K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
I'll make a note to confer with you if anyone ever asks me to develop The Seventies Channel™ for their station. 😉
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FM Frequencies As a Function of Programming/Format
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I'll make a note to confer with you if anyone ever asks me to develop The Seventies Channel™ for their station. 😉
With all the discussion of TM's Stereo Rock, I might mention that I just added the 1988 operations manual published by D/C for that format. It is at:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/A...S/Drake-Chenault-Sterero-Rock-1988-Manual.pdf
There have been past posts about this being called Rock in Stereo but all the D/C stuff I have calls it Stereo Rock.
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/A...S/Drake-Chenault-Sterero-Rock-1988-Manual.pdf
There have been past posts about this being called Rock in Stereo but all the D/C stuff I have calls it Stereo Rock.
WLML in the Palm Beach, FL market is one of the few true standards stations that is also commercial.
But based on some of the events they advertise, you'd think it was classic rock. The music played in those spots doesn't sound a thing like any of the music they play between the commercials. Even America's Best Music, which has larger gotten away from the standards WLML plays, has some softer tunes that might get played on the more conservative classic rock stations.
A lot of this has to do with the original owner: Robert Conrad. He took the big bucks for the 95.5 frequency.
95.5 WCLV moves to 104.9 - Format Change Archive
What may go down in history as the most complex programming swap took place in Cleveland at the stroke of midnight on July 3, 2001. Triggered by a three way ownership swap involving Radio Seaway, Salem Communications, and Clear Channel the changes went down as follows: 1420 WHK Cleveland and...
formatchangearchive.com
And then later recognized the inevitable by donating it to non-profit Ideastream.
A Note From Robert Conrad | Ideastream Public Media
ideastream.planmygift.org
I was far less into radio back then and not even a ham yet but if I recall 95.5 became The Fish and 104.9 was basically unlistenable in Lake County where we lived due to WKKY 104.7 which actually covers the Mentor area quite well.
An earlier poster mentioned that quite often the heritage classical station moved from great dial position and signal to something of a lesser situation. That happened in NYC and Boston. The thing that saved the station in Cleveland was moving to non-commercial as part of the arrangement that created Ideastream, with the news moving to WKSU and the classical on 90.0. That dial position was once WBOE, owned by the Cleveland Board of Education.
Slight nitpick. WMRY was owned by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, an order of Catholic priests and brothers. They still operate the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, where the studios were located.
Here's an old newspaper article about the station.
All allong the deal was based on sustaining the format "forever" since WCLV had reached the point of not being very profitable. The sale insured that Cleveland would have classical well after the demise of commercial WCLV.
I got to know Conrad some time ago when I owned a classical station in Ecuador. On visits to Cleveland I would drop by WCLV and try to learn something about how to make such a format succeed. Conrad's point was that I had to be in it for "the art" and if I did that well, the revenue would follow.
Wasn't there a format (from ABC, AFAIK) called "Rock'n'stereo" that ran in the seventies and into the early eighties? If it is what I remember, it was a weird mix of Top 40 songs (played as the 45 edits) and album cuts.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channelâ„¢
That was created by programming legend Lee Abrams and is considered to be the first "album oriented rock" format which supplanted the early progressive rock formats. It was essentially the early version of the "Superstars" format Abrams created later in his career with his business partner Kent Burkhart. (You may have read at some point about their consulting company, called -- logically -- Burkhart/Abrams.).
"Rock'n Stereo" replaced the automated "Love" format that ran on ABC's FM stations when they were still using their AM's calls with the "-FM" suffix (which sets the creation of "Rock'n Stereo" at 1971), voiced by the late "Brother" John Rydgren. Hard to believe it's been over 35 years since his passing.
Thank you for posting that manual, because it is interesting to see that and compare it with my memories of the station that I could receive that carried this format in the late 80s (KDSQ 101.7 Denison/Sherman, TX).
For those who remember the TM Stereo Rock format in its heyday in the late 70s and early 80s, it had changed significantly by the late 80s. In addition to being offered through Drake-Chenault instead of TM Productions, they had also dropped the practice of playing current songs in back-announced pairs in the mid-80s.