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Markets With A 50s/60s Oldies Station

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AM-FM-DXer

I am trying to put together a list of top 100 markets with a 50s/60s Oldies station. Off the top of my head, only Milwaukee comes to mind (I know the station is somewhat of a rimshot, but it has good reception downtown). If anyone does not mind, can you add to my list? Thanks in advance.
 
63 Big WAYS Charlotte NC. No signal in the city at night but it's a strong station during the day.

The owner just plays what he wants and each hour has a sponsor. He's doing pretty well with his classic rock leaning FM station, based on 12 plus numbers that are once again being reported and talked about here.

Asheville NC had the Milwaukee format on HD and a translator but it switched to Spanish.
 
AM-FM-DXer said:
I am trying to put together a list of top 100 markets with a 50s/60s Oldies station.
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If you are going to limit your list to the top 100 markets, I'm afraid it's going to be a short list. The format mostly survives via stations in small or unrated markets (which I know from recent research).
 
Not sure there is anyone really playing the 50s anymore... there are a few that are 60s/70s like KAZG 1440/K224CJ 92.7 "Oldies 92.7" Phoenix. Even back in the day, in the 1990s, most stations classified as oldies stations then had jettisoned pre-Beatles music and were musically 60s/70s by the mid-1990s.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
Even the syndicated "True Oldies Channel", which played 50s music 10 years ago, no longer plays 50s music.
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There's a lot of logic behind that, if you think about it.

Someone who was in high school at the beginning of the "rock and roll era" is going to be approaching age 90 now. You're going to be hard-pressed to get any significant amount of listening in that age bracket, unless you are serving retirement homes and nowhere else.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
Even the syndicated "True Oldies Channel", which played 50s music 10 years ago, no longer plays 50s music.

But I'm not aware of any TOC affiliates in large markets.
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It just began another run in NYC recently on a HD sub channel of WINS-FM 92.3.
 
txchipk said:
It just began another run in NYC recently on a HD sub channel of WINS-FM 92.3.
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For which they are paying the licensee for the channel usage. We will see how long Scott Shannon wants to do this... which I think is more for personal pride and satisfaction than anything else.
 
txchipk said:
Not sure there is anyone really playing the 50s anymore... there are a few that are 60s/70s like KAZG 1440/K224CJ 92.7 "Oldies 92.7" Phoenix. Even back in the day, in the 1990s, most stations classified as oldies stations then had jettisoned pre-Beatles music and were musically 60s/70s by the mid-1990s.
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I'm pretty sure a lot of what is on Big WAYS is from the 50s. A lot of it is 60s music, but a number of songs are what used to be heard on standards stations and not oldies. At least on America's Best Music, those songs aren't being played much. But I think America's Best Music (which goes as far as the 80s and maybe even 90s for new songs, and to the present day for new versions of old songs) still plays some 50s songs that aren't "standards" by the traditional definition, songs that have been a part of the standards radio format for decades.
 


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