it's only rock and roll
It no longer makes commercial sense for oldies stations to play more than an occasional, token record from the 1950s because no one in radio's target audience remembers those songs from his or her youth. Increasingly, audience surveys show that those who listen to oldies stations don't want to hear much from the early '60s, either.
Marc Fisher explains why I no longer hear Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly on my local oldies station (which is owned by Clear Channel).
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when i tuned in to a syndicated national "oldies" show and heard a song i remembered from high school, i knew that it was time i started looking up funeral plots.
that's right, kids - some "oldies" shows are now actually playing songs from the 1980's.
since when did broadcast conglomerates care enough to ask people what they wanted to hear? last i checked they preferred telling us what we wanted to hear.
even if they're good songs, why would i want to hear the same 6 over and over and over again?
Posted by: r@d@r | June 3, 2004 8:30 PM