Could an all psychydelic format work in a major market?

[radiofriend1]

re: all psychadelic format

Cat, YOU said, "This thing is a loser from the minute it hits the air."

Well, I'm less negative, because All-polka, CLASSICAL, all-Catholic, all Jewish formats all made it. All-Elvis, All Sinatra and some others like those have also been tried.

This is a LIFESTYLE format (albeit with some bad connotations) and skews over 50- to nearly 60. Does Sirius or XM have such a channel?

Another question is "can you sell ads to a bank or a home builder with this format?" I never met a (male) bank president with a pony tail.

What else beside music is on this station? Maybe this works with Air America news? I would not be interested, but it could fit the "lifestyle."

Actually, this format would lend itself well to beng on the internet. NO BIG POWER BILL (the thing that most scares me) for that blowtorch signal you suggested.

Cat said, "there aren't enough songs to rotate songs in and out of this format's playlist."

I wrote down 300 songs in about 15 minutes. Those were more MASS APPEAL psychedelic hits (I'm really not into the "hard stuff.") This music is around my generation (I'm 57) but even 300 "all long screaming guitar solo" songs do NOT appeal to me at all. Selector (music programming software) needs to have lots of categories.

I admit "in a gada da vida" and "Jimi Hendrix" and "Grateful Dead" would NOT lend themselves well to constant HIGH rotation, as "Nel Blu di Pinto De Blu" and "In the Mood" do for standards, and "If You Leave Me Now" and "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Elvis" and "Beatles" hits do for oldies.

oh yeah (toke, toke) a psychadelic (snort) format would really knock em dead in omaha or peoria

 

[OldiesCat]

not true

Cat, YOU said, "This thing is a loser from the minute it hits the air."

Well, I'm less negative, because All-polka, CLASSICAL, all-Catholic, all Jewish formats all made it. All-Elvis, All Sinatra and some others like those have also been tried.

This is a LIFESTYLE format (albeit with some bad connotations) and skews over 50- to nearly 60. Does Sirius or XM have such a channel?

Another question is "can you sell ads to a bank or a home builder with this format?" I never met a (male) bank president with a pony tail.

What else beside music is on this station? Maybe this works with Air America news? I would not be interested, but it could fit the "lifestyle."

Actually, this format would lend itself well to beng on the internet. NO BIG POWER BILL (the thing that most scares me) for that blowtorch signal you suggested.

Cat said, "there aren't enough songs to rotate songs in and out of this format's playlist."

I wrote down 300 songs in about 15 minutes. Those were more MASS APPEAL psychedelic hits (I'm really not into the "hard stuff.") This music is around my generation (I'm 57) but even 300 "all long screaming guitar solo" songs do NOT appeal to me at all. Selector (music programming software) needs to have lots of categories.

I admit "in a gada da vida" and "Jimi Hendrix" and "Grateful Dead" would NOT lend themselves well to constant HIGH rotation, as "Nel Blu di Pinto De Blu" and "In the Mood" do for standards, and "If You Leave Me Now" and "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Elvis" and "Beatles" hits do for oldies.

This has nothing to with "being negative". This has everthing to do with the reality of radio today.

Question: if Oldies stations are biting the dust left and right, what makes you think a super-niche slice of Oldies would have any chance in hell of working? I don't mean making it to the air and being fun for a few days or weeks. I mean surviving, even succeeding? Answer: zero.

Not enough music and even fewer potential listeners. Look, you'd be better off starting an Internet station with this format, so please go for it and good luck.

 

[hammondo]

Yup Vibe, Put it on the internet. Low cost.

Oldies Cat asked; Question: if Oldies stations are biting the dust left and right, what makes you think a super-niche slice of Oldies would have any chance in hell of working?

MORE importantly, LOW appeal to an advertiser.
Actualy, Vibe, Your idea for radio is about 15 years too late.

 

[BIG APE]

Ya Know when I went to school in the early 70's in Gainesville Fla, there was an underground station there, don't remember the calls, that played 3 or 4 psyadelic records over and over.."We never Complained"..HMMMM Maybe that's why I was "Stunted" APE