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Saturday, August 30, 2008
8/30: Radio station Labor Day theme weekends
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
While Praise, Smooth Jazz and Hot used Labor Day weekend to cut some actual labor costs, a few stations are dabbling in theme weekends on Labor Day weekend. It’s the theory of just throwing out a lot of “oh wow!” songs. Great stuff!
-B98.5 is doing an alphabetical song list, including many songs that have not been on their regular playlist in ages. In the “B’s as I’m writing this, I’ve heard Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and “Born in the U.S.A,” Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America,” Mr. Mister’s “Broken Wings” and Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar.”
-Star 94, which has been skewing a bit younger since Steve & Vikki left, is doing something odd: playing songs from the 80s and 90s. I’ve heard some songs that were hits at the time but haven’t been played in ages, which I guess is the point. As I was driving home from the Human Regeneration tour with Naked Eyes, Flock of Seagulls, ABC, Belinda Carlisle and Human League, I heard ABC’s “Poison Arrow,” Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n Roll,” OMC’s “How Bizarre,” Lou Gramm’s “Say You Will” and Madonna’s “Causing a Commotion,” and Arrested Development’s “Mr. Wendel.”
-Rock 100.5 is playing the top 500 rock songs of all time. It’s all over the map, which is the point, I fathom. The midnight hour includes Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” Better than Ezra’s “Good,” Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak,” the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” Def Leppard’s “Rock! Rock! Till You Drop!” 3 Doors Down’s “It’s Not My Time,” Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever,” Van Halen’s “Top of the World,” Creed’s “My Own Prison,” Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks,” Tom Petty’s “You Wreck Me.”
-I also got the final count for WSB-AM’s Care-a-thon for the Aflac Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.: $1.23 million. That’s comparable to the past two years, impressive given the current economic downturn.
