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90's Music on WBPM, Enough Already!!!

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disney fanatic

When I was listening to WBPM during my third break at my job, they are playing "Only Want to Be With You" by Hootie and the Blowfish at 2:33 PM that afternoon, and this song does not fit the format. The song was a hit back around 1994 or 1995. This is a mistake for WBPM for playing a 90's song that doesn't work for this format. This station is going to sound like the former WRKW since 92.9 signed on the air 10 years ago when it was from the "Quality Rock" era.

I hope that WBPM will someday be history if the station will continue to stuggle in the next Fall ratings book, it will still doing poorly. I guess WBPM will start playing 90's music for most of the time.

Now look what happened, the "Music Blimp" got cancelled and I can't listen to this station anymore, it will be sounded a lot like WPDH, and yes, it is hurting WPDH, but this ridiculous. For the love of Batman, stop playing 90's music on WBPM. It doesn't work and forget the classic rock stuff on this station. If you look at the playlist on this site, it is too deep for this format.
 
90s music -- YUK!! (For the most part)
80s music - CANT GET ENOUGH OF IT!!
70s music - JUST ABOUT AS GOOD AS 80s
 
Yep! You're right "The Dude". WBPM has been struggling in the ratings many times after the "Music Blimp" got the axe. They tried it many times with this 90's and classic rock pile garbage. Look what WCBS-FM in New York City is doing. The station does really well in the PPM's, are they going to tweak this format to play nothing but pop, R&B, soft rock and even Motown. I hope WBPM needs to get off with this dinosaur rock crap. This is not WPDH and WDST. WPDH did really well, it is #1 in the Spring book, beating WBPM. If you're in the NYC which is far away, Q-104 is doing well like WBPM sounds the same and formerly WBCN in out in Boston has done with the classic rock thing, it's over! WBCN is history after 40 years, but WBPM is doing the same as former WBCN did.

I guess is that WBPM needs to change the music, and a lot of songs. Here's something that WBPM wants to play as an example. Maybe they should play Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", O'Jays "Love Train", the Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself", Michael Jackson "Billie Jean", the Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun", the Foundations "Build Me Up Buttercup", the Bee Gees "Staying Alive", Janet Jackson "What Have You Done for Me Lately", Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" and a bunch of songs that are big hits from every decade from the 60's through 80's. This station needs to be change, play only the hits, not the rock hits. This sound will not fit the station at all. According to this moniker, it's suppose to be "Classic Hits 92.9", not "Classic Rock 92.9" or "Quality Rock 92.9". But I don't know why this going to harken back to the former station when WRKW first signed on the back in 1999 when it was a classic rock station at the time right before "92.9 Rock" came along in 2002.

I hope if WBPM needs to change the music, they will to the right thing. If not when the Fall book comes out, the station will be history. As for liners and voices heard on this station, listen, bring Ziggy (from CBS-FM and "Magic 100.9") over to take over and do the liners the way the former "Cool 92.9" did back when they flipped since 2007. Call it "Hudson Valley's Greatest Hits", not "Rock & Pop Hits of the 60's, 70's and 80's". If you don't, I'm going to get a satellite radio someday for Christmas.
 
A year or two ago I e-mailed Randy Turner saying they were more like a Classic Rock station , than Classic Hits . I told him they needed to play more 60’s music . He replied that they were planning to phase out all 60’s music completely because “it was old” in a couple of years and phase in 90’s music instead . I told him this would be very disappointing . Apparently this is the shift we are seeing now .While I don’t listen to 60’s music as a steady diet the good news is , at least for some of us is it come at a time when The True Oldies Channel has arrived to fill the gap.
 
Nah- to the programmers around here, oldies is a dirty word. Bull. True oldies would be good, even for a canned format. What am I saying???? I HATE CANNED PROGRAMMING....

WE NEED LIVE, LOCAL, AND THE OLDIES FORMAT IS UP FOR GRABS. IT'S NOT DEAD....ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING....

guess i better cut back on the caffeine- i feel better now....

OLDIES4EVER
 
oldies4ever said:
Nah- to the programmers around here, oldies is a dirty word. Bull. True oldies would be good, even for a canned format. What am I saying???? I HATE CANNED PROGRAMMING....

WE NEED LIVE, LOCAL, AND THE OLDIES FORMAT IS UP FOR GRABS. IT'S NOT DEAD....ANYONE OUT THERE LISTENING....

guess i better cut back on the caffeine- i feel better now....

OLDIES4EVER
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I couldn’t agree more , but True Oldies is not great, canned music is better than nothing. Also sad to say live and local is a dying breed also . Evenings and overnight are mostly voice tracked , automated or Satellite feed even on the big stations like WPDH .A growing number of stations even VT day parts. While not as obvious as canned True oldies it’s no longer live . :(
 
Thanks for mentioning about the bashing of this station. After saying this enough times and all of the bashings and all of this crap. I posted an aircheck of Randy Turner as he did his "Rollin' Home" show earlier this afternoon after coming home from work, it is going to be in three parts. You might hear some 90's songs on this aircheck including REM's "Losing My Religion" which was a hit back in 1990 and Atlantis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know" from 1995. That doesn't fit the sound of the station at all. This not WPDH, this is not WDST, this is WBPM!!! The station should be "Classic Hits 92.9", not "Classic Rock 92.9" or the old WRKW "Quality Rock".

I'll have to post it in the aircheck section as soon as I'm done.
 
disney fanatic said:
Yesterday, I was at Stewart's, I heard that song on WBPM called "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi. Is this suppose to be a 90's song? I hope the station should get a lot of 90's songs in the mix to make it sounded a lit like WPDH.
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Not even close. Slippery when Wet was released in 86. The song was a top 10 hit in 87. That makes it not a 90s song disney, but nice try.
 
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