Music Advisory
This article is slipped in on a non-ordinary day because I didn't want to wait until August for it. My favorite radio station solicited volunteers to be part of their Music Advisory Board, and naturally, I volunteered. Here's a short story of what happened that day.
I'll give you a few minutes to hook up with 1030 The Light's streaming audio.
OK? Got it? Hopefully it's music, and not an infomercial. If you got Alistair Begg's preaching, that's a treat too, but this is about music.
The event took place on 5 June at Pioneer Christian Academy near I-35 and Santa Fe, in Kansas City, Kansas. As usual, I allowed a bit more time than I needed for driving. I got there almost an hour early, but at about the same time as Paul Van Sickle (music director and Saturday afternoon guy). We introduced ourselves, and the custodian on duty showed us where the meeting was to take place. Darren Marlar (Program Director and weekday morning guy) walked in while we were contemplating how to set the room up. We got the tables and chairs arranged. Paul distributed demographic and voting sheets. Darren and I took care of the more important stuff. We found the restrooms. Shortly, people started drifting in. Hey, readers! Show up early to stuff like this. It's fun to help.
I'm guessing at our numbers here, but I think around 20 of us self-proclaimed music critics showed up to offer advice in 1030 The Light's music selection. I figured more would have shown up. I also thought teens and younger would be much better represented. Pre-teens, early teens, late teens, 20s and 30s all seemed to be fairly evenly distributed. I think we had more males than females. (That would likely be the other way around for those mushy-music stations.) I was surprised to see 3 mid-40s or up. Anyway, we were the ones who had our opinions heard. So all you who didn't show are stuck with what we picked --forever!
I don't think the soft mushy stuff had much chance, but everything from dance pop to metal, rap and hardcore got positive responses. So it looks like 1030's going to keep its wide range of pop and rock, but also include lots more Gaithers, Blind Boys From Alabama, and the like. Then I awoke in a pool of cold sweat.
Anyway, I don't think much'll change at 1030, except we could hear a slight reduction on the soft end, and more on the heavy end of the pop/rock spectrum. Maybe that's just what I wanted to see, but most of us seemed to be rockers.
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