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Bob Pantano Dance Party is over on 98.1 WOGL

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No more dance party on Saturday nights. Bob’s show has moved exclusively to WOGL-HD2 and it’s stream. It’s effectively as good as gone since so few people have an HD radio.

A Saturday night mixshow on a classic hits station that has been on the air for 45 years is being relegated to the HD2. There goes the last bit of creative radio on that station. Since so few people have HD radios or even listen to HD2’s, it’s as good as gone.

They would broadcast live from a club every Saturday night, playing upbeat music from the 70s-80s with a few 60s and 90s thrown in. The show has had a similar format since it first aired. In the 90s and early 2000s the mixshow played newer music than the station’s core rotation of the 50s and 60s. 2000s till the late 2010s, the mixshow targeted the same demographics as the regular format. But nowadays, the mixshow is reaching an older demographic than the regular format, which has moved up to the 80s and 90s.

 
It’s too bad that the dance show won’t continue to move forward ahead of the format like it has in years past. The show currently features some 80’s and 90’s dance tracks that fit the current format especially after midnight. I’m curious why they wouldn’t go into the early to mid 2000’s in order to keep attracting the younger demographics. Is the show brokered? If so I would think he could play 7 hours of polka music so long as the check cleared every week.
 
Maybe he doesn’t want to go into the 2000s. Maybe his checks aren’t for enough. Maybe a bunch of things honestly, but it had a good run. He seems to have a good business of which this was a component.
 
NickD said:
No more dance party on Saturday nights. Bob’s show has moved exclusively to WOGL-HD2 and it’s stream. It’s effectively as good as gone since so few people have an HD radio.

A Saturday night mixshow on a classic hits station that has been on the air for 45 years is being relegated to the HD2. There goes the last bit of creative radio on that station. Since so few people have HD radios or even listen to HD2’s, it’s as good as gone.

They would broadcast live from a club every Saturday night, playing upbeat music from the 70s-80s with a few 60s and 90s thrown in. The show has had a similar format since it first aired. In the 90s and early 2000s the mixshow played newer music than the station’s core rotation of the 50s and 60s. 2000s till the late 2010s, the mixshow targeted the same demographics as the regular format. But nowadays, the mixshow is reaching an older demographic than the regular format, which has moved up to the 80s and 90s.

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I guess it is a shame that no one has the internet to listen online if they don’t have an HD radio.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Maybe he doesn’t want to go into the 2000s. Maybe his checks aren’t for enough. Maybe a bunch of things honestly, but it had a good run. He seems to have a good business of which this was a component.
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Surprised no one has mentioned that a show that's been on the air for 45 years hardly qualifies as "creative radio."
 
CTListener said:
Surprised no one has mentioned that a show that's been on the air for 45 years hardly qualifies as "creative radio."
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I might agree with you there, but if its been on for that long..it was obviously paying the bills and/or very well liked... it doesnt always have to be creative.

I've heard radio that we radio people would think is awful but the target audience loves it
 
Or mabye ogl seen the data that bobs show was reaching the 55 plus demos and tbey decided to shelf it

Example 106.1 the breeze ended because it skewed older it was simply a business move
 
Yes, this show did attract a lot more 55+ than the regular format. Many of the people now older than 55 have been listening to the same show when they were younger. But there are so many people who abandoned WOGL and only listen for the dance party. Now they won’t listen anymore. Myself included. WOGL might as well go silent, it is dead to me.
 
While I do agree about WOGL not being oldies (at least in the way I know oldies), when you think of it the music on WOGL is actually old.
My vote still goes to WVLT!
Its not that i dislike WOGL, and yes I'm fully aware you can get 50's-60's music elsewhere.
I guess its like the country song says... time marches on.
John
 
JH_Radio said:
While I do agree about WOGL not being oldies (at least in the way I know oldies), when you think of it the music on WOGL is actually old.
My vote still goes to WVLT!
Its not that i dislike WOGL, and yes I'm fully aware you can get 50's-60's music elsewhere.
I guess its like the country song says... time marches on.
John
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WVLT is ‘interesting.’ Sometimes it’s a good listen and then other times they play a hard rock song from the 80’s, followed by a slow doo wop, and then top it off with a disco tune that I would imagine no one remembers or cares to remember. There doesn’t seem to be much consistency. Does anyone program the music? I prefer Great Gold 1410 when I’m in central Jersey but unfortunately that’s just a computer in a closet and they don’t stream.
 
Irishfl said:
So I know the show aired on wcau-FM in the 70's, but did it continue to air on 98.1 during the hot hits format?
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The show switched to WIOQ in the early 80s & into the Solid Gold 102 era. he was also on middays - I remember a Do Wop Wednesday lunch hour. He moved back to 98.1 in 1988 and also was on Oldies 1210 middays for a time about 1990.
 
It seems like I am the only one who liked the Bob Pantano Dance Party and will miss it. If it remained on the air for as long as it did, the show had to have a loyal following.
 
ScottBurns said:
:)It seems like I am the only one who liked the Bob Pantano Dance Party and will miss it. If it remained on the air for as long as it did, the show had to have a loyal following.
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But loyal following doesn't last forever. At some point, it no longer becomes valuable (that's notwithstanding wholesale format changes, of course).

I do remember back in my much, much younger days working an early teenage job at an ice cream parlor when the owner would sometimes switch the radio over to what must have been Q at the time post closing/during cleanup, and this show would be on. It might have made me clean faster to get out an on my way.
 
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