WROR broadening Their Playlist?

[Retro]

The other day while tuning into WROR I heard 1999 by Prince. I thought that was an unusual selection for them. Are they moving more into R&B 80's to better compete with WODS?

 

[jlehmann]

This has been going on for quite a while now. I guess they might have started playing more non rock songs when they began using the slogan "Boston's Greatest Hits" last fall.

 

[Retro]

I also heard Jessie's Girl on the station as well, another unusual selection for them too.

 

[WMC2006]

They've been playing Jessie's Girl since even before the Christmas flip.

I haven't heard it lately because......well....because....except for the occasional minute or so while scanning the dial while driving, I havent listened to WROR much since the flip (not at all while Christmasy, barely since the flip back). I would have listened at least in the morning this week but Loren and Wally arent back from vaca yet and Paul Perry makes me change the station.

No, really, he actually comes through my car radio and tells me to change the station. :-\

For that matter, I've barely listened to Oldies 103 since the flip back and not at all in the morning.

 

[RadioNut]

Whats wrong with Paul Perry? I think he does a decent job. Keeps things entertaining.

2nd, isn't there another word that can be used besides FLIP, when it comes to talking about a station changing formats? Its got to be the most over used word on this board

 

[Retro]

Boston radio needs to be shaken up. Maybe WROR can start playing the 80's oldies that the other stations are afraid to touch? Also, tweak the format in such a way that they are not all over the place as well?

 

[ciao99]

"The other day while tuning into WROR I heard 1999 by Prince. I thought that was an unusual selection for them. Are they moving more into R&B 80's to better compete with WODS? "

You don't know what R&B 80's is my friend. WODS does NOT play "R&B 80's". Nor does anything that WROR play suggest the same.

 

[Retro]

Well whatever Prince is, he surely is not Rock!

 

[raccoonradio]

Prince can mix a little rock/pop into his R&B.

>>when it comes to talking about a station changing formats?

Another term, used when a format adjusts a little, is "tweak". They are tweaking their
format/music library.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

Two days after Christmas, I heard the following on WROR around 9 p.m. (not necessarily in order b/c I was driving):

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
Led Zep - Ramble On
Aero - Walk This Way
Eagles - Hotel California
ELO - Fire On High
Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil

FYI, the DJ that night was Kim Collins (don't know if she's the regular night DJ). She was talking about the gifts her toddler daughter got for Christmas IIRC.

If Prince and other non-rock was playing on WROR, they (and Mike for that matter) better watch out for WZLX pulling a WCOZ in attack ads: WZLX - all rock, and no disco! Then watch 'ZLX (and Mike and Oldies) pull all the non-rock off their playlists in a big fat hurry! ;D

 

[WMC2006]

FYI, the DJ that night was Kim Collins (don't know if she's the regular night DJ). She was talking about the gifts her toddler daughter got for Christmas IIRC.

Yes, Kim is the 7pm to midnight dj. The WROR website lists her as 9pm to midnight but that hasnt been amended since the 7pm-9pm "Best of Loren and Wally" was discontinued.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

If Prince and other non-rock was playing on WROR, they (and Mike for that matter) better watch out for WZLX pulling a WCOZ in attack ads: WZLX - all rock, and no disco! Then watch 'ZLX (and Mike and Oldies) pull all the non-rock off their playlists in a big fat hurry! ;D

Whoops! I meant WROR, Mike and Oldies better watch out for 'ZLX's attack on classic rock stations which carry non-rock! That reminds me of the dark days of 1981 where virtually every music station (outside the elevator music ones) dumped their non-rock music (Uncle Dale's calling Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven" a "great disco tune" on Kiss 108 comes to mind).

 

[HHH]

Retro:

"Prince is not rock" you say?

Just watched the finale from the Superbowl where he grabbed his guitar and played a blazing "Purple Rain". Looked like Rock. Sounded like
Rock. I don't get your analysis.

"Rock" has always been a hybrid of something. Blues, R & B, Country, Pop, Folk. Different blends depending on the artist. Almost no such thing as "pure Rock".

I dunno....Prince has a lot of James Brown in him.....but he also rocks out pretty good on certain songs. I think he's in the club.

 

[Retro]

Prince is Rhythmic, dance, etc. Purple Rain was the only exception. WROR never played Prince before, except maybe perhaps when they first changed formats back in 1996.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

This past weekend was what WROR called an "Oh-Wow Weekend", where you may have occasionally heard a tune that isn't in their regular rotation once in a while.

I only briefly flipped onto them a few times while scanning the dial over the weekend, and didn't happen to catch anything that seemed unusual to me.

 

[ciao99]

Prince is Rhythmic, dance, etc. Purple Rain was the only exception. WROR never played Prince before, except maybe perhaps when they first changed formats back in 1996.

Price is funk, yes. Rhythmic, in 2007 terms ? Not really, as that term has been hijacked by hip hop stations like Jammin 94.5 that play mindless chatter over synthesized beats.

 

[Retro]

Well, whatever its called now, its still good and I welcome any station that starts playing old 70's/80's, etc.

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

I just went on to yes.com and compared Tampa's WXGL (which is listed as classic hits), Tampa's WHPT (like WXGL, owned by Cox, but listed as classic rock), WZLX (listed as classic rock) and WROR. By my count, 99% of WXGL's 100 most played tunes fall under the rock category (the only non-rock is Stevie's "Superstition"), while WROR is merely classic rock-heavy at 82% (it plays 2 Stevie tunes, the Godfather of Soul, Aretha, "Buttercup," KC and even Diana Ross and the Supremes among other non-rockers). In case anyone's wondering, I count anything from WCOZ's all-metal era (early 80s) as rock, including REO, Pat Benatar and (at the time) Phil Collins. (Clearly as one who loved the disco era, I can't stand rockheads.) Anyway, from what I read between WXGL/Tampa and WZLX, it sounds more like WZLX should be labeled as classic hits (or WXGL should be classic rock). Clearly the only difference between the two co-owned Tampa classic rockers is decades (WXGL is mostly 70s with some 80s; WHPT is mostly 80s and 90s).

If none of you believe me, check out yes.com for yourselves!