They are playing a bit less songs from the '70s, and have added more '80s.
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WROR Adds Non Rock, now “80s And More”
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They are playing a bit less songs from the '70s, and have added more '80s.
All the songs being discussed so far are 70s songs. More Than a Feeling and Dream On.
The fact that they're playing The Knack is pretty unusual for an adult hits station.
I reviewed the last few hours of their recently played list on their website. It's just under 2/3 80s. For the most part, they're playing two 80s songs between every one 70s song, but occasionally they're only playing one 80s song between each 70s song. I didn't calculate it exactly, but it appears to be about 60-65% 80s and 35-40% 70s.
"Start Me Up" and "Here We Go Again" are yacht rock? "Bennie and the Jets"? I thought yacht rock meant Christopher Cross, Steely Dan, Michael MacDonald-years Doobie Brothers, and songs like Player's "Baby Come Back" and Ambrosia's "How Much I Feel." Am I totally off base here? Except for the A-ha hit, none of these sounds anything like what SiriusXM plays on its occasional Yacht Rock pop-up channel. Maybe the weekend format is starting later Saturday morning -- you know, when real listeners rather than playlist trackers are listening -- rather than at the stroke of midnight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rock
Wikipedia has some details; a form of soft rock that wasn't actually known by that term during its heyday, but later got the nickname as a perjorative, but not so much now.
It lists some of the type of acts. Smooth, some R&B. funk, disco...what yuppies may enjoy while out for a sail on their crafts. Michael McDonald is mentioned as one artist;
I remember some time ago a local artist, Jamie Shaler, had a song called "The Whole World Sounds Like Michael McDonald". At the time, it did.
Toto, Eagles, Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Hall and Oates, Fleetwood Mac.
Smooth jazz--remember when it had a spot or two on the dial here? Whole format or specialty shows. WCDJ/WSJZ 96.9...WPLM 99.1...WOAZ 99.5 The Oasis...an HD2 of WMJX 106.7...Sunday morning show on WQRC on the Cape...
some shows in the past at WMWM 91.7...
Supposedly WVCA 88.3 Newbury will debut this month with some smooth jazz
Smooth Jazz 99.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5l0-4wZLOg
(the skyline shown isn't exactly Lowell, the city of license
)
Wikipedia has some details; a form of soft rock that wasn't actually known by that term during its heyday, but later got the nickname as a perjorative, but not so much now.
It lists some of the type of acts. Smooth, some R&B. funk, disco...what yuppies may enjoy while out for a sail on their crafts. Michael McDonald is mentioned as one artist;
I remember some time ago a local artist, Jamie Shaler, had a song called "The Whole World Sounds Like Michael McDonald". At the time, it did.
Toto, Eagles, Boz Scaggs, Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, Hall and Oates, Fleetwood Mac.
Smooth jazz--remember when it had a spot or two on the dial here? Whole format or specialty shows. WCDJ/WSJZ 96.9...WPLM 99.1...WOAZ 99.5 The Oasis...an HD2 of WMJX 106.7...Sunday morning show on WQRC on the Cape...
some shows in the past at WMWM 91.7...
Supposedly WVCA 88.3 Newbury will debut this month with some smooth jazz
Smooth Jazz 99.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5l0-4wZLOg
(the skyline shown isn't exactly Lowell, the city of license
)
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When stations like these do any kind of a “theme” weekend, it’s usually not more than a couple of songs per hour. The rest are still whatever their regular playlist may be at the moment. They don’t want to risk deviating from it more often than that.
Yes I realize that. What I’m saying is that I’m not seeing any of what would be considered yacht rock on the playlist at all.
https://wror.com/stream/wrorfm/
The modifications are a smart, smart move on the part of WROR.
Given 103.3's mediocre ratings, Entercom has likely given at least some thought to returning that station to its Classic Hits heritage. If you are Beasley/WROR, it's smart to make that as difficult of a proposition as possible for Entercom.
Given 103.3's mediocre ratings, Entercom has likely given at least some thought to returning that station to its Classic Hits heritage. If you are Beasley/WROR, it's smart to make that as difficult of a proposition as possible for Entercom.
Okay, can I ask a dumb question? What is.....yacht rock?
RaccoonRadio answered that question about a half-dozen posts back.
It's the same stuff they've been playing since the format tweak. Maybe someone jumped the gun on the promo?
Again, you are asking a question that's already been answered. Go back a page.
The special weekend seems to be just a bunch of liners with no connection to the songs that follow them. I heard one earlier tonight before OMD's "If You Leave," a 1986 new wave/synth pop hit from a movie soundtrack. Does it belong on the playlist of an '80s-focused classic hits station? Sure, but it's not yacht rock by any known definition. WROR is also running jockless, which is something you generally don't do if you've got any sort of special weekend going on. Real cheapo-sounding, amateur-hour stuff going on here.
WROR has been jockless after drive-time for years. They’re not going to add to their live host payroll just for a song theme weekend, and they’ve been doing some sort of song theme every weekend for years. This one is just catching attention here because it accompanied a format change.
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