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Country Radio in Raleigh

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I know about WRDU and WQDR, but are there any cool small Country stations that might bleed into the Raleigh market? Extra points if they play Bluegrass music. Just curious. I have a friend who is looking for something like WBRF 98.1 or WIST 98.3 with the old country music. Any suggestions?
 
Saturday Night Cool Classics, 8-11 pm on 100,000-watt 103.3 WAKG out of Danville is a great program for the older country tunes. WAKG is an excellent, well-programmed station period, with plenty of classics mixed in with the currents...a good example of local radio the way it should be.
 
Thanks for your help. I think WTSB fits the bill. Appreciate your help.
 
Toward the south, 105.5 WFJA used to play more older country songs (they were satellite) than most other country stations.

But I think they must have moved their tower or cut down power (because of WDCG's move I dunno?) because lately I haven't heard them as strong in northern Wake County like I did a couple years back....
 
quadraphonic said:
Toward the south, 105.5 WFJA used to play more older country songs (they were satellite) than most other country stations.

But I think they must have moved their tower or cut down power (because of WDCG's move I dunno?) because lately I haven't heard them as strong in northern Wake County like I did a couple years back....
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I have a good idea of why WFJA doesn't come in as well anymore: (1) they did move a bit to the west (supposedly to make way for WRDU to move their signal); and (2) at the same time, a new K-LOVE translator out of Wake Forest is on 105.5, playing in addition to the Triangle's main translator on WKVE 106.7. Meanwhile, WMKS 105.7, whose signal sucks to begin with, really doesn't come in now because of the new K-LOVE translator on 105.5...
 
I completely forgot that K-Love had their translator there at 105.5. :-X

That would explain why I don't remember hearing WFJA there in a while. ;D
 
WKVE also signed on a 105.5 translator in Durham, 9-watt W288BU. Wake Forest's W288BQ has 13 watts. As for WMKS, there's actually a 105.7 translator in Raleigh 10-watt W289BD.

W289BD is licensed to rebroadcast Danville's WOKD, 91.1 (part of Spirit FM out of Roanoke, VA), owned by Liberty University (which owns "Victory FM" WRVL 88.3 in Lynchburg and simulcasts it on a network of translators that stretch from north of Raleigh to south of Washington) and has been rebroadcasting Radio Training Network's WRTP-FM 88.5 Roanoke Rapids (already heard on two translators in Raleigh city limits alone) until airing a high-pitched screeching noise over the past several days. Interesting.
 
I get bored by the translator stations so I glossed over 105.5 in my mind.
I think the highpitched squeal is one of those new placeholder formats though, the real format is going to be 24/7 bowling sounds. :eek:
 
Try 102.5 in Lousiburg. I think they play country, and used to play a little more of the older stuff. Signal can be hard in town, but it is good anywhere on the north side.
 
baldtimer said:
Try 102.5 in Lousiburg. I think they play country, and used to play a little more of the older stuff. Signal can be hard in town, but it is good anywhere on the north side.
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Is this the same 102.5 that was supposed to move to Hillsborough and maybe change formats also?
 
That's the one, Curtis Media's WKXU in Louisburg. Come to think of it, Curtis Media was trying to move WWNF 102.3 from Goldsboro to Smithfield, but there's been nothing mentioned here or anywhere else in a long while concerning either proposed move.
 
RadioDze said:
Saturday Night Cool Classics, 8-11 pm on 100,000-watt 103.3 WAKG out of Danville is a great program for the older country tunes. WAKG is an excellent, well-programmed station period, with plenty of classics mixed in with the currents...a good example of local radio the way it should be.
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i totally agree.

but i dont think the signal is too strong in raleigh. howver, it is good in person, orange and durham counties.
 
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