WZCR and WTRY Is Adding 80's Music.

[disney fanatic]

Since WBPM flipped from "Cool 92.9" to "Classic Hits 92.9" last year, I found this article from sfgate.com about 80's music is going to be the new oldies. Here it is.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/19/entertainment/e113127S14.DTL

Is it true that WCZR's "Cruisin' 93.5" and WTRY in Albany are going to add 80's music on an oldies station someday according to this article?

 

[MHVRadiofan]

Since this is a San Francisco paper there is no mention of WZCR or WTRY. However I would not be surprised, if they switched ,which is to bad .See the response From Randy Turner that I posted under the One year anniversary on WBPM thread. That's the way radio programmers think. I am 55; I guess us old farts don't count. I would not want a steady diet of 60's music and some 80's music mixed in is fine, but don't eliminated the 60's music altogether . I am still out there working and spending money and am not ready for a rocking chair. If 60's music is so out of date and well just old why do they use it in ads aimed at us baby boomers?

 

[Jeff J]

WTRY already made the move adding more 80's cuts and dropping the term "oldies" when it switched back to "regular" progamming on
December 26, after playing Christmas music for 5 or 6 weeks. They now call theselves My 98.3, apparently a moniker used among a number of CC stations. Of course, since CBS FM returned to oldies in July but added more 80's music and stopped using the term "oldies" many stations around the country have followed suit, radio being the copy cat business it is. WTRY has tightened the format and dropped the evening syndicated oldies program, so the station sounds more automated and without personality than ever.

 

[4dude]

I dont consider 80s music "Oldies",i dunno......

 

[flipperzipper]

Magic 100.9 is the only Radio Station on the FM in Albany still playing 50's oldies in their mix of 60's and 70's hits. This seems to be working for them from a ratings standpoint as they have overtaken WTRY consistently book after book since their inception.

 

[Jeff J]

I dont consider 80s music "Oldies",i dunno......

I know in radio we became used to the term "oldies" meaning 1955-1974 music, but the youngest 80's song is now 19 years old, that's sure not current or even recurrent.

 

[Jeff J]

Magic 100.9 is the only Radio Station on the FM in Albany still playing 50's oldies in their mix of 60's and 70's hits. This seems to be working for them from a ratings standpoint as they have overtaken WTRY consistently book after book since their inception.

The raging issue around the country is not the overall ratings of a station like Magic, but the ratings in the key demos, like 25-54. Today's 54 year old only has the vaguest direct memory of the 50's. 49 and below has none.

 

[bill5461]

WZCR is not playing any 80's music, with the exception of The Mike Harvey show, which is nationally syndicated

 

[?????]

WTRY should just call itself "B98" these days...It is pretty unlistenable. WKLI is an A/C-MOR station that plays some softer oldies. Neither one is an oldies station. With all of the wasted signals in this market, some one should go Oldies on FM. Also, we really don't need two stations running the John Tesh show at night. Both WBZZ-"Malta'" and WQAR-Stillwater do at the same time every night. Isn't that somewhat of a conflict???
WBZZ is the most powerful FM to sign on in the market in decades and what a waste of a frequency allocation that is...

 

[Jeff J]

WBZZ signal is way over rated. Signal is fuzzy in Schenectady, not even 15 miles away and not as good as 104.5, which it abandoned. STAR actually comes in better at my house and its further away.

 

[Oldiesmike]

Well at least WTRY finally moved forward with the times and went the same direction as CBSFM with the music. More people where I work are tuned to 98.3 now for that reason and I find myself listening more often now. But WTRY should let their voicetracked dj's intro songs up to vocals instead of letting songs fade into each other with no dj intro-ing the record. During the day it should be personality driven not sounding like the overnites automated. WTRY HD2 should be music from 55-63 though for people who are in the mood for the heart of R&R.

 

[DToTheJ]

Of course, since CBS FM returned to oldies in July but added more 80's music and stopped using the term "oldies" many stations around the country have followed suit, radio being the copy cat business it is.

Actually, I would make the argument that most oldies stations either positioned away from "the O word" or flipped altogether on the heels of CBS-FM's initial flip to "Jack-FM" back in June 2005.