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WNEW-FM's History of Rock and Roll

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luckenbg

Is there anyone else that is going to miss the History of Rock and Roll when the news format starts? I haven't enjoyed listening to Washington radio this much in decades. There is a part of me that hopes CBS is testing the Greatest Hits format as part of this stunt. I'd love to see CBS launch a WCBS-FM or WOGL type format in Washington. Maybe if enough people have been listening over the last week or so to WNEW-FM maybe CBS will try the Greatest Hits format on another one of their area signals. One can only hope :)

Gary
 
luckenbg said:
Is there anyone else that is going to miss the History of Rock and Roll when the news format starts? I haven't enjoyed listening to Washington radio this much in decades. There is a part of me that hopes CBS is testing the Greatest Hits format as part of this stunt. I'd love to see CBS launch a WCBS-FM or WOGL type format in Washington. Maybe if enough people have been listening over the last week or so to WNEW-FM maybe CBS will try the Greatest Hits format on another one of their area signals. One can only hope :)

Gary
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In the meantime, it might be a good idea for those who want to preserve the History of Rock 'n' Roll to get your equipment ready now and record it!
 
Dial Global (which assumed Jones Radio Networks, which distributed the incarnation you're hearing on 99.1) should release it on CD.
 
I'm recording bits of it in 4 hour-long blocks. I'd really love to see it updated to include some more modern stuff on there, but it is sort of refreshing.

Why not put it on a 99.1 potential HD channel? It wont get any better ratings than any other hypothetical HD format.

Radio-X
 
99.1 isn't in HD now, and it's been owned by CBS for years. I doubt they'll go HD, especially with an all news format that didn't displace a real radio station.
 
radiodxrichmond said:
I'm recording bits of it in 4 hour-long blocks...
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I'm assuming that might have been the reason why we heard "HFS 97.5" bleeding in underneath WNEW on the "unofficial" WNEW stream at "WIADHD2" (which is still down at the moment): maybe they did that purposely so folks couldn't record the "History" special online?
 
105.9 in Orlando did the same thing when they flipped from O-Rock to Sunny in 2008. It lasted a couple of weeks and I absolutely loved it! Wish I'd had the means to record it but at the time...well, let's just say I couldn't. Enjoy "History" while you can!

(As an aside, one of the first songs that Sunny played was "You're So Vain". In the beginning where Carly Simon whispers, "Son of a gun" it was replaced with her whispering, "CBS-FM". Gee, I wonder where they got their music library? :p )
 
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