Re: [IRCA] True oldies mystery station on 850

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

MOYL is Adult Standards, which refers largely to music from 1935-55, non-rock variety. Oldies started in the mid 1950's, and is generally considered to have run through the mid-to-late 1960's. Classic Hits and Classic Rock are overlaps with the primary difference being that the former simply excludes the harder rock. Those were primarily from the late 1960's thru the 1970's. Rock encompasses Oldies, Classic Hits and Classic Rock. 

There are still a number of stations running Adult Standards, which caters to the parents of the 'baby boom' generation. I suspect that Adult Hits, which is another rather recent category, might be a euphemism for Oldies, but most of the Classic Hits formatted stations I'm aware of don't go into the 1950's, nor even the early 1960's. 


Russ Edmunds
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--- On Sun, 1/20/13, Larry Stoler <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Larry Stoler <lstoler99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] True oldies mystery station on 850
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 10:33 PM
> I believe the True Oldies Channel
> played songs from the '50s when it first began but of course
> they were forced to believe that anything from the '50s is
> too old.  That's what the so called experts would like
> us to think.
> 
>  Those are the same people who say that the word "oldies"
> should not be heard on regular over the air radio and should
> be replaced by "classic hits" even though the average person
> calls this music "oldies."
> 
> Larry Stoler
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Francis" <amdxmail@xxxxxxx>
> To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] True oldies mystery station on 850
> 
> 
> > 
> > According to an interview a year or two ago with Scott
> Shannon, his True Oldies Channel never plays anything from
> the 1950's, so it probably wasn't WAXB.
> > 
> > Steve Francis
> > Alcoa, Tennessee
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcasting@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sun, Jan 20, 2013 9:40 pm
> > Subject: Re: [IRCA] True oldies mystery station on 850
> > 
> > 
> > WAXB Danbury, CT is the only affiliate for The TOC on
> 850
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Allen Willie <vo1_001_swl@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> Heard a station with a True Oldies format on 850
> tonight.
> >> They played the song "Silhouttes" by the Rays and
> also a discussion about
> >> the Marcels who sang Blue Moon
> >> 
> >> I checked all the available oldies web feeds on 850
> at the time  and found
> >> no sign of it
> >> The station's signal was right over WEEI in Boaton
> during a fade for a
> >> short time
> >> 
> >> Not sure which station this could be , of course no
> ID's during the
> >> programming
> >> 
> >> Any help would be appreciated on this one
> >> 
> >> Allen Willie
> >> Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland
> > 
> > 
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