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Ann arbor radio history need help guys please

T

thebeach33445

Hey Guys:

I am doing the Ann Arbor market now and I am having trouble with some stations.

Can anybody help me fill in the blanks:

1050 WPAG

1960? Top 40, 1970? MOR/AC, was WPAG ever had a country format?

WYNZ 1520

1964? Top 40, 1968? religious

1290 WOIB

1967? Top 40

1480 WYSI

1966? Country

1480 WSDS

1998? Classic Country

1600 WAAM (This one is the tuffy)

1969? MOR/AC went back on after a fire destroyed most of the station.

1972? Top 40 Super 16

1976? MOR/AC

1983? Nostalgia

Date???? Talk (Monday-Friday) Nostalgia (Sat-Sun)

I really need some help with these stations. I am looking for exact dates or even Months to go with the years.

Thanks a hole bunch in advance. I really appreciate this. I have been doing extensive research and can't find any info anywhere.

T.J.
 
I don't have specific years, but do recall 1290 WNRS Saline "Winners radio" ran a country music format for at least several years in the 1970s. I remember their sign off at sunset was kinda cute, and would end "this is WNRS...headin' for the barn" (then immediately off the air, with Dayton drifting in). Or maybe 1290 was WNRZ - I believe there was a simulcast with one of the stations being WNRS, but don't recall if that was 102.9FM or someone else.

1520 as a religious station was a bit more interesting than the usual time-brokered formats, with some rather clever locally hosted contemporary music hours. I think they were called WYFC, and might have been connected with the church youth groups "Youth for Christ," or substitute "Ypsilanti" for "Youth." They upgraded to AM990, when, in the late 1980s? Then eventually sold to a Catholic radio group.

For what it's worth, back in the 1960s and 1970s, when the lower part of the FM band had a lot of vacant territory, WKAR 90.5 FM from E Lansing came in pretty loud and clear around Detroit, and even well into Toledo. WUOM was always a high powered beast of a signal, too, but until the mid 1990s had a very dry version of the classical music format. Sounded like very bored board ops, tracking LPs, waiting to retire, with lots of dead air and sleepy announcing. Now that I'm older, however, I'd rather like to have a station like that to listen to when I just want to enjoy classical music at bedtime without a lot of aural clutter.

ps - Glad to be back "on the air" on these boards. Thanks everyone for putting the energy into reviving it.
 
Hey TJ...

Given how all that hard work you did researching history went "poof" when this site shut down last fall, and who knows how long it will stick around this time, why keep trying to preserve history on an impermanent medium like a message board, and especially this inconsistent one? I think you'd get more help with your project if your information were available somewhere more stable. Didn't David Eduardo offer to host it on his site?
 
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