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From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Are Dead alive on AOR?
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 04:15:12 EST
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> >     I have to beg difference with you, however. I have lived in several
> >cities across the country and only in New York did I ever hear the Dead
> >being played on any radio station. They just dont have the comercial
> >appeal (except in NY or around San Fran). They continue to be more and
> >more popular but still I think it is a mistake to say that they are
> >played on many AOR stations. I haven't heard it.
> >
> >                                     Andy Bindman
> 
> Well, here in Chicago (your typical city...), WXRT (93.1FM) plays some
> Dead just about every day or so. They even made "Featured Artists" one
> day a couple of months ago.. Dead on the air, all day long!  Of course,
> WXRT is a somewhat eclectic AOR station and doesn't always pay attention
> to the conventional "commercial appeal."  And it's also one out of about
> half a dozen AOR stations in this market, none of which ever plays anything
> but the occasional "Truckin'". 
> 
> So...what station plays Dead in YOUR town?
> Steve Meier

In the Santa Barbara area, KTMS-FM (now something else... sigh)
played a lot of Dead.  It also played James Taylor, Earl Klugh,
Shadowfax, Boston, Who, Yes, Chuck Mangione, Weather Report, 
and all sorts of stuff in between.  Couldn't call it an AOR
station, though, because it played everything from Jazz to Soul
to Rock and Folk.  In short, it defied labling.  It wasn't a
campus station or anything like that.  In any case, it's gone
now.  Another reason not to visit my relatives in SB.

Any other commercial stations that avoid pigeonholes out there?

--Nick Cuccia
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