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It had been touched on in late 2025 in the thread below. The 100.5 translator for Rumba is now being fed by WRFY-HD3
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WLAN-AM Gone?
I'm not in the listening area of the WLAN-AM signal, but it has disappeared from Radio-Locator. I also noticed that Rumba 100.5 can be heard on WRFY-HD3. Since the government is shut down, I'm not sure if anything has been updated on the FCC website to verify...
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WLAN went dark on May 27th, 2025 due to losing their transmitter site lease. They filed a silent STA and extension, but gave no indication they were looking for a new transmitter site.
They were co-located with 1490 WRKY (ex-WLPA), which has a CP for a new transmitter site and COL, now 100 watts less and farther away from Lancaster, but if the FM translator is still in town, I guess that's all that matters.
They were co-located with 1490 WRKY (ex-WLPA), which has a CP for a new transmitter site and COL, now 100 watts less and farther away from Lancaster, but if the FM translator is still in town, I guess that's all that matters.
Wild that WLAN is gone, but WVZN is still with us. 1580 was almost done for a few times.
In its heyday per the ARSA surveys, WLAN was quite the top-40 station. While @davideduardo and others may scoff at it, I still enjoy looking at the station's top 60 playlists from the past (including through the early 1970s) now. RIP WLAN!
Recall mid-80s when 1580 actually carried a news-talk format with callsign WNZT.
When have I "scoffed" at viewing the ARSA music surveys? Those charts, more often than not totally unrelated to actual sales or statistical data, give a good reflection on the flavor of each Top 40 station back in the day.
Yup, the station was the first to carry Rush Limbaugh in central PA. They maintained affiliation even after larger stations picked him up nearby. Here’s an old thread on some wild stories of the ‘NZ-T days.
AM 1580 Columbia
Whatever happened to the little AM 1580 station from Columbia, PA? I don't live in the area anymore but I believe its long gone. I remember they used to be a talk format and carried Rush Limbaugh, even though WSBA-AM was also carrying Rush, which didn't make sense why he'd be syndicated on two...
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As far as I'm concerned, those ARSA surveys are an invaluable resource for station history. Those surveys are a link to how those stations were put together, and they were the link between the listeners and the jocks, as well as the music.
We, The Young Skulls Full Of Mush didn't care about sales or how they put the surveys together. We didn't have to. We listened because we liked both the music and the personalities that the station aired. The days of "real" (read: live and local) disk jockeys are pretty much over for the most part, and have been for decades (there are exceptions), but it is interesting to take a look back in time, if only for a nostalgia trip. ReelRadio was another one like that. I have no idea if they're still around because I had to drop them years ago when they were stuck on already-obsolete RealPlayer.
Well stated.
As far back as 1965 I did a chart and a Sunday chart show on Radio Musical "Canal 67" in Quito. Since 95% of the music we played was not available at retail in Ecuador, we put the list together based on my Operations Manager and my criteria.
We paid some attention to requests. We paid more attention to how we wanted the station to sound... the mix of songs of different types and different languages. And we wanted to keep the station fresh, but not unfamiliar. So we moved tunes around to create a list that sounded good every Sunday afternoon.
Was it a correct list? Yes, because it reflected our program philosophy. Out of over 40 fulltime radio stations, in upper income we were #1 by a huge margin. One of the night hours had a 98 share! So the list was exactly what the station was supposed to sound like.
Looking at the ARSA charts you can see how a station sounded. For sales, there was Billboard and its friends like Cash Box and Record World... but the station charts really are a "finger on the pulse" of each station.
I'm long out of radio as a living. It's retirement and home renewal nowadays, still with cherished radio as a hobby. And during the changeover in careers I've had second thoughts about being on the same message boards as people like David E -- let alone follow one of his POSTS. But something he alluded to on this thread, plus the Joe Reilly WJMW thread, caught my eye.
My Folks were musically inclined (Mom's uncle had a big band ensemble in Elmhurst Queens and Dad wanted to be a hoofer like Jimmy Cagney). Even as a kid I got to form an appreciation -- an affection -- for the older music as well as keeping my attraction to the Beach Boys, Brill Building, UK Invasion. I was an oddball who went through the Radio Broadcast School course in Manhattan playing exclusively Beautiful Music and got my first full-time job at a station doing just that.
The appreciation for, and the seeking OF, musical hooks from musical genres of every generation wound up getting me Music Director work at A/C, Oldies, and even AoR stations. Most recently it was at a Standards LPFM station.
Anyhow, reading about David's Quito station and its unique approach to a musical palette was quite welcomed. It's tragic that, today, only-games-in-town owned by clusters consider genuine cheerypicking of hooks anathemic to their own agenda, positioning and uniqueness. And these are MUSIC stations -- the very *product* they are offering. It's puzzling; so many decades of melody, hooks, and gems -- many of which crossed over effectively to other genres -- are available. Yet, it's evident that eroding broadcast radio is washing its hands of any pioneering involving the very product that made its very existence unique.
My Folks were musically inclined (Mom's uncle had a big band ensemble in Elmhurst Queens and Dad wanted to be a hoofer like Jimmy Cagney). Even as a kid I got to form an appreciation -- an affection -- for the older music as well as keeping my attraction to the Beach Boys, Brill Building, UK Invasion. I was an oddball who went through the Radio Broadcast School course in Manhattan playing exclusively Beautiful Music and got my first full-time job at a station doing just that.
The appreciation for, and the seeking OF, musical hooks from musical genres of every generation wound up getting me Music Director work at A/C, Oldies, and even AoR stations. Most recently it was at a Standards LPFM station.
Anyhow, reading about David's Quito station and its unique approach to a musical palette was quite welcomed. It's tragic that, today, only-games-in-town owned by clusters consider genuine cheerypicking of hooks anathemic to their own agenda, positioning and uniqueness. And these are MUSIC stations -- the very *product* they are offering. It's puzzling; so many decades of melody, hooks, and gems -- many of which crossed over effectively to other genres -- are available. Yet, it's evident that eroding broadcast radio is washing its hands of any pioneering involving the very product that made its very existence unique.