Just curious. Elvis is often nicknamed “The King of Rock and Roll” but where I live classic rock stations don’t play Presley, but oldies stations will. What’s it like where you are?

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  2. Elvis is like oldies station. Classic rock is gonna be like Led Zeppelin or Van Halen.

  3. Oldies. Very much oldies.

    Or its Blue Christmas and its the local easy listening station sometime after Thanksgiving.

  4. Oldies or Christmas, however living in the Memphis area, it could be any channel at anytime. Elvis is still floating around the local radio waves in these parts.

    Most terrestrial stations are owned by bigger companies like Iheart at this point, right? So, they all have the same-ish playlist that they grind through.

  6. Oldies, and I’m probably driving in a sparsely populated region on a highway

  7. Elvis was named the “King of Rock and Roll” when rock was still in its cradle and before it left him behind. It’s not a title to be taken literally or too seriously.

  8. Elvis was oldies even in the 90s

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    Who downvotes this? Elvis was literally played only on oldies stations in the 90s.. not classic rock stations

  9. When I was growing up, the oldies station my parents listened to played 50s and 60s — my parents’ music. Now it plays 80s music 🙁

    In my area, I don’t know of any station that regularly plays music old enough to include Elvis. You’d probably need Sirius or something.

  10. There’s a great “Active rock” station in Philadelphia (93.3 WMMR) with fantastic live DJs and they might skip an Elvis song in on his birthday, or album anniversary, or something.

  12. I can’t think of any classic or oldies stations in the LA area. We might have one but I don’t listen to the radio much. My fellow LA area users can correct me.

    We did have a station called K-EARTH that played classic rock but they’ve since moved to playing more 80s, 90s, and even 2000s classic hits. I’ve heard It Wasn’t Me by Shaggy and Lose Yourself by Eminem played on there in recent months.

  13. Oldies. Except now our local oldies station (wgrr in Cincinnati) plays pop music from the 70’s and 80’s and they suck. Have to stream to get actual oldies.

  14. That used to be WMJI here in Cleveland until they shifted from 50s through 70s oldies to 70s and 80s hits.

  15. Oldies. Maybe some religious stations play his gospel stuff & hymns.

    Classic rock stations nowadays play almost exclusively 60s-90s. Pre-Sirius I use to listen to this classic rock station almost daily; The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crü, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, CCR, The Kinks, Rush, Steely Dan… etc etc

    Don’t ever remember hearing Elvis.

    My Mom listened to an “Oldies” station (Delilah, anyone?)

    And they would.

  16. Oldies. Sometimes Classic Country, but typically general Oldies. If you listen to Gospel some of his songs will also turn up time to time.

    “Classic Rock” is a category that floats, typically playing music that is 20-30 years old rather than a set period of time. That means that in the 2020s it will be playing music from the 90s and early 2000s, not the 50s.When things “age out” of the Classic Rock category they shift to general oldies.

  17. An oldies station like WCBS-FM on 101.1 FM, though they are playing more 80s and 90s stuff today

  18. Classic Rock is a genre. It doesn’t just mean old. It refers to a specific time and style of rock.

    Elvis is not “Classic Rock”. Oldies is an accurate description.

  19. I’ve heard 90’s music on “classic rock” stations. I don’t think Elvis Presley counts anymore.

  22. The only station I can think of that might play Elvis near me would be KDMO, an oldies AM station out of Missouri.

  23. If you hear Elvis, it’s an oldies station. If you hear Van Halen, it’s classic rock.

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