AM is my new best friend

[BrainDeadPrez]

Ha. But despite having to put up with the outdated monophonic sound, it's worth it to me to have now TWO stations running commercial-free and using a little inventiveness when it comes to programming...what a concept, using more than 300 or 400 oldies to make an OLDIES station. I'm sure The Chinmaster General would disagree, but it works for me.

And will John Summers sue 1160 for re-using KLUV-1190's slogan of "Smokin' Oldies"? And is 1160's occasional use of the term "Smokin' Jammin' Oldies" just a little too much deference to the old "Magic 102"? Especially given THEIR use of "Magic" in their name??? I guess if Fast Eddie Coyle, Banana Joe, Kevan "Smokin' B" Browning and Catfish Prewitt turn up doing airshifts on there, we'll know the answer to that.

1160 is nearly a carbon-copy of the old "Heart and Soul" Motown-based format from Satellite Music Network, one decent format that we were never treated to here in DFW. I used to call SMN's listen line and put it on speakerphone just to hear "Heart and Soul" back in the 80s.

 

[johnsummers]

> Ha. But despite having to put up with the outdated
> monophonic sound, it's worth it to me to have now TWO
> stations running commercial-free and using a little
> inventiveness when it comes to programming...what a concept,
> using more than 300 or 400 oldies to make an OLDIES station.
> I'm sure The Chinmaster General would disagree, but it
> works for me.
>
> And will John Summers sue 1160 for re-using KLUV-1190's
> slogan of "Smokin' Oldies"? And is 1160's occasional use of
> the term "Smokin' Jammin' Oldies" just a little too much
> deference to the old "Magic 102"? Especially given THEIR
> use of "Magic" in their name??? I guess if Fast Eddie
> Coyle, Banana Joe, Kevan "Smokin' B" Browning and Catfish
> Prewitt turn up doing airshifts on there, we'll know the
> answer to that.
>
> 1160 is nearly a carbon-copy of the old "Heart and Soul"
> Motown-based format from Satellite Music Network, one decent
> format that we were never treated to here in DFW. I used to
> call SMN's listen line and put it on speakerphone just to
> hear "Heart and Soul" back in the 80s.

> Motown BASED? (LOL)

 

[BrainDeadPrez]

> > Motown BASED? (LOL)
>

All right, I didn't mean that LITERALLY. That was to acknowledge the leeway they took by playing post-Tamla/Motown-labeled Stevie Wonder songs, among others, but still having the heaviest emphasis on Motown-label songs. Sure, the Motown catalog is huge, but it's still not big enough to play a couple of day's worth without repeats.

BTW, John, you get my vote for new PD at KLUV. The time's finally come to move past the Tenaglia era and grow the music library. Didn't you spend a lot of time a few years back, remastering and cleaning up a bunch of the songs in AudioVault, just to have none of them ever get played? Or was that all done for KLUV-1190?