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94.9 history question

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stereolane

Help me out with a history lesson... Which one of these towers was built for 94.9 after it separated from WCNW?

The tower on Mack Road, north of Forest Fair Mall

OR

The tower on Crescentville Road east of Route 4?
 
The one that's just north of 275 that has the 50-60' pole on top of it. Never knew what road it was on.
 
Thanks keys2. That's what I thought.

There can't be any "aux" facilities there, or the FM bays would still be on the pole, on top of the tower. There is at least 1 set of cell antennas up there. A new subdivision has also been developed on the rear portion of the property.

I recall there being a building at the tower on Mack Road that was big enough to house a studio, but that building isn't there anymore. Did 94.9 have studios up there at one time? If they did, it was way before my time, because I recall "Yes 95!" WYYS having studios on Kemper Road, somewhere close to where the Costco is now. Perhaps you can refresh my hazy memory on that as well. ::)
 
I remember visiting that site on Mack Road a lot with Russ Hines when I was at 94.9 The FOX.

If I rememebr correctly, Susquehanna put an AUX for 94.9 at the Warm 98 site on Channel 19's tower. Warm also has an AUX at 94.9's site on Star Tower. Each station has AUX at their main site, too. You could check the FCC site for specifics.
 
The tower on Mack Rd was built to accomadate WYYS (Yes 95). They had taken over the license from WLLV and in their attempt to take over Q102 needed the height and power.

The studios were on the corner of Winton Rd & Kemper in the Promenade shopping center.

I have the sign on air check the day they went on the air. I'll see if I can find it.
 
WLLV...forgot about those calls. It was WFOL in the 60's, the FOL being the first 3 letters of Walter Folmer's last name.
 
I liked Yes 95 back in the days of the battle between them and Q102 for the #1 CHR King in town. We know how that turned out when they flipped to 95 W-Lite. Not much I remember about WLLV wasn't it Easy Listening?
 
Yes 95 actually had two renditions before becoming WLLT. The first one was the CHR where they made a commercial with Pete Rose and seemingly ran it thousands of times. (By then, Pete was old enough that it struck me a little odd for a CHR station.)

The second iteration was a more full-service format with Jim Scott in the morning (maybe he carried over?), a Cincinnati cop doing traffic, from the ground I think, and a fair amount of news. Some of the people that worked there thought it had a lot of potential when the plug was pulled. I don't think I sampled it much during that era; also, I think they may have blown their TV budget on the first approach.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
WLLV...forgot about those calls. It was WFOL in the 60's, the FOL being the first 3 letters of Walter Folmer's last name.
Click to expand...

It seems 94.9 might be the champion of all Cincinnati radio stations for call letter change.
According to wiki......

WSWD and WYGY (2009)
WSWD (2006-2008)
WPRV and WYGY (2006)
WMOJ (1999-2006)
WVAE (1995-1999)
WOFX (1988-1995)
WLLT (1983-1988)
WYYS (1980-1983)
WLLV-FM (1975-1980)
WCNW-FM (1965-1975)
WFOL-FM (1962-1965)
 
radiorob2.0 said:
BobOnTheJob said:
WLLV...forgot about those calls. It was WFOL in the 60's, the FOL being the first 3 letters of Walter Folmer's last name.
Click to expand...

It seems 94.9 might be the champion of all Cincinnati radio stations for call letter change.
According to wiki......

WSWD and WYGY (2009)
WSWD (2006-2008)
WPRV and WYGY (2006)
WMOJ (1999-2006)
WVAE (1995-1999)
WOFX (1988-1995)
WLLT (1983-1988)
WYYS (1980-1983)
WLLV-FM (1975-1980)
WCNW-FM (1965-1975)
WFOL-FM (1962-1965)
Click to expand...
My memory isn't clear on 1965-1975...was the WCNW Country format on FM for that 10 years? Thing I recall about that station in my early days of FM DXing (late 60's) was it's notorius lack of reliability. And that there was a powerful station in Medina,OH on 94.9 that was always there when WCNW FM was off air. Thanks for the history!
 
Upon signing on in 1962, WFOL became Greater Cincinnati's first full-time stereo station. Prior to that, WPFB-FM in Middletown had only programmed music in stereo during selected hours.
 
Cool..I remember this debut. WYYS was signal testing for almost a week before going live the following monday morning. Most of jocks left town when they flipped formats.
 
I remember the Yes 95! studio / offices on Kemper Rd. Our pal E.Alvin Davis was heavily involved. ::) I still have a couple Yes 95! shirts and a coffee mug. It was indeed a fun station.

Was the house on Mack Rd at the tower site ever used as studio / offices? It was a rather large, 2-story house, as I recall.

If the tower on Mack Rd was built by Heftel for WYYS, and WFOL was not originally co-owned with WCNW, then where was WFOL's original tower?
 
Word was they were hoping WLVV would look enough like WLW when written that some of the confusion might benefit them.
 
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