Imagine my surprise this evening when on a whim I thought to check in on FFR just to see if anything has happened in the past year or so, and here I find the station is back up and running with a cool new format! I love it! I started a new job back in December so I can;t stream the station or participate in the forum at work, but every evening that I'm on the PC at home I'll be listening! I hope everyone on the forum here is well!
We were off the air for just over a year and one of the things that bugged me about not broadcasting was that people like you, CP, MoCrzy might think to check back one day down the road and find nothing there. So it really makes me happy to see you checking in!
I hope everything is going well for you and that you're enjoying the new job (as much as someone can enjoy a job anyway).
I've been listening this past week, but now I think it's time to take a few days off. It's still close enough to my Slacker station that sometimes I try to go back and block or favorite a song! But there's a few songs I'm getting sick of, so time to take a little break from 1981 for a while.
So if I'm right, this is exactly what you're going for?
Oh, and you mentioned that you were considering broadcasting as if it was 1981. That would be so cool, but if someone tunes in without knowing the format, they could get confused. Either way, it's great to hear you on air again!
Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm looking for. I knew that this wouldn't be something most people would listen to for 8 or 9 hours a day every day. I'm trying to recreate the date in 1981, and I'm mostly doing it for myself and obviously as a hobby I can share. There are some songs that play every four or five hours that I don't like either, so I even find myself tuning out every once in awhile.
It's been interesting though, I was just telling Dylan the other day that my objective of making old songs feel like current hits has actually worked on me. For example, Roseanne Cash with "Seven Year Ache" has been playing every four to five hours and I've caught it probably a dozen times in the last two weeks. Now I kinda get excited when it plays because it really feels like a hit again. To anyone that doesn't like repetition though this is not going to be something they enjoy. It truly is Top 40 radio again, but OLD top 40 radio.
I'm still tweaking the mix, I made a couple big changes this weekend. And as songs move in and out of the top 40 I alter the playlist so hopefully it will change fairly regularly. However, when a song spends three months in the top 10 it's gonna get played A LOT for those three months.
I agree about the confusion if I don't specify what's going on. I think I'll kind of just go with what feels right at the time that I'm talking. Sometimes it's fun to talk like it's actually happening now, other times it seems right to point out what the stations all about.
Thanks by the way! It's nice to get on the air again. I have no expectations for this station, I know it's now an "oldies" station with a very narrow niche to fill. But the reality is that competing with Pandora and Stitcher and everyone else is pointless. They've got the market covered in "Listen to what you want when you want". Even an all-request station can't compete. The only change of carving out a listening audience at this point I think is to offer a very specific niche.
