> According to David Hinckley in today's New York Daily News,
> Lauren has been named the program director of The Breeze.
> See <a target="_blank" href=http://www.nydailynews.com/07-26-2005/news/gossip/story/331616p-283232c.html>http://www.nydailynews.com/07-26-2005/news/gossip/story/331616p-283232c.html</a>
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> for more information.
Seems like she's already doing some tweaking. In the past, the Breeze has rarely played anything newer than the mid-'80s, but this afternoon I heard them play "The Sign" by Ace Of Base, which topped the Billboard chart in 1994.
Personally, I'd just like to see the Breeze pick a certain direction for its music, and then market itself properly for that position. They first started out very soft and MOR-ish, playing stuff like Barbra Streisand and Kenny Rogers, but even as their playlist has grown more and more uptempo and more and more rock/pop-oriented -- almost like a Classic Hits format -- they've still kept the MOR imaging, with tag lines like "unforgettable favorites" and "great songs & great memories". In fact, they ran that liner right after playing Ace Of Base, and of course it made absolutely no sense to refer to a song from 1994 as a "memory".
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