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Joseph_Gallant
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On Radio-Info.com over the last several weeks, especially after New York's WCBS-101.1 flipped from oldies to "Jack", there's been a lot of discussion as to whether the oldies format is about to vanish from American radio.
In country, there's (although in my "neck of the woods" near Boston, no one here has adopted it as a format) so-called "classic country", which I suspect is to country music what oldies is to rock-and-roll: a format probably playing (at the moment) a lot of music from the mid-1960's through the 1970's.
With oldies become an endangared species, I'd like to ask if you think that "classic country" might soon also be abandoned by many of the stations who now broadcast it.
Although not a big country fan myself, I suspect that were the "classic country" format to disappear, that pre-1990 country hits would vanish from the airwaves.
What do you think?? Is "classic country" about to become the victim of being "too old" demographically?? Is there any hope for the format??
Your views are welcomed, as always.
In country, there's (although in my "neck of the woods" near Boston, no one here has adopted it as a format) so-called "classic country", which I suspect is to country music what oldies is to rock-and-roll: a format probably playing (at the moment) a lot of music from the mid-1960's through the 1970's.
With oldies become an endangared species, I'd like to ask if you think that "classic country" might soon also be abandoned by many of the stations who now broadcast it.
Although not a big country fan myself, I suspect that were the "classic country" format to disappear, that pre-1990 country hits would vanish from the airwaves.
What do you think?? Is "classic country" about to become the victim of being "too old" demographically?? Is there any hope for the format??
Your views are welcomed, as always.