Radio_Realist said:
It's interesting that you're playing the "music is different" card when you've also said that WJAS and 13Q have the same format because it's a combination of music and DJ patter.
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It's interesting that you're playing the "music is different" card when you've also said that WJAS and 13Q have the same format because it's a combination of music and DJ patter.
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you've also said that WJAS and 13Q have the same format because it's a combination of music and DJ patter.
{sigh} I guess I have to explain it. What are called "formats" can be compared to a branching tree. Formats divide into sub-formats, and sub-sub-formats, etc. But for simplicity, some simple people have to simply use the word "format" because they can't handle complexity.
In the totality of radio broadcasting, there exists spoken word programming and music programming. That's the most fundamental division. Spoken word programming is one format, music programming is another. Both of those formats contain a little of the other. In the spoken word format, they use bumper music. In the music format there is speech between songs. But basically, those are two separate formats. WJAS and 13Q both are examples of music format radio.
Spoken word formats can be divided into sub-formats like sports talk, political talk, "hot" talk, etc. Music formats can be subdivided into sub-formats based on factors like the genre of music played (pop, rock, country, ethnic, classical, etc.). Those sub-formats can be divided into sub-sub-formats based on other factors, like pop from certain bygone decades, "classic" rock, etc. Or the can be defined further by other factors, limited only by the imagination of the person doing the station programming. Which, in Pittsburgh, means no imagination at all.
I can see where anyone who can't understand the branching of music format radio into sub-formats might not grasp the point that when comparing two music format stations to any spoken word format station, the two music format stations would both be considered the same format.
{sigh} I guess I have to explain it. What are called "formats" can be compared to a branching tree. Formats divide into sub-formats, and sub-sub-formats, etc. But for simplicity, some simple people have to simply use the word "format" because they can't handle complexity.
In the totality of radio broadcasting, there exists spoken word programming and music programming. That's the most fundamental division. Spoken word programming is one format, music programming is another. Both of those formats contain a little of the other. In the spoken word format, they use bumper music. In the music format there is speech between songs. But basically, those are two separate formats. WJAS and 13Q both are examples of music format radio.
Spoken word formats can be divided into sub-formats like sports talk, political talk, "hot" talk, etc. Music formats can be subdivided into sub-formats based on factors like the genre of music played (pop, rock, country, ethnic, classical, etc.). Those sub-formats can be divided into sub-sub-formats based on other factors, like pop from certain bygone decades, "classic" rock, etc. Or the can be defined further by other factors, limited only by the imagination of the person doing the station programming. Which, in Pittsburgh, means no imagination at all.
I can see where anyone who can't understand the branching of music format radio into sub-formats might not grasp the point that when comparing two music format stations to any spoken word format station, the two music format stations would both be considered the same format.
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Rather than start a new thread about Christmas music, I thought I'd bring this one back.
Now that it is finally getting close to Christmas, it strikes me that it's finally time for Christmas music.
I was subjected to the really awful selection of Christmas music on 3WS when some of the guys at work got to the radio before I did. Even now, when it's finally time for Christmas music, I still don't like their selection.
However, 92.9 and 99.7 both seem to have very nice selections of Christmas music. They don't seem to play as many of those really annoying novelty songs like the Hippopatamus song, or the one about the Italian jackass. They do seem to do a nice job of blending the songs together. All in all, those two stations strike me as tied for the second best selection of Christmas songs.
The best selection is channel 401 on Comcast cable.
Now that it is finally getting close to Christmas, it strikes me that it's finally time for Christmas music.
I was subjected to the really awful selection of Christmas music on 3WS when some of the guys at work got to the radio before I did. Even now, when it's finally time for Christmas music, I still don't like their selection.
However, 92.9 and 99.7 both seem to have very nice selections of Christmas music. They don't seem to play as many of those really annoying novelty songs like the Hippopatamus song, or the one about the Italian jackass. They do seem to do a nice job of blending the songs together. All in all, those two stations strike me as tied for the second best selection of Christmas songs.
The best selection is channel 401 on Comcast cable.
amen to the comcast channel radio realist.
After Christmas
So, with all this talk about Christmas this and that, could we see a slight twique to the 3ws playlist? Like hits of the 70's and 80's for example?
So, with all this talk about Christmas this and that, could we see a slight twique to the 3ws playlist? Like hits of the 70's and 80's for example?
Good minds think alike Ohio Radio man. I definitely think 3WS goes 70's and 80's after christmas, because before 3WS went christmas, they were playing between 2 and 4 80's songs an hour. I think that was a taste test.
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Like hits of the 70's and 80's for example?
ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Is no one aware that aside from hard core radio geeks (like those who participate in here) and a few music geeks, most of the great unwashed masses don't remember if an old song was 27 years old or only 24 years old? You people make such a big deal out of whether 3WS will cross some mystical chronological threshold and start playing songs recorded after January 1, 1980. Can't you just accept that 3WS plays old songs and not get hung up on the years the songs were recorded?
Ever since they started playing oldies (even though they dropped that word), 3WS has always played a small handful of songs that are between approximately 25 and 45 years old. In 2006, that meant songs from 1961 to 1981. In 2007, that will mean songs from 1962 to 1982. That date shift is a simple natural progression, not some big earth-shaking format change.
I'd be far more excited if 3WS was going to increase their playlist so that they didn't play the same few songs over and over and over and over and over regardless of whether or not they move the markers on the range of years they'll play songs from a little bit. I mean, if you consider how many songs were hits between the years 1962 and 1982, you'd think 3WS wouldn't have to keep repeating the same few ad nauseum.
ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Is no one aware that aside from hard core radio geeks (like those who participate in here) and a few music geeks, most of the great unwashed masses don't remember if an old song was 27 years old or only 24 years old? You people make such a big deal out of whether 3WS will cross some mystical chronological threshold and start playing songs recorded after January 1, 1980. Can't you just accept that 3WS plays old songs and not get hung up on the years the songs were recorded?
Ever since they started playing oldies (even though they dropped that word), 3WS has always played a small handful of songs that are between approximately 25 and 45 years old. In 2006, that meant songs from 1961 to 1981. In 2007, that will mean songs from 1962 to 1982. That date shift is a simple natural progression, not some big earth-shaking format change.
I'd be far more excited if 3WS was going to increase their playlist so that they didn't play the same few songs over and over and over and over and over regardless of whether or not they move the markers on the range of years they'll play songs from a little bit. I mean, if you consider how many songs were hits between the years 1962 and 1982, you'd think 3WS wouldn't have to keep repeating the same few ad nauseum.
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