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uncleDJ
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Hello everyone,
Well it's taken me awhile to surface, lots happening...crazy world, we all know the drill. BUT, that all aside, we're celebrating our 2nd anniversary (since May 2007) of this Juke Box Gold ride. It has been phenomenal...the listeners keep adding on, both to the stick signal and online (winyradio.com) and the support just gets bigger every week. There are listeners that tell me whole TOWNS listen to the show locally, and they would know - some are the movers and shakers in these hamlets.
Especially in times like these Oldies radio is in thrive mode. We are in an age where everything is uncertain or failing and people need to have some semblance of 'normal' - Oldies radio, personality driven, it that vehicle to calm frayed nerves and bring back a sense of 'fun' missing from the lives we now live. It is one of the only formats I allow on for my cats (they even find ways of tuning the radio to oldies) and the format of choice when having a gathering. We take this show to levels not seen in years, in fact, it is very much a Sunday Brunch Club. Only a few rules are in play:
1. We play 1948-1969, the Billboard charters to the B sides, with stronger emphasis on our core: Elvis to the Beatles.
2. We infuse the hits of the mellower crowd's artists - Sinatra, Como, Cole, etc. - and truly 'blend' this format to be a bastian of Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Jazz, Ballads and Crooners, which was the backbone of the best radio stations of the 60s before the 'all rock' formats ran away with the format.
3. By nature the station, WINY, is very community pro-active, so this format lends very well to the community spirit and intent.
4. We have FUN. Period. We do sports on the hour out of AP, no heavy news, yet we are not afraid to break in when something important or urgent arises.
5. We build on success. I was one of the pioneers of the 'mini concert' concept in the 70s where one artist would be featured for 2 or more songs. These days I call them '2-For-U' or '3-For-We'. I was also one of the originators (if not THE originator) of breaking down the archaic walls of separation - you know, the 'no 2 female artists back to back', 'no two 'black' artists back to back', etc. I did that on the strength of those mini-concerts being such a hit with listeners way back in the 70s.
In this small place tucked away in the 'quiet corner' of CT with just 5000 watts and an online presence, WINY'S JUKE BOX GOLD is making the kind of noise more and more people want to hear - young and old, across types and backgrounds.
For those of you who understand the power and the pleasure of this music, I'm sure you have similar stories, and more importantly, OUR TIME HAS COME to be a powerful force in Radio again as there will be a stronger need to 'bring back the good old days' in the minds and hearts of our listeners. It was after all the 'revolution of radio' that drove so much of life after WWII and allowed us to dance our way into creativity, march our way through war and home again, and reflect our way into making the important social corrections of our time (right or wrong). This music, in its vastness, was the voice of that revolution from every direction; a heartbeat, a soul, a conscience. It's almost absent in music today and has been for some time; that is also why the lyrics and voices have such incredible staying power.
To those of you who listen and those who emulate what I do, THANK YOU...we all end up copying something from one another and discover our collective minds are pretty darn good at making the audience experience better. It's all about the audience, after all...and they need us more than ever now to be the comfort zone which is rapidly deteriorating in this day and age.
Keep giving them the good stuff, guys and gals.
-Bill Alley
WINY RADIO
Putnam, CT
winyradio.com
Well it's taken me awhile to surface, lots happening...crazy world, we all know the drill. BUT, that all aside, we're celebrating our 2nd anniversary (since May 2007) of this Juke Box Gold ride. It has been phenomenal...the listeners keep adding on, both to the stick signal and online (winyradio.com) and the support just gets bigger every week. There are listeners that tell me whole TOWNS listen to the show locally, and they would know - some are the movers and shakers in these hamlets.
Especially in times like these Oldies radio is in thrive mode. We are in an age where everything is uncertain or failing and people need to have some semblance of 'normal' - Oldies radio, personality driven, it that vehicle to calm frayed nerves and bring back a sense of 'fun' missing from the lives we now live. It is one of the only formats I allow on for my cats (they even find ways of tuning the radio to oldies) and the format of choice when having a gathering. We take this show to levels not seen in years, in fact, it is very much a Sunday Brunch Club. Only a few rules are in play:
1. We play 1948-1969, the Billboard charters to the B sides, with stronger emphasis on our core: Elvis to the Beatles.
2. We infuse the hits of the mellower crowd's artists - Sinatra, Como, Cole, etc. - and truly 'blend' this format to be a bastian of Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Jazz, Ballads and Crooners, which was the backbone of the best radio stations of the 60s before the 'all rock' formats ran away with the format.
3. By nature the station, WINY, is very community pro-active, so this format lends very well to the community spirit and intent.
4. We have FUN. Period. We do sports on the hour out of AP, no heavy news, yet we are not afraid to break in when something important or urgent arises.
5. We build on success. I was one of the pioneers of the 'mini concert' concept in the 70s where one artist would be featured for 2 or more songs. These days I call them '2-For-U' or '3-For-We'. I was also one of the originators (if not THE originator) of breaking down the archaic walls of separation - you know, the 'no 2 female artists back to back', 'no two 'black' artists back to back', etc. I did that on the strength of those mini-concerts being such a hit with listeners way back in the 70s.
In this small place tucked away in the 'quiet corner' of CT with just 5000 watts and an online presence, WINY'S JUKE BOX GOLD is making the kind of noise more and more people want to hear - young and old, across types and backgrounds.
For those of you who understand the power and the pleasure of this music, I'm sure you have similar stories, and more importantly, OUR TIME HAS COME to be a powerful force in Radio again as there will be a stronger need to 'bring back the good old days' in the minds and hearts of our listeners. It was after all the 'revolution of radio' that drove so much of life after WWII and allowed us to dance our way into creativity, march our way through war and home again, and reflect our way into making the important social corrections of our time (right or wrong). This music, in its vastness, was the voice of that revolution from every direction; a heartbeat, a soul, a conscience. It's almost absent in music today and has been for some time; that is also why the lyrics and voices have such incredible staying power.
To those of you who listen and those who emulate what I do, THANK YOU...we all end up copying something from one another and discover our collective minds are pretty darn good at making the audience experience better. It's all about the audience, after all...and they need us more than ever now to be the comfort zone which is rapidly deteriorating in this day and age.
Keep giving them the good stuff, guys and gals.
-Bill Alley
WINY RADIO
Putnam, CT
winyradio.com