KOMA-AM nighttime listener

[Barry Peterson]

On 17 Dec 1996 07:42:34 GMT, msimo...@aol.com (MSimon1089) wrote:

>I wish that my local oldies station was more like KOMA out of Oklahoma
>City.

I now live in OKC and listen only to KOMA. While a teenager growing up
in northern Utah, I listened to KOMA and they played the same music
then! (They have had format changes but are back to oldies)

[slu...@tesla.njit.edu]

Oldies radio stations sadly must cater to the casual listener who may
be only familiar with the top hits and major artists of the 1955-72
era. Oldies enthusiasts like you and I are burned out by hearing the
same 500 or so hits played over and over again. Although not ideal,
WCBS-FM does play some rarities. They play on weekends the top 20
oldies countdown. There is also a Doo Wop shop with Don K. Reed on
Sunday nights. I have heard tapes of the Larry Neal show on KOMA which
is quite good. WOGL in Phialdephia has an Elvis show were they play
rarities.

Bruce Slutsky
Flushing, NY

[Jody L. Aho]

Barry Peterson <bm_pe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<32b8d828...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>...

I couldn't agree with you more. I live in Duluth, Minnesota, and I
discovered KOMA one evening last winter while "channel surfing" through the
AM stations, and it comes in very clearly up here most nights. Larry
Neal's "Wax Museum" program on Sunday nights is by far and away my
favorite, and I try to listen to his "Saturday Morning Countdown" show when
I can (until it gets too close to sunrise and the station fades out before
the show is done). Even at other times KOMA will play other great, obscure
oldies which most other stations won't. I've now got a preset in my car
radio set to 1520 AM as well as a preset on a radio at home, and KOMA is
now my station of choice during the evening hours. I also see they have a
web page started but it is still under construction. If you want a station
which plays more than the same small playlist over and over, check out
KOMA.

Jody Aho
ja...@cp.duluth.mn.us

[dx]

Barry Peterson <bm_pe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I now live in OKC and listen only to KOMA. While a teenager growing up
> in northern Utah, I listened to KOMA and they played the same music
> then! (They have had format changes but are back to oldies)

Does KOMA really play the same music as they did when it was current, or,
like most oldies stations, have they ground the top-40s of 20 or 30 years
down to a couple of hundred songs? The distillation of top-40 radio into
Oldies radio leaves a sanitized product that may be listenable, but isn't
particularly reflective of the music of the times.

-dx
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