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Another Pittsburgh rimshot?
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What do they do? What type of format will they bring?
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Then they could go all oldies all the time with Clark Ingram at the helm. Real oldies that go back to 50's =60's
MsMusicRadio said:Then they could go all oldies all the time with Clark Ingram at the helm. Real oldies that go back to 50's =60's
They sure could. And they could go flat-ass broke doing it.
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MsMusicRadio said:Then they could go all oldies all the time with Clark Ingram at the helm. Real oldies that go back to 50's =60's
The heck with that. They could go back to really real oldies, and play 78's from the 10's, 20's, 30's, and 40's.
And if they really wanted to go with genuine oldies, I know a guy who collects old Edison wax cylinder recordings from the 90's, 00's, and 10's.
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MsMusicRadio
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Given that Pittsburgh has an adult standards station frequently in the top 10 ( 12+) , I don't see why oldies on a rimshot FM is such a stretch. CKWW seems to be hanging around Detroit. Pittsburgh has an older population than many markets and a history of doo-wop pioneers. They could just pick up "True Oldies" off the bird with live drive times. What other holes could they fill? Smooth jazz? Pittsburgh has real jazz on WDUQ. Pittsburgh has college radio with city coverage. I think oldies going past 3WS could work as well as anything else. I hope Mr. Ingram posts on this. I'd like his input. OF course All Polkas ALL the Time could worktoo
WJAS is in the top 10 (12+) but it's a bear to sell because its numbers are mostly 55+ and that isn't an audience a lot of advertisers want. Their revenue probably isn't in the top 20.
They fired Mike McGann to save a salary. The remaining personalities, Jack Bogut and Bill Cardille, bring in some advertisers on their own. When they're done (Bogut is 72, Cardille turns 80 in a few months), that will be the end of WJAS as a live presence. As its is, their music mix includes '80s tracks in an effort to draw some younger listeners.
You want "old" oldies, get satellite.
They fired Mike McGann to save a salary. The remaining personalities, Jack Bogut and Bill Cardille, bring in some advertisers on their own. When they're done (Bogut is 72, Cardille turns 80 in a few months), that will be the end of WJAS as a live presence. As its is, their music mix includes '80s tracks in an effort to draw some younger listeners.
You want "old" oldies, get satellite.
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Boss Radio said:As its is, their music mix includes '80s tracks in an effort to draw some younger listeners.
Yeah, all of us 40-somethings on the ride home usually get an urge to switch our radios over to AM to tune in 1360 and listen to 15 or 20 songs by Vicki Carr, Robert Goulet and rest of our parents' favorites in hopes of hearing a song from the
80's.
Did somebody call me?
The WANB-FM move is relatively old news. I posted about it here a while ago but can't find it now.
At the time, I posted this link to the new WANB-FM 57 dBu contour:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM1195099.html
As you can see, the 57 dBu nudges the Pittsburgh suburbs (as well as Morgantown), but the strongest signal will be in Westmoreland and Fayette, plus portions of Allegheny, Washington, Greene, and Somerset counties.
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The WANB-FM move is relatively old news. I posted about it here a while ago but can't find it now.
At the time, I posted this link to the new WANB-FM 57 dBu contour:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=FM1195099.html
As you can see, the 57 dBu nudges the Pittsburgh suburbs (as well as Morgantown), but the strongest signal will be in Westmoreland and Fayette, plus portions of Allegheny, Washington, Greene, and Somerset counties.
C.
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Biz Listener said:Yeah, all of us 40-somethings on the ride home usually get an urge to switch our radios over to AM to tune in 1360 and listen to 15 or 20 songs by Vicki Carr, Robert Goulet and rest of our parents' favorites in hopes of hearing a song from the
80's.
Oops! My intimate familiarity with the AM dial was showing. Of course WJAS in not on 1360. WJAS is on 1320 kilocycles. The last time I personally tuned in to WJAS was by accident. The radio only had a white needle that moved from side to side when the right hand knob was turned, and WJAs was slightly to the right of the second little triangle with CD on it. It was in my dad's old relic Plymouth Belvedere and I had just got my drivers license. I was 16, and the Belvedere was a little bit older.
Maybe next time I get back to Pittsburgh to visit my folks, I'll tune in WJAS just to maybe hear a song from the 80's.
Thanks CINGRAM. What about oldies on 103.1?
And not Scott Shannons True Oldies either please if it comes to pass go LIVE! I just returned from Myrtle Beach and caught bits and pieces of "The New Sunny 103.1" I was not impressed.(They are running true oldies) When I compared it to what the old Sunny 106.5 under Kemosabie Joe Johnson's tutalidge sounded like their is no comparison.
Do you dear folks have any idea at all what the other stations owned by this company do to make money?
They play infomercials and broker time.
They do not sell spots in music formats.
They make reasonably good money doing this.
They are not going to play oldies.
Why would they do something different with no assurance that will make ANY money, let alone what they do now?
They play infomercials and broker time.
They do not sell spots in music formats.
They make reasonably good money doing this.
They are not going to play oldies.
Why would they do something different with no assurance that will make ANY money, let alone what they do now?
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MsMusicRadio
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aren't the other stations AM ? 770? 660? 620?
Makes no difference.
Maybe the missing piece to the puzzle here is that these guys already own this station and they are already running the infomercial stuff. In fact I think they may have owned this longer than the Westmoreland County AM's. They will not be changing anything other than tower sites.
And they don't own 660, by the way.
Maybe the missing piece to the puzzle here is that these guys already own this station and they are already running the infomercial stuff. In fact I think they may have owned this longer than the Westmoreland County AM's. They will not be changing anything other than tower sites.
And they don't own 660, by the way.
Sorry about 660. Nobody has said anything yet to convince me that "oldies" would not work on a rimshot FM. They could also pick up Cullen and other stuff being cut loose by Renda, also
WJPA makes its money by being very local. Tons of high school sports, Washington Wild Things, a staffed newsroom from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m., plenty of remotes and community presence.
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Boss Radio said:WJPA makes its money by being very local. Tons of high school sports, Washington Wild Things, a staffed newsroom from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m., plenty of remotes and community presence.
Doesn't WJPA also have an AM station? What are they doing with that? They're not running music on it, are they? Maybe that AM station could be a new home for Cullen and Hoerth.
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