WTD 2009 Week 14 - 70's on 7

[Aaron]

A recreation of a Top 40 station of the '70s with a musical focus on the pop music of the era.

What we play: Elton John, The Bee Gees, Chicago, The Eagles, Stevie Wonder, Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Paul McCartney & Wings, Three Dog Night, Fleetwood Mac.

Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 – The 70s
Saturdays Noon - 3 pm ET
Sundays 9 am ET - Noon ET
Mondays Midnight - 3 am ET
Millions of fans around the world find the name Casey Kasem synonymous with musical countdowns. Now the “King of the Countdowns†is back with American Top 40 – The 70s. The same show he created in 1970 that became the worldwide gold standard for the music countdown Casey’s AT40 features all of the hits of the decade and “It ain’t #1 unless Casey says soâ€. Unlocked and remastered from the vaults of American Top 40, hear authentic 70s time capsules from Casey, who reminds us to “keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars!â€

Jay Thomas
Saturdays 8 am - Noon ET
The two time Emmy Award® winning actor has starred on television in memorable roles such as Remo DaVinci on Mork & Mindy, Eddie LaBec on Cheers, Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown, and many others. Jay has also starred in motion pictures such as Mr. Holland’s Opus, Dragonfly and The Santa Claus 2 & 3. Jay appears in the films American Summer (2008) and Horrorween (2009). In addition to his film and television credits, Jay has hosted morning radio shows across the USA. Jay returns to his roots as a top-40 radio deejay for Totally 70s every Saturday morning!

SIRIUS Satellite Radio - Listen to Music Of The ?70s on Sirius Satellite Radio ? ?70s on 7

* Please indicate how much you like this channel by assigning it a rating. Simply use the thread rating system found at the top of the thread and give it a vote.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I listened to both XM's 70s on 7 and Sirius' Totally 70s. I liked them both although I prefered Totally 70s. After the meger, they managed to combine the 2 stations to a channel that I like even better. I listen to it in the car sometimes and sometimes at home.

I will listen to Casey if he is from 1978 or 1979 which is almost never since the merger. His post-merger countdowns seem to be stuck in 1972 +/- 2.

I like the evening DJ (whose name escapes me at the moment (JJ?)) and can tollerate Magic Matt Allen although I believe he talks to much. I record 1 overnight session per week.

When on road trips with my wife, I listen to this channel more as although it is neither of our favourites, we both like it and we don't like each other's favourites. I also listen to this station as a go to sleep station during the frequent absences of The Bridge.

My ratings:
XM's 70s on 7 3.0/5.0
Sirius' Totally 70s 3.5/5.0
Sirius XM's 70s on 7 4.0/5 (4 stars).

It is my A-3 preset on all my radios.

 

[hexagram]

It's already on the presets... Good station.

4 stars.

 

[Grüpsaar]

Listened extensively lately. I am not familiar with a lot of 70's music, but like listening to it. the Countdowns and stuff make it interesting for me, I will keep listening to discover more stuff from the 70's. There seems to be more for me to hear on 70's on 7 than totally 70's back when I tried it out the first time.
4 stars.

 

[Aaron]

I love the 70's on 7. It has been my choice as "best" programmed decade channel on Sirius for some time now. Good variety of music, I like the DJ's, and the occasional playing of those "so bad, it could only come from the 70's" type songs make The 70's on 7 one of my most listened to channels.
5 stars.

 

[goreds2]

This channel is very good as it reminds me of the days I grew up listening to radio in the 1970's.

I don't really like DJ's on satellite radio but JJ is good. He gives little tid bits of what the artist is currently doing in life etc. I wish all the DJ's on the channels were like this.

When we go on vacation to the beach, the other family we go with always want to hear this channel.

5 of 5 stars

 

[down4six]

Listened for about an hour yesterday, heard a few really good songs, some I've never heard before. Overall, I liked what I heard, just not enough to make it to a preset. 4 stars.

 

[flap_jackson]

Like a few of the other decade channels, there's quite a few great songs on this channel, but they're too muddled, and buried inbetween the crap. Same thing for the 80s on 8. 2 stars.

 

[GreenHornet99]

I love this station, for the feel of the 70's Radio Top 40. With Casey Kasem's countdown on weekends, Majic Matt Allen in the morning and JJ Walker at night radio does not get much better than this.

 

[semipenguin]

I really enjoyed listing to this channel this morning. Lots of great songs from the 70s that I used to hear as a kid. I'm just not into 70s music for some reason. Magic Matt was great...

I give it 4 out of 5 Stars...

 

[Wolf]

One of my presets and I enjoy the 70's channel, I give it 4 stars.

 

[AZJoe]

4 Stars, but the playlist needs to be deeper (they cut it in January, as with all decade channels).

 

[JayDizz]

It's one of my presets but as with all of the decades channels, I only tune in once in a while for a song or two. I do like the variety played and the overall "feel" of the channel. I'll give it four stars.

 

[DAB]

Shallow playlist, but I certainly like the feeling of the channel. But once again my programmed Slacker '70s Jukebox and/or Romance '70s is far better.

I've always found it rather insulting that the DJ's would take certain songs that they didn't like and add them to the Jukebox from Hell and talk bad about them, yet in my opinion those were some of the better songs being played, but unfortunately they were far and few between.

I think this channel was better and now has gotten poor again! But has never really taken advantage of the huge library they should have.

 

[goreds2]

Since at least 1am est. this morning, the 70's on 7 PAD Data has said:

ABBA
DANCING QUEEN ('77)

lol

 

[goreds2]

Since at least 1am est. this morning, the 70's on 7 PAD Data has said:

ABBA
DANCING QUEEN ('77)

lol

I am not sure it was me :clueless: but a few minutes after I emailed Music_Prog@sirius-radio.com, the PAD DATA went back to current.

 

[goreds2]

Another funny thing concerning the above email. I said in the email I sent that the pad data was stuck on ABBA. lol

Dear XXXX,

Thanks for emailing us your SIRIUS music request! Your request to play
"Dancing Queen" by ABBA has been delivered to our hosts on '70s on 7,
7.

We appreciate your requests. Please be sure to keep sending in requests
for the songs you want to hear and we'll be sure to pass them along to
our on-air hosts. Thanks for being an active SIRIUS music listener!



Sincerely,

Lynann H
SIRIUS Customer Care

 

[semipenguin]

No request for a dog named Snuggles, but here's your song...:shock:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjn8v4ixXuI]YouTube - ABBA Dancing Queen[/ame]

 

[Aaron]

I'm loving this channel tonight! Rock, soul, disco, anything you can think of, with the right amount of cheese thrown in for good measure. From Boz Scaggs to Boston to Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose. Good stuff.

 

[semipenguin]

Lido Shuffle, too