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When Will Classic Hits

'70s and '80s based classic hits wouldn't be 55+. I'm 37 and I want to hear it.

By the way, The Hog is getting worse every day. They are playing so much '90s and '00s now that calling it "classic hits" is just foolish. I just heard them play "Lips Of An Angel" by Hinder. How is that classic? They need to either change the slogan to fit the music or change the music to fit the slogan. I guess I'm expecting too much from a Crossville station.

Meanwhile, True Oldies on 98.3 is sounding better all the time. Unfortunately the signal is what is, and they run that gospel programming all day long on Sunday.
 
Just hope that's better than Nashville's recent attempt for a Classic Hits station. The posters on the Nashville Board were begging for a Classic Hits station in Nashville, even going as far as posting on a daily basis that Nashville need as Classic Hits. 97.1 WRQQ swithed to a Classic Hits format and within a week, the very ones that were begging for a classic hits stations were the first ones complaining about the new Classic hits station. Imo, it sound stale from the get go, the same handful of songs that had been played to death on every other format and the on-air "Talent" sounded like they did want to be there. Just be careful what you wish for.
 
IMHO music "testing" has been misused. It is good to play songs that "test" well, but just playing the safe "hits" leads to burnout. One of the reasons top 40 worked back in the day was it changed. Sure the songs were burned out, but they went away soon. If you look back at most top 40 charts, 30 or more of the songs were gone in 60 to 90 days. I sure some will find an exception, except for January, once a song peaked it was usually gone in 30 days. If I were musically programming classic hits, I would start with Billboard's annual top 100. Play all of the songs except for novelty songs which should be put in separate request only once a week maximum category. So if you are doing classic hit 70's and 80's you would have over 1800 to 1900 songs in rotation that should be recognizable to the average listener. Of course you should have a good mixture of the years so you do not get too "old" or "young".
 
Add to a good music mix Fun entertaining personalities that connect
 
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