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[MsMusicRadio]

Is it true she is going to go up against Delilah in markets with two soft or mainstream AC's? Will she be even sappier and more right-wing?

 

[vchimpanzee]

Is it true she is going to go up against Delilah in markets with two soft or mainstream AC's? Will she be even sappier and more right-wing?

Delilah-related topics go here:

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?board=280.0

This board really isn't about AC at all, unless you're one of those who thinks Timeless Favorites is AC.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

The Board says Soft AC in it's title.

 

[gr8oldies]

Have my doubts.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

Is there any "standards" station or service that doesn't mix in 70's and 80's Soft AC?

 

[vchimpanzee]

The Board says Soft AC in it's title.

Which is a mistake. As I said, stations running "Delilah" would be discussed on the other board.

And Delilah's music hasn't been soft in a while. Individual songs are, but like everything else, it has gone through an evolution.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

I would agree. Soft AC stations like WDUV are a rarity. Most Ac stations are not soft.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I would agree. Soft AC stations like WDUV are a rarity. Most Ac stations are not soft.

I've looked at WDUV's playlist online from time to time. I don't like it, but I wouldn't call it AC.

I don't know what WLOW in Hilton Head is doing. The competing station,, 98.7 the River, once had its playlist online and it was truly soft AC. Some on this site said WLOW was actualy louder (with all the disco), even though the newspaper article said they had Sinatra in their playlist. I've seen no details lately aout the station.

Myrtle Beach, SC, had Yes 94.5. I don't know when I heard it when it was actually soft. Wikipedia claimed they were soft then mainstream before switching entirely. When I heard the station it was still softer than most AC's but not as soft as I had seen described. Perhaps whoever updated Wiipeida eard them change.

Also in Myrtle Beach there is WEZV Easy 105.9. A newspaper article called them soft AC. I emailed the reporter to correct him. He understood my complaint but said Arbitron called the station soft AC. So does this site's arbitron ratings section. I've contacted this site. I don't know how you get the Arbitron corrected.

But there's no description that fits WEZV. Easy listening implies instrumentals, yet most standards stations play more instrumentals than they do. I would say standards based on the redefining of that format.

Even Dial Global has gotten more traditional in recent years, whereas a few years ago some might have called that soft AC.

Timeless from ABC--well, no one knows just what that mess is. I would say oldies because there's almost nothing from after 1980 or even before 1960. When they first changed it, at least they had true standards form this decade. A lot of what they play overlaps with what is now consdiered standards, but true standards are very rare there. You can't call it AC because even Dial Global plays more post-1980 AC.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

I listen to WDUV a lot and I would call it "soft AC". Most of the music they play would have been the usual playlist on AC stations back in the early eighties when AC was a fairly new concept. I can remember AC stations from then including WJOI in Tidewater, WFOG in Tidewater, WQSF in Richmond, WEZS in Richmond, WASH in DC, WLTJ in Pittsburgh, and 106.7 in NYC. Unless age is destroying my memory, what WDUV plays now is basically what these statons played back then.

To VChimpanzee ( cool moniker)------if WDUV is not soft AC, would you call it "Oldies" or MOYL?

 

[Prais]

Chimp gets just 1 banana.

He said, "Easy listening implies instrumentals," I disagree.

MANY "easy listeniing" stations (mostly in the past) played smooth vocals; Sinatra, Bennett, Dean Martin, Streisand, Carpenters, etc. Maybe even big bands like Harry James, lots of Glenn Millers lesser known songs, Artie Shaw, much like what was 820 WAIT, Chicago. A guy like John Doremus' syndicated show was easy listenng - and plenty of vocals.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Chimp gets just 1 banana.

He said, "Easy listening implies instrumentals," I disagree.

MANY "easy listeniing" stations (mostly in the past) played smooth vocals; Sinatra, Bennett, Dean Martin, Streisand, Carpenters, etc. Maybe even big bands like Harry James, lots of Glenn Millers lesser known songs, Artie Shaw, much like what was 820 WAIT, Chicago. A guy like John Doremus' syndicated show was easy listenng - and plenty of vocals.

I didn't mean mostly instrumentals. I meant it implies there are instrumentals.

Beautiful music implies mostly instrumentals. On broadcast radio, there's still one of those.

I will continue to deny that WDUV should be classified as adult contemporary. That just confuses the issue. WEZV certainly isn't. But if they're going to call it "easy", at least give us as many instrumentals as standards radio does.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I listen to WDUV a lot and I would call it "soft AC". Most of the music they play would have been the usual playlist on AC stations back in the early eighties when AC was a fairly new concept. I can remember AC stations from then including WJOI in Tidewater, WFOG in Tidewater, WQSF in Richmond, WEZS in Richmond, WASH in DC, WLTJ in Pittsburgh, and 106.7 in NYC. Unless age is destroying my memory, what WDUV plays now is basically what these statons played back then.

To VChimpanzee ( cool moniker)------if WDUV is not soft AC, would you call it "Oldies" or MOYL?

Thanks for saying I have a cool moniker. It's what I put on the subject line in the first email I ever sent, although I didn't have an email address back then. My standards station decided to try an approach similar to WDUV but instead of "middle-of-the-road"--which is actually what WDUV's music was called in the 80s when some of the songs were new, and what WDUV should be called now--they were all over the road as if a chimp picked their music. Their new web site had a place to send email, so I did. I congratuated their music director and said he should appear on Letterman or Leno. Then I decided that would be my email address.

So many people agreed the station was a mess that they went back to standards. Now, the Timeless satellite format seems to have hired the same chimp. There are differences, but it's actually worse in some ways.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Is it true she is going to go up against Delilah in markets with two soft or mainstream AC's? Will she be even sappier and more right-wing?

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=150547.0

 

[vchimpanzee]

This morning, Jeff Rollins explained Sarah Palin's accent. He said the people who settled the Wasilla area came from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. This, he said, explains why she talks like the people in the movie "Fargo".

At first I thought he was talking about Celine Dion's accent.