Re: WZMX changes format

[hmglaz@webtv.net (H Glazer)]

Listened to a jockless two hours of "The Point" at midday, heard a lot
of familiar classic rock -- Phil Collins "I Missed Again," Buffalo
Springfield "For What It's Worth," Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
(for some reason, Billy Joel transcends almost all format labels in
Connecticut) -- some "wimp rock" -- America, CSN's "Teach Your Children"
- -- and a few album cuts I couldn't identify, about 3 an hour. The sound
was very, very white -- no r&b or disco at all.

The liner I heard was "No screaming DJs, no teenybopper pop, just the
songs you grew up with, not the songs you outgrew." Seems to me they're
setting up a straw man to knock down here. There are no screaming jocks
on Hartford/New Haven FM (WKSS in high energy, but the jocks don't
scream), and, except for "Sugar Sugar" occasionally on WDRC-FM, nobody's
playing teenybopper songs either, unless the intended targets were WKCI
and WKSS, which I doubt.

Another minuscule fine-tuning of the tired old classic rock format, I'm
afraid. I hope it's an interim format, hopefully to give way to some
form of AAA. (Yeah, I'd really like a classic country or broad-spectrum
oldies or folk station, but that wouldn't be the CBS way, would it?)

Howard

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