What are your favorite Classic Rock Stations in North America? For Me it would Be a time betweeen WMGK and KSHE in St.louis
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Favorite Classic Rock Station
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That's like asking "What's your favourite McDonald's". Almost every Classic Rock station plays the same shopworn 250 songs on endless repeat. Most of the jocks on these stations have to try really hard to feign enthusiasm. Of course, some of the "Morning Zoo" shows don't play music. They just bloviate while saying nothing worthwhile...
The libraries for classic rock tend to be in the 500 song vicinity, not including specialty shows.
The reason that playlists are so similar is that Boston is not in a different country from Philly... nor is Dallas or Fargo or LA. So the songs that were hits in one were, in 99% of all cases, hits in another.
And those classic rock morning shows are definitely lifestyle focused. They talk in the way friends would talk when they are together in many cases, and they throw in some interesting stuff that relates to the lifestyle. That is the formula for most morning shows... except for occasional artist interviews or insider stuff. In many cases, the biggest complement a guy could give a male morning show host would be "I'd love to have a beer with him!"
It’s almost like listeners want to hear their favorite songs. And almost like radio stations need to bring in listeners to sell to advertisers. Remarkable.
For the longest while here in PA, my second-ever favourite (ever) has been Eagle 107.
They're essentially a Sunbury PA station, 107.3, right across the Susquehanna in Northumberland.
I honestly haven't tuned them in in a while, but their leisure specialty was 'Rock Block Weekends'. They would play3- and 4-in-a-row by the same act and then go on to the next act.
AoR-era The Guess Who .... The Hooters .... Ed Zeppelin .... Fleetwood Mac .... Stones .... and would you believe four in a row by Bill Withers one time I heard 'em ?
The wife here and HER Mom enjoyed Eagle 107, and so did I.
The favourite Classic Rock station ? Blush.
And as ever: leave it to the gals. I insist that their listenership and predilection for softer rock cuts helped turn AoR into the dual-gender marvel it'd become in the mid-Seventies.
It was 1979 when this gal I was seeing suggested that she liked the local-signal WPLR and WDRC-FM stuff she'd enjoyed from Connecticut stations. Back maybe in 1972 or 1973.
So I took her premise to the PD at our AoR station and proposed a Saturday night air shift of 'The Best of Rock' -- playing only past AoR and Progressive stuff. The PD jumped at the idea..
Might've been the first Classic Rock station. That was in mid-1979.
They're essentially a Sunbury PA station, 107.3, right across the Susquehanna in Northumberland.
I honestly haven't tuned them in in a while, but their leisure specialty was 'Rock Block Weekends'. They would play3- and 4-in-a-row by the same act and then go on to the next act.
AoR-era The Guess Who .... The Hooters .... Ed Zeppelin .... Fleetwood Mac .... Stones .... and would you believe four in a row by Bill Withers one time I heard 'em ?
The wife here and HER Mom enjoyed Eagle 107, and so did I.
The favourite Classic Rock station ? Blush.
And as ever: leave it to the gals. I insist that their listenership and predilection for softer rock cuts helped turn AoR into the dual-gender marvel it'd become in the mid-Seventies.
It was 1979 when this gal I was seeing suggested that she liked the local-signal WPLR and WDRC-FM stuff she'd enjoyed from Connecticut stations. Back maybe in 1972 or 1973.
So I took her premise to the PD at our AoR station and proposed a Saturday night air shift of 'The Best of Rock' -- playing only past AoR and Progressive stuff. The PD jumped at the idea..
Might've been the first Classic Rock station. That was in mid-1979.
If I were to list the top 5 classic rock stations of past and present..... it would go something like this.
1) 107.7 The Lake WLKK (Buffalo)
2) 97.9 The Zoo KZEW (Dallas)
3) 97.9 WXVE (Pittsburgh)
4) 95.9 WVOS (Liberty, NY)
5) 104.3 WAXQ (NYC)
1) 107.7 The Lake WLKK (Buffalo)
2) 97.9 The Zoo KZEW (Dallas)
3) 97.9 WXVE (Pittsburgh)
4) 95.9 WVOS (Liberty, NY)
5) 104.3 WAXQ (NYC)
I've been enjoying KKSD from Watertown SD
For me former is the name of the game.
"Jacksonville's Rock 105" 104.5 WFYV/Atlantic Beach FL "Classic Rock that really rocks!"
94 WYSP!
Both as their "The Classic Rock Station" incarnation and "The Rock You Grew UP with" incarnation.
TO me, WMGK and WAXQ leaned on the softer end of classic rock.
Rock 105 and WYSP (especially in the last incarnation) rocked harder.
I like to rock it with a harder edge, too. gold-based Active Rock.
"Jacksonville's Rock 105" 104.5 WFYV/Atlantic Beach FL "Classic Rock that really rocks!"
94 WYSP!
Both as their "The Classic Rock Station" incarnation and "The Rock You Grew UP with" incarnation.
TO me, WMGK and WAXQ leaned on the softer end of classic rock.
Rock 105 and WYSP (especially in the last incarnation) rocked harder.
I like to rock it with a harder edge, too. gold-based Active Rock.
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