Congratulation to Mark Elliott

[FRR]

Congratulations to Mr. Mark Elliott. He is doing what several of us feared. He is slowly, ( but not too slowly) turning WDJO into a 70's station. No one really cares about those old farts that love 50's and 60's music. They don't buy anything anyway, right? Now ratings will improve, a little, revenues will go up, a little, Nolan will be thrilled, and good old Mark will be a hero, again. And us old folks will be forced to go back to satellite, again.

 

[rivercity]

Problem is they've been playing the same 100 songs for how long? Could use some freshening up.

 

[gr8oldies]

Marty Thompson is programming WDJO (and he is on this board), not Mark Elliot. I've been listening and haven't heard all of this 70s music. You really think 60s oldies will be on the radio until the last boomer is in the ground?

 

[Oldie919]

Marty Thompson is programming WDJO (and he is on this board), not Mark Elliot. I've been listening and haven't heard all of this 70s music. You really think 60s oldies will be on the radio until the last boomer is in the ground?

GAWD....I HOPE SO!! '50s, TOO!!
Like the guy said in "American Graffiti" : "There ain't been any good music since Buddy Holly died.....!"
AMEN!

 

[TheUnknownDJ]

Now ratings will improve, a little, revenues will go up, a little,

And somehow that's a bad thing? No wonder most radio pros pay no attention to these posts.

 

[gr8oldies]

We all wouldn't be hypocrites would we? "We hate corporate radio and want small independentg operators!". Small indepenednt operator makes some cosmetic changes? "Well they suck too!"

 

[John Gallagher]

Check out their daily on air playlist here:

http://onlineradiobox.com/us/wdjo/playlist/

 

[gr8oldies]

Looks like plenty of 60s to me.

Check out their daily on air playlist here:

http://onlineradiobox.com/us/wdjo/playlist/

 

[partymarty]

It's Mark's baby, but I'm having some fun playing the hits.

 

[schmave]

Looks like 80 percent or more is from the 60s, at least going back to midnight.
I don't like 70s pop nearly as much as that from the 60s, but 70s music is a reality on oldies stations today and has been probably since the turn of the century, in increasing numbers.

 

[CTListener]

Looks like 80 percent or more is from the 60s, at least going back to midnight

Sure does, and the '70s songs being played are largely pre-disco. I'd put the median year of WDJO somewhere around 1968. The idea that a station on which the average song played is 50 years old could generate complaints about abandoning baby boomers is astounding. Maybe the very early boomers who are now well into their 70s and never liked the sounds of the British Invasion, but certainly not the core boomers now in their early 60s.

 

[partymarty]

I'm not getting many.... actually any...complaints about music era. Some bitching about specific titles and the like, but a late 60s epicenter is perfect.