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A few pieces of not too distant radio history

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yorkie9

I found an envelope of some mid to late 80's bumper stickers, newspaper clippings, and qsl cards while cleaning up + a more recent WSIX mailer Gerry and Mike autographed at Rivergate Mall in 1998.

I have no idea why I saved a phone book from 1982 but I did and I scanned in the Radio Stations page. There are a few interesting things on there. One thing I don't remember (or forgot I knew it) was WAMB being on 1170. I guess without digital radios I didn't know the difference!

There's not much, but I thought I'd scan it in and share..

http://photobucket.com/yorkie9radiostuff

Click on "view all" or make sure to go to the second page to see it all.
 
Yorkie, those 737- and non-737 listings on your phone book page reminded me of the old Kicks 104 contest lines. "327-0104 or 452-0104, call in to win." IIRC SM95 request/contest number was 356-SM95 when studio was on Knob Hill.

When and why did most stations move request/contest lines to 737-xxxx?
 
Re: 737

What Carl P. (yeah, I know) claimed on kdf was that a promotion of theirs spurred so many calls that the new exchange was created for r/tv
 
I don't know about the Carl P. story ( it could be true), but 737 is the "choke" exchange for Nashville. It busies out when the request lines are full so if Gerry gives away 1000 dollars to the 50th caller, the exchange doesn't lock up/blow out. I was in Minneapolis in 1977 when KDWB gave away 1000 dollars to the 100th caller; they had used a number at a payphone next to the studio- Minneapolis at that time had no choke circuit. The call volume blew out the exchange, and Northwestern Bell got a C&D order against the station.
 
courier37027 said:
When and why did most stations move request/contest lines to 737-xxxx?
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I'm fairly confident that by 1987 or 1988 that most all radio stations in Nashville had the 737 exchange. I remember the 737-ROCK and 737-ROLL lines that 103 KDF used to push. Also, I believe that 104.5 The Fox switched numbers (maybe 0104 to 1045, dunno for sure though) and ran liners letting listeners know, circa late '80s.
 
In Memphis, the request line exchange for all the radio stations is 535. Easy for me to remember because I have a 535 exchange here in Nashville! 8) No, no one has ever called me trying to find a radio station! :p
 
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