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AC stations having theme weekends

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carolinaradio

How do you feel about AC stations having theme weekends, EVERY weekend?

I don't particularly care for it. WMYI in Greenville, SC plays 70s & 80s, EVERY weekend. It's fine occasionally, but I think the station sounds much better with its regular format and should stick with that most of the time instead of the worn out 70s/80s songs non-stop for 48 hours.
 
I love it, if you want the same music all the time come to the bay area, 96.5 KOIT and 94.5 KBAY do no specialty weekends at all, not even for 4th of July
 
I hate the 80's weekend. That pretty much killed KCKC Star 102 in Kansas City. KUDL did the same thing. Neither are on the air anymore. KOST here in Los Angeles did a 80's weekend for the 4th nothing exciting really. Does WSB in Atlanta still do the same thing?
 
I like the 80s weekends. That way I don't have to listen to those bad AC songs from the 70s.
 
an AC is a workplace station, I don't think a 80's weekend could kill an AC station when weekends don't really matter
 
The BIG problem is when 80's are played, they do not go in depth and play REAL 80's songs as we remembered them on top 40 stations in 1980, 81, 82, 83, 84...etc...

80's music isn't just "What I Like About You", "I Melt With You", "Celebration", "Eternal Flame", and "Manic Monday" for pete's sake.

Besides, the first two songs mentioned, weren't even hits in 1980 and 1983. That's radio!
 
And when stations are having an "80's" weekend, they tend to ignore 1980-1981 and play more of the late 80's and the hair band groups.

True 80's music is 1982-1985 hands down!
 
Agreed on both posts.

Can somebody please define a bad 70s AC tune? Into the mid-80s music started not being music anymore.
 
KMGL/Oklahoma City tends to have different Themed Weekends. I believe they offer three different Themed Weekends.

They offer "Awesome 80s Weekend" which plays a mix of soft and upbeat songs from the 80s that they don't usually play even though this station already plays a lot of 80's songs in their original playlist.

They also offer "Flashback Weekend" which plays a mix of 70s/80s that they don't usually play even though the station plays a lot of 70s/80s in their original playlist.

They also offer, I think it's called "Mid-90s Weekend" which plays a mix of soft and mainly upbeat songs from the 90s that they don't usually play at all.

At least these themed weekends doesn't dominate the whole playlist, but instead they sprinkled a lot of these songs in the station playlist starting usually around noon or afternoon on Friday and ending on Sunday at 7 PM when Delilah signs on which is not too bad. I would dislike if the themed weekends would dominate the whole playlist like WMYI.

Even though I like a lot of 90s hits too (including the upbeat songs like Nirvana, Third-Eye Blind, Tonic, Sublime, etc.), I dislike the "Mid-90s Weekend" on KMGL because they play some really weird 90s songs that I don't really like. They sound really strange, but Thank God KMGL rarely have the "Mid-90s Weekend" theme.
 
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