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[Retro]

Does anyone know what the target audience is for the station. While the station overall sounds solid, it is somewhat to throw in a 70's song that I do not enjoy.

Also, what effect if any is the station to Back To The 80's on .Magic?

 

[jlehmann]

Any affect on Magic’s 80s show means nothing to Beasley now, as Magic is now owned by Entercom.

 

[Retro]

But it might mean something to Enercom though.

 

[ssetta]

What about Easy 99.1? Will it have any effect on their listenership?

 

[nowradioguy]

Really, what is this "format change" for WROR all about? From my sampling, the station sounds the same to me: the same boring hits from the 70s and 80s. I didn't hear much difference. Did I miss it?

 

[Eli Polonsky]

Really, what is this "format change" for WROR all about? From my sampling, the station sounds the same to me: the same boring hits from the 70s and 80s. I didn't hear much difference. Did I miss it?

Not a big change, but they added more '80s pop/dance hits that they didn't play before (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, etc...) as it was almost exclusively rock hits before, and they got rid of practically all the '60s songs they were still playing (Beatles, '60s Stones, etc...).

 

[Eli Polonsky]

What about Easy 99.1? Will it have any effect on their listenership?

Probably minimal at most. 99.1 is more focused on south of Boston, and their music and delivery is "softer".

 

[raccoonradio]

While it may be seen as boring it makes money--stations with narrow playlists, same stuff for years, they appeal to listeners who crave the comfort food of the familiar. Background music. Stuff at work.

As a liner on Oldies 103 put it, "You know all the songs..." College/non comm stations etc can offer variety.I've played local bands, new blues, and things like the Beatles Esher demos, the Queen raw sessions, "lesser known original versions" and so on.We (WMWM) have doo wop, long interviews and live performances....we ain't iHeart's WZLX or Beasley's WROR.

Certainly not in the power output...

 

[CTListener]

While it may be seen as boring it makes money--stations with narrow playlists, same stuff for years, they appeal to listeners who crave the comfort food of the familiar. Background music. Stuff at work.

As a liner on Oldies 103 put it, "You know all the songs..."

I remember hearing a station that used the slogan "Songs you know by artists you love." This would imply a further tightening of the playlist to eliminate all but the superstars of pop, but no, the lesser-known acts that had one or two big hits also got played. Again, all about getting in the comfort zone of the average, non-radio-geek, non-variety-obsessed listener.

 

[Retro]

Not a big change, but they added more '80s pop/dance hits that they didn't play before (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, etc...) as it was almost exclusively rock hits before, and they got rid of practically all the '60s songs they were still playing (Beatles, '60s Stones, etc...).

They seem to be playing 2-3 80's songs to every 70's song.

 

[Retro]

Their music sounds much more contemporary rock/pop, playing everything from Rupert Holmes to Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Modern English, to everyone inbween. They are just played Aerosmith's Angel.

Now it's Go Your Own Way-Fleetwood Mac. *yawn*

 

[Retro]

Now they are playing Centerfield by John Fogerty.

 

[nowradioguy]

Not a big change, but they added more '80s pop/dance hits that they didn't play before (Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, etc...) as it was almost exclusively rock hits before, and they got rid of practically all the '60s songs they were still playing (Beatles, '60s Stones, etc...).

I liked 'ROR if for nothing else but "The Loren and Wally Morning Show", especially when Tom Doyle and Sue Cope were on the show. I stopped listening when Doyle left and the format was tightened up to allow more music, less on-air antics and humor. I'm sorry Wally left, too.

As for the rest of the day and the weekends: super boring w/o live personalities, since then the too-tight playlist was extremely noticeable.

Even though Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel has no live on-air presence, at least Scott keeps to the music of the 60s and 70s, and only on a (thankfully) rare occasion slips in an 80s tune.

 

[CTListener]

I liked 'ROR if for nothing else but "The Loren and Wally Morning Show", especially when Tom Doyle and Sue Cope were on the show. I stopped listening when Doyle left and the format was tightened up to allow more music, less on-air antics and humor. I'm sorry Wally left, too.

As for the rest of the day and the weekends: super boring w/o live personalities, since then the too-tight playlist was extremely noticeable.

Even though Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel has no live on-air presence, at least Scott keeps to the music of the 60s and 70s, and only on a (thankfully) rare occasion slips in an 80s tune.

True Oldies is playing '80s now? I listen to it on the 96.3/106.7 combo in the NH/VT Upper Valley when I'm up there every few weeks, and I hear only '60s, '70s and the occasional '50s flashback except on Sunday morning when Shannon does a show that features top hits from a certain year; that show sometimes has '80s music in it. Is that the '80s music you refer to or do you hear it in regular programming?

 

[nowradioguy]

True Oldies is playing '80s now? I listen to it on the 96.3/106.7 combo in the NH/VT Upper Valley when I'm up there every few weeks, and I hear only '60s, '70s and the occasional '50s flashback except on Sunday morning when Shannon does a show that features top hits from a certain year; that show sometimes has '80s music in it. Is that the '80s music you refer to or do you hear it in regular programming?

I'm sure I hear an occasional rare 80s tune on TOC, and I like it that way (rare, that is). What I'm saying is I prefer my "oldies" stations to keep on playing the 60s, 70s, a few tunes from the 50s, and even smaller number from the 80s. Once too many 80s tunes are allowed, it seems the 50s (for sure) and the 60s (with very high probability) disappear.

As for Scott's Sunday morning show with 80s music: that's from WCBS-FM, is it not? I used to listen to it on radio.com because it was in the style of Casey Kasem's AT40, and I'm sure it's pure coincidence that Shannon just happens to sound a bit like Casey. But I found after a very short while that I could not listen to it because there were too many 80s hits either (a) that I had never heard of, or worse, (b) that I had heard and wanted to forget.