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DRC-FM: another attempt to add '80s/drop '50s?

C

CTListener

It occurred to me the other day that I hadn't heard any pre-British Invasion music on DRC-FM outside of the Saturday and Sunday night shifts (Ron Sedaille and Gay Johnson) for a couple of weeks, so I did a little yes.com research and can report that, outside of the weekend request shows, the lone pre-Beatles song to get a spin on 102.9 in the past six days was Sam Cooke's "Shake," played Wednesday morning. However, I noticed several '80s titles I hadn't heard on DRC since its aborted "Big Hits" experiment of fall/winter '05-'06: among them, Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days," Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" and Hall & Oates' "Out of Touch" (big personal thumbs-up for adding this -- my all-time favorite by them) and "Kiss on My List."

So, will DRC-FM take the big leap to whole-hog "classic hits" -- i.e., lose Gerry & the Pacemakers, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Clarence Carter, Honey Cone, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Billy Stewart, Mark Lindsay, etc., and concentrate on top rock hits and album tracks from about 1968 to 1985 -- or continue to try to hang on to at least a portion of the aging "traditional oldies" audience with pop and soul that don't really fit the format? Wouldn't advertisers be more likely to respond positively to a higher-energy more focused approach?
 
I don't mind some of the 80's as long they don't run the early rap crap and late 80,s Madonna tunes and they should keep the 50's 60's tunes , thats where the roots of rock n roll started.
 
I noticed the same thing while passing through last week. Suddenly, I was hearing a lot more Steve Miller, Springsteen and Fleetwood Mac and a whole lot less music from the 60's. Sure, there were still a few gems - but I also found myself punching them out pretty often. And that's something I hadn't done much of in a year.

It was obvious enough for me to wonder what in the heck they're doing. Actually, I can guess. They're trying to bring down the demos (as before) which will, in the end, result in bringing down all of the numbers (as before). I wonder who it is that got this ball rolling.

It's too bad....really too bad.
 
They can bring down the demos easily, just adjust the audio to something worse than they have now (if that's possible).

I noticed the futzing with the music, but it's hard to judge since I've been opting to CBS-FM while in the car so I don't have the reference readily in my mind. I find CBS-FM a better listen these days, although it's not the same station many on the New York board have been lamenting about.
 
The Dude said:
Its sad,BIG D 103 was the best for many years!!
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It's even more sad when you grew up listening to a station for more than 35 years and have seen it rise and fall worse than the Roman Empire.
 
Maybe this is the last straw before they drop the oldies thing altogether.Which I will be shocked if they do change, I agree on the sound of the station, It's in the mud.The Aol XM radio I tune in here on this computer to listen to Caseys AT40 reruns on saturday and sunday sounds better then the BigD.
 
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