Whatever Happened to Oldies Radio Stations?
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 4/27/2016 1:00:00 AM
Have you noticed that most oldies stations rarely play music before the 80's?
Don't get me wrong. I realize the 80's were over 30 years ago, so it makes sense that oldies stations play music from the 80's. The trouble is, today's oldies stations neglect almost everything older than that, and that's a shame.
I guess it's all about dollars and cents. There's probably a bigger audience and more money for stations that play music from the 80's and 90's than from traditional "Oldies" stations that also play music from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
What bothers me most about this is that other than Internet and Satellite Radio, it's almost impossible to find a station that plays oldies.
Can you imagine that? In New York City, the largest radio market in the word, there isn't a single station that plays that plays music from Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or The Who?
It seems to me that the radio market is saturated with nothing but bland top-40 stations competing for a slice of the same audience. Lack of variety is one of the reasons terrestrial radio is losing it's audience to Internet Radio services like Pandora.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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