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97.5 WNNS and NBC's NIS

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I just stumbled across some airchecks on the site www.lkyradio.com that are very interesting. Under the WAMZ section, there are a few clips of 97.5 back when it was all-news WNNS and carrying NBC's New and Information Service. I wasn't even aware of that affiliation. I imagine it must've been a powerhouse, though, with that national feed plus the resources of WHAS and the Courier Journal behind it. Does anyone recall that format or how it did?

Earlier in the section, there's also a clip of Milton Metz playing classical music on "Your Station for the Arts, WHAS-FM."

It's all definitely worth a listen.
 
destinationradio said:
I just stumbled across some airchecks on the site www.lkyradio.com that are very interesting. Under the WAMZ section, there are a few clips of 97.5 back when it was all-news WNNS and carrying NBC's New and Information Service. I wasn't even aware of that affiliation. I imagine it must've been a powerhouse, though, with that national feed plus the resources of WHAS and the Courier Journal behind it. Does anyone recall that format or how it did?

Earlier in the section, there's also a clip of Milton Metz playing classical music on "Your Station for the Arts, WHAS-FM."

It's all definitely worth a listen.
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That station is probably the beginning of my infectious interest in news...I was about 11 or 12 I think...I listened to it almost continuously when I wasn't working or in school.
 
When the station went to the automated country format, the only voice of the station was Bob Kingsley of "American Country Countdown" fame. Coyote Calhoun was hired about 2 years later to become Program Director and do the 2 to 6pm shift. Dick Braun was hired from WINN to do the 6 to 10am shift. I believe a few months later Bobby Jack Murphy was hired, but I can't remember if he did the mid-day shift first, or the 6 to 10 pm shift first. I know he did do bout shifts at various times.

The 97.5 frequency was the Bingham's second attempt at FM broadcasting. Their first attempt was WCJT at 99.7. I have also seen this listed as WHAS-FM too. The CJT letters stood for Courier-Journal and Times. Here is a listing of 1948 FM radio stations including WCJT: http://jeff560.tripod.com/1948fm.html.
 
WNNS was a very unique station for its time. The programming was different in that the news tended to be more "long form" instead of the short stories/crative writing we hear on successful news stations today (with all due respect to NPR). History will repeat itself soon. It won't be on 97.5, but WHAS WILL have an FM simulcast.
 
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