Frank-FM "plays it all"

[CAwasinNJ]

I read this article about Frank-FM out on Cape Cod with great interest.  From the article it sounds a lot like the station I described here.  Wow.  Somebody is actually trying this crazy idea, (though I'm sure they didn't get it from here.)

The excitement was short lived.  I've listened to it several times over the past few days and the reality doesn't match up all that well to the press release.  The truth is that it's still basically an adult hits station with 80's and 90's music.  I didn't log the songs but it seemed like the expanded playlist came up about once an hour.  One hour it was Roar by Katy Perry, another it was Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf.  Granted that may be the only station in the country where you could hear both of those songs, but paying mostly lip service to anything outside of the 80's & 90's just seems like a false promise.

Is there a possibility that some station somewhere might try a format where it really does play songs from the 60's to today without favoritism toward any one time period?  It could be a gold mine for music discovery.  From what I've heard, there's a real need for curation in today's online audio streaming services.  This is curation on steroids.  One big question is whether the listeners would give the unfamiliar music a chance and see whether they like it, or whether they'll bail to a station where they might not know every song but at least it all sounds somewhat similar.  Would you give it a try?  Would people you know try it?

[amanuensis]

I've been listening to the stream today. Not that impressed. Definitely not much from the older end of the spectrum. And I have heard absolutely no country, which the press release cited as something that was to be included. Not even any country-crossover.

There have been no ads thus far. There is a cash giveaway contest, which I tried to enter by texting the keyword of the hour to the required number. I then was asked for my zip code of residence. Which I supplied. Only to be told that I didn't qualify for their "nationwide" contest because I live more than 150 miles away from any of their stations.

[CAwasinNJ]

I didn't hear any country either, but maybe that's a once every x days thing.  *shrug*  FWIW I like the station as an adult hits format.  I was just hoping for something more.

I didn't hear anything about the contest but that sounds like the co-op contest that Utah's Goat used to participate in.  The idea is that small station owners from across the country band together to offer the prizes and share in the cost.  One such contest is talked about here.