Looking For Internet Soft AC Streams

[passtheword]

My description.

oic. I thought you meant actual "hip replacement". Clever...

Concerning radio "hip replacement"...it's just radio stations eliminating and adding music so it will appeal to a younger, more saleable demographic. I don't think it's really so much with listeners' tastes in music changing, although that does occur. Not that I agree with it, but unfortunately, radio formats evolve over time. The easy listening artists were eliminated from soft AC stations sometime back in the 90's. When the format resurfaced a few years ago as "Soft Oldies", some stations began offering the easy listening artists as the soft AC stations did thirty years ago, but many did not. When soft AC was a prevalent format back in the 80's, most of the stations' playlists were 99% similar; those stations were pretty much standard across different markets. Today, with "Soft Oldies", there are different variants of the format as far as what types of artists and music are incorporated. WDUV and WFEZ haven't aired Diamond, Streisand, Manilow, Denver, Carpenters for many years. Cox's station in Jacksonville, Easy 102.9, doesn't offer them, either. I have only found a few broadcast stations programming "soft oldies" which still offer the EZ artists. Most of the stations offering the original sound of the format are internet-based and not broadcast.

btw, most soft oldies/soft AC/Easy AC stations which offer Manilow will offer Carpenters, and vice versa. Same goes with Neil Diamond and other easy listening artists. If you hear one of the EZ artists, you'll more than likely hear the others...a couple of exceptions being John Denver and Anne Murray, former staples of the soft AC format who are more difficult to find on soft easy oldies stations today.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Okay, I think you are confused about what I meant. "Hip replacement" in my description referred not to a format evolving, but a listener's taste evolving, so that the listener would look for a station like I described. In an ideal world, Sirius/XM would have competition and this channel would be available there. I would hope the station wouldn't continue to evolve. My description is of a station that would remain the same, which means it would likely be Internet only.

By the way, America's Best Music still has Anne Murray and John Denver, but it still has standards too.

 

[passtheword]

Okay, I think you are confused about what I meant. "Hip replacement" in my description referred not to a format evolving, but a listener's taste evolving, so that the listener would look for a station like I described. In an ideal world, Sirius/XM would have competition and this channel would be available there. I would hope the station wouldn't continue to evolve. My description is of a station that would remain the same, which means it would likely be Internet only.

By the way, America's Best Music still has Anne Murray and John Denver, but it still has standards too.

oh ok. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

America's Best Music is adult standards, not soft oldies/soft AC, which is why they are still airing John Denver and Anne Murray.

 

[vchimpanzee]

oh ok. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

America's Best Music is adult standards, not soft oldies/soft AC, which is why they are still airing John Denver and Anne Murray.

Well, they do still have standards. Calling it standards is somewhat of a stretch, since a lot of it soft oldies/soft AC.

Now this morning at the dentist I heard "Gina" by Johnny Mathis, which is a perfect example of Get Off My Lawn (see my post above). In this case the format was Sirius/XM Escape, which is mostly instrumental.