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CAVEMANager
Guest
Last week I took a little vacation trip to the Buffalo area where I grew up and also started my radio career. Here are a few observations:
On Saturday afternoon I tuned in WECK. Nobody was on the air but once the stop set started the commercials seemingly never stopped. They must be making money but I don't see how anyone can sit through all those ads.
I prefer WJJL's music. They often play songs that I haven't heard in forty years or more and it is fun trying to identify them. Plus very few commercials. For some reason they had a program in Spanish for awhile. WJJL has been running a liner for years that says that they reach the hills of Northern Pennsylvania. I had a hard time picking them up in southern Erie County. Their signal has deteriorated badly. Might be that the grounding system has disintegrated. They should be streaming on the web.
Checked out WXRL and found that Ramblin' Lou is still on the air which is amazing considering the fact that he's deceased. Lou must hold some kind of record for longevity on the radio as I think he got his start in 1947 on WJJL. His tenure dwarfs that of Clint Buehlman.
WXRL had a Polish program and it had many advertising accounts. I wonder if polkas wouldn't be a good format for 1120 if it ever returns to the air. Just because it isn't done anywhere else doesn't make it a bad idea. This is music that you won't find in most parts of the nation and I found it a refreshing change. Ain't gonna happen in Arizona.
On Saturday afternoon I tuned in WECK. Nobody was on the air but once the stop set started the commercials seemingly never stopped. They must be making money but I don't see how anyone can sit through all those ads.
I prefer WJJL's music. They often play songs that I haven't heard in forty years or more and it is fun trying to identify them. Plus very few commercials. For some reason they had a program in Spanish for awhile. WJJL has been running a liner for years that says that they reach the hills of Northern Pennsylvania. I had a hard time picking them up in southern Erie County. Their signal has deteriorated badly. Might be that the grounding system has disintegrated. They should be streaming on the web.
Checked out WXRL and found that Ramblin' Lou is still on the air which is amazing considering the fact that he's deceased. Lou must hold some kind of record for longevity on the radio as I think he got his start in 1947 on WJJL. His tenure dwarfs that of Clint Buehlman.
WXRL had a Polish program and it had many advertising accounts. I wonder if polkas wouldn't be a good format for 1120 if it ever returns to the air. Just because it isn't done anywhere else doesn't make it a bad idea. This is music that you won't find in most parts of the nation and I found it a refreshing change. Ain't gonna happen in Arizona.