in recent years i have the radio on all the time, i find news and updates very important today with the news that we hear and read about from day o day, my interst isin talk radion and i listen to it from 12 noon till 6 pm, i like the talk programs that talk about politics and some of the radio station carry that kind of nres, i am an conservitive i dont belive inthe liberal radio, i find them not important to me, i also listen to fm radio staion and i keep one fm station on and listen to music the kind i like witch is music from 30th and 40- 50 era, i like to listen to the songs that are sung by some of the best singers of that time, frank sinatra era and soo many others, they had a way of singing a song thattells a story and mostof is about loveing someone. that fm station that i listen to is 101.1 fm its on 24 hours every day and night. its also know as wave music,

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Now, here's an interesting sort of question.

A friend of mine programs a "Music Of Your Life" type station, and my problem
is that although I really love jazz standards and big band music, I find it
almost unlistenable because the playlist is so short.

I like Sinatra too, but Sinatra recorded hundreds of great songs. Consequently
there is no reason to play "My Way" over and over a dozen times a day and
neglect almost everything else.

Likewise you will never, ever turn on this station and hear the Kenton band,
Tito Puente (or any of the other latin bands that were topping the charts in
the thirties and forties), or for that matter any of the newer generation of
performers.

So, I am sad to hear these stations basically failing in the same way that
oldies stations, classic rock stations, and really just about every radio
format today is failing the listener. Is this really what the listener wants?
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

(Scott Dorsey) wrote:

So, I am sad to hear these stations basically failing in the same way that
oldies stations, classic rock stations, and really just about every radio
format today is failing the listener. Is this really what the listener wants?

What's unfortunate is that the common listener is not the same as the music
geek. You and I are music geeks; are are not the average listeners. Time and
again radio station programmers have discovered that whatever the format, the
top 40 of that genre is what *most* people prefer to hear. They want the
familiar. So, if you're going to get a mass audience for an already marginal
music format, you pretty much have to play the hits of that format.