Super Hits of the 60's, 70's, and 80's

[Lafayette Unplugged]

The 300-pound gorilla has been outed!

Yes, Oldies 98.7 WASK-FM in Lafayette plays 80's music and they are saying it on the air now!

There will be some growing pains, but they are growing with their audience and I'm all for change.
The "Supremes into Bad Company"-type segues are excruciating, but let's pray that's somebody just working the bugs out.

I heard "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass into "I Think I'm in Love" by Eddie Money awhile back. Yikes! You could hear the deafening sound of hundreds of tires screeching on State Road 26!!!

If somebody would just put a big filter on their computer to take out most of the classic rock on that station, they'd just about have it: All fun, uptempo, poppy hits from 3 decades. Not too tough of a fix.
Don't piece-meal everything and try to play everything that was ever a hit and try to get away with it. People may be too stupid to pick up on it, but the faithful know something's not right, and they'll start tuning out or wonder why their favorite station sounds like the one they are competing against.

 

[johuxm]

Man that sounds kinda nasty! So they are a Jack FM without the Jack?

I wouldn't think you would tinker with something that is doing so well!

I can see throwing a few tunes here and there that fit the sound....but playing the Beatles and The Bangles doesn't seem right to me....

 

[Steppenwolf]

Man that sounds kinda nasty! So they are a Jack FM without the Jack?

I wouldn't think you would tinker with something that is doing so well!

Jack is NOT doing well. It's a loser.

 

[voicetrack]

I believe that johuxm meant that WASK is doing well, and making them sound like a JACK station wouldnt be such a hot idea.....

 

[radio2100]

There will be some growing pains, but they are growing with their audience and I'm all for change.
The "Supremes into Bad Company"-type segues are excruciating, but let's pray that's somebody just working the bugs out.

I heard "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass into "I Think I'm in Love" by Eddie Money awhile back. Yikes! You could hear the deafening sound of hundreds of tires screeching on State Road 26!!!

I guess you've never heard The Track in Indy.

 

[Lafayette Unplugged]

I think it's a knee-jerk reaction to the Spring 2006 book.

Overall, they finished near the top as usual, but the bulk of their listeners are
Adults 45-64. You can't go out and sell those numbers as easy and that accounts for the sudden surge of 80's songs to accomodate the younger end of that demo.

Initially, they were sneaking songs in from the 80's and NOT acknowledging them which is half-ass.

But everyone over there needs to calm down and take a breath and use more finesse. As I said, the "Mellencamp-Righteous Bros.-KC and the Sunshine Band" segues are not going to have people sticking around as long.
My guess is that it will mellow out and there will be more of a balance to the colors and texture of the sound.

 

[Steppenwolf]

As I said, the "Mellencamp-Righteous Bros.-KC and the Sunshine Band" segues are not going to have people sticking around as long.

Sounds like you may have been listening to the Jack station, not the Track station.

 

[Boilermaker Country]

WASK has been mixing in 80s hits for a little while now. At least now they're not trying to fool their listeners into thinking they exclusively play music from the 60s and 70s. To me, an obvious 80s tune from Huey Lewis and the News followed by a jock saying "Oldies 98.7 WASK........the home of the superhits of the 60s and 70s with Huey Lewis and the News." Never sounded quite right to me. At least now they admit to playing 80s tunes.

 

[donkeypuncher]

Huey Lewis and Eddie Money and Howard Jones is spice and that is the variety of life radio. It's fun to over react and be way improtant about yourself but its a good change and hopefully it does well for these guys. Round that one up.

 

[Lafayette Unplugged]

Not disagreeing with you on the artists you mentioned, D-Punch, but you can't just throw them in a computer and hope it sounds great without putting some work into the flow of it. People will be jerked out of their chairs with the major jumps between songs. Almost like jumping formats with some of the stretches.
And when most of your liners still say "oldies" and you're playing some of those artists you mentioned, it doesn't ring true.
Don't put stuff like that on your station half-baked.

In fact, re-reread any of my posts and you'll see I heartily endorse WASK adding 80's and keeping things fresh.

"Way important about yourself?" Good one. That actually was the original name of this website.

I rounded it up and it came out to about a dollar-fiddy, by the way.

I love you, Dizzle Pizz-zuncher! You are my fricking hero!!!

 

[Firedawgs]

Ever evolving Radio

Radio formats are always evolving. Just as Oldies as moved toward Super Hits. Classic Rock can now include 80's music might be dropping any 60's stuff.

The worlds is a different place to live in now. With satellite radio, IPods, cable, interent etc.... A band like Foghat could never make it now adays, so we look back at FOghat with adoration and like respect, you know.

Can you imagine there being a day when no one cars about The Doors? GO into JcPenney right now and see teenagers buying Doors t-shirts and AC/DC hats.,

I dont think in thirty / forty years our grandkids will be buying Jay-Z shirts and Nickelback hats.

SO ti is contantly evolving. I for one, look forward to the challenges of new media and the future.

 

[radiofriend1]

Man that sounds kinda nasty! So they are a Jack FM without the Jack?

I wouldn't think you would tinker with something that is doing so well!

Jack is NOT doing well. It's a loser.

[EDIT]. U keep trashing JACK but with **zero** evidence (other than glancing at 12+ ratings in trade sites)

[EDIT-namecalling]

 

[radiofriend1]

Re: Ever evolving Radio

Radio formats are always evolving. Just as Oldies as moved toward Super Hits. Classic Rock can now include 80's music might be dropping any 60's stuff.

The worlds is a different place to live in now. With satellite radio, IPods, cable, interent etc.... A band like Foghat could never make it now adays, so we look back at FOghat with adoration and like respect, you know.

Can you imagine there being a day when no one cars about The Doors? GO into JcPenney right now and see teenagers buying Doors t-shirts and AC/DC hats.,

I dont think in thirty / forty years our grandkids will be buying Jay-Z shirts and Nickelback hats.

SO ti is contantly evolving. I for one, look forward to the challenges of new media and the future.

u R quite correct.

 

[donkeypuncher]

Not disagreeing with you on the artists you mentioned, D-Punch, but you can't just throw them in a computer and hope it sounds great without putting some work into the flow of it. People will be jerked out of their chairs with the major jumps between songs. Almost like jumping formats with some of the stretches.
And when most of your liners still say "oldies" and you're playing some of those artists you mentioned, it doesn't ring true.
Don't put stuff like that on your station half-baked.

In fact, re-reread any of my posts and you'll see I heartily endorse WASK adding 80's and keeping things fresh.

"Way important about yourself?" Good one. That actually was the original name of this website.

I rounded it up and it came out to about a dollar-fiddy, by the way.

I love you, Dizzle Pizz-zuncher! You are my fricking hero!!!

Its not my station by any wreck of the imagination I dont work for them I just listen the randall J. I didnt know thats what they used to call this webstation before but thats pretty funny cuz it seems to be true most of the times that people write stuff. Just hope they dont start playing fifty cent because then theyd be rounding up too 2 dollars! Thnks for the kind words even though I dont know you and I think youre just jabbing my chain on this one.

 

[Boilermaker Country]

Not disagreeing with you on the artists you mentioned, D-Punch, but you can't just throw them in a computer and hope it sounds great without putting some work into the flow of it. People will be jerked out of their chairs with the major jumps between songs. Almost like jumping formats with some of the stretches.
And when most of your liners still say "oldies" and you're playing some of those artists you mentioned, it doesn't ring true.
Don't put stuff like that on your station half-baked.

In fact, re-reread any of my posts and you'll see I heartily endorse WASK adding 80's and keeping things fresh.

I agree.

WASK's problem is more with the musical flow than anything else.

You can't go from one distinct musical texture to another without hearing the sound of a car crash play through your head.

Its one thing if they're trying to do a take of the Jack format. But if that's the case, Oldies needs to be deleted from their station name altogether.

If they get that together and play more pop-oriented stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s instead of the classic rock stuff that anyone can find on 95.7 or 93.5....they'd have a winner.

 

[johuxm]

Man that sounds kinda nasty! So they are a Jack FM without the Jack?

I wouldn't think you would tinker with something that is doing so well!

Jack is NOT doing well. It's a loser.

[EDIT]. U keep trashing JACK but with **zero** evidence (other than glancing at 12+ ratings in trade sites)

Uh no pally...sorry to upset your lovely outlook on the world...but I haven't found a SINGLE bright spot outside of high cume for ANY Jack type station. Its like any station or format, done well it can work....but sweepers and AC/DC into Timbuk 3 ain't gonna cut it. (especially after hearing that combo for the 4th time)

 

[Lafayette Unplugged]

The bottom line is "walk the walk" whether it's Jack or Super Hits or whatever format you're selling.

When you say "oldies" you think of Elvis and the Beach Boys.

So WASK needs to push "Super Hits" down our throats to get us to believe it and they just aren't there yet!
"Dave's Diner" at night? If anything, they should start skewing younger NOW and play 70's and 80's at night because not alot of American Bandstand types 50-65 years old are gathered around the radio and listening to good old Dave at the diner, you know?
And, again, those lovely segues between Eurythmics and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Radio listeners are generally pretty stupid and starved for cheap entertainment and heavy repetition, so it will take them quite awhile to catch up/wake up and realize their favorite radio station is changing.

Only radio geeks and current/former jocks are sticking this stuff under the microscope, so there's no need to be way ahead of the learning curve for normal folks.

 

[gr8oldies]

Wasn't WASK playing Tom Kent evenings? Or are they running dave's Diner overnights?

 

[Apollo7979]

Hmm...I don't know why my post never appeared, but here's the score card for nights on WASK-FM...

Jones Radio Networks' Goodtime Oldies is on from 7pm until McGarvey's morning show weekdays...Dave Sanders (Dave's Diner) from 7pm-12mid. and Gary Outlaw in the overnights.

Goodtime Oldies also runs weekends during the overnight hours.

On Saturdays, they carry Dick Bartley's Rock & Roll's Greatest Hits from 7pm-midnight.

On Sunday nights, WASK-FM runs Tom Kent's 70s show (don't know the exact title) starting at 7pm.

I heard Tom Kent's weekday show on WGRR in Cincinnati a few months back. Not bad.

 

[donkeypuncher]

And, again, those lovely segues between Eurythmics and Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Radio listeners are generally pretty stupid and starved for cheap entertainment and heavy repetition, so it will take them quite awhile to catch up/wake up and realize their favorite radio station is changing.

Only radio geeks and current/former jocks are sticking this stuff under the microscope, so there's no need to be way ahead of the learning curve for normal folks.

You forget to talk about crashing cars like people love to do when they talk about those segway changes, got to talk about the car wrecks whats the matter your broken ticker broken!
Under the microscope is right radio people tend to think theyre the wisdom of salt but then it really wont matter much when it comes down to apples or oranges bceause theyre all passive raydeeo listeners when it comes right down to it. The only people who give a flying snales pace about segway changes between oldies and eightees music are these people who are looking at all there crazy message stations about it am i right? Make note of that.