Should DJs Pick Some of Their Own Music?

[davideduardo]

Here you go again....They may not be museums, but a classic hits station is just that, a station that features and plays classic hits with references to some of those years, why not?? Make it fun and flexible for the listeners. Everything on radio today does not have to be monotonous and boring.

We're talking doo wop here. Music mostly from the mid to late 50's. Even a person who was 15 in the middle of the doo wop years is now around 75. There is no way a station can make any money on 75+ listeners.

It's about economic reality, not "classic hits" and charts and all that gobbledygook.

 

[davideduardo]

If the listeners are there for internet stations playing Doo Wop...then anyone with the brain the size of a pea would know they would be there for radio.Now i've provided FACTS!!! not opinions, and not some lame crap from some research clown.

There is no ad money for 55+. The vast majority of doo wop partisans are those who lived the songs when they were currents... making them over 70 at the youngest.

The majority of independent internet stations... and most have not business model... do not work like traditional radio. Traditional radio has to satisfy advertiser demands for audience delivery. And if the delivery is not in the demographics advertisers like and demand, no money comes in.

 

[davideduardo]

i There are internet stations that are dedicated to the 50's and 60's that get tens of thousands of listeners...one received a few million hits.

Please name the internet station that got "millions of hits" with 50's music.

BTW, streaming is measured in "session starts" and average concurrent sessions, not "hits".

 

[davideduardo]

Please name the internet station that got "millions of hits" with 50's music.

BTW, streaming is measured in "session starts" and average concurrent sessions, not "hits".

As a reference, last month Pandora registered 1.9 million average active sessions and 876 million session starts.

 

[Ai4i]

Who better to quote than ones self ;D

Even classical music stations are playing more Beethoven, Brahms, and Mahler, as listeners who grew up speaking Old and Middle English are dying off.
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