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Re: WXRB

Thank you so very much for your "vote of confidence" on WXRB-FM. 'XRB is a labor of love. I'll be honest....I'll never make a dime on it. But you know something? That's alright with me. As long as people enjoy the music, (and I KNOW there are MANY of you out there who truly LOVE the oldies no matter where you listen to them... 'KB/1520, Sirius, XM whatever....) we will keep on rockin' and rollin' on both Internet and FM!

And I know that some posters out there (and I'm NOT naming names) who might think that my ideas are fiscally unsound. Well, I don't care about TSL, Arbitron jargon or anything dealing with ratings. We're NON-COMMERCIAL and DON'T have to answer to any corporate advertiser or some hot-shot advertising executive somewhere down on Madison Avenue. It's a public service and has had some very positive response on both the Internet and FM sides. We're all oldies, all the time 24/7.... THAT'S the way it's going to be. Thank you again for your kind words about our station! All the best.

73,

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
WXRB-FM & SuperStation WXRB-FM
http://wxrbfm.com


> Peter,
>
> Thanks and I have been listening to WXRB on the net lately.
> I do like the variety of solid gold that you play. I have
> told a few people about the WXRB stream. I have made it one
> of my "presets" because you do play good music. Keep it up
> and keep on rockin' and rollin'.
> <P ID="signature">______________
Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts</P>
 
Re: What you can't "sing" the lyrics to a Snoop "song"?

> You're sounding just like your parents--and if I wanted to,
> I could dig up lots of crappy records from the early rock
> era, some of which were Top 10 hits, so things haven't
> changed a bit. Do I like a lot of what's on the charts
> today? No, but I'm not supposed to and I'm happy with that.
>
There's a HUGE difference between then and now! When we were growing up, we were more or less musically on the same page. Now, there are more people who don't like a musical genre than do, even with people of the same age. It's going to be very difficult to program older music in the future because if not that many people like a song of a particular genre when it's new, I don't hold out much hope for it becoming a classic!
 
Re: What you can't "sing" the lyrics to a Snoop "song"?

> > You're sounding just like your parents--and if I wanted
> to,
> > I could dig up lots of crappy records from the early rock
> > era, some of which were Top 10 hits, so things haven't
> > changed a bit. Do I like a lot of what's on the charts
> > today? No, but I'm not supposed to and I'm happy with
> that.
> >
> There's a HUGE difference between then and now! When we
> were growing up, we were more or less musically on the same
> page. Now, there are more people who don't like a musical
> genre than do, even with people of the same age. It's going
> to be very difficult to program older music in the future
> because if not that many people like a song of a particular
> genre when it's new, I don't hold out much hope for it
> becoming a classic!

You're right, even if that's been true to a certain extent for two decades now (whoever thought in Chicago WLS would be deposed from the teen demos crown in 1979 by an AOR station that programmed primarily to males?).

Of course, the question is (and I'm totally serious about this)--is there even going to *be* terrestrial music radio in the future like we're used to? I'm doubtful about that.
 
Don't need talk radio any more...

You can keep your Rush and Randi; I just discovered
a huge trove of old Jean Shepherd shows, via the
links on the WXRB site.

No, I won't post the link; you have to check out
WXRB to find it.

After Shep's July 4 show, I'll listen to WXRB
today.... for the holiday!

BTW...

Yes, it IS a valid point, but radio IS a business.

And more people want to listen to stupid antisocial
racist rap than have ever HEARD of Earth Angel.

73s from 954
<P ID="signature">______________
<center>South Florida Radio Pages</center></P>
 
Re: What you can't "sing" the lyrics to a Snoop "song"?

> Of course, the question is (and I'm totally serious about
> this)--is there even going to *be* terrestrial music radio
> in the future like we're used to? I'm doubtful about that.

We'll still have some form of mass media, including terrestrail music radio, but there will be a lot of hyper-niched music tastes as well. I heard Bob and Tom talking this morning about the 70s where everyone was aware of TV shows like the Brady Bunch, but often now calls come in wanting to have a guest on the show from some "very popular show" on some cable channel that most people don't even know about. Does "everyone" know Emeril?
>
 
Re: What you can't "sing" the lyrics to a Snoop "song"?

> > Of course, the question is (and I'm totally serious about
> > this)--is there even going to *be* terrestrial music radio
>
> > in the future like we're used to? I'm doubtful about
> that.
>
> We'll still have some form of mass media, including
> terrestrail music radio, but there will be a lot of
> hyper-niched music tastes as well. I heard Bob and Tom
> talking this morning about the 70s where everyone was aware
> of TV shows like the Brady Bunch, but often now calls come
> in wanting to have a guest on the show from some "very
> popular show" on some cable channel that most people don't
> even know about. Does "everyone" know Emeril?
> >
>

I don't have cable, but I know who Emeril is (he's been on some commercials on regular TV). But I see your point. There's hundreds of shows I've never seen and couldn't tell you anything about.

It must have been so much eaisier to keep up with things when there were only 3 TV stations and only a few formats on the radio.
 
Dilution of talent

> I don't have cable, but I know who Emeril is (he's been on
> some commercials on regular TV). But I see your point.
> There's hundreds of shows I've never seen and couldn't tell
> you anything about.
>
> It must have been so much easier to keep up with things
> when there were only 3 TV stations and only a few formats on
> the radio.
>
Like music, TV has so many choices....Did anyone watch the Emmy Awards telecast and wonder to themselves "Who the hell are these people anyway???"
Really more than half the "stars" who were nominated or presenting an award were nobodies as little as 4 years ago (my guess).
Same goes for pro sports esp baseball. The Braves extended their major league record of 14 consecutive Division Championships, but except for a few established players most of their roster is made up of rookies and journeyman players.
Its dilution of talent and it applies to just about all aspects of media and entertainment.
 
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