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103.9 Flipping To "Columbus Newsradio"

cbussteeler said:
As I type this message, the Clippers are on 920 AM, while news programming continues on 103.9 FM.

Ok, I was listening online. I was guessing they'd simulcast 24/7 instead of breaking away for sports on AM and news on FM.
 
DToTheJ said:
Yesterday, I was reading WMNI's new Facebook page (just 10 likers after its first half-day on the air - not good?) and someone posted that 103.9 was still running "Classic Hits 103.9" liners after 8 AM...

That was me.
 
The Columbus Dispatch published this in it's Letters To The Editors yesterday.. I believe the editors allow letters to be posted in full here.

This letter appears to be over three months late..

What is the 'Greatest Generation' anyway?

Most cites as big as Columbus don't have a standards based radio format anymore... I believe this is a correct guess on my part.

Here is that letter:

"Radio station tuned out music, audience"
Columbus Dispatch, The (OH) - Friday, September 28, 2012

Why, in a city as big as Columbus, can't we have a radio station that plays music for the Greatest Generation? The only station we had -- WMNI (920 AM) -- went to news 24/7.

People can listen to just so much news and sports. Please give us good music.

L.E. SAYLOR
Reynoldsburg
 
I'm 38 and I enjoy Standards. I know my dad is annoyed that he doesn't have at least one station in Columbus to listen to anymore. All I can say is thank God I have Sirius.
 
I like a number of what would be considered "standards" that they used to play on WMNI, but every time I happened to hit on the station the past several years it all sounded so lifeless and stale, and at times they were pulling songs out of their backside and calling them "standards".

I remember when WCOL was playing "The Music of Your Life" format, very similar to what WMNI had for a long time. At least they had local record spinners at 'COL at the time. I knew the format was doomed when I heard Joe Cunningham say, "Here's Michael!" (Jackson). I figured it was someone's attempt to prove no one was listening any longer, as it was certainly a departure from everything else they were playing.

I actually called the studio, the phone ringing for several minutes before I hung up.
 
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