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New format for KAHL 1310/103.7

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I noticed this week that KAHL seems to have moved its music mix a few years closer to the present. They seem to have moved from Adult Standards to what I've heard Internet stations call Mellow Gold. The music mix seems to be heavy on 70s fare. It's similar to the Oldies KONO is playing but with a narrower focus on slower-paced tracks from the early 70s, vs. KONO's faster-paced late 70s emphasis.

Hopefully you format experts can enlighten us on what this is called. ;)
 
They have been doing that for a few months now. Every so many songs they will throw in a slow and mellow one from the 70s, like the canned stuff that we used to hear in the dentist's office about 40 years ago. I guess as the demographic ages and disappears, they, like KONO, have to move the timeline up or be left behind as some type of musical museum. For someone my age, it is a little more enjoyable than the old standards. The current KONO is nothing of what it used to sound like in the mid to late 90s. At that time it was mostly doo-wop Happy Days music. Now its mostly 70s. I can't wait 'til they get to the 80s, so I can hear the GoGos, Oing Boingo, Men without Hats, etc, etc. If you really want to hear 40s era music, listen to Radio New Zealand International on the weekends. It seems that they were permanently left behind after WWII.
 
1st of 5 said:
If you really want to hear 40s era music, listen to Radio New Zealand International on the weekends. It seems that they were permanently left behind after WWII.
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Satellite radio has "the 40s on 4." They also have a radio classics channel. You can go back in time anytime.
 
Why pay for SatRad when I can hear it on my shortwave, which has been paid off since 2001?
 
Shortwave is on its last legs. BBC Worldwide did a survey a few years back and found most of its listeners in North American listened on the Internet and satellite radio so they cancelled all SW broadcasts beaming our way.

BTW-- Here's the link for RNZ International's web stream. The sound quality will beat anything you'll ever get from SW.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/live/rnzi/adaptive.asx
 
SW radio may be on its last legs here in the land of subscription dependent, centrally controlled, metered and monitored distribution, but not in the rest of the world. How are you going to access your internet during a national disaster, whether natural or manmade? What happens when the satellites and cellphone nets go down? What happens when your politicians decide to cut off your net access? What are you going to do when your DTV won't work because you no longer get anything from the electrical grid? Ask the Katrina or Nashville flood suvivors how the internet assisted them during their ordeal. Were they satisfied with their mobile phone service? I guess that you will be one of the many who will have to depend on me to keep you informed when and where you can pick up your happy meal or water ration. I just haven't decided yet how much my services will cost. Enjoy your tethered electronic complacency.
 
1st of 5 said:
They have been doing that for a few months now. Every so many songs they will throw in a slow and mellow one from the 70s, like the canned stuff that we used to hear in the dentist's office about 40 years ago. I guess as the demographic ages and disappears, they, like KONO, have to move the timeline up or be left behind as some type of musical museum. For someone my age, it is a little more enjoyable than the old standards. The current KONO is nothing of what it used to sound like in the mid to late 90s. At that time it was mostly doo-wop Happy Days music. Now its mostly 70s. I can't wait 'til they get to the 80s, so I can hear the GoGos, Oing Boingo, Men without Hats, etc, etc. If you really want to hear 40s era music, listen to Radio New Zealand International on the weekends. It seems that they were permanently left behind after WWII.
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You can hear GoGos, Oingo Boingo and Men Without Hats on Magic.
 
sdh483 said:
1st of 5 said:
They have been doing that for a few months now. Every so many songs they will throw in a slow and mellow one from the 70s, like the canned stuff that we used to hear in the dentist's office about 40 years ago. I guess as the demographic ages and disappears, they, like KONO, have to move the timeline up or be left behind as some type of musical museum. For someone my age, it is a little more enjoyable than the old standards. The current KONO is nothing of what it used to sound like in the mid to late 90s. At that time it was mostly doo-wop Happy Days music. Now its mostly 70s. I can't wait 'til they get to the 80s, so I can hear the GoGos, Oing Boingo, Men without Hats, etc, etc. If you really want to hear 40s era music, listen to Radio New Zealand International on the weekends. It seems that they were permanently left behind after WWII.
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You can hear GoGos, Oingo Boingo and Men Without Hats on Magic.
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OMG! Somebody plays that crap? :eek:
 
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