Four things

[kevin502]

John,

1. What is the radio station sponsoring the reunion?
Is it a secret?

2. I listened to WRKA and WASE all weekend, back and forth. I felt it was a choice between "Baby Love" and "Old Time Rock and Roll". My gosh I am so tired of Bob Segar. Why can't the oldies stations just let that man go? He is the most over played "oldie" out there.

3. Did anyone see the WLKY coverage of Thunder over Louisville? (Yeah I know this isn't radio subject but I just want to vent a minute). WLKY had the exclusive to Thunder this year and in order to be kind all I will say is: They need to update their equipment. The picture was fuzzy and the cameras were obviously way out of date for an action filled event.

4. Why am I so negative this morning? I had a great weekend.

[John Quincy]

Kevin, to answer your first question...it's a FM station that plays music that WAKY used to play. :-)

To answer question number two: The Seger song probably gets played so much because it does well in music tests. (Many radio stations do what's called "auditorium music testing" where once or twice a year they recruit 100 or so folks to come to a location and listen to hooks of hundreds of songs and score them. From the compiled results, stations will adjust their library accordingly. Stations that don't do music testing (usually because they can't afford it) will build their libraries on "safe lists" using acquired from consultants who get them from stations who do test songs.)

While real oldies freaks are probably tired of hearing it and the same old Motown tunes over and over, the "just plain folks" who listen to oldies stations only 20 or 30 minutes at a time want to hear just the big hits they know and love and remind them of their younger days. (That's true of most music formats.) If most people listened eight or more hours a day every day to their favorite station -- oldies or otherwise -- playlists would probably be a lot larger. But they don't. So they want that instant gratification of hearing those classic titles that have held up as the biggies over the years.