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CBSFM SLOWLY FADING OUT THE 60'S AND EARLY 70'S
- Thread starter prescott
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When I last checked what they've been playing a few days ago, they looked to be playing PLENTY of 60s and early 70s. Just be thankful they're playing what they are....there aren't that many 80s songs!
carolinaradio said:
I did an era map on CBS FM for the last 7 days, and about 63% of the songs were post-60's. About 17% were post-70's. that means about 37% 60's, and half that from the 80's. 31% was 1965 to 1969, meaning that only a few percent were pre-'65.
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carolinaradio said:
Agreed. There are still plenty of 60's and early 70's songs. They play "The Greatest Hits of the 60's, 70's, and 80's" and have been promoting that heavily. Why change so soon?
DavidEduardo said:
Which shows how some people here just make random posts without facts to back them up. It's quite ridiculous.
Thank you for proving the point that the 60's and early 70's are alive and well on CBS-FM.
too much eagles,disco,hall and oates,bob seger,billy joel,doobies,etc. boring!! they sound like lite fm with a sprinkle of some oldies. i still don't understand why a real oldies station is not being done. fresh,lite and q can play those above mentioned...everyone wants the true oldies, if you do not want the oldies change the dial to fresh or lite. give the people what they want.
prescott said:
So a Billy Joel song from 1975 doesn't qualify as an oldie?
Following that way of thinking.....in 1987, CBS-FM shouldn't have been playing stuff more recent than 1955.
Wait.....that would have been the ENTIRE Rock 'n' Roll era....
Oldies have changed......CBSFM had to as well.
prescott said:
"Everyone" wants the true oldies? Before CBS-FM flipped to Jack, it wasn't playing many "true oldies" yet its numbers were quite high, albeit skewing old. And perhaps the reason CBS-FM plays the music you mentioned isn't so that people would get bored and change the dial to Fresh or Lite (they probably wouldn't mind much in the case of Fresh), but to get people to switch from Lite to CBS-FM, especially since Lite, for years, has thrown in a lot of older music into its mix. Lite is responding by freshening up the music, also in response to Fresh, but that's part of CBS's strategy...all those listeners are going to likely come to CBS-FM, not vice versa.
I agree; Billy Joel, disco, Eagles, etc may not be YOUR oldies, but they ARE the oldies of a specfic generation, and should be represented(alongside the still quite relevant 60s, which is MY oldies, actually, and I don't mind the other tracks as long as we don't feel the drag of being 'phased out' which was the downfall last time around)_
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prescott said:
Yet again, your post shows ignorance. Have you even listened to WLTW recently? WLTW and CBS-FM play few of the same songs (of course, they share a small amount...) They share much fewer than when WCBS-FM flipped to JACK. 106.7 has updated its sound and has shed the "Lite" name. For example, WLTW only played 3 songs that CBS-FM plays in the 1PM hour. There were only two 70's songs played (one 80's, no 60's). Two years ago, the number of 60's/70's songs per hour on WLTW would have been more like 6 or 7.
Fresh is an updated AC format and won't even TOUCH most of the 80's, and CERTAINLY not the 60's and 70's. 'Nuff said.
Q is Classic Rock. WCBS-FM is more broad-based, playing pop, rock, Motown, and soul hits from the 60's through the 80's.
Face it. The '50's and early 60's will be relegated to some specialty shows. And don't say I'm against the '50's. I happen to enjoy the 50's and 60's music. It was great hearing those decades on the Top 500. But, CBS-FM is not going to play "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "Johnny B. Goode" very often.
Also... the '64-'69 music is still played often on CBS-FM. Don't say it is being phased out when it clearly is not.
as a non new yorker but I love the city!....i really enjoy CBS-FM now as it is.....they do play plenty of mid to late 60's as well!!! like the top 20 countdown on sudnay nights.last week it was sept,9,1967....jeff played a very rare frankie valli record."i made a fool of myself"....luckly i was able to find that and i recorded it....and yes it sounds just like "can't take my eyes off of you"....if not better! keep up the great work CBS-FM!!!
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