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Post by robynwatts on Mar 4, 2007 22:13:19 GMT -5
Hi,
Had a question or two about WHAS music format in the 80's.
How long did the Hot AC-leaning music format last? I assume that's what the format was classified as.
When did WHAS drop American Top 40? I remember listening to it on Sunday nights in late 1985 and early 1986, which at the time was very unusual to hear on AM (At least for me, it was).
Thanks,
Robyn
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Post by johntravolta on Mar 5, 2007 15:05:27 GMT -5
Don't know how long it lasted, but I think it's interesting that what was considered AC in the 80s in Louisville/Lexington would not have been allowed on AC in Cincinnati. I saw the WHAS playlist in the photos section. They played Billy Idol on an AC?  Up in Cincinnati, the snarling rocker barely even made it onto the big CHR there. (They added "Eyes Without a Face" quite late up in Cinci...) Cinci really was a stodgy market compared to Louisville or Lexington for that matter. Similarly I heard the airchecks for WBLG from 1979, and how the site talks about how it was moving from AC to Hot AC...by Cinci standards that was CHR! |
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Post by radiorob on Mar 5, 2007 22:13:33 GMT -5
Actually, WHAS was a hip adult station. You could even say they were a homogenized Top 40 with oldies. The music was never defined which gave them room to play the occasional Van Halen along with a dose of The Mary Jane Girls and Bon Jovi. This philosophy goes along with something Randy Michaels said regarding Full Service Adult Contemporary stations, “It’s easier to get a fifty year old to listen to Madonna and Huey Lewis than it is to get a twenty year old to listen to Frankie Lane or Tony Bennett”.
Randy actually practiced what he preached in Cincinnati. 55KRC was a pop sounding AC during its music years. He took it one step further at WLW carving it into a male oriented station with sports and a rock heavy playlist. By the late eighties “The Big One” was playing currents from Aerosmith, Great White, ZZ Top and other artist you wouldn’t expect to hear on the signal that gave us Ruth Lyons, Paul Dixon and Bob Braun.
Aiming young then paid off as WHAS and WLW are still dominant stations today.
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Up in Cincinnati, the snarling rocker barely even made it onto the big CHR there. (They added "Eyes Without a Face" quite late up in Cinci...) Cinci really was a stodgy market compared to Louisville or Lexington for that matter.