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Re: Or shall we say Generic Oldies Radio

chuckydoll said:
BTW, since the new CBS-FM will be topheavy on specialty shows it ought to bring back the old AT40.
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Perhaps it might be in their best interest to carry one of Dick Bartley's syndicated classic hits shows. I believe WHUD in Westchester aired him for awhile.
 
chuckydoll said:
Make that "a bonafide national hit". If you rely on national charts alone you'll get burned. That's what hurt CBS-FM in the past and it'll hurt CBS-FM today.

The old CBS-FM had the WABC jocks but not the WABC music. The new CBS-FM has old jocks and old music.

BTW, "Glory Days" was the 4th or 5th single from a rock album, thus the song qualifies as 80's album rock.
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Sorry, my friend...but you are wrong!

Yes, there are some differences with New York. But, I'm am absolutely certain whichever station was CHR in
1985 pounded "Glory Days".
 
Please keep in mind, "That was then ... this is now."

Also, Rick Sklar and Glen Morgan did not program, dare I say it, an "oldies" station. They programmed a "mass appeal hits" station in WABC.

Secondly, go to the CBS-FM website...click on the video of Jennifer Donahue, the GM. Listen carefully. She, in fact, mentions "Billboard charts."

CBS-FM is not a rebrand of WABC or the Flamethrowin' Scott Shannon invention known as Z-100. No one said it would be or should be.

It's CBS-FM. And it sounds just fine...except voice tracking at night and the afternoon guy. It sounds "mass appeal."

And "That's the Way, (uh huh, uh huh)" CBS wants it. So, sit back and enjoy ... Lots of people are.
 
oaktree said:
Also, Rick Sklar and Glen Morgan did not program a, dare I say it, an "oldies" station. The programmed a "mass appeal hits" station in WABC.
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And by 1982, they was blanking out chart entries like "I Love Rock N' Roll" in the name of "mass appeal hits". Their spin on the formula was bankrupt. Along w/the AM vs FM thing, that's why they threw in the towel.

Who, pray tell, is nostalgic for the 1982 WABC approach to contemporary hit music programming?
 
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