Okay, wasn't meaning to start a discussion on just this one station, but I will respond where I can. Here goes.
93.3 Classic Hits in Nashville carries Westwood One's Classic Hits Service (as does Classic Hits 93.1 in Knoxville and many others around the country). The service does play the occasional "oh wow" (I heard "And the Beat Goes On" driving home the other day). but it's not a several thousand song playlist by any means.
I have heard "Everywhere" by Fleetwood Mac, and "Wait for Me" by Hall & Oates. The latter was their biggest hit (top 20) during the disco era. A live version of it made the cut for their first compilation, but definitely nice to hear this one on the air again. One of my favorites by them.
I'd estimate 1000-1500 easily, including their seldom played music. Easy to do. Firepoint may have more data on this small market station.
I mainly gave you that link so that you can listen to them online. Glad that you are enjoying them. Just be warned that their afternoon announcer (the only female that I have ever heard there) will discuss some of the same stuff (viral videos, etc.) that you are sick and tired of hearing about everywhere else. The summer before last, I tuned out as soon as she said "Ryan Lochte"!
That 93.3 station is a Nashville suburban rimshot station, not a small market station. And it is on the Westwood classic hits format, which has just under 1000 titles in rotation, including quite a few that are on the fabled "lunar" rotation.
https://www.westwoodone.com/classic-hits/good-time-oldies/ has a description and sample hour of the oldies channel, and https://www.westwoodone.com/classic-hits/classic-hits/ has the classic hits format.
They claim their coverage area to be "from the Batman building to Bellevue", which for those of you who don't know (and I'm sure that Tibbs does!) is the western half of metro Nashville/Davidson County. I can usually get them just fine on the car radio even out here in rural Cheatham County where I live (just beyond Bellevue), but I cannot get a decent signal from them on my home stereo. It is interesting that despite this, they had a car in our 4th of July parade last summer!
David - It is interesting to note that 93.3 actually covers Davidson County (the actual city of Nashville) like a glove. It also seriously falls apart at many of the county lines. Davidson County is surprisingly large, 533 square miles. 93.3 is on the WSMV-TV tower in West Nashville. The hills and/or heavy vegetation fade the signal toward and in Williamson, Rutherford and Wilson counties. It manages to put a decent signal into Cheatham County, which is one of the lesser populated zones. I have not researched the numbers, but my guess is Cromwell gets the majority of listenership from within a 2-3 mile radius of the tower. The signal is better than most other translators in the city.
Yeah, like I said, I can get them here in Cheatham County, but sometimes they lose out to the country station from Paducah!
The translator covers about 300,000 in the 65 dbu, in a market of 1.7 million that covers 8 counties. Davidson, despite being the home county for the metro, only has 40% of the metro population.
Despite this, the station gets about a 1 share, which, were it a full market signal, might be a mid-4's operation. The only issue is that most of the audience is over 55, so it will still depend on local direct accounts.
I am not over 55 (yet!)
Oldies, I know the assistant PD of the local affiliate who will tell you they aren't rotating a large library of titles, and driving around town at random times will show the repetition. They move some titles in and out but they aren't playing to record collectors
I still believe that they are programming mainly for an online audience, albeit a mostly local online audience.
Our local station is owned by Cromwell, and they are notorious format flippers, so they could go to something else almost without notice. And I know that they are voice-tracked. Common sense tells me that they could never find local DJs that good from what they would be able to pay them.