I-93

[CHRles]

I don't think there's anything wrong with playing "Not Meant To Be" on a Lite Rock station. It's very middle of the road, just like Journey and REO Speedwagon were in the 80s. If part of the AC audience, namely females, seems to enjoy these type of songs than it should be added and played.
The library constantly needs to be updated - can't just draw the line after 1991. The music defined as Adult Contemporary changes every decade and with every generation. Just as Disco suddenly became okay to play in the 90s, or the way Hot AC stations suddenly jumped on the Modern AC bandwagon.
Audience tastes can change overtime. 106.7 FM in New York even plays songs like "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira. Probably in part b/c it was a big record at weddings, corporate parties, and other events where adults were exposed to it, and enjoyed it.

If KVIL can play Disco music from the Bee Gees and Country songs from Big & Rich or Martrina Mcbride, uptempo Pop/Rock like "All Star" by Smash Mouth then they can surely cherrypick certain Modern Rock ballads.

 

[txchipk]

I was a PD at lets say KVIL. That station to me is Adult Contemporary. I wouldn't be playing gaga, Cyrus, and most of this new stuff. I'd stick to stuff like Foreigner, the eagles, air supply, Amy Grant, Wilson Phillips and artists like that. Easy listening (Light Rock)

Yeah, same goes for that crossover country garbage being played on a LIGHT ROCK station. Why??

During Ron Chapman's tenure, KVIL played crossover country as well. In the '90s, KVIL was playing Faith Hill and Shania Twain songs. Of course, let's not forget the mid-80s, when it (and even then top 40 KTKS) was playing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpn-GYsKSc

 

[txchipk]

I was (sort of) stuck listening to I-93 last Sunday night. I don't really hear a Kiss competitor there. All I heard was a slew of songs by a different barely-pubescent-sounding Hispanic kid on each one. Maybe it was a "feature CD" or "homie" hour, or perhaps this is what Top 40 consists of these days. I was not impressed. If music today is nothing more than the Grandkids of Menudo trying to make a buck, count me out. After 20 mins or so, I found an off-ramp on I-93 and went somewhere else. Of course, I'm not 18 anymore, but we really didn't have this annoyance when I was. (OK, we had the New Edition and the kids who sang, "Pass the Dutchie.")

Or maybe Cumulus is trying to ruin the format the same way they poisoned the Classic Rock concept at The Bone.

Question...will we actually have any "classics" out of this generation of music? Hell, count the whole 2000's. Will KLUV be playing this crap in 20 years? Will we ever yearn for the old school days of Jay-Z and Kon-yee West? (Kinda like what cars of the last 10-15 years will ever be considered "classics"? And don't count "retro" vehicles...they're ripoffs of classics.)

There will always be a segment of people in their 40s and 50s who, relative to their current stage in life, have fonder feelings for their youth and will be drawn to a "good times oldies" station playing the songs that were played back then that helps rekindle those thoughts.

 

[sdh483]

I was a PD at lets say KVIL. That station to me is Adult Contemporary. I wouldn't be playing gaga, Cyrus, and most of this new stuff. I'd stick to stuff like Foreigner, the eagles, air supply, Amy Grant, Wilson Phillips and artists like that. Easy listening (Light Rock)

Yeah, same goes for that crossover country garbage being played on a LIGHT ROCK station. Why??

During Ron Chapman's tenure, KVIL played crossover country as well. In the '90s, KVIL was playing Faith Hill and Shania Twain songs. Of course, let's not forget the mid-80s, when it (and even then top 40 KTKS) was playing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKpn-GYsKSc

ughhhhhh guilty pleasure