CBS FM and "Oldies" Mania

[KevinFodor]

Party tunes, they are...and you can play them on radio...within the right feature, the right time, the right day of the week.

But, you can't make a format that rotates all of these at one time. You must be selective with how and when they're scheduled...and when they are
played.

Rock drives 80's music and it's audience...not some of those songs you're talking about.

Take it from someone who's programmed it. It ain't as easy as you think.

 

[disney fanatic]

80's...sure, like totally!! Genius of Love, Valley Girl, Pacman Fever, You Should Hear How She Talks About You, Ghostbusters, Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin', I Feel For You, Major Tom, New Moon on Monday, The Look Of Love, Poison Arrow, even Adam Ant's "Strip"...etc..etc.. They're over 23+ years old...they're classics!! Bring 'em on!

and so does Paul Hardcastle's "19". This song is still a classic back in 1985.

 

[oldies76]

and so does Paul Hardcastle's "19". This song is still a classic back in 1985.

Better yet..Paul Hardcastle's "Rainforest" from early '85..nice instrumental! One of my favorite instrumentals of all time.

 

[lalumia]

we need a 24 hour Adam Ant channel somewhere on satellite radio(with some Toyah thrown in, especially with the hot new version of "Boots"(Are Made For Walking)"...

 

[magicjellybeans]

There is a long-held belief that listeners will only like music they heard while growing up and won't relate to songs before they were born.

Well, that might genuinely have been the case during, er, the "oldies era". The fact that we might have outgrown such "nature" doesn't seem to dawn upon the dentist crowd--it's a little like assuming that today's generations carry on yesterday's "commonplace" attitudes t/w race, sexuality, etc.

Then again, that assumption continues to guide commercial talk radio...

Its called THE BABY BOOMERS have spoken!They want to hear their beloved 60s,70s and 80s!And the music of today is just BAD! These people are tired of hearing rap and hip hop with every tune of the dial.The Majority of people in their 30s,40s and 50s just dont care for what HOT97 and Z-100 plays.The NY radio dial has more
Rap,hip hop and Spanish stations you can shake a stick at. Whats left? 101.1 WCBS.There ya go.

 

[adma]

Its called THE BABY BOOMERS have spoken!They want to hear their beloved 60s,70s and 80s!And the music of today is just BAD! These people are tired of hearing rap and hip hop with every tune of the dial.The Majority of people in their 30s,40s and 50s just dont care for what HOT97 and Z-100 plays.The NY radio dial has more
Rap,hip hop and Spanish stations you can shake a stick at. Whats left? 101.1 WCBS.There ya go.

I think that esp. w/the dentist board, it's more than their being baby boomers; it's their being the stupidest, most Archie Bunkerish specimens of baby boomerdom...

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Whoa ... easy there, Adma ....

I'd say that there are more posters to the NYRMB *opposite* that Archie Bunker stereotype than those who follow it. That's argumentive, yes, but there are plenty aboard there who make for that same mix of demos as the WCBS-FM success is doing -- and without much talk about actual music.

Okay, call me 'conservative' in a sense because I grew up again in the Y2K age and enjoy the more traditional 're' by 're' setup of the NYRMB -- it's easier for me to follow -- as opposed to the newer style of the Radio-Info boards. (Of course, the Radio-Info boards themselves had that line-by-line format for the longest time ; why they changed was their decision).

Bottom line : There are enough voices, heard on enough forums nowadays, which matter quite weightily. It might very well be so that Dan Mason and others are well aware of the potential audiences out there who, as one poster here suggested, have no trouble whatsoever enjoying universally-recognized good pop music.
And that WCBS-FM lineup certainly doesn't hinder this exploration in the least.

But p l e a s e ...... Archie Bunker?

 

[scooty430]

Aside from the blowhard who runs the "dentist board," there are actually quite a few articulate, informed posters there, and the discussions are often more in-depth than here. I enjoy lurking there for topics of interest, and I also like the old-school "Re:" format. Loads faster, and is easier to see.

 

[adma]

Whoa ... easy there, Adma ....

I'd say that there are more posters to the NYRMB *opposite* that Archie Bunker stereotype than those who follow it. That's argumentive, yes, but there are plenty aboard there who make for that same mix of demos as the WCBS-FM success is doing -- and without much talk about actual music.

As I think of it, I agree.

My comment was, perhaps, more specific to the idea of oldies as something where the reaction-to-the-present looms a little too large behind the celebration-of-the-past--and also, maybe, to whom the NYRMBers unwittingly (or not) idealize as the target audience...