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Valentine's Day Programming
- Thread starter MarcB
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America's Best Music played three songs twice during the time I was listening. I put those on the Halloween thread.
WQXR played selections from a number of cleverly chosen works, including:
- Elgar: Salut d'amour, Op. 12
- Dvořák: The Stubborn Lovers, Op. 17 and Rusalka
- Falla: El amor brujo
- Rush: The Capricious Lovers
- Cimarosa: I Sdegni Per Amore
- Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah
- Gershwin: Porgy and Bess and Embraceable You
- Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
- Khachaturian: Spartacus
- Gardel: Por una cabeza
- Brahms: Suite of Liebeslieder Walzer
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Great Eastern Radio's WWOD Woodstock VT (Hanover/Lebanon NH area) was playing AAA material with a love focus in afternoon drive yesterday with DJ Karen Hill sprinkling in reminders to get flowers, sweets, etc. throughout. Softer stuff than usual: Death Cab for Cutie, Dawes, etc. This is an unusual radio market that has two AAA stations, with the other being a translator of the statewide Point network run out of WNCS Montpelier. Neither sets the house afire in the ratings, but there's enough local advertising from ski areas, antiques stores, natural food shops, boutiques, and the like to keep them viable. Lots of old hippies have settled in Vermont, which I'm sure is a factor.
Helps that the DJ is a woman. Might get a different approach from Adam Smasher or someone like that.
None on the positive side the I am aware of, U live in the Chicago market, and for many years the guy that serves as the overnight host for WGN Radio, Nick Digilio has done an anti Valentines Day show., the started one year when he was a weekend and fill in host, he went through a bad breakup, can't remember the details of it, and was not in the mood to celebrate it on the positive side, and he started the anti version of, this year he did anti Valentines Day movies. But on the positive side of Valentines Day, I am not aware of any radio stations doing special programming for Valentines Day.
I didn't see this before posting my original reply, this morning WGN Radio they are celebrating Valentine's Day a couple of days later, with their Frank Sinatra show, are playing his love songs, which if you can hurry up you can listen to it until 9 AM (central time) at https://v7player.wostreaming.net/3614
An anti-Valentine's show? As a single man who has no reason to celebrate Valentine's Day, myself, I would like to have heard that.
On my part 15 station, I did broadcast an anti-Valentine's day video I found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jceqmd5eLFg
Yes, I did broadcast it unedited; but I did air it during the 11:00 PM hour, both on Valentine's Day, as well as the night before.
Ironically, my station's regular format is gold-based soft AC music, a format more suited for Valentine's themed programming.
That's been a staple at many community stations. Ours is "songs of love lost and love that never should have been found in the first place".
But of course we have our serious and positive ones too.
Dave B.
Like I said he did it in the past, I was expecting him to do it but for some reason he didn't do it this year, or looks like he did it but either way here os the podcast from his show https://wgnradio.com/2020/02/14/nic...cago-kurt-braunholer-and-the-friday-features/ . The original poster was looking for Valentine's Day programming, but didn't say they wanted it good or bad. Let's hust say it looks like he did it different this year, then he has done it inn years past.
Love sometimes doesn't work out the way people expect it to. Sometimes relationship or marriages doesn't work out the way the couple breaking up had hope, there are problems that they just believe at some point can't be fixed. Remember the movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and I bet songs that are on your playlist have to include Bye Bye Love and Love Hurts.
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