T.J. Lubinsky announced last night (Nov. 5) that it was his last "Doo Wop Gold" show on Sirius. It was a good, live request show for a specialized niche of the oldies format playing both hits and more rare recordings. It leaves Sirius Gold with 2 live hosted shows from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 4 days a week for a couple hours; the rest of the station is music without jocks (none live or VT). Wonder if Sirius Gold will survive the upcoming changes? I prefer it to a "'50's channel" because it incorporates the whole early r&r era up to the pre-Beatles era. I guess we'll see what happens with all the music channels, but I hate to see the live shows cancelled.
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TJ the DJ Gone from Sirius
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Unfortunately, we're going to see a lot more DJ's bite the dust at both Sirius and XM. The edict from Mel Karm is more non stop music and less DJ. Which is a shame when it comes to competing channels playing the same decade of music. I'm betting that XM's 60's on 6 channel will go all music, or disappear all together. Too bad, because it is far superior to Sirius' 60's Vibrations. At least with XM, I fell like I'm jumped back in time and I'm listening to my favorite AM Top40 station all over again.
I think this merger sucks for all of the listeners. I may have to send my radio back and go back to over the air local radio.
I think this merger sucks for all of the listeners. I may have to send my radio back and go back to over the air local radio.
And what over the air local terrestrial station do you know that plays even as much as Sirius let alone XM? Oldies playlists on the "shallower" Sirius are far greater than 99% of any terrestrial station. If you take Sirius Gold & 60s Vibrations combined playlists you have over 1200 songs, the average oldies station today is lucky to hit 500. Be careful what you go back to. :
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