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- Thread starter klutch00
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12-plus numbers have not improved. This is a shame.
Indeed! I wonder how well they've been promoted, if at all?
You need to promote this music. People enjoy it when they can find it. Advertisers normally won't support it. Where I live there's a community station where they did support this music, but shortly after Jeff Rollins and Carl Hampton and friends were dumped, they switched. I haven't heard a clear explanation but the station manager claims even the format that included Rollins and Hampton is no longer available, which I know isn't true. Then he went on to say only people in their 70s (who advertisers don't care about, he says) care about the music that makes this format different from what his station is doing now. I don't actually know if WPTK is playing those artists because I don't live where I can hear the station, but comments on here suggest they are. While my former station is not.
Actually the station manager is correct, the format is no longer available. Carl Hampton has moved over to the A/C format using his real name and trying to get into the current music. I know because he told me.
The Just Right Radio website shows a list of the last dozen or so songs that have been played.
The Westwood One web site still lists adult standards. The Westwood One adult standards web page is still there. No one on this site or any other has confirmed the demise of the format. Wikipedia also still lists it as a current format. People are pretty quick to respond to such changes here, at the "other site", or at Wikipedia.
Also, there's no way a station that really wants to be easy listening (mine didn't) would accept Good Time Oldies.
Oldies and standards are not a good mix IMO. Now standards and light hits might be a better match; although I think that's about where standards are now.
I finally looked at the list of songs this station plays yesterday. I used to have a car where I would have been able to listen but the car I have now won't pick up this station if it is moving, or even if the engine is running when it is stopped. It looks like what I would want to hear. Whether you could call any of the songs standards is uncertain, but a lot of the songs would fit a standards format the way it sounds now.
On the way home I did pick up Life 103.1, which I'm sure covers part of the Raleigh area. WKIX would cause problems, just as 102.9 the Lake caused me problems yesterday. I heard "I Can't Smile Without You" by Barry Manilow (how nice to hear him again!) almost as clearly as if I was in the town as I came down the mountain. Once I was back on level ground, interference became a problem again. But I did hear the DJ say Dean Martin was coming up. So that station is borderline standards. No one like that was on the WPTK list.
On the way home I did pick up Life 103.1, which I'm sure covers part of the Raleigh area. WKIX would cause problems, just as 102.9 the Lake caused me problems yesterday. I heard "I Can't Smile Without You" by Barry Manilow (how nice to hear him again!) almost as clearly as if I was in the town as I came down the mountain. Once I was back on level ground, interference became a problem again. But I did hear the DJ say Dean Martin was coming up. So that station is borderline standards. No one like that was on the WPTK list.
My America's Best Music station's morning show probably wouldn't appeal to you, then. Although standards that aren't part of an oldies format weren't emphasized even before the change to Good Time Oldies. Even now, a lot of the songs on the morning show would fit today's version of a standards format.
Two stations here in Connecticut that might appeal to you are WQUN Hamden and WJMJ Bloomfield/Hartford. Both play a mix of standards and generally soft oldies, WQUN's oldies being softer than WJMJ's. Both are a bit gabby -- WQUN, affiliated with Quinnipiac University, does lots of public service stuff and college sports, while WJMJ has blocks of Catholic-related programming (That JMJ stands for Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the station is licensed to a Catholic seminary.). Both are available online through TuneIn.
Assuming I could get it to work with my slow Internet (and downloading any software is a problem for the same reason) would that work with a desktop? Because I don't have a phone other than a landline.
How slow? I've got DSL and a 6-year-old desktop and I have no problem with TuneIn. No software download necessary.
I could try it, I guess. Mine is "always on" which is DSL.
My mistake. They just got rid of some talent. Karl Hampton is not only good but also a really nice guy. He's doing some fill in on the A/C format trying to dig Megan Trainer. That's got to be tough after playing all the good music.
That's a fact. Yes, he does seem to be a nice guy. He emailed me for a while, and then when I got picky about his attempt to be hip in his conversation style, he stopped doling that. Doesn't change anything. That was my fault. By the way, only his real name is spelled with a K.
It works! Even with my slow internet.
http://kkovam.tunegenie.com/#listenlive
It's still America's Best Music. The same singers that were on my station are there and everything.
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