First post, by keenmaster486
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I'm talking classic live, local top-40 format radio pioneered in the 60's and 70's by stations such as WLS, WABC, KHB, WRKO, etc.
Live DJs (good ones, not "uh, and here's another song" types) spinning records (or playing carts, though that's way too expensive these days, one would have to settle for computer software), just the right amount of production involved (as opposed to today, in which everything is massively over-produced to the point of sounding unpleasant), punchy rock and roll music...
I wonder if enough people would listen to that for it to work in a mid to large-sized market. Or even small market.
890 AM in Boise tried this during the last decade, and it was pretty good from what I hear, but ultimately they couldn't make it work, although they are a 50,000 watt blowtorch with ridiculous power bills, plus their transmitter equipment got stolen at some point so that was a downer.
Maybe in the modern day it could work if done in the right market.
It would be sold as the station that's truly unique and different from all the rest, as a work of art rather than a mass-produced consumer good.
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