Lately, I'm a bit pissed at 99.5 rt's 24K Program. The reason is because they've very stingy with the classic songs of the 80's and 70's, particularly some of the rare songs that only they made famous. Ever since they implemented this one song/one month crap rule where they can only play the song once a month and that's a long wait! Quiet frankly that really upsets me because these are thongs that separates 24K from other oldies programs and what saddens me is that these songs may fade away in time. My fear that these great tunes would be a faded memory reminds me of Paul Pascal's song "Your Memory".
This song ranks up there as one of 24K's rarest of the rare, one songs that can only be heard on 24K. Many of these songs from that program are so hard to find that some of them aren't on the internet and some don't even have any music videos. The fact that you can hear them once makes them all the more desirable. Now with stupid "playlist" rules, a lot of people are going to have a difficult time requesting them. It's bad enough that some DJ's out will say they play but won't which means you've lost some of your cellphone's load on jerk playing god on the airways, dictating what will be played despite claim's that you can request your classic song and now they're edging out some of the classic in favor of the new 24K songs which is garbage from the early 2000's.
That really irks me and now the Pillar DJs are also doing the same thing and I felt insulted that instead of a month, I now have to wait a month and a half for that which stinks. There are some stations that play classics from the 50's and even the 40's because it's a CLASSIC PROGRAM. I don't mind that new songs are now being added because time flies but to remove the old songs, especially the classic that built is THAT BUILT THIS STATION is not only an insult but SACRILEGE to what this program stands for! What really made me angry is the fact that they're stingy with true pillar classic but play the new 24K songs not twice but some 3X a day and I THOUGHT THAT THEY FOLLOW A PLAYLIST! The rules should apply to all songs and they are not doing that which is flat out wrong!
This is the reason why for a time, I stopped listening to 24K because of these ludicrous rules that run contrary to what a classic program is all about. What's worse is there are no DJs from 2pm up so can't request when the first are over which is another move of stupidity! What are these people thinking?! Do realize who valuable these songs are?! All of this is a bunch of !@#!#@!
When I started this blog, it wasn't about writing about my memories as well as my thoughts but also about letting people share these tunes during my generation which now fast becoming extinct! Instead of preserving, RT is discarding them like a rich man throwing his money to the garbage dump! These are the rarest of the rare and now RT is making extinct! It is sad that these song will soon become memory which RT is doing. They keep this up and will lead to 24K's ruin!
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Another change from 24K, which happened around late May last year, is that it now only airs every Saturday. It's because other stations are playing oldies on a Sunday, and RT doesn't want to compete with those, and Jeremiah Junior has the chance to play the hot hits (regular programming) every Sunday.
The reason why 24K nowadays plays music from the 80s & 90s (& a little bit of 2000s) is that RT wants to target the younger audience (that's my opinion). The only time you'll hear much of the 70s is Jeremiah Junior's timeslot (6am - 10am), one of the veteran RT jocks who hosts his part of 24K in "vintage" style.
And since last year, there are a change of hosts for the 24K 2pm - 6pm slot. Dirty J (Jun. - Oct.), Marf (Nov. - Feb.), Lu Skywalker, Lil Joey, &, since April, Jack Master 8. The long-time 24K hosts are Jeremiah Junior, Koji Moralez, Ron Valentine & Nino Belza.
I've been listening to 24K since the mid-2000s, until now. I'm quite disappointed with the changes of 24K, but I get used to them, in the long run. Despite the changes, 24K is still 24K & it still plays 80s & 90s.
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