Memorial Day Programming Staple -or- Laziness??

[kwthom]

Oh, wow, who thought of this 'novel' idea! ;D

"This weekend, we will be helping you celebrate by counting down the Top 500 Classic Rock Songs of all time with our annual Memorial Day 500."

"It starts at 10AM Friday and continues throughout the long Holiday Weekend."

"What will the number one song be this year?"

The real question will there be anyone listening to know what it is sometime on Monday afternoon??

yawn...

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Who? KLPX? KHYT? KGVY?

 

[Parma]

They have been doing it a few years now on the memorial day weekend.
What would you do instead? Serious question.

 

[kwthom]

They have been doing it a few years now on the memorial day weekend.

Few years now??

Try like a couple of decades now.

What would you do instead? Serious question.

Something different - but that's just it.

(BTW, it's 'PX doin' this one; The HYT is doin' the "All-American"...)

There's a finite number of gimmicks to keep people listening during a weekend like this. They've had the 'inmates run the asylum' a few times, yet there doesn't seem to be that much of a difference in what's heard. Somewhat the same thing with an A-Z weekend, so, that's the point - many of these gimmicks are recycled.

No-Commercial weekend??

 

[landtuna]

They have been doing it a few years now on the memorial day weekend.

Few years now??

Try like a couple of decades now.

I still have an aircheck of a "Memorial 500" from 1966 - KEWB.

 

[Lyman Bostock]

With all the reliance on their consultants, you'd think they'd try something different by now. It's lazy programming.

 

[kwthom]

With all the reliance on their consultants, you'd think they'd try something different by now. It's lazy programming.

The initial premise behind my (weak) rant is simple...

If the consultants can't come up with something better that the five or six "long weekend gimmicks" that the industry tries ad nauseum, and ~98.4% of John Q. Listener really doesn't care, than it is what it is, and it's just not going to change.

John Q. is out by the pool, out at the picnic spot, and the radio is only noise. If he only recalls one or two of the commercial spots he hears in that 4+ hours of listening, then the advertiser got his money's worth. Car deals, convenience stores...what else was out there??