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Is The Format Dead?

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TheFonz

Looking at the titles of recents posts it looks like '50s/'60s Oldies radio is officially dead. Lots of posts about the music, but nothing about radio. Just wondering if there are still some true '50s/early '60s stations out there. If not, what's everyone doing to get their music fix?
 
Hits of Yesteryear, Golden Oldies with Diana V, and Rich Brothers radio...........the best of the best.
 
Two syndicated formats being used by some stations, Scott Shannon's True oldies and Dialglobal's Nostalgia format.
 
99.9 The Crow
Treasure Island Oldies (Celebrating 13 years)
Hits of yesteryear
True Oldies Channel
Time Warp Top 40 (Defunct but replays are still aired on alot of stations)
Classic Car Gold Radio Network
A ton of Part 15 Stations
 
It isn't syndicated, but WJCM 1050 "Cruisin' Oldies" in Sebring FL fills the bill. They focus on '55-63, and they are careful with anything later. Sadly they don't stream.

(Oh also on AM radio it sounds, well, like '55-63.) :D

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In the UK, the GOLD network has gone back to playing 60s music in the last few years, after flirting with a 1975-to-current MOR playlist. The network has over a milion regular listeners, despite being on AM. Playing 60's music gives them a distinctive niche because that music is rarely played elsewhere.......
 
We program one 1955-1960 song per hour, typically either a doo wop or rockabilly song and have received positive comments about "songs no other station plays". On the other side we program one 1980-1985 song too. Otherwise its baby boomer oldies. "The Music of Our Generation", also not syndicated, but I'm open to offers!! ::)

I have listened to WJCM in Sebring a couple of times. Does sound good for those brief times I was in town but I cant imagine listening to it everyday.
 
TheFonz said:
Looking at the titles of recents posts it looks like '50s/'60s Oldies radio is officially dead. Lots of posts about the music, but nothing about radio. Just wondering if there are still some true '50s/early '60s stations out there. If not, what's everyone doing to get their music fix?
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Oldies radio is dead? Not at all. There are still some good 50's, 60's and 70's stations out there doing quite quite well, though not as many during the Oldies Explosion of the 80's and 90's. Check out WXRB-FM ("The Golden 95.1") in Dudley/Webster, MA., nothing but oldies 24/7 in full Stereo with NO commercials. Click on http://wxrbfm.bravehost.com with a live (Live365) stream. ENJOY!
 
Hello my friend,

OH NOOOOOO! It's not quite dead yet!

We've gotten to Anniversary #3 at WINY for the Sunday Morning JUKE BOX GOLD show. It's a huge smash, and it's constantly evolving into radio the way we remembered. All the personality, all the memorable tunes being added (like Wink Martindale's DECK OF CARDS, Perry Como's JUKE BOX BABY, Steve Lawrence's GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL, etc.), and all the relativity that both the music and memories had (and still have) with inclusions of Johnny Maestro's tribute, and sooooo much more.

NEVER GIVE UP on this format; people young and old still love it, still want it. The brick/mortar tombstones out there posing to be music radio have made formats so restrictive and stale that they can't last much longer.

People still want to remember the good old days, and I've proven time and again that audience never dies. We may need to weave things in to freshen up what we do, and my insistence of making the top 10 from every Billboard release from ' 55 through '69 a staple in the studio has given new life and better relevance to the mood, the feel and the emotion of 'the greatest era of AM radio'. Keeping up with the artists still out there also helps, and thankfully I've got several of them (and their backups) as faithful listeners.

The Fonz is a legend, the 50s and 60s are extraordinary decades of achievement and bedrock stability in this industry - better are they than the shaky quakey ground music and radio have inherited through bad decisions, poor direction, questionable talent and artists, and a total lack of the importance of history, even (if not especially) in this business.

I'm still driving this Oldies bus, care to join anyone?

-Bill Alley
WINY's Juke Box Gold - Sundays 6-11A Eastern
AM1350 Putnam CT / winyradio.com
 
uncleDJ said:
Hello my friend,

OH NOOOOOO! It's not quite dead yet!

We've gotten to Anniversary #3 at WINY for the Sunday Morning JUKE BOX GOLD show. It's a huge smash, and it's constantly evolving into radio the way we remembered. All the personality, all the memorable tunes being added (like Wink Martindale's DECK OF CARDS, Perry Como's JUKE BOX BABY, Steve Lawrence's GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL, etc.), and all the relativity that both the music and memories had (and still have) with inclusions of Johnny Maestro's tribute, and sooooo much more.

NEVER GIVE UP on this format; people young and old still love it, still want it. The brick/mortar tombstones out there posing to be music radio have made formats so restrictive and stale that they can't last much longer.

People still want to remember the good old days, and I've proven time and again that audience never dies. We may need to weave things in to freshen up what we do, and my insistence of making the top 10 from every Billboard release from ' 55 through '69 a staple in the studio has given new life and better relevance to the mood, the feel and the emotion of 'the greatest era of AM radio'. Keeping up with the artists still out there also helps, and thankfully I've got several of them (and their backups) as faithful listeners.

The Fonz is a legend, the 50s and 60s are extraordinary decades of achievement and bedrock stability in this industry - better are they than the shaky quakey ground music and radio have inherited through bad decisions, poor direction, questionable talent and artists, and a total lack of the importance of history, even (if not especially) in this business.

I'm still driving this Oldies bus, care to join anyone?

-Bill Alley
WINY's Juke Box Gold - Sundays 6-11A Eastern
AM1350 Putnam CT / winyradio.com
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Don't tell Eduardo :D
 
Markieo said:
uncleDJ said:
Hello my friend,

OH NOOOOOO! It's not quite dead yet!

We've gotten to Anniversary #3 at WINY for the Sunday Morning JUKE BOX GOLD show. It's a huge smash, and it's constantly evolving into radio the way we remembered. All the personality, all the memorable tunes being added (like Wink Martindale's DECK OF CARDS, Perry Como's JUKE BOX BABY, Steve Lawrence's GO AWAY LITTLE GIRL, etc.), and all the relativity that both the music and memories had (and still have) with inclusions of Johnny Maestro's tribute, and sooooo much more.

NEVER GIVE UP on this format; people young and old still love it, still want it. The brick/mortar tombstones out there posing to be music radio have made formats so restrictive and stale that they can't last much longer.

People still want to remember the good old days, and I've proven time and again that audience never dies. We may need to weave things in to freshen up what we do, and my insistence of making the top 10 from every Billboard release from ' 55 through '69 a staple in the studio has given new life and better relevance to the mood, the feel and the emotion of 'the greatest era of AM radio'. Keeping up with the artists still out there also helps, and thankfully I've got several of them (and their backups) as faithful listeners.

The Fonz is a legend, the 50s and 60s are extraordinary decades of achievement and bedrock stability in this industry - better are they than the shaky quakey ground music and radio have inherited through bad decisions, poor direction, questionable talent and artists, and a total lack of the importance of history, even (if not especially) in this business.

I'm still driving this Oldies bus, care to join anyone?

-Bill Alley
WINY's Juke Box Gold - Sundays 6-11A Eastern
AM1350 Putnam CT / winyradio.com
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Don't tell Eduardo :D
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What is your agenda? ???
 
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