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1110 New Format

KilowattKat said:
Do you know, or have you asked about the different schedules of programs on their website?
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Now that's a good question. Inquiring minds want to know. Off-topic, the only place I ever heard that last statement, was on an old spot for Fast Photo in Greensboro, NC, probably back in the '80s and '90s.
 
IM42A said:
It would be nationally syndicated conservative talk, not local origination such as already exists on WBT-FM. It would be not so much a replacement as a brand extension.
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Yep, just like Audacy is doing down here in Greenville with its autopilot AM signals (1330/950) and HD. Local and some syndicated talk on WYRD-FM, syndicated Premiere programming on 98.9-HD2 and 1330/950. Not sure why some are acting like this is unprecedented.
 
It's not unprecedented. It actually makes sense. BUT it they were going to do that there is ZERO reason to run a month long and more redirect loop on the AM. Again none of us know, but I'm sticking with my prediction of urban talk. It's about to get real up in here. Not what I'd do, but I don't run R1. My earlier musing about a WDIA format actually sounds pretty good to me.
Whatever they do I wish they'd hurry up and do it. I don't want this to turn into an April Fools joke.
 
This stunt may last longer than the WJMP Kent, OH "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" stunt during the 1994 MLB strike.
 
amos1001 said:
It's not unprecedented. It actually makes sense. BUT it they were going to do that there is ZERO reason to run a month long and more redirect loop on the AM. Again none of us know, but I'm sticking with my prediction of urban talk. It's about to get real up in here. Not what I'd do, but I don't run R1. My earlier musing about a WDIA format actually sounds pretty good to me.
Whatever they do I wish they'd hurry up and do it. I don't want this to turn into an April Fools joke
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If R1 has no idea what to do at this point, then it's time for a filler format. Play a small library of Oldies tunes non stop with only a legal ID. That's what everyone else does.
 
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101tm said:
Yep, just like Audacy is doing down here in Greenville with its autopilot AM signals (1330/950) and HD. Local and some syndicated talk on WYRD-FM, syndicated Premiere programming on 98.9-HD2 and 1330/950. Not sure why some are acting like this is unprecedented.
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Wait, 1330 is owned by Audacy (sp) now? Is it still 'CKI? Marshall Pack was a good man with a good voice.
 
amos1001 said:
It's not unprecedented. It actually makes sense. BUT it they were going to do that there is ZERO reason to run a month long and more redirect loop on the AM. Again none of us know, but I'm sticking with my prediction of urban talk. It's about to get real up in here. Not what I'd do, but I don't run R1. My earlier musing about a WDIA format actually sounds pretty good to me.
Whatever they do I wish they'd hurry up and do it. I don't want this to turn into an April Fools joke.
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Re: April fools joke, in the words of an old friend who's done passed on, ya got that right twice...
 
KilowattKat said:
If R1 has no idea what to do at this point, then it's time for a filler format Play a small library of Oldies tunes non stop with only a legal ID. That's what everyone else does.
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Speaking of Oldies and that's what everyone else does, I remember, back in the early '90s (wish I could remember the actual date, but I do remember it was on a Saturday, maybe back in '90), I was tuning across the AM band and came across Oldies on 830. Come to find out, it was WWMO, doing test broadcasts from Eden. Apparently, Oldies was Chuck Stone's favorite type of music and reckon since he was the owner of the station, he picked it to play during tests LOL. They came on shortly thereafter, migrating over from 1130 with Southern Gospel, with a little Urban Gospel thrown in for a while on Sunday nights for a while. Not sure how long the latter lasted, but not too long, because local churches bought the time for live Sunday night services.
 
Josh Owens said:
Wait, 1330 is owned by Audacy (sp) now? Is it still 'CKI? Marshall Pack was a good man with a good voice.
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1330 in Greenville, SC was never WCKI to my recollection, it was WFBC (AM) and added as a simulcast of WYRD (AM) in the early 90s as the market’s news talker. The WORD brand got an FM simulcast on 106.3 in 2008 (now 98.9 since 2023), and the AM’s eventually flipped to sports around 2016 after lingering along for almost a decade. Last year, since the AM’s were just feeding the FM translators for the sports talk format, Audacy launched “Upstate Red” with almost the entire Premiere slate on 1330/950 and 98.9 HD2 as a companion brand to WORD (WYRD-FM).

Audacy has owned 1330/950 going back to Entercom, and even Sinclair before that I believe.
 
Josh Owens said:
I don't know of any redirect loops that have run this long. I remember some stunts back in the day, namely the one from 'MO to 'BIG on 102.1 and context therewith and the one from 'BIG to 'JM<H, same song for several days, with announcements thrown in every few minutes about 102 Jams, but none this long. Wow, that sentence was about as long as this stunt, sorry.
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"Jam on It' by Newcleus.
 
101tm said:
1330 in Greenville, SC was never WCKI to my recollection, it was WFBC (AM) and added as a simulcast of WYRD (AM) in the early 90s as the market’s news talker. The WORD brand got an FM simulcast on 106.3 in 2008 (now 98.9 since 2023), and the AM’s eventually flipped to sports around 2016 after lingering along for almost a decade. Last year, since the AM’s were just feeding the FM translators for the sports talk format, Audacy launched “Upstate Red” with almost the entire Premiere slate on 1330/950 and 98.9 HD2 as a companion brand to WORD (WYRD-FM).

Audacy has owned 1330/950 going back to Entercom, and even Sinclair before that I believe.
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Thanks for the clarification and history. Sorry, my lisdexia kicked in, I got it confused with 1300 in Greer.
 
You don't want to know what that song sounds like to my ears. It might be one of the songs Chimp and I agree on.
 
amos1001 said:
Whatever they do I wish they'd hurry up and do it. I don't want this to turn into an April Fools joke.
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Josh Owens said:
Re: April fools joke, in the words of an old friend who's done passed on, ya got that right twice...
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THAT'S IT!!!

The new 1110 format will be unveiled on Wednesday, April 1!

😜

(Or if not, maybe on Tuesday, November 10 ...)
 


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