I Heart Radio bought up several local radio stations and then ruined them. Sigh.

Anonymous wrote:80s music still rules, so no WASH-FM 97.1 cannot be oldies music.

Plus, I love 80s music and I don't listen to Oldies music. That's for older people.

80s is the music of my youth, and I'm 55. I consider myself older.

I think it's adult contemporary.

"The best of the 80s (10 years), 90s (10 years), and Today (25 YEARS)"

80s music still rules, so no WASH-FM 97.1 cannot be oldies music.

Plus, I love 80s music and I don't listen to Oldies music. That's for older people.

Anonymous wrote:Better question is why we have so few good radio stations! Why aren't there more top 40?

I recently discovered The Gamut. Local station, no commercials or hosts. Wide variety of music. 98.3FM

Anonymous wrote:Better question is why we have so few good radio stations! Why aren't there more top 40?

You mean like current top 40?

Young people aren't listening to the radio

Just us

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, oldies is a particular format that means music from the 50s and 60s, sometimes the 70s, but not the 80s. It doesn't just mean "old music."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldies

But if radio in the 1980s boasted about playing 40-year-old music, they'd have played Big Band tunes, not Madonna and Michael Jackson and Pet Shop Boys!

True, but the development of rock and pop was really revolutionary and broke with what came before. There's more continuity between Madonna and today than between Madonna and Benny Goodman, so she still gets played.

Better question is why we have so few good radio stations! Why aren't there more top 40?

Anonymous wrote:No, oldies is a particular format that means music from the 50s and 60s, sometimes the 70s, but not the 80s. It doesn't just mean "old music."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldies

+1 this exactly.

Anonymous wrote:No, oldies is a particular format that means music from the 50s and 60s, sometimes the 70s, but not the 80s. It doesn't just mean "old music."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldies

But if radio in the 1980s boasted about playing 40-year-old music, they'd have played Big Band tunes, not Madonna and Michael Jackson and Pet Shop Boys!

No, oldies is a particular format that means music from the 50s and 60s, sometimes the 70s, but not the 80s. It doesn't just mean "old music."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldies

Yes

97.1 and 94.7 on your radio dial.

The Drive declares "nobody plays more '80s than The Drive."

This would be like a radio station in the 1980s playing WWII-era Swing music. We called those "oldies stations."

So, are WASH-FM and The Drive considered oldies stations?