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Lujack to Hit Parade Radio

Oldies Fans,

Give this station a try...

Real Oldies 1480 and 850 AM (Grand Rapids, MI and the lakeshore). Playing oldies from rocks beginnings (1954) through the early '70's. Nearly 5,000 songs in the music vault. Website with streaming at www.realoldies1480.org.

This is the first NPR public radio station (WGVU AM and WGVS AM) in the country to go with an oldies format. If you are on Facebook, you can find the FAN page button on the Real Oldies website.

WGVU is a service of Grand Valley State University.

If I can answer any questions, let me know.

Gary Hunt
[email protected]
 
No, I didn't say there wasn't a station in Chicago carrying Lujack. I said there were no affliate stations announced. Two totally different things.
 
KlunkLetter said:
No, I didn't say there wasn't a station in Chicago carrying Lujack. I said there were no affliate stations announced. Two totally different things.
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I understand what you said, but at this point if there was a station in Chicago carrying Lujack I think it would've been announced by now.
Having said that I hope some station does carry the show.
 
I would expect Robert Feder to have something posted when/if an affiliate is signed for Chicago. Generally, when he reports something, 'you can take it to the bank'.
 
KlunkLetter said:
I would expect Robert Feder to have something posted when/if an affiliate is signed for Chicago. Generally, when he reports something, 'you can take it to the bank'.
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In the meantime will our "charming & delightful ole uncle Lar" be heard on the internet feed next week?
 
The Hit Parade Radio live stream URL is.... http://64.3.223.132:8000

It's mostly music with very little from the big name personalities they've been advertising. I heard Wink Martindale sound like he was reading from a Norm N. Nite book on several breaks, then Larry Lujack for one break, then Martindale again on the next two breaks. That’s novel. Or was it a voicetrack screwup?

The music is okay but the presentation is really dull. With all the extra time they took to get this up and going I expected more. But let’s give them a chance.
 
But let’s give them a chance.

WHY? Big names everywhere and big money. If the big guys are slow starters, you can see how DEAD radiope really e is.
 
As an avid fan of the late 50's-60's-early 70's, I would Dx and listen thru fading and static to have the BEST OLDIES back on the radio! And yes, make the playlist varied and extremely long to avoid the mistakes of previous programmers of running the same set of oldies into the ground... In my opinion, that is what has caused many oldies stations to fall into the ratings basement. Hearing the same 300-500 oldies over and over will cause me to turn the dial to OFF!!!
 
kenb said:
As an avid fan of the late 50's-60's-early 70's, I would Dx and listen thru fading and static to have the BEST OLDIES back on the radio! And yes, make the playlist varied and extremely long to avoid the mistakes of previous programmers of running the same set of oldies into the ground... In my opinion, that is what has caused many oldies stations to fall into the ratings basement. Hearing the same 300-500 oldies over and over will cause me to turn the dial to OFF!!!
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Bravo kenb--I totally agree!
 
Kenb said; As an avid fan of the late 50's-60's-early 70's, I would Dx and listen thru fading and static to have the BEST OLDIES back on the radio! And yes, make the playlist varied and extremely long.

UGH! WGVU (am) Grand Rapids is "the only npr station that is oldies." I'm age 60 and I LOVE oldies, but the "stiffs" they play are awful. NO 300 song playlist is good - but no 2000+ playlist is good either.

Take the top 40 songs per year since 1955 and you'll have 2200 songs through 2010. YOU won't recognize alot of the top 40 from 1955. A BETTER system might be the top 1000 from 1955-1990.
 
Prais said:
Take the top 40 songs per year since 1955 and you'll have 2200 songs through 2010. YOU won't recognize alot of the top 40 from 1955. A BETTER system might be the top 1000 from 1955-1990.
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On Radio Bop, we play all the songs that ever charted in the Top 40 from mid-1955 through 1965...roughly 3200 songs. On Radio Bop 60s, we similarly play every song charting in the Top 30 from 1960 through 1969...about 2800 songs. We get complimentary emails all the time from listeners who appreciate the variety which goes well beyond what the traditional terrestrial oldies stations played (note that is in the past tense since the oldies format pretty much has disappeared)...early charted Top 40 included a lot of pop songs outside of the realm of rock n' roll but we include everything that charted because that is the historical reflection of the way things were at the time...

Harold Levine
Program Director
 
On Radio Bop, we play all the songs that ever charted in the Top 40 from mid-1955 through 1965...roughly 3200 songs. On Radio Bop 60s, we similarly play every song charting in the Top 30 from 1960 through 1969...about 2800 songs. We get complimentary emails all the time from listeners who appreciate the variety which goes well beyond what the traditional terrestrial oldies stations played (note that is in the past tense since the oldies format pretty much has disappeared)...early charted Top 40 included a lot of pop songs outside of the realm of rock n' roll but we include everything that charted because that is the historical reflection of the way things were at the time...

Harold Levine
Program Director
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On Radio Bop, do you actually have a viable, profitable business or is Radio Bop just a groupie's hobby?
 
Our long-term goals for Radio Bop and sister stations are for the stations to become a viable advertising medium as internet radio gains widespread acceptance and reach. For now, we are concentrating on developing niche audiences with the secondary social goal of keeping the music and legacies of the musical artists from the 30s through the 60s alive and accessible. Our fourth station launches this month and we have five other formats under development.

We carry limited advertising for two sponsors presently with a third launching this week...very low key (...this hour of music on Radio Bop is brought to you by...) but our format clocks have commercial breaks already scheduled with the hooks in place for a traffic system when the time is right...

Harold Levine
Program Director
 
Our long-term goals for Radio Bop and sister stations are for the stations to become a viable advertising medium as internet radio gains widespread acceptance and reach. For now, we are concentrating on developing niche audiences with the secondary social goal of keeping the music and legacies of the musical artists from the 30s through the 60s alive and accessible. Our fourth station launches this month and we have five other formats under development.

We carry limited advertising for two sponsors presently with a third launching this week...very low key (...this hour of music on Radio Bop is brought to you by...) but our format clocks have commercial breaks already scheduled with the hooks in place for a traffic system when the time is right...

Harold Levine
Program Director
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What a load of unadulterated crap. The short answer is.....no, you are not making any money and have no guarantee that you ever will.
 
Ramping up to position a business for the future is not a lot of "unadulterated crap"...I myself lost a ton of money on my investment in Clear Channel...now what CC did to commercial broadcasting...THAT is a ton of unadulterated crap! Apply the term appropriately. I've lost two jobs in the past ten years in the broadcast industry because of the changed dynamics of the industry (read that "mismanagement/short-sightedness/failure to take advantage of rapidly-changing technologies)...the term applies there appropriately as well...
 
You still have not directly answered the question. Are you making a profit? I think we all know the answer but, at least have the intestinal fortitude to say it.
 
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