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WDAS-FM and Aretha

Miguelito

Miguelito

WDAS has been playing wall-to-wall Aretha Franklin since the sad news of her death broke this morning. Very respectful (no pun intended).

EDIT: WRNB is doing the same.
 
I gotta ask how WOGL has approached this half-joyous/half-solemn occasion.

Side note : when WCBS-FM returned to their Greatest Hits format after the Jack debacle, the third song they played in full was her 'Respect'.

('Do It Again' by the Beach Boys was the 1st, and 'Oh What A Night (December 63)' was the second.)
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
I gotta ask how WOGL has approached this half-joyous/half-solemn occasion.

Side note : when WCBS-FM returned to their Greatest Hits format after the Jack debacle, the third song they played in full was her 'Respect'.

('Do It Again' by the Beach Boys was the 1st, and 'Oh What A Night (December 63)' was the second.)
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"Freeway of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who" might be her only songs that wouldn't sound dated in the context of a 2018 classic hits format. I wonder if 'OGL broke format and played her 1967 classic.
(UPDATE: Online playlist shows no Aretha at all since 1:00, earlier unavailable)
 
Here in Yakima, KMGW Mega 99.3 has been playing 1 Aretha an hour. They should stop programming and air wall-to-wall Aretha IMO. All rhythmic oldies/R&B stations should follow suit. They did for quite a while when Prince died.
 
When the news broke in the 10am hour, WOGL played two Aretha songs ("Respect" and "Think," I believe) and then returned to their regular format. Meanwhile, as of this writing WDAS and WRNB are still All Aretha, All The Time.
 
Miguelito said:
WDAS has been playing wall-to-wall Aretha Franklin since the sad news of her death broke this morning. Very respectful (no pun intended).

EDIT: WRNB is doing the same.
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WXPN has been wall-to-wall Aretha as well, except for when they aired the World Cafe, but they only aired one hour of that.
 
crainbebo said:
Here in Yakima, KMGW Mega 99.3 has been playing 1 Aretha an hour. They should stop programming and air wall-to-wall Aretha IMO. All rhythmic oldies/R&B stations should follow suit. They did for quite a while when Prince died.
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Keep with the theme of out of market stations.

The stations I checked in Connecticut didn't do non-stop Aretha Franklin. I thought for sure the HOT 93.7 the hip-hop station in Hartford would've done wall-to-wall Aretha. When Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince all passed HOT 93.7 played each of those artists continuously for several hours. Their mid day DJ Bigg Mann announced her passing at the start of his show at 10AM. (As I was watching the report on NBC). Hot's sister station AC formatted Lite 100.5 played several of Ms. Franklin's songs in a row. Down in New Haven 94.3 WYBC the Urban AC station owned by Yale University, but LMA'd to Connoisseur was taking calls from their listeners. I don't know how much of her music they played, however. The Power 97.5 a (1480) a Low Power Station north of Hartford played none of her music during the 25 mins I had them on on Tune-in. They claim to be home of R&B Hits and Oldies. They also play Urban Gospel Music on Sundays.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Side note : when WCBS-FM returned to their Greatest Hits format after the Jack debacle, the third song they played in full was her 'Respect'.
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Jack on WCBS-FM was hardly a debacle. The format rather quickly surpassed the 25-54 numbers of the ancient CBS-FM oldies format.

CBS would have kept the format but for one thing: they were part of the 2002-2004 testing of the PPM in Philadelphia, and had early information on how WOGL could and did outperform in the PPM. Realizing that there were several under-performing competitive stations in NYC at the time, CBS created a new classic hits format and dropped the Adult Hits format to block any other station that saw what was going on in the early PPM tests from making a switch before them.

It took CBS a while to get their classic hits formats fine-tuned, but once they did they have done very well in some of the very largest markets like Philly, Boston, NYC and LA.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Jack on WCBS-FM was hardly a debacle. The format rather quickly surpassed the 25-54 numbers of the ancient CBS-FM oldies format.

CBS would have kept the format but for one thing: they were part of the 2002-2004 testing of the PPM in Philadelphia, and had early information on how WOGL could and did outperform in the PPM. Realizing that there were several under-performing competitive stations in NYC at the time, CBS created a new classic hits format and dropped the Adult Hits format to block any other station that saw what was going on in the early PPM tests from making a switch before them.

It took CBS a while to get their classic hits formats fine-tuned, but once they did they have done very well in some of the very largest markets like Philly, Boston, NYC and LA.
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CBS got out of classic hits in Boston several years ago when it went CHR with WODS.
 
KEXP 90.3 in Seattle was also all-Aretha yesterday. In fact they had a report on KOMO (and fed to KIMA's Action News broadcast) on Seattle tributes to the Queen of Soul.
 
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