I do not like Christmas music either.
I do not like when Classical music stations add choral Christmas music.
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I do not like when Classical music stations add choral Christmas music.
The reason is football is the most popular sport in America. Football is too violent so I do not watch football very often. I prefer basketball. There is a daily 30-minute sports program in Chicago from WGN-TV called GN Sports that is syndicated downstate, and the first story of the program is usually on the Chicago Bears even when their season is over.
EMF making changes in LA Sacramento and Pueblo to K Love and Air 1 signals due to Salem acqusistion. Suprised nothing new at 103.7 yet
I asked Klove the other day and asked about the 103.7 translator and told no plans have been made. Today see it off the Klove station list. its very similar coverage to Air 1s 92.7fm so i dont it going Air 1 also. I thought about the translators on 89.1 Hickley and 90.7 Akron are easily covered by 95.5fm. I easily believe that 89.1 will flip to Air1 joining 92.7fm and a 10 watter translator will either stay klove or that radio nueva vida is coming along with 103.7 cleveland.
an engineer with klove told me that Salem will continue programming on hd sub channels till the deal closes. i dont believe 95.5 is in hd. i assume 103.7 is running a loop redirecting listeners to 95.5 and programming that is coming. I just live in Atlanta and the former Air 1 translator flipped to Radio Nueva Vida and HD2 on Klove 106.7 to K Love 90s since Air 1 is on the Fish they bought from Salem here
an engineer with klove told me that Salem will continue programming on hd sub channels till the deal closes. i dont believe 95.5 is in hd. i assume 103.7 is running a loop redirecting listeners to 95.5 and programming that is coming. I just live in Atlanta and the former Air 1 translator flipped to Radio Nueva Vida and HD2 on Klove 106.7 to K Love 90s since Air 1 is on the Fish they bought from Salem here
Yeah, they actually are. Just tuned to WMJI-HD2 and sure enough, they were running a loop telling everyone to redirect to 95.5. Wonder what will be on 103.7 now that the translator could be flipping to a new format anytime.
Im keeping watch from Atlanta, I had to email them again as to why they promoted on thing coming to a translator and did another. Maybe this time they going to let someone else program 103.7fm.
103.7 will more than likely switch to one of the other K-Love networks. Air1 would be my best bet as it would match with 92.7.
Could iHeart launch a station on 103.7? I would like to see either Throwback 99.1 or Real 103.7 simulcasted on the frequency.
Or perhaps as a repeater for WARF 1350 The Gambler (a la WTAM 1100/106.9)
Maybe a repeater for WHOF?
And would any format flip reflect that of WMJI-HD2? I would like to see The Bridge return to Cleveland (previously on 99.5-HD2), or something similar to Real Oldies (originally on WMJI-HD2) focusing mostly on pop music from the 60's. Both would be nice on WMJI, though I'm not sure why iHeart limits their HD channels to just 2 per station. A 3rd HD channel shouldn't cause too much degradation in the audio. WKSU 89.7 has 4 HD channels, and they all sound great, even better than most stations that only have 2. Either they have good encoders or someone there knows how to optimally tune them.
And would any format flip reflect that of WMJI-HD2? I would like to see The Bridge return to Cleveland (previously on 99.5-HD2), or something similar to Real Oldies (originally on WMJI-HD2) focusing mostly on pop music from the 60's. Both would be nice on WMJI, though I'm not sure why iHeart limits their HD channels to just 2 per station. A 3rd HD channel shouldn't cause too much degradation in the audio. WKSU 89.7 has 4 HD channels, and they all sound great, even better than most stations that only have 2. Either they have good encoders or someone there knows how to optimally tune them.
I find it odd that there is no oldies as you described or soft hits station in Cleveland. Not even on an HD sub. I would think either one would get decent numbers.
K-Love Inc. owns the translator and does a lease deal for the WMJI sub. IMO it'd more likely that K-Love will put Radio Nueva Vida on both than reverse the agreement.
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50s/60s oldies has no salable demos. I was/am very much an exception to the rule as a teen in the 1990s who absolutely enjoyed listening to Majic and the music from that era; the big personalities, the reverb, the focused playlists and the imaging. And that was 30 years ago.
Soft AC largely got boxed out of the market because there was nowhere to put it either on iHeart or Audacy's end (and tbh, in order to actually be successful, it should be on a full-power signal and not a translator/HD sub). Rubber City wants to get a younger audience with standalone 107.3 so they weren't exactly an option, either.
Mid 30's here, and I grew up listening to WMJI throughout most of the 90s. That's what my parents listened to, and I didn't listen to [some] mainstream music until 2000. Very few people my age wouldn't even think about listening to music that old, unless a particular song was a hit or well known.
Majic had a good selection of songs back in the day. Once Clear Channel took over the station in the late 90s, I immediately noticed a shift towards mainstream hits from the 60's and 70's on a more repetitive playlist. And yes, an oldies format wouldn't attract advertisers nowadays, which is why it's mostly limited to streaming or a HD Radio sub. WMJI had Real Oldies on HD-2, then switched to 50's music before turning it off for sometime until the K-Love affiliation. While Real Oldies can still be heard on iHeart Radio, the network itself has since shifted away from what was mostly pop/dance hits of the 60s, at least when I first discovered it.
I started listening to WDOK on a regular basis in 2007, and my general knowledge of soft AC came from there. After they jumped ship from the soft AC format and moved towards a mainstream format with New/Star 102, I shifted over to WHOF, then My 101.7. Now I listen to WAKR, which has evolved a bit over the last couple of years, now being a mixed bag of soft AC hits from the 70s to the early 2000s, with the bulk of the slower/softer songs now gone.
WDOK had a playlist that I could mostly enjoy, but now it's a 50/50 mix of songs that I like and songs/artists that I can't stand, or don't even belong. WHOF, which still does soft AC under the Sunny moniker, does play some oldies from the 60s and 70s, with a few 80s thrown in as well. The problem with WHOF is that their broadcast is mostly limited to the Akron/Canton area, and for listeners like me, it has been had to receive since iHeart launched a repeater on 101.7 in the Cleveland area. It would be nice if iHeart could replace 106.5's The Lake (~80% similar to WMJI) with a format similar to WHOF, and place some sort of 60's format on an HD sub of one of their stations. It would also be nice if WAKR was simulcasted on a HD sub of WQMX, just to expand it's availability, as both their AM and FM repeater are limited in coverage.
Sorry, I meant The Breeze. Got that confused with a Sirius XM station.
Anyone with updates on 103.7 or is it still running loop
It was still running the loop yesterday afternoon when I last checked.
As of right now, I'm hearing nothing. just flat out nothing.
103.7 appears to be off the air now. Dead silence on WMJI-HD2.
they're also off too since it simulcasts 103.7.
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