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WPLM 1390 no longer simulcasting Easy 99.1

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spt87

WPLM-AM appears to be doing old time radio shows full time now along with mixing in a local public affairs show.

Over the last couple of weeks I've heard:

The Bob Hope Show
CBS Mystery Theater
South Shore Today
Snippets of other old time radio shows I didn't identify

Have not heard any spots just some PSAs around the top of the hour. There are old commercials embedded in some of the programs.

Its been an interesting diversion from some of the stuff I normally listen to.
 
WCAP (Lowell) is doing that too, from like 2-5 AM. One show is called "Hollywood 360". The other is "When Radio Was." I think Hollywood 360 is a 5-hour pod-cast that they break up for air use. "When radio was" is the same program that plays on Sirius/XM at Noon eastern. I really like the old broadcasts, and wish someone would air them at a time I can listen.
 
aerie said:
WCAP (Lowell) is doing that too, from like 2-5 AM. One show is called "Hollywood 360". The other is "When Radio Was." I think Hollywood 360 is a 5-hour pod-cast that they break up for air use. "When radio was" is the same program that plays on Sirius/XM at Noon eastern. I really like the old broadcasts, and wish someone would air them at a time I can listen.
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I dont think WRW is a hugely commercially viable thing.. i put it on an AM because i wanted something besides just satellite fed music but i dont think we ever sold anything on it. WRW is just too old sounding
 
Drove by Plymouth on Rte. 3 around midnight on a weeknight a few months ago, and heard a recorded local public affairs show.

I don't know what they're running for night power on 1390, but it could only be heard a few miles from the towers. By just about five miles north in Duxbury, it was "in the mud" with several distant skywave 1390's in a jumble.
 
spt87 said:
WPLM-AM appears to be doing old time radio shows full time now along with mixing in a local public affairs show.

Over the last couple of weeks I've heard:

The Bob Hope Show
CBS Mystery Theater
South Shore Today
Snippets of other old time radio shows I didn't identify

Have not heard any spots just some PSAs around the top of the hour. There are old commercials embedded in some of the programs.

Its been an interesting diversion from some of the stuff I normally listen to.
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To make it more interesting, they could air the shows, 'Seems Like Old Times', and 'Cruisin' The Decades', in which they play a song from each decade over the last 100 years.

Surprised they are airing CBS Radio Mystery Theater. I didn't think it was available for syndication.
 
Cruisin the Decades sounds interesting. Reminds me of XM pre Sirius running "It" I think was called. Countdown of the greatest hits of all time starting on the 40's on 4 and rolling through all the decades channels over a period of a few weeks.

Off topic but Sirius has kept eliminating the idea of decades channels and while they still have the content have moved channels out of sequence breaking that up. I think there are just 70's on 7, 80's on 8 and 90's on 9 left. That was one of the cooler things they had going. Made it easy to find a genre of songs vs now where I have no idea what the channel number is for the 60's Gold format.
 
Cruisin The Decades was originally an Akron, OH only show on 91.3 The Summit WAPS. One day, Brad saw a post of mine on Facebook saying a live KSKO show was being simulcast on WRMI Shortwave, he had no idea you could do that and I put him in touch with WRMI's owner to buy some airtime for the show. A few weeks into that I asked him what the show was about, as I wasn't quite clear on it yet.

I told him we'd start carrying it on KSKO. And now the show is on like 60 some odd stations worldwide including AFN/AFRTS. Brad says that KSKO asking to pick it up as the first affiliate is what spurred him on into self syndicating it.

It is legitimately a fun, non pedantic, non minutia type show... he makes it fun and like appointment listening. One of the only people I know who can match my enthusiasm level for radio.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
Cruisin The Decades was originally an Akron, OH only show on 91.3 The Summit WAPS. One day, Brad saw a post of mine on Facebook saying a live KSKO show was being simulcast on WRMI Shortwave, he had no idea you could do that and I put him in touch with WRMI's owner to buy some airtime for the show. A few weeks into that I asked him what the show was about, as I wasn't quite clear on it yet.

I told him we'd start carrying it on KSKO. And now the show is on like 60 some odd stations worldwide including AFN/AFRTS. Brad says that KSKO asking to pick it up as the first affiliate is what spurred him on into self syndicating it.

It is legitimately a fun, non pedantic, non minutia type show... he makes it fun and like appointment listening. One of the only people I know who can match my enthusiasm level for radio.
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The first song is usually from as early as 1910. He includes a few extras, usually as a tribute to any music artist that passed the previous week. It's a fun listen, and the selected songs are not usually the superhits you might expect. Even Sean Ross has written about it, which is how I discovered it.

Does KSKO still air a short half hour version of a Standards music show? I can't remember the name of it.
 
KilowattKat said:
The first song is usually from as early as 1910. He includes a few extras, usually as a tribute to any music artist that passed the previous week. It's a fun listen, and the selected songs are not usually the superhits you might expect. Even Sean Ross has written about it, which is how I discovered it.

Does KSKO still air a short half hour version of a Standards music show? I can't remember the name of it.
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CTD is a great show....... and ive had multiple people ask why im on the air on the weekends. multiple community members think brad and i sound scarily alike... as does brad and a few mutual radio friends. same tone, same inflection etc

Swinging down the lane/line? is that the show youre thinking of?
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
CTD is a great show....... and ive had multiple people ask why im on the air on the weekends. multiple community members think brad and i sound scarily alike... as does brad and a few mutual radio friends. same tone, same inflection etc

Swinging down the lane/line? is that the show youre thinking of?
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Yes that's the one. Where does it originate from, and do you have listeners to Standards in McGrath?
 
KilowattKat said:
Yes that's the one. Where does it originate from, and do you have listeners to Standards in McGrath?
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It originates in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Do we have listeners? Maybe.

Will we keep it moving forward? I dont know, it isnt free.
 


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