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CBS-FM's Seven Day Weekend

"I lived in Boston when Opie and Anthony were on the air in town, and their biggest achievement was encouraging women to bare their breasts in traffic. Classy act. Most of their listeners were rubes in the sticks.

So if they are criticizing WCBS, really, who cares? It's shtick, and rather unoriginal shtick at that"

Obviously no one cares, just check the ratings...or lack thereof. These two are on borrowed time until CBS changes the format on 92.3.
 
I guess CBS-FM did a great job this past week during the entire 4th of July holiday that they presented the "A-Z Countdown".

In the HV area, WBPM did an "All Amercian Weekend" playing nothing but All American songs both rock & pop from the 60's through 80's without Motown & R&B. CBS-FM can, and WBPM don't. Give CBS-FM credit for this one and kudos to everyone at the CBS Radio bandwagon for doing one heck of job doing a special week of "A-Z Countdown". ;D
 
trust ME, you guys - there is NO way that CBSFM in NYC would ever be WITHOUT Motown or R&B - it's part of what makes CBSFM the BIGGEST and BADDEST and STILL THE BEST OLDIES (alright, greatest hits) station in the nation, bar none!!! 8) 8) 8)
 
andreajesus said:
CBSFM the BIGGEST and BADDEST and STILL THE BEST OLDIES (alright, greatest hits) station in the nation, bar none!!! 8) 8) 8)
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You got that right!! :)
 
thanks - I KNEW you would see things MY WAY!! :) But seriously, though, for ANY programmer to try and program a "greatest hits" or "oldies" station WITHOUT Motown or R&B? Wouldn't work, ESPECIALLY in New York City - it was TRUE back then, and it is SO TRUE today!! (does the jingle "Greatest Motown, Soul, and Rock and Roll" mean ANYTHING?? ;) ) Besides which, and even a certain "relative" said it quite nicely back about three years ago...New York ain't like anywhere else and you can't program it like anywhere else.....

which makes ALL of CBSFM's success since their return on July 12, 2007 that much MORE endearing to NYC - you have a GREAT programmer in Brian Thomas who has been able to BALANCE all ends of the listening spectrum (including us long-timers...), bring in GREAT DJs, all of this while preserving the legacy that IS WCBSFM 101.1 - STILL STANDING AFTER 35+ YEARS!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 101.1FM!! YOU STILL ROCK!!
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
How many groupies does it take to change a light bulb?
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I thought this was where you post your opinion about radio, but some people feel the need to knock other posters for expressing themselves about how they feel about a specific radio stations format. Sometimes I have to double check what board I'm on because it feels like Sniffens board.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
How many groupies does it take to change a light bulb?
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I know you're responding to andreajesus's rather loopy collapse into boldface/caps overload, but, I don't get it--as a hypothetical programmer, do you want enthusiastic listeners, or don't you? And are they always to be sneered at? You'd rather they keep their lips buttoned? Or, if they're so apparently/evidently embarrassing, maybe consider that this is the type of "enthusiastic listener" you've generated through the years?

Programming to people you have contempt for? How cynical, even sleazy; even if it brings in the bucks.

Again; this culture of radio programming reminds me of husbands who prefer their wives to be "kept women"--and then quietly ship them to the loony bin once they, in their stunted, malformed, caps'n'boldface way, attempt to break the "kept woman" mold...
 
I just finished watching a PBS doc on "pioneers of TV," and the attitude of these early broadcasters toward their craft is one of reverence. Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Carson, Rob Reiner.... They were broadcasting "geeks" themselves as kids, and to them what they did was a calling.

It's quite a difference from the purely commercial, jaded attitude so prevalent today in radio. It's not that current radio broadcasters resent avid radio fans......it't that they just don't give a crap, and can't be bothered.
 
adma said:
RADIO TRUTH said:
How many groupies does it take to change a light bulb?
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I know you're responding to andreajesus's rather loopy collapse into boldface/caps overload,
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"loopy collapse into boldface/caps overload"? Hardly?? Just one VERY PASSIONATE, INTELLIGENT listener making sure that I get my message across (and I USUALLY do!) :)
 
I'm sure everyone's winded from the last A to Z, but it looks like the Portland CBS Oldies station is doing an A to Z that started Monday. It looks to be about the same length, but with some different songs. More AOR songs, fewer 80s MOR.

If you want to join the party they are on S.
 
scooty430 said:
I'm sure everyone's winded from the last A to Z, but it looks like the Portland CBS Oldies station is doing an A to Z that started Monday. It looks to be about the same length, but with some different songs. More AOR songs, fewer 80s MOR.

If you want to join the party they are on S.
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I'll check it out..more proof that oldies and classic hits stations are willing to try different things (beyond the monotony of other similiar stations) and pleasing their listeners with added variety!
 
andreajesus said:
adma said:
RADIO TRUTH said:
How many groupies does it take to change a light bulb?
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I know you're responding to andreajesus's rather loopy collapse into boldface/caps overload,
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"loopy collapse into boldface/caps overload"? Hardly?? Just one VERY PASSIONATE, INTELLIGENT listener making sure that I get my message across (and I USUALLY do!) :)
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I think most posters here manage to get their point across without capitalizing and/or making bold every other word in their posts. ;D
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
There is nothing like senseless, mindless groupie drivel. The same people who write this idiocy today in their middle age dementia are also the identical people who were calling and bugging djs with the same stupidity 30 to 45 years ago. WABC, in the 60s,
had some smarts by making it very difficult for these groupies to call and bug the djs.
Groupies serve no purpose. They are not representative in any way of the whole radio audience. Only .0001% of a radio audience is active. The other 99.9999% are passive and just listen, if they are so inclined. Any program director or dj who is influenced by the rantings and ravings of the groupies on here is committing career suicide and is an idiot. Say what you want to but, WCBS-FM is but a fraction of what they once were 20 years ago and WCBS-FM, 20 years ago, was but a fraction of what WABC and WMCA were in the mid 60s.
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That last statement's significant. Is that because it was led astray by the so-called groupies; or is it because the universe of media consumption has rendered your vaunted "WABC" model of programming obsolete? You might as well be longing for the days before "business casual" when men wore suits and women wore dresses and women and teenagers and homosexuals and whomever "knew their places".

(Then again, you may have a point: if the "smarts to ward off groupies" model lives on anywhere, it's in the realm of NPR; and compared to 20 or 40 years ago, NPR's listenership has skyrocketed...)
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
Groupies serve no purpose. They are not representative in any way of the whole radio audience. Only .0001% of a radio audience is active. The other 99.9999% are passive and just listen, if they are so inclined. Any program director or dj who is influenced by the rantings and ravings of the groupies on here is committing career suicide and is an idiot. Say what you want to but, WCBS-FM is but a fraction of what they once were 20 years ago and WCBS-FM, 20 years ago, was but a fraction of what WABC and WMCA were in the mid 60s.
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No kidding Sherlock.....Of course CBS-FM is not playing now what it played in the 60's and they never will, but having an A to Z or other specials is reminicent of other times, because of all the "obscurities" being played. And that's why 99.9999% of us are praising CBS-FM for what they've done.

By YOU posting here, you are a groupie too. C'est la vie.
 
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