Re: Rock on AM
It was 1470 WSAN, which was progressive rock during the 1970's. I believe this happened because the valley only had 5 full market FMs, WEEX 99.9 was a top 40 simulcast of 1230 AM, the rest were all MOR/beautiful music, and I guess the conservative owners didn't want to program rock, which had too uch of a counterculture image at the time. Finally WEZV 95.1 switched to rock and soon became WZZO, which remains rock today, sort of like MMR trying to walk a line between heritage and the younger audience. I think Lyn Kratz worked at both WSAN & WMMR if I remember right. The jocks were so mellow they were hard to hear their voices on AM radio, especially from the Poconos where I was at the time. Interestingly, 1470 is again running an "FM" format, having switched from standards to oldies when WODE became The Hawk a few years back, and does pretty well in the overall ratings, usually the #2 AM station just behind talk WAEB.
> Sounds like a much better version of Ben, Jack, Bob,
> whathaveyou, even though it won't last. Good signal in
> Eddystone, when they played In A Gadda Da Vida, it reminded
> me of a P.R. station in the Lehigh Valley that was on AM.
> Does anyone remember when all the Progressive Rock stations
> in the 70's were on FM, the really odd AEB area, had their
> Progressive Rocker on AM, I don't quite remember the calls
> or frequency but it was down around 1500. I only heard them
> a few times and they sounded big time FM, how did they do in
> the ratings. Hard Rock on AM in mono, now that was
> something to get excited about.
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