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AM 1320 broadcasting from CD player??

M

MissAM

I tuned in 1320 AM yesterday and heard the distinct sound of a microphone being moved closer to what must have been a cheap CD player, and then I listened for a few minutes to a tinny sounding song.
Evidently they were tweeking equipment and are now ready to get back on the air with scheduled shows... such as the most boring person in radio, Peter Gay, with the "Sun Chronicle news hour" weekday mornings... broadcast very early... wayyy before Ms AM would ever lower the sleeping mask from her eyes and call Carlotta to serve breakfast...
 
MissAM said:
Evidently they were tweeking equipment and are now ready to get back on the air with scheduled shows... such as the most boring person in radio, Peter Gay, with the "Sun Chronicle news hour" weekday mornings... broadcast very early... wayyy before Ms AM would ever lower the sleeping mask from her eyes and call Carlotta to serve breakfast...
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When it comes to boring......Peter Gay gets a strong run for his money from some of the other alleged "programming" on 1320....namely....bits and pieces of feeds from Deustche-Welle (sp?)....Radio Netherlands....Radio Australia....the CBC....Pacifica....and something called FSN.

Face it....when it comes to boring....1320 has the market cornered. :D
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
Face it....when it comes to boring....1320 has the market cornered. :D
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OOPS!......almost forgot.

Any list of 1320's boring broadcast day is incomplete without mentioning the Catholic religious teaching programs in afternoon drive.

THAT one is the proverbial frosting on the boring cake! ;D
 
I feel I am slipping into a coma reading your list of shows on 1320!
You seem to have inside knowledge... any truth to the rumor that Dave Kane is beginning a new show about communicating with the dead soon on 1320? Seems to me to be a perfect show for their audience...
 
MissAM said:
I feel I am slipping into a coma reading your list of shows on 1320!
You seem to have inside knowledge... any truth to the rumor that Dave Kane is beginning a new show about communicating with the dead soon on 1320? Seems to me to be a perfect show for their audience...
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What about a reading of the obituaries during the night show.
 
Actually, I think I could sell obits!!
"Tell your dearly departed Loved One how much you still care..." Sponsored by: funeral homes, crematoriums, florists,
photographers ("take a shot of Dad in his expensive casket before they wheel him into the furnace...) caterers who guarantee to come in black uniforms and red if the departed one is Asian.. producers of relaxing music suitable for wakes and funerals" The show would be the listeners calling in to wax sentimental about their loved one, telling little annecdotes about their relative, friend, business associate You could do conference calls for siblings to claim over the airwaves that "Ma loved me best". You could take song requests to play the dead one's favorite songs... It's endless opportunity!
I think you're on to something here... the saving of 1320 and 990 perhaps! Frank Batagglia would be sooo proud!
 
MissAM said:
Actually, I think I could sell obits!!
"Tell your dearly departed Loved One how much you still care..." Sponsored by: funeral homes, crematoriums, florists,
photographers ("take a shot of Dad in his expensive casket before they wheel him into the furnace...) caterers who guarantee to come in black uniforms and red if the departed one is Asian.. producers of relaxing music suitable for wakes and funerals" The show would be the listeners calling in to wax sentimental about their loved one, telling little annecdotes about their relative, friend, business associate You could do conference calls for siblings to claim over the airwaves that "Ma loved me best". You could take song requests to play the dead one's favorite songs... It's endless opportunity!
I think you're on to something here... the saving of 1320 and 990 perhaps! Frank Batagglia would be sooo proud!
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Truly ghoulish.
 
Obits were actually paid programming on the original WALE (1400, Fall River). Ran 5 nights a week, I can't remember whether at 7:15 or 7:45 pm. Background was funeral parlor organ music off 78 rpm discs provided by the sponsoring undertakers. Yes, they paid for the block of time. The recordings were only about 3 minutes long and there were only two turntables so one became adept at resetting the needle while reading.

Funerals from ALL "homes" were read (from the daily newspaper) without regard to whether they were or were not sponsors.

You must understand that obituaries are a very important part of live in Fall River. Many people, to this day, still ignore the front page of the local paper until they have read "The Irish Sporting Page" (Obituaries) and seen who they've outlived.

Problem with all this was that, some nights, there weren't enough deaths to fill 15-minutes. The reader, who might do a music show a few minutes later, had certain choices. The "cleanest" one was to run up the organ music for a minute or so between readings. After a few days one grew adept at reading each of several obits twice during the "show" but the real fun was in getting original and "creating" funerals for non-existent people at non-existent funeral homes.

Above is NOT a joke.....been there; done that.
 
I know WOON/1240 does obits from a few of the funeral homes in/around Woonsocket. I forget what time they air. I think it's around Noon.
 
N1WVQ said:
I know WOON/1240 does obits from a few of the funeral homes in/around Woonsocket. I forget what time they air. I think it's around Noon.
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Talk about depressing programming. Who is their target audience.... Nursing homes?
 
That's really super-serving the local community. It ranks right up there with The Lost Dog Reports and The Police Blotter - both of which can be found on OLDIES 92 WLNG. - By the way when did they start using the name OLDIES 92? I'm not a regular listener as I can't pick it up on a regular basis, but I had it on last week and I heard them ID the station in-between songs as OLDIES 92 WLNG.
 
MarcB said:
That's really super-serving the local community. It ranks right up there with The Lost Dog Reports and The Police Blotter - both of which can be found on OLDIES 92 WLNG.
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WOON also airs the school spelling bees. I don't know about lost dog announcements although that wouldn't surprise me.

In my opinion, that's how A.M. radio can survive in this day & age, at least around here. Give the people what they can't get anywhere else. If you look @ WOON's website (www.onworldwide.com) they have several streams of local programming & on-demand archives. They super-serve Woonsocket. Really, Woonsocket has it good because they have 2 stations airing local programming (WNRI is mixed local & national). How many other small towns have that? Some are lucky to have one station that's off the bird! Those stations just sit there unused & unloved because the owners don't want to put anything in to them but want a gold mine in return.
 
MissAM said:
Actually, I think I could sell obits!!
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All this chit-chat about obits and funeral homes reminded me of a personality that was on in the afternoons on WLW-700 in Cincinnati. Richard King took note of the large number of people in the market of German ancestry and poked fun quite successfully. One that he sneaked in somewhere every day began with a somber tune with a "plink-plunk-plunk" dirge sound on banjo and mandolin with a classic old deep voice with the announcers hand cupped on the ear: "And Nooooow.... Steigerwald Funeral Parlors with seven convenient carry-in locations in the greater Cincinnati area.... presents readings from the Greater Cincinnati telephone directory. (slight pause) Gherstenstein, Arnold. (slight pause) Schlotzhauer, Heidi. "

Always multi syllable German names. No Irish. No English. No French.

Ahhhh. Those were the days!
 
Speaking of super-serving one's community......

Back in the 1980's....when 1320 had ownership that actually CARED about serving the local community, there used to be a program on every Sunday night at 6 pm.

It was a music program hosted by a very sweet lady named Chris Baker, and the express intent of the program was to take musci requests from shut-ins...and folks living in nursing homes.

I remember Chris playing some of the world's most schmaltzy....corny music...BUT...the seniours and shut-ins ABSOLUTELY LOVED both the music and her.

And...for an hour or so every week......they felt young and alive again.
 
Making up phoney obits would be the best! Ima Hoar is survived by her sisters Sheeza Hoar, Iwanna Hoar and Oyou Hoar.
Good clean fun for a winter night!
Ghoulish NOT!
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
Speaking of super-serving one's community......

Back in the 1980's....when 1320 had ownership that actually CARED about serving the local community, there used to be a program on every Sunday night at 6 pm.

It was a music program hosted by a very sweet lady named Chris Baker, and the express intent of the program was to take musci requests from shut-ins...and folks living in nursing homes.

I remember Chris playing some of the world's most schmaltzy....corny music...BUT...the seniours and shut-ins ABSOLUTELY LOVED both the music and her.

And...for an hour or so every week......they felt young and alive again.
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It's good to hear about programs like that. I'm 30 & the music wouldn't probably be of any interest to me but because I'm in a desirable demographic, I can hear all of what I'm supposed to hear (my musical & talk tastes aren't in line with a 30-year-old's normal choices). Meanwhile, WLKW is gone (as it was) & older folk really don't have anywhere else to tune. So here comes this show which does what radio truly does best: ignites the imagination. As you said, they (the seniors & shut-ins) felt young again.
 
In my car yesterday on the way to work I tuned in 1320 and the sound of the music was damn good for AM. What ever they did it worked well. Was not in the car long enough to listen to a pattern of songs... I like anything but 50's music. Hell for me would be having to listen to that crap for eternity!
 
When Peter Ottmar owned WARA and Dave Kane was PD, they routinely billed $25-30 K per week. That's about $1.4 mil per year-and we're talking 1985 dollars. This was back in the 1 kW days-when they super served Attleboro. In 2010 dollars, that's like billing $3+ million-which very few Providence stations even do today.
The key was that they super served their local audience-who responded by buying from local WARA advertisers. They didn't HAVE any ratings, but they didn't NEED them! What killed them was when they increased power to 5 kilowatts, they abandoned their core audience and tried to be Providence-with a rimshot signal no less.

WSAR did the same thing. Back in the 1970's, they OWNED Bristol County as a top 40. Once they tried to be Providence, they killed it. On the other hand, look at Fun 107. They do quite well by super serving THEIR market, NOT Providence!
 
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