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I know of a radio station in Chicago that's a member of ABC Radio's 'True Oldies Channel' format' whose playlist can be found at www.yes.com, but I haven't been able to find any 'oldies Radio' stations on there. If anyone knows of any that are, please post it here!!
 
Cool 101.7 in Meadville, PA is an "Oldies Radio" station (outside of a local AM & PM drive show and Dick Clark on Sunday night)

Cool 101.7 is not monitored by yes.com
 
> I know of a radio station in Chicago that's a member of ABC
> Radio's 'True Oldies Channel' format' whose playlist can be
> found at www.yes.com, but I haven't been able to find any
> 'oldies Radio' stations on there. If anyone knows of any
> that are, please post it here!!
>

Brett brings up a good point below. The ABC satellite service "Oldies Radio" (Ron Foster, Mike Preston, etc.) is hardly ever available in large markets. It's a smaller market lifeline, for places like Meadville, PA; Wooster, Ohio; Uniontown, PA, etc. Smaller markets or small stations on the fringe of larger markets (Meadville just misses Erie and Youngstown; Wooster just misses Cleveland and Akron; Uniontown just misses Pittsburgh).

That said, you will have noticed that Yes.com is pretty firmly large markets, and then only stations that have a full-market signal. For example, in Pittsburgh metro, WJPA in Washington, PA (live and local, except overnights) is within the market, but is a local signal to/for WashPA. It reaches some of the Pittsburgh metro's south and west, but hardly any east. It's not on Yes. 3WS, a full-market 50kw FM right in Pittsburgh, does show on Yes. It's local too, and live most times. It is on Yes.
 
A Couple of Things...

> Brett brings up a good point below. The ABC satellite
> service "Oldies Radio" (Ron Foster, Mike Preston, etc.) is
> hardly ever available in large markets. It's a smaller
> market lifeline, for places like Meadville, PA; Wooster,
> Ohio; Uniontown, PA, etc. Smaller markets or small stations
> on the fringe of larger markets (Meadville just misses Erie
> and Youngstown; Wooster just misses Cleveland and Akron;
> Uniontown just misses Pittsburgh).

Just an update: The Wooster AM (WKVX/960) switched from ABC's "Pure Gold" (aka "Oldies Radio") a few years ago. They're running Westwood One's <a target="_blank" href=http://www.westwoodone.com/program?action=viewProgram&programID=452>"Oldies Channel"</a> format now.

Interesting, though...the FM in the group, WQKT/104.5, actually puts a listenable signal into Akron and Canton, and even gets a little of the southern/southwestern reaches of the Cleveland market. It runs Westwood One's country format, and used to run ABC's "Coast to Coast". 'KVX puts a pretty scratchy signal into Akron and a not awful signal into Canton.

No matter, even 104.5 isn't a factor up here, though it occasionally shows up in the bottom of the book...likely due to its dependable carriage of Cleveland sports teams.

Oh, my second...I believe the OP was talking not about ABC's Pure Gold/Oldies Radio, but rather the newer "True Oldies Channel"...the older skewing oldies feed put up by WPLJ/New York's Scott Shannon. The only Ohio affiliate I can think of is WWOW/1360 Conneaut, up on Lake Erie...which flipped to it from talk on Memorial Day 2005.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
> Cool 101.7 in Meadville, PA is an "Oldies Radio" station
> (outside of a local AM & PM drive show and Dick Clark on
> Sunday night)
>
> Cool 101.7 is not monitored by yes.com
>
1050 WLIP right here in Kenosha (between Chicago and Milwaukee) flipped from ABC Memories to ABC Oldies Radio over the 4th of July weekend last year. It's in house sister station 95.1 WIIL (Rock) is on Yes. Their other in house sister WEXT 104.7 (Now Spanish WDDW) is also on Yes but sadly, WLIP isn't.
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</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by JeremyAndrews on 02/08/06 06:12 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: A Couple of Things...

> > Brett brings up a good point below. The ABC satellite
> > service "Oldies Radio" (Ron Foster, Mike Preston, etc.) is
>
> > hardly ever available in large markets. It's a smaller
> > market lifeline, for places like Meadville, PA; Wooster,
> > Ohio; Uniontown, PA, etc. Smaller markets or small
> stations
> > on the fringe of larger markets (Meadville just misses
> Erie
> > and Youngstown; Wooster just misses Cleveland and Akron;
> > Uniontown just misses Pittsburgh).
>
> Just an update: The Wooster AM (WKVX/960) switched from
> ABC's "Pure Gold" (aka "Oldies Radio") a few years ago.
> They're running Westwood One's "Oldies Channel" format now.

Damnit--it's Mansfield's oldies station 100.1 that runs "Oldies Radio". I was gonna type that, but couldn't remember if it was right or not. Apparently it was, and I'm an idiot! :)

> Interesting, though...the FM in the group, WQKT/104.5,
> actually puts a listenable signal into Akron and Canton, and
> even gets a little of the southern/southwestern reaches of
> the Cleveland market. It runs Westwood One's country
> format, and used to run ABC's "Coast to Coast". 'KVX puts a
> pretty scratchy signal into Akron and a not awful signal
> into Canton.

It helps that it's at 960. I've gotten it reasonably well (I'm immune to static, I guess) on the Ohio Tpk. as far as Canfield in the daytime.

> No matter, even 104.5 isn't a factor up here, though it
> occasionally shows up in the bottom of the book...likely due
> to its dependable carriage of Cleveland sports teams.
>
> Oh, my second...I believe the OP was talking not about ABC's
> Pure Gold/Oldies Radio, but rather the newer "True Oldies
> Channel"...the older skewing oldies feed put up by WPLJ/New
> York's Scott Shannon. The only Ohio affiliate I can think
> of is WWOW/1360 Conneaut, up on Lake Erie...which flipped to
> it from talk on Memorial Day 2005.

Yeah, I haven't heard it either. But still backs up my point: other than Chicago's WZZN, only smaller market stations, which don't show up in Yes.com anyway, are running the ABC sat-oldies formats.
 
Re: A Couple of Things...

> Damnit--it's Mansfield's oldies station 100.1 that runs
> "Oldies Radio". I was gonna type that, but couldn't
> remember if it was right or not. Apparently it was, and I'm
> an idiot! :)

Oh, you're right, WSWR/Shelby does indeed still run "Oldies Radio", at least the last time I heard it. Of course, we have a certain talk radio station in the way of hearing it this far east...

It would at least make it to Medina County if WNIR wasn't on the air. I heard a listenable WSWR signal on the day of that big power blackout, which knocked off WNIR.

And WKVX DID run "Pure Gold" until about 3 years ago or so. It's actually a fairly decent oldies format, though it had more "star power" when Zippo was doing AM drive.

> It helps that it's at 960. I've gotten it reasonably well
> (I'm immune to static, I guess) on the Ohio Tpk. as far as
> Canfield in the daytime.

It's more staticky up here northeast of Wooster. A straight eastern shot - towards Canton, Canfield, etc. is better. I can still pick up 'KVX on a good radio here in the daytime, even in the house. At night, of course, its 34 watt night signal barely makes it out of the city limits...

> Yeah, I haven't heard it either. But still backs up my
> point: other than Chicago's WZZN, only smaller market
> stations, which don't show up in Yes.com anyway, are running
> the ABC sat-oldies formats.

Right. The WZZN thing is kinda odd...I don't know how long they'll depend on the "True Oldies Channel" feed. It's almost a throwaway in a market that big.

-OA<P ID="signature">______________
Ohio Media Watch - <a target="_blank" href=http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com>http://ohiomedia.blogspot.com</a></P>
 
Re: A Couple of Things...

I'm thinking the two AMs in Washington Court House and Chillicothe, OH that just switched away from Adult Standards switched to the ABC feed. Which one has Ted "The Bear" Richards (formerly of CKLW)?

True Oldies is more than likely a placeholder until Citadel takes over. ABC didn't even bother to change the calls.
 
agreed

It was meant to be a temporary, "plug the hole in the dike" stop-gap measure. Had ABC not been selling it's radio assets, it would never have put satellite Oldies on a full-market signal.

>
> Right. The WZZN thing is kinda odd...I don't know how long
> they'll depend on the "True Oldies Channel" feed. It's
> almost a throwaway in a market that big.
>
> -OA
>
 
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