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WDUV Drops Instrumentals

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Gregg

For years, WDUV 105.5 The Dove had been playing an instrumental every hour around :35. Sometimes at night, they'd also play an instrumental around :05. This apparently has been dropped.

The songs had been a mix of popular Smooth Jazz hits, Top 40 hits that had been instrumental (such as Classical Gas or Love Is Blue) or the themes from popular movies (Driving Miss Daisy and the Feather Theme from Forrest Gump were often heard).

I suppose Cox feels instrumentals make the station sound too old, even though they stayed in the format for all the years since WDUV was one of the last big market stations to transition from Easy Listening to Soft AC. How odd that the end to instrumentals comes almost at the same time that WSJT, Tampa's Smooth Jazz station, also bit the dust. You'd think they'd have postponed dropping instrumentals now that WSJT's previous audience had been disenfranchised. Maybe get rid of the movie music but why drop the Kenny G. and Dave Koz if they're no longer heard on WSJT either?

I also wonder if some big hit instrumentals will eventually get into rotation as former hits on WDUV? Maybe I should start another thread asking why contemporary radio has just about banned instrumentals, even those few that become hits? I don't think Oldies/Classic Hits stations play instrumentals anymore either.



Gregg
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And Ferrante and Teicher too? FM radio had another station playing instumental music, but USF sent it away for more political talk. If WSMR is on the air, it has no signal in Tampa. Now I can get my Eagles fix on dozens of stations. What if they all played an Eagles cut at the same time?
 
Gregg said:
For years, WDUV 105.5 The Dove had been playing an instrumental every hour around :35. Sometimes at night, they'd also play an instrumental around :05. This apparently has been dropped.

The songs had been a mix of popular Smooth Jazz hits, Top 40 hits that had been instrumental (such as Classical Gas or Love Is Blue) or the themes from popular movies (Driving Miss Daisy and the Feather Theme from Forrest Gump were often heard).

I suppose Cox feels instrumentals make the station sound too old, even though they stayed in the format for all the years since WDUV was one of the last big market stations to transition from Easy Listening to Soft AC. How odd that the end to instrumentals comes almost at the same time that WSJT, Tampa's Smooth Jazz station, also bit the dust. You'd think they'd have postponed dropping instrumentals now that WSJT's previous audience had been disenfranchised. Maybe get rid of the movie music but why drop the Kenny G. and Dave Koz if they're no longer heard on WSJT either?

I also wonder if some big hit instrumentals will eventually get into rotation as former hits on WDUV? Maybe I should start another thread asking why contemporary radio has just about banned instrumentals, even those few that become hits? I don't think Oldies/Classic Hits stations play instrumentals anymore either.
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WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade. So much for the eagle eye (or ear) posters on this board......
 
Kabrich said:
Gregg said:
For years, WDUV 105.5 The Dove had been playing an instrumental every hour around :35. Sometimes at night, they'd also play an instrumental around :05. This apparently has been dropped.

The songs had been a mix of popular Smooth Jazz hits, Top 40 hits that had been instrumental (such as Classical Gas or Love Is Blue) or the themes from popular movies (Driving Miss Daisy and the Feather Theme from Forrest Gump were often heard).

I suppose Cox feels instrumentals make the station sound too old, even though they stayed in the format for all the years since WDUV was one of the last big market stations to transition from Easy Listening to Soft AC. How odd that the end to instrumentals comes almost at the same time that WSJT, Tampa's Smooth Jazz station, also bit the dust. You'd think they'd have postponed dropping instrumentals now that WSJT's previous audience had been disenfranchised. Maybe get rid of the movie music but why drop the Kenny G. and Dave Koz if they're no longer heard on WSJT either?

I also wonder if some big hit instrumentals will eventually get into rotation as former hits on WDUV? Maybe I should start another thread asking why contemporary radio has just about banned instrumentals, even those few that become hits? I don't think Oldies/Classic Hits stations play instrumentals anymore either.
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WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade. So much for the eagle eye (or ear) posters on this board......
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Randy, you're wrong again. DUV had been playing instrumentals at the rate of about one an hour ever since they cut the musak format in the 90's. I was listening a month or two back and they were playing Larry Carlton and Kenny G... I think you should check the wiki entry for WDUV.

"The format is actually a very gold-leaning soft adult contemporary mix of music which once included one or two instrumentals per hour, having evolved from true beautiful music. (As of recently, however, most, if not all, of the instrumentals were dropped.)"
 
Cedric said:
Randy, you're wrong again. DUV had been playing instrumentals at the rate of about one an hour ever since they cut the musak format in the 90's. I was listening a month or two back and they were playing Larry Carlton and Kenny G... I think you should check the wiki entry for WDUV.

"The format is actually a very gold-leaning soft adult contemporary mix of music which once included one or two instrumentals per hour, having evolved from true beautiful music. (As of recently, however, most, if not all, of the instrumentals were dropped.)"
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Seems you are out of touch as to what is going on as well - and foolish for believing the wiki entry or radio-info.com posters - or that I am wrong.

The station dropped the instrumentals and the Christmas tunes at the same time - the last week of December 2009.

The really smart observers (none seem of which seem to post here) noticed that the Persons 25-54 ratings went up dramatically almost immediately.
 
So I guess the only time we will hear instrumentals is when whoever is playing Christmas music is playing "Sleigh Ride" by the aforementioned Ferrante & Teicher...

If you are still looking for instrumentals on the radio, there are a couple of nearby stations that I think are still doing it - WAVV and WJPT, both in Fort Myers (they slay in the local Arbitrons - and it will be interesting to see how these stations fare if/when PPM comes to Market No. 62), and "Seaview 104.9" which is licensed to Solana - though it's owned by Clear Channel, so who knows if they've dropped instruemntals on that station, too.
 
Kabrich said:
WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade. So much for the eagle eye (or ear) posters on this board......
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Kabrich said:
The station dropped the instrumentals and the Christmas tunes at the same time - the last week of December 2009.
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Nice touch, at first it sounded like they dropped the category 10 years ago... lol...
 
Parttimer said:
Kabrich said:
WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade. So much for the eagle eye (or ear) posters on this board......
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Kabrich said:
The station dropped the instrumentals and the Christmas tunes at the same time - the last week of December 2009.
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Nice touch, at first it sounded like they dropped the category 10 years ago... lol...
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Randy has been so consumed with his consulting business, he doesn't have enough time to listen to radio.
 
Randy is right, the instrumentals have been gone from WDUV for several months, long before the demise of WSJT. I thought I made a post about that on here, but I guess I forgot to, because I can't find it.
 
Actually Randy isn't right, he claimed, "WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade". That just isn't true, I heard them playing instrumental jazz less than a month ago. They dropped A LOT of instrumentals from their playlist, but you'll still hear "Green Onions" from time to time...
 
They still play Sinatra every once in a while. I prefer WDUV without the instumentals.
 
Cedric said:
Actually Randy isn't right, he claimed, "WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade". That just isn't true, I heard them playing instrumental jazz less than a month ago. They dropped A LOT of instrumentals from their playlist, but you'll still hear "Green Onions" from time to time...
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Again, you don't know what you are talking about.
 
Back in the 70's and 80's.. the normal rotation for WDUV, when they were still on reel to reel was 3 or 4 instrumentals to 1 vocal, usually it was the 2nd cut in the break.
 
flwfg said:
Back in the 70's and 80's.. the normal rotation for WDUV, when they were still on reel to reel was 3 or 4 instrumentals to 1 vocal, usually it was the 2nd cut in the break.
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!! That's like sooooo Seventies!
 
Cedric said:
Kabrich said:
Gregg said:
For years, WDUV 105.5 The Dove had been playing an instrumental every hour around :35. Sometimes at night, they'd also play an instrumental around :05. This apparently has been dropped.

The songs had been a mix of popular Smooth Jazz hits, Top 40 hits that had been instrumental (such as Classical Gas or Love Is Blue) or the themes from popular movies (Driving Miss Daisy and the Feather Theme from Forrest Gump were often heard).

I suppose Cox feels instrumentals make the station sound too old, even though they stayed in the format for all the years since WDUV was one of the last big market stations to transition from Easy Listening to Soft AC. How odd that the end to instrumentals comes almost at the same time that WSJT, Tampa's Smooth Jazz station, also bit the dust. You'd think they'd have postponed dropping instrumentals now that WSJT's previous audience had been disenfranchised. Maybe get rid of the movie music but why drop the Kenny G. and Dave Koz if they're no longer heard on WSJT either?

I also wonder if some big hit instrumentals will eventually get into rotation as former hits on WDUV? Maybe I should start another thread asking why contemporary radio has just about banned instrumentals, even those few that become hits? I don't think Oldies/Classic Hits stations play instrumentals anymore either.
Click to expand...

WDUV has not played instrumentals this decade. So much for the eagle eye (or ear) posters on this board......
Click to expand...

Randy, you're wrong again. DUV had been playing instrumentals at the rate of about one an hour ever since they cut the musak format in the 90's. I was listening a month or two back and they were playing Larry Carlton and Kenny G... I think you should check the wiki entry for WDUV.

"The format is actually a very gold-leaning soft adult contemporary mix of music which once included one or two instrumentals per hour, having evolved from true beautiful music. (As of recently, however, most, if not all, of the instrumentals were dropped.)"
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Randy isn't wrong - just full of himself as usual. But to give the devil his due, I did check WDUV 's playlist for the past 24 hours (available on their website). No instrumentals. The perception of WDUV playing instrumentals is much stronger than the reality - no instrumentals. I would have to conclude that if no instrumental was played in 24 hours, then the likelihood is they are playing none at all.
 
This thread would have made a good Seinfeld story line. Or part of a Monty Python skit. Yes they do...No they don't...Yes they do...No they don't...
 
I'm sure that they haven't played any instrumentals in the last few days... but I can tell you without a doubt, they HAVE played at least two instrumentals in the last two months. I've heard them with my own ears. Kabrich is (as usual) claiming to be the final authority. It turns out he really doesn't have the foggiest notion of what he's speaking on. I never implied that WDUV had returned to their muzak heyday, but since "dropping instrumentals", a few have indeed made it to air. I was on the way into my new gig about exactly one month ago, and they played Larry Carlton's "Smiles and Smiles to go" in MORNING DRIVE... I'm done with this thread, have fun Randy.
 
One of the things all you guys are missing is this is not the same station that has been the Dove. While the name has gone with the call letters all this time, the station has moved studios at least 4 times, frequency at least three times, and owners at least 4 times.

They were one of the last of the vestiges of what we used to call "Beautiful Music". Along with WAVV in Ft. Myers.

This Dove was the intellectual property of WDUV and the transmitter of WTBT and started in 1999.

The origional was in Bradenton on 103.3 on 26th Ave E.

Don't try to compare the history because it is not the same.

Compare to this is Q-105, this one began in September 1989 as WWUU, U-92.

Back on topic: I wouldn't be surprised to hear Paul Muriatt in a day-parted roll or Kenny G.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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