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List of Web-Only Easy Listening/Soft Rock Stations

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Music Lover

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I grew up in the 1980's and 1990's and was raised on stations that played easy listening/soft rock. Because easy listening/soft rock is disappearing from traditional radio, I now currently listen to web-only stations that play easy listening/soft rock. This thread will be an on-going list of easy listening/soft rock stations I've come across on my own so far and/or had suggested to me.


Soft N Easy Net Radio
www.softneasy.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Soft-N-Easy-Net-Radio/276449947249

Lite 99 WLTB-DB
www.lite99online.com
www.facebook.com/lite99online

Joy 99.5
www.joy995.com/Joy_99.5/Home.html
www.facebook.com/Joy995Online

Soft Rock Radio Love
http://www.softrockradio.net/softrockradiolove.html
 
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I'm a little confused. How is this thread any different from the thread you started on October 26 of last year, and that now has 72 responses? Are you asking people to repeat all of the Web-Only Easy Listening/Soft Rock Stations that they listed already in Looking For Internet Soft AC Streams?

I'm not suggesting that anything is not as it should be, but you have to admit, that list you're asking for is already on the thread you started earlier.
 
In that thread, I'm asking forum members for some suggestions.

In this thread, I'm making an official list of the ones I enjoy and recommend to others. There's going to be some differences between the two threads.
 
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Music Lover said:
In that thread, I'm asking forum members for some suggestions.

In this thread, I'm making an official list of the ones I enjoy and recommend to others. There's going to be some differences between the two threads.
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Finally, I get to through the accusation that's been thrown at me way to often at someone else.

Who made you a moderator?
 
Avid Listener said:
Finally, I get to through the accusation that's been thrown at me way to often at someone else.

Who made you a moderator?
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Huh? What accusation? :confused:

You just asked about how this thread is going to be different from the other one and I explained that it will be having some different links.
 
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Music Lover said:
Huh? What accusation? :confused:

You just asked about how this thread is going to be different from the other one and I explained that it will be having some different links.
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I was referring to your moderatorish decision to start an "official list".
 
A couple of more for the list:

Love 2 Love Radio
http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/love-2-love-radio/index
https://www.facebook.com/love2loveradio
(A few lite AC's I've been sampling play pop music from the UK. This one I like most because song selections by current UK pop acts are up-to-date.)

Amazing Lite Music
http://amazinglitemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/amazinglitemusic
http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/amazinglitemusiccom/index (With this link, you can listen in your media player)
(This station tends to rotate newest songs from the AC charts frequently.)
 
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You just seemed upset that I made a moderatorish decision to start an "official list".
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Actually, I just was presenting a gut reaction to what I think is a curse upon this entire forum -- too damn many threads of lists! It was a quick, spur-of-the-moment, knee jerk reaction. They usually end up sprawling all over the place, they aren't in any sort of order or sequence that would make them useful as a research tool, especially with the meager search function in here. But don't let my total hatred of threads that are nothing but lists stand in your way. You seem to have had fun gathering all the different links in your first thread about this subject, Looking For Internet Soft AC Streams. I'm confident you'll have just as much fun duplicating those efforts in this thread.

Live it up! Have a ball! If you find this fun, knock yourself out. Far be it from me to attempt to persuade you to stop.
 
No list complete without KAHM.INFO and KAHM FM 102.1

No Easy Listening list would be complete without KAHM.INFO and KAHM FM 102.1, Prescott AZ, which is probably the ONLY station which continues to broadcast and offer Easy Listening.
 
Prescott Joe said:
No Easy Listening list would be complete without KAHM.INFO and KAHM FM 102.1, Prescott AZ, which is probably the ONLY station which continues to broadcast and offer Easy Listening.
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I believe this thread was meant to list those stations which most people today equate as "easy listening" stations, which in actuality are traditionally-based soft adult contemporary (or "soft oldies") stations. KAHM is easy listening, too, but it's instrumental easy listening, or "beautiful music", so it wouldn't apply to the list if that's the case. It's really a misnomer IMO to refer to soft AC stations as "easy listening" stations. Since the general public (for the most part) isn't versed in radio format terminology, they will allocate stations' programming with whatever wording they're familiar with (in this case, traditional soft AC/soft oldies = easy listening). I have even begun using the "easy listening" term when I promote my online station, Lite 99, because most people will refer to the format as such. I don't really care for applying the "easy listening" description to my station since it's really soft AC, but I want to use "format names" with which listeners are comfortable.

For stations like KAHM (instrumental easy listening/beautiful music), I keep a list of them on my other site, ezradio.info.

In regards to a thread on RD dedicated to a list of soft AC stations, I don't see the harm in it nor how creating one specifically for that purpose constitutes someone taking moderator status. Personally, I welcome the exposure. :)
 
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That's the kind I'm referring to as well. Like you said, the general public isn't versed in radio format terminology. I've heard soft AC referred to as both easy listening and soft rock, which is why I used both for the list.

Speaking of making lists, we do this quite frequently on the music boards on Amazon.com.
 
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LOL! If you don't like a thread that has a list, don't read it. Simple as that.
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But this thread also has comments, and it has posts that include web-based radio stations that are not web-only. And, there's an interesting potential start to a discussion of what genres and/or formats are or aren't appropriate. In fact, of the 18 posts in this thread so far, only 3 posts include any stations. It's supposedly about "Web-Only" stations, since that's what you titled the thread. Yet your launch posts includes Lite 99 and Joy 99.5, which appear to be broadcast stations that also stream.

Where's your list? And just what is it that you want to have on your list? Do you want "web-only" or do you also want OTA stations that also stream? If you really want a list, why haven't you copied any of the entries over from Looking For Internet Soft AC Streams? I mean, if you want a thread that's just lists, shouldn't you take the initiative and do the work of cutting and pasting all the entries from your earlier thread? I'm positive that should be a responsibility of the person launching an "official" thread. Wouldn't you agree?

I stand by my position. I'm positive that anyone who wants to have an "official" thread of lists, and who starts one, should take positive charge of the project and populate his thread with entries. After all, you already posted them once in your first thread on this topic, right? So, if you want a second thread on the same topic, who should be responsible for duplicating all of your entries from your first thread to your second thread? I'm positive that it should be you. Do you disagree? If you don't think you should copy your entries from your first thread to this, your second thread, then who should do it for you?
 
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But this thread also has comments, and it has posts that include web-based radio stations that are not web-only. And, there's an interesting potential start to a discussion of what genres and/or formats are or aren't appropriate. In fact, of the 18 posts in this thread so far, only 3 posts include any stations. It's supposedly about "Web-Only" stations, since that's what you titled the thread. Yet your launch posts includes Lite 99 and Joy 99.5, which appear to be broadcast stations that also stream.
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Lite 99 is actually internet-only, not broadcast (we're based on a local FM of the same name/format from the 80's). We get that a lot... ;)

Joy 99.5...I was thinking this was broadcast, too, but it doesn't appear to be. It might have been a broadcast station at one time, given the "99.5" in the station name, but maybe not. The station website domain, joy995.com, is registered to someone in Longwood, FL which is not too far from Orlando. It could be that Joy 99.5 is a tribute station of sorts to the former Orlando soft AC station WJYO "Joy 108 FM", licensed to Mount Dora. Not sure where the "99.5" comes in, as I don't recall WJYO ever being on 99.5 FM. Just a side note, not really related, but I found interesting, nonetheless: Orlando's WJYO is now using the call sign WMGF. The WMGF call letters once belonged to a former soft AC station (WRJM-FM) here in central Alabama I used to listen to quite frequently. :)
 
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