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Where will we hear oldies next?
- Thread starter DG02816
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I think oldies is going to be gone from Providence radio for a long time. Just a hunch. I'm sure one day it will pop up again. I'm betting that eventually 99.7 will try it. Having WPRO on the FM side is great for sound quality, but I don't think it's going to do much for ratings. At least having oldies on the FM side will give the music the sound quality which it deserves. I think it was a backwards idea to begin with to put True Oldies on 790. Music on AM sounds like garbage.
For the time being, anyway...it appears the only place we'll hear 50's/60's oldies in this market is on the brokered time program "Guido & the Doo-Woppers", heard Sundays from 10 am to 1 pm on 1320 WARL.
As for an Oldies format programming an entire station?......I'm not all that hopeful. Perhaps this is just another format that has "aged-out"...much like the Big-Band based version of "Music of Your Life" did some years ago.
And the beat goes on......
As for an Oldies format programming an entire station?......I'm not all that hopeful. Perhaps this is just another format that has "aged-out"...much like the Big-Band based version of "Music of Your Life" did some years ago.
And the beat goes on......
The Rockhead is correct. WELH still plays oldies starting at 3PM until I think 9PM. It's all relative anyway when it comes to oldies. When Z100 flipped to rock on KKB a girl I know complained to me that her oldies station was gone & Z100 was an 80's station. I never thought I'd pay for radio, but I got spoiled with a trial subscription to XM with a new car & now I just have them whack the credit card quarterly. When it comes to terrestrial radio I'm looking for the total package, meaning music & personalities so for me WCTK is the only game in town in that respect. There's WJZS & WMVY when I can get them. Everything else is XM & WCTK.
Runrigger said:The Rockhead is correct. WELH still plays oldies starting at 3PM until I think 9PM. It's all relative anyway when it comes to oldies. When Z100 flipped to rock on KKB a girl I know complained to me that her oldies station was gone & Z100 was an 80's station. I never thought I'd pay for radio, but I got spoiled with a trial subscription to XM with a new car & now I just have them whack the credit card quarterly. When it comes to terrestrial radio I'm looking for the total package, meaning music & personalities so for me WCTK is the only game in town in that respect. There's WJZS & WMVY when I can get them. Everything else is XM & WCTK.
This I think explains it all with the problem of music stations nowadays and Ipods
Runrigger if WCTK floats your boat, that's cool. I am not saying it's a bad country station, but WCTK is only for the newer music fans. To me, today's country music is not true country, it sounds more like pop music. But to whoever in the area likes it, WCTK is the 92 PRO FM of country. Now for the oldies, maybe 99.7 although that's mainly a southern Rhode Island signal, poor reception in the Providence and Johnston area within miles of Neutaconkanut Hill. It would be awesome to have a local and independent station like 92.1 WLNG in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY. Even if 99.7 was used, make the station exclusive to southern Rhode Island and the beaches. WLNG has an awesome music selection, but the best thing about it is the local programming. When you hear the DJs, PSAs, and commercials, you get the true flavor of Sag Harbor and eastern Long Island. I also love the mono and reverb on WLNG, which really enhances the sound.
radiojay1 said:Runrigger if WCTK floats your boat, that's cool. I am not saying it's a bad country station, but WCTK is only for the newer music fans. To me, today's country music is not true country, it sounds more like pop music. But to whoever in the area likes it, WCTK is the 92 PRO FM of country. Now for the oldies, maybe 99.7 although that's mainly a southern Rhode Island signal, poor reception in the Providence and Johnston area within miles of Neutaconkanut Hill. It would be awesome to have a local and independent station like 92.1 WLNG in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY. Even if 99.7 was used, make the station exclusive to southern Rhode Island and the beaches. WLNG has an awesome music selection, but the best thing about it is the local programming. When you hear the DJs, PSAs, and commercials, you get the true flavor of Sag Harbor and eastern Long Island. I also love the mono and reverb on WLNG, which really enhances the sound.
Not to exactly but into your conversion but I want to agree with you about 99.7.As much as I love the simulcast of WPRO on 99.7 fm.99.7 should in fact focus more on South County some how and does not presently serve "Wickford/Peacedale" the way it was intendend.99.7 being a live and local simulcast of a Providence station does serve loccally on a statewide level but not enough locally.By locally I mean South County.
It would be great if 99.7 were to switch to an all-oldies format. But, who knows? I wonder, to this day, why WWBB HD-2 is running an very lame all-comedy format and not an oldies format. Oh well..... at least you can still listen to the True Oldies Channel on line on WLS-FM (http://www.947trueoldies.com) from Chicago, complete with Scott Shannon but most of all.... Dick ("The Wild Itralian") Biondi at night. Dumping oldies off of 790 was stupid. They didn't even give the oldies format a real chance. Now, more talk, talk, talk.
Jay, my buckaroo we've been down this road before. I still don't know what you consider classic country, being that it could be anything from The Judds to Patsy Cline. If an oldies format is hard to sell, a classic country is harder. Again, I'm looking for the total package when it comes to a station: a morning show that makes me not mind it's morning & good, familiar personalities the rest of the day. The station should sound like home to you. WCTK does it for me. If all I cared about was the music I want to hear, I wouldn't even turn on the radio. I keep XM because I like the channel variety & don't even notice that I'm paying for it.
Don't forget Memory Lane on WOON/1240 Sundays Noon-3. As for music on A.M., it can & does sound good when it's done right. Classical never sounded better to my ears than over the old CBA/1070 in Moncton, N.B.. An A.M. Stereo music station sounds GREAT! Unfortunately when you have lousy mono radios that's what comes across.
In response to Runrigger
I like country from the 50's to the 80's. I also like some 90's. Trust me I know about the business aspect of radio, but I was just saying, not complaining, WCTK is a station mainly for those who like the new music, and that's fine, I accept that. 102.5 WKLB plays a little more gold than WCTK, but I am happy that many stations broadcast online allowing fans of any kind of music to hear what they like anytime, and also there is satellite radio, but I only listen to classic country occasionally, so I don't need it. I'm just curious, how did WHIM last from 1966 to the the mid 90's? It must have had a decent size listenership. I remember visiting the WHIM studio and chatting with the people there when WCTK was a new country station, and we were joking about it saying "what does a cat have to do with country music?" I was hoping to DJ at WHIM, but it was gone before I could.
Runrigger said:Jay, my buckaroo we've been down this road before. I still don't know what you consider classic country, being that it could be anything from The Judds to Patsy Cline. If an oldies format is hard to sell, a classic country is harder. Again, I'm looking for the total package when it comes to a station: a morning show that makes me not mind it's morning & good, familiar personalities the rest of the day. The station should sound like home to you. WCTK does it for me. If all I cared about was the music I want to hear, I wouldn't even turn on the radio. I keep XM because I like the channel variety & don't even notice that I'm paying for it.
I like country from the 50's to the 80's. I also like some 90's. Trust me I know about the business aspect of radio, but I was just saying, not complaining, WCTK is a station mainly for those who like the new music, and that's fine, I accept that. 102.5 WKLB plays a little more gold than WCTK, but I am happy that many stations broadcast online allowing fans of any kind of music to hear what they like anytime, and also there is satellite radio, but I only listen to classic country occasionally, so I don't need it. I'm just curious, how did WHIM last from 1966 to the the mid 90's? It must have had a decent size listenership. I remember visiting the WHIM studio and chatting with the people there when WCTK was a new country station, and we were joking about it saying "what does a cat have to do with country music?" I was hoping to DJ at WHIM, but it was gone before I could.
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