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WBCB ends their format

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myke25

Just saw on a Facebook post that on Friday they ended their format. It was just a matter of time after they sold the station to that conservative news publication, that they were going to blow up the music and local personalities to go with national and syndicated “information” content. Sounds like another conservative talk outlet if you ask me…

I wasn’t a fan of most of their daytime anti democratic points of view but their music variety from the 70’s through today was decent.

RIP WBCB.
 
It was a joke. I've been in this area my entire life, and I've been actively radio geeking for over three decades, yet I've never heard of WBCB.
 
Lately their music has been all over the place. They were playing everything from 1950s Oldies to 2000s Pop to 1980s Heavy Metal.

They have a translator on 107.3 FM in Levittown.
 
kevtronics said:
The format on WBCB seems to be all podcasts now, mostly talking about sports, although one program I heard consisted of two women debating whether or not they have Philly accents.
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I have been listening off and on since Monday. The station is full of rerun podcasts and audiobook airings that are also re run throughout the broadcast day. It really doesn't sound good at all...at least in the very beginning of this format change.
 
myke25 said:
Just saw on a Facebook post that on Friday they ended their format. It was just a matter of time after they sold the station to that conservative news publication, that they were going to blow up the music and local personalities to go with national and syndicated “information” content. Sounds like another conservative talk outlet if you ask me…

I wasn’t a fan of most of their daytime anti democratic points of view but their music variety from the 70’s through today was decent.

RIP WBCB.
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Since I have been sampling the new format now since Monday, I notice (just like most am's now) that the top of the hour ID now omits the "1490". Only 107.3 remains now.
 
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The conservative "think tank" now running the station doesn't know the difference between "ceded" and "seeded":
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Tracy explained the origins of Broad + Liberty. "I found Broad + Liberty in 2019 because I believed that conservatives -- intellectual conservatives -- had seeded the ground in big urban, metropolitan areas to not just classical liberals, but progressives. And that was to the detriment of the people who live there," he said. "There needed to be a platform for folks who wanted to engage in these issues to come and to write and to argue and to be heard."
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Double A said:
Wow, I've never seen an AM tower with cellular gear before! I have seen them with FM antennas.
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Wait until you see this pic of an AM tower (post #22).

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kevtronics said:
The conservative "think tank" now running the station doesn't know the difference between "ceded" and "seeded":
www.editorandpublisher.com

Behind the launch: A closer look at the Philly-area’s new Fideri News Network - Editor and Publisher

A new player has entered the Philadelphia media market with the launch of the Fideri News Network, bringing together a portfolio of suburban news sites, niche digital platforms, and local broadcast assets. The initiative aims to strengthen coverage across the region, but its debut has sparked...
www.editorandpublisher.com www.editorandpublisher.com
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They might have been writing with voice to text.
 
WBCB was in a standalone broadcast building in the one of the module sections of PA's Levittown, the second Levittown built; Long Island's was first. Almost identically, 'Fairless Hills' across New Falls Road added more houses* and became that area's equivalent of Long Island's East Meadow.
WBCB was in the module neighborhood of Magnolia Hill, where all the streets start with 'M'. I kid my wife, whose McGurrin family lived there for years, that all the people who lived there had to have last names that began with 'M'. She says they used to get WBCB on their telephone; that's how close to the tower they lived.
As far back as 1963, WBCB was 24 hours. MoR music and presentation. Up in Queens near JFK Airport they were the regular on 1490 overnight in their calm, unhurried way, emphasized [unctually with Nat King Cole songs. I remember the jock's name as something-Fitzer.
They had quite the signal. The whole area is kind of swampy, and I presumethat helped the ground system. On a drive through Philly in the average car I was able to take WBCB all down 95 until Philly's WDAS 1480 and their megaphone southeast signal raged them off the dial -- for a quarter of a mile. Past WDAS' laser signal, WBCB came in again -- all the way to the airport at theother end of the city!

* (Gotta love development, and provicialism borne of speculation. Levittown had a 24-hour 7-11, located across a busy road from ..... a 7-11 in Fairless Hills. Owned by the same guy. And at the next stoplight not a mile up the road was ...... you guessed it. But he didn't own that one.)
 
WBCB really was all over the map with their music. I listened a few weeks ago and they were playing John Denver and similar artists from the 60’s and 70’s on the morning show. The next day they were playing hard rock or heavy metal so it was a very strange mix. Hard to gain a loyal audience that way if you ask me. They were also playing reruns of the Geator in the afternoons which I thought was interesting. I know he was on the station when he was alive but I’m not sure if his estate was paying for that time most recently or if WBCB just ran it because they had nothing else scheduled.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
WBCB was in a standalone broadcast building in the one of the module sections of PA's Levittown, the second Levittown built; Long Island's was first.
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Sidebar:

"There are three primary, iconic Levittown communities in the United States built by Levitt & Sons after World War II: the original in Long Island, New York (1947), followed by Levittown, Pennsylvania (1952), and Levittown (Willingboro), New Jersey (1958). Other smaller projects were built, including in Puerto Rico" Google IE

The Puerto Rico Levittown eventually grew, although it is not a separate municipality. It's 2020 population is over 20,000. It's the largest planned community built on the Island, and is in the San Juan metro area. It has an FM, WLUZ on 88.5.
 


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