To those who enjoyed the soft A/C on EZ-102.9 I have a suggestion for you... Sirius/XM Love. They play a lot of the songs that have been forgotten by A/C radio from the '70's,'80's and '90's. I'm not trying to sell anything I don't work for Sirius/XM.
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WDUV in Tampa plays all that good stuff like Lionel Ritchie, Kenny Rogers, Dolly, Barbra, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Gladys Knight, Air Supply, and all the soccer mom stuff from 1985 or so on great radio stations like EZ-104 in Charlotte before EZ-102.9 and EZ-104 in Richmond. WDUV streams online and I don't work for Cox.
Mike Sheridan brings up a good point, do enough people remember or care? I think we care because we are old radio folks that cling to those fun days... but the general public? I'm afraid we would be disappointed in the number of people who really care anymore. It's sad and I may be, and hope I am, wrong. But we are in a different day in broadcasting that I don't think folks depend on radio like they did 40 years ago.
I sent an email to a radio programmer years ago because I was frustrated that on a 70's Sunday, I heard the same oldie twice in one day - with all of the gazzillion things you could play and still leave good things out. His response, "whether you like it or not, the ratings respond to hits and songs that test well... a small playlist gets the ratings..."
One issue I think we face as radio folks was getting tired of some of the hits. I was always a fan of something like Ian Gomm's "Hold On", a one hit wonder that I imagine didn't break the Top Ten... or "Living Next Door To Alice" by Smokie... as for "You Light Up My Life", I could have broke that record and buried it under the tower because I was so sick of it...
Anyway, I am often wrong so...
I sent an email to a radio programmer years ago because I was frustrated that on a 70's Sunday, I heard the same oldie twice in one day - with all of the gazzillion things you could play and still leave good things out. His response, "whether you like it or not, the ratings respond to hits and songs that test well... a small playlist gets the ratings..."
One issue I think we face as radio folks was getting tired of some of the hits. I was always a fan of something like Ian Gomm's "Hold On", a one hit wonder that I imagine didn't break the Top Ten... or "Living Next Door To Alice" by Smokie... as for "You Light Up My Life", I could have broke that record and buried it under the tower because I was so sick of it...
Anyway, I am often wrong so...
Somehow or other I managed to post this here instead of the topic where Sheridan mentioned whether a Big Ways format would work now...
My "often wrong" comment proves true...
My "often wrong" comment proves true...
Kent Dorsey said:
Appreciated anyway!
Kent Dorsey said:
Oh man I received a lesson in this very thing from a friend who had been a radio engineer. I was sure he'd have a wide variety in his musical tastes. It turned out his taste was very narrow, even within the same artists. So I guess it's people like that they program for and not people like me or may I say "us".
I'm also getting old, it seems like all the news stuff today with a few exceptions isn't bad but it just doesn't stand out. It all sounds the same to me.
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