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Goodtimesandgreatoldies
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I am sorry that you can`t find any songs you like out of all of these popular Oldies. I suggest that you would be better off to check out that Golden Oldies Ludlow Porch! He plays little music and he most likely won`t offend you by playing music that you don`t like. You may feel free to sip on a bottle of R.C. Cola and eating a moonpie while listening to Ludlow. Then, you may like to take a nap and then snack on some prunes. This may be more of your spees- since Rock and Roll makes you so sick! Go to www.funseekers.com and listen to Ludlow-24/7.
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Braves1966
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Who was on the "FM-95" air-staff around 1985. I think I remember Dawn Stewart from 12 Midnight to 6:00 A.M., Jim Clark from 6:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon, Steve Goss from 12:00 Noon to 6:00 P.M. and a Tony "somebody" from 6:00 P.M. to Midnight. What about the weekends? A Reid "somebody" overnights, a Lee "somebody" in the mornings, a Bob "somebody" in the afternoons and a "Tet" or "Ted" somebody in the evenings. Does anyone remember the WPCH line-up around 1985? I was just curious.
Goodtimesandgreatoldies said:
This from someone who thinks Connie Francis is rock n' Roll. Tru Oldies are not real rock and roll it is pop rock or AM rock. Real rock is played on Rock 100.5 hence the name. True Oldies are for older people and 30 year-old virgins who live in their parent's basements and think they are crazy for listening to The Four seasons sing Rag Doll.
Braves1966 said:
What I really want to know is if one of the Peach (back in the BM days, like 1985) on-air folks did the "Radio Prozac" bit in Rock 100.5's flip stunt...whoever did it had it down pat. I thought I was listening to Peach again during that part of the stunt.
Frankly, I'm surprised you remember the names of on-air personalities from a BM station. Not that there's anything wrong with that...but it has to be a first.
CC giving up on AC in Atlanta seems really odd given that they are still programming it here in Tampa. WMTX is one the lowest rated major FM stations (12+) consistently 3.0 or worse. Cox has two AC stations that always rate much higher 12+. It's a mystery
OldSchoolWoman said:
For some reason, CC has decided that they cannot, under any circumstances, compete with Cox here in ATL.
At least Jacor had a pair (of radio stations--what were YOU thinking
) and the share to prove it. CBS has proven that you can put Cox in their place if you really want to (V-103 vs. 104.1/104.7, both with and without Midwestern/Dickey). Cox has wanted that urban market so bad they can taste it, but CBS (and Radio One) has rebuffed them at every turn. Although 104.1 has settled into its niche....
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Biz Listener
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Goodtimesandgreatoldies said:
The thing is, I can find plenty of songs that I like on radio stations that play formats other than oldies. Just because most songs on the oldies playlists suck doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of good songs in other formats.
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midtownjohn
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Let's start a new heritage name then. How about Izzy 94.9 ?
The "Peach" brand will not be used in Atlanta for the foreseeable future. A station in Macon, GA called Peach 102.5 has already taken up the slogan. It doesn't mean, however, that Atlanta can't accomodate an AC station. A possibility is to have it called "94.9 The Breeze" where the station plays the greatest AC hits from the best of the 60's music through today with one or two current or newest songs per hour to attact some of the younger listeners. It could also be called Atlanta's stress free, feel good, or relaxing station. The connotation of the word "breeze" could make that work. You can add in extras like the Sounds of Faith every Sunday morning, and something unique during the weekends like Casey Casem's America's Top 10 or John Tesh.
C'Mon, GT&GO...
FIVE THOUSAND SONGS? In the "broad" era covered by the True Oldies Channel, say, 1957-1977, I'm not even sure there were five thousand charted records in the Top 100! And the focus of the format is about 1965-1975. The songs outside of that range are "flavor" for the format.
I don't know whose Kool-aid you're drinking, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500-1600 songs sounds more feasible. And that number comes from a conversation I had with the creator of the format itself, Scott Shannon. There are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 600-700 songs that get a regular rotation (about 250 of those would be considered "Power Gold" or "Secondary", and the rest are songs in Scott's collection that he drags out from time to time as an "oh-wow" selection; I'm not even sure you could consider them "lunars", because they get played far less frequently than monthly). He especially does a lot of that nowadays in the middle of the day, when he's live/VT'd in markets like Atlanta and Chicago (Forgotten 45, Instrumental of the Day, occasionally a listener email request that's out of the norm).
I can pretty much assure you that if Scott were programming 5,000 songs, 1) he'd be pulling his hair out trying to make THAT work, and 2) the TOC would sound like -- to borrow a phrase from a frequent poster on the GA board -- "dog squeeze". Scott's not a dog-squeeze kind of programmer, but what he does well is giving off the appearance to the non-educated about radio that he's indeed playing thousands and thousands of songs. It's really just smoke and mirrors. How many snippets of songs show up in his "Calendar" and "Time Machine" features that you NEVER actually hear played all the way through on the station? Quite a few. I really don't think that Farid Suleman at Citadel would cram a crappy product that's so wide and deep as you're suggesting down the throats of MAJOR MARKET radio stations, regardless of how much power he has.
Oh, and for the record, I'm PD (read that as babysitter) for a TOC affiliate. I see the music logs for the format every day. And I'm also an experienced Oldies programmer who ran a very successful (from a ratings standpoint) Oldies station. So I know a little bit about the format.
TDO
FIVE THOUSAND SONGS? In the "broad" era covered by the True Oldies Channel, say, 1957-1977, I'm not even sure there were five thousand charted records in the Top 100! And the focus of the format is about 1965-1975. The songs outside of that range are "flavor" for the format.
I don't know whose Kool-aid you're drinking, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500-1600 songs sounds more feasible. And that number comes from a conversation I had with the creator of the format itself, Scott Shannon. There are probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 600-700 songs that get a regular rotation (about 250 of those would be considered "Power Gold" or "Secondary", and the rest are songs in Scott's collection that he drags out from time to time as an "oh-wow" selection; I'm not even sure you could consider them "lunars", because they get played far less frequently than monthly). He especially does a lot of that nowadays in the middle of the day, when he's live/VT'd in markets like Atlanta and Chicago (Forgotten 45, Instrumental of the Day, occasionally a listener email request that's out of the norm).
I can pretty much assure you that if Scott were programming 5,000 songs, 1) he'd be pulling his hair out trying to make THAT work, and 2) the TOC would sound like -- to borrow a phrase from a frequent poster on the GA board -- "dog squeeze". Scott's not a dog-squeeze kind of programmer, but what he does well is giving off the appearance to the non-educated about radio that he's indeed playing thousands and thousands of songs. It's really just smoke and mirrors. How many snippets of songs show up in his "Calendar" and "Time Machine" features that you NEVER actually hear played all the way through on the station? Quite a few. I really don't think that Farid Suleman at Citadel would cram a crappy product that's so wide and deep as you're suggesting down the throats of MAJOR MARKET radio stations, regardless of how much power he has.
Oh, and for the record, I'm PD (read that as babysitter) for a TOC affiliate. I see the music logs for the format every day. And I'm also an experienced Oldies programmer who ran a very successful (from a ratings standpoint) Oldies station. So I know a little bit about the format.
TDO
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Goodtimesandgreatoldies
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I was riding through Alabama with my wife and heard some station playing a complete Casey Kasem Top 40 Countdown from 1971!!!!! This was way cool! It sounded great! Maybe 94.9 could pick this up....
Goodtimesandgreatoldies said:
It's already on XM--a 1970s show on "'70s on 7" and an 80s show on "'80s on 8". '70s is on Saturday at noon, 80s is on Sunday at noon, with a repeat on Wednesday and Thursday nights, respectively, at 10. Show takes less than 3 hours because of no commercials or TOH breaks.
I could see True Oldies picking up the 1970s show, but it's probably too much for Citadel to spend for an automated format.
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