![]() ![]() Where are the women at?! And no proper 80s radio station in New York? What the what?! I’ll have to get right on that. Three songs featuring women on vocals in six fucking hours. ![]() Hey, Men At Work is in there, and I love Men At Work! So, why not The Go-Go’s? In six hours, three songs by Fleetwood Mac (two featuring Stevie Nicks on vocals) and one Pat Benatar song. ![]() I go back another three hours, and Fleetwood Mac is there again! I get it! RUMOURS is one of the biggest albums of all time, an rightfully so it’s an incredible album.īut, in the six hours I researched, so many great male artists were played more than once, and yet no Joan Jett, no Heart, no Janis Joplin, no Go-Go’s. In the three-hour period I first researched of this iHeart radio station that brands itself as “New York’s Classic Rock,” Pat Benatar was played once, and Fleetwood Mac was played twice. And success! Well, depending on how you look at it. 1 radio market in the country - New York - to find a Classic Rock station. So, when I struck out in Portland, Maine, I went down to the No. C’mon Portland, you’re the 96th radio market in America! Act like it dammit! And, apart from Top 40, which has always had a large representation of women played on their stations, even dating back to when I listened to Top 40, the playlists at the Classic Rock and Oldies stations I researched were sadly dominated by men.Īpparently (and unfortunately), the whole “recently played” feature has yet to catch on in the three major Portland, Maine radio stations I researched. One thing I’ve noticed as of late on commercial radio, namely Classic Rock or Oldies stations (OMG 80s is Oldies now! Holy cats!), and the question I ask more than any other - where are the women at?! Yesterday (March 7, 2019), I researched a few radio stations around Portland, Maine, Boston and New York just to compare how many women are represented in playlists today. A potential bumper sticker for WMPG’s 45th birthday, designed by my friend and former radio neighbor, the incredibly-talented DJ Shaxx. ![]()
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