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I first heard talk radio locally in the early '90's when the local AM station started carrying Rush Limbaugh from 11-2 everyday. From 2 PM on, it was still music. Then, more talk shows started airing until finally the station went 100% news/talk. This was around '95 and they have not looked back.
Despite what the "know it all" radio programmers believe, I think there would be an interest in an oldies station. I have a large stash of records and CD's that contain oldies that are not heard even on the "oldies" stations. Sometimes, I'll play something for someone that comes over and they will get all excited and tell me that they have not heard that in years. These struggling oldies stations could do better if they'd play more than the same 300 (or less) songs over and over. From what I hear on most oldies stations, they mostly play top 10 material. Who wants to hear "My Boyfriend's Back" or "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" 50 times in a day! How about "1900 Yesterday" by "Liz Damon's Orient Express" , "Heavy Music" by "Bob Seger & the Last Heard", "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife" by "O.C. Smith, etc. I could go on for days. Those are just some records that are within my reach at the moment. There are tons of songs from the '40's through the '70's that don't get the airplay they deserve. |
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Yeah, sometimes I listen to 770 out of Jeanette and they have a sister station on 620 kc, when there isn't any doctor shows on, they play oldies too.
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Doctor shows? WKHB620 must be a talk/oldies station; talk during the day, oldies at night or vice-versa. I can think of at least one other station that splits formats like that: 50kW WBZ-AM 1030 in Boston, which booms in here near Cleveland at night and should be audible in the Pittsburgh area as well after dark. That station is news during the day and talk at night. A small station in the Detroit area, WPON 1460, also has the same format as WKHB; talk and oldies, at least they did the last time I looked at their listing on RadioLocator.com.
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Hmmm, another side issue since you bring up 1030, WBZ Boston. It is bad news unfortunately, we used to be able to receive them under KDKA's signal which is on 1020, but with HD radio and KDKA keeps HD on all night, the HD signal "walks over" 1030 and 1010 (CFRB, Toronto). In fact, the HD signal seems like it splatters 20 kilocycles on each side of KDKA, I hear it on 1040 in my Explorer and in Mom's Hyundai so it is "buh bye" 1040 in Des Moines. I like to AM DX at night plus I think KDKA has "jumped the shark." The morning of July 7th, 2005, I took Mom to work around 5 AM or so and was AM DXing on the way home, I found out about the London terrorist attacks by AM DXing 840 out of Louisville, KY. KDKA was still talking about movie stars. BTW, WEAE on 1250 here in Pittsburgh runs HD all night and I pick up hash on both sides of WOR, 710, our of New York City. There is even a site out there to stop HD radio over AM at night: http://www.stopiboc.com/index.html
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The local FM station here, 104.3, changes its format more often than I change my drawers-1st it was a pretty decent oldies station, then it went to a typical "Motown 1965" oldies-you know, where they NEVER play anything much but the same 15 Supremes/Temptations songs all the time...Then they went Country-Boy, just what NE Tennessee needs-ANOTHER Country station, then it was "Urban Contemporary" for the 7 black people we have living here. Last time I checked, they were Southern Gospel. HUGE marketbase there, guys. I gave up on 'em several formats ago. As far as AM goes, I wish they'd get at least sophisticated enuff to drop the Bible-thumpers, & get Rush & Michael Savage... Believe it or not, that would be a big step up...
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