Isn't that a breach of contract being that JBR covers Philly? I know JBR is a Wilmington market station but it throws a good signal into Philly...
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Delilah on WISX
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B101 carried the show concurrent with WJBR (and WLEV). Nothing new under the sun.
WJBR certainly does put a good signal into Philly, despite not directly targeting the Philly audience. My dentist in Maple Glen PA (north of Philly) used to play WJBR in the office. He eventually bowed to patient and employee preferences and went to an Ipod-based playlist, but JBR came in loud and clear. Not sure why he originally picked JBR over any of the other ACs available. Heck, he probably could have pulled in WLEV clearly as well.
Wednesday evening, WISX’s Delilah leads off with some schmatzy Whitney Houston ballad. WJBR’s with Moves Like Jagger.
Kind of an amusing contrast.
Kind of an amusing contrast.
Not always, some are fed by satellite and have the same playlist (WJXB Knoxville and WTFM, Tri-Cities TN are the same.) Others are voice tracked and assembled locally
Exactly, kind of like two totally different shows. Perhaps by design. Go figger.
One version is called "Delilah," the other is "Delilah-Gold Based AC"
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I did not realize they even have a satellite feed any more. Most stations use an assemble-from-pieces system that puts all the workparts on the local hard disk at the station, where the format is run, allowing flexible stopset lengths, news inserts, etc.
I remember the old days when you would hear the wall of sap with WJBR, B101 & WLEV all clustered together there playing the same Delilah. Not fondly, but I remember it. 
I remember about 15 years ago, I could pick up Delilah on WLEV, WROZ, WBEB, and WJBR. At the time, I clearly remember all playing the same songs which would make sense since all those stations at the time had a pretty similar format. (Actually they still do, but only WJBR carries the show anymore out of those four). Nowadays, I notice the lingering Delilah stations like WISX and WJBR having different playlists, I guess assembled locally. I started a thread a few weeks ago on the national board asking how Delilah does her show technically. I got some good answers, so you might want to go over there and check it out.
Right after I moved to Kansas City in '97, Delilah showed up on 98.1 KUDL. In about a year, she was also on KMAJ-FM, and she was on 97.7 Omaha, which put a decent signal into parts of KC on a good car radio or home stereo, after soft AC KESY displaced smooth jazz KOSJ.
Something I noticed shortly after KESY moved to 97.7 from 104.5 was that she ended her show on KESY with “Close Your Eyes” by Edward Bear while she had a much more random playlist the last 10 minutes on KUDL. Ironically, I found that out because I was hoping KESY wasn’t carrying her show, and the difference in the last 10 minutes gave me hope she wasn’t on Easy 97.7, too. About 4 years later, I was working at 101.5 KPLA, and we picked up her show after our competitor left the air to go talk. Her goodbye was a generic cart, and we broke from her satellite feed following the last network spot of the 11 PM hour. “Close Your Eyes” was also a cart on our hard drive supplied by her show. The last 10 minutes of her show originated in our studio while KUDL carried the satellite feed until midnight. Otherwise, the two shows were identical. The 11 PM hour we aired was the first hour of the Eastern Time feed.
Also, she fed many of her promos over the satellite. I'd listen to them once-in-awhile if I was in the KFRU studio and didn’t want to get bored by Money Talk or Suze Orman. She could be quite entertaining when recording promos. I heard her cutting some for WJBR one time. Most of them were just legals, “99.5 WJBR-FM Wilmington, a product of NextMedia.” However, one of them was, “We're done with the commercials. Now back to more mushy music with me, Delilah, on 99.5 WJBR.” Afterward, she said, “Mushy music? Who wants to listen to that? I'd love to strangle the bastard who handed me that!” One of the few times I actually agreed with Delilah!
Something I noticed shortly after KESY moved to 97.7 from 104.5 was that she ended her show on KESY with “Close Your Eyes” by Edward Bear while she had a much more random playlist the last 10 minutes on KUDL. Ironically, I found that out because I was hoping KESY wasn’t carrying her show, and the difference in the last 10 minutes gave me hope she wasn’t on Easy 97.7, too. About 4 years later, I was working at 101.5 KPLA, and we picked up her show after our competitor left the air to go talk. Her goodbye was a generic cart, and we broke from her satellite feed following the last network spot of the 11 PM hour. “Close Your Eyes” was also a cart on our hard drive supplied by her show. The last 10 minutes of her show originated in our studio while KUDL carried the satellite feed until midnight. Otherwise, the two shows were identical. The 11 PM hour we aired was the first hour of the Eastern Time feed.
Also, she fed many of her promos over the satellite. I'd listen to them once-in-awhile if I was in the KFRU studio and didn’t want to get bored by Money Talk or Suze Orman. She could be quite entertaining when recording promos. I heard her cutting some for WJBR one time. Most of them were just legals, “99.5 WJBR-FM Wilmington, a product of NextMedia.” However, one of them was, “We're done with the commercials. Now back to more mushy music with me, Delilah, on 99.5 WJBR.” Afterward, she said, “Mushy music? Who wants to listen to that? I'd love to strangle the bastard who handed me that!” One of the few times I actually agreed with Delilah!
Hi Kent, Can you find some old Delilah radio clips back in the day?
I remember it. Back when seemingly all the ACs has their own variation of a love songs show.
Can you find some old Delilah radio airchecks back in the day?
I wasn’t recording any of the clips that I heard over the KPLA board. Not being a fan of the show, I don’t think I have any older airchecks of the program from those days. Sorry.
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