Stooooopid move, 'CBS-FM! (Re: WCBS-FM's "Doo Wop Shop" To End 27 Year Run)

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

     Stoooooooopid move, 'CBS-FM!  This signature
program on 'CBS-FM is one of the most respected radio
shows in the New York market, and truly the country. 
To kill such a venerable institution such as the
"Doo-Wop Shop" shows such a short-sightedness of the
bean-counters at Black Rock.  I am 42 years old,
hardly a spring chicken, but hardly not "already one
foot in the ground" as well. I love all forms of rock
and roll from the 1950's through the early 1980's.
"Doo-Wop" music is what made today's rock and roll all
possible.  To dump a 4 hour Sunday night show (hardly
prime time) to keep the format "consistant" all week
long, is pure baloney.  You risk alienating a good
amount of long time listeners who swear by
'CBS-FM/101.1 and have listened to WCBS-FM all along
since 1972.
     "Doo-Wop" is NOT my favorite music, by any
stretch of the imagination.  But when I get WCBS-FM
here in the Boston area on a Sunday summer night trop
or when I visit New York, I expect to hear that
special sound that is "The Dop-Wop Shop".  It is
unique and deserves to be preserved.  Folks, it's FOUR
hours on a Sunday night!!!! C'mon!!!   How 'bout it,
Uncle Mel!  


-Pete


     
--- Mark Watson <markwats@attbi.com> wrote:
>    Radio & Records reports that WCBS-FM (101.1 New
> York) will be dropping
> the Sunday night "Doo-Wop Shop" show after 27 years
> on the station. The
> final show will air on August 25. It's unknown if
> the show's host, Don K.
> Reed will remain with WCBS-FM after the final show.
> 
>    Has WCBS-FM finally weeded out most pre-Beatles
> era titles from the
> rotation, a la WODS? Since I obviously can't get the
> station up here, if
> anyone down that way has heard them lately and can
> fill us in on what's
> going on there. I last heard them when I went down
> for the day one Saturday
> in May, they were still playing some pre-Beatles
> tunes then.
> 
> Mark Watson
> 


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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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