If like Rip Van Winkle, you've been asleep for the last two decades, the new sound of WLIT is perfect for you! Looking over the playlist for the last hour, every song was from the 1980s or 90s except for the Soft AC hit "All of Me" by John Legend from 2013. Lite-FM isn't exactly Soft AC, as you might hear on co-owned KISQ San Francisco (although KISQ isn't always soft either). In fact, Lite is fairly uptempo. But it is aimed at the upper limits of the 25-54 demo. (If you graduated high school in 1985, you are 50.)
1pm hour - 12/26/17
Blondie--Heart of Glass
Eric Carmen--Hungry Eyes
Madonna--Holiday
Billy Joel--Uptown Girl
Bon Jovi--I'll Be There for You
UB 40--Red, Red Wine
The Go-Go's--Vacation
Michael Jackson--Bad
Joan Jett--I Love Rock & Roll
Prince--Little Red Corvette
Roxette--Listen to Your Heart
Whitney Houston--So Emotional
John Legend--All of Me
Aerosmith--Crazy
Shannon--Let The Music Play
There was speculation, with the success of KISQ, that iHeart might try the same thing in Chicago after WLIT finished its Christmas format. Add the fact that the station is using the word "Lite" again (even though this playlist is hardly light) and the syndicated Delilah show (from Premiere Networks, an iHeart subsidiary) is now being carried at night. But apparently management didn't want the station to sound too soft.
Apparently only once an hour will Lite-FM play a song from the post-2000 library. The previous hour, "Play That Song" from Train was aired, a song from 2016.
1pm hour - 12/26/17
Blondie--Heart of Glass
Eric Carmen--Hungry Eyes
Madonna--Holiday
Billy Joel--Uptown Girl
Bon Jovi--I'll Be There for You
UB 40--Red, Red Wine
The Go-Go's--Vacation
Michael Jackson--Bad
Joan Jett--I Love Rock & Roll
Prince--Little Red Corvette
Roxette--Listen to Your Heart
Whitney Houston--So Emotional
John Legend--All of Me
Aerosmith--Crazy
Shannon--Let The Music Play
There was speculation, with the success of KISQ, that iHeart might try the same thing in Chicago after WLIT finished its Christmas format. Add the fact that the station is using the word "Lite" again (even though this playlist is hardly light) and the syndicated Delilah show (from Premiere Networks, an iHeart subsidiary) is now being carried at night. But apparently management didn't want the station to sound too soft.
Apparently only once an hour will Lite-FM play a song from the post-2000 library. The previous hour, "Play That Song" from Train was aired, a song from 2016.