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damontI forgot to note this yesterday... The call letters of my favorite radio station in the mid-to-late 1970's are, at least for now, temporarily retired. WKAP-AM changed formats and call letters yesterday. Mind you, for the last two dozen years WKAP hasn't really had the format I listened to, and for the last ten years it hasn't even been on the frequency I listened to. But it is still a milepost of sorts.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKAP#Christian_programming ... "The switch ... has left the Lehigh Valley without an oldies music station. But at least three other Lehigh Valley stations [1400, 1100, and 1320 AM] may represent good candidates to adopt the Lehigh Valley's traditionally popular oldies music format in light of WKAP's programming change."
I actually hope that 1320 picks up the WKAP call letters it used to have, as well as the oldies format. Heck, since that particular format covers 1955-1973, I'd go further and suggest that it adopt a format closer to what it had in the late 1970's, which was top-40 but included a lot more album cuts and oldies than most top-40 formats. Expanding the range to 1955-1979 might bring in a wider audience. EDIT 07 Jan 2007: The WKAP calls are now on a station in Reading PA. Knowing this feels very weird to me.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKAP#Christian_programming ... "The switch ... has left the Lehigh Valley without an oldies music station. But at least three other Lehigh Valley stations [1400, 1100, and 1320 AM] may represent good candidates to adopt the Lehigh Valley's traditionally popular oldies music format in light of WKAP's programming change."
I actually hope that 1320 picks up the WKAP call letters it used to have, as well as the oldies format. Heck, since that particular format covers 1955-1973, I'd go further and suggest that it adopt a format closer to what it had in the late 1970's, which was top-40 but included a lot more album cuts and oldies than most top-40 formats. Expanding the range to 1955-1979 might bring in a wider audience. EDIT 07 Jan 2007: The WKAP calls are now on a station in Reading PA. Knowing this feels very weird to me.
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Date: 2006-09-13 03:32 am (UTC)I think 80s is now oldies. 50s is counted as geriatric music.
WCBS100 went off the air a while ago...
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Date: 2006-09-13 10:33 pm (UTC)CrawlCall about the impending format change.The "oldies" stations down in this area seem to be playing mostly pop from 1964-1984; "1980s" is a separate format, at least in markets down here.