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96.7 news?

Now that's good news even if it's still too early to go all Christmas. If someone wants to listen to sounds of the season they can tune into a sharp well run station with real personalities(B95) rather than Jamie only(TRY). After what they pulled with John G maybe 98.3 can hire Ebenezer Scrooge to fill in.
 
Another station that's known for the longevity of the on air staff.
 
One would hope that Crawford would keep the Legends format on 96.7 through New Year's Day now that TRY has gone All Christmas. Since the vast majority of adults (female & male) don't want to hear All Christmas until the week of December 20th, it would provide a good cume-building opp for 96.7 and whatever format launch they're planning next. The reason that All-Christmas stations show up well in Arbitron is because retailers like to play those stations in their stores and diary respondents "hear" & report it not because listeners actually want it.
 
WPTR/WDCD have been in the Crawford family for over 15 years, and they're still mortgaged??

Take my word for it - when the bank starts calling the business shots, it's already over. These stations will be sold by this time next year and the biggest waste of 50kw man has ever known will finally come to an end.

I sense Chartock is already drooling at this news. Time for a fund drive! LOL
 
WPTR-FM has changed calls to WDCD-FM as of today (caught a top-hour ID saying "WDCD-FM, Clifton Park")... the flip will be at 6:00 PM today...
 
The switch has been made and it makes sense for Crawford,1540 AM simulcasting 96.7. The question is can the shows that have paid to be on 1540 support the cost of keeping 96.7 on the air? Maybe Crawford is just doing this till they can sell the FM.
 
Last song as "Legends" was "Thanks for the Memory" by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross... after the song was over, the switch was flipped and it's a simulcast of AM 1540...
 
Like I said, if you missed the oldies on WPTR-FM's "Legends 96.7" this past weekend, I recommend WROW's "Magic 590" which is good, and then WHUC in Hudson at 1230 AM which is also good, but it's got some sort of oldies thrown in, WCKL which they playing oldies and all sorts at 560 AM which is "Family 560" and finally, WGNY's "Fox Oldies" which is 98.9 on the FM dial. As I said, "Fox Oldies" didn't have a good signal if you are in Albany.
 
What's a real shame is we could lose the heritage calls WPTR to another market like happened years ago to WOKO. Is there another station in this market who might take the WPTR calls? WMVI in Mechanicville rescued the WABY calls from it's original 1400 home.
 
It's a shame what happened to WPTR 96.7, especially after I used to enjoy the AM at night on LI when it was doing oldies standards. WTRY is a shell now as well, over consulted, John Gabriel out.

About the only thing left is WCKM up north. I remember hearing CKM back in 1995 during a trip up to Tupper Lake and was surprised to hear them a month ago still very much in the format. Huge playlist on a Saturday afternoon with stuff I hadn't heard in a long time. Guy on the air was great, Chip Ordway. Sounded like an old time marathon shift (said he was on 11-6 or something).

Wish I had pulled off to record some of it, too bad they don't stream.
 
wgliradio said:
About the only thing left is WCKM up north. I remember hearing CKM back in 1995 during a trip up to Tupper Lake and was surprised to hear them a month ago still very much in the format. Huge playlist on a Saturday afternoon with stuff I hadn't heard in a long time. Guy on the air was great, Chip Ordway. Sounded like an old time marathon shift (said he was on 11-6 or something).

Wish I had pulled off to record some of it, too bad they don't stream.
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Cute, Mike..... ;D

But Saturday is indeed "wide playlist" day, with Kip Grant doing his thing from 6-10, me doing the 8-hour marathon until 6, and then Dave Thomas with requests and stuff from 6 onward. I'm even spinning off of vinyl a third of the time only to have my own sort of fun. I enjoy it, and the listeners dig it, so that's all that matters.

96.7 had a shot at something, but they blew it. I used to listen myself when I was down in Albany, because the music--when they first signed on--was SO varied and good. But we all know what happened. From the start it seemed like a half hearted attempt. Sad, really...because the market for a solid oldies format in Albany is REALLY there. No one has the guts to tackle it, although I have been enjoying 590 more and more. I just consider them more of a music-of-your-life format with all of the older pop stuff they still play. It's not bad by any stretch, but it's not a full-tilt "oldies" station. They're getting there, though. They sound good coming out of the old Transoceanic.
 
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