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Another One Bites the Dust

If they're audience was 70+, they must have been rotating 300 songs by Patti Page, Mario Lanza, Sinatra, Lawrence Welk and Percy Faith! Maybe the "operators" used the term oldies beacuse "adult standards" is truly 70 to death.

Can you imagine your 79 year old mom groovin to Paul Revere & The Raiders? I can see her at the kitchen sink peeling potatoes, singing along..."Kicks just keep getting harder to find..." Get real. How rediculous.
 
Mastaclocksetta said:
Fans of oldies music who tuned into WJNA, AM 640 in search of their favorite tunes were disappointed today. The station switched formats, dumping the nostalgic sounds in favor of a lineup of syndicated talk pitched primarily toward young males.
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The original poster neglected to mention that this station is in the West Palm Beach market. This is a national board and not everybody follows South Florida radio.

And it's not an Oldies station at all. It's adult standards, so the post belongs on another board. Standards stations have been biting the dust even longer than Oldies stations (and they've been making the same complaints over there about how radio doesn't want them any more even longer, too).

That explains the 70+ line in the newspaper article. The median listner age for Standards stations is 67. In contrast, the median age for Oldies is 51. However, the headline in the newspaper story said "Oldies" (anytime newspapers do stories about radio, they always manage to get something wrong). Possibly this is a station to which the original poster does not actually listen, since it's not hard to tell the difference between the music baby boomers grew up with and the music their parents listen to.
 
amfmsw said:
If they're audience was 70+, they must have been rotating 300 songs by Patti Page, Mario Lanza, Sinatra, Lawrence Welk and Percy Faith! Maybe the "operators" used the term oldies beacuse "adult standards" is truly 70 to death.

Can you imagine your 79 year old mom groovin to Paul Revere & The Raiders? I can see her at the kitchen sink peeling potatoes, singing along..."Kicks just keep getting harder to find..." Get real. How rediculous.
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they were not oldies. they were nostalgia
 
there is also a thread abou this in the south florida section
 
Fred-a-phonic Fred...thanks for straightening that out. Trying to correct "Oldies" listener profile misconceptions is hard enough. Thanks again.
 
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