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The oldies format returned to WCBS-FM on July 12, 2007 in an updated form featuring music from 1964 to 1989 ( and without the word " Oldies ", but rather " Greatest Hits " in the on-air positioning ), with songs such as " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " by Cyndi Lauper, " Gloria " by Laura Branigan, and " We Built This City " by Starship in rotation ( though it should be pointed out that the original WCBS-FM played current hits mixed in with its oldies as late as the late 1980s and the three songs mentioned here during most of their years ).
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This is why many oldies stations, like WCBS-FM in New York City and WJMK in Chicago, have switched over to the younger-oriented Jack FM format in recent years — although WCBS-FM reverted back to its oldies format on July 12, 2007, and the " Jack FM " format was moved to its HD2 subchannel.
Classic country is a variant of the country music format ; it is effectively the country music analog to oldies.
The corresponding radio format would be that of an oldies, classic rock, classic hits or adult standards station.
In an ironic and controversial twist, that was also his last regular show at the station ; at 5: 00 PM, WCBS-FM announced that the station would replace its oldies format with a " Jack " format, and fired all of the stations on-air jocks.
However, WCBS-FM had since returned to its oldies format on July 12, 2007, with Taylor reassuming his role again as the morning disc jockey the following day.
Venditti succeeded in getting the old transmitter to work and at first his new Love 16 station ( a name taken from the 1570 AM frequency ), broadcast an English language format composed of a mixture of soft rock, oldies, middle-of-the-road, country and Big Band music.
The local radio station is WPAU an online streaming radio station broadcasting a commercial-free format of oldies and Paulding County high school sports.
By 1988, the station evolved into a soft AC format with very few if any current product, and liberally laced with oldies.
* WAIZ, " 63 Big Ways ", 630 AM, is a radio station that features 50's and 60's oldies and recreates the format of Charlotte Top 40 legend " 61 Big Ways "
In 1987 the station moved to a full service oldies format and in 1988, the station became a talk radio station and had a variety of business, sports, news, and talk programming until 2003.
The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.
Personality oldies has been a successful format in many markets, including Chicago ( where it has achieved top-5 ratings in the winter 2012 Arbitron survey on WLS-FM ).
Nevertheless, Entercom found the personality oldies format too expensive to maintain in Buffalo for only a 2 share, and so on February 6, 2006, WWKB ended a three year run as an oldies station with a format change to predominantly syndicated progressive talk.
He and his wife, Dreama, ran a small “ oldies format ” radio station.
Four days later, on June 3, WCBS-FM ended its " oldies " format, in favor of the new “ Jack ” format.
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On January 27, 2003, WWKB returned to music, playing oldies from the 1950s and 1960s, featuring artists such as Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frankie Lymon, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson, Lovin Spoonful, and many others.
The oldies format returned in March 2008 at WYAY FM 106. 7.
She returned to live performing with other artists of her era on the cabaret and oldies circuits.
It returned the alternative rock format to Kansas City for the first time since 1999, when KLZR dumped alternative rock for contemporary hit radio and when KNRX ( now KMJK ) dumped its alternative format for urban oldies.
In 1983, the station briefly adopted talk radio programming, but returned to its music format within a few months, with increased emphasis on oldies.
On January 1, 2009, KFRC returned on the radio at 1550 AM, as true oldies.
The oldies format has since returned to the Chicago airwaves with the introduction of WZZN ( 94. 7 FM ; now WLS-FM ).
WDGY returned in January 1997 as a Hudson, Wisconsin-based entity with a new owner and the same call letters, airing a talk radio format that featured hosts like Don Imus, G. Gordon Liddy and Don and Mike, with oldies from 6 PM to 6 AM.
In 2002 he returned to Capital and was heard on its oldies service Gold, first presenting the Monday-Thursday late night show from 10pm-1am, before taking over the weekday mid-morning slot in February 2003, then the breakfast show, which he used to co-host with Erika North.
It later changed to " oldies " and returned to the WCCW moniker.
When the station returned to a modified oldies and classic hits format in 2007, the station compiled a new listener-voted survey and played the results Labor Day weekend.
Then, after a few seconds of dead air and a few seconds of a " Wayback Machine " audio special effect, the oldies format returned with the resumption of the last song played before the change to Jack FM, Frank Sinatra's Summer Wind ( starting like a phonograph record played very slowly but quickly accelerated to normal speed ).
On the following Monday, Mason & Diane returned to talk about the new format change to oldies.
In April 2006, WWL permanently returned to the FM airwaves, simulcasting on the station then known as WTKL 105. 3 ( WWL had been simulcasting on 105. 3 upon its return to air in late 2005, WTKL had returned to its oldies format for just three weeks prior to the change to WWL-FM ).
In 1982, Morrow returned to the DJ role with New York's WCBS-FM, an oldies station.
They tried to mix AC and oldies with what they called the " 50 / 50 mix ," but it didn't work, and in 1993, returned to just a contemporary mix of love songs.
After a few weeks hiatus of being off the air, WDEQ-FM returned to the air on Tuesday October 28, 2008 at first with a big band format and then beginning in 2009 with an oldies format, operating with extended hours during the curricular school year.
He returned to CHUM in 1979, and became the station's morning host when it moved to full-time oldies in 1989.
The station later returned after a major transmitter and studio overhaul with time-brokered programming, then oldies, with Catholic programming added in 2002.
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On January 10, 2005, Dolenz replaced Dan Taylor as the morning disc jockey at oldies radio station WCBS-FM in New York.
In March 1980, Harrison became the morning personality at WCBS-FM ( 101. 1 ), playing oldies music.
New York and Houston had Jack FM stations, too ; the New York City station, WCBS-FM has reverted back to its traditional oldies format, and Jack ( which has been renamed ToNY ) is now carried on its HD2 subchannel.
These stations, however, did play current product sparingly ( one or two per hour ) throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s ; WCBS-FM, for example, played current hits under the moniker " Future Gold " as late as the late 1980s, and WLNG on nearby Long Island featured a roughly 50 / 50 mix of current hits and oldies from the early 1960s until about 1999.
WCBS-FM New York slightly cut back on the pre-1964 oldies and slightly increased the 1970s and 1980s songs early in 2001.
On June 3, 2005, New York's WCBS-FM, an oldies-based station for over three decades, abruptly switched to the Jack FM format, resulting in a tremendous outcry from oldies fans in the Big Apple and a huge decline in revenue followed.
Some point to the demise of WCBS-FM and WJMK as a sign that the oldies format is in danger, for many of the same reasons that the adult standards and smooth jazz formats are disappearing.
Other FM competitors like oldies station WCBS-FM, soul station WBLS, and album-oriented rock stations like WPLJ and WNEW-FM all did well in the ratings, but none rivalled WABC's success.
On the same day that WCBS-FM made the switch, another station owned by CBS, 104. 3 WJMK, an oldies station in Chicago, Illinois, changed format to 104. 3 Jack-FM as well.
The station, which would play popular urban, dance, and rhythmic pop music of the mid 1960s through the 1980s, did better in the ratings than the previous format, and Jammin ' Oldies ' results initially challenged those of longtime oldies station WCBS-FM.
WCBS-FM was one of the first notable oldies stations in the country, with the format dating back to July 7, 1972.
The new programming was unsuccessful, and WCBS-FM switched back to personality-driven classic hits and oldies format, which features a broader playlist concentrating on music from 1964 to 1989, but unlike other classic hits stations, they also play selected hits from before 1964.
As a result, WCBS-FM switched to oldies on July 7, 1972, becoming one of the first full-time stations in the country to use that format.
The oldies format on WCBS-FM continued to be a success.
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