WCBS-FM Schedule Shuffles

[MTNProductions]

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'.)

Thanks for mentioning Tony Bennett on that one. This is an example on what “Legends 100.3” down in Florida is going to play if I will tune in April 1st after I’m going to finish listening to Race Taylor on March 29th, and I have almost three weeks left to listen to him until I will go to Mike McGann as my new favorite midday guy starting next month.

In addition, I will make some changes starting in April including the return of Bob Miller on WBPM since I have not listened to it since late December, because I’m listening to Allan David Stein on WMTR for the last two months playing oldies in the morning. After Bob Miller on WBPM, I will listening to new guy named Mike McGann on WLML’s “Legends 100.3” starting next month, and then Chris Buckout on WLNG in afternoons at 2PM, Randy Turner on WBPM at 6PM, Jimmy Howes on WALL at 7PM and JJ Carter on WBPM to finish up the day at 10PM.

To get back to WCBS-FM, I’m not a fan of Jesse Addy to afternoons, so I have to give up on this station for now, because of the station played too much 80’s and 90’s music. I prefer the original WCBS-FM when it was an oldies station playing 50’s and 60’s music, and I remember Bob Shannon, Harry Harrison, Dan Daniel, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Bobby Jay, Norm N Nite, Max Kinkel, Marc Sommers, Gary Clark, Bill Brown, Mike McCann, Don K Reed and Cousin Brucie. I love the original WCBS-FM, and I used to listened to the station back in the 1980’s right up until the station flipped to “Jack” in 2005.

When the station returned in 2007, they sounded much as good, but when Scott Shannon came to the picture, it sounded great, and when they updated the music, it loses a lot of focus where it dropped 60’s and most of the 70’s music, let alone “Sweet Caroline” by Neil Diamond and a few 70’s including songs from “Saturday Night Fever” and others, but the 80’s are fine but the 90’s are okay, but that great. So that’s why I give up WCBS-FM and listen to something else.

WBPM is another example of another classic hits station in the Hudson Valley plays the songs the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and it sounds better than WCBS-FM since the station returned in 2007 and it’s a great station.

 

[Always interested]

Jesse Addy, welcome aboard. You're now the WCBS-FM weekday afternoons at 3-7PM.

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

How many different songs did they actually add since He took over as MD ?

 

[TheBigA]

How many different songs did they actually add since He took over as MD ?

The MD of a classic hits station is more of a scheduler. They cycle in different songs every week.

 

[Always interested]

The MD of a classic hits station is more of a scheduler. They cycle in different songs every week.

Okay Thank you 😊

 

[MTNProductions]

Jesse Addy, welcome aboard. You're now the WCBS-FM weekday afternoons at 3-7PM.

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

I don’t listen to Jesse Addy, because I don’t care. As for the song selection., not good! I think I have to go back and dig up an aircheck from WBPM. How about JJ Carter from last year where he used to used middays, but now doing evenings right after Jimmy Howes on WALL. He used to be from 10AM until 2PM, and he is now from 10PM until midnight right after Jimmy Howes from Monday though Thursday and right after a “Doo-Wop Double Feature” on WRCR and WMTR with “Doo-Wop Dream Machine” (WRCR) and “Doo-Wop Drive” (WMTR) back to back.

Trust me, I love JJ Carter so much, because he is still sounds good. Back in middays, he was good, but in evenings, he is still sounds so good. You’lol hear some of the songs that WCBS-FM is playing now, along with WWZY’s “The Boss” at 107.1 on the Jersey Shore which is currently playing, plus some 60’s music which is now “Oldies” and lots of 70’s songs that you don’t hear on WCBS-FM anymore, except a few 70’s. Let’s give it a good listen. As you know WBPM sounds a lot like WCBS-FM circa 2007 through 2014 where my idol, Scott Shannon came on board.

https://archive.org/download/JJCarterCollection/JJ%20Carter%20-%202_10_23.mp3

 

[davideduardo]

"Addy has also been named the station’s Music Director and will oversee music content."

And music directors don't program the music. Research does. All the PD or MD do at a gold based station is control the frequency of repetition, the flow in sets, artist separation and things like that.

As far as it might get is a chat between Marcia the PD and Bill the MD: "Bill, "Enemies of the Night" by Wolfgang got only a 68 average on the test and it scored a week fit for us... do you should we leave it as an extreme fill for overnights, or just nuke it?" Bill replies, "Well, we have a pretty fat list of fill stuff and they all have better format fits so let's rest it and give it one more chance in the next test."

 

[davideduardo]

The MD of a classic hits station is more of a scheduler. They cycle in different songs every week.

And in most cases, the songs that go into rest cycles are done "automatically" in Music Master or Selector.

But there can be a lot of decisions there. Some of us will not fully rest a song, but put it in the deep fill category that seldom plays outside of 10 PM to 5 AM rather than totally resting it. Or we may cycle songs from a power gold rotation to a secondary gold rotation so they paly more for a while and then more lightly.

Or we may put songs by artists who have a lot of gold into "packets" or "groups" where each song rotates within the packet, and the station is not overwhelmed by songs by that particular artist.

One of my own preferences is to rest a few songs each day while bringing out of rest an equal number. That way every single day has a tiny amount of change, while doing that only on a weekly or monthly basis moves too many songs on the same day and interrupts the software's ability to use historical (yesterday, the day before, etc) to try to keep the station sound consistent.