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OLD SCHOO DANCE

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Would this be a viable format? I was listening to addicted to radio --WBMX. Man , I miss those old mixes. Curious to see if that would work as a format, would younger crowd listen?? or maybe it is only good as an online radio. It seems everything is going classic or old school these days and I wondered about old school dance(that also would feature freestyle).. :-\ or ::) or ;D or :D or 8) you choose?
 
If you're talking about showcasing the stuff (lots of Eurodance?) from late 80s-mid/late 90s, now is a prime time to do it. That was what I grew up on (and have a huge collection of)... my generation is crazy about remembering our childhood and now that we're old enough to have careers and whatnot, we spend a lot of money and energy on grasping onto our "good old days." I'm no exception. :) I would listen to an old school dance station.
 
WPTY does all old school dance Sunday nights with the "Dance Factory." They spotlight freestyle, 80's, 90's and early 2000's club hits between 7-10pm. The host then does some current material in the last hour of the show. A few other stations (largely in Hispanic-heavy markets) run freestyle shows occasionally, but that's about it. Unless you were a dance fan back in the day, which most people weren't, most of the songs we think of as "classics" are unknown to the general audience. It would make a cool internet format, and I'm sure there's some good ones out there already, but not terrestrial outside of a specialty show.
 
well.....

a station that IS doing it
a fully lic. on the aire "regular" station is CIDC
z103.5 toronto.

wayback wed (which has somewhat.a limited playlist)
and the daily wayback lunch..all genre's but they
tend to favor the Eurooooo
furthermore, while they stick to the hits,
freedom of a wayback in REGULAR rotation is not uncommon.
 
CIDC is a station that has heritage playing classic dance, but it doesn't do it all the time. Specialty programming is one thing...a 24/7 format is another. For the most part, they do it weekdays at noon, Wednesday nights after 10, and the occasional spike in regular programming. They used to play a lot more a few years ago...they've scaled back since then. If anything, with three other stations in the market playing some flavor of CHR, they could go all dance or classic dance...but they haven't done that. Classic dance just wouldn't work on a terrestrial signal as a 24/7 format.
 
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