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Radiobirdman wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 10:26 pm
Right now they are playing Journey's "Any Way You Want it." Honestly, what kind of advertiser wants to reach the demographic of someone happy to have heard that song 10,950 times in the last 30 years, besides Mountain Dew?
AMEN! WLAV in particular plays the same rotted out butt rock shit that has been overplayed for 35+ years. The examples that people bring up of successful Classic Rock stations have moved heavily into the 80's with their music and partially 90's. WLAV plays Pink Floyd/Boston/Journey/Yes/Blue Oyster Cult.
As I have mentioned before - Oldies stations started being phased out 20 years ago because 60's music was determined to be too old to draw ratings and drew too old of a demographic to sell. Using that logic, 80% of the shit WLAV still plays in regular rotation should have been phased out or scaled way back 10+ years ago. Hell, even early 80's stuff should start getting scaled back.
MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 11:54 pm
Here is one of the more interesting playlists among stations identifying as classic rock - 100.7 The Bay in Baltimore:
MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 7:49 am
It is an updated version of classic rock that includes a large classic alternative component.
That is a pretty decent playlist, and is what mainstream Classic Rock should be moving to. Plays some of the burnt out 70's songs but not in heavy rotation, and favoring 80s/90s.
As I said before I think that WLAV should make changes on their playlist. I think they should drop many of the songs
that were big top 40 hits in the late 60''s and 70's which were hits on the old top 40 WGRD AM & FM. Examples of these
are "Black Betty" by one hit wonder Ram Jam and "Taking Care Of Business" by Bachman Turner Overplay. These are
just two examples of bubble gum hits in the 70's that don't fit the times in 2024 not even for the older listeners who were
old enough to remember them as hits. Songs like that are better suited for WFGR and WBFX and not WLAV because the
formats on those stations play pop hits from the past. Another example of that is "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John which was
a good song in the 70's but you can hear on it on WFGR and WBFX. A song like that shouldn't be played on WLAV in the
year of 2024. WLAV should focus on the AOR hits from the late 60's through the 80's.
billmich88888 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:56 pm
not only that, the young kids aren't buying the hype that this older music is cool like they did in the 80's/90's and maybe early 2000's....
ftballfan wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 6:35 pm
Heck, 106.5 Jack FM plays more 90s alternative than LAV or even GRD!
Sometimes even 94.5 such as Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC, Crucify by Tori Amos, What would you say By Dave Matthews band, or Fall on me by REM
94.5, 100.5 & 106.5 are the only stations I listen to regularly, there is a bit of overlap between the 3 at times. 106.5 would probably get a 1.5 on the Nielsen
Before my radio in my Taurus had trouble getting WLAV, now LAV comes in well, But cannot get 104.5 at all, But oddly enough 106.5 makes it all the way to Greenville well with 106.3 coming in poorly west of Greenville.
