WAXQ - Popular Segments

Popular Segments

• "Breakfast with the Beatles": Sundays 8:00am–9:45am; all Beatles music, together and solo, by fan request, often with emotional stories behind the chosen songs. The show is hosted by Ken Dashow.
• "Twelve O'clock Beatles Block": Weekdays 12:00pm–12:20pm; "Keeping Scott's Promise to New York", Scott Muni, a disc jockey until his death in 2004, who after John Lennon's death promised to start his segments with a Lennon or Beatles song; The disc jockey plays four Beatles, together and solo, songs in a row, some chosen by listeners.
• "Workforce Blocks": Weekdays 12:20pm–1:00pm; listeners go online to enter suggestions for a set of songs (usually by a single artist) to be played in one of the two twenty minute time periods. Winners, chosen by disc jockey (perhaps weeks after entry) have their music played and receive a prize, occasionally their entire office gets to share a prize.
• "Live at Five": Monday - Thursday 5:00pm; Ken Dashow plays one or two rare live tracks from various artists. Often requested by listeners.
• "Two for Tuesday": On Tuesdays they will play two songs from each artist that plays in a row. In 2010, WAXQ started a new version of Two for Tuesdays, where they pick a song, and the audience picks a song online.
• "Get The Led Out": Weekdays 8:00am and 8:00pm; Carol Miller will play one, two, or three Led Zeppelin songs (the nighttime segment often includes lots of live and rare tracks). As of January 2009, to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the first Led Zeppelin album, the Monday Night edition has been extended to a full hour.
• "Three at 3": Weekdays 3:00pm; contest where the first fan to call in with the connection between three songs chosen by disc jockey wins a prize.
• "Top 1,043 of all time": Thanksgiving Wednesday 1:00pm-Sunday night; fans vote for their favorite songs in the preceding weeks, then the top 1,043 vote-getters are revealed in the order of a countdown to number one, with only occasional interruptions. The top 1043 songs in the list are repeated on New Year's Eve, and Stairway to Heaven is always the number one song.