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Ancient History Search - Meridian, MS

Was the 1240 signal what was eventually WJDQ-AM? I can remember a station ID on 101.3 that stated "Q101 is WJDQ, Meridian and WJDQ-AM Marion-Meridian."
 
Jonathan said:
Was the 1240 signal what was eventually WJDQ-AM? I can remember a station ID on 101.3 that stated "Q101 is WJDQ, Meridian and WJDQ-AM Marion-Meridian."
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Yes, from what I could dig up. Looks like the 1240 AM license was cancelled in 1990.
 
kwthom said:
Hi, there!

Digging around the Broadcasting Yearbooks from 1970 & 1971, I think I know which stations they would have been listening to, the likely candidates seem to be WCOC (910), WMOX (1010), or WOKK (1450). I recognize instantly that's not a given, as it could have been from an adjacent community as well. I just don't know.

My parents would typically listen to the radio as dad got ready for work early in the morning. He worked at the base (called NAS Meridian at the time), mom stayed at home. It seemed like a home-spun radio program, and to be honest, at ten years of age, I was really getting interested in rock, and probably in 1971, I found Casey & AT40 blaring from a still unknown radio station in the area.

The one thing that dad recalled was that the 'air talent' would tell these goofy stories, and the only fragment of them he recalls is about some "big ol' fuzzy buzzard dog!" That still tickles his funny-bone nearly 50 years later.

I know - a lot to go on...

Any clues, any repositories of east-central Mississippi radio history I should go wander thru would be appreciated.

Thanks!
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"big ol' fuzzy buzzard dog!"

Sounds like some of Eddie Smith (WMOX) shenanigans...
 
rfburns said:
In the 70's? Yes, you could probably pick up WSLI, WJDX and WWUN out of Jackson.
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No way! The soil conductivity between Jxn and Meridian is horrible. Back in the day, you might hear WJDX over there in the day but you wouldn
t have wanted to listen to it...
 
K4WRF said:
No way! The soil conductivity between Jxn and Meridian is horrible. Back in the day, you might hear WJDX over there in the day but you wouldn
t have wanted to listen to it...
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I've heard WJDX in a parked car in Alabama around York, Livingston during the

day. WJDX can be heard in Tuscalousa pretty good right around sunset.
 
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