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WPST: soft in the middle

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westlife

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Anybody else notice just how mellow and AC-ish 94.5 WPST gets during the middle of the day when the kids are at school and the office secretaries tune in? I know they tend to play older music during the day, but today they were playing songs that even Hot AC stations deem to be "too old" and "too soft", such as "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins (from 1984) and even "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles (from 1989)! And of course, they immediately followed these songs with liners saying things like "Your Number One Hit Music Station"... yeah, hit music from two decades ago, that is!

Even the modern songs WPST was playing were very AC-ish: Maroon 5, Keith Urban, Hoobastank, Kylie Minogue, James Blunt, etc.... they also played one particularly interesting song, by a female singer, whose refrain was something along the lines of "Indecisive Boy" (?)... I can't remember it exactly enough to get any accurate search results, and yes.com still thinks WPST is on 97.5 FM, and thus doesn't show any playlist data for them. Today (Wednesday) it was somewhere around 2 to 3 PM in which I heard this song, as well as the others mentioned above.

One of my coworkers actually wondered out loud why WPST was playing so many '80s songs, and I took that opportunity to introduce him to the concept of dayparting -- of which WPST seems to be a perfect example!
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> Even the modern songs WPST was playing were very AC-ish:
> Maroon 5, Keith Urban, Hoobastank, Kylie Minogue, James
> Blunt, etc.... they also played one particularly interesting
> song, by a female singer, whose refrain was something along
> the lines of "Indecisive Boy" (?)... I can't remember it
> exactly enough to get any accurate search results, and
> yes.com still thinks WPST is on 97.5 FM, and thus doesn't
> show any playlist data for them. Today (Wednesday) it was
> somewhere around 2 to 3 PM in which I heard this song, as
> well as the others mentioned above.

I like the dayparting on PST. Gets them the office listeners and fills the hole for Hot AC in Philly, while still letting them be a kickass CHR at night. Also I'm glad they've become the first CHR in America to break James Blunt, who's having success all over the world EXCEPT the US so far.

PST has a music log online at http://www.wpst.com/music/music.shtml

Should be able to find your unknown song there.
 
> Also I'm glad
> they've become the first CHR in America to break James
> Blunt, who's having success all over the world EXCEPT the US
> so far.
>

...and David Hasselhof is big in Germany...so what's your point? ;)


DISCLAIMER: this post is entirely sarcastic and not meant to spark any debate about the validity of James Blunt as an artist!!
 
> Anybody else notice just how mellow and AC-ish 94.5 WPST
> gets during the middle of the day when the kids are at
> school and the office secretaries tune in? I know they tend
> to play older music during the day, but today they were
> playing songs that even Hot AC stations deem to be "too old"
> and "too soft", such as "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins
> (from 1984) and even "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles (from
> 1989)! And of course, they immediately followed these songs
> with liners saying things like "Your Number One Hit Music
> Station"... yeah, hit music from two decades ago, that is!
>
> Even the modern songs WPST was playing were very AC-ish:
> Maroon 5, Keith Urban, Hoobastank, Kylie Minogue, James
> Blunt, etc.... they also played one particularly interesting
> song, by a female singer, whose refrain was something along
> the lines of "Indecisive Boy" (?)... I can't remember it
> exactly enough to get any accurate search results, and
> yes.com still thinks WPST is on 97.5 FM, and thus doesn't
> show any playlist data for them. Today (Wednesday) it was
> somewhere around 2 to 3 PM in which I heard this song, as
> well as the others mentioned above.
>
> One of my coworkers actually wondered out loud why WPST was
> playing so many '80s songs, and I took that opportunity to
> introduce him to the concept of dayparting -- of which WPST
> seems to be a perfect example!
>
 
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