Re: Oldies on the radio

["Peter Q. George" <radiojunkie3@yahoo.com>]

   WPTR/1540 is  basically an adult standards station,
and a GOOD one at that.  On Saturday nights, they
switch over to an oldies show from another Crawford
Broadcasting station in Texas.  It's a good idea to
make the station more accessable to a younger
demographic.  The idea is to show a younger audience
that WPTR has a different sound during the week and
more Oldies based sound on Saturday nights.  Some of
the audience who loves the oldies, might stick around
for the standards during the week.  Well, apparently
WPTR has found its' niche.  I like the station myself.
 Even though I am more of an oldies generation
listener, I like the standards as well.  
   I'm 42 years old and live in the Boston area.  With
'PTR's super signal at night, I find it very
refreshing to hear soemthing different on the AM band
other than satellite talk, talk and more talk.  Now if
only WWKB made that switch (that never happened) to
oldies, you can bet it would be noticed.  Right now,
WWKB/1520 is nothing more than a shadow of its' once
great self.  Instead warehousing that great signal, do
something with it!


-Peter Q. George  (K1XRB)
 Whitman, Massachusetts 
> 
> 
> I hate the term "suggestion" as a substitute for
> request...I worked at at 
> AAA station once where we were required to use that
> term...thought it 
> sounded really pretentious.  When does this show
> come on?  Is WPTR 
> standards the rest of the time, or is the beginning
> of a switch to a 
> pre-British Invasion oldies format?
> 


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Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts
                           "Scanning the bands since 1967"
radiojunkie1@yahoo.com
radiojunkie3@yahoo.com
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