K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
What has changed is that most stations would rather run automated with no air personality than deal with the legalities of an arrangement like that.
How many years ago was that, Chimp?
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What has changed is that most stations would rather run automated with no air personality than deal with the legalities of an arrangement like that.
How many years ago was that, Chimp?
Seven, but WEZV has live and local DJs. The morning lineup keeps changing, but there's always someone there during the day.
And what I meant by changed is that if Morgan is still there and they repeat the words "Good morning, Captain" several times, I'd say he doesn't have to sell his show's time.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
That answer confused me more than before, so I will stop asking now.
Can you explain that last paragraph????????
Yes. Jim Morgan is still the morning DJ, but if he is as popular as he seems, chances are he doesn't have to sell the advertising and get paid out of that, but rather is paid because he brings value. And at some point during his show, several recorded voices say, "Good morning, Captain". I got up and got in the car last time I was in the area around 8 in the morning. So maybe they started the 8:00 hour that way. That makes it sound like he's popular. I think Captain Morgan is some kind of alcoholic beverage.
It's a flavored Jamaican rum. Generally, rums that are not from Cuba, the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico are not as good and that is one reason some are flavored with spices or fruit.
KIXI 880 in Seattle still plays a few oldies from the 60s mixed with 70s. On a side note, Saturdays at 10:30 pm PST they feature radio dramas.
Another interesting "oldies" station is KBRD 680 out of Olympia. It's a non-commercial station playing music from the first half of the 20th century. From Wikipedia.
Although officially described as a "nostalgia" station, KBRD plays an eclectic mixture of jazz, rock, swing, country, dixieland, ragtime, zydeco, western swing, novelty and other music, much of which is not available on commercial radio stations.
A typical hour broadcast on KBRD might contain music by Artie Shaw, Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party, Bessie Smith, Boots Randolph, the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers, Bing Crosby, the Harmonicats, Sheb Wooley, Marty Robbins, Jelly Roll Morton, Nat King Cole, the Korn Kobblers, George Formby, Nana Mouskouri, Perry Como, Merle Travis, Louis Armstrong and the Hoosier Hot Shots.
Another interesting "oldies" station is KBRD 680 out of Olympia. It's a non-commercial station playing music from the first half of the 20th century. From Wikipedia.
Although officially described as a "nostalgia" station, KBRD plays an eclectic mixture of jazz, rock, swing, country, dixieland, ragtime, zydeco, western swing, novelty and other music, much of which is not available on commercial radio stations.
A typical hour broadcast on KBRD might contain music by Artie Shaw, Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party, Bessie Smith, Boots Randolph, the Clicquot Club Eskimos, Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers, Bing Crosby, the Harmonicats, Sheb Wooley, Marty Robbins, Jelly Roll Morton, Nat King Cole, the Korn Kobblers, George Formby, Nana Mouskouri, Perry Como, Merle Travis, Louis Armstrong and the Hoosier Hot Shots.
Bessie Smith is listed. Ironically most of the younger generation probably associates some of the artists from the first half of the 20th century with their respective Christmas songs; except maybe Louis Armstrong for What a Wonderful World.
Honestly I did not know who Ethel Waters was and had to look her up.
WKFB-AM 770 in Jeanette, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh suburbs) plays a lot of this. They are a daytimer and mostly automated at this point. They have some brokered hosts on the weekends. Used to have some during the week but they appear to be gone. They don't stream due to the rights fees issue someone mentioned above.
Yup - they're awesome and one of my most-listened-to stations, along with co-owned 620WKFB. Real swell selection of tunes!
63 Big WAYS has started Christmas music. Bing and David Bowie had the only song that was from a different decade that I'm aware of. The two sponsors I actually noticed were a funeral home and a company that provides people to help you stay in your home.
I guess those are the only businesses who see any value in advertising on 50s/60s oldies stations anymore, given the bulk of the original audience still alive is somewhere north of 75.
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The advertisers I’ve heard on WJEJ’s Phone Party are a funeral home, an insurance agency that also helps people with Medicare, some county agencies, a model railroad club Christmas event and an estate auction company. Plus the station is right across from the graveyard, so the DJs can wave to all the former listeners. However there is one WW2 veteran who calls in all the time that’s 101 and still pretty with it. I always laugh when he calls the 70 year old host “young man”!
YES! I've heard him call in...but can't remember what he talks about when Lou puts him on the air.
Mainly just random stuff, going bowling, sending Christmas cards, the scammers that call him, etc.