In the "Classic Top 40 B1079 Now Big Hits" topic discussion, Nu_Roo_2 posts that he or she knows what I hate but wonders what I enjoy. I thought it would be best to answer that by starting a new topic.
"You say you want a revolution? Well, it all starts right here right now -- Revolutionary Music on Revolutionary Radio, (frequency and call sign identified). Songs either from the Sixties, or later music played with the spirit of the Sixties. Oldies that aren't old, because they haven't been played to death, classic rock that's in a class by itself, and alternative music that was simply a pleasant alternative to all of the disco that surrounded it when it first came out! (Frequency and call sign repeated), featuring not the best known music of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but rather some of the best."
That's the message you'll hear someday on my station, Nu_Roo_2, every few hours of its first few weeks, followed by some incredible music that you'll never want to turn off. My story's been told in some of the opening paragraphs of Phyllis Stark's "Why the Radio Industry Eats Its Young" article that is archived on this great website, and in spite of encountering nothing but roadblocks over the past several years, I'm not about to give up on making my dream a reality.
Concerning my alternative music background, from 1980 through 1989 I published over one hundred issues of a fanzine, promoted approximately sixty concerts in Columbus, and spun records at a local dance club. So I knew the fans then and their numbers and think I have a pretty good idea of the number of new fans who are out there now, kids in their teens and twenties who either weren't around or were in their diapers during the '80s, kids who are nothing less than totally fascinated by what all was going on back then. KevinFodor (another poster on the "Classic Top 40" topic), tens of thousands of people is no exaggeration, but no one has to take my word for it -- ask Scott Steinecker of PromoWest what the scene was like back then. Ask the record shops along High Street that carried my zine. Go to the library and get the October 12, 2006 edition of the Columbus Dispatch, and read Aaron Beck's article entitled "Musical memorabilia recalls rock in the '80s". It's about a "1980Something: A Look at the 1980s Columbus Art and Indie Music Scene" exhibition that ran for a week and a half at a local art gallery.
Nu_Roo_2, there are no radio stations that I like, either here or anywhere else, and so I've been trying for years to create the kind of station that I've always dreamed of and that a lot of other people have dreamed of, too. When it finally happens, when the stars line up perfectly and I fall in with the right group of people, then Inventor989 (another poster on the other topic), the music lovers WILL come back to broadcast radio. They'll halt their satellite radio service, sell their equipment, sell their iPods, they'll come back because in addition to Aaron I also know Tim Feran, Curt Schieber, and Bill Eichenberger, who also write for the Dispatch, I know John Petric at The Other Paper, and I know Melissa Starker at Columbus Alive, all of whom will provide quite a bit of publicity for our endeavor as we begin broadcasting. They'll get the word out to everyone, they'll alert people as to what they'll be experiencing, and their articles will help to guarantee a very positive response to the station and its refreshingly innovative non-hit format, even from people who thought that they had long ago given up on terrestrial radio.
I've got so much more that I'd like to share with you all, including how the '60s and '70s would so spectacularly fit into all of this, but the administrator of this site would probably frown on my using the next fifteen pages to reprint the 30-minute presentation that I've offered to make to so many of our local program directors, general managers, and station owners. That's what I'd really have to do if I wanted to begin to try and cover all the bases here -- provide a complete transcript of the entire presentation! It's too bad that we couldn't have just found out everything next week on 91.5 WHKC, but like so many other radio people, I guess its owner isn't interested in what I have to say. It's too bad, because with a call sign like WHKC we sure could've had some great slogans: WHKC, because Hits Kill Craniums! WHKC, because Hits are the Key Complaint. WHKC, because Hits sink Kayaks and Canoes. WHKC, because Hits are Kennel Crap.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post, and I hope a lot of you write back with your questions, skepticisms, and attacks. I promise to be much briefer in my responses. Well, I'll try!
"You say you want a revolution? Well, it all starts right here right now -- Revolutionary Music on Revolutionary Radio, (frequency and call sign identified). Songs either from the Sixties, or later music played with the spirit of the Sixties. Oldies that aren't old, because they haven't been played to death, classic rock that's in a class by itself, and alternative music that was simply a pleasant alternative to all of the disco that surrounded it when it first came out! (Frequency and call sign repeated), featuring not the best known music of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but rather some of the best."
That's the message you'll hear someday on my station, Nu_Roo_2, every few hours of its first few weeks, followed by some incredible music that you'll never want to turn off. My story's been told in some of the opening paragraphs of Phyllis Stark's "Why the Radio Industry Eats Its Young" article that is archived on this great website, and in spite of encountering nothing but roadblocks over the past several years, I'm not about to give up on making my dream a reality.
Concerning my alternative music background, from 1980 through 1989 I published over one hundred issues of a fanzine, promoted approximately sixty concerts in Columbus, and spun records at a local dance club. So I knew the fans then and their numbers and think I have a pretty good idea of the number of new fans who are out there now, kids in their teens and twenties who either weren't around or were in their diapers during the '80s, kids who are nothing less than totally fascinated by what all was going on back then. KevinFodor (another poster on the "Classic Top 40" topic), tens of thousands of people is no exaggeration, but no one has to take my word for it -- ask Scott Steinecker of PromoWest what the scene was like back then. Ask the record shops along High Street that carried my zine. Go to the library and get the October 12, 2006 edition of the Columbus Dispatch, and read Aaron Beck's article entitled "Musical memorabilia recalls rock in the '80s". It's about a "1980Something: A Look at the 1980s Columbus Art and Indie Music Scene" exhibition that ran for a week and a half at a local art gallery.
Nu_Roo_2, there are no radio stations that I like, either here or anywhere else, and so I've been trying for years to create the kind of station that I've always dreamed of and that a lot of other people have dreamed of, too. When it finally happens, when the stars line up perfectly and I fall in with the right group of people, then Inventor989 (another poster on the other topic), the music lovers WILL come back to broadcast radio. They'll halt their satellite radio service, sell their equipment, sell their iPods, they'll come back because in addition to Aaron I also know Tim Feran, Curt Schieber, and Bill Eichenberger, who also write for the Dispatch, I know John Petric at The Other Paper, and I know Melissa Starker at Columbus Alive, all of whom will provide quite a bit of publicity for our endeavor as we begin broadcasting. They'll get the word out to everyone, they'll alert people as to what they'll be experiencing, and their articles will help to guarantee a very positive response to the station and its refreshingly innovative non-hit format, even from people who thought that they had long ago given up on terrestrial radio.
I've got so much more that I'd like to share with you all, including how the '60s and '70s would so spectacularly fit into all of this, but the administrator of this site would probably frown on my using the next fifteen pages to reprint the 30-minute presentation that I've offered to make to so many of our local program directors, general managers, and station owners. That's what I'd really have to do if I wanted to begin to try and cover all the bases here -- provide a complete transcript of the entire presentation! It's too bad that we couldn't have just found out everything next week on 91.5 WHKC, but like so many other radio people, I guess its owner isn't interested in what I have to say. It's too bad, because with a call sign like WHKC we sure could've had some great slogans: WHKC, because Hits Kill Craniums! WHKC, because Hits are the Key Complaint. WHKC, because Hits sink Kayaks and Canoes. WHKC, because Hits are Kennel Crap.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post, and I hope a lot of you write back with your questions, skepticisms, and attacks. I promise to be much briefer in my responses. Well, I'll try!
