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- Thread starter jb_ky
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I would have put Fox Sports radio on 1580 and transferred Tom Leach and Matt Jones over from WLAP.
Sad to hear the longtime R&B/Funk format is gone...WGVN was one of my very favorite stations iin the region with its music.
jb_ky said:
Maybe put Matt Walsh 9a-noon and dump Leach?
The King Bee said:
Agreed, loved the music mix. Plus on a decent AM radio their audio was fantastic.
radiorob2.0 said:
Their IHeart stream sounded great too. It was a pretty good music mix. Most comparable station would likely be WDAS in Philly.
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chrisalcorn
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Why why why??? Lexington radio is already full of holes that no one cares about. No good rock station. Then you got 94.5, 106.3 which are both lame. You got 103.3 that cant decide if its gonna be classic rock or new rock. Then you have 107.9 and 103.9 which cant make it past Camp Nelson hill!!! I say make it all country like the TWO blowtorch fms and be done with it!! Way to go CHEAP CHANNEL!! Take away a niche format off of a good signal and replace it with comedy!!! The jokes on them if they think this will ever work!!
Have pessed through Lexington several times from my Louisville base en route to jobs, and I do sorely miss the Classic R&B/Funk on the former WGVN-AM 1580.
The replacement Comedy format is a heavily-censored non-starter for me, who grew up in the Second Golden Age (1970-85 w/Cheech-Chong, Pryor, Carlin, Murphy, etc.) of spoken word comedy recordings. I don't even hear enough of the First Golden Age (Freberg/Butler, Newhart, Woodbury, Warren, etc.) when I drive through The Lex.
Note to CC: bring back the FUNK and Tom Joyner! With the old format, I had people asking how to null out a Louisvillle local 1570 KHz station so they could catch WGVN 1580 daytimes...if you brought the Classic R&B/Funk/Soul into Louisville, you'd truly cause a storm!
The replacement Comedy format is a heavily-censored non-starter for me, who grew up in the Second Golden Age (1970-85 w/Cheech-Chong, Pryor, Carlin, Murphy, etc.) of spoken word comedy recordings. I don't even hear enough of the First Golden Age (Freberg/Butler, Newhart, Woodbury, Warren, etc.) when I drive through The Lex.
Note to CC: bring back the FUNK and Tom Joyner! With the old format, I had people asking how to null out a Louisvillle local 1570 KHz station so they could catch WGVN 1580 daytimes...if you brought the Classic R&B/Funk/Soul into Louisville, you'd truly cause a storm!
For those who messaged me and didn't recognize the First Golden Age comics, they are:
Stan Freberg (still with us in his late 80s) and Charles Dawson ("Daws") Butler, second only to Mel Blanc among radio and TV voice actors; Bob Newhart of 3 EMMY-award winning TV shows under his own name; Woody Woodbury, the Cincinnati-based comic and earilest "risque" recording star; and Rusty Warren, the classic female burlesque comic (the "Knockers Up!" record series).
Stan Freberg (still with us in his late 80s) and Charles Dawson ("Daws") Butler, second only to Mel Blanc among radio and TV voice actors; Bob Newhart of 3 EMMY-award winning TV shows under his own name; Woody Woodbury, the Cincinnati-based comic and earilest "risque" recording star; and Rusty Warren, the classic female burlesque comic (the "Knockers Up!" record series).
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