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Need to locate new internet Adult Standards station
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KTUC is the best of the stations I've tried online but it does have problems.
Songs get played too often.
There aren't enough instrumentals compared to WERT.
There sure is a lot of what would have been called "rock and roll".
And the slow familiar Nat King Cole songs haven't been played when I was listening. There have been uptempo tunes, and slow songs I had not heard him do. But not the ones I have heard so many times.
And I never thought I'd say this. There aren't enough records from after 1970. Nearly all records that are newer are newer recording of old songs. I miss The Carpenters and Neil Diamond. The recorded voice said "50s, 60s, 70s and more". There aren't enough 70s songs to even include the 70s in that list.
Songs get played too often.
There aren't enough instrumentals compared to WERT.
There sure is a lot of what would have been called "rock and roll".
And the slow familiar Nat King Cole songs haven't been played when I was listening. There have been uptempo tunes, and slow songs I had not heard him do. But not the ones I have heard so many times.
And I never thought I'd say this. There aren't enough records from after 1970. Nearly all records that are newer are newer recording of old songs. I miss The Carpenters and Neil Diamond. The recorded voice said "50s, 60s, 70s and more". There aren't enough 70s songs to even include the 70s in that list.
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Now is the time to get your A/C checked out, before it gets too hot.
I assume Tucson is one of those places where you had better to do that.
I assume Tucson is one of those places where you had better to do that.
Try to imagine this, it's the hottest months of summer with over 100 degrees everyday AND it's monsoon season with the high humidity that comes with it. It can be unbearable. The only way to deal with it is to stay inside during the day, with the A/C running full blast!
I keep hearing commercials for a major medical practice in Charlotte on the Tucson station.
And now the North Carolina Lottery.
And now the North Carolina Lottery.
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Thats called geo targetting ads. they run seperate commercials online and can target them to where the listener is
I suppose fans of this music might be considering upgrading their nursing skills or joining the National Guard.
I should try some of the other stations that were listed.
KDKK has a number of AC-sounding songs but not as many as America's Best Music and none from the 80s, based on a brief listen. Rock and roll doesn't seem to be part of the format like it is on KTUC and WERT. It may have been the nearby thunderstorm, but I kept getting interruptions in the stream. Also, the music gets interrupted a lot for news, special sports reports and other things, though I suppose it's no worse than frequent commercial breaks.
The actual standards I heard were not the familiar ones.
KDKK has a number of AC-sounding songs but not as many as America's Best Music and none from the 80s, based on a brief listen. Rock and roll doesn't seem to be part of the format like it is on KTUC and WERT. It may have been the nearby thunderstorm, but I kept getting interruptions in the stream. Also, the music gets interrupted a lot for news, special sports reports and other things, though I suppose it's no worse than frequent commercial breaks.
The actual standards I heard were not the familiar ones.
We've only had 34 days with temps above 100° this season, including today.
In fact, the weather deities are good at collecting those statistics
Anyway, back to the topic - can't believe anyone would listen to the oldest broadcast outlet here in ¡Baja Arizona!
WILE 97.7, licensed to Byesville, Ohio is on TuneIn.
Vchimp doesn't like America's Best Music..too much 70's and very few Standards.
I was just responding to the original OP. But perhaps both gentlemen have the same musical focus.
Vchimp's music preference is pretty well known on this board. In this forum he has posted lengthy lists of his favorite songs.
Myself, am a fan of different styles of "retro" music, from Big Band to 70's MOR. As far as radio stations, right now for streaming, would be KIXI, KTUC, and Mod 107.3.
Didn't say that, but when I have choices I would like more standards.
It's not 70s that is the problem, but 80s, 90s and so on. The format has added too many contemporary songs.
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WLML West Palm Beach according to the DJ on right now says this is much the listeners' station as it is ours. And she says she's playing requests and people can text those.
I rarely listen to WLML because so few of the recordings are familiar. Some of the songs are, but they're not the familiar versions.
I rarely listen to WLML because so few of the recordings are familiar. Some of the songs are, but they're not the familiar versions.
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Have you tried Easy 107.9 WAVV-HD2? They are Easy Listening.
And there's also Mod 107.3....
107.3 Mod FM
www.1073modfm.com
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I was born 5 days into the Baby Boomer generation, and I don't care for any of the music from the era prior to Buddy Holly and Little Richard and Bill Haley. But more than n=1, I do not know of any contemporaries from school, high school or college or, later, from work that like crooners and big bands.
This makes me wonder how many people born after 1946 care for that music... and if they do, how did they acquire that taste?
I wonder what music package WEBR uses in its adult standards/soft format....
Their music mix/sound INCREDIBLE.....great pacing....
Their music mix/sound INCREDIBLE.....great pacing....
In my case I think a lot of it is that variety shows still had music of the style of the big band era, and sitcoms had background music of that style in many cases. I don't know why I didn't like rock and roll, but I did like The Monkees partly because they had a funny show.
And that's the style of music many of enjoy at Christmas. I just started enjoying it year round, even when the songs weren't about Christmas.
And don't ask me why I liked the instrumental music in cafeterias, grocery stores and medical and dental offices. I just did.
When I was in high school, our band played some big band songs and the students liked them. This is during the era of disco and what is now called "classic rock". My classmates loved "Free Bird".
Big band radio started showing up soon after that. When easy listening stations started playing adult contemporary music, I started trying the big band stations and the more I heard that music, the more I liked it. I never stopped liking adult contemporary, but as new music got worse and worse I was grateful for the stations with older music.
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