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LABOR DAY WEEKEND 2009 - RADIO'S SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

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WCBS-FM-101.1 will be playing a "refreshed" version of their Top 500 Songs Of All Time, voted on by listeners. (Not on the WCBSFM.com website as of this writing; there had been a ballot where one could enter 3 selections.)

WRXP-FM-101.9 will be playing the Definitive 1019 from Fri. 9/4-Mon.9/7, voted on by listeners: http://www.1019rxp.com/music/RockCountdown.aspx

N.Y. Daily News article by David Hinckley linked here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...inutes_hewitt_stayed_attuned_to_airwaves.html

If there's any other specials running on Labor Day Weekend 2009 in the vast N.Y. City area, feel free to add them to this thread.
 
Pulse 87 had non-stop mixshows on the 4th of July weekend. If they survive into September, I think they'll do the same.
 
Speaking of mixshows, I'm sure Hot 97 will have them over the weekend as well. They usually do on most 3-day holiday weekends.
 
I hope the CBS-FM Top 500 countdown is a "real" tabulation of the votes. In the past, it HAS been, and that has made for some really eclectic choices and lesser-heard music.

More often, stations kind of fake these lists, and in reality they are "well-tested" run-downs of the regular playlist.
 
scooty430 said:
I hope the CBS-FM Top 500 countdown is a "real" tabulation of the votes.
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We'll find out... If the No. 1 song on the countdown is "In The Still Of The Night", then I'd say yes...
 
DToTheJ said:
scooty430 said:
I hope the CBS-FM Top 500 countdown is a "real" tabulation of the votes.
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We'll find out... If the No. 1 song on the countdown is "In The Still Of The Night", then I'd say yes...
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They've been reading some of the votes here and there. This does not mean that others in the bizness are supposed to answer them or impersonate them, although it would be the sincerest form of flattery, no?
 
scooty430 said:
I hope the CBS-FM Top 500 countdown is a "real" tabulation of the votes. In the past, it HAS been, and that has made for some really eclectic choices and lesser-heard music.

More often, stations kind of fake these lists, and in reality they are "well-tested" run-downs of the regular playlist.
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You realize that "well tested" means a tabulation of listener votes for songs, don't you?
 
AAAAH Labor day weekend!! This brings back memories for radio. KRTH in L.A. used to feature every #1 song in chornological order from 1955 thru about 1984. This was the best Labor Day Weekend countdown one could ever ask for at the time. The old KHJ and KRTH radio charts were used then. Of course, KRTH hasn't done this since about 1988.
So much for great times. Will check out CBS-FM's Top 500.
 
From what I understand, at No. 1 so far is a song that never made it to No. 1.
 
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Nick said:
Pulse 87 had non-stop mixshows on the 4th of July weekend. If they survive into September, I think they'll do the same.
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Pulse 87 is supposed to be at the Electric Zoo festival on Randall's Island doing a live remote.
 
To clarify my last post, to date the No. 1 voted song never made it to No. 1.
 
Silkie said:
To clarify my last post, to date the No. 1 voted song never made it to No. 1.
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Did "In the Still of the Night" ever make #1, in NYC (local charts)?
 
oldies76 said:
Silkie said:
To clarify my last post, to date the No. 1 voted song never made it to No. 1.
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Did "In the Still of the Night" ever make #1, in NYC (local charts)?
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Locally: On the WMGM-AM-1050 New York Chart, the song debuted on 8/6/1956 & peaked at #13 for 2 weeks. It spent 11 non-consecutive weeks on that chart.
See link here: http://www.musicradio77.com/wmgm/surveys/1956/surveyaug2056.html

Nationally: On the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart, it debuted on 9/8/1956 & peaked at #24 & spent 19 weeks on the chart.
On the Billboard Top 100 Chart, it peaked at #29.

There were 2 re-issues that made Billboard's Hot 100: debuting 1/4/1960, peaked @ #81, 4 weeks on chart; debuting 1/23/1961, peaked @ #99, 1 week on chart.
 
WCBS 101.1 Sister Station Here in Tampa Q 105 is doing a Top 1000 countdown that starts in 2 hours(3pm) and can be heard online at www.myq105.com!
 
DavidEduardo said:
scooty430 said:
I hope the CBS-FM Top 500 countdown is a "real" tabulation of the votes. In the past, it HAS been, and that has made for some really eclectic choices and lesser-heard music.

More often, stations kind of fake these lists, and in reality they are "well-tested" run-downs of the regular playlist.
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You realize that "well tested" means a tabulation of listener votes for songs, don't you?
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Not really. It means things that get rated highly in a controlled situation. There is a big difference between calling up a station and requesting something (or doing so online) and responding to a pre-selected list in a hotel ballroom. The latter leads to very "safe" and "familiar" responses.

This is why the #2 song on K-Earth's countdown last year was "Your Song" by Elton John. They were clearly using their testing to do the countdown. Not a bad song, I guess, but the second best song of all time? You have got to be kidding. It is just rated highly because it is not offensive.
 
oldies76 said:
AAAAH Labor day weekend!! This brings back memories for radio. KRTH in L.A. used to feature every #1 song in chornological order from 1955 thru about 1984. This was the best Labor Day Weekend countdown one could ever ask for at the time. The old KHJ and KRTH radio charts were used then. Of course, KRTH hasn't done this since about 1988.
So much for great times. Will check out CBS-FM's Top 500.
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K-Earth has now done three "Lost Hits" (some on here would call them "Lost Stiffs") weekends this last month. It must be a success. They are playing all kinds of older (pre-Beatles) and lower charting hits, 4 or more per hour. PLUS they are adding in 80's stuff all week long. I am really eager to see if they pull out anything interesting for this weekend.

As for CBS-FM, I am pretty sure the departed Jeff M. used to tabulate the countdowns. I think that's why they were honest (the bottom 200-300 were really unusual requests!) I hope whoever puts it together this weekend does a nice job. A fake countdown is easy to spot.
 
scooty430 said:
More often, stations kind of fake these lists, and in reality they are "well-tested" run-downs of the regular playlist.
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Exactly what KRTH does time after time. Their countdowns are mostly, just re-do's of their daily playlist, in a different order to make it seem like it's a countdown. Occasionally, they may add a "few" select songs and call it a "lost-oldies" weekend, even though 75%+ of the weekend's music is the regular stuff they play anyways.

I could rant forever about their awkward programming, but I've done it several times before and I get the same responses by other posters who think this kind of "specialty" is the norm and that stiffs don't attact audiences, when in fact, the opposite is true.

CBS-FM's specials seem to hold their truth, for the most part.
 
scooty430 said:
K-Earth has now done three "Lost Hits" (some on here would call them "Lost Stiffs") weekends this last month. It must be a success. They are playing all kinds of older (pre-Beatles) and lower charting hits, 4 or more per hour. A fake countdown is easy to spot.
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Just 4+ songs?? Wow, how many songs can a station play in one hour: 12, 13, 15? This proves greatly that the other 8-12 songs KRTH plays per hour, during the "Lost Hits" weekend, are not lost hits. It's just their reg. playlist music that gets aired again and again...boring.
 
scooty430 said:
A fake countdown is easy to spot.
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A real countdown would involve any oldie or classic hit that charted or was popular in its day and ranked accordingly, whether by year and chart positions or by listener requests, meaning if listeners chose "stiffs" or other songs that have not been heard in some time, then that's how the countdown should be compiled and presented, as long as the music chosen is within the classic hits / oldies format (thousands of potential songs)
 
scooty430 said:
Not really. It means things that get rated highly in a controlled situation. There is a big difference between calling up a station and requesting something (or doing so online) and responding to a pre-selected list in a hotel ballroom. The latter leads to very "safe" and "familiar" responses.
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Oldies or classic hits stations will often test more than 1000 songs each time they test, rolling over the ones that consistently never test and adding in ones that become potentials as time forces stations into newer years and dropping songs that would bring in an old demographic.

When a station may test 1500 or more different titles a year, all songs have a chance... and considering that the betteer-off-forgotten songs will not be tested again if they fail a couple of times (or really badly just one time) that is a lot of music.
 
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