Then they are more noticeable now than they used to be, which usually means they increased their rotation.
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Has America's Best Music Eliminated All Adult Standards?
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Then they are more noticeable now than they used to be, which usually means they increased their rotation.
WMST in Mount Sterling, KY, has a link to the last hour or two's worth of the America's Best Music playlist. You can track it here. A Gloria Estefan standard and classic Johnny Mathis both played shortly ago. I check in on it from time-to-time. The playlist has changed very little over the past four years or so.
John Gleason is on right now.
John Gleason hasnt worked for Westwood One in several years, WEBQ appears to be running the local radio networks standards format.. im an LRN Talent on another format and friends with Jim Bosh on facebook (The morning man on WEBQ)
Any relation to David?
None. I am, apparently, closer related to the Gleason's of Mexico. They are descendants of one of the St Patrick's Battalion, Irish deserters from the US forces that invaded Mexico in 1846 and who survived and raised a family there. There are a number of scholars and notable politicians with that name in Mexico.
Whats also interesting about John Gleason..
He was the evening guy for the ABM format when i worked for a 2 FM/1 AM cluster that picked up ABM on the AM in 2013... i picked john as our voice guy and he voiced everything... rather than seperate liners voiced by each jock for their daypart... i left in 2014........ came back in 2017, station was still running ABM, still using johns voice.... they dropped ABM for talk, that last a year, went back to ABM, and are probably using johns voice again.
when john intially joined LRN, he did the evening shift on classic country and im the overnight guy for the format, so that was another interesting connection between us two
I didn't say he did. WPTX has DJs who know what song they played but don't know where they are.
I didn't mention Jackie Gleason. They have the same name!
And he can show up in the format. Given how America's Best Music has changed, he won't. WPTX does seem to include some more songs that lean standards but probably not this much. On the other hand, they have songs in the opposite direction as well.
Thats because stations get X amount of localized breaks per day and stations often spread them out to AM and PM drive if theyre limited on the amount they get
WPTX has very short commercial breaks most of the time. It doesn't sound like the music is coming from anywhere. Unless you know a way a satellite format can have one commercial at a time. There was a big band station in the Charlotte area that used to do that. Sometimes it was a song and a commercial and a song and a commercial.
There is a way to know if it's satellite delivered or not. It might be possible for a spot, then music if the service has national spots that play. Some services play a couple of 60 second spot breaks hourly. The dead giveaway is if the song after the spot goes to silence for a quick second followed by a station liner and another song. You can time out the song after the commercial too, it might be 2:30 or 3 minutes exactly.
Tell me what you think of this.
It's just after l:00 Eastern. I heard a song end, the legal station ID, then an abbreviated Fox News newscast, a station ID, then a song, then a station ID, then a song, then a DJ saying "As we begin another hour", identifying the previous song as being Bobby Vinton, the next as Gloria Estefan, and Joe Cocker and someone else coming up. Then ... oh, yeah, it was Brook Benton. I would call his song a standard too. There was no station ID before the song, which isn't important. Then there was a station ID and Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. Oh, maybe the DJ mentioned them both. The DJ is Rod Tanner and he identified the previous song and said Cher and Peter Cetera are coming up with "After All". There were three commercials, which is unusual for this station. Then a station ID and "After All".
I heard two standards in a row, which is unusual even for this station. If you can call Bobby Vinton and Patsy Cline standards, but I would.
And it happened again. One of these songs by either Michael Buble or Harry Connick Jr. which is obviously a new version of an old song, and "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck. Today is a good day. So far.
Okay, I knew it couldn't last. "Every Time You Go away" by Paul Young. And that's when I go away.
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Note that it was Cocker and Warnes that got played next, in that order, not Cocker and Benton, as announced before the Estefan song was played. I believe that's a relic of the days when record companies (and the radio stations they serviced) wanted to make things as hard as possible for listeners with tape recorders, so the stations never played the songs they would preview in that manner in exact order. Often, if three songs were billboarded as "coming up this hour," you wouldn't hear the third of them until :52!
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That was not a record company request… it was stations doing what we call Quarter Hour Maintenance to extend listening time.
Do you mean they played separate Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes songs one after the other, or their famous duet, "Up Where We Belong"?
Yes, it was the duet.
Not sure if I've plugged this station before here, but nonprofit WJMJ, Hartford, CT, has a playlist of at least 1,500 (likely more) songs from every decade from the '50s through the '10s -- mostly pop and AC/MOR but some country, R&B and disco as well. The only drawback is interruptions 3 or 4 times an hour for ABC and local news, "Catholic news" (heavy on social issues and politics), and a couple of mini-sermons. The player can be found at WJMJ-FM.
Here's a recent hour:
Here's a recent hour:
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