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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Oldies' appeal nothing new

By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Like most people, I cruise the radio dial a lot, especially when driving, and it seemed to me that since WCBS-FM (101.1) switched back from Jack to "classics," my local oldies station WMTR (1250 AM) had been playing more of the early rock that WCBS-FM mostly doesn't. But vice president Dan Finn of General Media, which owns WMTR, says it isn't so. His Morristown, N.J., station "hasn't changed a thing" since WCBS-FM switched, says Finn. "It's business as usual here. We're doing fine." Meanwhile, in Farmingdale, L.I., program director Bill Wise of oldies WBZO (103.1 FM) says the same thing --
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/08/07/2007-08-07_oldies_appeal_nothing_new_to_mtr__bzo-2.html
(Source: New York Daily News)