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1450 WSPB DAYS

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Hey Guys:

I am trying to find out when 1450 WSPB was playing music back in the days they were listed as MOR. What type of MOR are we talking about? Was it more pop AC or more standards type? I know I saw on one listing it says "Adult Middle of the Road".

Thanks
T.J.
 
t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

I am trying to find out when 1450 WSPB was playing music back in the days they were listed as MOR. What type of MOR are we talking about? Was it more pop AC or more standards type? I know I saw on one listing it says "Adult Middle of the Road".

Thanks
T.J.
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[color=navyGreetings, Tj!

In the mid to late 1960's, WSPB's format was adult standards (which is why I didn't listen! :) ) The pop/top 40 stations were WKXY , WYND (a daytimer at 1280) and of course, WLCY put out a good signal day and night in the Bradenton and north Sarasota area.

I also remember that WSPB was a CBS affiliate.

WKXY 930 is now WLSS, talk radio by Salem radio corp.

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t.j. said:
Hey Guys:

I am trying to find out when 1450 WSPB was playing music back in the days they were listed as MOR. What type of MOR are we talking about? Was it more pop AC or more standards type? I know I saw on one listing it says "Adult Middle of the Road".

Thanks
T.J.
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MOR is mainly what Mainstream AC is today. Today it would be adult friendly songs from the '70s through today... roughly about 30-40 years of music... So if you put that back in WSPB's MOR days in the '70s, they played 30-some years of adult-friendly hits. So yes, some of that would be considered "standards" by today's standards (no pun intended!) but yet still played the AC hits of the day (Carpenters, Bread, Manilow, etc...)
 
WSPB also was doing some talk around the music in those days, Peter Jahns did a talk show or talked a
lot during his music show, can't remember exactly. WSPB was the heritage station in that market, went
to oldies in late 80's, changed calls to WSRZ AM, then went back to WSPB and when Dick Harris bought
it in the early 90's changed format to classical.
 
I was there in the early 70's. Bob Chambers was the PD. It was mostly Frank Sinatra type music, some big bands. They ran two hours of classical music every night at 9, then an hour of strings or stuff to put you to sleep at 11. Of course they signed off at 12. Arch Howell was on at nights. It was CBS. They had a great big studio with a grand piano and a tremendous record library. It was a great place to work.
 
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