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Let's watch everyone lose their minds. KRTH is playing...

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Logically this would make sense. The song is eight years old. In 1982 KRTH would occasionally do a seventies weekend playing music that was between two and twelve years old so an eight year old song shouldn't be an anomaly.
 
It is an interesting world where Audacy's Classic Hits station is playing "Uptown Funk" from Mick Ronson and Bruno Mars, hitting #1 in 2015.

Meanwhile Audacy's Rhythmic AC station, KTWV, plays "Sweet Seasons" from Carole King from 1972.
 
I thought KRTH has brought back jingles for a second. Maybe I didn’t listen long enough but I only heard one of what could be considered a jingle.
 
I think it sounds great, but do they really pronounce BMO Stadium in LA as B.M.O.?! It’s supposed to be pronounced B-Mo, as in Bank of Montreal. Used to work in the Rockford, IL market and they have the BMO Harris Bank Center, pronounced B-Mo. 🙂👍🏼
 
chriscervantez said:
I think it sounds great, but do they really pronounce BMO Stadium in LA as B.M.O.?! It’s supposed to be pronounced B-Mo, as in Bank of Montreal. Used to work in the Rockford, IL market and they have the BMO Harris Bank Center, pronounced B-Mo. 🙂👍🏼
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The name change for the stadium was two months ago and BMO has only had branches in L.A. for three years. If there hasn't been a massive ad campaign, I'd bet most of L.A. doesn't know any better, but I'd hope BMO's ad agency was on the phone to KRTH Monday morning to get that re-cut.
 
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Listener shouts? You mean, "Oh my God, what in the hell are you playing KRTH!?"
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"Oh my God, what in the hell are you playing KRTH!?"

"Don't you know what this will do to your ratings?"

"I mean, look----you're #2 in Los Angeles. A tenth of a point out of first place! The second-highest cume in the market---only 36,900 weekly listeners behind #1."

"Keep this up and you're likely to-----um----be number one?"
 
michael hagerty said:
"Oh my God, what in the hell are you playing KRTH!?"

"Don't you know what this will do to your ratings?"

"I mean, look----you're #2 in Los Angeles. A tenth of a point out of first place! The second-highest cume in the market---only 36,900 weekly listeners behind #1."

"Keep this up and you're likely to-----um----be number one?"
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"Don't get flushed when you see #2!"
 
michael hagerty said:
Logically this would make sense. The song is eight years old. In 1982 KRTH would occasionally do a seventies weekend playing music that was between two and twelve years old so an eight year old song shouldn't be an anomaly.
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So true. I remember hearing a lot of late 70s on KRTH in the 1980s. In fact, before going oldies in 1985, they were playing currents mixed with older songs from the 50s and 60s.
 
radio128 said:
Logically this would make sense. The song is eight years old. In 1982 KRTH would occasionally do a seventies weekend playing music that was between two and twelve years old so an eight year old song shouldn't be an anomaly.
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So true. I remember hearing a lot of late 70s on KRTH in the 1980s. In fact, before going oldies in 1985, they were playing currents mixed with older songs from the 50s and 60s.
 
As I recall, stations saying they were oldies prior to about 1975 were 50% current hits and 50% oldies. I always thought that was odd. On a visit to LA, I got to listen to an upper AM dial, KWOW in Pomona that played all oldies except 4 currents an hour...maybe 1976.
 
b-turner said:
As I recall, stations saying they were oldies prior to about 1975 were 50% current hits and 50% oldies. I always thought that was odd. On a visit to LA, I got to listen to an upper AM dial, KWOW in Pomona that played all oldies except 4 currents an hour...maybe 1976.
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KRTH launched as pure pre-Beatles oldies in October of 1972. No currents.

In 1976, the novelty factor had worn off and KRTH's numbers had fallen drastically, so they went to a Gold-heavy (40%-60%) Adult Contemporary that was so contemporary Radio & Records classified the station as Top 40.
 
b-turner said:
As I recall, stations saying they were oldies prior to about 1975 were 50% current hits and 50% oldies. I always thought that was odd. On a visit to LA, I got to listen to an upper AM dial, KWOW in Pomona that played all oldies except 4 currents an hour...maybe 1976.
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No, not exactly. In 1968, WMOD in DC did a pure oldies format for several years under PD Barry Richards. WEEL in Farifax, an AM, did all gold as "Million Dollar Music Weel" in 1969.

Discussion of "oldies" in the early 70's was a bit different than today, as they were less than a decade removed from the British Invasion, so most of the material was either mid-50's early rock 'n roll or post-54 stuff (nobody much wanted to remember the 1959-1963 period).

So a lot of the music was what we'd call "recurrent" today... just not enough time had passed for "oldies" to be truly memory songs.
 
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