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620 AM changes call letters to WAKY

radiofan502 said:
620 AM is now WAKY.The call letters were changed on April 1st (The 28th anniversary of the start of "WAKY Country" on 790)
According to Radio Locator the format is now Country but I just checked and it's still Spanish.
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/finder?call=WAKY&x=8&y=5&sr=Y&s=C
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Interesting. The Radio Locator page also says their slogan is: "AM 1540 Wacky"

That seems to refer to WGRK in Greensburg, KY, owned by Green County CBC. It's website is listed as http://www.kcountry1057.com/ --which should be the site for WGRK FM, except it doesn't come up as a vaid site.

I think it makes zero sense for them to put on an AM country in Louisville and call it WAKY. I'm sure it'll be a simulcast with 103.5. And that kinda makes sense.
 
greg.hahn said:
Interesting. The Radio Locator page also says their slogan is: "AM 1540 Wacky"

That seems to refer to WGRK in Greensburg, KY, owned by Green County CBC. It's website is listed as http://www.kcountry1057.com/ --which should be the site for WGRK FM, except it doesn't come up as a vaid site.

I think it makes zero sense for them to put on an AM country in Louisville and call it WAKY. I'm sure it'll be a simulcast with 103.5. And that kinda makes sense.
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W&B has a construction permit for a translator at 100.1 FM that will translate 620 AM. I could see a "Real Country" type station on 620 & 100.1 since there are not any Country oldies stations in Louisville since WRKA 103.9 changed from "Country Legends"
 
Here is what I don't get, though... 103.5 is WAKY-FM, 620 is WAKY, and 100.1 is a translator for WAKY at 620. If 620 is WAKY, where does 103.5 fit in to this equation? It almost sounds to me like they're either going to have WAKY on three signals, UNLESS they're planning to shift 103.5 to something non-WAKY (and only changed the call letters to WAKY-FM to avoid having to change call letters through the transitional process).

I'd personally like to see them split their signal into two different formats and brands... let WAKY do their thing with the oldies on the AM and translator and create a decent classic hits station (and not call it WAKY or anything else that was used for a popular station decades ago) with late 70s and 80s at 103.5. I've been listening to WAKY a bit more since the demise of GHL, and it isn't as terrible of a station as I've always thought it was. They seem to even be increasing the amount of 80s music that they play, which I like. But it still annoys me to no end to hear something like a late 80s Bryan Adams song followed by something from the Shirelles, which means I can never actually keep my tuner locked into WAKY.
 
100.1 is actually on the air now. Broadcasting dead air, but there is definitely something broadcasting there locally.
 
sdskees said:
So here is a VERY interesting twist in this whole story courtesy of the La Poderosa Facebook page (they have one and it is a very active page, much more active than pretty much any other local radio station)... this was just posted on April 2nd:

https://www.facebook.com/lapoderosa...41830.298680746936402/536882993116175/?type=1

For those who don't understand Spanish, I'll translate it: "Keep calm and listen to La Poderosa on 100.1 FM."

Hmm...
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That is confusing.What's also confusing is that the reply to that post translates as "Already broadcast on that frequency"
I checked out 100.1 and it is broadcasting with dead air.
I also checked 620 at Noon and they are still Spanish and they did their ID as WTUV.
 
Maybe they were briefly broadcasting on 100.1 when that was posted. All of this sounds like they are planning to keep La Poderosa on the air at 620 and 100.1, which makes no sense at all in light of 620 now being WAKY. If not, then my guess is that the on-air staff at make-believe WAKY (the former WTUV) is completely clueless and oblivious as to what the plans are, and has no clue that they're all on the verge of being let go. But they couldn't possibly be that clueless, I don't think.

I sort of questioned if there is even a big enough demand for a Spanish language station in Louisville before, but I'm starting to sense that there is, and 620 happens to be the only one to fill that void. By looking at their Facebook page, it seems that they keep things local and are pretty heavily involved in the community... even if most of their big events take place at the J-Town Ramada or the former Holiday Inn on Fern Valley. But for all of the explanations that I can think of to change the call letters for 620 to WAKY, almost none of them would plausibly include keeping the Spanish language programming there.
 
sdskees said:
I sort of questioned if there is even a big enough demand for a Spanish language station in Louisville before, but I'm starting to sense that there is, and 620 happens to be the only one to fill that void. By looking at their Facebook page, it seems that they keep things local and are pretty heavily involved in the community... even if most of their big events take place at the J-Town Ramada or the former Holiday Inn on Fern Valley. But for all of the explanations that I can think of to change the call letters for 620 to WAKY, almost none of them would plausibly include keeping the Spanish language programming there.
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WCND 940 in Shelbyville also seems to be a popular Spanish radio station with around 1200 likes on Facebook.
http://www.laexplosivaradio.com/
 
Yes but Shelby County has a very large latino population- plenty for 1200 likes. And their signal is pretty bad in Louisville, even in the daytime.

That being said- I don't see any way AM 620 remains Spanish. It looks to me like the purpose of the AM is to provide a primary signal for the translator at 100.1. And the whole point of that is to give WAKY the Louisville presence they always wanted but could never have with their 103.5 signal.
 
It seems that 100.1 is no longer silent and is broadcasting 620 (La Radio WAKY as it should probably be called for now) right now.
 
I noticed last night that 100.1 had gone silent, and today they're completely off the air... I wonder if they're planning something very soon.

I sort of think everybody at 620 is clueless about what is going on. In fact, they're still IDing on air as WTUV. It is also interesting to note that on their Facebook page, they don't seem to have any upcoming events advertised that they are part of.
 
sdskees said:
I noticed last night that 100.1 had gone silent, and today they're completely off the air... I wonder if they're planning something very soon.

I sort of think everybody at 620 is clueless about what is going on. In fact, they're still IDing on air as WTUV. It is also interesting to note that on their Facebook page, they don't seem to have any upcoming events advertised that they are part of.
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It's hard to believe that W&B paid over $300,000 for 620 AM and are going to stay with the Spanish format.You think they would at least have to hire someone that knows how to program a Spanish radio station?
Another thing about their Facebook page is that when I went to their "About" tab and clicked on the link to their station's website it comes up security error and a red page warns "The site ahead contains malware" Not good at all!
Also on the Facebook "About" tab Tino Corona and Catalina Ibarra Hernandez are listed as the page owners so I guess this is not an official page for the radio station.
 
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Tino Corona and Catalina Ibarra Hernandez are the employees who basically run the station, as far as I can tell anyway. In fact, if you Google their names, you'll see that their LinkedIn pages show WTUV as their job, it isn't specific about what he does, but for her, it shows that she is the station manager. It seems that the Facebook "owners" of almost every radio station page is a station employee, for example if you look at 100.5 MyFM, you'll see that page is owned by Evan Burkhead (although it was previously owned by Jonathan Shuford).

But no, I don't think it is staying as a Spanish language format. I do, however, think that W&B is letting Tino and Catalina keep things running as is at 620 until they get everything that they have planned for it together.
 
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OK... it looks like something is happening now! I just turned on 620, La Poderosa is GONE! They are broadcasting WAKY (same as what is on 103.5).

The La Poderosa online stream on TuneIn (and other apps) is now dead too.
 
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sdskees said:
OK... it looks like something is happening now! I just turned on 620, La Poderosa is GONE! They are broadcasting WAKY (same as what is on 103.5).

The La Poderosa online stream on TuneIn (and other apps) is now dead too.
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Thanks for catching that.I checked yesterday and 620 was still Spanish.WAKY 620 sounds pretty good and it's kind of cool to hear the old songs on AM radio again like in the good old days.Just think,WAKY last played oldies (they were still oldies then not classic hits) on AM radio back in 1986.
I'm sure now that 100.1 will also be WAKY.They should be able to cover the entire Louisville area with three stations.
 
It is really odd but La Poderosa just made a post on their Facebook page about a half hour ago about the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight... not a word about they're gone or anything like that.
 
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