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I often wonder if they have an engineer that knows how to program a station. For as long as I can remember the audio has always sounded incredibly terrible and have often wondered what their set up is like.
That being said, any takers on the best sounding station in the Knoxville market?
 
15Q was a station in Knoxville back in the late 1970s. It was a very good station but on a very poor under-powered AM frequency (1490).
Because it was so small (1000 watts day / 250 watts night) and on AM, it really never had a chance against WNOX (990 AM / 10,000 watts) and WRJZ (620 AM / 5000 watts). But it was surely a hot little station with some AMAZING talent for its short life. Some included Rockin' Ron Baptist, Tom Dooley, Gary Adkins, Alan Sneed, Steve West, Chuck "Boo Boo" Barron, Eddie "Swangin' Deacon" Beacon, Bill "Suitcase Simpson", Bill "Birdman" Thomas and many more. Without a doubt, 15Q was the best top-40 station in Knoxville's history. Certainly the best station with the best group of people that I ever worked for.
Because you're "knoxradiodude" I figured you would have known all about it.
 
amos1001 said:
15Q was a station in Knoxville back in the late 1970s. It was a very good station but on a very poor under-powered AM frequency (1490).
Because it was so small (1000 watts day / 250 watts night) and on AM, it really never had a chance against WNOX (990 AM / 10,000 watts) and WRJZ (620 AM / 5000 watts). But it was surely a hot little station with some AMAZING talent for its short life. Some included Rockin' Ron Baptist, Tom Dooley, Gary Adkins, Alan Sneed, Steve West, Chuck "Boo Boo" Barron, Eddie "Swangin' Deacon" Beacon, Bill "Suitcase Simpson", Bill "Birdman" Thomas and many more. Without a doubt, 15Q was the best top-40 station in Knoxville's history. Certainly the best station with the best group of people that I ever worked for.
Because you're "knoxradiodude" I figured you would have known all about it.
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Hey man, I don't know it all!
 
amos1001 said:
15Q was a station in Knoxville back in the late 1970s. It was a very good station but on a very poor under-powered AM frequency (1490).
Because it was so small (1000 watts day / 250 watts night) and on AM, it really never had a chance against WNOX (990 AM / 10,000 watts) and WRJZ (620 AM / 5000 watts). But it was surely a hot little station with some AMAZING talent for its short life. Some included Rockin' Ron Baptist, Tom Dooley, Gary Adkins, Alan Sneed, Steve West, Chuck "Boo Boo" Barron, Eddie "Swangin' Deacon" Beacon, Bill "Suitcase Simpson", Bill "Birdman" Thomas and many more. Without a doubt, 15Q was the best top-40 station in Knoxville's history. Certainly the best station with the best group of people that I ever worked for.
Because you're "knoxradiodude" I figured you would have known all about it.
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Ah, that's WITA or it was, last time I heard it. IMHO, the best-sounding Knoxville station in my book, WKXV. Haven't heard them in a while, but they always had a full sound and got out really well. When I heard them in those days as well, seemed to always have a lot of local programming and always local DJs to boot.
 
Since my comment about 'KXV, I've tuned them in online, some and I'd say, for the most part, my declaration still stands. I'm glad to see some preachers still doing their programs live from the studio and even some from their churches and via actual landline, nonetheless! Only problem I've heard with that thus far, the first one I heard last evening doing that, they kept dropping the call and even though, after they reconnected for good, the preacher, who wasn't overmodulating to my ears, the phone, line, board or whatever, kept clipping. Dunno, but anyhow, still good overall. Oh I did hear one feller do his broadcast over his cellphone and from another state on Memorial Day Vacation and what I heard of that, was disastrous, IMHO. They have a Program Log of sorts and other than a few clerical errors I've noticed while listening, reckon it's pretty accurate.
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Just in case anybody might remember. I wish I had kept a picture of the Red 1976 AMC Pacer-X with that logo on the doors.
It looked like this. Imagine the logo on the door.

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