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Radio stations that are "chestnuts"/anomalies

You carry Yacht Rock Radio? I love that show. Captain Adam is a great personality, and I listen to him on Cherry FM in Yakima on Sunday nights. I need to get my 'Five Fave' list to him. I guarantee it will be an unusual top 5 list.
Earlier today KSRW aired 'Don't Make Me Wait for Love' by Kenny G and Lenny Williams, mixed with the classic rock. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a leftover from the old Sierra Wave playlist.
 
crainbebo said:
You carry Yacht Rock Radio? I love that show. Captain Adam is a great personality, and I listen to him on Cherry FM in Yakima on Sunday nights. I need to get my 'Five Fave' list to him. I guarantee it will be an unusual top 5 list.
Earlier today KSRW aired 'Don't Make Me Wait for Love' by Kenny G and Lenny Williams, mixed with the classic rock. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a leftover from the old Sierra Wave playlist.
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Yup, we carry a few shows typically reserved for commercial radio.. because i know my listeners would like them.. yacht rock, the car doctor with ron ananian, etc
 
crainbebo said:
You carry Yacht Rock Radio? I love that show. Captain Adam is a great personality, and I listen to him on Cherry FM in Yakima on Sunday nights. I need to get my 'Five Fave' list to him. I guarantee it will be an unusual top 5 list.
Earlier today KSRW aired 'Don't Make Me Wait for Love' by Kenny G and Lenny Williams, mixed with the classic rock. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a leftover from the old Sierra Wave playlist.
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My local AM/FM translator in Charleston (102.1 the City, WQNT) plays him. About the deepest playlist for a classic hits station in a decent sized market (Charleston about top 80 or so). You'll hear Beatles songs all the way to N'Sync and more current than that, but they also have an hour of Motown songs every weekday at noon. Basically a jukebox the rest of the week except for the Yacht Rock show. You never really know what you're gonna hear. The segues can get very odd at times.

They also have the Citadel sports broadcasting rights, and what's weird is the RDS on the radio continues to go through songs while the games air.
 
charlestondxman said:
My local AM/FM translator in Charleston (102.1 the City, WQNT) plays him. About the deepest playlist for a classic hits station in a decent sized market (Charleston about top 80 or so). You'll hear Beatles songs all the way to N'Sync and more current than that, but they also have an hour of Motown songs every weekday at noon. Basically a jukebox the rest of the week except for the Yacht Rock show. You never really know what you're gonna hear. The segues can get very odd at times.

They also have the Citadel sports broadcasting rights, and what's weird is the RDS on the radio continues to go through songs while the games air.
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id wager at times my segues are even odder.

one friday night i had garth brooks into judas priest into garth brooks because they were all requests from various listeners......
 
Those are requests that you will never hear on my local classic hits station's 'Drive at Five' where the listeners are encouraged to text the radio station with requests. They get a lot of '90s rhythmic and R&B given the demographics.
 
Radio Free Hawaii during the '90's on 102.7, KDEO on Oahu Hawaii was the most unique radio station that I've ever heard. Listeners chose what they wanted to hear by entering their choices into a ballot box. There were ballot boxes at locations all around the island. From what I could tell it was very popular. People seemed to love it and talked about it more than any other radio station I've known. Radio Free hawaii never subscribed to the ratings service and that is what probably kept some advertisers away. Honolulu record store owner "Sheriff" Norm Winter leased the station from the owner, Bob Lowe and created RFH with help from "Deputy" Dan. It was all very amusing and it lasted for most of the '90's.
 
charlestondxman said:
My local AM/FM translator in Charleston (102.1 the City, WQNT) plays him. About the deepest playlist for a classic hits station in a decent sized market (Charleston about top 80 or so). You'll hear Beatles songs all the way to N'Sync and more current than that,
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I keep looking at last songs played for WVLG in The Villages, Florida to see how outrageous it is, given that they seem to be targeting the old people who live there.

However, as a classic hits station it does have quite a sizable playlist and plays a lot of songs I haven't heard in a long time or haven't ever hear of.

Let's see what's there now.

"The Stroke" Billy Squier
"Lotta Love" Nicolette Larson
"Love Train" O'Jays
"No Such Thing" John Mayer
"You Don't Mess Around with Jim" Jim Croce
"Come Sail Away" Styx
"Don't Let It End" Styx
"Renegade" Styx
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" Chicago
"All She Wants to Do Is Dance" Don Henley
"Get Back" Beatles

Looks like they did three in a row by Styx.
 
The one I can think of is WRMA in Miami with an unique reggaetón format that is only Cuban artists.

Kind of surprised it's lasted this long. Miami has been getting less Cuban with time, and second+ generation Cubans are less likely to listen to music in Spanish (although more likely than other second+ Hispanics).
 
vchimpanzee said:
I keep looking at last songs played for WVLG in The Villages, Florida to see how outrageous it is, given that they seem to be targeting the old people who live there.

However, as a classic hits station it does have quite a sizable playlist and plays a lot of songs I haven't heard in a long time or haven't ever hear of.

Let's see what's there now.

"The Stroke" Billy Squier
"Lotta Love" Nicolette Larson
"Love Train" O'Jays
"No Such Thing" John Mayer
"You Don't Mess Around with Jim" Jim Croce
"Come Sail Away" Styx
"Don't Let It End" Styx
"Renegade" Styx
"Feelin' Stronger Every Day" Chicago
"All She Wants to Do Is Dance" Don Henley
"Get Back" Beatles

Looks like they did three in a row by Styx.
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I now know someone who works there.
 
gr8oldies said:
I now know someone who works there.
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Please send them my sympathies. Could you imagine all those old duffers constantly calling and E-mailing the station with their petty complaints and amateur MD snark? I dealt with a much lesser version when starting a new Class A in a smaller community. We launched with an oldies/classic hits format, and heard an endless string of gripes from the 65+ crowd; "You need to play do-wop" (no way in Hell). "You need to play more old country like Hank Williams." "You need to play more Beach Boys." Once we got going, we switched over to Westwood One Classic Hits, and for the most part the bitching stopped. Then we just got occasional calls about how they don't like AC/DC. The bagpipe section in Long Way To The Top caused some older hearing aids to break into feedback. Which, behind the scenes, I thought was awesome.
 
charlestondxman said:
They also have the Citadel sports broadcasting rights, and what's weird is the RDS on the radio continues to go through songs while the games air.
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The automation is probably still running the music when they switch away for sports, and it's feeding the RDS encoder.
 
Let me try again with WVLG.

There are few more songs in the latest last songs played you wouldn't hear on a typical classic hits station.

"Fins" Jimmy Buffett
"Touch Me" Doors
"All Time High" Rita Coolidge
"Feels Like the First Time" Foreigner
"Leave a Tender Moment Alone" Billy Joel
"On the Loose" Saga
"I'll Take You There" Staples Singers
"Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison
"I Got a Name" Jim Croce
"Mony Mony" Billy Idol
"Party in the U.S.A." Miley Cyrus
"Jet" Paul McCartney and Wings
 
vchimpanzee said:
Let me try again with WVLG.

There are few more songs in the latest last songs played you wouldn't hear on a typical classic hits station.

"Fins" Jimmy Buffett
"Touch Me" Doors
"All Time High" Rita Coolidge
"Feels Like the First Time" Foreigner
"Leave a Tender Moment Alone" Billy Joel
"On the Loose" Saga
"I'll Take You There" Staples Singers
"Brown Eyed Girl" Van Morrison
"I Got a Name" Jim Croce
"Mony Mony" Billy Idol
"Party in the U.S.A." Miley Cyrus
"Jet" Paul McCartney and Wings
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Westwood One Classic Hits has Mony Mony, Jet, and The Doors in their library. If you have a station in the area that plays their Classic Hits format, you'll hear all three on occasion.
 
Kelly A said:
Westwood One Classic Hits has Mony Mony, Jet, and The Doors in their library. If you have a station in the area that plays their Classic Hits format, you'll hear all three on occasion.
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I know there have been some songs played on WVLG that you don't hear often. When was the last time anyone played "On the Loose"?
 
vchimpanzee said:
I know there have been some songs played on WVLG that you don't hear often. When was the last time anyone played "On the Loose"?
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That song was the only song on your latest list that got me thinking "Huh?" I'd never heard or heard OF the band or song before, and after finding the song on YouTube and listening to it, I can honestly say it's a song I'll never regret missing when it was new. A grade "A" stiff.
 
CTListener said:
That song was the only song on your latest list that got me thinking "Huh?" I'd never heard or heard OF the band or song before, and after finding the song on YouTube and listening to it, I can honestly say it's a song I'll never regret missing when it was new. A grade "A" stiff.
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I know it was played a lot when I was in college.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I know it was played a lot when I was in college.
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OK, I see that it was a "hit" on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1981, but only hit 26 on the Hot 100. I wasn't listening to album rock radio much that year, so I guess I never got to hear the song. It must not have done well enough on CHR up this way to make an impact on me.
 
Looking at the latest list, I see three that aren't familiar.

"Could've Been" by Tiffany, "Runaway" by Jefferson Starship and "Love of My Life" by Sammy Kershaw. Or have I just never heard of them?
 
vchimpanzee said:
Looking at the latest list, I see three that aren't familiar.

"Could've Been" by Tiffany, "Runaway" by Jefferson Starship and "Love of My Life" by Sammy Kershaw. Or have I just never heard of them?
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I've heard the first two.

“Could’ve Been” was the follow-up to Tiffany's remake of “I Think We're Alone Now.”
 
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