
 
I've heard some ABM promos on an affiliate recently that were still using Bud Buschardt liners. How long has he been gone?
 
Les Talk said:
I've heard some ABM promos on an affiliate recently that were still using Bud Buschardt liners. How long has he been gone?
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I think he left when they changed to Timeless Favorites, which was nine years ago.

I don't know what this means, but normally it works like this:

"I'm Cheri Preston, ABC News."

Then a commercial, then the weather forecast, then maybe another commercial.

Yesterday the song started immediately. Furthermore, the man people listening to my station have heard doing IDs a million times talked over the beginning of the next song.

Now this morning it was normal. The last song before the news ended at just the right time. Then, "Doug Limerick, ABC News." Then a commercial, then the weather, then another commercial, then the guy we've heard a million times, then the song.

Some of what the girl with the nice voice has said (the quotes may not be exact):

"Sometimes you need comfort food."

"Loud does not necessarily mean good."

One time she listed artists including "The Chairman of the Board" and "The Divine Miss M."

At the same time, she's no substitute for DJs, and of course she's always followed by our old friend.
 
The nice female voice was accompanied over the weekend by sound effects and a few words from Elton John's "Your Song".

About 30 minutes after I got home from my walk this morning, Neil Diamond started having problems and then the music stopped entirely. So I don't know much about what has been added today, if anything. They ran some commercials and then finally "Sweet Home Alabama" was played. Seriously? What could the person have been THINKING? I just turned it off because there were more and more commercials and then another strange song.
 
I'm just guessing here, but when the Neil Diamond song was having trouble, I would suspect there was some failure of the feed they carry. They tossed in some spots hoping to rejoin and when that was not possible grabbed the first CD they could find and hit play, then going to spots again and more music because they could not rejoin the satellite feed. I worked a satellite delivered station in the 1990s that had maybe 50-60 songs in the studio and when our feed went down, we'd make a mad dash to the studio and get anything on the air because it was better than silence. Then again, that's not the case when you toss on Sweet Home Alabama. Most stations now have at least a slender library of songs played on the format for morning shows and incidents like what I suspect might have happened.
 
b-turner said:
I'm just guessing here, but when the Neil Diamond song was having trouble, I would suspect there was some failure of the feed they carry. They tossed in some spots hoping to rejoin and when that was not possible grabbed the first CD they could find and hit play, then going to spots again and more music because they could not rejoin the satellite feed. I worked a satellite delivered station in the 1990s that had maybe 50-60 songs in the studio and when our feed went down, we'd make a mad dash to the studio and get anything on the air because it was better than silence. Then again, that's not the case when you toss on Sweet Home Alabama. Most stations now have at least a slender library of songs played on the format for morning shows and incidents like what I suspect might have happened.
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This has happened more than once but at least they were closer to what they're supposed to play when it did.
 
I really need to be in the room when I want to hear exact words. The other clock radio came on and all is well again.

The female voice said "First ... last." What came in between I would have hear if I had been in the room. Maybe "First with the songs that last."
 
vchimpanzee said:
I really need to be in the room when I want to hear exact words. The other clock radio came on and all is well again.

The female voice said "First ... last." What came in between I would have hear if I had been in the room. Maybe "First with the songs that last."
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Maybe she said "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by James Last". :)
 
semoochie said:
Maybe she said "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by James Last". :)
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No, they don't play James Last.

I did, however, hear Nat Cole next to "Like Young". That's encouraging. I was going to say I hadn't heard any music that was truly bad. Then I heard "Spooky" by Classics IV, which I can't make sense of other than the fact the same group has done the much better "Traces" and the borderline "Stormy".

Earlier this week I also heard Nat Cole, but the other song between two commercial breaks was "Eye in the Sky". This is why the federal government is requiring PTC to be operating by the end of the year, but railroads say it can't be done until 2020.

Later in the hour, my station didn't take a commercial break and between that break, when Andy Williams sang "Where Do I Begin?", and the news and the top of the hour, I heard three complete songs. Why "Last Date" wasn't the last I don't understand, because unless they timed it perfectly it sounds better with an instrumental to interrupt the song to go to news.
 
I see (hear) that Gold99 has gone local, ditching Westwood One. The music seems to be a good mix, about two-thirds what was played on America's Best Music, and then some nice complementary additions. Does veer a bit wildly between say, 1984 and 1944 at times, but, still I bet the local audience will appreciate it. No jocks, though.
 
semoochie said:
"when Andy Williams sang "Where Do I Begin?"," Did you mean The Theme from "Love Story"?
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Is that not the title?

I really hope they don't lose a lot of affiliates who want jocks. I'd rather have the music. It bothers me to be without jocks but the musi is the best it has been in several years.
 
When I contacted the station via its' Facebook page, the stated that the station was going live and local. I assume that this is the first step of the process. Gold99 is a local station for me and I enjoy it.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Is that not the title?

I really hope they don't lose a lot of affiliates who want jocks. I'd rather have the music. It bothers me to be without jocks but the musi is the best it has been in several years.
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Apparently, that is part of the title, at least the Andy Williams version, a fact I was unaware of until I went to YouTube for an example. "I had always heard it called "The Theme from Love Story". Here's the original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSc4hBdCd0
 
The female voice says "Standing on the shoulders of giants". Then, with some kind of sound effect, so far, a few words of "Your Song" in some cases and "Georgia on My Mind" in others. There may be more of these.

The more AC or oldies-sounding songs are showing back up but there are still more standards than there have been in a long time. This morning I heard "Love Grows".

I have an opportunity sometime in the next few weeks to hear WIOZ Pinehurst NC. I can't remember whether Jeff did station IDs, but if he did, he may still be there. Then again, we don't know whether the music will still be there. They did Music of Your Life as long as Jones had it.
 
Three Bond themes in two days. And that's just when I was listening. "Skyfall" yesterday, and "Goldfinger" today, with "For Your Eyes Only" in an optional commercial break a few minutes later.

I'm not saying this means anything at all.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Three Bond themes in two days. And that's just when I was listening. "Skyfall" yesterday, and "Goldfinger" today, with "For Your Eyes Only" in an optional commercial break a few minutes later.

I'm not saying this means anything at all.
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Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me) and From Russia With Love are also in the mix.
 
vchimpanzee said:
The female voice says "Standing on the shoulders of giants". Then, with some kind of sound effect, so far, a few words of "Your Song" in some cases and "Georgia on My Mind" in others. There may be more of these.

The more AC or oldies-sounding songs are showing back up but there are still more standards than there have been in a long time. This morning I heard "Love Grows".

I have an opportunity sometime in the next few weeks to hear WIOZ Pinehurst NC. I can't remember whether Jeff did station IDs, but if he did, he may still be there. Then again, we don't know whether the music will still be there. They did Music of Your Life as long as Jones had it.
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WIOZ's website bills the station as "America's Best Music." That would seem to indicate they're (still) with WW1.
 
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