WODS & WROR Flip To All Christmas

[Doug Drown]

<<Despite a sizeable part of the population being 
55+ (maybe the largest percentage in history?), it seems that the 
powers that be have decided that we don't bloody matter.>>

I've thought this for a long time vis-a-vis radio.
Gee, we're not cynical, are we?

-Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <markwa1ion@aol.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: WODS & WROR Flip To All Christmas


> WODS may call itself an oldies station, but that's a farce in my 
> opinion.  They seem more in love with disco, Captain & Tennille, and 
> other '70s lame-o's than any kind of serious oldies from rock's first 
> 10 years ('54 to '64).  Like where's the Chuck Berry, Little Richard, 
> Buddy Holly, NYC doo-wop, or for that matter even pre-"Burnin' Love" 
> Elvis already ?  The Beatles will probably be next on the chopping 
> block as time marches on.
> 
> All Christmas music may be the only way this station even sticks its 
> little toe into the '50s, seeing that they MIGHT play "A Christmas 
> Song" by Nat King Cole.  When the jingle bells stop ringing, what's the 
> chance that they (or any other station in Boston) is going to play 
> "Send for Me", "Nature Boy", or any of the other outstanding work that 
> Mr. Cole left behind ?
> 
> Nah, I just had better be happy with my CD's from Collectors' Choice, 
> Rhino, and Bear Family because Boston Radio can't deliver the goods in 
> REAL oldies anymore.  Despite a sizeable part of the population being 
> 55+ (maybe the largest percentage in history?), it seems that the 
> powers that be have decided that we don't bloody matter.  Or that we 
> can be placated by '70s pop pablum masquerading as "oldies" when a lot 
> of us were listening to hard rock or Celtic folk or entirely other 
> things ... maybe even the real oldies ... during that decade of dubious 
> musical value.
> 
> Ranting concluded.  Resuming Christmas shopping.
> 
> Mark Connelly - Billerica, MA
> 
> <<
> WODS does OK the rest of the year, but the six week sojourn into Santa 
> land every year makes them profitable. This isn't even as bad as WRKO, 
> which would be a zeppelin going down in flames if it wasn't for the Red 
> Sox games. WODS isn't at that point, although the demos are similar, 
> and if the end of the year caroling keeps that station from flipping to 
> automated classic hits or something completely different, then so be 
> it.
> 
> Dave Tomm
> "Mike Thomas"
> >>
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