First Listen To PopGoldRadio.com

[RADIO TRUTH]

It's yet another attempt to recreate the audio sound of 60s top forty radio with all digital processing. It's about at the same level as dental radio minus the dental floss, smell of cloves and pictures of diseased teeth. Both services have minimal to no personality. You can put the Sirius 60s Channel in the same boat because both of the services listed above are about at the same level as the Sirius 60s Channel. All of these services lack two big things.

1-Talent-without personality and quick, off-the-cuff humor, you basically have a jukebox.
2-Real Vintage Audio Processing-None of them sound right with all this virtual compression and reverb crap.

Listen for yourself. You will hear the consistent mediocrity. The record level of audience for dental radio listening at one time is 198. I would expect http://www.popgoldradio.com to be about in the same audience boat. It's like two trees falling in the forest. Do they make a noise?

 

[nd2023]

Good talent won't work for free, ya know.

 

[wgliradio]

You do realize that overprocessed audio for streaming can wreck the codec and cause all sorts of problems. Old analog processors with their clipping doesn't translate well on the web. Keeping a high density level for AM transmission isn't needed here. It was one of the annoying aspects of the Solid Gold Time Machine

As for the talent, I've always liked Tandler. I don't think the idea here is to recreate the 60's sound as much as it is to provide a forum for the music and add some commentary about it. The quick wit is not needed after every cut

 

[RADIO TRUTH]

I think they are trying to make it sound like 60s radio minus the talent. There is another thing on this service that is reminiscent of 60s top forty small market radio. That is the spliced up jingles and jingle tracks as a way to avoid paying for real jingles. If this is a hobby, then it's no big deal just like the dental channel. If this is meant to ever make any money and get any significant audience, then it is schlock radio and good luck with your 200 listeners who's average age is over 60 and not getting any younger.

 

[BruceS8852]

I admire Allan Sniffen, Tom Lawler and Don Tandler for their enthusiasm for oldies radio. They are producing Rewound Radio and Pop Gold Radio with their own money. The internet connections and rights to play the music so cost them. They don't have the resources available to a major market radio station. I listen to many broadcast, satellite, and internet radio stations and do enjoy what the three offer to the community of oldies listeners.

Bruce

 

[wgliradio]

I admire Allan Sniffen, Tom Lawler and Don Tandler for their enthusiasm for oldies radio. They are producing Rewound Radio and Pop Gold Radio with their own money. The internet connections and rights to play the music so cost them. They don't have the resources available to a major market radio station. I listen to many broadcast, satellite, and internet radio stations and do enjoy what the three offer to the community of oldies listeners.

Bruce

Amen

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

Speaking of dental radio, his Dan Ingram Aircheck Weekend has been pretty wonderful so far. "Big Apple has boneless roasts, rolled and tied -- oo, 'rolled and tied', sounds like fun!". Brilliant stuff.

 

[erwin33]

What's popgoldradio.com using for soundprocessing?

 

[RADIO TRUTH]

I admire Allan Sniffen, Tom Lawler and Don Tandler for their enthusiasm for oldies radio. They are producing Rewound Radio and Pop Gold Radio with their own money. The internet connections and rights to play the music so cost them. They don't have the resources available to a major market radio station. I listen to many broadcast, satellite, and internet radio stations and do enjoy what the three offer to the community of oldies listeners.

Bruce

I understand why you would feel that way. You're getting all these various services, no matter the level of quality, for free but, from a business perspective, if you are delivering any type of internet audio service and you're not making it a money making proposition and you have no business plan, you're a pathetic putz.

 

[radioman148]

Why be so bitter "Radio Truth?"

 

[BruceS8852]

but, from a business perspective, if you are delivering any type of internet audio service and you're not making it a money making proposition and you have no business plan, you're a pathetic putz.

Allan Sniffen, Tom Lawler and Don Tandler are not trying to make money from their internet radio stations. They are doing it for their love of oldies and radio.

Bruce

 

[wgliradio]

All of these services seem to want to just cover expenses vis donations or Cafe Press. I don't think anyone is looking to be a millionaire.

I guarentee if you were to start an internet station that exactly modeled a 60's station, as Ricky wants, that station would have an initial buzz and then just fade. I think just like Richard Chamberlan and the Kinks were back to back on the PopGold Top 1000, times have changed and you'd never hear the Chamberlain record today. When people listen to oildies stations, what they "remember" is very selective. Only "radio geeks" who lovw that time may remember MOST of it at best.

 

[RADIO TRUTH]

Allan Sniffen, Tom Lawler and Don Tandler are not trying to make money from their internet radio stations. They are doing it for their love of oldies and radio.

Bruce

This website supposedly exists for broadcasters even though a majority of the people on here are radio groupies. If the three listed above are doing it strictly as a hobby and are considered amateurs, with no hope or desire to make money, then more power to them as an expensive hobby. I would think that anybody who is a real professional broadcaster with some real talent would only do it as a real profit making business and a real business plan and cash projections. The three listed above are just amateur hobbyists and not professionals.

 

[bigtom101]

This website supposedly exists for broadcasters even though a majority of the people on here are radio groupies. If the three listed above are doing it strictly as a hobby and are considered amateurs, with no hope or desire to make money, then more power to them as an expensive hobby. I would think that anybody who is a real professional broadcaster with some real talent would only do it as a real profit making business and a real business plan and cash projections. The three listed above are just amateur hobbyists and not professionals.

Don Tandler works at New Jersey 101.5, and has worked at numerous other stations up and down the dial since the 70's. Tom Lawler is currently PD/Mornings at WHTG AM (along with airwork on The Breeze and Thunder 106), and has worked at other stations in NJ including New Jersey 101.5, Magic 98.3, WOBM (AM and FM), and others. I do not know Mr. Sniffens background, but I know he has worked at stations in Poughkeepsie. I'd say that they are more professional than many others out there. Maybe they do have a business plan, maybe not. Maybe they want a test bed to show potential consulting clients what they can do. Or maybe they really want to do something without the constraints of most corporate radio, and if it can keep itself going on donations, then mazel.

It's only day three. Time will tell if it is a go or not.

 

[mjb1124]

I haven't gotten a chance to listen to Pop Gold Radio, but from what I know of Tandler and Lawler, they are true professionals who understand good radio and have a very strong passion for oldies. I enjoy hearing both of them on the air, and have little doubt that I will enjoy what they've put together.

And although I have my reasons for not wanting to post at Allan Sniffen's message boards, I have to admit that Rewound Radio has a good mix of music along with some nice jingles, and Allan clearly seems to be having fun with it in a way that rubs off on at least this particular listener. Plus, it's also nice to hear the occasional weekends devoted to airchecks, like the Dan Ingram ones this weekend.

But hey, critics will be critics.