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A station you'd like back

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Interstate 78

Borrowing a topic from the Philly board, what's a station of the past in the Lehigh Valley or Berks County that you'd like back from the old days? For me, it'd have to be WFMZ 100.7 or WEST 1400. As for down in Berks, I bet a lot of people are going to mention WHUM 1240 although I never heard it back in those days.
 
140/WHUM was an interesting station to say the least..Professor Shnitzel with Morning Man Frank Mooney ( does his familyl still live in reading)......The Night Mayor.....etc etc etc...
 
frank mooney the boscov's commerical guy??? when he worked at wrfy he called his show "the mooney go around" i thought he was a decent jock for a small market.
 
1. Oldies on 99.9 WODE
2. The Easy Listening/Oldies/Soft AC hybrid mix from Westwood One on WEST
3. Oldies on either 1230, 1320, or 1470
 
I know the point of this thread is fantasy for the fun of it, but Oldies will never come back because the audience is, quite literally, DYING OFF (unless you define "Oldies" as 70s and forward...but that seems like "Classic Hits" to me, which we already have). When I think of Oldies I think of 50s and 60s. Ain't gonna happen on a Lehigh Valley frequency. It's not sustainable at this point.
 
Why would anybody want Easy Listening back, especially canned/syndicated? I'm asking in all seriousness. Seems like gross neglect of a frequency to me.
 
ActuallyInTheBiz said:
Why would anybody want Easy Listening back, especially canned/syndicated? I'm asking in all seriousness. Seems like gross neglect of a frequency to me.
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I have to agree. With that said, what I'll call "Trad-EZ" didn't have to die the death it did. What I feel could have and probably should have happened with the format was to play more original material instead of the stale, inane, low-budget remakes that said stations were relying on for most of their material. There is a difference between doing a recording justice and not doing it justice. Most of the 'custom' recordings that such stations clearly fell in the latter category. There were people recording original material but sadly the trad-EZs of the old days refused to air it. It's too bad broadcasters didn't realize this format was going nowhere until about 1990 as it should've been noticed no later than the early or mid-1980s!
 
Interstate 78 said:
Borrowing a topic from the Philly board, what's a station of the past in the Lehigh Valley or Berks County that you'd like back from the old days? For me, it'd have to be WFMZ 100.7 or WEST 1400. As for down in Berks, I bet a lot of people are going to mention WHUM 1240 although I never heard it back in those days.
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790 WAEB is what a real, local radio station was and is supposed to be. You had the music people wanted to hear, great jocks, news at :55, and community events. A true radio station serving the Lehigh Valley.
 
I worked at both WAEB and WEEX back in the 1970's and I have a fondness for them both. If we had WAEB's signal and WEEX's programming THAT would have been a station to listen to. WEEX had great programing and a weird signal on AM. WAEB had real style and attracted lots of listeners. I miss them both...the stations and the people that made them great.
 
The "Big-X" WEEX was something new, and fun in the late 60s and early 70s. FM was just catching on with the younger rock and top-40 listeners. It was a big clean signal with noticeably better sound. It was a Valley station but it did a great job of copying the formats of major market stations that had the much more music "Drake format" that was a hit in places like LA, Detroit, and NY.

The Big-X jocks sounded good and energetic, the shifts weren't too long, and it all kept moving.

It was local radio that was doing it the way the boys in the bigger markets did.

For the time and the place, it was something to remember. I lived in a high spot on the Jersey side where I could get the New York, Philly and Valley stations, and a lot of the time my dial was set on The Big X.
 
WFMZ 100.7 - Because I worked there at the end. Great people. Ugliest transition (Maranatha to Citadel) I've ever witnessed.
 
I was in East Stroudsburg in the early '70's & the Big X could be heard booming out of doors up & down the dorms & all over town in pizza places, etc. The move to AM only killed that.
 
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