There are many Internet stations catering to the 60s. Check out Live365 for starters.
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Very Strong KEOM
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Or you can stream WDJO or WECK.
Except for Rangers games on The Fan, I don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore.
IMHO the magic of KEOM left the building after Dr. Griffin retired in 2008. That's when they started going backwards from both the format and the operation as a whole. A few years ago someone sent me a picture of their current studio and it looked so trashy that I just about cried. No windows, crappy furniture and not much lighting...
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It's a high school station, not KDGE....
Hardly trashy.. a 2019 pic... and a 2023 pic show Wide Orbit automation and Wheatstone E1 console... and they look to me in good shape.
Wide orbit is one of the biggest, most widely used automation systems. .and wheatstone is a top notch console company
It is a PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT station! I was there for almost 23 years, so I know exactly what it is. Did you not see my signature? Nevermind, I just added you to my ignore list.
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I don't recall the exact year of the photo, but what was trashy was the furniture itself, the lack of windows to see outside and how dark it was.
Why are you so invested in what they use for studio furniture 16 years after you left the station?
That said, the best studio setup I worked with was at the student station at my university. The interview studio could be fed to any of three control rooms (one air studio, two production studios). Either of the production studios could be fed to the air studio. The windows were positioned such that anyone in one studio could see into any of the others. It was a very flexible configuration. The news production studio equipment was a tiny bit antiquated - from the 1960s - but all the rest was new McMartin equipment (this was in the 1970s). The only weak spot was the Wilkinson transmitter and that was off in a dorm tower.
Sad to say, that building is gone now, but the radio station is in smaller quarters in the student union. And I'm sure that Wilkinson transmitter is in a landfill somewhere, deservedly so.
You'll get some younger listeners, depending on what kind of 60s music is mixed in. Keep in mind that some sixties music was still getting played on Top 40 stations in some markets into the eighties.
As for the music on KEOM providing a "real life example of radio" to the students, what they're playing doesn't come close to that. And it doesn't particularly matter, anyway -- the idea is that they stick to the format and play the scheduled songs, whatever that format might be. And that lesson could be taught with almost any music mix.
That was 30-40 years ago and usually only when 60’s songs were rereleased to coincide with movies, like “Dirty Dancing”.
Yeah, I get that it's been a few decades -- but the point is that that airplay does mean that there are a handful of 60s songs that are going to be familiar to people who are substantially younger than 75-80. They're still going to mostly be 55+ and therefore outside the demographics that commercial radio stations traditionally cater to. But KEOM isn't a commercial station anyway.
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