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Any NEPA thoughts on the CBS-FM flip in NYC yesterday?
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ceaser
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Yeah the granddaddy of all oldies stations is back!I miss the 50's but they have to move forward.I noticed my cousin(brucie) isn't in the lineup though.
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yonkstur
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I agree, I miss the fifties too. But the station sounds good and thanks to Michael Neff sending me the link, (Bus Stop, fall of '66 playing now) I'm enjoying this on the computer. I still love WARM's True Oldies bird and wish the signal came in clearer. Becoming more attached to The Gem too, they have a heavy spot load (impressive) and sometimes that makes me want to wander. Then they make it better with a kick ass oldie out of the spots and keep me there.
yonkstur
p.s. the duke's doo wop is on the river. heard it last week, nothing like hearing "Lil Darlin'" while sponging off the relatives who have a pool on a hot Sunday night!
yonkstur
p.s. the duke's doo wop is on the river. heard it last week, nothing like hearing "Lil Darlin'" while sponging off the relatives who have a pool on a hot Sunday night!
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Hey yonk,nice to see you back here.If anyone misses the 50's like me(badly)there's sirius on dish tv,xm on direct tv,i-pod's,mp3 players and cd's.Got most of the 1955-1993 pop 40 on the billboard charts on cd myself so i'm good.This market is lucky for oldies/classic hits,though.For the oldies crowd(1955-1979),warm 590 and gem 107.7.For the classic hits crowd(1970-1989)there's 103.5 and the river 104.9 fm.As far as oldies go this market's got plenty to choose from.Most market's only have one oldies or classic hits station.
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timbolv
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Cousin Brucie is on Sirius satellite now. Sirius at one time barred talent from working both terrestrial and satellite. Don't know if this is still true. Besides, who know's if he would go back? he was VERY bitter when let go by CBS.
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crmc
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Most Classic hits stations that successfully evolve have to embrace the idea that some of the 80's are going to be a part of the format's relevance with the 40-54 crowd which is needed to be competitive in the money demo of 25-54 adults.
When the format seemed doomed on the day the music died in New York, it's sister station in Philly stepped up and blazed an evolutionary path away from the sock hop sound that was such a part of the format's history while it kept the texture and imaging familiarity it's 1.30 million listeners expected. Now it has become the blueprint for the rebirth of the format!!
Check it out at www.wogl.com
When the format seemed doomed on the day the music died in New York, it's sister station in Philly stepped up and blazed an evolutionary path away from the sock hop sound that was such a part of the format's history while it kept the texture and imaging familiarity it's 1.30 million listeners expected. Now it has become the blueprint for the rebirth of the format!!
Check it out at www.wogl.com
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warm590
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Don't know if any of you caught the flip last thursday at 12:45 pm on CBS-FM; I'm in new york and found a place where the reception was good on my car radio. The aircheck is available for download on the NY city board. This flip was a stroke of pure genius!! The promo's stated that the flip was to start at 1:01 pm; they started stunting at 12:45, with Journey's "don't stop believing", and at the last "don't stop....." they faded into the last oldie that CBS played when they got jacked 2 years ago, "summer wind" by ol' blue eyes. They then segued into the most professional music montage I have ever heard....starting at 1964 and going year by year to 1980 with music clips, news clips and old CBS-FM pams- Like jingles. Check it out. Top of the hour they had ex- NYC mayor Ed Koch praising mgt for admitting they made a mistake and then fixing the mistake. This followed by Frankie Valli and Al Jardine (of the beach boys) welcoming the station back. It's not your fathers CBS....they are penning it as classic hits from the 60's-70's 80's, but it's good...alll good...
As far as Brucie goes, I was talking to him last week and he was telling me that he has one more year on his contract with Sirius; after that who knows?? The other legendary jocks like Dan Ingram and others are so PO'ed about the way they were fired that they want nothing to do with it.
Not sure how in comes in in NEPA; give a listen.....I'm living for the day that WARM makes a comeback like this with harry west doing AM drive ;D
Yeah, I know, fur will grow on trout before this will happen but I can dream of the Mighty 590 blasting out of my dashboard again ;D ;D
Cheers and a steg light
warm590
As far as Brucie goes, I was talking to him last week and he was telling me that he has one more year on his contract with Sirius; after that who knows?? The other legendary jocks like Dan Ingram and others are so PO'ed about the way they were fired that they want nothing to do with it.
Not sure how in comes in in NEPA; give a listen.....I'm living for the day that WARM makes a comeback like this with harry west doing AM drive ;D
Yeah, I know, fur will grow on trout before this will happen but I can dream of the Mighty 590 blasting out of my dashboard again ;D ;D
Cheers and a steg light
warm590
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ceaser
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Hi warm590.Hey at least we got the true oldies channell and how about a web site for warm?
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warm590
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Tribute website for the Mighty 590 would be grreat...anybody wanna jump in?? I'm too busy working 80 hrs a week so I can pay New York's taxes ???
longing for the good old days
warm590 ;D
longing for the good old days
warm590 ;D
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yonkstur
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Tribute website for the Mighty 590 would be grreat...anybody wanna jump in?? I'm too busy working 80 hrs a week so I can pay New York's taxes
longing for the good old days
I've been kicking around that idea for a while but I'm not a technical guy. I'd need some help with the technical side.
yonkstur
longing for the good old days
I've been kicking around that idea for a while but I'm not a technical guy. I'd need some help with the technical side.
yonkstur
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Nokmo True
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warm590 said:...I'm living for the day that WARM makes a comeback like this with harry west doing AM drive ;D
warm590
Ooh, be careful what you wish for. Anyone remember when 77 year old John Glenn went back into space on the shuttle and CBS, in a nostalgic blast from the past, brought Walter Cronkite back to do some of the coverage? It was not easy to watch. Something to be said for "Can't go home again" particularly when it's been thirty years.
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yonkstur
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Remember when in the early 90s WARM brought back double G and Ron Allen doing a jock shows? Kelly Reed at the time referred to it as "Yesterday For Today". It didn't work. Not because they couldn't hit the post or weren't interesting, but no one of the key demo age knew who they were. I'll never forget at a sales meeting at Rock 107, we had to monitor a station. This one twenty something woman monitored WARM. Her take: nothing but ball scores, weather and people from Scranton bitching about potholes.
Yonkstur
P.S. I'd voice track him though once a week if I owned it. Shaver, Woods and even Sweeney. I'd have Middleton do a community calender and bring back the jingles and oh...don't get me started, this is starting to get me more excited than San Francisco Lesbians #1.
Yonkstur
P.S. I'd voice track him though once a week if I owned it. Shaver, Woods and even Sweeney. I'd have Middleton do a community calender and bring back the jingles and oh...don't get me started, this is starting to get me more excited than San Francisco Lesbians #1.
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