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WCBS-FM Schedule Shuffles

dcowboy7 said:
No changes until March 29 still stands.
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But after March 29th, that’s it, it’s over, I’m not going to listen to Race Taylor on WCBS-FM anymore, I will be listening to WLML’s “Legend 100.3” down in West Palm Beach, FL and listen to Mike McGann, it’s going to be way better than Race Taylor. Instead of playing too much 80’s music, he will play music from Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and many more. Just like the way it sounded back in the glory days of WNEW-AM on the good old “11-3-O” in NYC, and on WQEW at 1560 AM from 1992 through 1998 as it was heard way back when.

I was a longtime loyal listener of WCBS-FM for so many years back when it was playing oldies from the 50’s and 60’s, and right until now, it’s too much 80’s and 90’s and the same songs played over and over and over, and I got tired of listening to it anymore.

So I decided to make changes to the music to put on another station elsewhere to hear my new favorite Mike McGann. He’s going to sound amazing to middays, and it would be the return of “Stardust Memories” when Dan Karcher hosted on WRCR back in November 2019 and lasted until February 2020.

I used to listened to WQEW back in the 1990’s when Stan Martin, Jonathan Schwartz and Chuck Leonard used to do shows and played MOR standards, and I did missed it a lot, so I’m glad that I found “Legends 100.3” to hear how it sounded as it were back in the WNEW-AM and WQEW days. I’m looking forward to hear it on April 1st.
 
Who else is getting a little tired of the format? Can only play so many 80s before it gets stale. I hope they can play as many 90s as 80s per hour at some point. Currently 2-3 90s per hour, 1 or 2 70s and the others 80s
 
MTNProductions said:
But after March 29th, that’s it, it’s over, I’m not going to listen to Race Taylor on WCBS-FM anymore, I will be listening to WLML’s “Legend 100.3” down in West Palm Beach, FL and listen to Mike McGann, it’s going to be way better than Race Taylor. Instead of playing too much 80’s music, he will play music from Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and many more. Just like the way it sounded back in the glory days of WNEW-AM on the good old “11-3-O” in NYC, and on WQEW at 1560 AM from 1992 through 1998 as it was heard way back when.

I was a longtime loyal listener of WCBS-FM for so many years back when it was playing oldies from the 50’s and 60’s, and right until now, it’s too much 80’s and 90’s and the same songs played over and over and over, and I got tired of listening to it anymore.

So I decided to make changes to the music to put on another station elsewhere to hear my new favorite Mike McGann. He’s going to sound amazing to middays, and it would be the return of “Stardust Memories” when Dan Karcher hosted on WRCR back in November 2019 and lasted until February 2020.

I used to listened to WQEW back in the 1990’s when Stan Martin, Jonathan Schwartz and Chuck Leonard used to do shows and played MOR standards, and I did missed it a lot, so I’m glad that I found “Legends 100.3” to hear how it sounded as it were back in the WNEW-AM and WQEW days. I’m looking forward to hear it on April 1st.
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Does Mr. McGann need a restraining order? This is some bizarre cyber obsession going on here.
 
MTNProductions said:
But after March 29th, that’s it, it’s over, I’m not going to listen to Race Taylor on WCBS-FM anymore, I will be listening to WLML’s “Legend 100.3” down in West Palm Beach, FL and listen to Mike McGann, it’s going to be way better than Race Taylor. [etc]
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Oh, Lord, why did I even read this thread? Now I have a headache.
 
On that repeat-music business : I had a nice radio companion driving one morning into Philadelphia -- 'Alice' , 104.5 WLCE. Their songs 'did it' for me, and their snarky voice guy was an added chuckle.
On my way back home here during their PM drive, they played something like three songs from that morning drive.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Stop over-thinking it and put something on the radio that interests younger audiences instead.
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That ship has sailed. Or at the very least, it is pulling out of the harbor one last time. As you've noticed, there are people here who still insist that everything is just hunky-dory and "the kids today" love the radio, and I can certainly understand that. You dedicate your entire career to a thing, and it's hard to let go.

Anyway, I didn't realize that Broadway was 72. Sucks that he's being relegated to nights, but he's had a helluva run. There will never be another like him.
 
Deus Ex Machiato said:
there are people here who still insist that everything is just hunky-dory and "the kids today" love the radio,
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My view is that young people don't "love the radio." They don't have the passion for it their parents or grandparents did.

It's an appliance, just like the refrigerator and the microwave. They use it when it's there because it's easy and free.
 
TheBigA said:
It's an appliance, just like the refrigerator and the microwave.
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Well that's kinda the problem, isn't it? Instead of being a form of entertainment that people are passionate about, radio is an appliance. But I disagree that it is like a fridge or microwave. It's more like a DVD player.
 
Deus Ex Machiato said:
Well that's kinda the problem, isn't it? Instead of being a form of entertainment that people are passionate about, radio is an appliance. But I disagree that it is like a fridge or microwave. It's more like a DVD player.
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Are we talking about the device or the content? People are very passionate about food, just not the fridge. Depending on the station, we find some young listeners care about what they hear. Because we see what happens when we change it. People here still complain about losing the country or alternative stations.
 
TheBigA said:
Are we talking about the device or the content?
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Well if it's not already obvious, I'm just busting your chops. As I said above, I get it. This is not a hobby for you, and you've got every right to be defensive.

Somewhere in a shoe box I've got an old cassette tape of a Bill Lee aircheck from when he was on KFRC in '82, and he was an inspiration for me as a jock, so yeah...I have some feelings about him being relegated to (probably) voice-tracking a night show after all he's done.
People are very passionate about food, just not the fridge.
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Well there's the thing. Yes, people are very passionate about the food, but the delivery mechanism has been treated like an appliance for far too long. Used to be, a radio station was like a restaurant with a great chef. You'd sit down at your table, and the waiter would say "tonight's special is something he's whipped up and it is fantastic." You had no idea what was coming, but it was really, really good. Everyone wanted to go to the hot new restaurant in town and try the chef's latest creation. Because it was worth the wait.

Now, the radio station is like an appliance. And that's the problem.
 
Deus Ex Machiato said:
Used to be, a radio station was like a restaurant with a great chef. You'd sit down at your table, and the waiter would say "tonight's special is something he's whipped up and it is fantastic."
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There still are stations just like that, mostly non-commercial. Here in NYC, there are several stations that are still pretty unique.
 
Off-topic somewhat re Bennett and San Francisco :
Great pal of mine jocked a few years for a major market Standards station. The station PD passed along some caveat to my pal, purportedly second-hand tact from the station consultant. The truly visionary philosophy went "We play 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco', and 299 other songs that make us nervous".

(IIrc, it was sometime in the 90's when some high council officially designated the Bennett classic as the National Anthem of the Standards. Word has it that it supplanted 'In The Mood' as the genre's apex moment, which to that moment had been granted orthodox worship and observance through one spin per daypart 'til further notice . Lol -- whenever my Folks got on my back about Rock n Roll being repetitious, I'd say, 'Oh yeah?' and reference 'In The Mood'.)
 
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