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MOYL Format 2025

In the 90s the term classic hits only seemed to be used to refer to rock-leaning stations.

But I heard the term, used on a Charleston SC station which played The Big Bopper. That's from the 50s.

I also heard it on a more conventional oldies station in Orlando when I was at the beach.
 
vchimpanzee said:
In the 90s the term classic hits only seemed to be used to refer to rock-leaning stations.
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The term "classic hits" is believed to have its birth when WZLX in Boston, converted from AC to a format composed of the hipper tracks from the oldies format and album tracks from popular classic rock albums.

In October 1985.

You know, Chimp, if I can look this stuff up in less than a minute, so can you, and then make your posts more accurate and factual.
 
K.M. Richards said:
The term "classic hits" is believed to have its birth when WZLX in Boston, converted from AC to a format composed of the hipper tracks from the oldies format and album tracks from popular classic rock albums.

In October 1985.

You know, Chimp, if I can look this stuff up in less than a minute, so can you, and then make your posts more accurate and factual.
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No, actually I can't. If I get lucky, I find useful information. Sometimes I don't. I get distracted if I even try.

And the stations I mentioned that were classic hits and not rock leaning were using the term in the 80s. I left that part out.
 
My general rule of thumb is that if I can't verify a statement of fact, I won't post it. That is only fair to everyone here. I politely suggest that you adopt a similar rule for yourself.

Nothing you or I have to say needs to be said so urgently that we can't wait to verify anything we believe to be a fact before posting it.
 
I was listening online to Adult Standards WJEJ last Friday. At the end of a Dean Martin tune, the DJ Phil Miller announced the next song as being requested by a listener....it was Eddie Money's 'Baby Hold Onto Me'. And the thing is....I like both songs, and it gave the format an interesting Adult Hits feel to it. Yes indeed, Adult Standards is changing, and not in a bad way.
 
KilowattKat said:
I was listening online to Adult Standards WJEJ last Friday. At the end of a Dean Martin tune, the DJ Phil Miller announced the next song as being requested by a listener....it was Eddie Money's 'Baby Hold Onto Me'. And the thing is....I like both songs, and it gave the format an interesting Adult Hits feel to it. Yes indeed, Adult Standards is changing, and not in a bad way.
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That is...fascinating. The Eddie Money thing doesn't really surprise me. If you were 16 when that hit, you're 64 now.

I wonder if they get requests for Dean Martin, though.

I'm like you---I like both (I guess---I don't know which Dino song it was), but I would think a Venn diagram of people who like both tunes barely overlaps.

IF there are people listening because it's the one place in town where they can hear Dean Martin, do they sit through Eddie Money? And, if you're looking for Eddie Money on the radio and you dial past WJEJ and hear "It's Only a Paper Moon" by Bert Kaempfert (which is what's playing now), does it even occur to you that you might hear Eddie Money there?
 
michael hagerty said:
Willie's been part of the Standards format since the "Stardust" album back in '78, though.

The Phone Party host has a great voice and delivery.
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I really don’t listen to Standards stations, so thanks for explaining that. Other than the Phone Party, I don’t listen to anything else on WJEJ. I know on weekends they run a show called Seems Like Old Times that plays music from the 30’s to the 60’s, with each show focused on a different year.

Lou Scally has been there since 1970 something and he does a good job. There was a guy who prank called the show awhile ago and he just rolled with it. I sometimes feel sorry for him with the amount of people who call in with their radios on, on speakerphone, with bad phones, making out with the mouthpiece so they sound way overmodulated, etc. but he or the screener are too nice to tell those callers to change what they’re doing so listeners can actually understand them. There are people who call in and their connection sounds worse than Neil Armstrong from the moon.
 
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One of their liners...WJEJ, Today's music for today's people. I wonder if it's supposed to be read with sarcasm.

It's an unusual mix of music with old school full service radio. Reminiscent of the MOR Full Service format of long ago.
 
KilowattKat said:
One of their liners...WJEJ, Today's music for today's people. I wonder if it's supposed to be read with sarcasm.

It's an unusual mix of music with old school full service radio. Reminiscent of the MOR Full Service format of long ago.
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Maybe so. There's hardly anything "today" about it, other than the fact that it still exists. Somehow.

I do wish the online stream sounded better. The overall quality is okay enough for AM, but there seems to be this constant, metallic feedback-like noise that I find very annoying. It tends to fade into the background during music, but when there's silence, it really sticks out.

If anyone here close enough to get a decent over the air signal, can anyone tell if that feedback sound is present there?

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cc333 said:
I do wish the online stream sounded better. The overall quality is okay enough (it is AM, after all), but there seems to be this constant, metallic feedback-like noise that I find very annoying. Is anyone here close enough to get a decent over the air signal? If so, is that feedback sound present?

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Thanks for mentioning that, I thought it was just me. Have you tried listening to it on an SDR?

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There’s also this stream of WJEJ, does it sound the same as the one you’ve listened to before?
www.ophanim.net:7900/stream
 
michael hagerty said:
That is...fascinating. The Eddie Money thing doesn't really surprise me. If you were 16 when that hit, you're 64 now.

I wonder if they get requests for Dean Martin, though.

I'm like you---I like both (I guess---I don't know which Dino song it was), but I would think a Venn diagram of people who like both tunes barely overlaps.

IF there are people listening because it's the one place in town where they can hear Dean Martin, do they sit through Eddie Money? And, if you're looking for Eddie Money on the radio and you dial past WJEJ and hear "It's Only a Paper Moon" by Bert Kaempfert (which is what's playing now), does it even occur to you that you might hear Eddie Money there?
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I also like both - though that Eddie Money tune is about as new as I'll go with his catalog.
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It is an unusual music mix:

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Wow - unusual mix for sure! Aside from the two rockers ("Honolulu Lulu" and "Love is Strange) the songs you posted would sound cohesive enough. I actually think I'd enjoy the mix on this station quite a bit. Their recently played includes a tune from the Judds right now, which means they've got some classic country in the mix, too. Michael Bible playing now...
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Maybe so. There's hardly anything "today" about it, other than the fact that it still exists. Somehow.

I do wish the online stream sounded better. The overall quality is okay enough for AM, but there seems to be this constant, metallic feedback-like noise that I find very annoying. It tends to fade into the background during music, but when there's silence, it really sticks out.

If anyone here close enough to get a decent over the air signal, can anyone tell if that feedback sound is present there?

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Agreed... it sounds like a very low bitrate stream, which is sad.
 
Wow... listening to a newscast on WJEJ now and what a throwback! Love their weather sounder. Very well done. Feels like the fellow on now is a friend I've known for years even though I've only been tuned in for a few minutes. This is what local radio should be! Color me impressed!

I'm a young guy, so I wasn't around when MOR formats were a thing, but this feels a lot like a modern interpretation of a full-service MOR format. From the many airchecks I've listened to of MOR stations, this seems to hit the nail on the head pretty well. Friendly personality, laid-back presentation...
 
AMRadioGuy said:
Agreed... it sounds like a very low bitrate stream, which is sad.
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Yes, it is. The low bitrate seems new, which unfortunately only makes it sound worse. On the bright side (dim though it may be), the bitrate is now so low that it can't seem to resolve that annoying feedback noise!

AMRadioGuy said:
I'm a young guy, so I wasn't around when MOR formats were a thing, but this feels a lot like a modern interpretation of a full-service MOR format. From the many airchecks I've listened to of MOR stations, this seems to hit the nail on the head pretty well. Friendly personality, laid-back presentation...
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Same here. It's probably the closest thing to a genuine MOR station we're ever going to hear live on the air (there's airchecks galore of long-gone MOR stations of the past, of course, but MOR stations such as WJEJ which are still on the air are a rare thing).

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Wow... listening to a newscast on WJEJ now and what a throwback! Love their weather sounder. Very well done. Feels like the fellow on now is a friend I've known for years even though I've only been tuned in for a few minutes. This is what local radio should be! Color me impressed!
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Me too! I want to try to model my Part 15 station after this one, I think, but with a stronger emphasis on music (there's a local community LPFM that covers everything else well enough). Speaking of...

AMRadioGuy said:
Wow - unusual mix for sure! Aside from the two rockers ("Honolulu Lulu" and "Love is Strange) the songs you posted would sound cohesive enough. I actually think I'd enjoy the mix on this station quite a bit. Their recently played includes a tune from the Judds right now, which means they've got some classic country in the mix, too. Michael Bible playing now...
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I actually like WJEJ's music mix quite a bit, unusual though it may be. It pushes the limits of modern commercial programming sensibilities (as I understand them), but despite the odds, it seems to be viable? I wonder how WJEJ's finances are doing?

AMRadioGuy said:
I also like both - though that Eddie Money tune is about as new as I'll go with his catalog.
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This is the first time I've heard that song. It's not too bad, actually.

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AMRadioGuy said:
Wow... listening to a newscast on WJEJ now and what a throwback! Love their weather sounder. Very well done. Feels like the fellow on now is a friend I've known for years even though I've only been tuned in for a few minutes. This is what local radio should be! Color me impressed!
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I am too.

AMRadioGuy said:
I'm a young guy, so I wasn't around when MOR formats were a thing, but this feels a lot like a modern interpretation of a full-service MOR format. From the many airchecks I've listened to of MOR stations, this seems to hit the nail on the head pretty well. Friendly personality, laid-back presentation...
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It's very close. MOR presentation varied from place to place, and I'm spoiled having grown up with L.A. and San Francisco, where the guys were essentially stars in their own right, but WJEJ's approach is very comfortable.
 


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