Does anyone find it kinda ironic?

[Retro]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

 

[raccoonradio]

As in Don't Stop Believing etc.? Sometimes our field of reference for "oldies", "classic hits", whatever you want to call it, goes back 20, 30, or 40 years. We remember when oldies stations
were like the Happy Days/American Graffiti era...then they moved ahead to 60s/70s,
and then 70s/80s (some 60s) based. When will WODS start doing some 90s songs? Eventually...?

Maybe they're appealing to the baby boomers, a huge demo, and they keep sliding forward
to touch at least part of that generation. It was said that maybe it was a sign they shouldn't
play 50s tunes anymore because the generation that grew up in the 50s was now retiring...

And you wonder when they will cut off the 60s. I'm thinking of a group, two of whose members
did not live to see 70 years old. One was cut down by an assassin's bullet at the age of only 40;
the other died of cancer, IIRC, at 58; now the eldest member the group just turned 70--and yes he gets by with a little help from his friends! You know who I'm talking about (and of
course the other member will turn 70 in 2012...). You wonder when they figure the Beatles
are "old hat" (or Motown--Supremes, etc.) But yes the stuff WHTT was playing is now
being heard on WODS, it seems...time marches on! Eventually they'd become an (oops, can't
say the 'o'-word!)--a station for the Gen X generation to play hits of THEIR youth?

(If the "Mike" format weren't doing so well, I wonder if Entercom might have tried to make
93.7 "WRKO-FM" with hits of 60s, 70s, etc! Bring back those old jingles! 680 and 93.7 were
sister stations years ago; of course, I remember when 98.5 was their sister station. Now
98.5 is a competitor to Entercom's WEEI with sports, but I digress!)

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Think of it this way: If this was 1980, then the same oldies (age-wise) would be from 1956 and mostly sound crude (in terms of fidelity), ancient and out of place, except on either a dedicated "real" oldies station or a specialty show——not on a tight CHR or even a more diverse top-40 that sprinkled in "contemporary oldies" from (then) 5-10 years ago (i.e., 1970-75).
Yet today, 2010, most everything back from the beginning of the "video age" (i.e., about 1980, or 30 years ago) sounds compatible with most of the techno-pop(-crap) put out today, and those same "contemporary oldies" from 1970-75 (even a little older) sound perfectly fine and contemporary on a current (now, 2010) broad playlisted top-40 or AC station (such as Magic), as well as classic hits/rock stations!

 

[diamondj]

When Mike was "Eagle 93-7 - playing all the hits of the 70s," they used to run bumpers something like "if it was on WRKO, it's on Eagle 93-7."
Imagine if WODS used "if it was on WHTT, you're hearing it on WODS."

Just a couple of observations:
Matt Reid has sounded great as fill-in on both WODS and Mix 104-1 - not too many jocks can sound like they fit in with two eras of music, but Matt pulls it off.
The July 4th weekend "countdown" brought back some songs I thought WODS had dropped from playing; but once it was over, they disappeared again. You'd think with 25-30 years of music, you could widen the variety more than another format limited to playing only "today's best music."
I would say that the only commercial station that you can listen to two days in a row and NOT hear a song repeated is WZLX. Could this be part of the reason for ZLX doing well these days?

 

[FPB]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Sorry. I don't see any irony whatsoever. 24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does? I really don't see your point.

 

[radiorama1]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Sorry. I don't see any irony whatsoever. 24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does? I really don't see your point.

Well I see Retro's point!

I think that Retro was alluding to the fact that many of us who were fond of WHTT back in the day are enjoying hearing many of those tunes on 103.3 again. 8)

Now, if they would just turn the reverb back on! ;D

 

[Seltzer]

But yes the stuff WHTT was playing is now
being heard on WODS, it seems...time marches on! Eventually they'd become an (oops, can't
say the 'o'-word!)--a station for the Gen X generation to play hits of THEIR youth?

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There are stations that have popped up in Louisville, Memphis, Harrisburg, and a few other markets that are Gen X stations..late 80s through early 00s "gold" Depending how these stations show in ratings, I'd expect to see this trend migrate to Boston and New England as well in the next 6 months.

 

[Garrett]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Sorry. I don't see any irony whatsoever. 24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does? I really don't see your point.

Except that WODS isn't "Oldies," its "Classic Hits."

 

[Retro]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Sorry. I don't see any irony whatsoever. 24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does? I really don't see your point.

Well I see Retro's point!

I think that Retro was alluding to the fact that many of us who were fond of WHTT back in the day are enjoying hearing many of those tunes on 103.3 again. 8)

Now, if they would just turn the reverb back on! ;D

Exactly, a station that used to play these songs is now playing those songs again! I will admit it is kinda odd hearing a Madonna song up against a Monkees song though.

 

[Blackroc]

Mix's Back to the 80's Friday is a good show that fits in on 104.1

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

Now, if they would just turn the reverb back on! ;D

YES!!!!! And jack up the compression like it used to be: Barry Scott used to have decent processing, but lately it's been as lame as the rest of the time——the only exception being American Top-40, after his show, which has near EXCELLENT compression...throw in some reverb before the AT-40 type compression and the processing would probably be perfect! ;D

 

[Retro]

Mix's Back to the 80's Friday is a good show that fits in on 104.1

Ok, I am not trying to pick a fight here, but your point?

 

[landtuna]

24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does?

"Oldies" are the first generation of Rock n Roll (1955ish-1964ish).

"Classic Hits" (1964ish-1980ish) are the second generation.

There is no third generation as all pop music after the early 80's is crap. ;D

 

[Uncle Kaimbridge]

There is no third generation as all pop music after the early 80's is crap. ;D

Touché!!!!!

 

[Retro]

Opinions, opinions.

 

[12 In a Row]

24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does?

"Oldies" are the first generation of Rock n Roll (1955ish-1964ish).

"Classic Hits" (1964ish-1980ish) are the second generation.

There is no third generation as all pop music after the early 80's is crap. ;D

HEY YOU WHIPPER SNAPPERS, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Last sentence reminds me when I was a kid my parents would say, "that rock n roll is not music, it's crap. The good music ended when Glenn Miller died."

Every generation has/had good and bad stuff. There is some great current music.

 

[landtuna]

There is some great current music.

Just not of the pop variety.

 

[CTListener]

That WODS is now playing songs that WHTT used to play? Now I know its been 24 years since they changed formats, but still.

Sorry. I don't see any irony whatsoever. 24 years is what creates an "Oldie". If not, then what does? I really don't see your point.

Except that WODS isn't "Oldies," its "Classic Hits."

It plays songs that are more than 20 years old. That's what oldies stations used to do back in the '80s, isn't it? Just because they're not playing 45-to-55-year-old songs anymore doesn't change anything. Those 1980s oldies stations weren't playing '40s and '30s music either.

 

[CTListener]

There is some great current music.

Just not of the pop variety.

Natasha Bedingfield's and Colbie Caillat's songs would be first-rate pop confections regardless of the decade they came out. True, much of the pop and hip-hop seems to be created strictly for its 20-second ringtone marketability, but there are still catchy tunes out there; they just don't follow that verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus template that served popular music so well since the Tin Pan Alley days anymore. Times change.

 

[landtuna]

Natasha Bedingfield's and Colbie Caillat's songs would be first-rate pop confections regardless of the decade they came out.

That must be why those names are on the tip of everyone's tongue.