All-but-gone signs of summer radio

[Runrigger]

Station softball teams: Granted more often than not there were fewer jocks on the teams than other station personnel, but I don't believe any station has had one in quite a while. Maybe guys who pitch like girls got too embarrassing?

Summer themed songs added to the rotations: Aside from theme weekends, the trend to adding certain songs only during the months of May through August seems to be gone. The biggies like In The Summertime, Summer Of '69, & some Beach Boys music are there all year. This works best with what used to be oldies stations anyway as songs about summer were fewer & more far between once you got into the 80s.

Beach patrols: Do any street/sand teams still stalk the dunes looking for listeners to hand out prizes?

Jocks hosting concerts: The Warwick Musical Theater was big on this & since their acts ran the gamut from The Kinks to Engelbert Humperdinck to Willie Nelson, every station had a chance to get exposure rather than one station or cluster being tied in to the theater itself.

Remotes & concerts at Rocky Point, Crescent Park, & Lincoln Park. I think there was even a permanent HJY booth at Rocky Point, but the funhouse fat lady finally sang.

And I'm pretty sure PRO-FM finally stopped using The Station That Reaches The Beaches, which I think was a mistake. What station is big at the beaches now anyway?

 

[wkrpfm]

Ahh..the Pro-fm Bloopers softball team...seems so long ago...Tanya Cruz hangin out at Rocky Point...the station that reaches the beaches and slams the shores.

 

[Feralcat]

> Ahh..the Pro-fm Bloopers softball team...seems so long
> ago...Tanya Cruz hangin out at Rocky Point...the station
> that reaches the beaches and slams the shores.

Boomboxes on the beach. Now everyone has his own personal music source and everyone else around him doesn't have to hear it. Fewer competing stations blasting out from blanket to blanket.

Anybody remember when live remotes looked like live remotes instead of just one more person standing there with a cell phone?

 

[WMC2005]

>
> Beach patrols: Do any street/sand teams still stalk the
> dunes looking for listeners to hand out prizes?
>
>
I lived in Portsmouth, NH from 1995-1998. WZEA, Seacoast 102 (which has long since changed calls and music...now called The Stage or something or other), had a summer weekend beach patrol that used to roam up and down Hampton Beach looking for Seacoast 102 bumper stickers and such and give stuff away. They did live remotes from the beach all day during the summer weekends using a young female college student/intern. I enjoyed Seacoast 102. At some point, after they changed, I switched to WERZ (107.1 I think) and I believe they picked up the summer weekend beach patrols. Dont know if they still do that. I do recall, that in about 2 years of listening to WERZ, they went thru several morning show teams.

 

[TXengineer]

> I lived in Portsmouth, NH from 1995-1998. WZEA, Seacoast 102
> (which has long since changed calls and music...now called
> The Stage or something or other),

They're now the Shark (WSAK) simulcast with WSHK 105.3 up in Kittery.

 

[ScottBurns]

> Ahh..the Pro-fm Bloopers softball team...seems so long
> ago...Tanya Cruz hangin out at Rocky Point...the station
> that reaches the beaches and slams the shores.
>

Yes, the last I remember of a softball team was the PRO-FM Bloopers; Tony Mascaro, when he did late nights, used to talk about their games on many a summer evening back in the early 1990s.

 

[epsilon]

> Yes, the last I remember of a softball team was the PRO-FM
> Bloopers; Tony Mascaro, when he did late nights, used to
> talk about their games on many a summer evening back in the
> early 1990s.
>

(OLD FART ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I remember seeing the WPRO-AM team back in the late 60's - Salty Brine (who pitched but didn't bat because of his leg; Salty invented the Designated Hitter!!!) Joe Thomas, Andy Jackson, etc...