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! ! ! Happy 46th Anniversary WDRC-FM ! ! !

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DJ Jim Wayne

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They've been playing RnR since they dumped CBS 46 years ago. Not a bad run.
The audio sounds pretty good, too!
I can't wait to see what they do for their 50th.
Anyone care to predict if they'll flip before their 50th??
 
How long have they been playing oldies or classic hits? I seem to remember the station carrying Casey Casem's "American Top 40" for a time in the 1980s.
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
How long have they been playing oldies or classic hits? I seem to remember the station carrying Casey Casem's "American Top 40" for a time in the 1980s.
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I must be old ... I remember them playing American Top 40 back in the 70's and listening to it on my crummy old transistor radio!
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
How long have they been playing oldies or classic hits? I seem to remember the station carrying Casey Casem's "American Top 40" for a time in the 1980s.
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I remember it also :)

I remember hearing "Welcome to the hotel california" on it!!
 
MarcB said:
I believe DRC-FM flipped to oldies in 1988. In fact a DJ from Country 92.5 and a DJ from DRC-FM were on a Public Access TV show on COX-15 last year or the year before and they said DRC-FM almost went country, but WWYZ beat them to it.
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I think DRC-FM went oldies in '86. WWYZ's flip to country happened two years later -- odd that Buckley was thinking about taking DRC-FM country after only two years in a format that, with several tweaks, it has stuck with now for 20.

I'm beginning to wonder if a flip might happen sooner than later. They seem to be running a couple of hundred songs into the ground on weekdays, an odd assortment of songs at that: tried-and-true numbers like "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "I Can't Help Myself" get at least two spins a day, but so do semi-obscurities like Jay Ferguson's "Thunder Island" and Junior Walker's version of "How Sweet It Is." And scarcely an hour goes by without a burned-out classic rocker by Steve Miller, Peter Frampton or the Eagles getting airplay. Only on weekends does the playlist expand. Also, whatever "oh wow"-quality oldies get played seem to make it into fairly heavy rotation for a few weeks, then disappear: I heard Robin McNamara's "Lay a Little Lovin' on Me" several times in a month's time, but it's gone now. Last week, I heard the Poppy Family's "Which Way You Going, Billy" three or four times, plus once on the Saturday request show.

I have no idea how they're programming music there, but it sure is repetitive these days for anyone who listens to the station for more than an hour a day. I could understand it (if not LIKE it) if they'd gone to the "safe 300" oldies that stations like WODS in Boston play, but I can't understand a rotation that apparently gives "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Thunder Island" equal weight.
 
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