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- Thread starter BigJimmy
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I know, you can "Knock On Wood" that you will hear the same songs everyday on CBS-FM. Causi's shift seems to be the worst. They never seem to play The Turtles (Elenore & You Showed Me come to mind), or the Buckingham's (They're playing our song), and you can forget about any other British Invasion groups other than the same 2 or 3 Beatles songs. Not gonna hear any Sweet that's for sure. Now I dont have a problem with 80s in the mix, but is "In the Air Tonight" the only song they can play by Phil Collins? What's wrong with "Easy Lover"? They play the same 80s songs over and over again too. Enough with the "Your Eyes" by Gabriel too, what about Sledgehammer or Shock the Monkey, which both were #1 songs? What's extremely irritating is I hear the same stuff on Q104.3, which has become like CBS-FM but minus any rhythmic product. Several times in the past I caught Q playing "Another One Bites the Dust", "Your Eyes", and "Already Gone" within minutes of CBS-FM. Q plays no 80s hairband product, Van Halen fans will surely be dissapointed. Lately I just leave my radio off unless I'm traveling further east where I can get B103, BAB, PLR and the Shark, or to Jersey where I can get The Hawk, JRZ, and WDHA. NYC needs an active rocker and a more oldies oriented classic hits. Part of the reason why CBS got their ratings shaved, ppl are tuning out.
CBS-FM has had exactly one bad book this year. Given the sample size in New York, they have been amazingly stable, and always well inside the top 10 in 25-54 in NY.
I hear cbs fm mostly at night. Could it be they air more disco in those hours than they do during the day?
I do give cbs fm credit as it appears they employ live, local jocks 24/7. Are they the only FM station in
NYC now doing that ?
The regular playlist, not including specialty shows, is around 800 songs. That is on the high side for stations in the Classic Hits format.
They may have 800 songs, but that doesn't mean they play all of them. I am very surprised by that information though. It's unfortunate that we cant hear some other stuff from the library.
The +/- 800 song count is based on songs actually played in a given 7-day period in regular dayparts (not specialty shows).
They all play; some have higher rotational categories than others based on the "passion for" and "appeal" of each song.
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You're right! I don't listened to CBS-FM these days, because it lacks the 50's and 60's in rotation, but I don't really want to go back and bash on everything. CBS-FM was a great station to play a lot of oldies music since the Joe McCoy period. Joe McCoy was a great PD for the oldies station when he joined CBS-FM in 1981 until he left in 2004 and then Dave Logan took over right up until the very end of its oldies run in June 2005. They brought in some great personalities like Harry Harrison, Cousin Brucie, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bob Shannon, Bill Brown, Max Kinkel, Marc Summers, Gary Clark and many others to the format.
Up in the Poughkeepsie, they got "Fox Oldies" here, and the oldies format has survived and they're playing the same music that fans who remembered from the good old days of WCBS-FM when it was "New York's Oldies Station" during the first 33 years from 1972 until 2005. They got it right. "Fox Oldies" on WGNY-FM sounded a lot similar to CBS-FM, but it's got the same exact music, but I have a couple of airchecks from "Fox Oldies" from two weeks ago when Van Ritshie does his Saturday morning shift. You would hear this aircheck and see what you can compare to what the station is sort of similar. This is one heck of a match, WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies" Vs. WCBS-FM circa 1972-2005 (the pre-Jack era). You should listen to this aircheck and find out.
http://www.4shared.com/mp3/cRQt-BIc/Van_Ritshie_-_10_26_13.html
They do play the Turtles' Happy Together quite a bit. But never they never play other hits like Elenore, You Showed Me,You Don't Have to Walk in the Rain or She'd Rather Be With Me all CBS FM mainstays that got Just as much air play as Happy Together during the Joe McCoy Era.
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You give us 22 minutes and we'll give you KC and the Sunshine Band. I just have not listened to CBS-FM as much as I used to. They play too many burnouts.
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Sound has been awful with Bass Up High and there is two much of a punch. With the music they play it should not sound like this.
WCBS FM "Fix The Sound".
Sound has been awful with Bass Up High and there is two much of a punch. With the music they play it should not sound like this.
WCBS FM "Fix The Sound".
It's disgusting, WOGL in philadelphia has the same stale playlist where you'll hear "Funkytown" and "I will Survive" five times a day. The local classic hits station in the Poconos where I live (WABT) is locally owned and has a much wider playlist. I'll hear songs that CBS-FM plays (plus they have the same deep-voice announcer) but I'll also hear the Animals, Joe Cocker, and Crosby Stills and Nash mixed in as well. I hear the station booming in at local businesses even though there are several other stations in town. I do not get why CBS radio loves to starve their radio stations of music. No one is going to change the station if they hear more songs by the Beatles, Bee Gees, and The Stones.
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As of the last couple of days, they seemed to have done something to the audio.
This is the best that they have sounded in a long time
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And speaking of CBS-FM, I've just read that over in the Hudson Valley/Albany board that there is an oldies station up in Albany that now plays from the 50's, 60's and 70's just like "Fox Oldies" does in the Poughkeepsie which is considered as "Real Oldies". WMTR in Morristown does that too. I hope that eventually someday, New York City needs an oldies station eventually on one of those stations if die hard oldies would love to make a comeback. If you look at CBS-FM plays a lot of 70's and 80's, but I hope that a year from now, CBS-FM is going to add a lot of 90's music in the mix like Britney Spears, Celine Dion, C+C Music Factory, MC Hammer, Boyz II Men, Smashing Pumpkins, Cece Peniston, Aalyah and lots more will someday being playing on CBS-FM. For example "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow, that a 90's music and it is going to be playing on CBS-FM or a Mariah Carey song to be playing on a station. It will sound a lot like WDRC-FM in Hartford, CT where they brought in 90's music.
As for the oldies fans who grew up with CBS-FM from 1972 to 2005, it will end up somewhere on AM in the future. Look what they do WROW in Albany at "Magic 590", they brought "Real Oldies" back to the Capital region, WGNY-FM has "Fox Oldies" for three years playing a lot of pre-1964 oldies along with a mix bag of post-1964 right up to the 70's, and that station would sound almost a lot of CBS-FM whether when it was from during the Bill Brown era and he Joe McCoy era. CBS-FM has been #1 back in the 80's and 90's when Joe McCoy was PD at the time, but when "Fox Oldies" came in at 98.9, they brought in a little or no listeners to the station where fans who grew up with CBS-FM over the last 40+ years. If New York City never has a "Real Oldies" outlet, it could be none, but I wish NYC should make a comeback on either on the AM side.
The last time I checked, "True Oldies" was more like Classic Hits. "Real Oldies" is real oldies and I believe that it's from Clear Channel. I know that they run it on some of their HD2s, including the one in my city.
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