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Do kids really like oldies?
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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You live within range of a Charlotte -- no, make that a Charlotte AREA -- radio station. I'm sorry. There are 2.8 million people in the Charlotte metro, and who knows how many more on the fringes. Someone can tell exactly where you live based on that info? Let's give it a try.
OK, I've Googled "Charlotte suburbs,"and the first one that came up was Davidson. I then called up a Google map and picked a street in Davidson. OK, let's say Concord Road. Now, where on Concord Road in Davidson might Chimp live? Well, the first three letters in Chimp are CHI, alphabetically 389. Got it! You live at 389 Concord Road, Davidson, North Carolina! Am I right? No? Am I close? No? Well, geez, now I'll have to find another suburb to search. Fort Mill, South Carolina ... hmmmm.
Chimp is what I called the music director at one Charlotte station. The format change happened twenty-seven years ago yesterday. Or maybe today.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I think you overestimate two things, Chimp. First, that people can put bits and pieces of dozens of posts together and somehow figure out your street address ... and second, that anyone cares where you live. I certainly don't have any use for that information.
But I still think it would be nice to know the call letters of this station that you rave about so much.
I didn't rave about it. It has some good songs. But you have all you need in the first post in the "thwead" (hint: child's pronunciation).
Well, there's this motel manager in Myrtle Beach who knows about fixing ceiling fans...
So it's WMGV in the New Bern market.
Really, is it that hard to just say so? Every other poster on this site seems to be able to just tell us what the callsign of the station they're talking about is. Please do the same in the future.
I have asked repeatedly that we drop this particular not-funny joke. We are here to talk about radio, not about the quirks of other posters on these boards. Let's try to be decent to each other.
Something got messed up here.
You were the one that said to respect my desire to not identify specifics about myself.
And no, WMGV is not oldies and is nowhere near me.
The letters are WZKY but I would appreciate it if no one would comment on the site about it.
WZKY happens to be a great station and i know the guy that does their weather.
Chimp, I apologize for my lame attempt at humor and I've told Scott I'll try to restrain my inner stand-up comic.
That said, this is RadioDiscussions, and one member doesn't get to put a radio station off limits.
I completely respect your personal privacy.
But this is a discussion site about radio stations, all of which broadcast to the public. It's very hard to have a conversation about radio stations when we don't know what stations we're talking about.
You do see the distinction there, right?
Are you available to play The Riddler in the next "Batman" villain spinoff movie?
And I see they stream, too!
I shall give it a listen soon, to see what it's like.
c
Knowing what you like, I'm not sure you will like it that much. I know one place I like to eat gave up on it and got their music from Pandora or somewhere.
We'll see. I like a lot of stuff, so long as it's not that new gangster rap stuff (as I've said elsewhere, I don't mind the good, clean hip hop of the 70s and 80s) or new, hyperproduced pop which sounds artificial and off key.
c
Oh, well, then you should like this station.