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I don't think that there's a single radio station in the so Cal area that is playing 50's music, if there is maybe someone will correct me. I think if you want anything like that you gotta go satellite. Regular land radio sucks for the most part.
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Sad but true. So much of radio has been swallowed up by ihart, Jacor, and Clear Channel that FM radio in my area is just boring. BUT----in my area there is an exception.
KAFM in Grand Junction is community radio in its truest sense. They only have three salaried people, the rest are volunteers who do two hour programs at a time. IIRC they have 35 dj's last I checked. You can hear two hours of 50's country, then two hours of big band, then two hours of sixties rock. One guy has "The Doo-Wop Hour." Another one plays certain cuts off old soundtracks from the 50's and 60's
At times they'll have an open hour for announcing garage sales, community issues. While they do have money drives, they aren't real heavy handed about it. And I always contribute to them. Always.
Oldeis has been removed from the airwaves for the same reason big band, swing, polka, and easy listening left. Money. Stations can make more money with a format that appeals to younger age groups.
The next genre to fall off the airwaves will be the music of my teens and 20s - classic rock and 70s pop. Its already happening. Several "we play anything" FM stations in my area popped up in the 2000s, all have been tweaking their playlists in the past five years or so to include more tunes from the 80s thru today.
So true...and you can also add smooth jazz, southern gospel, classic soul, classic country even news/talk radio to some degree as radio formats that are slowly dying out and for the same reason...they don't get very many younger listeners. Of course not to say nobody under 35 listens to such stations but it isn't enough of that crowd for them to really make money.
Yes classic rock & 70s pop are dying as well but a big part of the problem with classic rock is that so many of those classic rock stations kept playing the same tunes and the same artists over and over. Here in Denver we have 103.5 The FOX however my co-workers would joke that they are really called 103.5 AC/DC since it really does seem that every hour on the hour they would play at least one tune by AC/DC. 70s pop is now called "classic hits" though the 70s are mixed with tunes from the 80s and that format is slowly burning out as well. How many times can one person hear "We Built This City" or "Walking On Sunshine" in one day without going bonkers ????
Why aren't there any stations playing 50s/60s music? I went to our local Del Taco the other day and they were playing oldies music from the 50s/60s and started wishing they would play these songs on the oldies stations again, it seems like the oldies stations of today are now 70s and 80s music
The process of recording music changed quite drastically during the late 60's and early 70's due to multi-track recording. By 1971 16 track gave every one from; composers, artist , and sound engineers more creative space. Recordings made before sound primitive due to the recording limitations. IMO it might be why there are so many popular younger groups who are playing revamped music of the 20's -50's era. Their fans have rarely ever been exposed to it until they hear it live.
Unless you've got Sirius XM, you'll have to deal with audiences that are younger that just don't frequent the kind of music that played more often 30 to 40 years ago. That's just it. It's not 30 to 40 years ago anymore; it's all way back there now. Many of those listeners are at retirement age or near it and you know advertisers won't go for that. And the 1980's happen to be the new oldies.
The Oldies stations stopped playing 60's music around when the new decade turned--2010. in another 5 years, 80's music will be the new "Oldies", and 70's music will be relegated to the Geezerlies, along with 60's and 50's music. You'd think with such a huge age cohort as the Boomers, there would be demand on commercial radio stations for 60's music.
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