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ceaser
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Hello one and all,I am new to this website my name is ceaser.As a 40 year old perveyor of top 40 from 1955-1990 will we ever see fm oldies in this market again?I miss my oldies 92 and 100.
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GeneKlien
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I don't know where you're at, but try GEM 107.7 FM. It's a great mix of the hits of the 60's and 70's.
In Wilkes-Barre points south, there really aren't any. I am not an oldies listener but have always believed that there should be a station for everyone. Some of the Route 81 stations, such as WCDL, WNAK-AM and WAZL play standards up to and including the 70's, but they are all AM. I would think there would be a market for oldies-fm here, but I guess radio big wigs think otherwise.
Know it's not what you are looking for, but I thought it may be of interest. This is from the NY POST STARR REPORT (by Michael Starr) dated 08/14/06:
Radio: XM's "Sonic 60s" show (Ch. 6) will devote five hours this Friday (4-9 p.m.) to re-airing programming from 1960s-era WABC Radio. Terry Young will play recordings of old WABC DJs, station jingles and more - and will take phone calls from listeners who want to share their memories of the station.
(Ex-WABC jock Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow is now on XM competitor Sirius.)
Radio: XM's "Sonic 60s" show (Ch. 6) will devote five hours this Friday (4-9 p.m.) to re-airing programming from 1960s-era WABC Radio. Terry Young will play recordings of old WABC DJs, station jingles and more - and will take phone calls from listeners who want to share their memories of the station.
(Ex-WABC jock Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow is now on XM competitor Sirius.)
NigelWick said:
See, when I think oldies, I think 60s/70s. And if you were in the upper end of target demos in the 60s/70s, well, you're old. If you're lucky, you're old. As much as I love oldies, I can also understand why the format is self-limiting, the clock is ticking, you eventually run out of listeners who remember and love the music. Yeah, I know, there will always be a fair number of listeners well behind the curve, listeners now in their 20s-30s who love that music, but they are a niche audience. Hell, in my teens I loved not only The Beatles, Stones, The Rascals, Steppenwolf, but I also loved The Dorsey Brothers, Glenn Miller's music, Benny Goodman, etc. I realize, though, that I am largely alone in that kind of thinking.
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yonkstur
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Let me comment briefly on the Oldies formats. I know they are a vanishing breed because of the aging of the "boomer generation" and that's sad and scary. I now know how the "swing" generation felt when the big band music was overtaken by rock and roll. I might be waxing too poetic here but the Oldies formats are important because they preserve not only the music of an era but of an entire generation right along with its hopes and fears.
When I listen to a WARM or GEM 95.5FM, and I hear the music of my youth, my parents become young once more, relatives and friends long dead become alive, the possibilities of the future seem endless, and unadulterated simplicty and joy rush over me. (My wife claims its the ragtop but I think not). You remember the good times when your biggest problem was timing your bike ride in front of that tall girl's house in Port Blanchard so she can see you riding by as she stepped out onto her porch. (At that time you didn't realize that she was waiting for some 17 year old guy with muscles and an MGB but that's not relevant here). The music whether it be "Chapel of Love", "Love Me Do" or "Summer In The City" takes you back away from the high gas prices, the oncoming world troubles as well as what you need to do to get through life. For one brief moment, that stuff disappears.
On the other hand, when I tune to this new Light 94.3, or Magic, I hear songs of the eighties and think of mistakes and roads not taken during that time period that have impacted my life to this day. The nineties are essentially the same thing. My musical life ended with Fine Young Cannibals with a few quick resurrections with Lou Vega, ("mombo #5") Chumba Wumba and U2. If anyone asked me to name something current, I couldn't.
The Oldies format, like Nigel said, will make a return. But at what level of importance, no one can guess. In the meantime, try to enjoy what's offered realizing that the generation that every business catered to since birth, is now a niche market. "Hip replacement to go along with your Rolling Rock sir?"
Yonkstur
When I listen to a WARM or GEM 95.5FM, and I hear the music of my youth, my parents become young once more, relatives and friends long dead become alive, the possibilities of the future seem endless, and unadulterated simplicty and joy rush over me. (My wife claims its the ragtop but I think not). You remember the good times when your biggest problem was timing your bike ride in front of that tall girl's house in Port Blanchard so she can see you riding by as she stepped out onto her porch. (At that time you didn't realize that she was waiting for some 17 year old guy with muscles and an MGB but that's not relevant here). The music whether it be "Chapel of Love", "Love Me Do" or "Summer In The City" takes you back away from the high gas prices, the oncoming world troubles as well as what you need to do to get through life. For one brief moment, that stuff disappears.
On the other hand, when I tune to this new Light 94.3, or Magic, I hear songs of the eighties and think of mistakes and roads not taken during that time period that have impacted my life to this day. The nineties are essentially the same thing. My musical life ended with Fine Young Cannibals with a few quick resurrections with Lou Vega, ("mombo #5") Chumba Wumba and U2. If anyone asked me to name something current, I couldn't.
The Oldies format, like Nigel said, will make a return. But at what level of importance, no one can guess. In the meantime, try to enjoy what's offered realizing that the generation that every business catered to since birth, is now a niche market. "Hip replacement to go along with your Rolling Rock sir?"
Yonkstur
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ceaser
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Well said yonk the times have changed,just think how lucky we are to have warm(crap signal and all) and gem 107.7(too far away from tower to hear good). :'(At least we don't live in nyc where the wabc musicradio 77 generation has no oldies period.I'll get over it.It's called compact discs.
Allow me to drop a shameless plug here for an old friend - Michael Neff. When Mike was doing mornings for Times-Shamrock, I never once heard him play a song I didn't like, never once play a song I couldn't sing along with loudly. His music was, and God, this sounds corny, but it was the sound track of my life, or at least the favorite years of my life. I still say they made a huge mistake dropping Mike and and the format.
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yonkstur
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:'(At least we don't live in nyc where the wabc musicradio 77 generation has no oldies period.I'll get over it.It's called compact discs.
I've done my own CDs that I play at home and in the car. I'm getting instructions on an MP3 player too. When I'm working on the computer, I put on the cable music channels Music Choice and can get everything from Big Band to 60s to that beautiful elevator music WVCD and WGBI FM played in the very early 70s.
Yonkstur
I've done my own CDs that I play at home and in the car. I'm getting instructions on an MP3 player too. When I'm working on the computer, I put on the cable music channels Music Choice and can get everything from Big Band to 60s to that beautiful elevator music WVCD and WGBI FM played in the very early 70s.
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yonkstur
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Allow me to drop a shameless plug here for an old friend - Michael Neff. When Mike was doing mornings for Times-Shamrock, I never once heard him play a song I didn't like, never once play a song I couldn't sing along with loudly. His music was, and God, this sounds corny, but it was the sound track of my life, or at least the favorite years of my life. I still say they made a huge mistake dropping Mike and and the format.
I cannot agree with you more. MIchael Neff was the consumate professional and his morning show on Oldies 92 was fantastic. Michael's selection of music was a welcome departure from the same 100 songs Oldies 92 played.
MIchael also was a great team player. Jim Loftus brought him on board in 1997 to promote the heritage station of Shamrock WEJL/WBAX. (He brought in the much mentioned Kevin Fennessey shortly thereafter to do mornings on QFM). Loftus was serious about promoting WEJL as the founding father of the Shamrock chain so to speak. For a time on the phone when you were on hold, you'd hear WEJL/WBAX. Michael handled that morning show on WEJL/WBAX beautifully and when the station bought the Yankees, Michael marched in the St. Patrick's parade in full Yankee regailia. MIchael also was a natural for the format American Popular Standards. (Alluded to on page 156 of "A Radio Story/We Wish You Well In Your Future Endeavors").
My favorite memories of those days was when Michael did remotes. Cooperative to a fault, he was also pretty funny. The Marketing person at the Wyoming Valley Mall would never buy WEJL/WBAX. It was an AM and the points just weren't there. But when I came up with a promotion for Frank Sinatra's birthday, they bought it. Michael and I showed up for the remote in tuxes and had many Sinartra products to give away. There was a huge picture of Frank, a cake and a huge birthday card the promotions department did to have people sign which the station would send to Sinatra. When we got cranking, people started to come by and sign the card. The Mall Marketing person was shocked at the turnout and Tim Durkin who rarely budged from his office drove down to Wilkes Barre with Jerry Papprelli to check it out. So Michael is cooking and a rather persistent lady kept saying to him that Frank Sinatra would never get the card because of the security people around him. MIchael and the lady kept going back and forth until she said, "Prove to me he'll get the card!" And Michael without missing a beat pointed to me and says, "Ever hear of Frank's friend Jilly, that's him over there!" (Now Jilly had died earlier in the decade in a car crash but apparently the lady didn't know that). So she signs the card and as she is walking away says to the Mall Marketing person, "My God, Jilly gained some weight!"
Yonkstur
I cannot agree with you more. MIchael Neff was the consumate professional and his morning show on Oldies 92 was fantastic. Michael's selection of music was a welcome departure from the same 100 songs Oldies 92 played.
MIchael also was a great team player. Jim Loftus brought him on board in 1997 to promote the heritage station of Shamrock WEJL/WBAX. (He brought in the much mentioned Kevin Fennessey shortly thereafter to do mornings on QFM). Loftus was serious about promoting WEJL as the founding father of the Shamrock chain so to speak. For a time on the phone when you were on hold, you'd hear WEJL/WBAX. Michael handled that morning show on WEJL/WBAX beautifully and when the station bought the Yankees, Michael marched in the St. Patrick's parade in full Yankee regailia. MIchael also was a natural for the format American Popular Standards. (Alluded to on page 156 of "A Radio Story/We Wish You Well In Your Future Endeavors").
My favorite memories of those days was when Michael did remotes. Cooperative to a fault, he was also pretty funny. The Marketing person at the Wyoming Valley Mall would never buy WEJL/WBAX. It was an AM and the points just weren't there. But when I came up with a promotion for Frank Sinatra's birthday, they bought it. Michael and I showed up for the remote in tuxes and had many Sinartra products to give away. There was a huge picture of Frank, a cake and a huge birthday card the promotions department did to have people sign which the station would send to Sinatra. When we got cranking, people started to come by and sign the card. The Mall Marketing person was shocked at the turnout and Tim Durkin who rarely budged from his office drove down to Wilkes Barre with Jerry Papprelli to check it out. So Michael is cooking and a rather persistent lady kept saying to him that Frank Sinatra would never get the card because of the security people around him. MIchael and the lady kept going back and forth until she said, "Prove to me he'll get the card!" And Michael without missing a beat pointed to me and says, "Ever hear of Frank's friend Jilly, that's him over there!" (Now Jilly had died earlier in the decade in a car crash but apparently the lady didn't know that). So she signs the card and as she is walking away says to the Mall Marketing person, "My God, Jilly gained some weight!"
Yonkstur
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warm590
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Well, Yonk is buying Penna lotto tickets, and I'm buying the NY Lotto tickets over here, so by golly we might someday be broadcasting from Yonk's kitchen. Hmm might even be enough in the budget to remodel and enlarge Yonk's kitchen ;D
Longing for the good old days
warm590
Longing for the good old days
warm590
Had to travel down and back to Philly today, got the chance to listen to WOGL. Personally, I loved it, it's all 60s/70s. But I gotta tell you that in PM drive they are running some hellacious stop-sets, I mean there was one around 4:30 where they were in traffic/spots for what had to be five-six minutes, at least. Then they have this Caribbean vacation giveaway in which they do a name(and where they live) and give that name an hour to call and win. AN HOUR? ONE FULL HOUR to win an all expense paid vacation? This is Philly radio, shouldn't they be giving listeners like four minutes to call and win? Okay, since they are 98.1, how about nine minutes and eight seconds? What was, IMO, really embarrasing was that they couldn't get a winner in the hour they tried.
Just a quick note about the WOGL contest. Most stations who do these contests now-a-days are advised by attorneys to give the contestants more than just a couple of minutes to call in in case they don't have a phone so they don't get into or cause a car accident.
Lawyers ruin all the fun don't they!
Sincerely,
Ben Smith
WGMF
Lawyers ruin all the fun don't they!
Sincerely,
Ben Smith
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back2boston
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Why even make the listener jump threw any hoops at all! That is old school! Plus it is Philly, they should be giving away trips every hour.
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