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Comprehensive List Of Stations Still Airing the Soft AC/Easy Listening Format?

cc333 said:
That's my favorite part of WJEJ. The only place I'd ever heard a playlist even remotely similar was KABL (when it was still on the air at 960 AM 20 years ago; the Internet-based recreation is different in ways I can't quite pinpoint), and even then, that version of KABL skewed older, with few, if any songs from the 60s or newer (I had KFRC for that!), whereas WJEJ does throw in some almost-current soft AC here and there.


Sure. I like what MeTV FM does, and I think if they could get a signal in or near SF, it would do relatively well in the 65+ demographic, which is still at least somewhat prevalent, at least in Contra Costa County (people seem to forget that there's more to the Bay Area's population beyond the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists whose average age is 18-34. Or perhaps they don't care?)

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I had a chance to listen to METV FM while out in Palm Springs the past two weeks, it is aired there on KMEE FM 103.1 Palm Desert. It's not bad, good mix of AC/Oldies.
 
cc333 said:
I'm pretty sure they did, at least they did 20-ish years ago.

Back around 2000-2002, KABL was an ABM affiliate, and I do remember hearing Rosemary Clooney occasionally.


That sounds like a good one to check out! Do they stream, or if not, is there an SDR somewhere within reception ran
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radiofan2023 said:
105.1 HD-2 runs Music of Your Life in Kansas City, but it doesn't stream.
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Does it feed a translator? If not, I doubt its audience at any given time hits double figures. Not many octogenarians and nonagenarians out there messing around with radios that require anything more complicated than twisting a knob or punching a preset button!
 
CTListener said:
Does it feed a translator? If not, I doubt its audience at any given time hits double figures. Not many octogenarians and nonagenarians out there messing around with radios that require anything more complicated than twisting a knob or punching a preset button!
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No, it doesn't. This morning when I was checking it out, it went from Hummingbird by Seals and Crofts into Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf which was jarring. I don't even know how long it's been on.
 
radiofan2023 said:
The majority of what they're playing is easy listening/soft AC. They just played Longer by Dan Fogelberg into Smile A Little Smile for Me by The Flying Machine.
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Well, it wouldn't be the first station of that type to go so far off format. There was one in Buffalo, and one in Minnesota has been mentioned.
 
Personally, I'm not a fan of MOYL. Too much of a trainwreck. Only listened to Peter Marshall's Big Band Show, I think he's close to 100 years old. So doubtful that he is still doing that show. Only MOYL affiliate I know of is WIOI Portsmouth, OH. Below is the listen live from their website.

www.musicofyourlife.com

Music of Your Life

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They just played “Livin’ On A Prayer” by Bon Jovi, then “Reminiscing” by The Little River Band. Also they had an Ed McMahon promo earlier when he’s been dead for 14 years. Trainwreck city!
 
radiofan2023 said:
They just played “Livin’ On A Prayer” by Bon Jovi, then “Reminiscing” by The Little River Band. Also they had an Ed McMahon promo earlier when he’s been dead for 14 years. Trainwreck city!
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Good grief! What are they smokin' over there!

Also, the Multicultural Broadcasting stations across the country air MOYL at night, weekends, whenever there is no ethnic programming scheduled. Yep, I don't think America's Best Music worries about any competition from them.
 
Last songs played on WVLG:

"Real Love" Jody Watley
"Heaven" Warrant
"Who Can It Be Now?" Men at Work
"Sugar Walls" Sheena Easton
"Is It Love?" Mr. Mister
"One Week" Barenaked Ladies
"Uptight" Stevie Wonder
"Don't Stop" Fleetwood Mac
"Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
"Lady Marmalade" La Belle
"Too Late to Turn Back Now" Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
"Pink Cadillac" Natalie Cole

That's actually not one of the strangest lists I've seen. I'll try to do better.
 
WWIS Black River Falls WI (AM 1260, FM translator) is even stranger than that. They will literally go from Burl Ives to Alanis Morisette and even 2010s songs.
 


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