You cannot get AM 1110 at your location? At most it’s just three short tunes, kinda smooth jazzy. The short redirect announcements to 107.9 just play over the music at 20-30 sec intervals.
It’s been this way since Midnight as reported elsewhere. It’s STILL “WBT” as a station ID has been airing at the top of each hour so far today. Hopefully the callsign will stay put regardless of the new format.
I should have tried to listen. I thought about doing it online but I have other music I want to listen to.
I had thought at first that flipping 1110 to nationwide conservative talk radio (Hannity, Beck et al) would make sense, but now that you mention it, that would have the effect of cannibalizing the existing lineup on WBT-FM 107.9, and as successful as those shows have been up to now, they would be bound to lose listeners in favor of the national shows. You can't listen to two stations at the same time.
When you have two similar formatted stations in the same cluster, they are not competing against each other. They flank together to reach the maximum targeted audience for that demographic. Spot sales are sold as a combo for the two.
And, as mentioned in another thread, it can be hoped that the revision of FCC rules will eliminate ID requirements.
Yes, they include the station's address, phone number, web address in the ID.. it's crazy.
And that is in a country where, except for a few heritage AM stations, call letters are not part of a station identity-
You're right, I didn't think of it that way.
That'd be nice. As I said before and got in a hurry doing so, so my mind ran faster than my fingers LOL, I grew up with Hello Henry, first hearing him back when the old 'BIG at 1470 in Greensboro ran him, then when they took him off there (Never found out why, as an elementary school kid), listened to him on 'BT, even calling him several times from the Greensboro and Shelby metros, during the kids monthly hour. Wow, sorry for the run-on sentence. I used to stay up late on Friday nights, since I didn't have school the next day and especially enjoyed his OTR features. He played Sorry, Wrong Number from Suspense, every October 31. From time to time, he'd play an Amos 'N Andy show and an Arthur Smith and his Crackerjacks show, only heard him talk about playing the latter, but for some reason, didn't hear them 'til some years later, but I'm really rambling now LOL.
Good point.
