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WPTX has joined the True Oldies Channel

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So I discovered when I put on 1690 this morning. I hadn't put on WPTX in months and months (since early in 2024), but I was in a moyl mood this morning. There it was, I joined halfway through the final verse of the DC5's "Over and Over", then a live jock, then Mouth and MacNeal's "How Do You Do". Another standards format has bitten the dust. D*mn, I'm old! :) When WPTX flip? And how much promotion of the flip did they do? Did they stunt?
 
Just changed this week. LRN dropped their standards feed so most affiliates have switched to oldies. No promotion or stunting, I mean WPTX barely has a web or Facebook presence.
 
Any standards formats left in the US? In the last six years at least two standards formats were dropped (WCEM Cambridge and now WPTX). I'm 63 today and my mother just turned 87 so we're aging out. :(

And yes 1690wptx.com's website looks lame (little updated news, hardly any FB posts. They do stream though, though I became aware of the flip via my car radio.
 
Check into this Minnesota station, still playing 1950s-1960s MOR, and some mild tempo soft rock into the early '80s.

KDKK 97.5 FM

De La Hunt Media serving Northern Minnesota
www.kkradionetwork.com www.kkradionetwork.com
 
And here I just "discovered" WPTX earlier this year. A good companion on some drives in my old car, but I hadn't tuned in for months.

With the right promotion I think you could really turn younger generations on to "standards" but making money at it? I'm afraid 50s/60s rock is the new "standards", and those days are numbered as well.

Towards the end, the music on WCEM 1240 didn't sound much different than the oldies on sister station WTDK.
 
I heard the most appropriate and amusing radio slogan on a radio-centric podcast the other day:
"We're here for you until we aren't"
Got a good laugh out of that. Any AM station that decides to play music should consider that slogan. Sort of prepares the audience for the inevitable.
 
I think WPTX is missing one channel in their audio, because I heard them play the Beatles' "Birthday" and the vocals were just a faint echo, and on "Hello Stranger" by Barbara Lewis the organ was barely there.
 
kevtronics said:
I think WPTX is missing one channel in their audio, because I heard them play the Beatles' "Birthday" and the vocals were just a faint echo, and on "Hello Stranger" by Barbara Lewis the organ was barely there.
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You've got to be able to hear the organ on that Barbara Lewis classic. How dreadful to just barely hear it. I love that song!
 
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