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Hippie Radio???

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This came in the email from Radio World:

"“Radio for Baby Boomers”, a.k.a. “Hippie Radio”, goes on the air in Elkhart, Indiana next week, says Radio Branding Solutions. The boomer-targeted 24/7 music format will replace the talk lineup at Federated Media’s WTRC (1340). The station has been talk since 2002, and plans the flip to classic hits on Friday, August 21. Hippie Radio’s also got 24-hour affiliates in Peoria and Bay City, TX."

I looked at the listings for Bay City - and can't figure out which station they might be referring to. A couple of them might be able to fill the oldies gap for at least part of the SW Houston area.
 
There are some amusing thoughts in this thread.

Hippie Radio = Happy Radio? I guess it was the intention of the "hippies" to enjoy life.... and yet from a distance they didn't seem to be a "happy" people. If they were happy, then why would they need/crave/turn to drugs which is one of the images of the hippie era.

I realize those are all stereotypes and I continue to be amazed when someone I know socially finally gets around to telling you what a hippie they were back in the day. Recently I had a reasonably "square" interim pastor who is so bald that he looks like he NEVER had hair, tell a story about showing up at the gate of one of the exclusive resorts in West Virginia back in his hippie days with his long hair and his VW. (His doctor father had often visited the resort, so he wanted to see it.) With a sly smile the now bald preacher related that the guard and the gate rather firmly told him what he could do with his beard, his long hair and his VW.

Which raises the question: who DO you program to if you are going to have a happy/hippy/ oldies format? Balding, square preachers? The scruffy guys on motorcycles who organize the motorcades for funerals of Viet Nam veterans? The lawyers and doctors who take their families to West Virginia posh resorts for vacations today? That must make for some interesting staff meetings at the radio station.
 
Goat Rodeo Cowboy said:
There are some amusing thoughts in this thread.

Hippie Radio = Happy Radio? I guess it was the intention of the "hippies" to enjoy life.... and yet from a distance they didn't seem to be a "happy" people. If they were happy, then why would they need/crave/turn to drugs which is one of the images of the hippie era.

I realize those are all stereotypes and I continue to be amazed when someone I know socially finally gets around to telling you what a hippie they were back in the day. Recently I had a reasonably "square" interim pastor who is so bald that he looks like he NEVER had hair, tell a story about showing up at the gate of one of the exclusive resorts in West Virginia back in his hippie days with his long hair and his VW. (His doctor father had often visited the resort, so he wanted to see it.) With a sly smile the now bald preacher related that the guard and the gate rather firmly told him what he could do with his beard, his long hair and his VW.

Which raises the question: who DO you program to if you are going to have a happy/hippy/ oldies format? Balding, square preachers? The scruffy guys on motorcycles who organize the motorcades for funerals of Viet Nam veterans? The lawyers and doctors who take their families to West Virginia posh resorts for vacations today? That must make for some interesting staff meetings at the radio station.
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Yeah - the gogo dancers have hip replacements, the voices are gone, stomachs are hanging out, "Young Rebels" turned into "oldies" themselves - I saw that episode of Zack and Cody.

As for hippie preachers, it was my experience that most of the Jesus freaks of that era were really shallow - Norman Greenbaum's heresy: "I've never sinned" / Doobie Brothers "Jesus is Just All Right" / type of stuff. Better than nothing, but I wouldn't count on seeing those guys in heaven as they spouted out "Jesus is my friend" - all the time doing drugs and living immorally.

I think the news release touted hippie radio as a new format just signing on the 21st. I don't see "Happy" and "Hippie" being the same thing, unless they re-brand slightly for different markets.
 
http://hippieradio.net/

Interesting stuff - 1964 to 1973. I wonder if it would be a success in the Houston market? It seems to roughly parallel what XM Sirius does on 60's on 6.
 
As for KKHA Happy Radio in Markham 92.5, they've been calling themselves Happy Radio for quite a while before the Hippie Radio thing came along.

I'm still not sure if they are the ones in the Bay City area that might be changing to Hippie Radio, but I dont think KMKS Country or KIOX Classic Country would change their formats.
 
It's the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. They can just track the Woodstock albums over and over. That is a bigger playlist than many stations have. After that, we can jump right into Christmas music.
 
Checking out the play lists.... Hippie Radio is nothing more than AM Hits of the 60's and AM Hits of the 70's.....

I guess it's for all the Hippies that were cool enough to listen to "AM" in the late 60's and early 70's......

But --NOT-- cool enough to listen to FM Underground stations.....

I would classify it as "HIPPIE LITE"

"Everything is Beautiful" . . .
 
From the sounds of this thread, you'd think that us old guys don't deserve a format that we would enjoy. But, it's okay to have every flavor of hispanic formats, every flavor of sports or talk formats, every flavor of country formats and every flavor of AC formats. But, to hell with the old guys. I've actually listened to that station in Bay City and enjoy it, even though the audio quality leaves something to be desired. It reminds me of when we listened to music on AM. It beats the crap that's on the radio nowdays. I'm not an old hippie. Never did drugs, never drove a VW bus and never went to Woodstock. But I am bald and probably square by today's defintion. So, why does everyone on here put us old farts down for wanting to listen to our kind of music?
 
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