Who's flipping first and when? Oldies, Sunny, or The River?
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XMAS Predictions
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Oldies 93.3 -- I am guessing by the end of the 1st or 2nd week of Nov.
The River - Black Friday.
Um ...... its Christmas season and it happens every year
Roo you are slipping
In the famous words of Rick Perry, "Oops..."
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I think Mother Nature beat them all to the punch mid-week last week. Worthington had a coating of snow. My wife was humming Sleigh Ride.
Sunny 95 has added a christmas music stream to the web page. but no mention yet of when they will make the change on air. Im guessing they will start out only on weekends at first then move to all the time around thanksgiving.
Oldies93.3 still has no mention on the site but if you go by their face book page it could be anytime now. so many posts from people wanting christmas now!
that must have take everyone in the building to post all that haha
Oldies93.3 still has no mention on the site but if you go by their face book page it could be anytime now. so many posts from people wanting christmas now!
that must have take everyone in the building to post all that haha
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Sunny will likely flip the feeds around Thanksgiving -- That's been their trend the last few years (though they do sometimes do "Christmas Music Preview Weekends")
Oldies 93.3 I am going to "vote" for Nov 7th (or near there) .. If you look at their past history. [and oh I think those are legit listeners posting .. seriously I have a few friends who ONLY listen to Oldies 93.3 during Christmas season .. and look forward to the early flip each year.]
Christmas in Columbus has arrived as of Monday 11/4 Oldies 93.3 is now all christmas
I wonder if Jake will do a Yesterday's Top Christmas Secrets this year....(hint)
Actually, I sort of do that every year, although not on a very large scale. In 2008, each of my seven episodes in December prior to the 26th included a different Christmas melody from the Carpenters, and then in 2009 it was the Beach Boys' turn, as seven Christmas selections from them were similarly divvied up and heard. When December, 2010 arrived, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass provided that month's closing instrumentals with wintry Christmas music, and then as we came to December, 2011, I decided that Dean Martin should handle the honors, which he wonderfully did. Last December I went with an assortment of Motown and Stax artists (Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Otis Redding, and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) to help spread around some Christmas cheer, and as for this year, well, I really haven't decided yet who we'll be inviting in for each episode next month. If anyone has a favorite Christmas album from a particular artist who they'd like me to consider, please let me know!
Not a whole lot of choice for music similar to what 93.3 was playing.....only 1270 comes close, with the disadvantage of AM audio and nighttime signal quality in many parts of town. I also wanna hear 60s and 70s oldies, and on the Columbus dial, 93.3 and 1270 are about it, especially since we are talking car radio.
WNKO 101.7 plays plenty of 70's oldies and a fair amount of 60's, including some great tunes that 93.3 never plays. Of course they mix it with 80's and some hours lean more heavily on classic rock than oldies.
I gave in and put QFM96 in as a temporary preset with 93.3 on Christmas music. I haven't listened to them in ages.
1270 has been a preset ever since they've had this format. I can listen to them just fine daytime out here in the Reynoldsburg/Pickerington area, which astonished someone from there on their Facebook page a few months back. They go away at night. I can hear them pretty much anywhere north and west of downtown at night, but around campus is where skywave interference starts to kick in.
I'll listen to 101.7 if other stations have nothing on. Don't live out that way anymore, so really don't care about Licking County stuff, and the way they try to present themselves as a Columbus/New Albany station rubs me the wrong way.
1270 has been a preset ever since they've had this format. I can listen to them just fine daytime out here in the Reynoldsburg/Pickerington area, which astonished someone from there on their Facebook page a few months back. They go away at night. I can hear them pretty much anywhere north and west of downtown at night, but around campus is where skywave interference starts to kick in.
I'll listen to 101.7 if other stations have nothing on. Don't live out that way anymore, so really don't care about Licking County stuff, and the way they try to present themselves as a Columbus/New Albany station rubs me the wrong way.
Seems to me they try to present themselves as a Newark station that has the bonus of being available to "all of central Ohio." Almost all of the ads and local-event promos are for Newark-area businesses. I don't notice them mentioning "Columbus" very often -- mainly just for traffic reports -- and I guess even those are purportedly for Newark residents that work in Columbus. And the only time I hear "New Albany" is in the hourly legal id.
Ironically, 101.7 seems to cover so much of the Columbus metro with a good signal, while signals for many other rimshots that explicitly target Columbus struggle in the same areas. One notable example is driving into Columbus from the west. Near Springfield I get WNKO loud and clear, with good stereo separation. Meanwhile I have to get FAR closer to Columbus to hear 103.9, even though its new tower is on the west side of the city. (But my comment is more about 101.7's signal reach than any 103.9 limitation.)
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The impression the few times I get from WNKO is that "We are a Newark station" and if your a Newark resident -- take us to Columbus and back when you go to work in the "big city"
WNKO is 22kw at 107m.
WJKR is 6kw at 89m.
Big difference in wattage there -- even though WJKR is closer to Springfield -- I am sure the power of WNKO allows it to go out further (even though it's tower is located near Johnstown).
I agree about WNKO, I live in Reynoldsburg and listen to the station often, they are a Newark station, the references to Columbus are few and to get the Newark audience to and from the Big City.
WJKR is also on a Directional antenna pointed east, so it won't send a signal toward Dayton where there is 103.9 WXEG. Im sure that was the big reason to move the tower west of Downtown Columbus as well.
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