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WCBS-FM Schedule Shuffles

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Jesse Addy Joins WCBS-FM For Afternoons; Broadway Bill Lee Moves To Nights

Audacy Classic Hits 101.1 WCBS-FM New York has announced that Jesse Addy will join the station as Music Director and
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TL;DR - WCBS-FM is shuffling its weekday schedule, seeing Jesse Addy slide into afternoons, with Broadway Bill Lee shifting to nights. Joe Causi will move into a fill-in role. Both Bill and Joe have been in those dayparts since the station's relaunch in 2007.

Reading between the lines: "retirement transition" comes to mind, while also keeping the personalities in key dayparts on the younger side.
 
IF retirement is Lee's plan. I'd bet not. I just see it as the continued young-i-fying of CBS-FM. I get it, but I don't love it.
 
Jesse was quite witty when he did afternoons on Nash FM/New York’s Country 94.7. Glad Audacy kept him on.
 
Time does march on and the people that are now 40 will be listening to CBS-FM exactly how much in the next three to five years? I don’t think Bill would be excited to move too nights at a way to roll into retirement. Anyone wanna bet on revenues for 24 vs 23?
 
Jesse Addy, welcome aboard. You're now the WCBS-FM weekday afternoons at 3-7PM.(y)

Time to add songs like:

Mr. Mister's Kyrie
Journey's Who's Crying Now?
Bon Jovi's Bad Medicine
Michael Jackson's You Rock My World
Madonna's I'll Remember
U2's Beautiful Day
Edwin McCain's I Could Not Ask for More
Patty Smyth and Don Henley's Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
Gloria Estefan's Live for Loving You
Cher's I Found Someone
Pat Benatar's Invincible
Aerosmith's Rag Doll and Jaded
Santana's Maria, Maria and The Game of Love
Don Henley's The Heart of the Matter
Tina Turner's The Best
Heart's Never
Sting's Fields of Gold
Marc Anthony's I Need to Know
Bryan Adams' Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
Nicki French's Total Eclipse of the Heart
Celine Dion's That's the Way It Is
 
Theater of My Mind said:
"Addy has also been named the station’s Music Director and will oversee music content."
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And, truly, the music at an oldies station is programmed by the audience via music tests. The music director and the program director look at the test and decide on how to fit the "playable songs" that passed into different rotations.

Sometimes a song scores well, but the PD knows that it is one of those stand-out songs that is noticed for some reason beyond that of a normal, regular, average song. So they put those in a lower rotation category so it does not seem "they are always playing that one". In other words, they play songs the listeners approved but how many times a week each one plays is part based on how high they score and part on how the PD wants the station to sound.
 
Always interest said:
Are these the dominos that were predicted to fall at Audacy NYC after Spike Eskin decided to leave WFAN ? If So, What Audacy NYC Station is next ?
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People are leaving stations all the time... willfully or otherwise... and not every change in staff is due to financial reasons.
 
They re added dancing queen and tiny dancer to the playlist so those are good surprises. For 90s songs they should add fields of gold, sophia hawkins and more celine dion
 
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