Why would someone listen to a broad-minded preacher...unless they were seeking directions to the big wide highway to hell. As for what is in the library of an oldies station, the station defines what is an "oldie" (within reason) for their audience.
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WTOB Beach & Oldies back April 1st.???????
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The good news is the radio somehow got off the station and I can't get it back on there.radiorealtor said:
And I think the main point here is WTOB is playing the good oldies and the people that can pick it up should be grateful they're not stuck with WLXN.
Kim Carpenter plays some good stuff at night. from what I here hes a old local boy still at it and playin the hits!!!! ;D ;D 
My Internet station is not for everybody and probably too new for you in that I only play one song from the 50's in the entire library but it is killin' it online. It will usually hit the listener cap daily around lunchtime in the States and then peaks overnight with a similar pattern of European listeners. I would add more listener slots but my time spent listening/connected is 3+ hours and I have the system disconnecting people after 12 hours. Those numbers add up to more licensing fees than I really want to spend until I add a few advertisers. The library is 2000+ titles (70's intensive) and over 4000 voice tracks. Regardless of the music, the execution is key.
Rick
Rick
They were stuck with WLXN if they wanted oldies.BIG APE said:vchimpanzee said:
And now I'm stuck listening to that preacher again until I turn that radio off on Saturday morning. I get to it pretty quickly but there's no place beside my bed to put it. I tried finding a station that I could pick up early in the morning that I could depend on to be there which was also not annoying. Six days a week, it's not.
One day a week, that was too.
unitron said:
Sounds good in conversation but in reality, the answer is "no," the station needs a single focus. It's no different from football. There is one quarterback on the field. Armchair quarterbacks, most of which have little or no athletic ability, don't get to call the shots.
That line of thought reminds me of when I was offered my second PD position. I asked the station manager if a radio station should LEAD public tastes, or REFLECT public tastes. He thought for a second or two, and said BOTH.
I didn't understand it at the time, but 30 years later I think I do, and it applies to the concept of what is "oldies" on a given station. The station that tries to make its music determinations without regard to their audience is a loser from the starting gate, and the station that simply "plays what the people want" will be so repetitive that, aside from a diehard few, listeners won't stay long. The process has to play the hits well-loved by the listener base, while at the same time introducting them to things they likely haven't heard in a month of Sundays. It's a tedious process and can be frustrating when some diehard listener calls up and says "...all you ever play anymore is *#^$...", but hearing that, and giving proper reaction to it is a key to audience-building.
Just a random thought, brought to you from the mind of a maniac!
Later.....
I didn't understand it at the time, but 30 years later I think I do, and it applies to the concept of what is "oldies" on a given station. The station that tries to make its music determinations without regard to their audience is a loser from the starting gate, and the station that simply "plays what the people want" will be so repetitive that, aside from a diehard few, listeners won't stay long. The process has to play the hits well-loved by the listener base, while at the same time introducting them to things they likely haven't heard in a month of Sundays. It's a tedious process and can be frustrating when some diehard listener calls up and says "...all you ever play anymore is *#^$...", but hearing that, and giving proper reaction to it is a key to audience-building.
Just a random thought, brought to you from the mind of a maniac!
Later.....
At least this week the preacher was making his congregation laugh. That's the case more often than not.quadraphonic said:
I still may switch back to the other station. And I found out it's on cable when I was at a local college. At the time they were playing "Baker Steet", which doesn't seem unusual. I also remember "You're So Vain".
I hope things work out for you.
"Time of the Season" is from the 60s. WLXN isn't ignoring the decade entirely. I know that's a song I wouldn't want to hear, though.
I was referring to my own radio station. I know WLXN wouldn't be it. WTOB might be.BIG APE said:
The preacher said, essentially, "How I feel is not what matters. It's what The Word says." Then I turned him off. I always turn it off, regardless. I want to just lie in bed while the clothes are washing.
You should write some poetry while your clothes are washing.
Haikus or something with some zing.
Haikus or something with some zing.
No, lying in bed is the best thing to do. I don't actually know how I got started doing it but it's a great idea unless what I'm washing are sheets. I bought new sheets, though, so I can replace them.quadraphonic said:
While this station is not WLXN, I heard "All Right Now" and "Crazy on You" on the college's TV station, which during the day runs the station I was hearing before I switched back to the preacher. I'm hoping WTOB doesn't do those.
Both stations have news on weekdays (the same newscast both places). So I woke up to the news that Kellie Pickler won "Dancing with the Stars". Actually, a commercial saying every time a baby is born a lullaby plays throughout the hospital. I've gone to that hospital a couple of times when I heard that. The food's good there.
That would have rawked in haiku form.
I finally had the chance to listen to WTOB when I went to Winston-Salem. After WLXN played "Crazy on YOU"--I had to see what they were doing, after all--I heard a mix of music that seemed very narrow and the sound quality was pathetic. I could probably have enjoyed the individual songs that I heard, but this was nothing like WKIX.
I heard this on the Friday before Memorial Day between 10 and 11.
I heard this on the Friday before Memorial Day between 10 and 11.
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