I hope they stream again. I liked listening to WMID from PA. They played some great classic oldies. Classic oldies radio stations are hard to come by these days.
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Atlantic City/Cape May "The Jersey Giant" WMID
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I live just outside of WMID's and WCMC's patterns (but could get them, as I said before, at the Delaware beaches and OCMD, as well as in Dover, Middletown, and all the way up to the backside of the Wilmington Airport on Route 37 where the Corporate Commons is) and enjoyed their stream (and looking at the on-screen list of songs recently played). Too bad I never thought of picking out an obscure title, then looking it up on YT and playing it to see if the tune is familiar to me. I doubt that feature will be available if WMID streams again.
It's been over two weeks since the transition... I would've thought their website or socials would have been updated by now.
SkyFlyers93 I was thinking the same thing. Their old web-site is till running and Facebook page haven't been updated yet. I thought by now they would've had a new web-site and Facebook page. At least have a coming soon page.
In August of '79, then-PD Ken Brown hired me at WMID . I did evenings, and later p.m. drive there until April, 1980, during the Julann Griffin era. When Ken moved on to WAMS, he took me along. After WAMS shifted to a Country format, I briefly returned to WMID under Andy Volvo, Ken's successor as PD, from April to June of '81. At that point I moved on to WSNI in Philly. Brief as it was, and despite having to hit the top-of-the-hour NBC network news, and "babysit" the automation on the FM (WGRF), I learned a lot there—especially about budgeting my air time—and really enjoyed working with the air, office, and sales staff during my time at WMID. Great staff, great listeners, and all-around great market.
When is WMID's Stream Coming Back?
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Also, "Born To Be Wild" still gets played on major-market Classic Rock stations, so clearly people must still want to hear it, even some who weren't around when it was new. And "My Girl" must at least appeal to WMID's target audience - once you get past a certain age, most people just want to hear what's familiar to them.
Agreed. Unlistenable at the moment. Hopefully they are working out the kinks.
Much better today.
They do have to adjust the segs and cue tones on the entire library as things are rather loose and not to mention imaging playing over the tails of songs and getting drowned out. Maybe it's still a work in progress... Glad the "classic sound" of WMID has been preserved and the former Griffin jingle package too with new vo cuts.
Well... without being too critical, yes and no. Aside from the "smoothness" factor I mentioned above, the clocks need some attention too. Having "Another 20 in a Row" rejoin before the TOH only to air a stopset at the TOH isn't the best of placement for obvious reasons. Gary and Equity seem to have had a "set it and forget it" mentality when it came to 'MID and maybe it's wishful thinking but I am hoping Rick and his team have greater involvement in nurturing the station(s). I heard a few song tags too from the Equity-era and I am hoping that they are phased out. Personally I always thought they were intrusive and jarring. All in all, the fact that they ('MID and 'CMC) were bought in 2024 (without translators) is a good thing and it still offers a special format in South Jersey that otherwise wouldn't be available on terrestrial radio. As stated, I am sure it's a work in progress and things take time so hopefully anything I mentioned can be construed as helpful. Thanks for preserving the Classic Oldies!
they sound great, although not the same as years back with plenty of 50s and early 60s, btw who is the news TOH guy with the great pipes. Only thing their signal is zero, driving down route 30 a month ago no signal in Hammonton they were like a local years back, now no sign, also in Egg Harbor City nothing in fact WCMC was much stronger, I remember in the 60s in Philly if you had a good AM radio you could turn it null WHAT and WMID would come in. They also need a lator if all these ethnic signals can get one why not them....
It's all a matter of timing. You need to be quicker on the trigger than the other operators of doomed AM signals. Otherwise, you're stuck on medium wave with no FM options available to you unless some other operator wants to sell their translator or goes dark.
Rick Brancadora owns three translators with a country format. Perhaps he could switch one of them to simulcast WMID. Would be best to switch W267BP to oldies.
Perhaps he's already considered that, No?
Country is a far easier format to sell to advertisers than oldies. Hard to justify switching one of those translators to oldies.
YUp, thats why youll find 2, even 3 country stations in some markets.. and zero oldies stations. Country is on a big upswing right now in popularity. .. and depending on the market and competition, 80s/90s superstar/real country(think the ABC/Westwood One/Local Radio Networks formats using that name, not an insult to todays country by calling it fake)
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